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So well,

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what she so?

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Well? You

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can call by,

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but it does in bed?

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How do feel? This

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is the f This

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is the new reel. This

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is Shattered Souls. I'm your host, Karen

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Smith. This podcast contains graphic

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language and it's not suitable for children. This

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is the new reel. Welcome

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back. I

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told you before. I'm going to relate a couple of pretty

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funny stories that happened to me along my years

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at the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Not

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every call I went to was doom

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and gloom, not every call was a

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homicide. There were plenty

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that were actually hilarious,

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and this is one of them, and it

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was actually funny for both me and

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eventually for the victim of

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this burglary that I went

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to. And here's the story.

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I worked the entire city of Jacksonville,

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which was huge, so I could get a call at the

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beach and then follow up with a call all

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the way across town, so I drove

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quite a bit. And in between all that driving,

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calls would come in and what we would do

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is, whoever was closest to the call, we

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would generally just snatch it from h

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Q when she would put it out over the radio. Well

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that's how I got this call. It was a burglary

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to a restaurant and it was way out

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Atlantic Boulevard, almost to the beach.

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So I drove down Atlantic and on the left

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hand side was this large restaurant

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and I was familiar with it. I had actually been there a few

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times for dinner. So I pulled into the parking

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lot and I see this little

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old man standing there with his

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arms crossed. Clearly, he was pretty

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piste, and I could see immediately

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that the front door had been smashed. The

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glass had been smashed everywhere, and

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I said, hi, sir, I can see you had a break in. Can

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you tell me what happened? And he was just so

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cross, his lips were turned down, and

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he looked at the door and he goes, yeah,

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they broke my front door, the glass and

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they took the tip jar off of the bar. And

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I said anything else, and he goes, now,

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they just took my tip jar. And he goes, yeah, that's

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really expensive for me because I can't put

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it through insurance. It's a brand new

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glass door and all they took was the damn tip

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jar. So there really wasn't a whole

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lot for me to do. So I processed

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what I could, the crossbar on the door,

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the bar, really, that was about

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it. No shoeprints, no nothing, just a bunch

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of broken glass. So I did what I could

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and I left. Two or three days later,

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I hear a call go over the radio

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and it's the same address. And I looked

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at the call on my laptop and I said, you've got to

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be kidding me. Not again. So I said,

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HQ, just send that call to me ten

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four. So I get the screen and sure enough,

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it's the same restaurant. So I drove across

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town to Atlantic Boulevard, pulled in the

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parking lot, and that same man was standing

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there in the exact same spot with the exact

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same expression on his face. So I got

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out of my van and he looked at me, and

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I looked at him and I said, your

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glass got broken again. He goes, yeah,

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and the son of a bit took my tip jar again.

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Okay, so brand new glass door

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took the tip jar and nothing else. He said, no, nothing

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else. They just took the tip jar and I processed

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it again. He was really piste off.

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It was another three out of his wallet. He couldn't

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put it through his insurance, and I said, sir, let

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me give you a piece of advice. Let's

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not leave the tip jar on the counter

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anymore. And he goes, well, I didn't plan to. I'm

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like, okay, all right, just trying to

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help. Two or three days later, sure enough,

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another call came in. I had to laugh

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because I said, HQ, send it to me, and before

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I could finish my sentence, HQ goes ten, sending

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it to you. Drive out, same

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man, same position. Now he's

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smiling. He's looking at me and he's

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actually got a smile on his face. And I thought, oh my

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god, what the hell is going

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on here? So I pulled in, I got out. I

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stood next to my door and I kind of chuckled, and

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he stood there and he kind of chuckled back, and I

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said again and he goes, oh, yeah, yeah,

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they broke my door. And I said, I thought,

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I told you to take the tip

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jar and not leave it on the bar, and he goes, oh,

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I didn't. The tip jar wasn't on the

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bar. I said, okay, what did

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they do this time? He goes, oh, they took the

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fucking Jack Daniels. I

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guess that's one way that trying

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to do some community policing really didn't

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help. They cleaned him out of Jack Daniels.

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I have no idea what happened. I don't

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think we ever caught this person. I'm assuming

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it was probably somebody desperate.

