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Welcome to an episode of Golden 
Nuggets TN Tales season 1 

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powered by Husby, served by 
Khadija. 

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And if you, if you don't know 
who she is, I mean, she is the 

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queen of deals, luxury deals and
also the queen of storytelling. 

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The Queen of what else? 
And the queen of season 1 of 

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Golden Nuggets was Sylvia 
Elderly, right? 

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Episode 3, yes. 
So you were in the first season 

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of that show, and now you're in 
the first season of this show. 

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How's it feel to be you? 
It's actually comfortable to be 

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me, but it's very difficult. 
It's not easy every day for my 

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aunt's wife, my husband. 
Everyone, everyone struggles. 

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Everybody, yes. 
Now. 

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But I'm so proud of you. 
Thank you. 

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It's. 
Amazing. 

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Look at the difference in 
quality from when we. 

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Well, I just want to outline 
that there is no backstage. 

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Last time there was a better 
there. 

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Was a backstage and there was 
tea being made, but now we're 

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just spilling tea. 
Yes, now you had and actually 

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part of the inspiration of this 
show was how engaging your 

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stories were in your episode. 
So and that's what gave me the 

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idea let's do tea and tales 
because the stories that come 

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out of real estate agents are 
the best, the strangest, the 

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craziest doesn't happen in any 
other industry. 

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And you told a very interesting 
story, which I encourage you all

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to go back and watch episode 3. 
But there's apparently a Part 2 

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and a Part 3 to this story. 
So I want to hear it from you. 

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Yeah. 
Now, if you know Khadija, you 

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probably heard this story. 
Yeah, 10,000 times because this 

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will make it to my memoir or 
probably on my tomb. 

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But if you don't know Khadija, I
haven't heard the story. 

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Here it is. 
Well, Once Upon a time, Once 

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Upon a time. 
Well, when a small, tiny broker 

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and we still still selling Mr. 
So I've been introduced by a 

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wealth manager, a client, and he
told me I cannot directly 

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introduce you this guy because 
he's not that easy to to engage 

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with. 
So what I suggest is you come to

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the to come. 
You come early. 

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I have a meeting with him at 
9:30 and you come just a little 

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bit early. 
And when you arrive at I, I'm 

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like, sit, we almost done and I 
introduce you I'm. 

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Like nice, smooth. 
Sweet. 

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So here I am. 
We're waiting for him. 

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We saw him arriving, you know, 
like I saw him from afar. 

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I'm like, I see this man like in
his late 60s and I can tell that

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he's not smiling. 
He's not going to be easy to 

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engage, engage out to our I was 
saying English impressed. 

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So I was like, what? 
OK, that's going to be a hard 

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one anyway, it's sad. 
And I I thought, OK, this is 

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when you entered the the my 
friend introduced us. 

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I said, OK, this is the window. 
So in two seconds I'm like, how 

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did I do this? 
I said this, I work for this 

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company and he's like, I excuse 
me, I already have a broker and 

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I'm like, I can and I already 
have a broker. 

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And you know what? 
I'm I'm no, he said, yes, you 

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know what? 
I'm going to take your number. 

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But I already have a broker. 
And at my great surprise, he 

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pulled a book and a pen to write
my number. 

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And I'm like, oh, well, this is 
so 18th century. 

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So I'm like OK, I give my number
the next day like I didn't I 

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left, I didn't sort of it 
outside. 

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This will never happen. 
This guy is a bit is not 

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interested. 
I walk with someone. 

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Fast forward the next day wake 
up, I have my son in my arms. 

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It's 8:30 it's 8:30. 
I have my son in my arm 

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screaming. 
He was going at king of the 

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island at this time and the 
phone ring a landline. 

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I'm like hello and like my son 
is screaming. 

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I'm getting ready to go to the 
office and he's like, yes, we 

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met yesterday. 
I would like to to talk to you. 

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Can you come to my hotel? 
I'm like, no, you come to my 

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office and he's like, no, you 
come to my hotel. 

