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Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about guilt, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two zombies who've actually experienced it.

I am a lowly blonde resident, zombie, and I am making Elizabeth also a zombie.

Today is part two of our interview with Tara Newell, the woman who took down Dirty John, y'all.

In this week's episode, we're going to discuss how her mom, Debbie, took John back even after learning about his criminal manipulating history and how common that actually is in these types of situations.

We're going to talk about how they tried to file a restraining order to know a veil, and how John began to stalk the family once Debbie finally called it off for real.

Then we'll get into the day that John attacked Tara with a knife, how she defended herself using techniques she learned from watching shows like the walking dead,

ultimately killing him and what the aftermath and trauma recovery process has been like, she is a badass.

We'll just keep saying it, because it's true.

I definitely want to take her like self-defense class now, because holy shit.

We get to see her this week. We get to go have dinner with her.

We do. It's very exciting.

Yeah.

Also just the past few weeks, I don't know about you, but this is the most social I've been in two years.

It's been like everything all at once.

Is it exciting? Are you liking it or is it overwhelming?

Both. I'm like, oh yeah. I used to go to multiple events a week and see more people than just my boyfriend and my two friends and then my mom on the phone.

Right.

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