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Coco Off the Grid
Let's go off the grid and get silly with today's headlines, work dramas and the unexplainable actions of others.
Close your blinds, shut off your lights and put your phones on airplane mode because it's time to join me for another episode of "Coco Off the Grid."
Coco Off the Grid
DeLuLu Linda
Imagine wrestling with a new recording app while nursing a cold and trying to keep a straight face as your eccentric coworker, George, panics over yet another tech issue. From the enticements of social media and TV binges to the amusing interventions of tech support, we chronicle our adventures in navigating work life and technology, with a dash of absurdity courtesy of George's antics.
Our journey takes a sharp turn as we explore the boundaries of reality with tales of deception and intrigue. From an alleged alien abduction in Manhattan to the sinister world of Paolo Macchiarini's medical malpractices, we navigate stories that blur the lines between truth and fiction. Through skepticism and humor, we examine the bizarre narratives of Linda, Carol, and Bud, challenging perceptions and questioning the credibility of their claims. With a critical eye, we unravel these captivating accounts, pondering the peculiarities of the human experience and the chilling consequences of deception.
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Speaker 1:We are here with another episode of. So here's the thing. Sorry, I didn't forget what the name of the shit is. I'm just looking at this and there's like a free version recording limit of this app. I'm trying to make sure that everything is working the way I want it to and also see what the sound is like coming through this shit. Oh wow, that's really cool. I might have to upgrade if this sounds really good on the next episode.
Speaker 1:So, with all the noise in the background, which I don't think there is any right now. I got a lot to talk about this episode because all I've been doing is watching TV for the past couple days. So we're gonna get into it, but, uh, I hope everybody's having a great week so far. Uh, I wanted to record yesterday, but I wasn't feeling so good, so my throat was bothering me a little bit, so I um, wow, my old manager stupid. He said I literally can't have apps like tiktok, instagram, facebook, because I'll spend hours scrolling reels and not realize where the time went. Bro, you suck at multitasking at work. What are you talking about? Like, there is literally no need for us to think that you're going to be better at anything else on your phone when you're not even good at doing shit on a computer. Actually, he's more of a tech person than an ADP person. So that's the other thing.
Speaker 1:I was talking to an ex coworker of mine who is on my new team. Funny enough, he used to be on my team in Upmarket. So I don't know if you can tell, but my throat just feels terrible Not terrible, but my nose is so clogged today it's ridiculous. So if I sound a little nasally, wow, if I sound a little nasally, it's because I can't. I'm sniffling, so yeah, anyway. So they're having a lot of tech issues this morning. I'm not having any issues only because I don't have to log into as much shit when I'm working. Now I don't even have to log into gen cloud.
Speaker 1:I thought my shit was broken. Let's talk about this. I thought my shit was broken on Monday when I started working. And it's not broken, it's just they don't tell you. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1:So transitioning to this position was fine. There was nothing wrong with it. Everything was handled smoothly, all the paperwork, everything, whatever, whatever. Me transitioning over was not the problem. The problem was that I was not told that there were certain things that were going to be given to me revoked such and such. So I was like, okay, whatever, didn't realize Monday. Well, well, thursday, let me just talk about last Thursday. Last Thursday was my official. Well, friday would have been my official last day, but I took PTO. Thursday was my last day as an account manager. Everybody was transitioned off, with the exception of two clients, which is not my fucking problem anymore. Um, so I uh I think I have a hair on my tongue. Um, I clocked out at four 30 and I noticed the weirdest fucking error message when I logged out of this program that we use for the phones.
Speaker 1:And, uh, surprisingly enough, you know, shit like that doesn't phase me anymore because, uh, that shit happens all the time and it usually happens first thing in the morning, not at the end of the day. So I was like it'll fix itself by Monday, or you know what. I'll just restart the shit and we'll see what happens. So that's hilarious. Sorry, they threw a picture of Migos in the chat Tech today when CEH stopped working. So the error was so weird Thought it would clear up by Monday. Get into work Monday. Monday, I log in. It's the same fucking error. So, sorry, we can authenticate you Please contact your admin if it continues. So I said, all right, so either there's a problem, I think.
Speaker 1:So I reach out to the tech people and I go okay, um, what's going on? I was like I had access all day Thursday, no problems whatsoever. I didn't. I left out details, which is such a client thing to do Like. I've experienced this with clients and I don't know why I did this to them, but I didn't realize that I was going to lose access to that program. Anyway, I lost access to a program because I do not go inbound anymore and they give you your own phone number through the instant messaging program we use instead. So I was like all right, okay, that was the end of it.
Speaker 1:I talked to Eddie, who is one of our actual ADP tech employees, but they don't service GenCloud. So he's like well, let me just check your computer, just in case he goes we want to make sure that your computer's okay and that it's not actually the computer's fault, but that you actually did lose access. So, okay, fuck it. So he remote into my computer, he checked everything and he goes yeah, you just lost access. Um, you're not in an inbound position anymore, are you? I'm you know why, because then I wouldn't have fucking been crazy about it. I wouldn't have called in the cavalry, as they say, to look into it, because it wouldn't have fucking mattered anyway. Looks like it's back up and running, so everything's fixed, but this one guy.
Speaker 1:So here's the first's the first thing. I want to start with this guy on my team. I'm sure I've mentioned him before. It's like the worst employee ever, like he has a panic attack over every fucking thing, and then me and Matt. So this is what Matt and I were talking about, nevermind the fact that I brought up some manager shit, but that's going to be talked about too. So, george, I don't care if I dox him, I'm not saying his last name. George is one of the worst coworkers I've ever had and I don't understand how he has worked so long with core. I don't think they would fire him for being an idiot, but in some special cases I think this would work. He's been at ADP a year longer than me and he's still asking questions as if he just started yesterday. And he asks the same questions every day, so it's not like it's a new question for a new situation. It's the same situation with a different client and the same answer still applies.
