Speaker 1: Oh boy, I'll say this. We got a good walk
Speaker 1: in today. We walked three miles with a stop at
Speaker 1: waffle House and halfway between Right so Wed and then
Speaker 1: some I put it into Noom. Yeah that was a
Speaker 1: thousand calorie breakfast.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm not surprised that it's more. It should be more. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you were honest about the amount of butter that was in.
Speaker 1: To be fair, Yeah, I did not measure out the
Speaker 1: butter or whipped spread as it was actually mean.
Speaker 2: Whipped spread golden flavored topping.
Speaker 1: We watched a video last night of some British guys
Speaker 1: going to waffle House for the first time and we said, man,
Speaker 1: when we get up tomorrow, we should walk to waffle House.
Speaker 1: And we did. We actually did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean it was very good.
Speaker 2: That's not for me to say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just every most of my organs are just giving
Speaker 1: me a very stern look right now. You know what
Speaker 1: were you thinking? Well, I had to take a nasal's breaks.
Speaker 1: It's springtime in Georgia, which means just trees. I got
Speaker 1: tackled by some dogwood trees and they held me down.
Speaker 1: It's a stuffed pollen up my nose.
Speaker 2: That's real. Yeah, that's real. When people talk about violence
Speaker 2: in the city, that's what they're talking about exactly.
Speaker 1: Nature's violence, tree on man violence. I'm telling you, when
Speaker 1: it comes to this kind of violence, we have got
Speaker 1: to get down to the root of the problem. Oh God,
Speaker 1: we've you know, we've tried this. We've tried that. We
Speaker 1: really need to branch out.
Speaker 2: Will you please leave this punt alone? Oh it's too
Speaker 2: much for me.
Speaker 1: I'll try, but don't bark at me.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't like that one. That one doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Okay, would you like to provide a better suggestion?
Speaker 2: I quit?
Speaker 1: It sounds like you did not sign on to begin with. Quit.
Speaker 2: It was a trial period.
Speaker 1: Look, you're half dead. I'll say it.
Speaker 2: I am half dead.
Speaker 1: I apologize if we're a month out basically from the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Fringe Festival. Regular listeners know that that's Diana's artistic baby, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is going into its eleventh year. Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow? Right wow? Started by this one, right, Diana right
Speaker 1: here and her cohort of equally insane friends who decided, I'm,
Speaker 1: single handedly, without a penny to my name, gonna bring
Speaker 1: a performance festival to the city of Atlanta with groups
Speaker 1: from all over the country and the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's going great. It's gonna be really really
Speaker 2: awesome this year. But I definitely am like, my brain
Speaker 2: is not with me.
Speaker 1: She's dead, basically a walking husk of a human, very tired.
Speaker 1: I'll wake up. I usually wake up a little before you,
Speaker 1: and I'll like go into the bathroom and I'll come
Speaker 1: out a few minutes later, and you're in bed and
Speaker 1: you're on your phone answering emails, and I'm like, God, God,
Speaker 1: wake up first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably should. I definitely should not like at
Speaker 2: my phone first thing.
Speaker 1: For the amount of work that you put into this festival,
Speaker 1: we should be like Elon musk rich By.
Speaker 2: Now, well we all know work doesn't lead to well, necessarily.
Speaker 1: A nonprofit arts sector.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember you had a friend that learned
Speaker 2: I had a nonprofit. It was like, oh yeah, five
Speaker 2: oh one see me make Money. And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: where is the Where's that I'd like to know about that?
Speaker 1: Because she is a business guy. And that was their
Speaker 1: nickname for a nonprofit, which is a five oh one
Speaker 1: C three. He called it five o one see Me
Speaker 1: make Money. Because you know a lot of business people
Speaker 1: do use nonprofits to profit.
Speaker 2: It's just like a tax shelter.
Speaker 1: We're using one for its intended purposes, like a fool,
Speaker 1: like a like some kind of idiot, like contributing to
Speaker 1: the culture of the state and the nation.
Speaker 3: I know, more that's for rich people to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I do feel I owe our listeners an
Speaker 2: apology because we've been very inconsistent in our episode uploading
Speaker 2: the past couple of weeks. And it's all my faults,
Speaker 2: it really is. It's just that I've not had time
Speaker 2: to think about our episodes. Your eli's been trying to.
Speaker 1: Keep up on it all, right, right, you are putting
Speaker 1: a little too much on yourself here. There is a
Speaker 1: lot going on. We have been struggling to keep up,
Speaker 1: but I think we're back on track now, which is exciting.
Speaker 1: We got Shippe Pooh out yesterday and today we're here
Speaker 1: for this episode. We figured we'd kind of launch into
Speaker 1: something that's pretty fun. Y'all have asked for more of
Speaker 1: these episodes. Yeah, pretty consistent, which is great for us
Speaker 1: because you know, we're not doing a book report here.
Speaker 1: We can just kind of surf the web and find
Speaker 1: some funny stuff to read, which obviously really enjoy doing.
Speaker 2: Plus we get to judge people.
Speaker 1: Plus we get to judge people.
Speaker 2: It's pretty great.
Speaker 1: We don't spend a lot of time doing that.
Speaker 2: We try, you know, try not to. Yeah, but now
Speaker 2: this is all about being Jesgie is all about being judge.
Speaker 1: That's true. Look, today we're going to dive into the
Speaker 1: worst place in the world Internet, social media once.
Speaker 2: Again, the RESTful place we all visit before, bitch, Yes exactly.
Speaker 1: We got a little Twitter, we got a lot of Reddit.
Speaker 1: We dug up some of the most ridiculous posts that
Speaker 1: we could find that had to do with anything that
Speaker 1: our show has to do with, right sex, love, romance,
Speaker 1: all in the ridiculous category. So we're gonna read through
Speaker 1: some of those, talk about them, read some of the comments,
Speaker 1: which you should never do. Of course, comments are the worst.
Speaker 1: Comments are truly the sewer system of the Internet. Today,
Speaker 1: we're going to get into a lot of that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna read some current events, we are going to look
Speaker 1: at some nightmarish wedding stories, and we will go through
Speaker 1: a few of those delightful Reddit posts. Am I the asshole? Oh? Where? Honestly,
Speaker 1: sometimes just the act of asking makes it very clear
Speaker 1: that you are in fact the asshole.
Speaker 2: The answer is in the question.
Speaker 1: Yes, So let's log in, check our karma and get
Speaker 1: to some doom scrolling.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Hey, their friends come listen. Well, Eli and
Speaker 2: Diana got.
Speaker 3: Some stories to tell. There's no matchmaking a romantic tips.
Speaker 2: It's just about ridiculous relationship I love. There might be
Speaker 2: any type of person at all, an abstract concept or
Speaker 2: a concrete wall. But if there's a story, we're the
Speaker 2: second glance. We'll put it in a show, Ridiculous Romance,
Speaker 2: a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: The first thing I want to talk about today just
Speaker 1: happened this week. I'm sure y'all have heard about it,
Speaker 1: unless you've been living on under a rock.
Speaker 2: We had a listener reach out with it.
Speaker 1: As we did, Sean Branson sent us a message about
Speaker 1: this as literally as I was typing it into the dock.
Speaker 1: It was the exact same time. So thank you Sean
Speaker 1: for my mind.
Speaker 2: Are you he.
Speaker 1: Well? This is about that fabulous composer Tschaikovsky. We should
Speaker 1: do an episode on one day, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, we should. He's also a listener's suggestion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is not actually about him. This was
Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra concert on Friday, April
Speaker 1: twenty eighth. The orchestra was playing Tchaikowsky's Fifth Symphony when
Speaker 1: during a brief rest in the music during the second movement,
Speaker 1: a woman burst into a moan that attendees are calling
Speaker 1: a loud, powerful orgasm right there in her seat during
Speaker 1: the concert. Pretty intense. In fact, I have it here,
Speaker 1: so let's uh, let's take a listen. No, I got it.
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like a pterodactyl was released into
Speaker 1: the theater to me. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's on a rip, some duct tape off her legs.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't know. This was at the Walt Disney
Speaker 1: Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which is a good I
Speaker 1: love this building. Have you seen this building? We jo
Speaker 1: by it. It looks to me like one of those
Speaker 1: cartoons where there's a band playing inside and the whole
Speaker 1: house is like bouncing and moving. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: There has a lot of movement to it. It's very cool.
