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The Thin Blue Line & The Brame Family

The Thin Blue Line & The Brame Family

David Brame's career and family life seemed picture-perfect. He ascended to the top of the Tacoma Police Department, earning respect & accolades along the way. When he was appointed as the police chief in 2001, he had it all: a thriving career, a...

David Brame's career and family life seemed picture-perfect. He ascended to the top of the Tacoma Police Department, earning respect & accolades along the way. When he was appointed as the police chief in 2001, he had it all: a thriving career, a loving wife, and two beautiful, young children. He rapidly rose through the ranks, having multiple close family members in law enforcement lent to the increasing potency of his power on the force. Behind the facade of success, Brame's life was riddled with darkness and deceit. A portrait of Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" hung in his office, a symbol of the sinister power he wielded.

Delve into the tragic tale of Tacoma’s top cop family. The story of David Brame, along with his wife and children shook the communities of Tacoma, Gig Harbor, and surrounding areas of Washington state to their very core. The stories of violent and coercive behavior, as well as sexual misconduct behind the scenes while David Brame served as the Tacoma Police will leave you outraged.  

Beneath the wholesome all-American image that was portrayed, there were dark, disturbing secrets. Brame's career was marred by accusations of rape and sexual coercion, covered up by the very department sworn to protect the public. The manipulation and control extended into his personal life. His wife, Crystal, endured years of psychological and physical abuse. Her attempts to escape his grasp were met with terrifying retaliation and manipulation. She finally got the courage to file for divorce leading to a cascade of escalating threats and intimidation from her recently estranged husband David Brame, culminating in a tragic murder-suicide. On April 26, 2003, Brame shot Crystal in a public parking lot, before taking his own life, leaving their two children to witness the horrifying event.

We'll uncover the chilling details of David Brame's abuse, the horrifying systemic corruption that enabled his actions, and the devastating impact to not only those closest to the couple, but the community at large. It's a sobering reminder of the dangers so many women encounter. Domestic violence continues to threaten the lives of women and children the world-over, but the haunting depiction of that abuse paired with a partner wielding nearly unchecked power emphasizes the urgent need for accountability within law enforcement and society as a whole, particularly because, far too often, it’s a matter of life and death. Listen to the heart-wrenching episode now to understand the full story behind the headlines and the legacy of Crystal Brame, whose family continues to fight for domestic violence awareness and justice.

If you need support visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline website, Call: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), or Text "START" to 88788

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He deemed the victims claim not sustained, which is a really polite way of saying we don't

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believe you and also we don't care.

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Like what does that even mean?

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Actually, this is what it means.

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He had the thin blue line to protect him from any harm, even if just to his reputation.

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Deserved or not.

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Hi, Cassie.

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Hi, Caitlyn.

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Hi, creepy people.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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If you're new to our creepy corner of the world, this is PNW Haunts and Homicides, where

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we chat about true crime.

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The paranormal and all things creepy and other witchy stuff and whatever we really feel

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like, frankly, in the Pacific Northwest.

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Or the PNW if you're nasty.

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You know what else is nasty?

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Oh, what?

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A tarot reading.

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Oh, and we do those.

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We do those.

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We do those at the end of every episode for a little deeper insight into our topic for

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the day.

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We do.

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So I guess before I get into it, you know, what kind of mood are you in?

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Are you feeling over there?

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What kind of mood should I be in?

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No, I'm just looking for a baseline.

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I was feeling pretty good.

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Not like great, not like bad.

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Oh, okay.

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Good.

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Cool.

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Well, if you're not angry by the end of this, then I'm just going to have to assume you weren't

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listening.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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She's like, great.

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Okay.

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Test.

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There will be a test at the end.

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Okay.

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Someone to pop quiz.

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Focus, Cassie.

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Or is there?

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All right.

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So we don't do this a ton.

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So hopefully this is all the warning that anybody who, you know, listens with regularity

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will need, but trigger warning for domestic violence, coercion, both psychological and

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sexual, as well as the emotional abuse of children and also that of a spousal relationship.

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And if you're sensitive about any of the aforementioned, should be super understandable, or

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about corruption and brutality at the hands of law enforcement, this is going to be a pretty

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rough one.

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Okay.

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She's like, I actually just remembered I have a thing.

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I have a thing.

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I will see later or I will see you in another time.

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Oh, what's that thing?

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My uber, see?

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Oh, yeah.

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I almost wore that tank top today.

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That's funny.

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Oh, well, you're not allowed to catch an uber.

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Fine.

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All right.

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I'm ready to get pissed.

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Yes.

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Let's go.

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All right.

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Tacoma police chief David Brame kept a picture in his office.

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A framed portrait of Al Pacino from his role as Michael Corleone in the cult classic The

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Godfather.

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Hmm.

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I'm sure that having him on my wall or can you picture the portrait?

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I've never seen that movie.

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I mean, I think I've seen parts of it.

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I don't know that I've actually sat down and watched it like all the way through.

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I know what he looks like older.

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I'm assuming he was younger than that or was he older than that?

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He is younger than that.

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That's a pretty old movie.

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Who does he play in that?

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Michael Corleone.

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I've very said I was like, she literally just said it.

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Yeah, it doesn't help because I don't know.

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I need you to like mobster guys, right?

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Yeah.

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So here's what I'm going to do.

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I don't think it's this portrait, but very similar.

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I'm assuming I will see if I can just air drop this.

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Oh, that's it?

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You feel like the main character?

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Oh.

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Wow, that's really young.

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That's quite dashing.

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Maybe I should watch the movie.

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She's like, I'm going home and I'm watching the Godfather.

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Wait a minute.

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You didn't tell me there was a handsome man in it.

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Did you think that it was about like a Godfather like at the church being like there for the

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baptism or?

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No, I knew what it was about.

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You know, I watched Gilmore Girls and they watched that on Gilmore Girls.

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So it's kind of like I watched this.

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Basically the same.

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I'm sure.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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All right.

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So now you know.

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Okay.

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No, no.

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Thank you.

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I'm informed.

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Yes.

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The portrait was a gift.

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Apparently part of an inside joke amongst him and a bunch of his cop buddies, which is I'm not

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going to lie, that was an immediate red flag for me because I don't know a lot of cops that

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would be like, yeah, I'm going to hang that on my wall.

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Yeah.

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If they did the legal stuff in that movie, right?

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Yeah, like quite a bit.

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It's like kind of the whole thing.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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All them.

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Weird.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, sincerely - XOXO "The Clitorati"

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I like it.

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I just hate that.

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I just hate that.

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I mean, they would never like use like a term that downplays that for a woman.

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Yeah.

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And be like, seriously?

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Yeah.

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So why, why, why are met and why are we excusing men?

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Do you know why?

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No.

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I know why.

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Why?

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Also Taylor Swift knows why.

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Huh.

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Because the play is going to play.

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Well, that's.

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Play is going to play.

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No.

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No.

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He was a man destined for success in all avenues, seemingly.

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He was the classic high school sports star turned small time local celebrity.

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I could see that.

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Yeah.

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Sorry, we had to pause from my audible I roll.

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After graduating from Lincoln high school, he followed in his father's footsteps as a

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second generation law enforcement officer.

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When he joined the force in 1981, it wasn't just his father already established in law

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enforcement.

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He joined three other family members already serving with a badge.

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Whoo.

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It's a cop family.

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Beneath his shiny all American hometown hero exterior, there were a few.

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Cobwebs.

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He needs a swiffer Duster.

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Yeah, they were real big spiders.

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Brame's start in law enforcement.

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Perhaps hadn't been the easiest.

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He took three psychological evaluations before he was deemed eligible.

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Was he deemed eligible on the third one or on the fourth one?

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Mm-hmm.

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And it's a little unclear.

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It's kind of neither here nor there in the end.

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But yeah.

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There's a lot of follow up questions.

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Few new or noticed.

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Braim had also submitted what some job screeners called a questionable list of personal references

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that were incomplete and misleading.

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He still got the job.

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Of course he did.

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He is a white man.

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That's probably fine.

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As chief, he seemed to take after the man who hung on his wall, promoting those he favored

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and ensuring that those he didn't were too fearful to move against him.

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Yikes.

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Which is definitely what you want when someone's in a position of power.

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You have to be feared.

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Yeah.

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Otherwise you're just going to get someone else is going to take power, right?

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Exactly.

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It reminds me of actually, and it's funny and the story is not funny, but I just pictured

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that scene where Michael Scott, they were asking him, do you want people to love you or fear

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you?

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And he's like, I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

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People were actually afraid of saying anything against him or trying to bring attention to

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anything that he might be doing wrong, and that apparently included far more serious crimes,

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including that one time that he was accused of rape.

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I forgot you were talking about that shit.

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Yeah.

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Man.

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The 1988 internal investigations complaint was kept relatively quiet by the department.

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So remember, this is well prior to him becoming the chief also.

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Oh, yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Then chief Ray Fetland, which it's like a Finnish name, so there's like F's and J's.

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I'm just guessing at the pronunciation there.

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He deemed the victims claim not sustained.

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Which is a really polite way of saying we don't believe you and also we don't care.

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Like, what does that even mean?

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Actually, this is what it means.

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He had the thin blue line to protect him from any harm, even if just to his reputation,

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deserved or not.

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A frightening departmental cover up has come to light years since.

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Reportedly, a fellow police officer stated that Braim had admitted to the rape.