Speaker 1:So back to my conversation with Matt. Matt came into the office Tuesday and we finally had, like we finally had our moment to chat because we're legit on the same team. Oscar, who was on my team and up market, is on a different team because he's with Puerto Rico, because he speaks Spanish. So Matt and I were talking and I was telling Matt I was like he lost all his high rollers, our old manager. He lost all his high rollers. He lost me. Oscar's not really a high roller, but you know what? I'm not going to make that conversation in front of Matt happen. So Matt was like, yeah, so he lost me, he lost you, he lost Oscar. And I kind of like blurred out Oscar because who gives a fuck? And um, cause, oscar created more problems than he helped, which is it happens.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's, it's, everybody has a weakness. Okay, some things people don't admit as a weakness because they don't want to seem like they could fail at something. Oscar's also been here longer, but it's it's learning styles. Teaching styles it's different for everybody, so that's fine. However he learns, however he teaches, is his business.
Speaker 1:So Matt and I discussed this and we were talking about how, um, brandon doesn't really know how to be a leader at ADP. He's not a bad person, he just doesn't really understand ADP structure, which is fine, I agree. I agree that most of the time it was us picking up after him because he doesn't remember anything. It was us picking up after him because he doesn't remember anything. So if he didn't handle an issue same day and it came back around a week later, we'd have to go through the whole process again of studying what happened. So I'd be like, hey, what happened with this bitch? I don't know. I've moved on from 500 clients and calls later and you're asking me this shit In any case. The other thing was is that okay? So let's go back to George. And the other thing was is that okay? So let's go back to George.
Speaker 1:They were planning to get the manager Brandon. They were going to get him something for his birthday. His birthday was last Thursday, so he had planned on leaving work early and I'd forgotten about that. I didn't forget it was his birthday. I just forgot to mention it to him because I was so busy calling people and transitioning and my throat becoming increasingly dry because of all the conversations I had to have During our farewell shit, which was really sad. I still talk to them. That's not the thing.
Speaker 1:The thing is is that now I have to get used to new managers and new people and make sure that my personality is chill in the beginning, because they don't know me like that. They barely talk in the one chat though in the beginning. Because they don't know me like that, um, they barely talk in the one chat, though. In the team chat, I guess is what it's called, there's like four other chats they're going to put me in and I'm like, oh fuck. So so the thing is is that my presence has to be known in those chats. Um, by me just reading everything. She goes, just make sure you read all your chats. Um, that's the big thing that she'd ever that she said she didn't get used to at first was she had to read so many chats. So I'm like, okay, I could do that. Never had a problem being engaged. I'm still engaged with this group of people in my old team, so that's not a problem. So I think everything's going to be great.
Speaker 1:I worked from home yesterday and today and, to be honest with you, the self-study shit is like getting on my nerves. Not that I want to be in a classroom with someone in front of it talking the whole time, like I did when I came in as a new hire. Um, it's just going to be really hard as a self self-study to get stuff done. Like I already know that I'm going to have to rewatch a video, rewatch both videos that were three hours a piece. Like one was three hours, the other one was an hour. Um, I'm just trying to pace myself because I'm already at 60% of the way done with this shit. The rest of it is, um, instructor led. That was another conversation I had on Wednesday with a different enterprise learning educator that's what they call them.
Speaker 1:So I I purposely have not reached out to this person because I'm still trying to get my footing with the self-studies, still trying to figure out what I'm going to be doing, and I'm still trying to figure out where my place is going to be on this team. Like I already know, I'm doing reporting. That's not the question I'm asking. The question I'm asking is how is this going to be put to use? Like? How am I actually going to get to use this Like I need to? I need a sandbox. I need to be able to play at my hands-on person. They need to be able to pretend, have pretend scenarios and figure them out Like that's going to be really helpful. Like I understand, I have knowledge of payroll and shit, so most of this is just like a refresher.
Speaker 1:I've done a lot of work with GL already. I just haven't built one, which is what I'm going to be doing. I actually did have an associate of mine named Courtney hooked me up with this chick named Natasha who used to be a reporting consultant implementation person, and she was telling me that GL is really chill. So I was like cool. She was like when I first started she said it wasn't until the following year end that I actually got busy and I was like well, this is going to be slow as fuck. So I'm probably going to be more consistent with recording because I will have more stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1:Um with, being an up market didn't give me a lot of brain power after work because it was a lot of dealing with people who took my mental energy away. So this seems like this is going to be a much smarter, healthier brain choice for me and hopefully more entertaining for you guys, as I am still in my other team's chat and will be looking at all that shit too, because Georgia's a little slower than the rest. Um, I've had. I've known other Georges in my life and they're about the same. Uh, all right, so enough of that.
Speaker 1:Um, what I did want to get into was the shit that I've watched this week is just crazy. Um, I've watched two different things. I know the last episode I talked about sweet Bobby. Today, I'm going to talk to you about the Manhattan alien abduction, and what was it? What was the name of this shit? Hang on, I watched something else.
