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Reacting to the Caller: 'Mind Blowing' Story
from The Smiley Face Killers · #132
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2 minTim thanks the caller, expresses shock at how compelling and credible the story was, and contrasts it favorably against the usual low-quality guests listeners suggest.
- 1:19:02Tim prefers interviewing people with firsthand accounts over writers who then lose credibility by pivoting to Bigfoot.
- 1:19:22The caller's story fits the smiley face killer profile exactly, except those victims die—ruling out coincidence or a three-beer blackout.
- 1:20:03Caller tried everything to prove the theory wrong but couldn't convince himself he could get that drunk, climb barbed wire, and survive alone in an unfamiliar town.
- 1:20:38Tim notes that successful young men disappear in rivers, but his useless drunk friends on Long Island never drowned despite living near water everywhere.