Speaker 1: One witness to this occurrence told the La Times quote,
Speaker 1: I saw the girl after it happened, and I assumed
Speaker 1: that she had an orgasm because she was heavily breathing
Speaker 1: and her partner was smiling and looking at her like
Speaker 1: in an effort not to shame her. It was quite beautiful. Oh,
Speaker 1: which just nice. That's lovely, right, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, yeah, absolutely, I mean And also I mean if
Speaker 2: I was playing in this orchestra, I'd be like, wow,
Speaker 2: look what I did today. The strings are vibrating. It's
Speaker 2: just the right capacity. There was another attendee, Magnus Fine,
Speaker 2: who is a famous composer and the brother of Raye Fine,
Speaker 2: and tweeted that it was a quote loud and full
Speaker 2: body orgasm and that the band politely carried on the
Speaker 2: show must go on.
Speaker 1: Magniez.
Speaker 2: He said he quote was in close proximity, and he
Speaker 2: and other friends who attended all just you know, came
Speaker 2: to the same conclusion that this is what happened. She
Speaker 2: had an orgasm to Tchaikovsky. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: people suggesting that possibly there was some kind of remote
Speaker 2: control vibrator game going on with her partner.
Speaker 1: Perhaps sure, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Where she had one of them rolled discreet toys, you know,
Speaker 2: in her in her pants and he was pressing the button.
Speaker 1: There's even sound controlled remote vibrators, right kidding. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: theoretically she's got one of those and the music gets
Speaker 1: intense and boom.
Speaker 2: He's like, I know, just when I know just the
Speaker 2: movement to get the movement.
Speaker 1: That second movement of Tchaikovsky's She Loves Decision.
Speaker 2: She says, full body tangles every time. So let us
Speaker 2: add to this outrageous and she will experience, which.
Speaker 1: I does if I mean, again, we're totally in speculation
Speaker 1: station right that that is what happened. But let's let's
Speaker 1: suppose that it did. I'll say there's a borderline thing
Speaker 1: there where there's a bit of exhibitionism where it I
Speaker 1: don't think it's great to involve unwilling participants in whatever
Speaker 1: it is you're doing sexually. So you know, discretion is
Speaker 1: one thing. And maybe she just could not help but
Speaker 1: alert everyone else. But that's kind of the risk you
Speaker 1: run if you're playing that kind of game. And I
Speaker 1: don't know that she was a lot of people actually
Speaker 1: push back against this orgasm thing. They think that it
Speaker 1: might have actually been some kind of medical emergency or
Speaker 1: like she was having an episode coming out of a
Speaker 1: sleep paralysis. Someone said that they've seen people react very
Speaker 1: similarly when they wake up from some something like that.
Speaker 1: One audience member who did think this was some kind
Speaker 1: of sleep attack, told the La Times quote pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: she sort of fell into her partner's shoulders, then onto
Speaker 1: his lap. Then her body went limp, and maybe five
Speaker 1: seconds later she kind of awoke and let out this scream.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: Which that could go either way.
Speaker 2: To me, I didn't like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Topples over onto his shoulders, pops up and explodes, could
Speaker 1: go either way. I mean, so far, the woman has
Speaker 1: not come forward, and the La Philharmonic has not disclosed
Speaker 1: any further information.
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you think they pulled her aside
Speaker 2: that record?
Speaker 1: Oh well, we found her seat number.
Speaker 2: We had to clean up this.
Speaker 1: Oh I did see someone say, ah, the La Philharmonic
Speaker 1: where Tchaikowsky plays, there's not a dry seat in the house.
Speaker 4: Gross, gross, inappropriate joke. Don't laugh at that. That's amazing,
Speaker 4: pretty pretty.
Speaker 2: Why it's a pretty song, though, gotta say.
Speaker 1: Incredible, one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Do you think this is the first orgasm at an
Speaker 2: orchestra concert, because I don't.
Speaker 1: At an orchestra concert, absolutely not.
Speaker 2: There's no way.
Speaker 1: I'd wager that Mozart himself had a few of his
Speaker 1: own while he was playing I believe it. That guy
Speaker 1: was crazy. You know what Mozart would have done. He
Speaker 1: would have had like a blanket over the piano and
Speaker 1: some would have been kneeling in front of him, in
Speaker 1: front of the bench underneath, and he would.
Speaker 2: Have been like, nobody knows.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows, he's a freak.
Speaker 2: You're a freak.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm what I'm really wondering is is there like a
Speaker 2: synesthesia to it sort of you know where you have
Speaker 2: you have some really intense reaction to certain stimuli or whatever.
Speaker 2: And so like some people that would go to an
Speaker 2: orchestra and they're like, oh, actually, like I'm feeling this
Speaker 2: this music and these vibrations in my bodies that I
Speaker 2: do have a physical reaction to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And HER's just like the most extreme version. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. And I know, I know some of
Speaker 1: all are going to agree with me on this one.
Speaker 1: Fellowship of the Ring. They're coming down the river and
Speaker 1: that Howard Shore score comes in the Great River as
Speaker 1: they're going past the Argonauth statues. That's that's the moment.
Speaker 1: That's the one we all came pretty close. I go,
Speaker 1: that's the closest that an Orchestra has done it for me,
Speaker 1: and I think most people.
Speaker 2: I understand that. I'm sure there are people out there
Speaker 2: because Stephen Colbert is nodding, of course, the friend of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Nodding. I know he keeps asking to come on, but
Speaker 1: I just I don't feel like he's ready. He's got
Speaker 1: a little more to learn ready before he can do
Speaker 1: a ridiculous romance episode.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Well, I'm very excited that we got
Speaker 2: to talk about this woman who really put the O
Speaker 2: in Orchestra.
Speaker 1: Oh, there it is, there, it is. Yes. I don't
Speaker 1: want to blow our whole load on this story, though,
Speaker 1: so we should move on to something else.
Speaker 2: All right, what's next?
Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if y'all have ever gotten into
Speaker 1: these m I the asshole or a I t A
Speaker 1: in the subreddit. I think it's probably been around on
Speaker 1: the internet for a long time. Surely read the posts
Speaker 1: if you haven't actually visited the subredded itself. But people
Speaker 1: ask a big question. You know, I did this thing.
Speaker 1: Somebody got mad at me, and they want to know,
Speaker 1: am I the asshole here? Or am I right in
Speaker 1: thinking that the other person is?
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's quite difficult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of times sometimes it's very obvious, but
Speaker 1: of course a lot of them are about partnerships, romances, sex,
Speaker 1: things like that. So we dug up a few recent
Speaker 1: and popular ones of those. This one I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up to you, Diana, because I thought that we
Speaker 1: would really have a lot to say about this, because
Speaker 1: it involves a couple and travel, right, and that's something
Speaker 1: you and I really like to do, we really like
Speaker 1: to together. So this guy, the user's name is ober Lordie.
Speaker 1: He says that he's someone who dreamed of going to
Speaker 1: Japan for a very long time, told his girlfriend a
Speaker 1: few times before and during their relationship that Japan was
Speaker 1: like very important to him. He says he earns far
Speaker 1: more money than she does, so for him, it's easy
Speaker 1: to kind of just pick up and travel somewhere. For her,
Speaker 1: it's a bit harder. And he found a chance to
Speaker 1: buy cheap round trip tickets to Japan. He said in
Speaker 1: his post quote. I informed her briefly, but I went
Speaker 1: ahead and booked for myself. Of course, she was understandably upset.
Speaker 1: We talked about this, and the main reason she was
Speaker 1: upset was because to her, it felt like I didn't
Speaker 1: include her in my decision and that I was super impulsive.
