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I see it like that's your default setting. So I think the anomaly is you having a long-term relationship. And that's what I'm looking for.

Oh, God.

Yeah, no.

It's Joshua.

Yeah, I remember her.

Hmm.

I don't know, man. Like, we're... We're wanting different things. I don't know if you know what she's like into what's called stacking.

Stacking?

She said she used to stack, which means like have three to four dates a night.

I don't think it was like at the same. We didn't really get into it. But like, I don't know. To me, I just think it's kind of rude to say like I miss stacking. Oh, she says she misses it. Yeah, she literally said she misses it.

And I probably took her to her car when we finished our burgers.

No, I don't think I did. She was, like, looking back at it fondly. And it was very real to her, and she was very, you could tell. Okay.

That's okay.

So you like, you set this whole thing up? Like you're on the phone here and you called him?

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised. I wanted to release from all the hard things I had to do and how pointlessly hard I made my life. Did you feel a release? No. I feel like...

Yeah.

The thing that would come out of this was just a release from... what I did to my life, besides all the problems, like the legal issues. Sure. I made myself feel like shit for no reason until I wanted to release from all the hard things I had to do and how pointlessly hard I made my life. Do you feel a release? No. I feel like what I tried to do was get attention from my family.

I threw everything away and it doesn't make a damn bit of sense. I tried to end something.

Today I woke up and I decided I'd been thinking about this, like, for a while.

As for his mother, she had plans of her own. It was her 39th birthday.

What was going to happen was I had to go do my monthly parole for Georgia and go get an appointment with my doctor this week. And so I was deciding between quitting and doing this or doing everything I have to do. Okay. And getting ready to go through probation, go to the hearing in April and talk to my therapist.

So you feel like you're deciding between... I tried to make it a choice between those two.

Like I made it. In my mind, I was like, today we're going to decide. Because I was pinning them against each other.

I broke a chair, and I was hitting the staircase with the bat, and just using the bat, I was talking about, I remember this.

He knows it. He thinks it's from the weed. Like he said, when I started doing it, That's when I would be seeing.

Seeing if you have stuff other people don't.

I wouldn't, even when I'm high. Like, I've seen things in public that I knew I shouldn't believe, but that makes me think there's a lot of things I've seen that I wasn't sure about. What do you mean by that? Like sometimes I'm hallucinating and I hear the radio say something or people involved say something that they shouldn't be able to know.

And so I know when I'm on the drug that I hallucinate, but I don't know if I will.

Because there was like a

a small few that i confirmed like so have you ever like when this is happening have you ever said hey did you hear that to somebody like all the time yeah and i've seen like water on my pants i see it when i touch it and it's dry that's what i would notice when i was drinking sometimes okay so when you're drinking you see that when you're smoking marijuana how about when you're smoking spice i don't

Do you know the difference between marijuana and spice? I don't. No? That's why I was opening it up.

You don't know? Okay. And if you don't know, that's okay. Either way, what I have is in my car.

What did you do with the bat? I did what you saw.

She comes in. I told her to go look at something. I was standing in the kitchen. I just told her to look over there.

she fell on the table okay and do you remember that happening and breaking the table or something she she just went against it and the table got bent because of that okay are we in the living room or the kitchen or something else this is the kitchen and it opens up into the living room the dining area and so the table you're talking about is in which room the dining area okay

Yeah.

But she wasn't home. And so I just kept hitting her until she... As a result of severe blunt force trauma, his mother murmured and groaned on the floor. But that didn't stop Joshua.

She was trying to push me off. And I just told her, I said, just stop. Stop fighting. Just, like, let go.

She was trying to grab her throat.

She couldn't breathe. And she was trying to get away from me. Was she on the ground at this point? And I told her, I said, just let go. And she wouldn't. And so I got up and I just smashed, I hit her again.

And then I moved the body.

It was just, it was from the rack of knives.

It was right after. So just let out blood. Okay, in case she, because I wouldn't wake up.

Because she was just knocked out.

I wasn't sure. Okay.

Were you trying to put her out of her misery? Yeah.

On the back of her neck.

I'll remember it later.

And then I turned on the fan and just closed it. And then I started pouring baking soda onto the rug and trying to clean all the blood.

It was under the counter. Okay. I think they use it for spills on carpet. Okay. And I just saw him there. And I was going to clean it. to make it look better later.

I took them off.

The right sink.

In the bathroom or the kitchen? In the kitchen sink.

I started to.

How did you try to clean it? I just put it in the sink.

And then I just left it because I thought I was going to use it again.

So I just, yeah, so I just put him there.

And I knew he came to my house because I could see it on my phone.

We have a security thing on the app. And I knew at that point it was over.

