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“This week, an interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. I think society is going to decide”
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An in-depth conversation with a man who's shaping our future. My highest order bit is to not destroy
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or wherever you get your podcasts. On the serving pancakes podcast, conversations about volleyball
“go beyond the court. Today we have a little best friend. How long have we been best friends?”
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pancakes, and listen now. Presented by capital one, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Novel. Last time on the girlfriends, trust me babe. Hi Wendy. You don't know me, but my name's Cindy, and we both dated Derek. Wendy gets a surprise phone call, and I was like,
I was so excited to talk to her. After weeks of DIY investigations, Wendy had finally given up
on finding out the truth about who Derek all read slash all dread really was. But now, standing on the busy shopping strip of front street, La Heiner, the Pacific Ocean's stretching out by her side. She might finally be on the cusp of real answers.
“I remember ducking around kind of an alleyway so I could try to hear her a little better. I'm passing”
all these people. I'm sure I looked a little crazy. The woman on the other end of the line introduced herself as Cindy. She was a little bit frantic. She was in the middle of finding out how much money he had stolen from her. Derek really was a connoisseur. He took her computer and looked up all of her finances, changed the passwords, ordered credit cards in his name. So he's taking her out to dinner and paying for it, and she had no idea it was actually on her account.
He stole a lot of money. Unlike Derek, Cindy has an actual successful career when they meet in 2013. She's working in tech in San Francisco, but he spends her good y'all too. He tells her he's a luxury hotel developer. And over the course of about a month, not quite too, she alleges that he stole $178,000. It spent 26,000 on her credit card and stole
660,000 airline miles. When Cindy goes through her finances in more detail, she finds some interesting charges. The flowers share his berries and the candy and the giant teddy bear. Dinners, drinks, $4,000 earrings, prescription glasses, all the stuff Derek had been buying for Wendy. I saw all the evidence that he was using her credit card to do that. And that's not all. Remember the video Derek sent to Wendy to prove where he lived? He was in her house.
And Maxwell, Derek's beloved dog sadly taken from this world too soon.
The dog was not his.
and that dog had not died. Once she discovers the truth, Cindy goes straight to the place.
“They just wanted to brush it off like, oh, it's just a domestic squabble. Wendy believes the”
police didn't investigate the claim seriously because Cindy couldn't prove that she didn't authorize the card herself. She's finding out this guy is a serious car artist and nobody is listening to me. The police don't seem to be prioritizing Cindy's case. So she's hoping Wendy can help. I had a file, Derek Aldrid. Wendy was writing a book of course she's kept her research. I had printed out some of the emails that were crazy. All in this file folder. I was so happy.
I had cash on each of this information. She asked if I would please call this San Francisco
“detective that was assigned to her case and I did. I called multiple times. As far as we can tell,”
Cindy's hopes that the San Francisco police would do their job would ultimately go nowhere,
even with Wendy and her corner. It was very apparent they were not taking any of it seriously. She felt very alone. And while the San Francisco police are twiddling their thumbs, Derek just disappears. But Cindy doesn't plan to fake quietly into submission. She was relentless. He is not going to get away with this. I am going to find him and bring him to justice. Before long, Cindy will learn that it wasn't just her or Wendy that Derek fucked over.
Because it turns out he's been wrecking women's lives all over the United States.
And soon he'll be thousands of miles away in the land of 10,000 lakes, Minnesota, reeling in his latest target. Something's off about this whole thing. Something's fishy. I'm Anison Fields and from the teams at Novel and I Heart Podcasts, you're listening to the Girl Friends Trust Me Babe. , Episode 2, The Bastid Not.
In a huge stadium in downtown St. Paul, the Minnesota Wild hockey team are gliding into an ice
“rank, lit up by neon lights. I believe we're playing Chicago. It's October 2015. The energy is”
high in the stadium. I can't be certain, but I just like know in my bones that let's get it started by the blackout piece was playing. Commentators, cruning, are we ready as the two teams squeak their skates onto the rank. The lights, the sounds, the loud and rowdy, and so are the fans. Among them, sitting in the upper levels is Lisa, you know, to danger to be around me when we're playing. Lisa is a die-hard Minnesota Wild fan. She's a divorced mum of two and a nurse at a children's hospital.