Speaker 1: She also told me that it hurts not being able
Speaker 1: to have the capability of traveling with me. I told
Speaker 1: her that I understand. I'm sorry for being selfish, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to take this urge to travel solo even
Speaker 1: though she couldn't come. I also let her know that
Speaker 1: we can travel to other places in the future when
Speaker 1: circumstances allow us to. I truly understand where my girlfriend
Speaker 1: is coming from. Now I feel guilty of what I've done.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of not going anymore. It's tough for me
Speaker 1: because of course I want to share these experiences with her,
Speaker 1: but I also wanted to really pursue this trip for myself,
Speaker 1: even though I'm alone. Now. I'll say that at this
Speaker 1: point in reading it, I thought, well, this is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a challenge. You know. It's two people
Speaker 1: they've gotten into a relationship but have totally different economic situations,
Speaker 1: and this is a you know, a dream trip of
Speaker 1: his that he's wanted to take for a long time,
Speaker 1: and he got it last minute opportunity. But I'll add
Speaker 1: that he later edited his post to add I'm twenty four,
Speaker 1: she's twenty five. We've been together for five years now,
Speaker 1: and I'm planning to go for one week. And that
Speaker 1: changed it for me because I'm like, Okay, you all
Speaker 1: been together for five years. You couldn't have just bought
Speaker 1: her a ticket. My man, I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, like, is there not a way to figure out
Speaker 2: this budget together right so that you can share it?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it does sound like he kind
Speaker 2: of wants to go alone, right a little bit, Like
Speaker 2: he's like, it would be fine if she was there,
Speaker 2: would be totally fine, but I kind of want to
Speaker 2: just go. Yeah, which is fine too. If you're in
Speaker 2: a relationship and you want to take a solo trip,
Speaker 2: I think there's room for you, absolutely, because you know,
Speaker 2: everybody needs to a little alone time or just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, there's sometimes you know, a break is
Speaker 2: a nice idea, right you come to appreciate each other
Speaker 2: and miss each other and stuff.
Speaker 1: I also think there's like a sentimental and emotional experience
Speaker 1: that you can have on your own that's hard to
Speaker 1: have when there's another person there with you, like you
Speaker 1: might be embarrassed by or just like you can't fully
Speaker 1: connect to that. You can't like get lost where it's
Speaker 1: just you and nothing you in the world. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it's not just you, Like obviously you're you're sharing your
Speaker 1: experience with someone. I can think that can that can
Speaker 1: be amazing and it can also there's something that it
Speaker 1: can hinder as well.
Speaker 2: Right, But I what I don't like is he also
Speaker 2: said before he had already said hey, I want to
Speaker 2: do this, and she said I can't afford it, and
Speaker 2: then he was like, well, I'm going to go ahead
Speaker 2: and do it anyway. Like I feel like that was
Speaker 2: the time to kind of have that conversation with like, well,
Speaker 2: how do you feel about me taking that trip solo?
Speaker 2: Then if you can't do it and we're not willing
Speaker 2: to split the expense in any type of way, which
Speaker 2: it sounds like he's not willing to pay right for
Speaker 2: anything for her to go, which I just don't.
Speaker 1: Well, if he can five years, but if he can
Speaker 1: afford one discot ticket that he can suddenly afford too,
Speaker 1: maybe not, that's very you know, that's the other thing too.
Speaker 1: But I'm just caught up on the five years thing,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, people figure out their finances all
Speaker 2: kinds of different ways, and it's fine, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: works for you, but it does feel weird to like, oh,
Speaker 2: we're going to be together for so long, I mean
Speaker 2: since they were nineteen and twenty two, so like college age,
Speaker 2: Like they've been together for a very long time during
Speaker 2: a formative period. So that's probably part of it.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I remember your brother, and we might want to
Speaker 1: get the listeners feedback on this because I would love
Speaker 1: to hear some other opinions, because I think this is
Speaker 1: true probably for a lot of people our age. But
Speaker 1: like we had and even have still separate bank accounts, right,
Speaker 1: And that was something that I remember your brother, who's
Speaker 1: a little more of a traditionalist, thought was the most
Speaker 1: insane thing he'd ever heard for a married couple to
Speaker 1: have two different bank accounts, right, And I was like,
Speaker 1: are we crazy? And I kind of looked it up,
Speaker 1: and it does seem like something that's a little more
Speaker 1: people our age and younger, yeah, are definitely doing more
Speaker 1: so now And I don't really, I don't know. There
Speaker 1: was definitely a point at where it mattered for us
Speaker 1: because our finances were so different. We were, you know,
Speaker 1: independently dealing with our debts and things like that, right,
Speaker 1: And then there was a bunch of stuff that we
Speaker 1: just balanced out our expenditures.
Speaker 2: I think too, there's just a different like feeling about
Speaker 2: marriage in general. You know, it's not so much like
Speaker 2: we've now become a singular entity. Yeah, as much like
Speaker 2: people are still very much like, well, I want to
Speaker 2: be able to and you know, I don't foresee us
Speaker 2: having a divorce or anything like that. But we grew
Speaker 2: up in a generation that saw a lot of divorce,
Speaker 2: and like, extricating the finances was always the most pain
Speaker 2: the biggest pain point, right, And so I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people were like, well, just keep your finances separate,
Speaker 2: like just in case and if someone dies too. Like now,
Speaker 2: at least you have money you can access really easily
Speaker 2: that belongs to you fully, and there's no question even
Speaker 2: though it probably having a joint account is not that
Speaker 2: big of a deal. But like, I think there's just
Speaker 2: a lot more I don't know, just probably a lot
Speaker 2: more reservations about that sort of thing in our generation. Maybe,
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like that you don't expect a divorce for us.
Speaker 1: I think it's blow chances options. Okay, you never want
Speaker 1: to say never, you know what I mean. That's why
Speaker 1: we put in our vows till death to us part
Speaker 1: unless something else happens.
Speaker 2: Soon something better comes along either or both of us.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily better, just something different, you know, just so
Speaker 1: vrighty exactly exactly or like I'm bored now this was fun?
Speaker 2: Uh huh, but you.
Speaker 1: Know, okay, So let's say role play. I come to you, Diana.
Speaker 1: You know how I've always said that I want to
Speaker 1: go to to Below, Mississippi. That might spend my dream
Speaker 1: for so many years before we got together at it.
Speaker 1: After we got together, I'd talked about it, and I
Speaker 1: know that tue Below, Mississippi is high on your list
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Right, It's also a dream of mine to go to Tubelo,
Speaker 2: MISSISSIPI I know it.
Speaker 1: I know you. Sometimes sometimes I wake up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night and I hear mumbling, and what
Speaker 1: is going out there? Squirrel in the walls? What is happening?
Speaker 1: And then I realize it's coming from next to me
Speaker 1: on the bed. I lean over and I hear the
Speaker 1: tiniest noise coming from your lips. Gotta go to Tupelo, kids, Superlo.
Speaker 1: Beautiful things happen in tub Belo, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Number one travel destination.
Speaker 1: Like oh my God, she wants to go so bad?
Speaker 2: What that's where I want to start my travel blog.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's an untouched piece of tourism
Speaker 2: that really will rocket me to start.
Speaker 1: I know the people are desperate for a nice for
Speaker 1: a nice on Tupelo, but I do need to tell
Speaker 1: you've got the Fringe Festival coming up. It's the first
Speaker 1: weekend in June. What are the dates?
Speaker 2: June fifth through the eleventh.
Speaker 1: June fifth through the eleventh in Atlanta, Georgia. Well, there
Speaker 1: was a special deal going on in Tupelow that was
Speaker 1: only June seventh, eighth, and ninth, so I went ahead
Speaker 1: and got it for myself. I understand that you're upset,
Speaker 1: but you know that this is something that I've always
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Now go respond.
Speaker 2: I think it's different because you're now abandoning me during
Speaker 2: a very busy time.
Speaker 1: When I need a lot of them to compare. Respond
Speaker 1: and also the car respond.
Speaker 2: Respond, No, you can't go to Tupelo.
Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: How need you hear?
Speaker 1: First of all, you.
Speaker 2: Said you were going to do some work for the
Speaker 2: Fringe festival, suddenly missed two days of it. At Secondly,
Speaker 2: look you got a whole staff. You know full well
Speaker 2: that several of them don't live in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I don't live in Atlanta either. I live in Tupelo, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, fine, go don't call me while you're there.
Speaker 2: I hope you have a terrible time user user ober Lordie.
Speaker 1: It's that simple.
Speaker 2: Just make it so she doesn't want you around, and
Speaker 2: then please go to Japan in fact, for longer.
