Jacob

Oh, my God. I'm sorry. She said that she can't believe this. No, I'm sorry. I can't believe that you're actually engaged and you hid all of this from me.

My schedule next year is figuring out when she's on her honeymoon and burning up her apartment.

I think all nine innings are over.

Well, hey, you know what? Since we're friends legitimately, let's go out, spend the rest of the week drinking. I'm up for it.

Okay, so I've been seeing this woman. Her name is Shannon. for about half a year now. We didn't live together or anything, but I'd say it's been going pretty good for the most part.

Yeah, yeah. This one's about me.

Shannon and I will have nights where we hang out, we do stuff together, but then other nights we're apart, do things where we hang out with our friends, and I mean, it's healthy, you know?

I mean, like I said, we're not living together. Schedules are not framed around one another.

One night she was out with her friends, whatever. I got a weird call around, like, 11 from a friend of mine, my friend Omar. And Omar was like, hey, are you home? Because I got to come over and tell you something. And he was, like, really kind of on edge about it.

that must be pretty serious if he's like demanding to go see you yeah no i knew it was important so i was like all right come over whatever he stops by he tells me that he saw shannon out at this place called crystal lounge sounds like a shady place she was with a guy and she was wearing an engagement ring

And that's the thing. I was trying to defend Shannon. I was like, nah, you know, you're wrong. But he was pretty adamant. And that's why he had to tell me face to face. He saw what he saw.

So Omar said they were like physically close to each other, but he didn't see any overly romantic gestures happen. So I'm like, all right, it's probably just a friend and she's wearing some kind of fake engagement ring.

And I totally get that. And don't get me wrong, you guys, like I feel like I'm dating up. She is very attractive. So I see her the next day. And I bring it up thinking it's going to be, you know, like 30-second conversation. She's going to laugh. She's going to, you know. But she was like, I don't want to talk about that.

I try to bring it up a few more times. And then Shannon got upset and she stormed out.

She got mad at you?

But that's the thing. I wanted to give her like the medicine of the doubt and I wasn't trying to be aggressive about it or like accusing her, right? And now she's not answering my calls. This was just the other night, just this week. And so I need advice. I need advice on how to handle it.

Well, yeah. I really am still holding out hope for it to just be something that she's, like, embarrassed about, doesn't know how to bring it up.

All right, Brooke, can I get advice on how to handle this?

This has been pretty hopeless so far.

Don't get me wrong, you guys. If this doesn't go my way, I am fully welcome to judge.

Hey, it's me.

No, we need to talk right now. What do you mean not feel like talking right now? That's not fair.

Well, I don't. How do you think I should feel about it? Like, I want to get this over with. I want to hash this out and move on.

No, okay, sorry. Am I not supposed to be upset when my buddy comes to me saying that you have an engagement ring on and you're hanging with some other guy? Like, what is that?

No, I'm sorry. I'm serious. All right. I deserve an explanation here. Like, it's my understanding. We've been together for six months now. Like, we're boyfriend and girlfriend. And my understanding, we're not seeing other people. So am I wrong here?

Yeah, it's a little late for that. You just need to tell me whatever the truth is, okay? I can handle it.

Well, can you try? Can you try for me here? Please, Shannon.

Yeah, I know Sierra.

What does this have to do with us?

So, what? What does that even mean?

Oh, my God. So, so, so, wait, sorry. You're actually, you're really engaged? I thought, I really thought there'd be some other reason to it.

Oh, yeah. What?

Okay. Yeah. You weren't answering my calls, and I didn't know how to address this with you. I've been trying, and so I called the radio station to help me get a hold of you.

I've actually, like...

Kill it!

Stop it. You're tickling me. I'm up next.

Yes!

I want to speak directly to people who are undocumented. We love you. We care about you. In the city of Minneapolis, we will stand up for you, and we will do anything in our power to help. Because you're not an alien in our city, you're a neighbor. Now, in Minneapolis, we have what is called a separation ordinance.

And that separation ordinance states clearly that our city officials, our police officers and beyond will not be gathering information showing who is and who is not documented. We do not ask the question with regard to immigration status and because we haven't asked the question, we don't have any data to show documentation status in our city.

Our police officers will not be cooperating with federal law enforcement around federal immigration law. We enforce state and local laws here in Minneapolis, and we will do so to the best of our ability. But as for cooperation with ICE, the answer is no.

Well, Matt, when I went and visited Princeton, there were a lot of Asian Americans, and Princeton is highly renowned for being a good school, so I'm gonna say that is also right.

It just feels... Turns out you're right.

I'm going to go with that is right.

I'm going to say sure, yeah. Let's go with right.

I want to say that's racist.

Hate to say it. Sorry, Mom. I think that's right.

It's not just a drinking holiday.

What was the number again, please?

They just consume the most?

