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May 21, 2026

51:56
So, what is the accusation in the indictment?
MirandaGUEST
51:59
Yeah, so these charges are coming from an event that happened back in 1996, um, when he was the defense minister for Cuba.
MirandaGUEST
52:07
Uh, basically, two unarmed civilian planes that were delivering humanitarian aid that came from Miami were gunned down over Cuba.
MirandaGUEST
52:16
Um, so him, along with five others, have been indicted on federal murder, uh, murder charges, conspiracy to kill US nationals, and destruction of an aircla- aircraft, because three of the people that were on board those aircrafts were US citizens.
54:56
You know, are they worried in Key West that they might bomb them with drones?
MirandaGUEST
55:01
Yeah, so I think the, the implication is that Cuba has been trying to get their hands, and maybe already has, on attack drones similar to what Iran's used.
MirandaGUEST
55:10
And, um, basically, there, there is no intelligence that's made, made public that this was a threat being made, but when Axios, who put out the initial report, reached out to the Cuban Embassy for comment, they didn't respond, but they did put on their Twitter page or their X page that they have a right to themself, like, for self-defense, to defend themself.
MirandaGUEST
55:32
And I think with the escalating tensions and, you know, with what just happened yesterday with the indictment of Castro, I don't think that it's a far-fetched idea to beYou know, to keep the eyes on, on-
13:32
Randa?
MirandaGUEST
13:33
Randa.
MirandaGUEST
13:33
So my first serious boyfriend, he never wanted his played with, similar to Sloane.
MirandaGUEST
13:42
You know, that same, just don't touch them, I get nauseous, all that kinda thing.
MirandaGUEST
13:47
And then when I started exploring in my single years, I found someone who really liked them cupped and grabbed and tugged on and just really manipulated, and I feel like that's what got me excited about them.
MirandaGUEST
14:05
That got me, oh, there is pleasure here and I can stimulate them just as I can a penis, and there, it can be added pleasure, and that kinda helps me not be so fearful of it.
MirandaGUEST
14:21
Granted, men are all over the scale when it comes to how they feel about it and, 'cause I have experienced after that, where it's like, "No, just don't touch them." So I don't know.

38 MINS LATER

52:15
Cojones? Cojones.
AmeliaGUEST
19:18
Yeah, we just, we're just, we just wanna go to a maze and-
MirandaGUEST
19:21
Yeah, have fun
MirandaGUEST
19:21
... oh, oh, oh, oh, now the m- the, the, the, the, the, the muffin maze is, uh, past the, the jungle and, and the, and the cave.
MirandaGUEST
19:30
There's, uh, it's far, and so you probably won't.
MirandaGUEST
19:33
But if you head over there to our, our town center, you'll meet a lot of people like me-
EliseGUEST
22:17
Hey, Miranda.
MirandaGUEST
22:17
That little boy's backing up.
MirandaGUEST
22:19
Hey, no, don't run.
JenHOST
9:45
He's not super sure.
MirandaGUEST
9:47
I got, I know I'm gay, but I can't be gay, because it's not the right thing to be.
LynnHOST
11:07
With the single ounce of spit.
MirandaGUEST
11:09
I bet there's some pre-cum in there somewhere.
MirandaGUEST
11:11
And is there any safe sex in this story at all?
speaker_7UNKNOWN
18:08
Here's Miranda.
MirandaGUEST
18:10
After we filed, the university pretty quickly after the fact filed a motion to dismiss, which she had anticipated.
MirandaGUEST
18:16
Sheila and her team, this was in 2021, in October, had submitted aMotion to strike the dismissal, and that was as far as the case went.
MirandaGUEST
18:27
I'll just read what our lawyer sent to us.
MirandaGUEST
18:29
May of 2022, she said, "As you know, we have been in a holding pattern for months because of the court's rules against proceeding with discovery while a motion to dismiss is pending.
MirandaGUEST
18:39
I've been watching with interest, as you know I have, the protests and escalating outcry from UCO students.
MirandaGUEST
18:45
Our firm has also filed another Title IX case on behalf of a current UCO student arising out of a sexual assault.

25 MINS LATER

43:38
What has the last few years looked like for you?
speaker_3UNKNOWN
15:21
Here's Miranda.
MirandaGUEST
15:23
Second semester of my senior year, we traveled again.
MirandaGUEST
15:27
We went to KCACTF in Texas.
MirandaGUEST
15:31
I was so ready to graduate.
MirandaGUEST
15:35
I was over being in school there.
MirandaGUEST
15:37
KCACTF should have been the most exciting trip for me because it was my last one.
MirandaGUEST
15:43
All of my peers were partying and hanging out, and I chose to stay in our hotel room by myself.