Speaker 1: Fellas everyone, if you need some time apart from your spouse,
Speaker 1: just make them really want to get rid of you.
Speaker 2: Be annoying as hell. I'll let you go wherever you want.
Speaker 1: I know we say no romantic tips on this show,
Speaker 1: but you can keep that one. That one's all right,
Speaker 1: let's get away from this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I don't know. That One's a tough one
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 1: So I would say, uh, my verdict is not the asshole,
Speaker 1: but uh it may be a little inconsiderate.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: I think that makes sense. Yeah again, I would be
Speaker 2: if it were me, I would prefer to have you
Speaker 2: with me on a trip like that, and so I
Speaker 2: would probably be sitting there trying to work out a budget.
Speaker 2: But to where Okay, this is what if can you
Speaker 2: pay this much? Would that be comfortable for you? And
Speaker 2: then I can cover the rest and if you feel
Speaker 2: some type of way about it, maybe we can come
Speaker 2: up with a payment plan or something, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Like, because it might not be him not
Speaker 2: willing to pay. She might not be willing to accept
Speaker 2: the payment. There's a lot of people are very proud
Speaker 2: about that. So she might be like, I know, if
Speaker 2: you're not going to let me pay back? Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Someone don't.
Speaker 1: As someone who has been the person with less money
Speaker 1: in the past, my feelings are get over yourself and
Speaker 1: take the money while you can. My god.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people have that sense of
Speaker 2: pride necessarily, but I know some people really feel strongly
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: What was pride? It's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Who's got pride anymore?
Speaker 1: Dead?
Speaker 2: All shame is gone, all fried is dead.
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: But yes, there's other things to talk about, so let's
Speaker 2: move on. Let's go down to that. This is a
Speaker 2: good one. This one is from user d r underscore
Speaker 2: r dearer dear, and she asks, am I the asshole
Speaker 2: for calling my husband rude for his constant farting?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm going to say no, I'm an immediately
Speaker 1: say this feels like you're not the asshole For this one,
Speaker 1: he's the asshole or the asshole is asshole? Who's the
Speaker 1: asshole in a situation where farting is happening? Scientifically, the
Speaker 1: asshole is wherever the fart is coming from.
Speaker 3: That's so true. You don't need to tide to read it.
Speaker 1: For that desition.
Speaker 2: This one's easily answered.
Speaker 1: Well, let's hear her story.
Speaker 2: Well, she says, she's thirty one, her husband's twenty nine,
Speaker 2: and he's a very gassy person. Sure, nothing wrong with that,
Speaker 2: And she's exactly she said, that's everybody you know has
Speaker 2: it's got to come out somehow. But he just farts
Speaker 2: so much. She says, quote, it's not just letting them
Speaker 2: slip then excusing himself. It's lift a leg, forcefully push
Speaker 2: it out and laughs. Nine out of ten times, it
Speaker 2: seriously sounds like he has pooped his pants.
Speaker 1: Oh sir, maybe go to a doctor.
Speaker 2: Like, have y'all discussed your diet? Have we talked about
Speaker 2: sugar intake or something? So anyway, she says, she expressed
Speaker 2: countless times that you know, she wishes that he would
Speaker 2: kind of excuse himself and leave the room when he
Speaker 2: feels one coming on in, but he never does. And
Speaker 2: finally she snapped and told him that she thought he
Speaker 2: was very rude and disrespectful, and he says she's wrong
Speaker 2: because he should be able to fart in his own
Speaker 2: house whenever he feels the need, and she said, you know,
Speaker 2: of course, that is the one place where guests would
Speaker 2: be the most acceptable, is in your own home. But
Speaker 2: she's also said that she's asked him in the past
Speaker 2: if he would fart like that in front of her
Speaker 2: grandmother if she was in their house, and he said,
Speaker 2: of course he would not because that would be rude.
Speaker 2: So she said, pretend I'm my grandmother in that situation,
Speaker 2: and he will not do it. So he thinks she's
Speaker 2: being unreasonable for asking him to quote not just fart
Speaker 2: loudly and dramatically every time the feeling comes over him.
Speaker 2: But she thinks that he's being rude and disrespectable because
Speaker 2: he's not, you know, thinking that she you know, doesn't
Speaker 2: want to breathe in his nasty poop smells well, So
Speaker 2: who's the asshole here? Does he need? She says, am
Speaker 2: I the asshole for telling my husband. He is rude
Speaker 2: and disrespectful and needs to take his butt Trumpet elsewhere,
Speaker 2: but trump it's great, but Trumpet amazing. Look, yeah, come on,
Speaker 2: this sounds an easy one.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: He's being an asshole.
Speaker 1: It's the kind of thing where I'm like, look, someone
Speaker 1: just asked you to not huh. That's all I ever need.
Speaker 1: If someone says, hey, will you not do that? Right,
Speaker 1: and they're earnest about it, it's not like a joking thing,
Speaker 1: then okay, yeah you didn't not going to do it,
Speaker 1: and yeah.
Speaker 2: It's your own house, but you couldn't take a shit
Speaker 2: on the floor either, like people would be mad about that,
Speaker 2: and you can't be like, we was my house a
Speaker 2: shit where I want, like, I mean, other people live here.
Speaker 1: Bro. She's like it bothers me and if it were
Speaker 1: someone else that it's a respect issue too, because she said,
Speaker 1: straight upset, you wouldn't do it in front of my
Speaker 1: grandmother because that's rude. But I'm telling you I find
Speaker 1: it rude and you don't. You don't respect me to,
Speaker 1: you don't care. Yeah, yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: It's an issue. I think I think he's being an asshole.
Speaker 2: This one's an easy one. Yeah, this was one. I
Speaker 2: was like, you didn't need to tell the internet about this,
Speaker 2: but it was very funny and Bundy user ka Rimmer
Speaker 2: seventy one says, not the asshole lord above, girl, this
Speaker 2: has been my life for two decades.
Speaker 4: Girl.
Speaker 1: Poor wives of the world out there have some real
Speaker 1: problems here their farting husbands.
Speaker 2: These boys just keep dutch ebaning for decades. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: she says she or he says, I love my husband,
Speaker 2: but he hasn't matured beyond the fourth grade in this arena.
Speaker 2: It's gross and it's disrespectful to you. Yes, everyone needs
Speaker 2: to break wind here and there. But when he admitted
Speaker 2: that he wouldn't do it in front of grand because
Speaker 2: it's rude, he shows that he knows what he's doing
Speaker 2: is wrong.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yes, I agree why these men are from frightening faces.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't care about a fart. Farts are very
Speaker 1: funny sometimes true. But there's again, if someone expresses to
Speaker 1: you it's I don't find it funny and it upsets
Speaker 1: me or I feel disrespected or anything like that. How
Speaker 1: hard is it just not make a big deal out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Plus the joke will be funnier if it happens a
Speaker 2: fewer times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, right now, she can't.
Speaker 2: She can't enjoy the comedy of it because it's happening
Speaker 2: to you frequently and she has feelings.
Speaker 1: About it, thank you.
Speaker 2: But if you just stop doing it, you know, so
Speaker 2: frequently you can you can pick your moment. Let one fly.
Speaker 3: Oh it'll be.
Speaker 2: The hope, most hilarious thing.
Speaker 3: Sure, what happened to it?
Speaker 2: You know? It's true. She'll be like, you played that
Speaker 2: butt trumpet at just the right time.
Speaker 3: If he's that and I have a full body or
Speaker 3: castle in the wall.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Oh por Tchaikovsky.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He might be fine with it. That's he's like, that's
Speaker 2: what music's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: All right, listen to response.
Speaker 2: Catharsis, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well we can fart that one
Speaker 1: away under.
Speaker 2: Any butt trumpets out, Yes, story definitely.
Speaker 1: Look, weddings make people act kind of crazy, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that is what we're going to get into next.
Speaker 1: We come back with some really interesting posts from the
Speaker 1: marriage and marriage Nightmare subreddits right off this quick break.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everybody.
Speaker 2: Okay, so our next wedding related am I the asshole
Speaker 2: is from user. That's what happened you.
Speaker 1: That's what happened you.