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I'm like, and then I, I was like
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show, I show up. 
I remember that something very 

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important that you have if 
someone be introduced to you by 

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an introducer. 
And at this time I had a 

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reputation that I don't get back
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So with the same introducer. 
So I was like, you know what? 

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I was about to drop him. 
So I said, you know what, let's 

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go. 
And at least I did my job. 

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I went. 
But he tell me join me at Dubai 

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Marine. 
I'm like, excuse me, Dubai 

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Marine 1995. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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So it's such an older hotel. 
I arrive at the hotel, I take a 

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taxi. 
I don't have driving license and

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I don't have cash. 
But anyway, take an Uber, I 

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arrive to the to the hotel at 
the hotel and I'm like, what the

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heck I'm doing here? 
Oh my God, all this work to 

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reach that level. 
So I'm go to the recession. 

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Of course, I don't have the 
number, the the family name of 

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the person nor his name, e-mail,
phone number. 

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So I'm like I want so and so and
the guy give me the look like 

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and I'm like I'm like what the 
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And I'm sitting there outside 
having a cigarette and thinking 

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to myself waiting for this 
client to come, what degrading 

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life I have. 
Probably you want to buy 

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something in GVCA Studio at 
300,000 Dirham could be a 

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rental. 
Not that you're a snob or 

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anything. 
Not at all. 

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So anyway, and suddenly suddenly
appears and I'm sitting and he's

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standing and you have a posted 
and you you tell me here this is

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the the high and I'm like high 
and he doesn't sit and he's like

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here. 
There is a few units here in Mr.

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If you get me a discount, I'll 
do the deal. 

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I call you in one hour. 
If you any discount, just get 

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the discount. 
Of course I was getting the 

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discount, so I knew. 
So I pretend it was hard. 

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I was like, Oh no, man, you 
know, discount's not that easy. 

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Too far, you know, And it's 
like, yeah, it's OK, I'll call 

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you in one hour. 
Give me another. 

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I'll call you in one hour. 
If you get the discount, we'll 

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make the we'll, we'll make the 
deal. 

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Come and pay everything. 
It was like worse off. 

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At least 1520 million of US AED 
of worth of deal come back, we 

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do the first deal and anyway 
I'll pass all the I don't have 

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data, so I don't have cash, I 
don't have data. 

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So I could not even take a taxi 
to go back to Mr. and the Mr. 

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Guy paid for my taxi anyway. 
So we sat there and I'm and I'm 

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like, by the way, what's your 
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And once we sign off the deal 
and he bought everything and 

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he's like, this is my phonette. 
Can I have now your phone 

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number? 
And he's like, no, I'm like, OK,

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well, that's a weird one. 
I made the money. 

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He bought like 5-6 apartment 
like well should be respecting 

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his space. 
His privacy and space. 

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Yes, why do I want? 
Why do this trouble, all this 

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trouble Anyway, he leaves. 
He asked me to to set up some 

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stuff for him while he he 
leaves. 

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But bear in mind, I still don't 
have his number. 

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I don't have just have the name,
family name. 

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Of course I Google hotel yes, at
the the hotel, but he left from 

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the Mr. office. 
He left directly and left the 

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country. 
Few months later he give me a 

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call. 
So now we are in business 

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together, right? 
So he give me a call and it he 

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tells me I'm I'm here in the 
country. 

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I'm closing a bank account. 
Can I keep with you 1,000,000 

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Then we're probably going to 
reinvest it by the time I open 

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my other account. 
At this time there was no 

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regulation in term of of the 
money etcetera. 

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I said OK and. 
I'll just put it in my safe. 

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Yeah, but in the company 
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So anyway, Fast forward a few 
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never, the money never came. 
Probably find a solution. 

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No problem. 
Six months later, I get a call 

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from the accounting department. 
Hi, Khadija. 

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Are you expecting money? 
I'm like, no. 