That's bad. I kind of want to say right, just because stereotypes are generally rooted in some type of truth. Of course you want to say right.

Matt, I'm going to have to say that is right. And I watched the show Narcos, and that was... We don't need the whole story.

I might say that's right, just culturally.

Well, Matt, I am also Irish, and I want to proudly say that's right.

Good try, guys. Good try. Okay.

She got a job in marketing and I'm in the end stages of my background investigation with a local police department in the area. Um, we are on track with the baby steps, doing all this stuff, and she's having a really hard time at her job and her boss is being a real jerk. And I don't know my place as her husband, where, where it crosses the line.

Uh, for me to step in and speak to him, um, a little bit of background. So you guys know what I'm talking about? Um, he is a very stubborn guy. Um, she's running a business for him where he's trying to market this new product and essentially start up a business. And he put a lot of trust in her from the beginning to hire a team and be that person for his business. And he put it in her hands.

And he's been super indecisive this whole time and shortening the deadline of launch to now six weeks where it's supposed to take nine months. And she's got her hands up in the air like, what do I do? Do you trust your wife, Jacob? I trust my wife so much.

That's what I'm thinking.

Right. That's what I think. That's what I just don't know the boundary because when he starts speaking to my wife in a way that is extremely dishonoring in front of her. She gets up and walks out the door. Exactly. Okay. That's what I was thinking.

Well, we're in a little bit of a place where we need the money right now, so we're in a position where we hate it, where it's like, babe, I can't just have you walk out right now, which is what I want to be able to do.

No.

I think the smart choice is finding another job before she leaves because we've had little to no income since we've been in Dallas.

I want to in the fact that that's my wife, but I know that's not the smart choice. I'm not going to do that.

What does she earn?

Around, she takes around $4,000 a month. Okay.

Sure. We've had a long journey trying to find a job, though. She's had a lot of interviews, and people just don't want to hire for some reason. So this is the first job that she's actually gotten hired since she's been looking.

Understood. That's the thing you've got to— Right. The other kicker is in a month I'm going to be on the police department's payroll. So it's like, okay, we only have one month to, to pledge this, you know? So what's the, I don't know. Cause I keep telling her, I don't want to overstep. You have your thing to do with your boss, but also this award.

In what manner?

And is she not talking about quitting? She loves her job and the team that she works with. She just can't get anything done when she's at work because her boss is a jerk. He doesn't trust her to do the job that he hired her to do.

Yeah, but I'm just sitting here listening to her talk and I'm like. Okay, so maybe that's the boundary, right?

Hey, can you guys hear me?

Awesome. Love your guys' show. John, absolutely love your show. Been a long-time listener.

What's up? Yeah, so got a two-part question for you. This might not be as much of a money question as it is a relational question, so do with it what you will. My wife and I moved to Dallas around five months ago, and it's been super rough since we got here. We're finally getting our feet underneath us. Uh, we both got jobs.

and kind of doing odd jobs while I finished kind of building out the land. Okay, when was the last time?

Hey, how are you guys doing? Good. How are you, Jacob? I'm doing okay, I guess.

Oh, no, $1,200 is just survival.

We knew that.

So I owe $29 on a truck. which has been attacked by a peacock. So a resale would be difficult. For real? What does that look like? For real, I'm not kidding.

Yeah, peacocks can really, really take down the resale value of a truck. It's incredible. They got a strong beak, I guess.

And then when it's shiny, they see the reflection in the truck and they attack their reflection.

Because a lot of people don't know, man. Celebrities, they're just regular people. They're just regular people like you and me. Why are you, though? Why do we care? Why do we care so much?

2016.

...things wrong with Anna Paul. It's way easier to hate me for calling her out when she's wrong than accepting that the Anna you guys love and idolize so much never existed. You don't know her. You don't know her like I know her. You have never met her, and if you have, it's nothing more than a five-second selfie." These people that watch her don't know the Anna that I know.

They know the other Anna, the one she wears when the camera starts rolling. I can't blame the parasocials because I too would do the same for someone that I looked up to, but my experience with Anna was a lot different to all of you. Mine was a real experience.

Everything Anna does is calculated, but she masks the manipulation extremely well with an innocent sweet girl facade, posting all of these videos about self-love and body positivity. Anna, remember that god-awful trend of-

Trend of people posting photos of influencers that they would and wouldn't feel comfortable wearing a bikini around. Remember those slideshows people would make with everyone in the family? Of all of you being labelled as safe and my photo was at the end marked as I would never feel safe in a bikini around Mikaela?

Meanwhile, right before these videos were trending in 2021 on the South Bank Bridge when you were peak body positivity, love yourself version of Anna, a plus-sized fan came up to you. And asked for a hug in a picture. You smiled at her. You told her that you loved her. She told you how your words online have helped her be more comfortable in her body.