3.5?

Because there was still some on the carpet. Okay.

It was a great school.

I told him I couldn't tell him anything, and he was like, stop playing, bro. Like, he was kind of joking with me, and I started joking with him. So what did he say to you? Now there's something you don't hear every day.

I had fun. Yeah? I wouldn't say I liked it.

It was to get cash so I could take the car.

With her cards. Do you know her pin numbers and all that stuff? I figured one out. You figured one out? Okay.

I dumped him. Where? At Brandon Mall. Brandon Mall? Whereabouts? Next to Sears. Inside or outside? Outside. Outside? I don't know. I know which one it was. It was in the grass areas. In the grass area? Like up by the building or over by the road? In the parking lot, outside of Sears. Okay. Next to the cars.

I just started driving. Okay, where'd you go? trapped between like I was just driving in circles I wasn't sure if I wanted to go north or to Miami because I was having this conflict in my head between going somewhere or like giving into the guilt and turning myself in and I was I decided A short time later, deputies spotted the victim's Nissan driving along Interstate 275 in Tampa.

I made it. I mean, it was pretty bad. It was pretty bad? Like the paranoia. Paranoia? You get paranoid from the weed? Spice. You do spice? I think so. You think so? I think spice is so much more paranoid.

Is there something you want to say to him? I'm so glad she's okay.

Because I was worried another family doesn't have to live with that.

Like, her just being taken away because of me, someone. Someone that was in their house. Someone they loved took someone they loved. I was afraid they were going to have that scar because of me.

Today.

I'm still coming down.

I'm up. Yeah, I know where I am. Where are you?

Did he appear angry to you? No.

All I think about now is when I was a kid, and she would visit for like a day or two, and then she would leave. And I just remember me crying myself to sleep because I was really sad.

Okay.

We didn't talk at all. And when I turned to drugs, we just, we started talking about nothing, never seeing each other.

What happened to her that night was something that doesn't happen in Adams County. That's a movie, Your Honor. That's something you watch on Halloween to scare you. That's not real life, but it was real life for Tina Lohman on November 9th, 2021.

Hey, my name is Joshua. I'm actually a chiropractor as well.

That's funny. Yeah. So me and my wife, we run a family chiropractic center in the UK. Cool. And our current revenue is around $750. We'd like to get it to $2.3. Perfect the model and then scale. Okay. This is what is currently my predicament. So we averaged 48 new clients per month last year consistently from two main channels, referral and Facebook meta.

What was the split? So it's 35% referrals, 65% ads. Got it. Yeah. And excuse me.

Yeah. So my question, and I think what's stopping me is determining where I should be focusing because we get great results for clients like they get, but you know, even if they have an amazing result, like a lot of those clients leave, which is fine. And then they need us. It's terrible. Yeah. And I'd love to have more clients to stay with us longer term from like a membership perspective.

And when I looked at our churn retention rates, our gross retention rate is 47%. And then our net retention rate is 74%. So once we've done expansions, upsells and everything else, it brings it up, but we still lose a lot of, we leave a lot of money on the table on the, because we're losing. You lose half your customers. Correct. But you keep a little bit more revenue.

So you're talking revenue retention versus low. So I'm like, which one do I focus on? Do we expand the marketing and just keep pumping the machine? Because I literally feel like you. I've got to a stage in my business where I'm still in the clinic, still serving patients. I love my clients. Yeah.

But like, you know, even if they've had an amazing change in their life, like it's like you with the weight loss. Like I've got to the point now where I'm like, man, like this doesn't excite me anymore. Yeah. I know I can help serve more people if I can just become more of the owner rather than the operator. I've stepped my shifts down from, you know, five days a week to like two now.

We own the building.

Oh, outfit it. So we, so we're pretty lean. Like we outfitted our current one. That was a hundred thousand. Okay. Got it. What's profit? We kind of keep it. We've kept it low the last few years, but we, yeah, it's like, it's like 13%. Okay. Yeah. So you need to fix that. Yeah. Okay. So it sounds like there's a lot of like, you know, owner's earnings and stuff.

So me and my wife, we draw 100K. Uh-huh.

We're already the most premium in our like area. Like. Well, then it won't change. You'll still be the most premium. Okay. And which one would you focus on then? Would you just focus on like just filling the front end or would you try and fix that? Cause you talked about like fix the chair and like get it to less than three. Like, or would you double down on both? Like would that be.

Well, if you keep half your customers, you're pretty close to three.

Right. When we track it, it varies between three and seven depending on the month.

Not really. Do you sell like braces and orthotics? In a care plan, it will be based on like, yeah, we do adjustments, massage. It might be like traction, whatever.

