Anna Runkle
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240 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 19 Nov
Anna Runkle’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he's like, hey, do you want to hang out? I was wondering if you want to hang out. And I was like... No, sorry, I got plans. And he was like, oh, he was really surprised. And I told him later, you know, I didn't have to do that for long. I didn't do it to mess with him. I did it to overcome my own problem with latching on and bonding too fast as a result of being totally neglected as a kid.
I had to just like act like a normal person so that the relationship could begin. Later, when I got to know him, I told him, I said, well, I did this thing. He had no idea. And he was like, that's so weird. Because when you did that, I was just like, it really like made me fall back into you. And he had, you know, he had broken up with me at that point before.
And then he was gradually coming back. It really worked. But I had to act like a person who valued herself even though I wasn't really totally there yet. And that's how it works. Everybody imagines, oh, I'm going to heal. I'm going to get to the island of healed people. And then I'm going to have this great relationship. But it doesn't work like that. We heal by having relationships.
But we try not to have too much crazy ones that grind you down and ruin your life.
Yeah, yeah, serial limerence. And it's a sad fate if they can't stop it. And I had that happen. This guy who stalked me, one day, 15 years later, I used to have a video production company, and I had to hire some people to fill a big crew. And I hired this woman out of 100 people on Craigslist, and we were cleaning up afterwards. And the video we made was about stalkers for some client.
And I said, I had a stalker once. And she goes, oh, that's so weird. Me too. Anyway, it turned out it was the same guy.
like 15 years apart holy shit it's this weird karmic thing and he had i remember when he was stalking me he was talking about her and then i realized her name was very similar i was getting these weird emails from somebody whose name was one letter off from hers going you don't remember me but i met you at a party and i had this dream about you and i'm very concerned i think you might want to know this and i would just be like what the
It was him. It was him impersonating a woman and using her name. And there's these weird connections. And we were terrified of each other. It was just like, are you working for him? Are you? And we went and had a drink and we told our stories to each other. But it was very sad. And that's all this guy ever did. He just obsessed on people.
And she actually loved him and wanted a relationship with him in her day. And he couldn't do it. he could only do this. And so that's extreme. Some people have that. It's called erotomania. Some people like, they'll have it for a movie star or something. And they're so into, they're so committed to their lumerant dream. They talk about it and talk about it.
And they really believe it's happening and nobody can really reason with them.
Yeah, I feel like it's getting better. I happen to really love TV a lot. I think we're in this incredible age where it's the highest art form there is, streaming television. And I think it's getting better and more realistic. I mean, for me, I'll just say I've always loved TV and movies, but until about 15 years ago, women were not very three-dimensional.
And now that women are more involved in the writing and the directing and producing, we're all in it now. Now everybody's in it and we're hearing the perspectives and I just see much more realistic things. But if you look at any movie from more than 20 years ago, it's always about some guy who's a little dweeby and some beautiful girl. And against all odds, he wins her heart, you know?
And that's like the old story. But you don't get that about girls until much more recently, where she's kind of, you know, chunky and not very pretty. And this beautiful guy, there are shows like that now. And I love them. I love them. You know, it's like, yeah. That's my story. But you would be, you know, they're out of your league, but then they see how wonderful you are.
And I think that's everybody's fantasy, really, about to do that. We're not all practical.
I wish I could answer that. I know my sample is skewed. My audience is like 75, 80% women. So, but when men get it, now this might be my perception. I feel like it's more menacing when men get it. Like they, they're bigger than you. When it's happened to me for men, it's been like scary. And, and, uh, Or creepy.
I remember there was this guy, I had this big birthday party at a rental house, got in big trouble with the agency that rented it. I wasn't supposed to bring 30 people, but we had a great time. And he had this present for me that was beautifully wrapped, and I was really scared to open it, and I wouldn't open it at the party.
And later, I ended up talking to somebody who knew him, because I said, I was just really scared. It was like diamond earrings. I don't like him. I don't want to date him, but I know he's obsessed with me. I shouldn't have invited him. I know now. And the friend said, that's so funny. He did buy you diamond earrings, but I made him return them and he got me a travel mug.
So I was like, oh, travel mug, we're cool. But my nervous system did feel it. I knew he was like that. So I would have loved to have diamond earrings at that stage in my life, but not from him.
Yes. So, well, two things. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with horses. And some people say that's sexual. I don't think it was.
I was really obsessed with horses and then Laura Ingalls Wilder, which is really, you know who she is? The Little House books. Well, there was Little House on the Prairie, which was kind of a doofy TV show, but there's these books that are some great literature that sustained me as a kid about going westward in a wagon and trying to survive out there in a homestead. And I loved these books.
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