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But I never say no. 
I'm like, no, I don't think so. 

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And you're like, Are you sure? 
I'm like, now, now you say. 

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And he's like, and he starts to 
give me a hint of a name and I'm

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like, yes, of course, that's my 
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And he said, can you tell me how
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And I'm like 1,000,000. 
And he's like more, I'm like 

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2,000,000 more, 3,000,000 more. 
Oh my God. 

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Thank you. 
God, thank you. 

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And he's like and, and I'm like 
like a like a we're 45456. 

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I'm like, Oh my God, 6 1/2 And 
I'm like, Oh my God, it's so 

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weird that this happened. 
Then I look at the name. 

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That's the same client of the 
Dubai Marine, which by the way 

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#1I judge because he was dressed
very, you know, like basic, 

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basic. 
It had Hello Kitty backpack. 

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So I was like a bit confused by 
what message he was trying to 

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send. 
He was not young, he was quite 

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old. 
So anyway, so I'm like, why 

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would you send this money to me?
Maybe it's a donation, it's a 

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gift. 
Maybe I was so it's a charity if

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and but for me, I don't have 
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I was taking a taxi. 
Maybe you want me to buy a Royce

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Royce. 
Anyway, so obviously we leave 

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the the the money until it come 
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But the problem it disappear. 
It didn't disappear for six 

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months, but it it literally 
disappear for a year. 

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Wow. 
I go into and. 

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You have no number to call him. 
No, I don't have a number to 

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call him. 
I reach out to the guy went to 

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this between he don't have a 
number to call him is you 

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Google. 
His name is unknown in the I 

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felt like the. 
What a life just to be 

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untraceable and unreachable. 
And untraceable, unreachable. 

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And he's a normal guy and and by
the way, like now I I know him 

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well. 
You have a prestigious job. 

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He's just under the radar. 
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And he's not someone who is like
like to be out there except not 

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like me. 
He's unfortunately, I might be 

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mad and vomited in the story. 
I'm so sorry. 

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Don't fire me. 
So, so anyway, so then I'm like 

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trying to do this investigation 
and try to find it because I was

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genuinely concerned. 
Concerned because he's not young

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and trying to reach out. 
He thought he died, not me, but 

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the content, the content was 
praying and he told and he was 

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praying for him to die because 
he's sort of going to keep the 

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money like you just I can't. 
If he dies, it's for me and like

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we share, OK, No, certainly not.
It's not what happened. 

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We are very serious in our 
company. 

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You know, there is a trust like 
give me a number and I will make

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sure that your next of kin will 
be delivered the money. 

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So anyway, so I'm going to 
trying to find any anybody who 

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who who know him no one and you 
know what is not married and 

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have no kids. 
I was like, if I wasn't married,

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I that's a perfect for me, but 
no. 

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So anyway, so at the end of the 
day, what I did, so then I was, 

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I was like, it lasted because in
the beginning you don't really 

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pay attention, you know, like 
when, when this happened, you're

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gonna come in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, not even, do you think I, 

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I think about that couple of few
months, six months after a year,

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I'm like, because even the 
accounting they, they probably 

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they could have was like, maybe 
I can use the money, you know, 

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like, you know, and I was like, 
no, no, nobody touched nothing. 

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You're gonna turn up. 
You're gonna turn up 

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investigation. 
Nothing. 

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Nobody knows him. 
He doesn't have a wife. 

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He doesn't have a kid like 0 
like the the the the, the world,

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the the floor have swollen this 
guy and made him disappear. 

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And one one day after I come, I 
came back to the office. 

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I lay down and I'm like thinking
about this situation and I'm 

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like, that can't be. 
He must have left me a hint, you

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know. 
He must have left the hint for 

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me to find him. 
You. 

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Know he went on a adventure. 
No, I was like, just like, you 

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know, there's. 
Got to be a clue there's. 

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Going to be some somewhere. 
I know it was amazing and 

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suddenly Eureka.