Speaker 3: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what happened you.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know he had a time traveler.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeahs Ago gangster this one. I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you a story, and don't you deny it, because that's
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 2: Yo. Well, our Chicago gangster asked, am I the asshole
Speaker 2: for kicking my bridesmaid out of my party and says
Speaker 2: that they're getting married in a few weeks. This recently
Speaker 2: happened and they have been stressing ever since. And they
Speaker 2: said one of their bridesmaids, who they call Ashley, a
Speaker 2: thirty year old woman, is having money issues. Our bride
Speaker 2: truly empathizes with her because her husband lost his job.
Speaker 2: Ashley works in retail, so things are really tight. So
Speaker 2: she says, when I offered her the position of bridesmaid,
Speaker 2: I told her it'd be okay if she turned it down,
Speaker 2: but I had no intention of changing my plans for
Speaker 2: only one person. She said it would totally be fine
Speaker 2: and wanted to be the bridesmaid. So I let hers.
Speaker 2: She's the bridesmaid. Now everything's going fine and says, you
Speaker 2: know that things kind of were going well. She tried
Speaker 2: to choose sort of inexpensive dresses and shoes, she found
Speaker 2: an inexpensive makeup artist in nail salon. In total, she says,
Speaker 2: everything was around three hundred and fifty dollars to be
Speaker 2: a bridesmaid in her wedding, right, buy all your shit.
Speaker 2: But she's chosen to have her bachelorette at Disneyland, which
Speaker 2: is very expensive, but it's always been her dream. And
Speaker 2: the trip neared and she Ashley had nit to buy
Speaker 2: her tickets, so when she asked, you know, go for it,
Speaker 2: because at the time, COVID was still going on and
Speaker 2: the parks were at limited capacity, so she was worried
Speaker 2: that Ashley wouldn't be able to join them. And she says,
Speaker 2: I'm also getting tickets for fantasmic dining and I need
Speaker 2: the number for people coming and she's only asking them
Speaker 2: to pay for half of that. She's paying for the rest.
Speaker 2: So asked Ashley, are you buying this ticket? And Ashley
Speaker 2: lost her shit on that's what happened you and told
Speaker 2: her it's inexcusable to expect her to spend upwards of
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars on all these festivities when she can
Speaker 2: barely afford rent. Well, our bride came back and said, well,
Speaker 2: you didn't have to be no bridesmaid, and you know
Speaker 2: you shouldn't just do things that you can't afford. And
Speaker 2: Ashley said, that's ridiculous to expect me to sit out
Speaker 2: of things that I can't do, and that if she
Speaker 2: if the bride wanted her to participate as a bridesmaid,
Speaker 2: the bride should have paid for all of Ashley's stuff
Speaker 2: that she had to have to participate as a bridesmaid.
Speaker 2: And of course the bride said, I don't think you
Speaker 2: need to be worried about it because you're no longer
Speaker 2: invited to the wedding and blocked her at everything. Wow,
Speaker 2: what a reaction. Yeah, some of the other bridesmaids think
Speaker 2: that she overreacted and should let Ashley be in the
Speaker 2: wedding again. So am I the asshole for kicking Ashley
Speaker 2: out of the wedding?
Speaker 1: That's what happened, yo, That's what happened, yo. She says,
Speaker 1: I invited this girl to be a bridesmaid knowing that
Speaker 1: she didn't have a lot of money, and said, you know,
Speaker 1: you might not be able to afford anything, and the
Speaker 1: girl said, that's cool, and then she got mad when
Speaker 1: she couldn't afford something. Right, you know this better than
Speaker 1: I do. But I think if you're setting up a
Speaker 1: bridesmaid party and one of your bridesmaids is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't afford to do that one thing, like that's okay, right,
Speaker 1: Like you don't have to you don't all have to
Speaker 1: do everything.
Speaker 2: That's sort of I don't. I don't understand why. I mean,
Speaker 2: it sucks to not get to go to Disneyland and stuff.
Speaker 2: But like, for example, when I when we were getting married,
Speaker 2: my bachelorette was in New York, I really wanted to
Speaker 2: go to New York for the first time, and not
Speaker 2: everybody could afford to go, and so not everybody went.
Speaker 2: And it was not a problem, like nobody.
Speaker 1: Minded because being Amaid, I didn't mind more about the
Speaker 1: wedding day exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, and I understood by choosing
Speaker 2: an out of state destination that required a plane ticket
Speaker 2: and all kinds of stuff that I was asking for
Speaker 2: quite a lot. So I was like, if you don't,
Speaker 2: if this is not a trip you're interested in taking,
Speaker 2: if you don't want to go to this city. If
Speaker 2: you don't have the money, I'm not. My feelings will
Speaker 2: not be hurt. It's totally fine. Most of them did
Speaker 2: make it happen because they actually also wanted to go.
Speaker 1: But you know, okay, so role play Diana and Anny
Speaker 1: my bridesmaid. I want to let you know. I know
Speaker 1: you're really busy in early June. What are the dates
Speaker 1: for the Fringe Festival again?
Speaker 2: It's June fifth to the eleventh.
Speaker 1: June fifth for the eleventh in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Tickets for shows or how much?
Speaker 2: Fifteen dollars?
Speaker 1: Only fifteen dollars? You're telling me there's a full four
Speaker 1: days in Atlanta where I can go see twenty eight
Speaker 1: shows across how many venues? Seven seven venues and each
Speaker 1: show's only fifteen dollars? Is there some way to get
Speaker 1: like a bulk package of tickets? I can get a discount?
Speaker 2: You can?
Speaker 1: This sounds incredible?
Speaker 2: And also free shows for kids, free.
Speaker 1: Shows for kids. Boy, if I had a kid and
Speaker 1: I lived anywhere near Atlanta, Georgia, I would be sure
Speaker 1: to be in town on Saturday, June ten. But anyway,
Speaker 1: get back to my wedding I'm not going to be
Speaker 1: able to go because my bridesmaid's trip it's gonna be
Speaker 1: that same week, so I know that you'll have a
Speaker 1: hard time going. Do you still want to be a bridesmaid? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, be a bridesmaid. I just won't go on the trip.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then fast forward It's June fourth, right tomorrow, Diana,
Speaker 1: We're leaving for Tupelo, Mississippi, for my for my bachelorette party.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to go?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going. I have the fringe festival this week. Well,
Speaker 2: I have nothing to say because I already told you
Speaker 2: I wasn't going. Well, that's I guess that's my question.
Speaker 2: Is she mad and Ashley for not being able to go?
Speaker 2: I mean, or is it Ashley mad because Ashley can't go.
Speaker 1: I think it's a little of both, because it sounds
Speaker 1: like Ashley. Ashley definitely was like you should have paid
Speaker 1: for my ticket, right, which I don't think is necessarily true.
Speaker 1: But then the bride then kicked her out of the
Speaker 1: wedding and was like, you're blocked on social media, you
Speaker 1: can't come to my wedding. All this stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, we have an edit here, Okay. She added some
Speaker 2: information that this, Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: You what else happened?
Speaker 3: As what else happened?
Speaker 2: Said some things that I forgot to mention. The price
Speaker 2: was not one thousand dollars, not even close. It would
Speaker 2: have been around five hundred and fifty per guest. I
Speaker 2: also explained to Ashley that I would have been fine
Speaker 2: with her not going, as there's other bonding activities that
Speaker 2: we were doing that I can pay for. Ashley also
Speaker 2: called me selfish, a bitch and told me my wedding
Speaker 2: wouldn't last, which contributed to me blocking her. I told
Speaker 2: her she didn't have to come to this if she
Speaker 2: didn't have the means to do so.
Speaker 1: Okay, so she did say you could just not go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this sounds to me like Ashley's kind of
Speaker 2: be in the ben asshole in this situation if she's
Speaker 2: like because I mean a lot of the comments here
Speaker 2: are saying that the bride is being an asshole because
Speaker 2: she chose an expensive place and wants her friends to
Speaker 2: spend a bunch of money. Okay, this one commenter, Luna
Speaker 2: Vakuna says, if you're going to have an expensive wedding situation,
Speaker 2: actually pay for it Otherwise you can't actually afford it,
Speaker 2: I mean pay to fly fly people out and pay
Speaker 2: for their accommodations, etc. Expecting someone to spend thousands of
Speaker 2: dollars to be your frint isn't great. I don't agree
Speaker 2: at all, because you don't have to go to a wedding.