The moment she walked away, you told Addis that she was annoying and gross and you didn't want to agree to the hug because she was fat and sweaty. Addis laughed. These were your words.

There's a lot of things wrong.

By posting IG stories advertising that you're sending money to subscribers, you are directly trying to lure new customers over to your page, a page which costs $16 to access. This $16 is essentially a lottery ticket.

the seven hour difference in time steps between posting your initial promo story on instagram to actually sending money it's clear that in that time you allowed the subs to reel in as this was just a plot for profit rather than a give back situation as you disguise it as then posting further stories of screenshots sending few people 500 saying you know where to find me

incentivizing more to subscribe and fall for this in hopes to win. The whole premise of you luring your largely underage fan base to a website containing corner graphic photos of you in the hopes of them winning your illegal lottery gambling scheme is so twisted and weird.

If you charge an entry fee in order for somebody to win something, it's classed by law as a lottery in Australia. Anna is not licensed to hold lotteries. It's unethical, illegal, and against OF and Instagram's TNCs. And on top of that, it's exploitation, particularly for her young audience. You only need to ID check to be a creator on the platform, not a spender.

I've been on the platform for six years. I know it well, and we also conducted a test on this, which means these youths really are subscribing and tipping just like they told me that they have.

People may start pointing at me because I'm on the platform too. While I understand, I also testify. Only 3.4% of my following on Instagram where this is displayed is under the age of 18. Anna's statistics would paint much different story. I also never incentivize people to subscribe in the hopes or chances that I'd see them.

I broke up with him. It was my choice to never read. I was well and truly over him months before. He abused me multiple times when I tried. He would take large percentages, such as 50% of my income, to manage me. But in reality, there was no managing. Okay, well, I just get the crazy part. Anna statistics would paint a much different story.

I also never incentivized people to subscribe in the hopes or chances that I'd see their message of despair and send them a lump sum of money. Like Anna, targeting her young female audience, such as young mothers and high school girls. Another attack that Anna fans will use on me to defend her bad behavior is that I'm obsessed with her family and that I'm not over Addis.

They spread all sorts of rumors about what they think happened. This rumor really bothers me. And is not true in the slightest. Constantly being tied to such a horrible person and have lies told constantly about how you feel about them is horrible. You have only seen what I've allowed you to see. Anything after my first initial few videos I made, the rest were jokes for views and engagement.

I broke up with him. It was my choice to never reconnect again. There was no contact from me to him during that entire time, despite his countless attempts to reach out to me. As I just said, it was exaggerated on my end for views because I know the content performed well. And it did. Wow.

He would take large percentages such as 50% of my income to manage me, but in reality, there was no managing and I personally think it was financial abuse. After we broke up, he took jewelry from my room, hacked into my bets accounts, withdrew money, and then deleted the accounts, thinking I wouldn't notice. When I caught him, he sent it back and played a fool.

Then crypto went missing from my accounts, which he set up for me. I accused him but had no proof as crypto was anonymous, so I legally had to backtrack while also being manipulated by him and Anna over the phone. I have sent him just about a million dollars for numerous work or investments he's... Man, fuck, this happens every time, man.

fucking gnarly shit like like whoa dude he's done for me and never saw anything from it he is a cold-blooded scammer he has not only scammed me but the public and this started in him from a young age there has been things he has been in trouble for in the past but i cannot speak on them because he was underage then these crypto group controversies followed years later which i had nothing to do with and begged him to stop because it ruined my reputation online being affiliated with him

Addis was also accused publicly of grape by his ex-partner, to which I believed and believed back then. I even messaged her that I did believe her. I believed her.

Because her story was something that actually had been happening to me already. And when I confronted Addis and told him I believed her, a fight broke out and he would threaten his life. As a result of what was happening to me, I would get UTIs and that in turn has permanently affected another internal body part.

I'm undergoing surgery in February to correct my body as I have debilitating health issues as a result. When this happened, our relationship plummeted and I couldn't be the same. Does this sound like a person that I would be obsessed with or want back? I left the wrath of that.

In my opinion, it seems the Paul siblings have scamming running through their blood and I'm not sure why because they were raised with amazing parents that provided a lot for them.

I've seen the house in person, it's beautiful. Being upper middle class is not being poor, Anna. Your exaggerated stories for the internet has always made your dad upset and me, well, just angry. I was a real victim of the system and poverty like you portrayed yourself online. Remember that time when he called you out in the living room?

He didn't understand why you would post such things and he called them lies. But you need this story. Faking your poverty so people excuse your schemes and wealth and feel bad for you. Every calculated story serving such an important role in supporting the other lies. This web you're weaving to entrap these people's pity.

I am broke. I may have $100,000, but dude, down deep inside, I have no money.

I'm not fucking leaving. I'm not fucking leaving.