Speaker 1:Let me see what this is called, though. Hang on, don't you do it. I'm turning. I muted my TV so you wouldn't hear it. It's called under the knife, I think. Hold on, I'm going to find it. Stop it, phone, I don't want to fucking use that Under the knife, is it? Is it? What the fuck? Under the knife? Wait a minute. No, you know what? No, no, no, no, no, no. Um, why don't they ever? So? Here's my problem, bruh. Here is my problem with Netflix. Okay, can y'all just let me fucking find shit that I was watching already? Can we do that? Can we just be chill? What's the Paolo Macchiarini shit? That's the name of the doctor anyway. Um, where the fuck is it? Documentaries, paolo Macchiarini Please tell me it's on this fucking shit, so I could just find it. Don't fuck with cats was crazy. American Nightmare was crazy. Okay, popstar Academy, I don't give a shit about. Where is it? Anna Nicole Smith has one too. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:I can't believe that when I took notes on this shit yesterday, I didn't write down the name of this shit. Oh, my lordy lordy, lordy, nowitzki, nowitzki. Why is there a fucking thing on Nowitzki bruh? Um, you know what? I'm going to Google it on my phone. I'm sorry if you hear noise, but I just can't deal. I'm having a fucking. Okay, what is the name of this show? Bad surgeon, love under the knife there you go. I'm writing this down now because I know, with everything I'm about to talk about, I'm going to forget the name of the shit again. Aye yi yi, sorry about that. Bad surgeon, love under the knife there we go. And that was probably a whole bunch of noise on my phone, but that's okay, it'd be all right. Okay, maybe not. Um, all right.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about the first thing that I fucking watched. Actually, I watched a couple of things. Let's go back to my colleague asking inappropriate questions in the team chat. So let's go back to last week, which was my last week in upmarket. So actually, no, it was this week they talked about it.
Speaker 1:So my boss's birthday was last Thursday. He left early. It was my last day in the position. I was giggling because I was like how could you not work? How could you work without me? But anyway, it was a joke. Um, his birthday was. He took off for his birthday, which included Monday and Tuesday of this week. So Tuesday, my coworker Alison. She said that she wanted to put together a little something, buy him a little something for his birthday. Respectfully, she asked me to decorate his desk and I said, no, I'm not going to the fourth floor to decorate a desk, that's not, it's not really my forte anymore. So, um, yeah, so here's the thing. I watched that team chat all day because it it makes me laugh and makes me realize what I was stuck in.
Speaker 1:So, george, the everybody she puts in, hey, so the SSS Brittany goes, hey, so we're going to. She's like I have a cash app, or, zelle, if anyone wants to send me any money, we can go ahead and do a. We could go ahead and do what you call it. What is it? A team basket? Oh, giving basket contest? She's like I have a cash app, I have Zelle. If anyone wants to send me any money, we can go buy a little something. So okay, so that's fine. That announcement itself is fine. Okay, look at Oscar. I'm more than happy to contribute. Not on our team.
Speaker 1:Um, he goes, george goes, hey, so how much is everybody contributing? Bruh, nobody answered him and I was like how fucking inappropriate is that? How fucking inappropriate is that Is to ask how much I'm giving a dollar. How about that? A dollar? Like, not, I didn't give a dollar, but it's like bro, nobody's putting their finances out there to tell you how much they're going to contribute to their manager. Okay, that's fucking insane. Like, why would you even say some crazy shit like that? Like, who has time to hear you out on that one? Like that's fucking crazy. Um, and I just laughed cause I'm like no, he's not talking about. How much are people putting into this? Like, come on, bro, have some respect. Ping her on the side, ask her how much people are giving. Tell her how much you can afford to give. Stop putting it out there. Stop putting your business out there.
Speaker 1:Okay, even when watching letter kenny, because me and him used to go hard talking about it first thing in the morning, this man, I was telling him where I am because it's my second playthrough of it, which I'm catching different things, like you always like catch shit. You didn't catch in the beginning when you first watched it. So I was like, bro, I'm on the season where you know his fiance. He catches his fiance kissing somebody else and it's like the second time he's been cheated on, because you go into the show knowing he got cheated on by his first girl. So he's like oh yeah, I know how that feels because that's happened to me.
Speaker 1:I thought that was so crazy and I was like are you trying to talk to me and be relatable to a comedy that we're watching? Is that for real? Is that for real? You can't just let me enjoy my show. You have to inject your tragedy of a story into it. I'm trying to enjoy life, okay, I'm trying to enjoy life, and this is what you decide to do to something I love. So now, every time I watch that part, I'm like, oh man, george told me the story Like, you see what you did, you tainted my shit. Now I can't watch it. Didn't take a break from watching it because of that. I took a break from watching it because those episodes feel like five minutes. They really do just fly by. I do, however, want to watch this movie. Don't move, that's just sitting in my face while I talk to you guys.
Speaker 1:Um, anyway, so I watched the movie the exorcism with Russell Crowe with my boyfriend the other night. We stayed up late watching it. Personally, because I think he doesn't care what time he goes to sleep. I guess he's on the I'll sleep when I'm dead plan. Meanwhile, I want to sleep like I'm dead. That's the plan I'm on. I want to sleep like I've never slept in my entire life and just stay asleep. Does that make sense? He's like ah, I'll sleep when I'm dead, we're good. I'm like oh well, I'm going to sleep like the dead, I'll see you tomorrow. And it's like four in the afternoon. I could go to sleep whenever I want.
Speaker 1:He got so lucky dating me because I want to do absolutely nothing but sleep, sleep, eat pizza, eat wings, watch TV, maybe work out if I feel like it. I actually am really proud of myself that I worked out three days in a row this week Tuesday, wednesday, thursday. I'm on the TWT plan with some SA for Saturday. Not sexual assault Saturday, let's change it TWT, sat. That rhymes and I'm keeping it Anyway.
Speaker 1:So we watched that movie with Russell Crowe and he plays like some fat out of work actor who had like a drug problem and alcohol problem because his wife died of some illness that they don't tell you about but it was terminal, whatever. He's trying to like reconnect with his daughter or his daughter got suspended from school and he tries to like reconnect with her and obviously they're faithless both of them because you know people just be dying around them, I guess, and you know you lose your faith in Jesus every now and then and you know it happens whatever. So I myself had dabbled in, you know, christianity, catholicism, whatever. I'm both. I guess I don't even know who cares. So we were watching this movie and I'm looking at Russell Crowe and I'm like, bruh, are you doing these movies? Because he just did the Pope's exorcism. Okay, he did that and then he did this.