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This fellow officer agreed not to speak up if Braim went for counseling.

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Which is particularly upsetting given the fact that a detective who investigated the case

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in question stated there was definitely there was definitely enough evidence to sustain

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a charge despite what the chief said at the time.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Put a pin in that for now because it wasn't his only overtly sexual misconduct.

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Oh, I can't imagine that would be it.

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Yeah.

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Usually, we don't.

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Yeah, it's kind of a...

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Becomes a pattern far too often?

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A female officer, a single mother of a six-year-old daughter, detailed numerous conversations

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both in person and over the phone, including in her off-duty time, that occurred as a means

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of trying to coerce her into having group sex with him and his wife.

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Was his wife involved?

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Yes and no.

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I think we're going to have a little bit of an opportunity to revisit that in greater

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detail.

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So interesting.

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Yeah.

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Did I mention that she was also trying to make detective?

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Hmm.

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I don't think you did.

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Yeah.

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If you did it, it went over my head.

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I didn't.

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I'm...

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I...

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Like, I literally put it in my notes.

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Did I mention?

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I don't know.

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I can't trust my own brain.

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I mean, that's fair.

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Same.

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God.

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Yeah.

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So, of course, he is like trying to...

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Yep.

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And this is literally the type of shit that brought on.

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It brought about the Me Too movement because as someone who's in a position of power, this

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is her livelihood.

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She's a single mother.

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And a lot of people would feel like they have no other choice.

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For real.

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It's a very sad and desperate circumstance that you could be put in.

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Yeah.

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What year did you say this was?

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So, at the time of the rape allegation, that was 1988.

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Oh, okay.

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So, like, not even close to the Me Too movement.

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No.

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Not really.

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Yeah, we're like not really.

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It's like not...

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Not at all.

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Not at all.

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Yeah.

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Like, 40 years later.

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Yeah.

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Oh.

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Ugh.

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In case you hadn't guessed, today, our story is about a bad cop.

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You know, one of those bad apples we keep hearing about.

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Here.

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Stinky.

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Yeah.

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A really deeply troubled man in more ways than one.

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Or as he was described by an article by the news tribune, a human resources newt.

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A joke.

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A roadmap of wrong turns and bad decisions.

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Geez.

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That's a really good way to describe it though, the human resources newt.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, because that's exactly what he is.

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Yeah.

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And that is on the less serious end of the spectrum.

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But enough about his professional feelings and misdeeds for now.

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Don't worry.

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We'll totally come back to that.

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So neither she or her family were familiar with the term at the time, his wife, Crystal.

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Formerly known as Crystal Judson or more affectionately, Crissy Boo, all, was all too well-equainted

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with her husband's frequent gaslighting.

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He would send her flowers anonymously, calling himself a secret admirer.

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According to a accused Crystal of having an affair when she questioned who sent the flowers.

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What?

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This is some seriously psychoshit.

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Meanwhile, he was the one trying to coerce female officers into having three sums.

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I mean, that's how it goes.

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The one who's cheating accuses the other one.

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Yup.

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Cheating.

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We know that ain't the pot.

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He closely monitored the odometer on her car as well as her weight.

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Why?

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He may have made some particularly questionable comments about her appearance that have been

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documented in a number of the sources that I used for this.

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Hmm.

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I'm sure he was a perfect kind of guy, huh?

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I mean, he was relatively physically fit, but yeah, I mean, she was a very petite woman.

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But it's about control.

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Oh, yeah.

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It was all about control.

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Yeah.

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And of course, it extended to their finances as well to say that he was tight-fisted would

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have been an understatement.

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While he couldn't prevent her from having pockets, he wouldn't allow her to have a checking

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account.

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And I didn't actually specifically add this into my notes.

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It's just something that every time as I've been proofing my notes and thinking about this

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case, it just keeps flooding back to me from the book that I read.

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And somebody, I think it was a family member of hers that talked about at one point they

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were with Crystal and she was like, I don't know how I can get away.

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Like he gives me this crazy type budget for groceries for, you know, our whole family

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and he's checking her odometer.

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Like she literally can't go too far.

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And they said that as she's telling this story, she was like, at this very moment, I have less

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than a dollar available for gas.

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She had like 50 cents in her pocket.

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Now granted gas was like less than a dollar back then.

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And that's, you know, a single gallon.

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I just the way that he controlled her in, I mean, every aspect of her life, their kids'

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lives really, really scary.

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Scary to be in that situation.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Knowing like on the other side of it could have been worse too.

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Like I have experience with this stuff and it wasn't as severe.

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But like if I had stayed, right, I'm sure it would have gotten that experience.

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Things have a tendency to escalate.

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Yeah.

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That's usually how it goes.

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I mean, we all want to believe that things will get better, right?

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They get better if you leave.

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Yeah.

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Even if you have 50 cents.

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Yeah.

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I mean, just.

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It's just, it's such a classic story.

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Yeah.

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Initially, Crystal's parents had steered clear of any conflict within their daughter's marriage

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unaware they were seeing warning signs, which I will say as the parents, it's a smart

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strategy to not, you know, getting gross or but your head in with, you know, your kids'

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family life or marriage until there's a problem.

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And when they're, you know, when it became apparent to them that something was really wrong,

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they were leading the charge to try to help Crystal and their grandchildren.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, the kids make it like a thousand bazillion times harder to do anything.

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For sure.

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Even petty arguments and emotionally abusive or coercive behavior gave way to physical violence.

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David would still claim to be the victim of abuse at Crystal's hands.

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She couldn't have weighed more than 120 pounds soaking wet.

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Sorry, I'm laughing because I am.

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It's so unbelievable.

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Yeah.

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It's so unbelievable.

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This is like a man who outweighs her has, you know, we're talking about potentially, I think

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he probably had somewhere between 60 and 80 pounds on her.

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He's probably, you know, yeah, maybe not a full foot taller than her, but like I'm sorry,

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the physical advantage.

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And that's not to say that men aren't abused.

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And even in a dynamic where this falls, oh, yeah, for sure.

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But that is so not what was happening here.

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You look at all the other evidence and it's like obvious.

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It's obvious who is abusing who when you see all the like other things that they will do.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Exactly.

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However, despite all the established threats and conflict after 12 years of escalating degradation

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and disagreements, Crystal was ready to leave.

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Her decision was likely hastened in no small part by her husband behaving suspiciously as

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he prepared to leave for his evening shift one night.

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We're going to talk about this a little bit more.

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Okay.

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Because there's some really important aspects to Crystal's background that inform this scenario

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and make it all that much more heartbreaking.

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He tried to get her to handle his gun before he left.

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And we're going to talk about why.

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Okay.

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We'll come back to that.

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So I have a lot of notes.

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A lot of notes I have actually some excerpts that I'm going to read from the book that I

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used kind of to supplement what information is out there from really great like newspaper

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articles and things.

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There are a couple of specific excerpts that I'm going to read.

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We'll do like a little Patreon bonus because I think it's really important to understand.

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One of these pieces of her background and the logic behind it.

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It is chilling.

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I understood in a way why that made her so fearful.

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I think there's, I think you can just understand that someone is behaving really strangely.

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And I think there's intuition piece of it but there's so much more to it and it just, it

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brought me to tears.

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It was just, it was too much.

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And you're going to read it to us?

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I think you need to know that piece of it.

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I think it's important to understand about Crystal and about the situation.

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So yeah, I'm going to read it.

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Within weeks Crystal had packed up for her parents and taken the children with her and even filed

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for divorce.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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I mean that's like she put her big girl pants on and she was like, listen, I'm afraid of

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him and this is dangerous and but I have to make a change.

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And that is a really, really hard thing to do.

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Yeah.

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And usually takes more than one dry.

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Yeah.

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Oh gosh, and the kids.

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Yeah.

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At work, David droned on and on about his failing marriage to anyone unfortunate enough

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to have lent a willing ear.

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We fix it.

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The chilling details of David's abuse would only be revealed in court papers once her

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mind was made up.

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Crystal stated he had tried to choke her four times the very same year he had been promoted

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to chief.

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Oh, she also detailed threats he'd been leveling against her with his service weapon.

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God.

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Prompting her to move out and initiate the divorce proceedings.

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Still, even with 70 pounds and nearly a foot of height on Crystal's much smaller frame,

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David claimed Crystal was the abuser in the brain family home.

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I know he touched on that, but I just, it's just shut up.

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Just shut up.

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All right.

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Now, this next part taken word for word from my source material.

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As far back as 1996 court papers indicate he was telling gig harbor police that he was

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being physically abused by her and was ashamed to admit it, possibly laying the groundwork

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for a defense should his abusive habit come to light.

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Geez.

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He's just a sneaky little snake.

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Yeah, I mean, playing the long game, I guess.

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Crystal's parents, Lane and Patty Judson could stay out of it no longer.

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They would become domestic violence advocates henceforth.

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Like them.

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We didn't even know what domestic violence was until this happened to our daughter.

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Her father said.

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The thought that their daughter's husband might threaten that he could snap her neck if he

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wanted to was a new and alarming sensation.

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The whole family seemed finally to be aware of just how violent and unstable David

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Brame could be.

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It should come as no surprise that Crystal had tried to leave before.

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In 1998, Crystal was scared, miserable, likely some combination of both at every waking moment.