15 MINS LATER

speaker_3UNKNOWN
31:20
Here's Miranda again.
speaker_3NARRATOR
18:52
[gentle music] Here's Miranda.
MirandaGUEST
18:57
December, right before winter break, Cato and I were still seeing each other often, whenever we could find time to see one another.
MirandaGUEST
19:05
We were still texting all the time.
MirandaGUEST
19:07
We were still in an active relationship.
MirandaGUEST
19:09
I received a call from a friend in the department who was really good friends with Morgan, and he told me that Morgan was filing a Title IX against Cato and that I was named in some capacity.
MirandaGUEST
19:25
I denied everything, of course, and said that we have no involvement.
MirandaGUEST
19:29
He was like, "Okay.

29 MINS LATER

RhiannaGUEST
48:59
But I do often think about how things could have been
speaker_3UNKNOWN
19:31
Did you ever talk with Cato about it?
MirandaGUEST
19:34
No.
MirandaGUEST
19:35
He did something that he did with a lot of my peers, which was talk about how crazy she was.
MirandaGUEST
19:41
Cato would, of course, never acknowledge it.
MirandaGUEST
19:44
I just kind of assumed they were dating.
MirandaGUEST
19:46
They were together, and now they're not, and everything is fine, and they're a couple of adults, and she's going to graduate.
MirandaGUEST
19:54
My junior year, he was directing what's called a main stage show, which is the biggest show of the year because it's in the university's main theater.
24:58
Was there times where you felt like it was consensual and then times you felt like it was coerced?
speaker_7HOST
19:41
For those who are not familiar, could you explain a little bit more about the Meisner technique?
MirandaGUEST
19:46
Yeah.
MirandaGUEST
19:47
I think it's really important to the story, and I think it is a really big piece in the way that he was able to groom me specifically.
MirandaGUEST
19:58
Meisner is built on repetition and vulnerability.
MirandaGUEST
20:04
He would always say, like, "You're living truthfully in imaginary circumstances," which is the whole idea of Meisner.
MirandaGUEST
20:11
He took us through all of these training techniques that he had just learned.
MirandaGUEST
20:15
It was, like, pretty fresh on the brain for him, I suppose.

18 MINS LATER

speaker_7HOST
38:48
Here's Miranda again.
CharlotteHOST
36:13
Happy birthday to- [upbeat music]
MirandaGUEST
36:17
Bye, guys.
MirandaGUEST
36:18
[upbeat music]
CharlotteHOST
37:12
Yes.
MirandaGUEST
37:12
It was officially the rollout of Blue Ivy, Sunday Rose.
MirandaGUEST
37:17
It is the handing over of the baton from their parents, their very, very famous parents, who were both on the board, so Beyoncé and Nicole Kidman, which you said off top, Jo.
MirandaGUEST
37:25
I actually saw Sunday Rose walk first, and I went, "Hang on.
MirandaGUEST
37:28
Doesn't the Met Gala have an age limit?"
15:20
She tells me about meeting up with the judge.
MirandaGUEST
15:23
We went to a room adjacent to the judge's office.
MirandaGUEST
15:26
The judge was wearing a kind of, a pink sweater with daisies on and jeans.
MirandaGUEST
15:33
I, I really liked the judge.
MirandaGUEST
15:34
I felt that it's in good hands, so that felt like a huge relief, and gratitude that the French authorities cared enough to do this, and that they listened to us, and that they looked at the facts, and that they cared enough about us and about other women.
MirandaGUEST
16:00
She said kind of almost from the beginning, "I'm not going to, you know, make you go through any specific questions around GB," and it was a, a relief 'cause that's one of the most difficult parts to retell.
MirandaGUEST
16:15
She was assessing my, you know, the, the long-lasting impact on my life.

10 MINS LATER

26:37
There's still a lot about her experiences she wants to explain to Penny.
22:43
Eventually, Miranda can take no more, so she tells the other passenger her whole story.
MirandaGUEST
22:49
And she had the strongest reaction to it of anyone still in the organization I'd told up until that point, the most humane and compassionate reaction.
MirandaGUEST
23:01
She was genuinely shocked and upset, and she said almost straight away, "I, I want to help.
MirandaGUEST
23:13
I feel that I need to do something about this." I felt this, like, sense of solidarity from her that I hadn't felt from anyone else still in the organization up until that point.
MirandaGUEST
23:27
And a few weeks later, she told me that she'd been talking to a few of her friends and she was going to organize a meeting in Hyde Park, and if I wanted, she could tell my story secondhand, or if I wanted, I could go there and tell it firsthand to still current students.
MirandaGUEST
23:49
[crowd chatter] There was a group of, I don't know, about seven or eight people when I arrived, and then more people came.
26:33
Miranda has heard this recording of herself.
MirandaGUEST
26:35
One of the things that always makes me cringe when I listen back to myself is the intonation and the accent, and I can hear it there, how I sounded like the teacher sound and how I sounded like this kind of prototype, this cult personality kind of robotic prototype.

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