Speaker 1:So back-to-back exorcism movies. Is Russell Crowe Okay? Is he all right? Does he feel a connection to wanting to clear the world of Satan that he has to do two back-to-back exorcism movies. That's insane. I don't even know what years they came out, but it's literally feels like one after the other.
Speaker 1:I think that this is this fun for him. Is he actually possessed? Is he trying to bring the word of Satan out? I really want to know. I want to know what his fascination is and I'm going to look up an interview and see if something happens. I'm not doing it now because I have plenty to talk about outside of that. So, all right, 20 minutes in, 20 minutes in, we're doing a great job. Um, so yeah. So looking at Russell Crowe, he looks like he ate the gladiator version of Russell Crowe, and I'm not saying it to be rude, I'm just saying like what a transition and transformation it's been. I think I actually like him better, fat and bearded up, if that's weird to say, but I was laughing because you know me and the boyfriend are like hey, so he's got like more of a priest body now he's got like that belly that gets hidden by the cloak and everything, whatever they wear. I don't even know what it's called, I don't care, but it was a good movie.
Speaker 1:It's one of those that I would not pay to go see in the movie theater. I would probably see it from my couch, which is where I am. It's where I thrive, let's just say because, hey look, everybody has to fart, everybody has to burp. You can't do that in a movie theater. You have to be on like your best behavior in a movie theater. So I'd rather be farting and burping on my couch.
Speaker 1:I like to eat dinner, maybe while watching a movie. I don't like those movie theaters that combine too many things. Movie theaters are for popcorn and treats, sugary treats, sodas, slushies, whatever. Do not serve me filet mignon and mashed potatoes in a movie theater. Have you seen those movie theaters? They serve you dinner Like you didn't need to have dinner beforehand.
Speaker 1:Like, hey, do you want to do dinner and a movie together and smell everyone's food together? No, I'll go to a restaurant. I don't want to pay $50 for a movie ticket because you're going to give me, like, what is it? Tuna tartare? Okay, I don't want it. Or sashimi, no, no, the only place that's acceptable to smell like that is probably the ladies room, and even then that's too much. You know what I'm talking about. I don't have to explain that further than that. Okay, you know what the ladies room smells like in any place. That's not fancy, smells like rotten fish, anyway.
Speaker 1:So Russell Crowe is now a priest in every movie he's in, we'll move right along to the next thing, oh right, so if you haven't seen this movie, mr Crockett was another good one, another random gem that we found on Hulu. I've learned that I'm becoming more like my mom and just pronouncing shit, however I feel like it. So instead of calling it Hulu, I call it Hulu. You know, you shoot that last U out of there. And sometimes I'll call Julio who Lucifer, just because, just because, why not? And it makes him mad. Also, what was funny about it is we used to say Julio was like Beetlejuice, because he would say it three times and he would appear. In this case it was the opposite we would say Beetlejuice three times and he would leave because he would get mad, anyway.
Speaker 1:So Mr Crockett was good. It was like the ring. If the ring was a, if the killer was part of like a five nights at Freddy's type of deal and was like the human along with the animatronics, like what could I compare it to? Let's just say an evil, blues, clues, all right. So his whole thing was is that he liked to protect kids so much he sacrificed himself for some little boy, ended up dying, made a pact with the devil and decided that he was going to come back through the TV and take children from bad parents and kill the parents. So not just kidnapping, but murdering too.
Speaker 1:So if you have a chance, see this shit, because it's wild and I didn't expect to like it and I personally don't care if there is a second one. The boyfriend, on the other hand, is like I'd watch the second one and I'm like all right, you can watch that alone. I think once was enough. It might be interesting. Who knows, I'll probably just fucking watch it in cave. I'll probably just watch it and be like, oh okay, like he has to drag me through so much shit, because I really can't be bothered. For me I could just keep the same shit on a loop and I know he gets tired of it, but he deals with it anyway. But like sometimes he'll be like, hey, what are we watching? And I'm like, well, I am watching this, you can watch it with me. And he's like, no, no, let's put something else on. And I'm like, damn it, fine. So we watch whatever he wants to watch. And then 10 minutes later, when he falls asleep, I put back on the shit I want to watch. And then there's my night, snoring in my face like a lumberjack in the woods and watching TV with subtitles so I can see what's going on. No, he's not that bad. You just get used to it. After a while, kind of tune it out.
Speaker 1:So the main thing I wanted to talk about was the Manhattan alien abduction and, oh my Lord, I took notes. Okay, I took my notes honestly. So the gist of it is let's go through this. In 1989, a woman claims to have been abducted from her apartment building in New York city. They call it the Brooklyn alien abduction. So it's got a bunch of different names. Alien abduction so it's got a bunch of different. Woman claims to have been abducted by aliens from her apartment in Manhattan. Okay, they somehow got 23 other people there's 23 other witnesses who noticed the same exact shit, the same thing word for word. The way she reported it. She basically floated up out of through her window and up. Now what happens is this isn't supposed to be funny, but the way it happens is so ridiculous and so over-dramatized. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:So they show the reenactment of her, you know, checking on everything before she goes to sleep. She goes to finally lay down. She, I guess, falls asleep. She gets back up because she hears something. She's looking around because I think she thinks she hears something in her room. No idea, because it's not narrated, really, they're just doing a voiceover. And, um, she has punched in the face. Is what it looks like? Like air just hits her in the face and knocks her over. Then she starts floating you know, floating like you think you would like. Your head is last, okay, the torso comes up first and you're bent into like a fucking rainbow is what it looks like when they're picking her up floats out through the window, floats up into the sky, looks like a volcano vagina and shoot up. She goes, she goes back, they send her back, whatever. And then here's the story. So 23 people claim to have seen her float up into the sky. I don't know if they mentioned her. Seeing her like disappear. That's fine.