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And she was motivated to try meeting a divorce attorney secretly in downtown Tacoma.

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Starting to her father, David Brame showed up unannounced and took over the meeting.

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How did he know?

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Adding that his son-in-law had several officers sit in a police car outside the attorney's

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office.

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Though Crystal's father would attempt to assist her in setting up another meeting with

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an attorney following that incident, it would be roughly another five years before

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she filed for divorce in February 2003.

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It reminds me of the, was it murder at the end of the world where she tried to leave him

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and went through this whole crazy thing.

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I won't get into it.

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And then he was there.

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Yeah.

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Because it's like I own you and I know everything that happens.

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You can't get anything past me.

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But David Brame was not one to give up easily.

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After all the mind games, playing cat and mouse clearly amused him.

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He continued gaslighting Crystal and claiming he told everyone she was crazy.

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Worse still, he threatened that if she tried to leave, he'd take away their kids.

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The intimidation didn't stop there.

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At an April 10th divorce-related court hearing, he appeared with a show of force that would be,

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I think even if you were a cop yourself, it would prove intimidating.

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I mean to nearly anyone.

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By his side were three other to come up police officers, which is like why?

499
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:07,560
Yeah. What fucking role did they play in your divorce proceedings?

500
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:13,480
One of them was assistant chief Catherine Woodard, a woman.

501
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,480
Uh-huh.

502
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,480
Okay.

503
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,480
Yeah.

504
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:23,440
It's not the first and not the last time that I came across her name in this story and I

505
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:30,760
got to say there's a special place in hell for women that let men get away with terrible

506
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:40,160
things and are terrible to their fellow woman.

507
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:46,080
Not saying that Catherine is or did or allegedly.

508
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:47,080
Allegedly.

509
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,080
Allegently.

510
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:49,080
Hmm.

511
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:50,080
Yeah.

512
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:57,520
So, um, she would later become briefly the acting chief.

513
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,520
Uh.

514
00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,520
Yeah.

515
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:01,920
David isn't going to be the chief forever.

516
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:02,920
Mm-hmm.

517
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:07,520
I, but I can't imagine why.

518
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:12,440
She was placed on administrative leave as of May 1st.

519
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,440
This year?

520
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,440
Uh, new.

521
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,440
Oh, I was going to be of what?

522
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,600
Yeah, it's going to be of 2003.

523
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:26,720
Um, and it's going to correlate with some very specific events that take place and, um,

524
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,720
so I'll have to say about that.

525
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,720
Okay.

526
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaking to the impact of that show of force for Crystal, those closest to her shared that

527
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,960
she felt that she had to go up against the entire police department.

528
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:41,960
Well, yeah.

529
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,960
Clearly.

530
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,960
Because she kind of did.

531
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:51,560
Woodard would go on after some very troubling events that happened that, um, I'm going

532
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,000
to tell you about in a second.

533
00:31:53,000 --> 00:32:01,240
Um, she would say there were no warning signs, which further reading has proven to be

534
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,120
in surveys that's a lie.

535
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,240
Where's, where's more when you need them?

536
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,560
I remember reading the passage and going, are you fucking kidding me?

537
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:12,560
Yeah.

538
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,440
No warning sites.

539
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,400
So we're just lying to each other's faces now.

540
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,200
I can't wait until you tell us all the warning signs.

541
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,200
What?

542
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,160
No, Kathy's trying to get my goat now too.

543
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,160
Okay.

544
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,160
Okay.

545
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:39,000
Two weeks before the incident, Crystal complained of intimidation and death threats by

546
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,880
her recently estranged husband.

547
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:50,760
She called 911 after a weekend transfer of the couple's two children turned ugly.

548
00:32:50,760 --> 00:33:00,080
Daddy, brain brought assistant chief Catherine Woodard along for the exchange because of course

549
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,200
every custody exchange needs a police escort.

550
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,360
Wow.

551
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:13,640
A group of officers learned of the incident and anonymously sent a note to the city manager

552
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:19,040
seeking an investigation into the inappropriate behavior.

553
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,400
The complaint was essentially ignored.

554
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,960
I know you're shocked.

555
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,040
I was like, yeah.

556
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,040
Yeah.

557
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,040
Oh, okay.

558
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:36,040
The city manager essentially stated that he wouldn't respond to anonymous complaints.

559
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:41,480
Which seems like I don't think you get to decide that actually.

560
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,280
I think you need to investigate that.

561
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,280
Okay.

562
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,280
Yep.

563
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:47,280
It's anonymous.

564
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:48,280
It doesn't matter.

565
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,120
It's a guy called and said someone's murdered on the street, but it was anonymous.

566
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,120
Yeah, it was anonymous.

567
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:54,120
Probably not real.

568
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,120
Yeah.

569
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,280
So I mean, he's dead, but it's a bummer because the complaint was anonymous.

570
00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,920
So what are you thinking about it?

571
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:00,920
Sorry.

572
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:01,920
Nothing to be done.

573
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:02,920
Anonymous.

574
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:03,920
Oh my God.

575
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:08,240
There's so many examples that tie this bitch into it that I forgot about.

576
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:12,760
That's, I thought this was where I was going to tell you the thing that makes her a dirty,

577
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,960
dirty cunt.

578
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,200
And that's not even the thing.

579
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,200
This is a different one.

580
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Oh God.

581
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,200
There's so many things.

582
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,040
She's fucking terrible.

583
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,840
Assuming she wasn't like being threatened by him.

584
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,280
I mean, maybe she was, but she does some stuff that.

585
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:30,280
Okay.

586
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:31,280
Yeah.

587
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,440
Anyways.

588
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:39,120
You guys, we have something really exciting to share with you.

589
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,360
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590
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,080
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591
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,080
And I'm John.

592
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:49,200
We're the hosts of Sins & Survivors, a Las Vegas True Crime podcast.

593
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:54,240
Each week we cover important true crime stories from Nevada, focusing on the Las Vegas area.

594
00:34:54,240 --> 00:34:59,240
We cover current cases in the news, as well as cold cases and missing persons, but there's

595
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,240
a twist.

596
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:04,160
Our focus is primarily on crimes with a domestic violence component.

597
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,080
Sins & Survivors is centered on the victims and the families they leave behind.

598
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,640
Our goal is not only to tell the stories, but also provide victims with resources to help

599
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:14,200
in their own lives.

600
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,920
We're focused on Las Vegas, but as we'll remind you in every episode, what happens here,

601
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,120
happens everywhere.

602
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:26,880
So listen now wherever you get your podcasts or just visit Sins & Survivors.com.

603
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,400
Check them out, creepy people.

604
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:33,480
You can find their info in our show notes.

605
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:39,120
Days before the incident, as word of Braim's divorce and allegations of domestic abuse were

606
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,840
becoming public.

607
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:49,440
The city manager continued with what had essentially become the party line that the chief's divorce

608
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:55,800
was a civil matter and again declined to take action.

609
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,800
Just so they want to do anything to them.

610
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:04,360
He's like, I'm really not interested in commenting on that or taking any sort of action about

611
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:12,240
any allegations made against the chief that is not of interest to me.

612
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:18,360
April 24, 2003 was Crystal's 35th birthday.

613
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:24,080
That night, her soon-to-be ex-husband called her from Las Vegas, where he was attending

614
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,200
a labor management seminar.

615
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:32,520
He said, I have a really big birthday gift for you.

616
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,520
But you'll have to wait until I get home because I have to give it to you in person.

617
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,480
I don't want it.

618
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,080
Just the thing, if it was anybody else, I would have assumed that was a dick joke.

619
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:48,080
I didn't even think about that.

620
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,160
Yeah, it's cute.

621
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,400
If your nice husband's calling you from Vegas, I hate you.

622
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,400
I miss you so much.

623
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,400
I got a really big present for you.

624
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,920
Yeah, no, it wasn't that way.

625
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:03,520
Was definitely in the horror movie.

626
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:09,960
When the call's coming from inside the house, type of situation.

627
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:15,280
So it was specifically the following day, April 25th, when news stories really seemed to

628
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,880
hit full force about the chief's divorce.

629
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,320
So there's been some things kind of slowly coming out.

630
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:28,240
There's a little bit of information about allegations, and then all of a sudden it's like,

631
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:31,320
everybody knows your business.

632
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,480
Like, a lot of it.

633
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:42,160
News of the city's human resources department, they met with city attorneys and discussed

634
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:51,320
what I can only imagine was euphemistically described as an inflammatory situation.

635
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:57,400
Leaders within HR said they recommended placing Braime on administrative leave as well as

636
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,680
taking his badge and gun.

637
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,920
Yeah, please take the gun.

638
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:11,320
City attorney said they heard no such recommendation.

639
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:17,040
And in light of what happened the following day, it makes sense they'd want to claim very

640
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,360
same in their position.

641
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:24,960
No, no, I don't want to.

642
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,720
I don't want to hear the end.

643
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:27,720
Yeah.

644
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:33,880
I mean, hey, listen, whether I work in HR or as like an attorney for the city, I'm going

645
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,520
to say, I would want to, I would want to play the fifth.

646
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:41,120
I'd be like, nope, never heard of any of that before.

647
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Yeah.

648
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,120
Nope.

649
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:50,480
So that very next day, April 26th would be marked by gun violence that in this country,

650
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:55,880
I think we've all been a little desensitized to unfortunately.