Speaker 1: People just take it so personally and you don't need
Speaker 1: to like, Okay, we're getting married in the Maldives. Okay.
Speaker 1: First of all, if you can't make it, of course
Speaker 1: you can't make it. That's an insanely difficult trip to make.
Speaker 1: But I would love for it. I would love for
Speaker 1: you to be there if you can. Okay. So now
Speaker 1: the people getting married have no right to be upset
Speaker 1: about the people who can or can't go, And the
Speaker 1: people who can or can't go or the people who
Speaker 1: can't go have no right to think, oh, how dare
Speaker 1: you make me like? Just don't go?
Speaker 2: No, that what. It is completely voluntary to choose to
Speaker 2: attend a wedding or even to be in a wedding party.
Speaker 2: It is certainly true that if you're going to pick
Speaker 2: expensive stuff to do or make it expensive to be
Speaker 2: in your wedding party, then you need to be chill
Speaker 2: about people who say no and not take it personally
Speaker 2: in either direction. Right, But I feel like, yeah, she's saying,
Speaker 2: like I told her, Hey, I understand you're in a
Speaker 2: tight situation. I'd love you to be a bridesmaid, but
Speaker 2: I'm going to do expensive shit. Is that cool or not?
Speaker 2: And Ash just said it's cool. Yeah, Then she said
Speaker 2: the most expensive thing. I told her it's fine if
Speaker 2: she don't go, and that she was willing to pay
Speaker 2: for other bonding things that they were going to do
Speaker 2: together with the rest of the with the rest of
Speaker 2: the bridesmaids or whatever. So it's not like she's like, actually,
Speaker 2: I want her to dig into her wallet as soon
Speaker 2: as possible. You know, I don't know if I'm feeling
Speaker 2: like she's being an asshole.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's more like, Diana, we're leaving tomorrow for Tupelo.
Speaker 1: I know you can't make it because you've got the
Speaker 1: ringe festival.
Speaker 2: And then you say, how dare you go to Tupelo?
Speaker 2: What after everything I said about having the fringe festival
Speaker 2: and you're still going to Tupelo? What I told you
Speaker 2: I had a thing. Yeah, I'm angry at you for
Speaker 2: going instead of changing all your plans for me, oh,
Speaker 2: which you said specifically you wouldn't do.
Speaker 1: But I you know, it's my dream to go to Tupelo, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: That's what doesn't dream of going to Tupelo, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: I don't what do you think? Do you know? Do
Speaker 2: you not feel me on this line?
Speaker 1: No? I think on sort of reexamining it and seeing
Speaker 1: that edit that it does actually kind of sound like
Speaker 1: Ashley's the one out of line here.
Speaker 2: It sounds like they both went too far in the fight.
Speaker 1: They should not have like blocked her and banned her
Speaker 1: from the wet and stuff like that. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, Ashley should not have called her a bitch
Speaker 1: and said your wedding won't last time. Get me. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: If she did that and then she kicked her out
Speaker 1: of the wedding, that's totally justifiable that, which is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like.
Speaker 2: She said that contributed to me blocking her at least,
Speaker 2: So it sounds like they both lost their temper and
Speaker 2: said some mean shit and now it's gone a little
Speaker 2: too far. But yeah, I don't know. I just feel
Speaker 2: like a wedding is about the people getting married, So
Speaker 2: you can roll your eyes all day long about their
Speaker 2: stupid destination wedding, but you don't have to go. You know,
Speaker 2: they're trying to make something that might be their only
Speaker 2: opportunity to go to that place, or maybe that I
Speaker 2: don't know. Some parents are willing to spend a lot
Speaker 2: of money on a wedding and nothing else, So that
Speaker 2: might be the well I'm having in the Maldives because
Speaker 2: my dad's gonna pay for it, and that's the only
Speaker 2: chance I have to.
Speaker 3: Go to the freaking Maldi's.
Speaker 2: So sorry, it's gonna be a small affair, but that's
Speaker 2: what the fuck I'm doing. You know, I could see it.
Speaker 2: I just feel like some people take it way too personally.
Speaker 2: Like you said, you just got to relax. You just
Speaker 2: got to relax about these weddings. So this is how
Speaker 2: it could have gone. Role play. Eli. Yeah, I really
Speaker 2: want to ask you to be a bridesmaid, Okay, but
Speaker 2: like I know you're having like some financial difficulties right now,
Speaker 2: and like I just wanted to say that it was
Speaker 2: totally totally, totally cool if you decide not to be
Speaker 2: in my wedding party, Like I will not take it
Speaker 2: personally because I'm definitely doing some like, oh kind of
Speaker 2: expensive things, like I'm gonna be a fancy bitch.
Speaker 1: For my wedding, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I just don't need to feel pressure to like
Speaker 2: ap buy stuff that you can't afford.
Speaker 1: Well, like, here's the deal, Okay, if you are okay
Speaker 1: with me being a bridesmaid on your wedding day, then
Speaker 1: I would love to do it as long as you're
Speaker 1: aware with and cool with the fact that I probably
Speaker 1: can't afford to go do the expensive stuff. But if
Speaker 1: it's something that like you want as like a whole
Speaker 1: bonding experience for the entire group to be doing all
Speaker 1: these individual things leading up to the culmination of the
Speaker 1: wedding day itself, and then everyone who's standing up there
Speaker 1: together has gone through all these experiences together, then like
Speaker 1: I will totally just sit out and I'm going to
Speaker 1: come to your wedding and have a great time. I'm
Speaker 1: totally gonna eat the food that you give me that
Speaker 1: you're paying for. Lol, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, girl, we will never fight because we
Speaker 2: are just so good at communicating.
Speaker 1: Openness is like so key, It is like so key. Well,
Speaker 1: these these two are great. I know the relationship.
Speaker 2: They sound more annoying than they are.
Speaker 1: I know. Well, all right, well let's get the hell
Speaker 1: out of that wedding because it sounds.
Speaker 2: Like it's going to be I usually do agree with
Speaker 2: the majority of Reddit users, but I don't agree on
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Well, slow down, now, there it is. I usually agree
Speaker 1: with the majority of Reddit users. Is a dangerous thing
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 2: That's not what I meant. I just meant usually with
Speaker 2: them the asshole. Yeah, I agree with the top commentary mostly,
Speaker 2: but this time I do not agree.
Speaker 1: Well, here comes the hate mail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from user Luna vacunas.
Speaker 1: Well. We're going to take a quick break and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into some of the ask reddit questions that
Speaker 1: people had out there, some of the weirder answers, and
Speaker 1: we'll try and give a few answers of our own. Okay,
Speaker 1: so stick around. We'll be right back, and we're back.
Speaker 1: I want to get into there's one just called ask reddit,
Speaker 1: right and people just post whatever question they want and
Speaker 1: people decide whether or not they want to answer it.
Speaker 1: And I thought there was some here that we would
Speaker 1: have fun with, and some very basic relationship stuff, right,
Speaker 1: like for example, from user you Cer. There we go,
Speaker 1: they say, what's something that makes another person unattractive to you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Top answer here was treating servers poorly, treating animals poorly,
Speaker 1: talking about themselves for hours but never asking questions about me,
Speaker 1: trying to make me jealous, and if their only sense
Speaker 1: of humor is making fun of other people, Diana take
Speaker 1: it away.
Speaker 2: All of those, I agree with all those, but one
Speaker 2: that was not in there I think is incompetence.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was kind of.
Speaker 2: Thinking about this because you know, and you know, guys
Speaker 2: are always like girls love rock stars, they love a
Speaker 2: guy who plays a guitar, right, Okay, And I was
Speaker 2: just thinking about it, and I was like, I wonder why,
Speaker 2: you know, what is the real appeal of a guy
Speaker 2: who plays the guitar, Because most guys that you're talking about,
Speaker 2: we've talked about high school, you know, age, they're not
Speaker 2: a rock star, right right, They're just a guy who
Speaker 2: plays a guitar. And what I think is, this is
Speaker 2: my theory, is that a guitar, first of all, you
Speaker 2: had to pick it up, you had to take initiative
Speaker 2: to pick up a new hobby. It shows dedication because
Speaker 2: you're practicing and when you play it. But you're displaying
Speaker 2: competence and confidence, and those are all attractive things, I think,
Speaker 2: And so I was like, I don't know that it's
Speaker 2: necessarily the music. Obviously, there's some hobbies, you know, people like, well,
Speaker 2: I know how to do a yoyo real good.