Speaker 1:This shit should have been named oh, linda, and I'm going to explain why the person researching this. So there's like a whole thing between Linda, who's the main character, carol and Bud. So Bud and Carol are a married couple who do research on this UFO shit. It starts out as his pet project and then she kind of adopts it because she marries him and she's a producer, like she does camera work and everything. So she does the camera work and everything. So she does the camera work and everything for him. You see him do his hypnosis sessions where they fucking these victims, talk about what they went through and they get it all out there. Okay, so it's 1989, 1990.
Speaker 1:People don't believe in this shit. Okay, this is the first time anyone's ever bringing UFO shit together. I'm putting it together, putting it out there. They go on TV shows and talk about it. People make fun of them and laugh, whatever. So the reason why this should be called oh Linda is because the way this guy says her name every time she calls him, and she calls him a lot every time something happens because her story is wild.
Speaker 1:She goes from being abducted to seeing these two people named Rich and Dan, the only people, like she's the only person that's seen them and, like she said, she gets taken in a van and I guess for revealing too much information about this shit. I don't know, man, this whole thing. I was trying to believe her, so bad, okay, and I called my mother and I was talking to her about this, and my mom believes in all this shit, which is fine because that's where we live now. We live in a world where we believe everything. Okay, we're living in a world where P Diddy is being like prosecuted for all this shit, when no one is no one claimed to know anything about this beforehand. Okay, so it leads me to believe.
Speaker 1:Obviously there's shit going on that we don't know about. That's always going to be the case. There's always been like a velvet rope or there's always been that veil between celebrities and civilians. Yes, that's what's happening Celebrities and civilians, that certain people do certain things. Everybody's known about diddy parties, diddy white parties They've always been a thing, but there's things out there that are like circumstances, um, such as this one that he's going through right now, but that sucks for him. In any case, she had some stuff going on where she said she got taken in a van because she exposed too much information. She went on the Ricky Lake show because she's, but she said put me behind a curtain because I don't want people to see my face because my family might be in danger. Crazy, but okay, believed her a little bit. Here's the part that she lost me. So I'm two episodes deep.
Speaker 1:This thing is three episodes and they cover a lot and a little at the same time. So you know a bunch of shit about her but you don't at the same time. So that's, that's the one thing. What is this? Who the fuck is this? Now, okay, it's just the ADP notifications, anyway. Now Okay, it's just the ADP notifications, anyway.
Speaker 1:Um, this is so Bud, who's the alien researcher, is married to Carol and Linda thinks that Carol has a vendetta against her. So, going back to that, so it was a whole fight thing. For me I thought it was a whole love triangle thing. I thought that Linda was like the new wife of Bud and Carol was just the ex-wife who was an asshole and wanted to get back at her, whatever, that's what I thought it was. It is not that way. It's just that a series of events happen that make her question her participation in this whole thing. So Bud has plenty of conversations with Linda. Linda becomes his main focus because her story is so believable.
Speaker 1:Now the thing becomes my question, becomes his fascination with her is a little too much where I would be like all right, can we find another person Like I know she's the thing, and I know that you know she has all the details that you've never gotten from anybody else. But you know, can we focus on something else? Or like rebrand, whatever, because he was getting movie offers and shit for everything that he gave out as information. Like he became really important in discovering UFOs and all this shit, aliens, et cetera. So it becomes there's a lot of conversations that were recorded. A lot of this is stuff like real, actual evidence of conversations that happened, of things that were discussed, of sessions that were had because she was recording them, carol, of him hypnotizing people excuse me and them actually coming forward with information as to how they were abducted. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:My problem is that he starts going down a rabbit hole with Linda. The level of concern in his voice when he speaks to her is a little bit concerning to me as someone who would be a spouse of someone like that. So she calls him after she gets abducted in a van Um, apparently. So this is the fucking weirdest thing. So she gets abducted by rich and Dan, supposedly two doctors. I don't, I don't know, I don't remember, but these two guys were so interested in her that they took her in a van supposedly, and we're trying to take her shoes off to see they were calling her half breed, thinking she was half alien, half human. Okay, that's fucking weird. So they wanted to see how many toes she had as proof that she was a human. So somehow she had a gun in her purse and she pulled it on him and she was like you keep touching me, I'm going to shoot your balls off. You better watch it. That was another thing that shocked me. I'm like how the fuck are they allowing this much cursing? I'm like you know, I'm 35. This shouldn't bother me like that.
Speaker 1:But I think it takes the seriousness out of the situation, especially throwing fuck in with alien shit, like we're really making it. We're we're taking it to that level where we're talking about hey, you know, I have a fucking gun, I'll shoot you. Okay, I'll shoot your dick off or I'll shoot your balls off or something like that. Like that's crazy anyway. So the reason why I wanted to be called oh Linda is because after this happens and she runs away from those people, she calls bud and he goes is because after this happens and she runs away from those people, she calls Bud and he goes, oh Linda. And I'm like what the fuck? He starts every conversation with her because she always calls him panicked. So he's talking to her and he's like oh my God, are you okay and this and that. And he's like you know, come on over, come on over, just clean yourself up and come over. And I'm like why are you talking to her as if she's your wife? Keep that crazy shit away from you. This woman has a gun. Okay, she's been through a traumatic incident.
Speaker 1:Also, I don't even know if this guy's still alive. They didn't show him at all. They showed Carol and Linda and some other reporters who were involved in this shit. Okay, one reporter who was really behind him, and then I don't know I don't remember who else was involved oh, her son. Her son was there. Okay, her son was cursed up a storm too, and he had his face covered too.