651
00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:03,440
So sadly, I have a feeling that this might not feel all that shocking.

652
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:10,440
I think we're a little bit numb to the death tolls being in the double digits and the senseless

653
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:19,640
loss of innocent life, even when it comes to children at this point, I mean, but this is

654
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,000
pretty rough.

655
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:31,300
Investigators say Brame 44 shot his wife, Crystal in the head, then killed himself inside her

656
00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:37,540
car at a shopping center parking lot after what police believe was a pre-arranged meeting

657
00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:41,180
Saturday.

658
00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:43,980
I don't know that this was a pre-arranged meeting.

659
00:39:43,980 --> 00:39:51,060
I think some of the early articles said that it was, but other sources that I read that

660
00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:58,980
as kind of the case develops seem to indicate like, no, he cornered her.

661
00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:05,060
In his wife, 35-year-old Crystal Brame had been going through a divorce.

662
00:40:05,060 --> 00:40:10,620
The day before the shootings, as we all know, allegations that he had abused his wife were

663
00:40:10,620 --> 00:40:17,020
made public, though to be fair, they weren't the first.

664
00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:25,020
The chief put their kids, Haley, who was eight years old, and David Jr., who was five in his

665
00:40:25,020 --> 00:40:29,420
car before getting in his wife's vehicle.

666
00:40:29,420 --> 00:40:35,980
After a heated conversation, witnesses reported hearing two shots.

667
00:40:35,980 --> 00:40:43,620
Medics found Crystal Brame lying on the pavement next to the open driver's door.

668
00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:48,740
Witnesses who saw to come a police chief, David Brame, shoot his estranged wife in a parking

669
00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:53,860
lot just south of Seattle.

670
00:40:53,860 --> 00:40:59,180
Remember one thing in particular, the couple's children.

671
00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:06,900
They were nearby when their father shot their mother before turning the gun on himself.

672
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:15,820
This is a quote from one of the newspaper articles that talked to a witness.

673
00:41:15,820 --> 00:41:26,260
The girl was over top of her mother after she had been shot and was pulled off by a witness.

674
00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:27,260
That was actually...

675
00:41:27,260 --> 00:41:31,500
There's a couple of different quotes in here about the family.

676
00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:37,380
This one was Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.

677
00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:43,860
Another witness to the shooting said, "Anybody that was out here heard the children screaming.

678
00:41:43,860 --> 00:41:48,500
They were terrified."

679
00:41:48,500 --> 00:41:54,900
Following the horrific murder suicide with Brame now deceased, both his vehicle and workspace,

680
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:58,540
could be searched without obtaining a warrant.

681
00:41:58,540 --> 00:42:05,860
The apartment where Brame had lived for just nine days was also searched.

682
00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:12,660
No suicide note was found, though Pierce County detectives did take a laptop, along with

683
00:42:12,660 --> 00:42:19,860
a briefcase and its contents, as well as a mini cassette tape from his apartment.

684
00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:26,500
Beyond that, little appears to have been publicly shared regarding the results of the search.

685
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:34,860
Probably a lot of that has to do with, you know, there's not a trial.

686
00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:40,580
And while either her husband was found dead at the scene or just no one cared to report

687
00:42:40,580 --> 00:42:48,140
on the details of his status following the horrific crime, Crystal hung to life following

688
00:42:48,140 --> 00:42:50,660
the horrific shooting.

689
00:42:50,660 --> 00:42:52,660
She didn't die right away.

690
00:42:52,660 --> 00:42:56,660
She was with her daughter.

691
00:42:56,660 --> 00:42:57,660
Yeah.

692
00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:05,660
Her injuries were detailed in reporting.

693
00:43:05,660 --> 00:43:10,820
The bullet entered the left side of her brain on a downward trajectory all the way to the

694
00:43:10,820 --> 00:43:16,900
base of her skull, causing significant damage on its path.

695
00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:23,100
Though she was initially admitted in extreme critical condition with little expectation

696
00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:31,620
of survival, she had shown unexpected progress in the following days, impressing the doctors

697
00:43:31,620 --> 00:43:33,900
on staff.

698
00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:36,660
She was a real like Crystal.

699
00:43:36,660 --> 00:43:45,540
By the late hours of May 2nd, however, her condition had rapidly deteriorated.

700
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:51,820
This may have been due to rapid encephalitis, or it could have been due to a possible seizure

701
00:43:51,820 --> 00:43:59,740
or other metabolic causes, but the end result was the same, regardless.

702
00:43:59,740 --> 00:44:07,380
At approximately 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 3rd, 2003, tests were administered on Crystal to

703
00:44:07,380 --> 00:44:10,940
determine if there was any brain activity.

704
00:44:10,940 --> 00:44:13,900
There was none.

705
00:44:13,900 --> 00:44:19,060
Additional testing was administered to confirm the results of the initial test.

706
00:44:19,060 --> 00:44:24,780
Again, there was no sign of any brain activity.

707
00:44:24,780 --> 00:44:31,300
Crystal's condition was determined to be irreversible and she was declared dead.

708
00:44:31,300 --> 00:44:36,340
She died Saturday, May 3rd, at 4.40 p.m.

709
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:41,700
She lived for a week following the shooting.

710
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:46,820
It's like amazing, but I'm sure it gave all of her family so much hope.

711
00:44:46,820 --> 00:44:56,180
I think the worst part is that I think when she first went into the hospital, I don't

712
00:44:56,180 --> 00:44:58,060
think that they were hopeful.

713
00:44:58,060 --> 00:45:05,220
I think it seems like the communication from the medical staff there was that the chances

714
00:45:05,220 --> 00:45:07,740
of her surviving were very slim.

715
00:45:07,740 --> 00:45:16,100
Even if she did, the damage that had been done to her brain at that point was so severe.

716
00:45:16,100 --> 00:45:24,460
But the fact that she came in and she was in really bad shape, and then seemingly she

717
00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:31,740
starts what might have looked like, "Oh my gosh, is she going to make a miraculous recovery?"

718
00:45:31,740 --> 00:45:37,820
And then out of nowhere, just declines again.

719
00:45:37,820 --> 00:45:41,220
I can't even imagine.

720
00:45:41,220 --> 00:45:45,900
I think no matter what you're told, the fact that she's...

721
00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:47,900
She's still here.

722
00:45:47,900 --> 00:45:56,620
So they had a week of grieving her because she's not there.

723
00:45:56,620 --> 00:45:57,620
Yeah.

724
00:45:57,620 --> 00:46:05,780
But until she actually passed, I feel like you live in this limbo and you can't really fully

725
00:46:05,780 --> 00:46:10,540
process that loss and that grief.

726
00:46:10,540 --> 00:46:15,500
The only right side is that she didn't die that day.

727
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:19,500
They got to say they're goodbyes to her.

728
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:24,620
Obviously she wasn't conscious.

729
00:46:24,620 --> 00:46:32,900
The earliest research on police who perpetrated domestic violence came out in the 1990s, finding

730
00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:42,300
that 40% of officers surveyed had assaulted family members in the last six months.

731
00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:47,100
The research since then has been sparse and highly variable.

732
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:48,100
40%.

733
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:51,100
Oh, sorry, 40%.

734
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:52,100
40%.

735
00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:53,100
Jesus.

736
00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:54,100
Look to your left.

737
00:46:54,100 --> 00:46:55,100
Look to your right.

738
00:46:55,100 --> 00:46:56,100
Essentially.

739
00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:58,700
That's almost a coin toss.

740
00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:03,420
And how many didn't admit to it or isn't reported?

741
00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:05,100
Obviously, we know that.

742
00:47:05,100 --> 00:47:07,900
That old thing, how many aren't reported?

743
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:08,900
Yeah.

744
00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:15,580
And I don't know specifically if this study is generally regarded as having been a high

745
00:47:15,580 --> 00:47:19,380
quality study now.

746
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:26,020
Because sometimes we look back and we understand that the controls weren't valid.

747
00:47:26,020 --> 00:47:32,580
There's so many things that can invalidate a study.

748
00:47:32,580 --> 00:47:34,940
I just don't know if that's a case with this one or not.

749
00:47:34,940 --> 00:47:37,220
I would say it's pretty believable to me.

750
00:47:37,220 --> 00:47:39,860
I don't think it would be lower than that.

751
00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:40,860
Yeah.

752
00:47:40,860 --> 00:47:48,300
While we may not know the numbers, we do know the power dynamic is uniquely imbalanced,

753
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:52,700
even compared to other domestic violence cases.

754
00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:58,540
These officers have been trained not only to act as authority figures within society,

755
00:47:58,540 --> 00:48:06,460
but they are also permitted in many cases to use force to enact said authority.

756
00:48:06,460 --> 00:48:12,420
And sadly, as has been evidenced, when an officer acts in a way that represents excessive

757
00:48:12,420 --> 00:48:21,260
force or undue violence, they may often be legally protected and met by few if any consequences.

758
00:48:21,260 --> 00:48:30,100
In some cases, the coupling of advanced training and access to weapons can lead to not only

759
00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:35,100
abuse, but fatality.

760
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:41,100
I'm going straight from source material here in this next part because I cannot even pretend

761
00:48:41,100 --> 00:48:46,980
to have a more eloquent way to put this right now.

762
00:48:46,980 --> 00:48:53,980
I'm like, I'm going to cry and also if I cry too much, then I'll snot all over and I'm

763
00:48:53,980 --> 00:48:55,660
shaking with rage.

