Country Dancing

I got this comment back in February:

Anonymous said...

This girl said she saw the guys from the MBP... you should ask her.

http://callieann-callieann.blogspot.com/2009/12/celebrity-siting.html

February 13, 2010 4:04 PM

I was able to track her down on Facebook and asked her about her experience. This is her reply:

The story goes:
A friend and I planned to go Country Dancing at Studio in SLC. My friend, Sam, had their number and invited them to come. They agreed and said they'd go but didn't tell us what they were wearing or anything, obviously to keep their anonymous-ness. We found some boys who fit their description of themselves. Calvin and Aaron, we thought. They kept looking at us and talking to eachother and looking over. I can't remember if we approached them or if they approached us. Aaron was wearing a soccer t-shirt, on on MBP it talks about how much Aaron likes soccer. He asked me to dance and Calvin freaked out. "No, dude. We gotta' go. Come on." He was acting very fishy and nervous. Aaron seemed calm and collected and reassured Calvin that it'd be okay. As I danced with Aaron I asked him questions: where he was from, what he did for a living, yadda-yadda-yadda. I don't remember where he told me he lived, but when I asked a second time it didn't match with his original story. He told me he sold security for a living, which is what MBP does. He told me he went on a mission, but it wasn't to Ireland like MBP. After our dance, Aaron danced with Sam and his story was totally different with her. Again, I dont' remember what he said but it was fishy and I knew they were lying. Calvin didn't dance with either of us. He didn't want to be there and it was obvious. He was nervous. They invited us to their house in SLC somewhere. I wanted to go, just to uncover the MBP story but it was late. When we left, Aaron (who goes by Bobby) asked for my number. He wanted to come hang out with us in Ogden. I told him he could come if he'd like but it was late and I couldn't hang out that long. Sam and I wanted to take a picture before they left but neither of them would let us take a picture of them. They got VERY defensive and nervous. They took a picture of just Sam and I but we weren't able to get one of the two of them. (Go figure.) :)

Since then, I've text Aaron a little but never hung out with them or saw them again. We asked them if they knew about MBP and called them out on their lies. They smiled like they either: A) thought we were crazy or B) thought it was intriguing because they really were MBP. Honestly, if they weren't MBP and were just some jo-shmo guys, they'd be running for the hills because we seemed like crazy psycho women asking a million questions. I was 94% sure it was them, now I'm about 85% sure.

I didn't ask how long ago this took place, but I think it was last fall, which is before MBP was too popular. I'm not sure what I think about this story, but by the way these guys were acting, it makes it seem more likely then it would otherwise.

Then again, maybe Calvin really wanted to get out of there because of how bad he hates country music. :)

Motives

Let me address some of the concerns brought up in the comments:

1. The blog post that "revealed" the authors of MBP was a fake. It was written for fun by someone totally unrelated to the blog.

2. Lots of guesses regarding Sanders and whether MBP served in Dublin as claimed. My opinion is that they began the blog with certain details, one of which was serving in Ireland. The question is, did MBP have enough foresight to change details from the get-go? If so, then we have to assume they expected their blog to explode in popularity. If we assume THAT, then don't we have to second guess their motives? Which leads to #3.

3. Monteirth Madness was kind enough to email some public records regarding MBP's "LLC" that they set up. The reason they created the blog was "Writing an entertaining blog that will generate enough hits to entice companies to advertise on the blog." So, if this was their plan from the beginning, then isn't it possible this has been money-making scheme from the beginning and they're just making everything up on the blog strictly to entertain? I don't think that's very far-fetched.

4. Busy Bee Lauren doesn't write MBP. From what I understand, she allowed MBP access to her blog so they could moderate her comments for her cause people were being rude to her and she was tired of reading the mean comments.

Moving on. Let's assume just for fun, that C and J didn't realize there blog was going to get so popular... so some of the earlier posts could possibly be truer than the more recent ones. I've been reading MBP for a really long time... like maybe since August. So I was reading before they got super popular and I don't remember ever noticing any huge contradictions between their early posts and their later ones.

Anyone else notice anything that I'm missing?

Finally, I have a few things in the works for getting some photos of Calvin and Jake. I'm not sure if anything will pan out, but everyone cross their fingers that I'm successful.