Speaker 1:And I want to be like listen, if your story is true, show your fucking face. You don't want to show us your face. Are you embarrassed about this story? This should happen to you when you were six. You're probably closer to 40, now probably older. Okay, act like you've done something with your life since that and uncover your face. He's like talking in a shadow. I'm like okay, dude, you really don't exist to me. If your face is covered, okay, I automatically don't believe you. If you don't want to show your face, you're not in witness protection Okay, if you are, that's fine. You're not in witness protection from aliens, and I'm calling them aliens. This UAP shit will not stand. That's what they want us to call them now UAPs. Anyway, I'm glad that this shit stuck to it and stayed with aliens, because that's what they were calling them at this time, and I will continue to do so. Thank you so much. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. I should say Moving forward with this.
Speaker 1:So the third episode is where we really get to. You know, chop things out. The first one is an introduction to what happened to her. The second one is an introduction to Bud and his research. The third episode is basically an introduction, like more along the lines of, you know, linda and Carol's life, I think, or maybe it's split up differently. I don't remember if the second episode was Linda versus Carol or whatever their lives were, but I thought that was interesting as well. So let's see. So I decided that I was going to call Linda Delulu Linda, because it's very close to Lululemon because it sounds like it's an overpriced product for something you could just get for $5, which is probably $5 might be more than what her story is worth to me at this point.
Speaker 1:What bothered me about Linda is she. What Carol said from the beginning was that she seemed like she was born to be a star. She had like this presence about her that she was, you know, made to be in front of a camera, like she was very dramatic looking. She had a look. She was just made to be in that role. Whatever, what happens is that they start poking holes. Well, she, carol, is like all right enough, because something is wrong here, because one of the witnesses they got of those 23 was losing their vision, so they really couldn't confirm that. Everybody was at a different vantage point. So it's like you're you can't possibly see the same thing as someone else if you're standing 20 blocks over. But in any case, let's not talk about that, because I don't really care.
Speaker 1:What happens is that I started to believe Linda up until this point, which is when she starts talking about her singing career. All right, she starts talking about how she had her, her, her namesake, I think, or her alias, whatever you want to call it, was Lynn long. Okay, she had one song which I only needed to hear one time to know this could be made up. I started to believe her until she was like you know, I started out with such a strong career and then she starts pulling out photos of her and Mia Farrow and her and the Duke and all this shit and I'm like, bro, oh man, I believed you until now. You got me bitch, you got me so heavy. So she's acting all crazy. She's singing her own song, dancing in her living room in front of the camera and we're like all right, did you make this up, bitch?
Speaker 1:Because this is like a 35 year old story now that they're putting on Netflix, bruh, and we still don't have an answer if it was fake or real or what they say that you know there's so many things that she could have. What they say that you know there's so many things that she could have, you know created, such as the metal device in her nose. She claimed that when she went to a doctor, she had a bump in her nose that she could not explain. They did an x-ray of it. They found some. It looked like one of those swirly fucking nose rings that you just slide in and it looks like a double ring. It looked like that. Now what Carol believes is that she could have done that by taping that shit to the side of her face, but then that would implicate the doctor. So we don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't think that Carol's a bitter person. I think she is trying to figure this out on the other side of it, because Linda and Bud whatever their connection was in this shit he played off of that shit and he thinks he was producing results. But then there's the other side of it, which is Linda could have been fabricating this whole thing because she did research, she was typing letters from Rich and Dan. It's a whole crazy thing of. This bitch is probably lying. They should have just named it that this bitch is probably lying. They should have just named it that this bitch is probably lying Because if you were in front of a camera, you had one hit and then you went back to being a nobody housewife. Okay, cause nobody knew about her up until this shit happened. Um, they knew her for the one song and that's it. Disappear, okay, into the mist.
Speaker 1:She comes back around saying hey, I was taken by aliens. Check all this shit out. Check all what shit out bitch. Check all of what shit out Cause. Then there also becomes the question of how did she get that x-ray done then? How did she? Did she put that shit up her nose In any case?
Speaker 1:The thing that makes me laugh is that, to this day now, she's saying that before she goes to bed, she looks behind the drapes as if there is like a gray man standing behind it. I'm like are you fucking kidding me? Because you're going to see his little feetsies poke out the bottom? You don't think they're craftier than that. You're checking behind drapes. That's another thing. If you're so afraid, move out of that building, bruh. Even though they can get you anywhere. How are you still living in that apartment where so much shit happened? Because she's saying that her family was also taken at some point because they all had bloody nose out the same nostril, that she had that device in Insane. Okay, now watch me get abducted. If I'm abducted, though, I'm not telling anybody, I'm just going to live. You know you're.
Speaker 1:You're doing this in a controversial time where nobody believes in this shit, and they're saying well, we hope that bud becomes like the forefather of this information. But the only reason why people know who bud is is because of this Netflix special, you idiots. They're like oh look, the crazy scientists who tried to, you know, pioneer this shit. So one of the episodes so it's half linda, half carol in one of the episodes. So the other half of carol was that she was in a very religious family called the Pilgrim Brethren. They were fundamentally so into the Bible that anything that was considered fun was a place. You didn't go to the movies, out to eat, to playgrounds. You couldn't do any of that shit because it was against the Lord. She had 72 members of her family, so either they were fucking every minute of the day or it was a cult. I'm going to go with cult. Okay, that one has my vote.
Speaker 1:She became so science minded that she questioned the Bible with science and any time. What Exported version of it? No, hell, no. Anyway, what she did was she started questioning everything in the Bible and, you know, relating it to science, which people do now. Apparently, that was a big no-no to the Pilgrim Brethren, because they kicked her ass out, so she lost everybody in her family, including her parents. So she started to question this, saying that so let's go forward. Let's flash forward back to her marriage with Bud. She started questioning things, saying you know, can we finally just get a case that has solid evidence and proof of this? Because I'm not too sure about Linda. There has to be another way, because not everything she's saying seems realistic.