764
00:48:55,660 --> 00:49:07,660
And anyways, the blue wall of silence promotes secrecy around conflict rather than encouraging

765
00:49:07,660 --> 00:49:09,860
intervention.

766
00:49:09,860 --> 00:49:17,060
Similarly, the development of the warrior cop and a violent form of militarized masculinity

767
00:49:17,060 --> 00:49:23,700
empowers abuse while also punishing survivors who come forward.

768
00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:30,300
And I also want to share a quote from Carolyn Drake's piece in the Seattle PI, which is

769
00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:35,620
always a fantastic source in my experience.

770
00:49:35,620 --> 00:49:44,340
Drake violence kills more women each year than breast cancer.

771
00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:48,940
End quote, let that sink in.

772
00:49:48,940 --> 00:49:54,020
And I'm hard pressed to think of anyone more willing or eager to make a cheap joke about

773
00:49:54,020 --> 00:50:02,860
those fleshy fat sex than either myself or Cassie, but in a rare moment of restraint,

774
00:50:02,860 --> 00:50:08,460
I'll say this instead, nearly all of us have boobs, probably arguably more of us than

775
00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:16,820
have romantic or domestic partners, but still it's the latter that's killing more of us.

776
00:50:16,820 --> 00:50:17,820
Right?

777
00:50:17,820 --> 00:50:20,220
How many bears kill women in a year?

778
00:50:20,220 --> 00:50:21,380
I know.

779
00:50:21,380 --> 00:50:23,620
I thought about that several times during this.

780
00:50:23,620 --> 00:50:30,060
I'm like, and we're still having this debate.

781
00:50:30,060 --> 00:50:37,860
And so many women have put forth like the most eloquent and honestly logical arguments

782
00:50:37,860 --> 00:50:41,140
about why their team bear.

783
00:50:41,140 --> 00:50:48,380
And you're just like, I'm sorry, it just, we don't even need that level of explanation.

784
00:50:48,380 --> 00:50:49,380
Yeah.

785
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:52,980
But thank you for doing it because maybe it'll help some of the dumb dumbs out there.

786
00:50:52,980 --> 00:50:56,780
Well, we have to start woman explaining things to them.

787
00:50:56,780 --> 00:51:03,140
The statistics grow more and more abysmal as we examine the figures related to women of

788
00:51:03,140 --> 00:51:04,140
color.

789
00:51:04,140 --> 00:51:10,220
And of course, other minority groups such as transgender women.

790
00:51:10,220 --> 00:51:26,180
When Braim was brought on his chief, the salary range for his position was $87,027 to $134,9992.

791
00:51:26,180 --> 00:51:36,420
The Tacoma Police Department had a biannual budget of $102,000,000 and employed 378 sworn

792
00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:38,980
officers.

793
00:51:38,980 --> 00:51:47,620
These stats date back to 2001 before this entire tragedy unfolded.

794
00:51:47,620 --> 00:51:57,620
But we've given people a badge with what feels like almost a limited authority.

795
00:51:57,620 --> 00:52:01,060
And we've given that to an average person.

796
00:52:01,060 --> 00:52:07,340
And we're paying them into the six figures, which a lot of people are going to have a lot

797
00:52:07,340 --> 00:52:09,620
of feelings about.

798
00:52:09,620 --> 00:52:17,180
But I would argue, let's take it a step further because I think our government owes

799
00:52:17,180 --> 00:52:26,980
it to its people to make sure that people on the payroll, especially in those positions,

800
00:52:26,980 --> 00:52:35,580
don't pose a threat to the very citizens that they're intended to be protecting or serving

801
00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:38,020
in some other capacity.

802
00:52:38,020 --> 00:52:44,020
Yeah, it just, it seems like it should be a very logical and straightforward thing.

803
00:52:44,020 --> 00:52:45,020
Yeah.

804
00:52:45,020 --> 00:52:49,180
But it's not.

805
00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:50,460
Should we take a break for tarot?

806
00:52:50,460 --> 00:52:51,460
I think we should.

807
00:52:51,460 --> 00:52:54,860
Let's do tarot after we...

808
00:52:54,860 --> 00:52:56,580
We're going to snack first.

809
00:52:56,580 --> 00:52:57,580
Snack first?

810
00:52:57,580 --> 00:52:58,580
Yeah.

811
00:52:58,580 --> 00:53:00,260
Can't do tarot on an empty stomach.

812
00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:01,860
No, we can't.

813
00:53:01,860 --> 00:53:07,300
Simply calm.

814
00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:08,980
So we're at the tarot.

815
00:53:08,980 --> 00:53:10,980
We are at the tarot.

816
00:53:10,980 --> 00:53:16,420
And we grab our tarot, book.

817
00:53:16,420 --> 00:53:18,420
Okay.

818
00:53:18,420 --> 00:53:21,980
Ooh, and she didn't blow out any candles this time.

819
00:53:21,980 --> 00:53:27,780
I'm just surprised that that did it.

820
00:53:27,780 --> 00:53:28,780
What was her name?

821
00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:29,780
Oh, Crystal?

822
00:53:29,780 --> 00:53:30,780
Yes.

823
00:53:30,780 --> 00:53:31,780
Crystal.

824
00:53:31,780 --> 00:53:33,780
This one just popped out.

825
00:53:33,780 --> 00:53:34,780
Yeah, and I see it.

826
00:53:34,780 --> 00:53:40,540
This was on the underside of one half of the deck, like the first time that I shuffled.

827
00:53:40,540 --> 00:53:43,900
Okay, that's really weird.

828
00:53:43,900 --> 00:53:44,900
There's a couple like weird...

829
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:45,900
I don't know, it's weird.

830
00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:46,900
Oh, it's weird.

831
00:53:46,900 --> 00:53:50,660
This is the Nine of Cups.

832
00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:51,660
Oh my gosh.

833
00:53:51,660 --> 00:53:56,500
It's so weird that I was like, I was asking her name and it's like Crystal and then there's

834
00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:58,580
like a pearl in there.

835
00:53:58,580 --> 00:53:59,580
Yeah.

836
00:53:59,580 --> 00:54:02,980
I count Pearls as crystals, whatever.

837
00:54:02,980 --> 00:54:04,060
I think they count.

838
00:54:04,060 --> 00:54:05,060
I think they count.

839
00:54:05,060 --> 00:54:06,060
Ooh, okay.

840
00:54:06,060 --> 00:54:09,100
So we got nine of cups upright.

841
00:54:09,100 --> 00:54:10,100
Yeah.

842
00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:17,020
It's so wild too, because I just feel like it's such a positive card, but I was seeing

843
00:54:17,020 --> 00:54:19,020
it as we're like shuffling.

844
00:54:19,020 --> 00:54:20,020
And they're cool.

845
00:54:20,020 --> 00:54:21,020
I don't know.

846
00:54:21,020 --> 00:54:22,020
Okay.

847
00:54:22,020 --> 00:54:23,020
It's the card.

848
00:54:23,020 --> 00:54:24,020
I guess.

849
00:54:24,020 --> 00:54:25,020
It's a Pacific oyster.

850
00:54:25,020 --> 00:54:26,020
Just you know.

851
00:54:26,020 --> 00:54:27,020
Yeah.

852
00:54:27,020 --> 00:54:28,020
Yeah, she is.

853
00:54:28,020 --> 00:54:34,300
Well, and I was thinking as I'm like that one popped out, I might still draw another

854
00:54:34,300 --> 00:54:35,300
card.

855
00:54:35,300 --> 00:54:39,020
We might have to, because I feel like this might leave us a little bit like, huh?

856
00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:43,620
Okay.

857
00:54:43,620 --> 00:54:46,340
Keywords are wishes come true.

858
00:54:46,340 --> 00:54:48,100
Good luck.

859
00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:53,340
Happiness, abundance and generosity.

860
00:54:53,340 --> 00:55:00,220
Often called the wish card, the nine of cups is the most fortunate of all cards and both

861
00:55:00,220 --> 00:55:03,500
well in any reading.

862
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:10,020
Some decks show a wealthy person, perhaps a tavern owner or in-keeper, sharing his or her

863
00:55:10,020 --> 00:55:14,300
largest with others, filling their cups.

864
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:19,260
You've received a position of comfort, abundance and happiness.

865
00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:27,100
Now you eagerly share your wealth, your warmth, love, good cheer, and other goodies with

866
00:55:27,100 --> 00:55:28,900
people you care about.

867
00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:32,060
The universe is smiling on you.

868
00:55:32,060 --> 00:55:38,540
I'm like as soon as you started reading it, I just like got her parents, like her, yeah,

869
00:55:38,540 --> 00:55:40,140
the vibe of her parents.

870
00:55:40,140 --> 00:55:42,780
And like this is like how her life should have been.

871
00:55:42,780 --> 00:55:50,220
Her parents were supposed to swoop in and help her out and share their wealth with her,

872
00:55:50,220 --> 00:55:52,180
you know, like, help her.

873
00:55:52,180 --> 00:55:57,820
Well, and knowing, knowing a little bit more about Crystal's background, because I'm going

874
00:55:57,820 --> 00:56:04,780
to read some extra excerpts for the Patreon, I think there's a lot about Crystal that

875
00:56:04,780 --> 00:56:13,300
unless you're really willing to kind of dig in a bit deeper, it's not told in the surface

876
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:20,380
level story that I feel like maybe I'm connecting with some of those pieces.