Hey, my name is Joshua. I'm actually a chiropractor as well. I have a great product that I would love to tell you about.

That's funny. Uh, yeah. So me and my wife, we run a family chiropractic center in the UK and, uh, our current revenues around seven 50. Uh, we'd like to get it to 2.3, perfect the model and then scale. Um, this is what is currently my predicament. So we averaged, uh, 48 new clients per month last year consistently from, uh, two main, two main channels, referral and Facebook meta. Okay.

What was the split? So it's 35% referrals, 65%. Okay, got it. Excuse me. Sorry, I'm a bit nervous.

Yeah. So my question and I think what's stopping me is determining where I should be focusing because we get great results for clients like they get. But, you know, even if they have an amazing result, like a lot of those clients leave, which is fine. And then they come back and they need us. It's terrible. Yeah.

And I'd love to have more clients that stay with us longer term from like a membership perspective. And when I looked at our churn retention rates, our gross retention rate is 47%. And then our net retention rate is 74%. So once we've done expansions, upsells and everything else, it brings it up, but we still lose a lot of, we leave a lot of money on the table on the,

Do we expand the marketing and just keep pumping the machine? Because I literally feel like you. I've got to a stage in my business where I'm still in the clinic. I'm still serving patients. I love my clients. But like, you know, even if they've had an amazing change in their life, like it's like you with the weight loss.

Like I've got to the point now where I'm like, man, like this doesn't excite me anymore. Like- I know I can help serve more people if I can just become more of the owner rather than the operator. I've stepped my shifts down from five days a week to like two now.

We own the building.

Oh, outfit it? So we're pretty lean. We outfitted our current one. It was $100,000.

We kind of keep it. We've kept it low the last few years, but it's like 13%. Okay. Yeah, so you need to fix that. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So there's a lot of like, you know, owner's earnings and stuff.

So me and my wife, we draw 100K. Uh-huh.

because this is what we worked out for our build, like our practice, we could, if we were at capacity.

This is pretty much how we built our business so far.

It's different based on the client.

So the average is around, like it depends because every plan is different for the client. So we don't just give like a, here's your plan.

We're already the most premium in our light area.

Okay. And which one would you focus on them? Would you just focus on like just filling the front end or would you try and fix the, cause you talked about like fix the chair and like get it to less than three, like, or would you double down on both?

When we track it, it varies between three and seven on the month, depending on the month.

In a care plan, it will be based on like, yeah, we do adjustments, massage. It might be like traction, whatever. Yeah.

Her absolute favorite thing is coloring. She loves sitting there as long as you let her and color.

All of our intelligence was pointing to one piece of dirt where these senior al-Qaeda operatives were operating out of. These men were tasked with capturing or killing those al-Qaeda commanders.

As they're going room by room clearing out these terrace, the ranger testified he was peeking around the corner to see who had come out and her biological mother ran out screaming and he said she blew herself up about 15 feet from him and he noticed something moving on the ground and that's where he saw Sparrow.

That is nice. You feel that? This was a bunch of service members from the Rangers to the medical staff at Bagram, where she lived for five months in a combat trauma center where they're treating like catastrophic injuries, like double amputations. And she was like a contrast in this world of hurt that they can make a difference for.

We had everything we needed from the U.S. side of the house legally to move her. So we were good to go. And it was looking like we were going to get that to happen at the end of 2019.

They completely changed from, hey, we're going to require DNA testing, we're going to require terrorist vetting, to dropping that DNA test requirement and essentially handing her off to the first person who came along after that.

And what has proven to be a non-relative terrorist affiliated person, an elderly Pashtun male that I honestly believe from the evidence was sent forward by the Taliban to collect her.

We did what anyone else would do. We said, hey, we've gone and gotten legal responsibility in the United States because we believe she was foreign. We believe she was an orphan and she does not have any family. And she has the opportunity to fly to the United States before the Taliban take over, send her. And this guy told me maybe a dozen times that he wasn't responsible.

He thinks it's a great idea. He's going to go advocate for her. Like, thank you. You're so kind. Like, my dad's responsible. And he said he was responsible for the Taliban for her.

She has a pet chicken, so she loves going out checking for eggs in the morning.

This claimed relationship is just a lie, and that's based on documentary evidence. We have... John Doe's father's birth certificate and the guy he had claimed was Sparrow's biological father. And now we have both their birth certificates and they're not brothers at all.

She helped me raise me. She was like my second mom. We had a very close bond. She would always tell me how much she loved me. She adored my four children. She made sure they were spoiled on every birthday and Christmas. She loved Christmas and she loved giving gifts. However, as I watched the trial and learned the gruesome details, I became physically sick.

How could you have done that to my grandma?