Speaker 1:She got her son involved and it seemed like she coached him into some responses for things, because he would say something and go no wait, and then he would reiterate something a different way, or that he'd go no wait and they go. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. Like like he was trying to remember a conversation he'd already had about it instead of just, you know, reliving it with the details he already knew. Like he was trying to reinvent the wheel while he was making the wheel and it didn't make sense. So Carol got sick of it, which you know. That's her right as someone who produces and is in cinematography and all that. That's her right to question that. That's her right to want to be on the side of good versus whatever the fuck this voodoo magic shit was.
Speaker 1:So she, um, she starts questioning things and she gets just so sick of the nonsense. And you know how when obviously when she was younger she questioned shit. She got kicked out of her family. Um, that trauma started coming up because you know he kept butting heads with her saying, no, no, we're going to stick with this. And why are you questioning me? And what happened here and all this stuff. And you know she got sick of it and she wrote an expose against her own husband, which is very ballsy dude. But you have to have, as a man. You have to have respect for someone like that who's going to question you instead of just follow you into hell fire. You know he needed. He should have had respect for her and her art as well, because she respected his art and whatever he was into to get him to this place, because he spent a lot of time, resources, energy. His fucking room was full of newspaper, like he was living in an archive. It was crazy. Um, yeah, he wrote.
Speaker 1:She wrote an expose about how her husband was just like finagling, finessing, whatever these hypnosis sessions to procure the responses he needed for his research to be real. And one of the things that was brought up, where the main focus of it was Linda and how her story didn't seem to make sense because it was too clear. Everybody else who went through those hypnosis sessions seemed like they were under the influence of something. Everybody else who went through those hypnosis sessions seemed like they were under the influence of something, but her story was reiterated too clearly. She perfectly told her story every time, without stumbling, without wavering, without any actual scared emotion. Like her sessions versus people who were actually probably abducted is two different things, two different sides of the coin. Like hers was very I need to tell my story. Everybody else was, I'm afraid to tell my story Like it was no problem.
Speaker 1:Her delivery versus theirs. Their delivery was very please, I don't want to remember, please don't do this to. Oh no, this is what happened, which obviously you can tell is two different things. People were crying. She was not crying, she was just saying, oh God please, oh God please, which is nothing, it's nothing. And the other people were like screaming, shaking, clenching fists and all that shit. I'm holding the hands of people white knuckling, all of that, okay, craziness.
Speaker 1:So she got, she got, um, carol got tired of just, you know, sitting in the passenger seat of all this stuff and, you know, maybe wanted to make a life of name her, of her own instead of just sitting in the shadow of her husband, which makes sense, I get it. Um, you fall for someone because they're into a cause, but then you know the cause takes over their lives and you know it's kind of people making fun of him. She stood by him through all that shit and then she's like you know what, fuck you? That's what that expose was. Fuck you and fuck her. Like, if you want to go down with this ship, I don't have to come with you. That's what she did and I love that for her. Love that for her. I think that's the best thing she could have done for herself.
Speaker 1:But in any case, um, she became tired of the alien abductions and somehow they made her the pariah that she was wrong and questioning him and all this shit Cause. So he had so many people behind him, which didn't even make sense because this wasn't even a hard fact yet None of this was proven to be true. This was just scientific anecdotes from a man who was obsessed with aliens. Like that's it, that's all it was. Anyway, it pissed me off that ending, because she has to be the lying bitch, right, she has to be the angry one. Meanwhile, lala Linda over here just fucking living life and, I think, the feud between Carol and Linda is more the story than this fucking alien shit. I want to hear more about that. That probably might be more entertaining than a UFC fight to me. I don't care about UFC, I just be like, oh shit, that's so much blood, that's it. So that was one thing I wore.
Speaker 1:One thing I fucking watched yesterday. I had a lot of time, I had a lot of free time yesterday in between these training sessions. Like I said, these self-studies are crazy. The next thing I watched I'd already watched this. Um, I watched the NBC. You know, celebritization of this shit.
Speaker 1:Um, I think I talked about this before, maybe not. Um, what was it called? What was it called? Hold on, I'm looking on Peacock right now. Let's see Paolo Macchiarini Peacock movie. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Dr Death. Okay, so he was on that. He was on the second season of Dr Death. So let me explain to you what this guy was doing. Okay, very briefly, I'm going to explain this because this is way too long a story, so and I only have like 12 minutes left of this free shit. So, basically, he was creating plastic tracheas. He was lab creating tracheas, putting them in people, and people were dying. Okay, uh, that's essentially what happened. So they made it into an eight episode thing on Peacock and they made it into a three episode thing on Netflix, cause they actually brought the people in.
Speaker 1:Um, by the way, benita was beautiful, not to say that Mandy Moore didn't do a really good job on it, but I'm what I'm saying. Benita was beautiful, not to say that Mandy Moore didn't do a really good job on it, but I'm, what I'm saying is Benita had blue fucking eyes and dark hair. That's beautiful. That's the most beautiful combination I've ever seen in my life. Um, with that being said, I think, uh, edgar Ramirez did a good job as Paolo, but it looks nothing like him. This guy is like, not ugly, but he's just not a great person. He had eight patients die from his plastic tracheas. He never did any animal testing to prove that this was actually going to fix anything for anybody. He used humans as test subjects is what happened, and that's very unfortunate. And, uh, I probably did talk about Dr Death cause.
Speaker 1:I watched it a while ago. Um, I watched it over the summer, like probably before I moved, and it's just me watching the real thing versus the? You know, the celebrity portrayal of it is crazy. They give me more with the eight episodes, but understandably so.