Sitting next to Lisa at the hockey game, a two of her closest friends, Tammy and Michelle. We are just to figure out that love hockey. Yelling, having fun, but all through the game, Lisa's phone is buzzing. Texts from her boyfriend. There've only been dating for a short time and they're really clicked. Except tonight, Lisa's trying to enjoy watching an ice hockey game with her girls. Only her suddenly whiny boyfriend is not reading the room. You don't have time for me,
you know, why are you with them? This evening, he's being a little controlling. But Lisa's having none of it. I love hockey and I wanted to be with my friends.
Game finishes.
of my governance. We'd get popcorn and wine down the night. That's Michelle. Lisa's bestie.
“They're talking about a local bar. They sometimes go to. Make governs is more of an older,”
deep, rich wood bar with great home-cooking food, big outdoor patio in the back. As Lisa moves through the crowd to grab a drink, she stops in her tracks. I'll say look at the barn, he's sitting at the bar. And I was like whoa, Lisa's boyfriend has made a surprise appearance. One friend goes, oh, that's kind of creepy. So I kind of go up to him. He's like, oh babe, I just want to just surprise you. Lisa's friends have heard a lot about her boyfriend. His name is still
Aldridge. He's kind, outdoorsy, very family-oriented. He's told Lisa about his sister, who's married to a pilot, and also about his twin brother, who's a bit wayward. He's got his own business running a surf shop, steel fins, in Hawaii. He's studying at the local university, even volunteers at a homeless shelter. Knowing that someone's taken time out to do that just really mean me feel, you know, just like, god, this guy's great. Despite his behavior during the game,
steel and Lisa have been getting on great. But now he's turned up at the bar, now for blue.
“He was kind of a thinner, smaller guy than I pictured. It surprised me that that's what he looked like.”
Lisa's best team of shell watches from afar. This is the first time she's met steel in person.
He was carrying a backpack, a pretty full backpack, and I just thought that was so weird. As a lesbian, I wouldn't be caught dead in a pub without a well-packed, ready to hike backpack, but that's by the bio. He just looked disheveled. As far as first impressions go, it's not a great start. I got a bad vibe about him. I don't like him. Michelle and Tommy approached the bar where steel and Lisa are talking. And so
commences that best friend right of passage, the classic first meet interrogation.
“He was kind of like, well, what do you want to know?”
Timmy started right in right away, so what do you do for work? Where do you live, kind of thing? She was starting to grill him. Lisa is standing a few paces away. Watching her friends and her boyfriend go head-to-head questions like, "I want to see your license. I want to see this and that." And he's like, "Why would I have to show you it?" Like, being very defensive with her. Everything that Lisa told us, he told us almost four words. It was almost like a
rehearsed line. I may use the word weasily. He just seemed weasely to me. There was just something bad about him. Just being around the guy and looking at his maniorisms, I couldn't even stand even talking to him. I had to walk away. Michelle retreats to a table, keeping an eye on things. She's known Lisa since they were teens, and she's very protective of her best friend. Michelle can see Lisa and steel are having a
tense conversation. He was drinking, and he was just getting kind of really weird. He came up to me and says, "How am I going to go home with you?"
Steel is annoyed about being grilled, and he wants to leave. It's the first time I ever
can say I got scared of him. He just had this looking as eyes as demeanor was creepy. Lisa doesn't want to go home with steel, so he stalks off alone. Soon after, they all call it an eye. I get to my car, you know, it's raining out, and I'm driving away in my friends, you know, following me out, and we pull the parking lot, and he's across the street in the point where he's just steering at me. Like, "Oh my god, like this is just not good." Arriving home from
that night, Lisa's fire is blowing up again. It's him texting me. Then his sister's texting me, you know, then his friends texting. They're saying, "Oh, please forgive him." He has an excuse for the poor form. He was claimed he took a paint pill, and that he was drinking too much with
The paint pill, and he was just not here and to forgive him.
