Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Kirat Assi is a 32 year old woman with a successful career living in London when she falls for a man she meets online, only to get swept up in a virtual relationship that upends her life and steals nearly a decade from her.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is the podcast where we talk about |
| 0:08.1 | popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the |
| 0:13.0 | attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are going to be talking about |
| 0:18.9 | a documentary that's currently running on Netflix. |
| 0:22.3 | It's called Sweet Bobby My Catfish Nightmare. |
| 0:26.7 | Yes. |
| 0:27.0 | And it was also a podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | There's a six-episode podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | I think it's Wondery. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay. |
| 0:34.5 | Did you listen to it? |
| 0:35.7 | It was a while ago. |
| 0:36.7 | I listened to it when I first |
| 0:37.7 | came out. Okay, well, this was my first introduction to this story. So, Tess, why don't you |
| 0:44.4 | give us a quick summary before we start? Okay. So in 2009, Kira Asi received her first message from Bobby through a Facebook account attributed to a cardiologist named Bobby Jandu, who purported to be based in Kenya and in the UK. |
| 1:04.3 | Kyrat is a Punjabi Sikh woman whose parents were born in Kenya and has been active in the tight Kenyan South Asian community. |
| 1:11.7 | When she met Bobby, she was working in marketing and had a gig as a radio DJ. |
| 1:15.7 | At the time, she had just gotten out of a long on-again, off-again relationship. |
| 1:20.2 | She longed to get married and have children. |
| 1:22.4 | And so she clung to the messages from Bobby. |
| 1:24.8 | While she had never met Bobby in person, she knew of him because her cousin |
| 1:28.5 | dated his younger brother, JJ, in real life. One day, she gets a message from her cousin, Simran, |
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