877
00:56:20,380 --> 00:56:21,380
I am really interested.

878
00:56:21,380 --> 00:56:27,100
I'm really excited to kind of delve into some more of the background stuff that I have.

879
00:56:27,100 --> 00:56:29,340
Look out, Patreon.

880
00:56:29,340 --> 00:56:33,300
But I'm going to finish the tarot first.

881
00:56:33,300 --> 00:56:34,300
Yeah.

882
00:56:34,300 --> 00:56:35,300
One thing at a time.

883
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:37,260
Yeah.

884
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:42,820
In a reading about money, you can expect good fortune when this card appears.

885
00:56:42,820 --> 00:56:48,060
An investment pays off, you get a raise, maybe even win the lottery.

886
00:56:48,060 --> 00:56:52,700
Rather than hoarding your loot, however, you share some with others.

887
00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:55,340
Or you give your wife 50 cents for gas.

888
00:56:55,340 --> 00:56:56,340
Oh, God.

889
00:56:56,340 --> 00:56:58,500
You need to get promoted, though.

890
00:56:58,500 --> 00:57:03,380
So I'm assuming that came with a raise.

891
00:57:03,380 --> 00:57:09,460
If the reading is about your job, the nine of cops suggest a promotion or landing the

892
00:57:09,460 --> 00:57:10,860
job of your dreams.

893
00:57:10,860 --> 00:57:11,860
Okay.

894
00:57:11,860 --> 00:57:14,940
Well, I think we just found at least one tie-in.

895
00:57:14,940 --> 00:57:16,620
Too bad it didn't last.

896
00:57:16,620 --> 00:57:18,620
Yeah.

897
00:57:18,620 --> 00:57:25,220
You feel fulfilled, happy, and inspired in your work.

898
00:57:25,220 --> 00:57:28,540
Whatever you undertake brings success.

899
00:57:28,540 --> 00:57:36,460
I can't say that I agree, but in a reading about love, you've learned to open your heart

900
00:57:36,460 --> 00:57:40,060
and enjoy a richly rewarding love life.

901
00:57:40,060 --> 00:57:48,820
It feels super gross to say in hindsight knowing just how awful he was to his wife and to

902
00:57:48,820 --> 00:57:55,260
some of his female employees.

903
00:57:55,260 --> 00:57:57,260
I guess I'm trying to subordinate.

904
00:57:57,260 --> 00:57:59,660
That's the word I'm looking for.

905
00:57:59,660 --> 00:58:08,060
You know, some of the things that God, the things that he said, "Roll gross."

906
00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:09,460
Just roll, icky.

907
00:58:09,460 --> 00:58:15,100
It gives me the ick.

908
00:58:15,100 --> 00:58:23,340
This card may describe a joyful, emotionally fulfilling, committed relationship or an abundance

909
00:58:23,340 --> 00:58:27,460
of romantic partners.

910
00:58:27,460 --> 00:58:28,940
Interesting.

911
00:58:28,940 --> 00:58:32,740
Any actress?

912
00:58:32,740 --> 00:58:33,740
There is one.

913
00:58:33,740 --> 00:58:34,940
Yeah, somehow she knew.

914
00:58:34,940 --> 00:58:44,380
She's which nature is held together by the energy of love.

915
00:58:44,380 --> 00:58:49,180
Which is interesting because to me immediately I just become a total smart ass.

916
00:58:49,180 --> 00:58:55,660
I go, "Well, what happened was very unnatural."

917
00:58:55,660 --> 00:59:01,460
Nature is held together by the energy of love and the opposite energy absolutely rips

918
00:59:01,460 --> 00:59:07,220
apart everything that is good and natural for people in life.

919
00:59:07,220 --> 00:59:09,020
It does.

920
00:59:09,020 --> 00:59:17,260
You saw almost both in this too, like I said, the vibe of her parents.

921
00:59:17,260 --> 00:59:18,260
That's what I think this card is.

922
00:59:18,260 --> 00:59:22,780
I don't think it's a reading about your love life or whatever.

923
00:59:22,780 --> 00:59:29,940
I think it's just the vibe of helping people when they need it if you can.

924
00:59:29,940 --> 00:59:38,220
Her parents, I think I have a little bit more information about some of their efforts

925
00:59:38,220 --> 00:59:43,100
and some of the things that they've done to try to make the world a better place since

926
00:59:43,100 --> 00:59:44,100
Crystal's past.

927
00:59:44,100 --> 00:59:48,780
It sounded like they were advocates.

928
00:59:48,780 --> 00:59:57,740
The thing is, is very easy for that to become your, that's a hot button thing.

929
00:59:57,740 --> 01:00:02,100
Maybe initially in the aftermath, you feel very passionately about that.

930
01:00:02,100 --> 01:00:11,460
Because time goes on, you move on to other things or you go back to your normal life as it

931
01:00:11,460 --> 01:00:12,460
were.

932
01:00:12,460 --> 01:00:16,740
But they have stuck with that.

933
01:00:16,740 --> 01:00:20,820
It's been a very central focus for them.

934
01:00:20,820 --> 01:00:21,820
Wow.

935
01:00:21,820 --> 01:00:23,980
I think that's really, yeah.

936
01:00:23,980 --> 01:00:25,620
That's what this card was.

937
01:00:25,620 --> 01:00:28,260
It wasn't any of the other stuff.

938
01:00:28,260 --> 01:00:33,820
It was a very clear, what's it, a parallel?

939
01:00:33,820 --> 01:00:34,820
Yeah.

940
01:00:34,820 --> 01:00:36,100
What it is for the opposite.

941
01:00:36,100 --> 01:00:37,860
I don't know what I'm trying to say.

942
01:00:37,860 --> 01:00:39,860
What am I measuring?

943
01:00:39,860 --> 01:00:40,860
I don't know.

944
01:00:40,860 --> 01:00:43,100
But yeah, I think you definitely should draw another card.

945
01:00:43,100 --> 01:00:44,100
Okay.

946
01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:45,100
Let me read this though.

947
01:00:45,100 --> 01:00:47,100
It's really short.

948
01:00:47,100 --> 01:00:48,100
Okay.

949
01:00:48,100 --> 01:00:50,820
A little paragraphy.

950
01:00:50,820 --> 01:00:53,940
It has all the same keywords.

951
01:00:53,940 --> 01:00:56,460
A small spec enters the shell.

952
01:00:56,460 --> 01:01:00,980
But oyster doesn't know what it is, but it reacts all the same.

953
01:01:00,980 --> 01:01:05,820
Liquid jewel coats the spec, protecting the oyster's soft body.

954
01:01:05,820 --> 01:01:15,260
Over and over a thousand times, the oyster patiently builds up layer upon layer of neck,

955
01:01:15,260 --> 01:01:16,260
neck gray.

956
01:01:16,260 --> 01:01:17,260
It's NA C R E.

957
01:01:17,260 --> 01:01:23,380
I'm assuming that's the whatever they're talking about, the liquid stuff.

958
01:01:23,380 --> 01:01:25,860
Look up neck, neck gray real quick.

959
01:01:25,860 --> 01:01:26,860
Naker.

960
01:01:26,860 --> 01:01:27,860
Naker.

961
01:01:27,860 --> 01:01:28,860
Interesting.

962
01:01:28,860 --> 01:01:29,860
Okay.

963
01:01:29,860 --> 01:01:40,980
So this says it's a composite material produced by some mullisks as an inner shell layer.

964
01:01:40,980 --> 01:01:43,300
So literally part of the oyster.

965
01:01:43,300 --> 01:01:44,300
Yeah.

966
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:45,300
Interesting.

967
01:01:45,300 --> 01:01:46,300
Okay.

968
01:01:46,300 --> 01:01:51,060
So it's building up layers of Naker.

969
01:01:51,060 --> 01:01:57,380
The same material that coats the inside of the oyster shell forms a perfect gleaming sphere.

970
01:01:57,380 --> 01:02:03,300
It was that's so funny because the other part of it that I sort of left out of, you know,

971
01:02:03,300 --> 01:02:09,100
the Wikipedia definition is it is also the material of which pearls are composed.

972
01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:12,900
And it just like keeps, ooh, I have a thing, I have a thing in here.

973
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:13,900
Yeah.

974
01:02:13,900 --> 01:02:14,900
Almost.

975
01:02:14,900 --> 01:02:15,900
Two more sentences.

976
01:02:15,900 --> 01:02:16,900
Okay.

977
01:02:16,900 --> 01:02:23,540
So that's low growth pass so that someone might pop open the shell and feel ever so briefly

978
01:02:23,540 --> 01:02:27,140
a fleeting moment of incredible good luck.

979
01:02:27,140 --> 01:02:28,140
Huh.

980
01:02:28,140 --> 01:02:32,220
So it's like someone is finding the pearl in the oyster shell.

981
01:02:32,220 --> 01:02:33,220
Yeah.

982
01:02:33,220 --> 01:02:40,180
The thing I was kind of getting is like there's all of this crap layers upon layers of all

983
01:02:40,180 --> 01:02:45,340
of this stuff that's like pressuring and building this thing.

984
01:02:45,340 --> 01:02:46,340
Yeah.

985
01:02:46,340 --> 01:02:48,340
And it's like a beautiful pearl in the end.