Speaker 3: No girls care about that.
Speaker 1: Damn you're gonna go after the yo yo boys.
Speaker 2: I mean, actually, I think a lot of girls care
Speaker 2: about They probably get girls.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Honestly, a yogo girl will be super hot.
Speaker 2: A yoyo girl.
Speaker 1: Yeah, girls you come in here doing around the world
Speaker 1: and walking dogs and stuff. I'm in.
Speaker 2: But it was just something I was thinking about. It
Speaker 2: was like, I wonder if it's not really so much
Speaker 2: about the guitar, and like, oh, now you're a rock star.
Speaker 2: When I look at you, I think of you know,
Speaker 2: Adam Levine or some shit Like it's just like this guy,
Speaker 2: like is displaying all of the qualities that you want
Speaker 2: in a person that you're gonna be with for any
Speaker 2: length of time, which is somebody who has an interest
Speaker 2: in the world around him, some curiosity, willingness to put
Speaker 2: in the work practice, and then as actually good at something,
Speaker 2: and that's attractive to watch someone be good at something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I might have a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1: I think that's a I think that's a very clever
Speaker 1: insight into why people are attracted to guitar players. I
Speaker 1: gave up the guitar very quickly because it outcheeed my fingers.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know it does and.
Speaker 1: My fingers, and it took time. It was the other
Speaker 1: thing high school. I was in high school. I was
Speaker 1: very used to already being good at the things that
Speaker 1: I was good at, and to pick up something new
Speaker 1: and have to like work to get good at it.
Speaker 1: Buy see you later, alligator.
Speaker 2: And gifted child syndrome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So guitar didn't take then I played with
Speaker 1: it more later, but confidence and dedication were not what
Speaker 1: I was exhibiting with the guitar.
Speaker 2: So I just there was a kid in my high
Speaker 2: school I didn't particularly care for, and then he like
Speaker 2: took up the drums or something, and he was playing
Speaker 2: the drums one day and I was like, oh, I
Speaker 2: think I might have a crush on him. And I
Speaker 2: had a crush in for like three days. You know,
Speaker 2: it didn't last long, but I was like, I really
Speaker 2: remember being like why, I know, I don't like him
Speaker 2: like there's nothing and it was cut. He looked good.
Speaker 2: He was good at something. You know. It's just something
Speaker 2: about that and the way you look when you're good
Speaker 2: at something. I think people look very attractive in that moment.
Speaker 1: That goes a long way.
Speaker 3: What about you?
Speaker 2: What makes you want to what? What makes I.
Speaker 1: Find unattractive in someone?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: Man, I'm attracted to so many things, you know, very much.
Speaker 1: Nothing you can do looks, you know what kind looks,
Speaker 1: very attractive looks.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I just gonna go, what what are we doing here?
Speaker 2: That's what people really come to this podcast? Where are
Speaker 2: we kicking around interesting points?
Speaker 1: It's you know, whether or not someone's attractive or not.
Speaker 2: It's really all it comes down to.
Speaker 1: I want to care about the rest. We could fix
Speaker 1: the rest. No, I'm kidding. I would say something I'm
Speaker 1: unattracted to in people, wellhen they open their mouths and
Speaker 1: start talking. No, I would say it's like dispassion, like
Speaker 1: when people aren't don't have anything they're like passionate about.
Speaker 1: I'm really fascinated when somebody's really into something, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's cool and I'll like let you go
Speaker 1: off about it. You know, and if you're a talker
Speaker 1: even better. Because I'm a I think generally you'd say
Speaker 1: I'm a listener, yeah, and go for it. But when
Speaker 1: people are just like not, they're just kind of bored,
Speaker 1: they don't want to do anything. They're they're not there's
Speaker 1: nothing that excites them particular, just kind of coasting day
Speaker 1: to day. That's not very interesting to me. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to get out of there as fast as
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 2: I agree that is not attractive. Yeah, you can't have
Speaker 2: fun with a person like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I want to get to this next
Speaker 1: one because this is very goofy. Known pop eight three
Speaker 1: five five asked the question on ask Reddit. People have
Speaker 1: read it. What was your I'm dating a fucking idiot moment?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, do you have one? Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'll say I've been very fortunate not to date any idiots.
Speaker 2: I don't think I dated any fucking idiots. I think
Speaker 2: that was like one of the main things that was
Speaker 2: like a qualifier for whether or not we were going
Speaker 2: to go out for any link Right.
Speaker 1: Well, there's some great answers in here. User key Lie
Speaker 1: two fifty said I watched a doc that explains how
Speaker 1: sharks have electricity receptors, which they used to hunt. He said,
Speaker 1: that's not possible. Sharks are supposedly millions of years old,
Speaker 1: but we only invented electricity a hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, not a guy to go to the bookstore.
Speaker 1: With bookstore they sell those things books.
Speaker 2: You, Catherine says. He kept applying for jobs and getting denied.
Speaker 2: I was upset for him. Came to find out he
Speaker 2: was applying for jobs driving armored trucks for banks with
Speaker 2: a record for stealing money from cash registers. I didn't
Speaker 2: know at the time, but this man literally had robbery
Speaker 2: and theft on his record and couldn't understand why an
Speaker 2: armored truck company wouldn't hire him.
Speaker 1: My guy, maybe I thought he was doing that thing
Speaker 1: where he's like, they're gonna want someone who can't test
Speaker 1: the limits of what their trucks can handle.
Speaker 2: His cover letters, like, I know all of the pain
Speaker 2: points the weaknesses of your armored trucks, so I will
Speaker 2: be at hand.
Speaker 1: It's like the FBI hires a master hacker. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean like, except dude, you got arrested, so they don't
Speaker 1: want No, I don't want you. You're not that good
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 3: You got caught.
Speaker 2: It's on your record.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, like a user. Radiant Butterfly says, my
Speaker 1: first boyfriend was trying to convince me to do anal
Speaker 1: and told me it'll feel good because it stimulates the prostate.
Speaker 1: But I am a female. The same guy told me
Speaker 1: once it's male kangaroos that have the babies. Oh bonus fact,
Speaker 1: we're Australians.
Speaker 3: Well, it feels like he should know this.
Speaker 1: Seems like he should know that.
Speaker 2: She should have been like, Oh, it'll feel good because
Speaker 2: it stimulates the prostage. She should have been like, oh,
Speaker 2: so you want me to do it to you, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fine, let me put on my gloves. Gloves Sammy,
Speaker 2: not sam, he says. I introduced him to my stepsister.
Speaker 2: He said, weird you guys look nothing alike.
Speaker 1: Oh there's that voice, that male voice.
Speaker 2: That's my yeah, ubiquitous guy voice. Whoa what that's so
Speaker 2: weird man?
Speaker 1: You and your stepsister like nothing alike? Oh, dummies, how
Speaker 1: about a user? But it's not, Fish said. He told
Speaker 1: me he had a lot of inventions and how rich
Speaker 1: he'll be one day when he sells one. I asked
Speaker 1: him to tell me more and he said his best
Speaker 1: invention is eyedrops that, with just one application, eliminate the
Speaker 1: need for eyeglasses. Wow, this guy is a mailman, not
Speaker 1: a doctor, not a scientist, and he wears glasses. So
Speaker 1: I said, if these eye drops work, why do you
Speaker 1: wear glasses? Well, the eye drops don't exist yet, you see.
Speaker 1: But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops,
Speaker 1: my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because
Speaker 1: he invented them by dreaming them up.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: She said she dated him very briefly years ago. He
Speaker 1: didn't have any patents, just misguided dreams. Nice guy, just
Speaker 1: a special kind of small former coal mining town kind
Speaker 1: of idiot. Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, that would be an incredible invention. You're fair,
Speaker 2: but it also sounds so fantastic it has to be impossible.
Speaker 1: I gotta walk up to some scientists and say, what
Speaker 1: about these eyeedrops and the side of the goal? Oh,
Speaker 1: I never thought of that. You're a genius. Let me
Speaker 1: whip it up real.
