Chapter 1: What unusual job did the speaker have during college?
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Chapter 2: Who was Doug and what was his surprising behavior?
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Text to 78592 says, I love licking the tops of 8-volt batteries. It gives my tongue a fun little tingle. I'm on my third battery this year.
Okay. I liked the taste of pennies when I was little.
Just that you didn't swallow, though.
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Chapter 3: What strange incident occurred involving the FBI?
No, I didn't swallow it.
That's good. Good restraint, Brooke. Honestly, it just sounds like your stereotypical Brooke and Jeffrey listener with that text. They're getting themselves charged up to listen to a brand new edition of the Mass Speaker.
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Hi, thanks.
Are you consuming anything you're not supposed to for this mass speaker? Uh, like what? I don't know.
Yeah, we're not going to go through the whole list of things you shouldn't be putting in your mouth, but the voice changer is on. You are the mass speaker, Amanda. Whenever you're ready, let's hear your confession.
So it's public record now, but I don't think most people actually like know about this.
Oh, that's fine.
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Chapter 4: How did Doug manage to acquire a luxury car?
Yeah.
It makes it sound like it's going to be a crime.
It's not my crime. Okay. So when I was in college, I didn't have rich parents or anything. You know, I had to like work my way through school. Oh, wait.
You're going to gross Jeff out.
You're going to gross him out. Hold on. Jeff goes to normal parents. Oh, no.
I'm just kidding. That's pretty common.
I think it's great that you worked your way through college.
Yeah. Well, I got a job at Subway. So like I would work like maybe four nights a week.
Okay. Nice.
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Chapter 5: What illegal activity was Doug involved in?
Yeah. But you're getting free food as a college kid.
So it's sweet. And it just always smells like fresh bread. Oh, yeah.
And so it wasn't just like a college town. So we had like random people work there. And one of my coworkers, I'll call him Doug. And he was probably twice my age at the time, like mid-40s or something. And he would complain about rent, utilities, and minimum wage, all that. Sure, I hear Doug.
Let's go, Doug. You're on to something, man.
Everybody knows a Doug in their life.
I think I am Doug.
Okay, I hope you have this, Doug, because one day he came in and he was driving this bright blue Bentley. And I was like, how? What?
Wow. Doug owns the subway?
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Chapter 6: How much money did Doug reportedly steal from the hospital?
I'm just thinking Doug's a drug dealer.
A blue Bentley. He just randomly showed up.
Yeah. He said he won it in like a car giveaway contest at the mall or something. But even still, you got to pay the taxes on those things.
Oh, yeah. So he says he won it at a contest at the mall.
Yeah. And we were just like, oh, that's cool. Congrats. But then we noticed he started like dressing nicer.
Hmm.
Like, designer brands. He came in with a Gucci bag. We're like, okay, Doug.
It's like he won the lottery. Yeah. What's going on with Doug? He still works at Subway at this point?
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Chapter 7: What was the outcome of Doug's legal troubles?
Yeah. I honestly don't know why he was still working then because he wasn't complaining about rent anymore, you know?
And when you say working, he's the same job as you. He's making sandwiches, right? Taking orders. Suddenly he's like, this job actually plays pretty well, don't you think?
Yeah.
He's going to raise.
Okay.
That's so funny.
This went on for, like, months, I guess, because one time he even tried taking me aside and was like, hey, I know you're paying for school. Like, here's 500 bucks to help you out. That's nice.
Oh, my gosh.
Is that nice?
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from Doug's story?
Did you take the money?
i got a weird feeling and i was like no that's okay thank you and yeah yeah i mean you felt off yeah you don't trust your guy clearly something weird is going on with doug where his whole life has turned around all of a sudden like yeah what's going on yeah did you figure it out conclusion did he rob a bank so one night we're at work with me and doug and these two guys walk up and they're wearing dark glasses and they're all fancy and suits yeah and
And they asked for Doug, like, by his full name. And they say they're with the FBI. What? What?
Oh, my gosh. The FBI?
And they actually dress like they're doing movies? That's crazy.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, I saw them, like, confirm his identity or whatever, and then, like, walk him outside. You know, all of it. Like, cuff him. What? Take him away. Cuff him? So I never saw Doug again.
Oh.
What? But... How do you say this so casually?
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