Lisa was really falling for steel. Their first day had been magical. I just felt at peace when I
saw him. And their relationship had progressed quickly. Lisa was recently divorced. She had two kids. She was a busy nurse. She wasn't really looking to get married again, but she did want real companionship. He made you feel so at ease. He made you feel so comfortable, and in a few weeks that being dicing that even developed to routine together. He would come over to my townhouse. We'd make dinner. I'd sit on a love seat. He'd sit on the chair. Periodically, his phone would ring
it would be his sister or his daughter, and I'd sit listening to him talk to them. But it's not all being perfect. Steel's got a habit of going a-wall. And when Lisa asked him, panicked, where he is, if he's
“okay, his reactions escalate fast. He would text me like, Lisa, you need to calm down, or I'm going”
to get my lawyers after you for harassing me, and I'd be like, what the hell? Lawyers is crazy. And the ridiculousness of it all was so confusing, so up and down. Instead of making Lisa run, she starts
to feel like maybe she's the one losing it. Besides, he always has an excuse. He would apologize,
like, I'm sorry, you know, I shouldn't have done that, you know, it was stressed at school, stressed about the business. He always made me feel bad. I, you know, misunderstood things, or I took things out of context. He had always been just something that anyway, I thought about purple roses, he'd bring me purple roses, he'd bring me a box of chocolates. After that night at the bar, meeting Lisa's friends, it's just the same. She's angry about Steel's creepy
behaviour. I didn't talk to her for a day or two. But then, sympathy begins to creep its way in.
“She feels bad. I guess the sad thing about me, or I think, like, health care people in general,”
sometimes you'd have such a big heart that you believe people and you're very forgiving and
very caring. I wouldn't listen to my gut, I'd listen to my heart, so you forgive them. Lisa's friends, though, they aren't convinced. In the couple of weeks that passed after that disastrous performance and the governs. Steel is making every effort to prove that he is someone Lisa can rely on. One evening, visiting in Lisa's townhouse, straight back in the same cozy routine they had before the McGoverns incident. When Steel reveals a secret he's been keeping.
He says, "Well, I don't like telling women I'm dating or seeing that I have a lot of money because I'm on them to, like, me for who I am." He said he had won a lottery and he had invested really well.
“It was like $2 million. I think at least it was like a stacked page. The guy's got this kind of”
money. He's down to Earth. He's got a stuff together. And not only that, he wants to show her in a real way that he is committed to her. He tells Lisa, he wants to spend his astronomical wealth on setting up a home in St. Paul. Somewhere they can one day live together. Somewhere that families can become one. It was going to be ours but he was going to pay for it. She even attends some of the viewings and then they find the
perfect one. It was three levels. It was just beautiful. You walked in and the kitchen was just all steel appliances. Cherrywood inside for all the cabinets that had a two-car garage, you know, this could be your son's room, this could be your daughter's room, this could be our room. You know, he's like, "Oh, I could put my books here for school." It was beautiful. Every you know, it was just the colors or gorgeous. It was very elegant. I remember they had a candle in
there. I think it was like a vanilla flavor. It was just beautifully staged. Walking around the property, the realism makes in the side to Lisa. All your husbands, you know, really nice and like, "No, he's my boyfriend. He's looking to buy it for us." That's not me. It's just him. Steel starts filling out the paperwork there and then he couldn't be more ready to commit. I really have that point felt like I was falling for him and I just thought, "Wow, I really
hit the jackpot on this guy." Because Steel had another surprise in store for Lisa. Once she can't wait to tell her friends about. 2%. That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available. I'm Michael Lisa. An on my podcast, 2%. I break down the signs of mental toughness, fitness,
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“Today we have a little best spring compatibility test. Hey, how long have we been best friends for?”
Since the day we met, as the lead one volleyball season heads towards its final stretch, there's no better time to tune in. We really are like yin and yang, vodka and tequila. You'll hear unfiltered analysis behind the scenes stories and conversations with leaders making an impact across the sport. Today we have Logan LeMeki. I feel like our fan base in general is very connected. It's like a comforting feeling getting to play at home. Whether you're following
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human on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Less than two weeks after the McGovern's disaster, the girls are back out. No hockey this time. We're eating at a little place in Hastings called the busted nut. That's Michelle, Lisa's there too, and says Tammy. It is a little bar in a little old fashion town, old pictures, tin ceilings. There are photos on the wall from that era, horses, carriages hooked up to posts
outside old brick buildings. They have a barrel full and nuts these roasted peanuts that you can scoop out and bring them back to your table and you just crack them and drop them on the floor. We're having a good time. Eventually, bolstered by a few handfuls of pre-COVID communal barrel peanuts.
