Ruin-your-life money
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you stumble on something with the potential to change your life? Oscar (not their real name) was going through a rough patch in life when they found a bag of money in their dim basement apartment in Montreal. It was enough to propel their life in a different direction. First, they almost had a panic attack. Later, a gnawing regret consumed them.
“This Is Uncomfortable” is Reema Khrais, Donna Tam, Megan Detrie, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Camila Kerwin, Phoebe Unterman, Marque Greene and Serena Chow.
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| 0:00.0 | In late June of 2020, Oscar found something in their apartment in Montreal, Canada. |
| 0:09.2 | Something so unexpected that it almost induced a panic attack. |
| 0:13.8 | Oscar, by the way, is a pseudonym to protect their identity. |
| 0:16.3 | We'll explain why later. |
| 0:18.4 | A few weeks before their discovery, they were chilling at home in their apartment. |
| 0:22.2 | It was June 1st, 2020. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, so I was listening to music. |
| 0:32.6 | I was smoking out the window, the usual. |
| 0:37.0 | It suddenly started through the wall and it was bad, like it was very bad. |
| 0:42.6 | Oscar was doing what a lot of people in their apartment buildings with thin walls do. |
| 0:47.2 | They were listening to their neighbors. |
| 0:49.3 | In tonight's fight between their neighbor who we'll call Maria and her boyfriend was |
| 0:53.6 | especially nasty. |
| 0:55.6 | I heard what sounded like a bookshelf or a table or something, getting knocked over, furniture |
| 1:00.8 | banged in the wall. |
| 1:02.8 | She just screamed, how dare you do this to open in her own fucking home. |
| 1:07.6 | And then by this point, I was over by the door looking out through the people, just like, |
| 1:13.5 | ah, what do I do? |
| 1:17.0 | And as they were looking through the people. |
| 1:19.0 | The door came open in the hallway. |
| 1:22.3 | The boyfriend came like half falling, half running out, clutching at his neck, ran up the |
| 1:28.2 | stairs and Maria comes out, limping, like clearly injured in her right leg, holding a bloody |
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