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Chapter 1: What is Armchair Anonymous about?
Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts, or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dan Rather, and I'm joined by Mrs. Mouse. Today is Crazy X. Tell us about your Crazy X. People have Crazy Xs out there. They do.
They have a history.
I think I have one. But I don't think it was realized till after. Now this, I got to give a disclaimer to this. Obviously, this should have been foreseen. Obviously, Crazy X entails some stalking. So if that's an experience you had, this probably- Isn't for you. You want to skip it.
At least skip the first two. Yeah.
Yeah. Skip the first two. Just skip the whole fucking thing.
Just don't listen to this show.
Go get a burrito and a Diet Coke and two martinis and kick your feet up. It's Friday. Enjoy the day off. You've got a day off. No homework today.
Fun.
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Chapter 2: What does a Crazy Ex story entail?
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Chapter 3: What happens when an ex-boyfriend becomes a stalker?
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Hello.
Oh, my goodness. Look at this wonderful sound booth you've constructed.
It's my husband's. He has a microphone and headphones. I was like, thanks, babe.
But behind you, too, there's a lot of nice sound dampening.
I'm in my baby's nursery in this little nook.
Oh, my God. Perfect. How old's your baby?
He's four months old.
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Chapter 4: How did Jackie deal with her stalker?
Thank you. He's tiny.
Does he smell delicious?
Yes, the best. So good. When does that change?
It goes on for quite a while. Are we using your real name?
My name's fine, but everyone else will change names. Perfect. Just because.
And so you're not named after Carly Simon because you would have spelled it differently.
Actually, my mom, my name was Sierra. And then she was putting my nursery together and she heard a Carly Simon song. So she changed it. What? My dad came home. He was like, why does her room say Carly now?
And she's like, I changed her name. So you are named after her. Yeah. Just spelled different.
I guess that's permitted.
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Chapter 5: What was the resolution of the stalking situation?
You like when people spell names. You and I have talked about this in the past, Monica.
A little bit differently.
You like that, yeah.
I like that.
Okay. You have a crazy ex. I mean, everyone does, but you have a crazy ex that we're going to hear about.
I was so excited when I saw the prompt. I was like, yes. So you can't wait to hear Monica go, oh, my God.
What the fuck? We'll set the stage for us.
Yeah, let's hear it. Yes. So it was in 2013. I was a couple of years out of college. I met. This guy, we won't name him. When I was in college, he just lived in the college town, but he didn't actually go to school. One of those. And he'd sold weed. So that's a big part of the story. He was a dirtbag. Not my proudest boyfriend moment.
What was it about him that tickled your fancy? Was he gorgeous or something?
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Chapter 6: How do past relationships affect current ones?
No, we love learning.
But yeah, he was in a crew. He always talked about this one specific other graffiti artist in the area that we're from and how he was like this OG person. And there's something very particular about this person. I won't say what it is about him because I would totally give it away. But he was like, yeah, that guy's so cool. I'm like, all right, cool.
Wait, can I ask you one quick question? I guess this is maybe a PSA for dudes. My hunch is he was telling you how cool graffiti was and I'm going to crew and brother, this is awesome. You probably weren't ever that enthralled by it, but you're probably placating him like, oh, cool, hon. Yeah, pretty much. It's hard for us to know us boys.
Like we're trying to tell you about this thing and you're being nice. And then we're misled to think this is cool.
Cause if you're not nice, then they get mad.
You get graffitied.
Yeah. You get graffitied in the middle of the night. Just wait till the end of this story. Oh boy.
Can I ask how long you were together?
On and off for a couple of years. But yeah, we break up and I go to a party in a different town with a completely different group of people, not connected at all. And I end up meeting this guy and we hit it off and then we start dating. Well, it turns out he's like the OG character from another crew. I had no idea at all. Oh my God, you have a type. Yeah, and it was so silly.
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Chapter 7: What lessons can be learned from these crazy ex stories?
Ew.
Really, really icky. And he's tagging sloppy seconds everywhere. That's how we knew it was him. Oh my God. I end up moving. He finds out where my new house is. The cops were involved because at that point in time it was like stalking. But I'd be out with friends and I've always had this weird kind of sixth sense thing. My dad has it too. Something's wrong and we can't really explain it.
But yeah, I'd be out and I'm like, he's here. And my friends would be like, where at? And I'm like, I don't know, but he's here. I got to go. Wow. And I'd like walk out of the bar and he'd be walking around the corner. Or I'd come out of a coffee shop and he'd be like across the street. New guy, I'm still dating him.
He's getting pissed at this point in time because obviously he cares about me enough to be like, this is really creepy and messed up. So the funniest part about this whole story is these two dumb graffiti crews. Sorry to anyone that's like super into graffiti. I think at this point in time in my life, I'm like, it's so stupid, the crew thing.
But they met at a train yard for like an old school rumble.
No! Oh, I love this part. It's like the Outsiders.
Yes. And they ended up fighting. Lots of people were involved. Just so dumb. Wow. I couldn't believe it. I was like, really? We're still doing that type of thing?
Now, this is a question Monica would never ask, but I will because I'm a boy. Who won and lost? Was there winners and losers?
There's no winners.
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