Speaker 1:It's not even the fact that he did that, it's the fact that he tricked this woman into marrying him Never happened, by the way woman into marrying him never happened, by the way and saying he knew the Pope, he knew Barack Obama, he knew the Clintons, he knew Putin, said he was a celebrity heart surgeon. Okay, so he tricked this woman into thinking he was someone he definitely was not, by the way, already married. So what was his end game? Like not that they were obviously ever actually going to get married. So what was his end game? Like not that they were obviously ever actually going to get married. It's just you. You did all of this. Imagine if it actually happened. Wouldn't he go to jail for that? That's polyamory, like oh no, it's polygamy. That's illegal in New York, maybe not in Barcelona, but anyway he married.
Speaker 1:And what's funny is I didn't know this he married a woman whose son he basically killed with this trachea. Actually, was it the trachea? I don't remember what the surgery was. They were in a car accident. Yes, it was the trachea. So, because he was under investigation for the murder after that. So he was trying to tell her don't post any pictures or anything, because I'm under investigation right now and you got to be cool. So she didn't post anything. But the funny part is is that he courted this woman whose son he killed, like that is so fucking wild, like he's got some balls on him. The sad part is, though let me get to the sad part, because we go through all this, we see everything he did, all the lies he told, all the people he killed, and you know they're like hey, did you ever do any animal testing? And there's nothing, there's no research, there's no cause. They go and they look like he was.
Speaker 1:He was a doctor. Well, he was, I don't know what they call it. He was given surgical privileges in Karolinska Uh, I think that's in Switzerland, I think I don't remember, or Sweden, something like that. Anyway, it's not in America, because we wouldn't have stood for that, even though he did get privileges in New York and killed that little girl with the trachea.
Speaker 1:So terrible person, terrible person. He fucked up more than more than should have been allowed. He operated on eight people and three of them he used excessive interference. I guess what would they call it? Intervention, excuse me. He intervened three times when he didn't need to and those people died.
Speaker 1:Intervened, meaning multiple surgeries after his initial one that was supposed to solve the problem in the first place, one of which left this woman horribly disfigured. And this one surgeon, who actually was leading the leading the cavalry against him, was blamed for it, like he was the one who got turned on and fired because he apparently got too emotionally attached to this patient. And figure this shit out Once he was done doing those surgeries to those people with the trachea, he didn't want anything to do with their recovery, like he would just disappear after he did it. And then, of course, he blamed the surgeon who was going against him, saying you know, what did you do? He was like this is you? I left her in your care. This is not me, this is something that happened like. Blamed it on maybe a preexisting chronic pulmonary condition, instead of, you know, taking responsibility, saying every time that, every time a patient of his died, he was forced to move forward because he did not have the right to stop, because he was getting closer and closer with each surgery. Which is whatever. Believe that if you want, but out of those three interventions he did, let me tell you, and a half years for those three people. So right now he is out and free walking around. He's probably performing those surgeries still and getting blood on his hands. I'm sure he's a good surgeon but he was testing his product on humans, which is never okay. It's not even okay to test it on animals, like he had trials with rats, that he hid his research because they all died Like people.
Speaker 1:This one ballerina, fucking rotting from the inside out because of this shit, like she smelled like death, they said because she had one of those tracheas. And from the celebrity one, the Dr Death Show, the doctor who started to question his shit was a female. Another one, another doctor, she was a female. She said to her I think you should hold off on doing this because the trachea they put in her was not long enough. It was a female. She said to her I think you should hold off on doing this because the trachea they put in her was not long enough. It was short by like three millimeters. So he said that they couldn't wait. They started like they took her blood and they tried to implant it like so that the body wouldn't reject it Because basically that's what was happening. It's a piece of plastic in your body. Your body is not made to have plastic in it like that, like as a throat piece. By the way, anyway, it was crazy, he's only gotten three years for it.
Speaker 1:That woman, that ballerina, died very tragically. She was impaired because of a car accident and couldn't even like lift her son or talk or anything like that without putting her finger over, like her throat, like a hole in her throat, to talk. Um, just very sad, uh, but it was. It's very interesting. So, if you have time, check it out.
Speaker 1:Uh, bad surgeon, life under the knife, something like that. Hold up Love under the knife. Why am I rhyming? So yeah, so he was a surgeon. He was crazy. He said he knew the Pope who was going to marry them, him and Benita, even though he was already married. And then, of course, you know she leaves all the planning and shit up to him and find, come to find out he didn't do anything. Come to find out, she finds out he has a wife by visiting the house that he's taken pictures from. Like she did so much investigative work, she was a journalist, so obviously she's going to use all her resources.
Speaker 1:But that shit was crazy. I was like whoa buddy, she knows she got, she got that Nancy Drew in her, but it's the craziest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life. It's like how do you think you're not wrong and how you should keep continuing? If I was a surgeon and one person died under my knife or some shit, even if it's not my fault, I'm still going to be a little upset, excuse me, I'm still going to be like, yeah, I'm not fucking doing this shit anymore. But he had the balls to keep going. I mean, you know, you can be ballsy, but you don't have to kill people. But in any case, I I'm gonna watch more shit, that's all I'm gonna say. But that those two were really good. Um, I haven't watched really good true crime shit like that in a while. Uh, I think that's why I land on that shit is because I have so many questions. I think it's the psychology background. I think that makes me question a lot of shit with these things. So I might just have to stick with it and report back.
Speaker 1:But thanks so much for listening. I am going to try and be more consistent. As you see, I am trying to do that very badly. Thank you so much, guys, and I will speak with you next week. I hope you have a great weekend. I am recording on a Friday and putting it out on a Friday, so I think we should be good to go. Thanks so much for listening. I hope you have a great weekend. I am recording on a Friday and putting it out on a Friday, so I think we should be good to go. Thanks so much for listening. I love you guys and I'll see you next week. Bye, we'll see you next time.