Lisa says she has some news.
After that disastrous first meeting, Lisa had stopped mentioning steel to her friends because she wasn't talking about him without that she wasn't seeing him anymore. But she was. And steel's made a big romantic gesture that Lisa wants to tell her friends about. Not the house, something else.
“He wants to take me on a trip to Hawaii. Would you guys think about that?”
It turns out steel needs to go check in on his surf business and he knows Lisa's always wanted
to go to Hawaii. So he's bought the two of them flights on him for a romantic holiday. She is like pack your bags, babe, we're going. I was so excited, but she knows she can't fly so far without asking the advice of her friends. We said, Lisa, what are you doing? They're still reeling from the news that Lisa and steel are even together. And now they're going on holiday.
Have the group said, no, and she looked at me and I thought, oh my gosh, but I thought, you know, maybe there's something about him that I don't know that she knows that she really likes about him. It's hard when you're outside the bubble of someone's relationship looking in to ever really see what they see. You know, give it a shot. It's a vacation. You know, it's Hawaii.
She was, I think, going through a lot of stress and she kind of did need a break. And I thought, you know, just go let us know how it goes. Check out this business that he says he has over in Hawaii.
Lisa's friends weren't going to wave her off without first putting in place some safety
“jacks. You need to let your friends know where you're staying, what kind of car you're driving.”
We asked her to take a picture of the car, the license plate, just to make sure everything was down the up and up. With her friends cautious blessing, Lisa touches down in Hawaii and it's just like she imagined. We drove around the island a little bit. You can see the ocean. I was in awe. Like, oh my god, I can see why he loves his place. It's beautiful. And I'm like, I can see why he loves to come on here, not multiple times a year. They hire a Jeep,
which Lisa drives through the streets of Maui to the hotel. The pool was gorgeous, palm trees,
and just a beautiful Hawaiian flowers. Remember taking pictures of us, I sent a note to my friends,
and they're like, oh my god, I'm so jealous. Unbeknownst to Lisa, back home, her friends were actually
“feeling a little concerned, especially Michelle. He was getting a little angry about like,”
why does she keep calling you? Why does she keep bothering us and doesn't she know your invocation? I'm like, oh, she's just checking in and it's nothing if I'm having fun. While Lisa is blissfully gall of hunting around Maui and a Jeep, another friend, Steph, is on shift at the Children's Hospital, back in St. Paul. Stephanie's a work together. They can't pull together. We leave for work every day at 6.20.
They're good colleagues, but even better friends. Dinner, winery, tours, girls, trips. We have had some really fun times, and some with these girls' trips. Sometimes, steel is in the back of Lisa's car in the morning, getting a lift to the homeless shelter. He volunteers that. So Steph smat him a few times, and just like Michelle, she's got a bad vibe about him. She's been searching his name online, but it's showing up nothing, and it's starting to
ignore her. Looking around at her natural colleagues, propping up the nurse's station, Steph pipes up. You guys, I'm worried about Lisa. She's in Hawaii with a guy who, I don't even know who is. And then, one of her colleagues interjects. Oh, my guy, the same thing happened to my friend. It sounds so familiar, she kept saying. She had a friend that she met online. He took her to Hawaii too. And he was scamming her. This friend had met a man who sounded exactly
like Lisa's current boyfriend. And he had turned out to be a total common man. And I said, "Can you text her and see if you can get a picture of him?" And she did. She texted her friend right away. And also comes back before that shift is done.
She brought her phone over to me and showed me the picture of the person.
his image. My heart just sunk. Oh my god, this is the same man.
“I remember saying, "I knew it. I knew it. That's him. I knew it."”
All Steph's fruitless googling makes sense now. The reason she can't find anything about still Ordridge is because that's not his real name. His real name was Derek Ordred. He was on probation for the scam of the St. Paul Hotel. Now they have Derek's real name. The details of who this guy really is are easy to find. Just the year before, Derek Ordred had attempted to swindle the St. Paul Hotel.