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Alcohol tip jar kind of

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includes maybe somebody that was homeless

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or somebody that was just desperate. Regardless,

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the poor man had to fix his door again. He

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didn't leave the tip jar on the bar, and I think

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he started hiding the liquor behind the bar as well.

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But that was the last call I got. So there's

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one fun story for you, guys. I have one

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more. This was also toward the beaches,

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and it was also a burglary, but it was

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probably the strangest call I've ever had.

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I drive out to this kind of rundown

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apartment complex. So I get there and

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it's a two story building and it's kind

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of a beachy building, beige with like light

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blue doors and light blue trim, and

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I see this dude. And

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I don't know how else to describe this guy.

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But if any of you have seen Fast Times at Ridgemont

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High, I swear to god it was Jeff

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Spicoli in the flesh. It was a surfer

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guy. He had the pooka bee necklace,

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he had the board shorts, flip

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flops, long stringy blonde

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hair, and he was just kind of standing

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there against the building, and I thought, well, maybe

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that's my dude. So I walked over and said, sir, are

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you the one that reported a burglary? And he goes, oh,

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dude, yeah, I came

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home from really righteous

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day on the beach. Somebody

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took my most favorite

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surfboard from inside my living

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room. Well that's that kind

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of sucks. So he walked upstairs

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to a second floor apartment and I could see through the

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living room that he had four or five surfboards

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kind of stacked against the wall in

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there, and there was a big space between them,

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and I thought, well, okay, that's obviously where

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the surfboard was. But I looked at the front door,

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and I looked at the windows that were out front,

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and I said, well, I don't see any signs of forced

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entry. Are you sure that somebody

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came in that you didn't know? If you have a roommate, you

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have somebody that used to live here that maybe had access

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And he goes, no, I

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live here alone. And I

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know that somebody was inside my apartment.

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Okay, how do you know this? And he

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goes, well, let me explain

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my story. Oh, this ought

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to be good. Go ahead. Tell me. I

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am part Native American, and

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because I am part Native American, I

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like feathers. Okay,

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and I leave my feathers that I

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find on the outside

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of my window sill, and you can

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see them here therapeut a full. Yes,

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they are beautiful. Well, I

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had a very special feather that

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was out here on the window sill. And

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when I came home today,

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that feather was not on the

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outside of the window sill. It

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was on the inside. Okay,

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So you're telling me that somebody came in through

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your window and then took your surfboard

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out the window. That's

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my best guess. Okay,

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okay, do you have a backdoor. I

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do, but it's a patio. It would

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be out back. I said, okay, great,

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I'm gonna go trip back there for a second. You

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hang out here. So I walked around back

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of the apartment and I looked up and

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right there, leaning against the back of

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his apartment on the balcony was

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his favorite surfboard. It

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was pink and white. So I walked

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back around and I said, sir, what color

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is your surfboard? Oh? My

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favorite surfboard. It was a

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beautiful off white Gordon and

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Smith with three fins,

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and it had this beautiful pig outline.

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And he starts crying. I

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said, who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa dude, dude,

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chill, your surfboard is

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on your balcony. What

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my board is on my balcony.

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Oh my god, Oh my god. And he

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goes running through his apartment and

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he finds it on his balcony

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and he comes back and he gives me this huge

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hug. People, I

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thought that dude was gonna blaze up

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right in front of me. He was so happy.

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Yeah, maybe you should lay off the gunge and

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you know, try some water, try some vitamins.

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Jacksonville was an interesting place to work.

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I'll be relating a couple more of these two you guys

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over the next few weeks. Oh and quick

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update for you on the cases that I want

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to bring forth for season two. I'm still waiting

8:58

on the Foyer request, but I am in touch with a woman in

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charge, and she's working her way through it as best

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she can COVID is making everything really

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difficult for everyone, but progress

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is being made. So as soon as I get

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that case file, I'll start writing and

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i'll start pumping out some of the episodes for season

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two. So just sit tight, but I'll try

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to keep you entertained with more of these ridiculous

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stories out of my case files. You

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guys, take care, be well. This

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is the new Real