Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing fabulous. How are you? I like that.

I am doing quite well.

Before we recorded tonight, my son looked at me and said, do you ever wonder if you're a real

person and everyone around you is a robot?

Yes.

Right.

But just went on with his day. I'm like, that's deep, my friend. Yes, I do wonder that. Yes. And then, right, but just went on with this day. I'm like, that's deep, my friend.

I'm like, I think that. I do wonder that. Right? I have real thoughts like that, which make me

feel absolutely out of my mind, but I'll be driving and be like, nobody else is even thinking

in their cars. I have a million thoughts going in my head because everyone else is a robot.

Is that narcissism? I don't know because,

you know, I've actually seen like TikToks and Instagram reels and stuff that kind of are about this

where it'll be like somebody's like filming while they're in like an airport or a train station or like a

really busy place and it'll just be like there's no way everybody here is real. So like I feel like

other people have the same

experience where they like kind of feel like some part of life is like a simulation in some way.

Or like that or like my son calls the kids call them NPCs. Like it's like that's like the thing where

they like kind of do that weird rotate thing.

I've seen those on TikToks too.

Those are on people's lives all the time.

You see somebody just going, okay, okay.

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