A swanky historic hotel right in the heart of the city. Just a couple of blocks down the road
from the hospital. It falsely came to be a doctor, skipped out on an almost $1,000 bill, and the woman he was with. Once the police caught up with him, he'd been convicted and in prison for eight months. On top of the time he'd served awaiting trial. And then he was released on probation. Within a fortnight, he'd met Lisa. And that means he shouldn't have left Minnesota at all. If he gets discovered, it's straight back to prison. And now, Lisa is often Hawaii alone with this guy.
And none the wiser. The news spreads like germs in a nostalgic pioneer peanut barrel.
“A rescue mission plan is drawn up. And the emergency services team and charge?”
I'm sure I wasn't very productive at work. They're us for the day.
A group of hockey-loving nurses, of course. We need to get our friend home safe. 2%. That is the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available. I'm Michael Easter. And on my podcast, 2%, I break down the signs of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world. All be speaking with writers, researchers, and other health and fitness experts, and more, to look past the in-practical
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40 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene. From iHeart Podcasts and best case studios. This is Worshack, murder at City Hall. I could just have happened in City Hall. Somebody tell me that! July 2003, Councilman James E. Davis arrives at New York City Hall with a guest. Both men, her carrying, concealed weapons. And in less than 30 minutes, both of them will be dead. Everybody in the chambers of dogs, a shocking public murder. A scream, get down, get down,
those are shots, those are shots, get down. A charismatic politician. You know, he just bent the rules all the time. I still have a weapon. And I could shoot you. And an outsider with the secret. He alleged he was a victim of flat down. That may have been not been political, that may have been about 6. Listen to Worshack, murder at City Hall on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
On the serving pancakes podcast, conversations about volleyball go beyond the court. Today we have a
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This is a daily mat. As the lead one volleyball season heads towards its final stretch, there's no better time to tune in. We really are like Yin and Yang, vodka and Tukula. You'll hear unfiltered analysis behind the scenes stories and conversations with leaders making an impact across the sport. Today we have Logan LeMeki. I feel like our fan base in general is very connected. It was like a comforting feeling getting to play at home. Whether you're following
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Action and the people shaping the future of volleyball.
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on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Back in Hawaii, things are going swimmingly. Lisa and Steel/Derek, Aldrich/Ordred/Ordred, a blissfully unaware of the storm brewing back home in Minnesota.
After two nights at the first hotel, they moved to a different resort.
Their rumours on the top floor, with ocean views. But Steel's bank card seems to be on the fritz. He tries to book them a sunset cruise, but the payment won't go through. Same search when he takes her out for a fancy breakfast, and when he needs to visit a local doctor for his eye pain. Steel is supposed to be paying for everything. So Lisa was feeling pretty salty about having to hand over her own amex. So he's like writing down how much he owes me,
like a piece of paper, like don't worry babe, I'll pay you back, I get everything written down. Really, sureingly, she hears him on the phone with Wells Fargo arguing about his card. He shows me on his phone. I'm calling Wells Fargo. He's in my name. My date of birth. So he's like, see, I told you I'd pay you and kind of got a little snotty with me. Like, how dare you question me? So I'm thinking fine. In their new hotel,
there is not one, but two pools with bars to get poolside cocktails with umbrellas in them.
So it's kind of easy not to worry too much. He would always go up and get them, so they
“bring him to me. And I remember being down at the pool, and then I also remember waking up and”
I'm in the condo room. I'm like, how the hell did I get here? Like, I don't remember going from the pool, I'll lay up and he's like, oh, you're fine, baby. You just had one too many to drink, and I thought, well, maybe I had more than I thought, and I was outside in the sun. This is never blacked out like that before, but I trusted him. I didn't think enough enough. I would check her face, but endlessly to see if she have any postings on there.
Meanwhile, back in Minnesota, Lisa's friends are worried. They won't Lisa to send them details. They can use to track her exact location, but they need to do it subtly. He posted a putover set by the pool on her Facebook page, and with that, oh, he knows her passcode on her phone, and he has access to her phone. They can't risk tipping steel/derrick off to the fact that they're on to him.
