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🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Imagine being forced into a psychiatric hospital with mandatory medication and no release date. Your public breakdown has gone viral all over the internet, and your husband is threatening to leave you. One minute you were at the peak of your professional career, and now you’ve lost 90% of your business in the lockdowns and have fallen deep into the rabbit hole of some questionable online conspiracy theories.
Melissa Lively shares her true story of becoming one of those viral “Karens,” falling for Q-Anon, and how she rebuilt her life after being institutionalized because of it all.
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0:00.0 | In March of 2021, a year after the pandemic first started, I decided to do a little weekend |
0:12.9 | trip to New York City with my friend and guest on episode 6 of The spillover isabel |
0:17.5 | Brown. |
0:18.5 | Now Isabel had a scheduled event in the city that Monday and I asked her to tag along. |
0:23.4 | After waking up to find my boyfriend at the time, after not speaking to me for over a |
0:28.0 | week as a passive, aggressive way to break up with me, had flown across the country to |
0:32.2 | party in a different city for St. Patrick's Day without telling me. |
0:35.5 | And I am a very tit for tat type of person. |
0:37.7 | So when I discovered his trip, I thought, okay, to can play this game. |
0:42.4 | And I booked my own trip to New York City for a girl's weekend with Isabel. |
0:46.2 | The first thing that we noticed was how eerily empty the city was. |
0:50.5 | I mean, it was like a total ghost town. |
0:52.7 | No cars in the street or people on the sidewalks. |
0:55.7 | I actually was able to take pictures in the street with no people in the background |
1:00.8 | in New York City. |
1:02.2 | I mean, restaurants weren't allowed to have people inside at all or they were only allowed |
1:06.6 | to have a limited amount. |
1:07.8 | So they opened outside inside restaurants on the street, the stupidest thing ever, which |
1:12.4 | I still don't understand. |
1:14.0 | And so we ate at those in the cold. |
1:16.6 | But there was one restaurant operating as normal and it even had an in house DJ. |
1:23.1 | I was conservative owned, surprise, surprise. |
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