986
01:02:48,340 --> 01:02:49,340
Yeah.

987
01:02:49,340 --> 01:02:50,340
Kind of like, you know.

988
01:02:50,340 --> 01:02:51,340
Yeah.

989
01:02:51,340 --> 01:02:56,340
You're put through a lot of shit and you're still, you're a beautiful pearl crystal.

990
01:02:56,340 --> 01:02:57,340
That's all.

991
01:02:57,340 --> 01:02:59,340
It's so funny.

992
01:02:59,340 --> 01:03:06,380
I literally was looking at the shell that you gave me and I was like, why do I feel like

993
01:03:06,380 --> 01:03:07,380
I don't know.

994
01:03:07,380 --> 01:03:08,380
It doesn't seem like it really.

995
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:09,380
Oh.

996
01:03:09,380 --> 01:03:13,140
But it part of me was like, hmm, I don't know.

997
01:03:13,140 --> 01:03:14,140
I don't know.

998
01:03:14,140 --> 01:03:18,140
I feel like that's very sort of that like diamond in the rough kind of a, I don't know.

999
01:03:18,140 --> 01:03:22,140
That's kind of what I was picking up as well.

1000
01:03:22,140 --> 01:03:23,140
Right.

1001
01:03:23,140 --> 01:03:24,140
Okay.

1002
01:03:24,140 --> 01:03:25,140
We're going to give this the old college try.

1003
01:03:25,140 --> 01:03:26,140
We'll give it a try.

1004
01:03:26,140 --> 01:03:27,140
We're going to give it a try.

1005
01:03:27,140 --> 01:03:28,140
Yeah.

1006
01:03:28,140 --> 01:03:29,140
Yeah.

1007
01:03:29,140 --> 01:03:30,140
I don't know.

1008
01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:35,980
I feel like that's very sort of that like diamond in the rough kind of a, I don't know.

1009
01:03:35,980 --> 01:03:38,140
That's kind of what I was picking up as well.

1010
01:03:38,140 --> 01:03:39,140
Huh.

1011
01:03:39,140 --> 01:03:40,140
Right.

1012
01:03:40,140 --> 01:03:41,140
Okay.

1013
01:03:41,140 --> 01:03:43,140
We're going to give this the old college try.

1014
01:03:43,140 --> 01:03:44,140
We'll give it.

1015
01:03:44,140 --> 01:03:45,140
Okay.

1016
01:03:45,140 --> 01:03:48,140
I think this one.

1017
01:03:48,140 --> 01:03:49,140
Oh.

1018
01:03:49,140 --> 01:03:50,140
Interesting.

1019
01:03:50,140 --> 01:03:51,140
Okay.

1020
01:03:51,140 --> 01:03:54,140
Um, this looks like two of swords.

1021
01:03:54,140 --> 01:03:55,140
Two of swords.

1022
01:03:55,140 --> 01:03:56,140
Oh, okay.

1023
01:03:56,140 --> 01:04:00,140
I know this card is like the, the blindfolded lady with the, yeah.

1024
01:04:00,140 --> 01:04:01,140
We're learning.

1025
01:04:01,140 --> 01:04:10,100
I know it is, I feel like doing a terror reading like every, sometimes multiple.

1026
01:04:10,100 --> 01:04:11,100
Every week.

1027
01:04:11,100 --> 01:04:12,100
It's like, okay, I'm sure.

1028
01:04:12,100 --> 01:04:13,100
I'm going to learn.

1029
01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:14,100
You do it.

1030
01:04:14,100 --> 01:04:15,100
I don't know.

1031
01:04:15,100 --> 01:04:16,100
Right.

1032
01:04:16,100 --> 01:04:18,100
But I'm hard pressed to come up with a better way.

1033
01:04:18,100 --> 01:04:19,100
Okay.

1034
01:04:19,100 --> 01:04:29,580
So our keywords are combined resources, courage, faith, friendship, conflict and balance.

1035
01:04:29,580 --> 01:04:31,100
This is two of swords.

1036
01:04:31,100 --> 01:04:32,100
Yes.

1037
01:04:32,100 --> 01:04:33,100
Oh.

1038
01:04:33,100 --> 01:04:34,100
Interesting.

1039
01:04:34,100 --> 01:04:38,100
I mean, I'm going to read my keywords real quick says, okay.

1040
01:04:38,100 --> 01:04:45,100
In decision, difficult choices, confusion, stalemate, acting with incomplete information,

1041
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:46,100
blindness.

1042
01:04:46,100 --> 01:04:47,100
Oh.

1043
01:04:47,100 --> 01:04:51,100
So they're kind of, like you had some positive words in there.

1044
01:04:51,100 --> 01:04:52,100
Well, I don't know.

1045
01:04:52,100 --> 01:04:56,100
I mean, there are somewhat, okay, somewhat.

1046
01:04:56,100 --> 01:04:58,100
You guys heard you wrong.

1047
01:04:58,100 --> 01:05:05,100
No, I think, um, I think different books have a different way of kind of interpreting.

1048
01:05:05,100 --> 01:05:06,100
I guess we'll see.

1049
01:05:06,100 --> 01:05:12,100
But yeah, I think those feel very spot on for me.

1050
01:05:12,100 --> 01:05:20,540
Um, in some tarot decks, this card depicts a blind-folded woman holding two swords crossed

1051
01:05:20,540 --> 01:05:22,100
over her chest.

1052
01:05:22,100 --> 01:05:29,100
Two's generally signify balance or conflict or a murder suicide.

1053
01:05:29,100 --> 01:05:30,100
Yeah.

1054
01:05:30,100 --> 01:05:37,940
And so, as well as pairing, I think of the two of swords as the blind faith card because

1055
01:05:37,940 --> 01:05:42,980
it can represent courage and making decisions based on your own truth.

1056
01:05:42,980 --> 01:05:46,100
And in some cases, spiritual guidance.

1057
01:05:46,100 --> 01:05:50,100
She definitely had courage to make a decision to leave.

1058
01:05:50,100 --> 01:05:51,100
Yeah.

1059
01:05:51,100 --> 01:05:52,100
Yeah.

1060
01:05:52,100 --> 01:05:53,100
Absolutely.

1061
01:05:53,100 --> 01:05:55,100
She had to have that, like, the blind faith.

1062
01:05:55,100 --> 01:05:57,100
She didn't know what was going to happen.

1063
01:05:57,100 --> 01:05:58,100
I mean, no.

1064
01:05:58,100 --> 01:06:03,180
And if anything, she had a pretty good idea that whatever was going to happen wasn't necessarily

1065
01:06:03,180 --> 01:06:06,420
going to be super positive.

1066
01:06:06,420 --> 01:06:12,820
The upright two can symbolize balancing the right and left hemispheres of your brain,

1067
01:06:12,820 --> 01:06:16,620
combining intuition with intellect.

1068
01:06:16,620 --> 01:06:22,180
Drawing this card may mean you must make a decision and need to call on both.

1069
01:06:22,180 --> 01:06:28,940
When you say she was using her intuition earlier when he was acting weird that day.

1070
01:06:28,940 --> 01:06:29,940
Yeah.

1071
01:06:29,940 --> 01:06:31,100
Yeah.

1072
01:06:31,100 --> 01:06:37,820
I would say actually that story, which I'm going to get to here when I read some excerpts

1073
01:06:37,820 --> 01:06:49,380
from the book, it calls on her to act on both her intellect and intuition, using both

1074
01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:51,740
kind of the head and the heart.

1075
01:06:51,740 --> 01:06:52,740
Wow.

1076
01:06:52,740 --> 01:07:00,020
Two can also advise you to take off your blindfold and look at a situation, honestly.

1077
01:07:00,020 --> 01:07:03,540
All the people who are blindfolded at the police station.

1078
01:07:03,540 --> 01:07:04,540
Right.

1079
01:07:04,540 --> 01:07:09,460
Or to, you know, look at the situation.

1080
01:07:09,460 --> 01:07:15,700
To me, the first thing that pops into my head is sort of like, it's not going to get

1081
01:07:15,700 --> 01:07:16,700
me better.

1082
01:07:16,700 --> 01:07:17,700
Right.

1083
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:21,700
That children with this person doesn't mean that you should stay.

1084
01:07:21,700 --> 01:07:25,860
I feel like everyone in this situation had like blindfolds on like you said the parents

1085
01:07:25,860 --> 01:07:29,700
and, you know, realize until the end.

1086
01:07:29,700 --> 01:07:30,700
Yeah.

1087
01:07:30,700 --> 01:07:36,020
I mean, because people see what they want you to see in a lot of situations.

1088
01:07:36,020 --> 01:07:41,880
In a reading about money, the upright two recommends trusting your own wisdom and inner

1089
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:45,300
guidance in a financial matter.

1090
01:07:45,300 --> 01:07:50,420
Pay attention to your intuition as well as logic.

1091
01:07:50,420 --> 01:07:55,780
If the reading is about your job, you may be confused or conflicted about a work related

1092
01:07:55,780 --> 01:07:58,300
issue.

1093
01:07:58,300 --> 01:08:01,740
Have faith in your own judgment and ideas.

1094
01:08:01,740 --> 01:08:09,580
Sometimes, the upright two represents a job that requires both intellect and imagination.

1095
01:08:09,580 --> 01:08:14,180
In a reading about love, this card suggests listening to both your head and your heart.