I kept it very social like I was doing things like, how's Hawaii? I see you're really tan, where are you staying? But none of the messages they're getting back from Lisa are helping them pin down a precise location. We're going on a sad set cruise tonight, we rented a convertible. We kept on saying, oh, take a picture of the car, take a picture of the license plate, and she wasn't doing it.
Lisa's been gone five days now. Her girlfriends know she's coming back soon because she's got a shift coming up. But when is her flight? What time will she be landing? None of them seem to know. She didn't see what the urgency was. Lisa has no idea what her friends have just discovered. Steff has been awake for days, searching deracle or dread online endlessly. She tries contacting the police. She contacts a probation officer she knows. I was advised by them to just keep
In touch with her and try to find out what flight she was coming back on.
just to see what was going on. Michelle's name flashes across Lisa's phone.
“I said, we're still. She says, always right next to me. I couldn't see anything to him that would”
lead him to know that we knew stuff was going on behind the scenes. None of the friends know what steel is capable of. What he might do if he realizes people back in Minnesota are on to him. Michelle has to think fast and they said, well, I got some really good news. She said, you got engaged. I can't tell you. She says, oh, you know, I got to know it, but I got to know when you're coming home, Lisa, when you're going to come home because I got something to show you.
This isn't in genius move, but it doesn't work. Not because Lisa is evading her. It's because Lisa doesn't know when her flight home is because he kept on changing it. Steel is supposed to have organized their return flights, but she gave me a flight that I looked
“up which didn't exist. He claims they keep getting cancelled because of a storm in Colorado.”
You'll need to find a freaking way for us to get home. I need to be home. She was supposed to be at work the next morning. I'm like, Lisa, you come in to work tomorrow.
After the storm, the delays to the non-existent flight. Eventually, Lisa finally boards a real plane.
A few hours later, she wakes up to an announcement. Welcome to L.I.X. It's 5 a.m. and I'm like, call the crap. 5 a.m. in L.A. It's 7 o'clock in Minnesota. I'm like, I'm supposed to be at work. Lisa was so relieved to finally be on a flight, though she hadn't done the maths on what time they'd be landing. By the time she finally lands in Minnesota, she'll get to work hours late. Well past the time
her shift was supposed to start. Hustling into the L.I.X. arrivals, steel marches off to the airline desk to see if he can get them onto an earlier flight. And while he does that, Lisa sits by the gate and calls her friend and colleague, Steph, who'll be waiting for her on the ward by now. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I can't make any work today. I said, but I can work even in shift. And I can come in and I will be home and time. She goes to know if that works out. That's fine.
She's like, well, we're still. She goes this heat with you right now. I said, no, he's up at the desk.
This is the first time Lisa's been alone. Pretty much all of a day. She goes, how are you? I said,
oh, I'm fine. She goes, are you okay? I'm good. I'm just upset. You know, I don't want to miss Rick. I took care of her not being at work. She goes, yeah, don't worry about it. We got your shift covered. Everything's good. At that point, I stopped worrying about him seeing what I was saying. She says, do me two things before you get on the plane. I said, I should go send me your flight information and where you're sitting because I just want to make sure you're home safe.
When still returns from the ticket desk with newer soon of flights, Lisa takes them with her
“into the bathroom. She's not so picture and sends it to Steph. And that's what I gave to the authorities.”
Steph follows up with one quick, almost stern text. You need to text me when you land. I don't think I said much more than that.
It's Saturday when Lisa finally, finally touches down in Minneapolis. It's not the same airport
they took off from. So home is still a shuttle bus and then a car drive away. But they've made it and both of them are in for a surprise. They still have PTSD when they walk down that concourse because of what happened. As Lisa and Steel disembarked the plane, they stopped in their tracks by two cops riding in hot on segways. One of the cops looks them up and down before reaching for his walkie
to okay. I have them what that hell is going on. He's going on like they have them. And the one guy goes, are you Lisa? I go, yes. And the other cop goes, are you Derek Aldrich? And I look at him like, what the hell? And he goes, yes. Coming up next, on the girlfriends, trust me babe. She's like, I need to talk to you. I'll be at your townhouse once you get home after work. And I said, oh hell no. Lisa, fight back.
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