1096
01:08:14,180 --> 01:08:17,140
Oh my God, it's like literally what I just said.

1097
01:08:17,140 --> 01:08:22,860
It can mean you and your partner hold conflicting perspectives or that you're trying to resolve

1098
01:08:22,860 --> 01:08:25,500
differences and find harmony.

1099
01:08:25,500 --> 01:08:26,500
Interesting.

1100
01:08:26,500 --> 01:08:29,740
I don't know if one of them was trying to resolve anything.

1101
01:08:29,740 --> 01:08:33,620
Yeah, that feels like perhaps not.

1102
01:08:33,620 --> 01:08:38,620
And the way he did resolve his issues was not the way anyone should resolve any issues

1103
01:08:38,620 --> 01:08:39,620
ever.

1104
01:08:39,620 --> 01:08:44,900
Not the way that we want to see that wrap up.

1105
01:08:44,900 --> 01:08:45,900
That's for sure.

1106
01:08:45,900 --> 01:08:46,900
Yeah.

1107
01:08:46,900 --> 01:08:48,540
Well, should I read this one?

1108
01:08:48,540 --> 01:08:50,340
It's pretty short too.

1109
01:08:50,340 --> 01:08:51,340
Yeah.

1110
01:08:51,340 --> 01:08:52,340
Okay.

1111
01:08:52,340 --> 01:08:54,700
Also for anyone who doesn't know, I don't know.

1112
01:08:54,700 --> 01:08:59,820
We're using the little guidebook from the Pacific Northwest Tarot deck with these little

1113
01:08:59,820 --> 01:09:02,580
stories in here.

1114
01:09:02,580 --> 01:09:05,020
And that was a coast mole.

1115
01:09:05,020 --> 01:09:07,060
Oh, coast mole.

1116
01:09:07,060 --> 01:09:08,060
Interesting.

1117
01:09:08,060 --> 01:09:09,060
All right.

1118
01:09:09,060 --> 01:09:12,540
We've got both kind of like sea shory things, you know?

1119
01:09:12,540 --> 01:09:13,540
Yeah.

1120
01:09:13,540 --> 01:09:14,540
Yeah.

1121
01:09:14,540 --> 01:09:19,100
The mole stopped digging as she sensed a change in the soil ahead.

1122
01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:23,300
To one side, the earth was drier and potentially more stable.

1123
01:09:23,300 --> 01:09:29,260
To the other side, the dampness might mean a more abundant selection of worms and slugs.

1124
01:09:29,260 --> 01:09:30,260
Mmm.

1125
01:09:30,260 --> 01:09:31,260
Delicious.

1126
01:09:31,260 --> 01:09:33,260
It tastes like chicken.

1127
01:09:33,260 --> 01:09:34,260
I love it.

1128
01:09:34,260 --> 01:09:35,260
I love it.

1129
01:09:35,260 --> 01:09:38,260
I love it.

1130
01:09:38,260 --> 01:09:40,740
That sounds right.

1131
01:09:40,740 --> 01:09:44,740
Or maybe she should go deeper where the soil was more densely packed.

1132
01:09:44,740 --> 01:09:49,900
She wrinkled her nose and rested, paralyzed with indecision.

1133
01:09:49,900 --> 01:09:56,420
Her mind sniffing down the infinite, branching paths that the future tunnel before her could

1134
01:09:56,420 --> 01:09:57,580
take.

1135
01:09:57,580 --> 01:09:59,700
But she couldn't deliberate forever.

1136
01:09:59,700 --> 01:10:04,700
The mole made a choice and resumed digging, taking the first blind stats in her journey

1137
01:10:04,700 --> 01:10:05,700
onward.

1138
01:10:05,700 --> 01:10:06,700
Mmm.

1139
01:10:06,700 --> 01:10:07,700
So more of that.

1140
01:10:07,700 --> 01:10:08,700
Yeah.

1141
01:10:08,700 --> 01:10:12,900
More totally tying in with what everything we talked about.

1142
01:10:12,900 --> 01:10:13,900
I would say so.

1143
01:10:13,900 --> 01:10:14,900
Yeah.

1144
01:10:14,900 --> 01:10:16,300
The mole was interesting.

1145
01:10:16,300 --> 01:10:17,300
I don't know.

1146
01:10:17,300 --> 01:10:20,300
He, I felt like he kept her like small and like hidden.

1147
01:10:20,300 --> 01:10:21,300
Yes.

1148
01:10:21,300 --> 01:10:23,300
Like people were abusive do that.

1149
01:10:23,300 --> 01:10:24,300
Yeah.

1150
01:10:24,300 --> 01:10:29,140
They keep you and your tunnels and you have to like dig your way out from underneath them.

1151
01:10:29,140 --> 01:10:30,140
Yeah.

1152
01:10:30,140 --> 01:10:37,140
Do you think that's really interesting kind of both of these acting in like acting as metaphors

1153
01:10:37,140 --> 01:10:46,740
in maybe more than one way, but also another one you're like in the tunnels in the ground

1154
01:10:46,740 --> 01:10:50,700
in the dark and then once you escape you're in the light, you're free.

1155
01:10:50,700 --> 01:10:52,700
You're a pearl.

1156
01:10:52,700 --> 01:10:53,700
Okay.

1157
01:10:53,700 --> 01:10:54,700
I'm done.

1158
01:10:54,700 --> 01:10:55,700
You're a peach.

1159
01:10:55,700 --> 01:10:56,700
You're a peach.

1160
01:10:56,700 --> 01:10:57,700
You're a pearl.

1161
01:10:57,700 --> 01:10:58,700
Hey, listen.

1162
01:10:58,700 --> 01:10:59,700
You're a crystal.

1163
01:10:59,700 --> 01:11:02,700
A juicious, ripe, this peach.

1164
01:11:02,700 --> 01:11:06,300
There's still always going to be someone that doesn't like peaches.

1165
01:11:06,300 --> 01:11:07,300
That's true.

1166
01:11:07,300 --> 01:11:13,700
And is a total dick and will behave in a completely unacceptable and abusive manner.

1167
01:11:13,700 --> 01:11:16,900
And then I'm sure that's how the quote ends.

1168
01:11:16,900 --> 01:11:17,900
Yeah.

1169
01:11:17,900 --> 01:11:19,900
I'm going to add on to it.

1170
01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:20,900
Yeah.

1171
01:11:20,900 --> 01:11:24,900
And then there's other people who will eat the shit out of that peach.

1172
01:11:24,900 --> 01:11:25,900
Mm hmm.

1173
01:11:25,900 --> 01:11:26,900
I love it.

1174
01:11:26,900 --> 01:11:27,900
I don't know what kind of face.

1175
01:11:27,900 --> 01:11:33,140
I don't know what kind of face I made if it was a trotious, talon, feel free to blur it

1176
01:11:33,140 --> 01:11:34,140
out.

1177
01:11:34,140 --> 01:11:37,180
It's a little smiley face over it.

1178
01:11:37,180 --> 01:11:41,500
Oh, we definitely keep the sound effect because that was really good.

1179
01:11:41,500 --> 01:11:42,500
Yeah.

1180
01:11:42,500 --> 01:11:43,500
One more.

1181
01:11:43,500 --> 01:11:44,500
One more.

1182
01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:49,580
Well, we hope everyone is safe out there.

1183
01:11:49,580 --> 01:11:55,300
And if you are experiencing any sort of domestic violence, we're going to link a website

1184
01:11:55,300 --> 01:11:59,060
for you just to have the resource just in case.

1185
01:11:59,060 --> 01:12:02,940
And we love you and we hope you're okay.

1186
01:12:02,940 --> 01:12:06,740
And have a creepy ass day.

1187
01:12:06,740 --> 01:12:07,740
See you next Tuesday.

1188
01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:08,740
See you next Tuesday.

1189
01:12:08,740 --> 01:12:09,740
We'll be here.

1190
01:12:09,740 --> 01:12:10,740
Yeah.

1191
01:12:10,740 --> 01:12:11,740
I mean, probably.

1192
01:12:11,740 --> 01:12:12,740
[laughs]

1193
01:12:12,740 --> 01:12:13,740
[music]

1194
01:12:13,740 --> 01:12:14,740
What if it's a Boober?

1195
01:12:14,740 --> 01:12:15,740
Yeah.

1196
01:12:15,740 --> 01:12:16,740
Yeah.

1197
01:12:16,740 --> 01:12:17,740
I mean, probably.

1198
01:12:17,740 --> 01:12:18,740
[laughs]

1199
01:12:18,740 --> 01:12:19,740
[music]

1200
01:12:19,740 --> 01:12:20,740
What if it's a boober?

1201
01:12:20,740 --> 01:12:27,740
A boober?

1202
01:12:27,740 --> 01:12:30,540
Was that like a new hip uber or?

1203
01:12:30,540 --> 01:12:35,860
It's like an uber but with boobies.

1204
01:12:35,860 --> 01:12:37,660
You are a 14 year old boy.

1205
01:12:37,660 --> 01:12:38,660
You know?

1206
01:12:38,660 --> 01:12:39,660
My Blink 182 shirt.

1207
01:12:39,660 --> 01:12:40,660
Yeah.

1208
01:12:40,660 --> 01:12:41,660
Yeah.

1209
01:12:41,660 --> 01:12:44,460
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