Speaker 2: Quick, right and cut you in for some reason.
Speaker 1: Great idea, Thomas Edison. That's pretty much Thomas Edison. Right.
Speaker 2: This question is what's a common first date activity that's
Speaker 2: actually really stupid to do on a first date. Oh,
Speaker 2: asked by no Junk Peter, that's probably that's actually a
Speaker 2: good it's a good think that's a good thinker, It's
Speaker 2: pretty good. The top answer was loud bar. That makes
Speaker 2: sense because you have to like scream at the top
Speaker 2: of your lungs.
Speaker 1: That's you don't want to just shout at each other
Speaker 1: for your first date, right, I.
Speaker 2: Guess not, especially if you're really actually meeting for the
Speaker 2: first time, Like maybe if you already knew each other
Speaker 2: like in a friend group or something, and you're trying
Speaker 2: to go out, like you can maybe do a bar.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it feels like if I'm really trying to
Speaker 2: meet you for the first time, bad choice. I need
Speaker 2: to pick a classic cocktail.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, let's let's go to as at
Speaker 1: DAR next time, where we go somewhere you know we
Speaker 1: could sit down and talk. Yeah. Yeah. Another user said
Speaker 1: escape rooms. I work at one, and the amount of
Speaker 1: first dates is too dang high. You have to pay
Speaker 1: for a third person because there's a three person minimum.
Speaker 1: You can't learn anything about each other because you're too
Speaker 1: busy playing. You will suck and get frustrated and Another
Speaker 1: user chimed in and said a lot of women will
Speaker 1: be very grateful to learn how men react when they
Speaker 1: get frustrated. So maybe it's a good idea for.
Speaker 2: An early date for some that's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I'll say that's cross gender too. Like you, anyone, you
Speaker 1: want to know how a person behaves when they get
Speaker 1: frustrated because it could be bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe like a group date or something that would
Speaker 2: be fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but not.
Speaker 2: I think it's still here see them get frustrated or whatever.
Speaker 2: But right, it is weird to just be two people
Speaker 2: in an escape room, even just it was you and me.
Speaker 2: I know, I mean, I'm having fun, but like I
Speaker 2: kind of wish there was.
Speaker 1: It's a group activity by definition, right, and it's nice.
Speaker 2: Because then people have, you know, different things that they
Speaker 2: bring to the table, so you're looking at different things
Speaker 2: and it all goes faster.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think that's true that it might not be a
Speaker 2: good first date. But I hear this about wanting to
Speaker 2: see how people react when they get like that does
Speaker 2: make sense.
Speaker 1: Third, fourth, fifth date, somewhere in there, get some friends together.
Speaker 1: See how y'all all get along to an escape room?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's not an opportunity to get to know someone, no,
Speaker 1: except for their their worst side.
Speaker 2: Now, I would gonna say a movie. I always thought
Speaker 2: it was a strange first date in some ways because
Speaker 2: you're not like you're sitting side by side and you're
Speaker 2: not really interacting.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of discussion on there about that, yeah,
Speaker 1: because somebody suggested movies, and other people said, well, actually,
Speaker 1: the movie's a great idea for a first date if
Speaker 1: you've got dinner afterwards, because it really gives us something
Speaker 1: to talk about.
Speaker 2: Which does make sense. But I also feel like a
Speaker 2: lot of people do dinner and a movie in that order,
Speaker 2: Like they go to dinner first terrible and so it's like, well,
Speaker 2: that's something because you're doing the face to face part
Speaker 2: that you need. But yeah, it is weird to like, oh,
Speaker 2: now we have to stand around the parking lot and
Speaker 2: talk about the movie, right ideally, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe that's just we.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I always to this day I would
Speaker 1: rather do dinner after the movie, because yeah, when we're
Speaker 1: going to go sit down and talk about it, right,
Speaker 1: But you know, first date, maybe you go and have
Speaker 1: a drink or something before the movie, or take a
Speaker 1: walk or something, and then something the movie and then
Speaker 1: now let's sit down and talk. Well, the movie is
Speaker 1: like total conversation lubricant. There's so much to talk about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now there's always something to fall back on should the
Speaker 1: conversations start to get stale or you can't think of
Speaker 1: what to say next, or you freeze or whatever.
Speaker 2: You got the movie, Yeah, you got the movie, no problem.
Speaker 2: And plus you can see, you know how each other
Speaker 2: maybe listens to your opinions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, especially if.
Speaker 2: They're differing opinions that can be very valuable about something
Speaker 2: innocuous like a movie.
Speaker 1: Or if they give you a damn second to talk.
Speaker 2: True, right, they just keep chatting away. Uh huh, and
Speaker 2: you're like shut.
Speaker 5: Up right, They're like, well, I don't know. I thought
Speaker 5: that this part didn't make a lot of sense because
Speaker 5: in previous movies, ant Man got really tired when he
Speaker 5: got super big, but this time, like he was just
Speaker 5: able to get super big and it was like consequence free,
Speaker 5: so he just stayed big the whole time, and it's
Speaker 5: just like became kind of overpowered, so that it.
Speaker 1: And you know, and then I look up and she's.
Speaker 2: Gone, right, I don't happened running was Oh.
Speaker 1: My god, did she shrink down to the size of
Speaker 1: an ant That's what happened. That's probably what happened.
Speaker 2: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she realized I knew too much about the ant
Speaker 1: person the world and instead of inviting me along to
Speaker 1: be an ant man to Judgie or too focused on
Speaker 1: the science, which honestly an ant man should be. You
Speaker 1: need more than just you know, jumping skills to be
Speaker 1: an ant man.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. He's not a scientist.
Speaker 1: I know, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Have you ever taken someone to a movie and realized
Speaker 2: it was a very bad choice for a date movie?
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 1: I think I've told this story on the show because
Speaker 1: I haven't wanted to say the name of a movie
Speaker 1: that we saw and we were halfway through it. Both
Speaker 1: of us hated it, but we didn't know the other
Speaker 1: person was hating it. I guess it wasn't bad because
Speaker 1: we had something to laugh about after him words. I
Speaker 1: don't know, do you if you had an experience like that? No?
Speaker 2: I just thought how funny it would be if you
Speaker 2: were like, Hey, you know what's up?
Speaker 1: Girl?
Speaker 2: I wanted to take you out tonight and see that
Speaker 2: new Dune Cheetle movie, and then you went to Hotel
Speaker 2: Rwanda and you're like, oh no, this is not a
Speaker 2: sexy movie.
Speaker 3: I think this is a horrifying movie.
Speaker 1: I think you have this cool indie comedy. It's called
Speaker 1: The Girl on the Train. Do you want to go? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's come on, let's see, we'll have a
Speaker 1: good time.
Speaker 2: Everybody's getting real thirsty about Ben Affleck's penis in this
Speaker 2: one movie.
Speaker 3: And you go see Gone Girl. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here, it's beautiful. It's called Irreversible. Oh no, let's
Speaker 1: go check out that. It's a double feature with Dancer
Speaker 1: in the Dark. They're doing all these classics. Good god,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Just be in total silence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the meal.
Speaker 1: If anybody's not familiar with the slew of titles we
Speaker 1: just rattled off, it's the worst night of your life.
Speaker 2: Oh god, depression exactly. I'm not bad movies, just very
Speaker 2: very intense. Yeah, very sad.
Speaker 1: There's bad date movies. Definitely bad date movies.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my goodness. Well, I don't know. I feel like,
Speaker 2: as usual when I'm reading Reddit, I feel a little
Speaker 2: better about my life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the best part of the Internet is really just
Speaker 1: giving yourself a little boost about what's going on out there. Like,
Speaker 1: my life pretty pretty put together, not bad. Actually, turn
Speaker 1: my wedding was great, could be worse. My marriage is
Speaker 1: rock solid.
Speaker 2: I'm not dating a fucking idiot.
Speaker 1: I would say. The only thing that we could be
Speaker 1: doing better than we're doing now that we learned from
Speaker 1: today's episode is uh, maybe enjoying the orchestra a little
Speaker 1: more often.
Speaker 2: Clearly I have been missing out. Fortunately you have tickets
Speaker 2: for us to go to. Oh that's right, I'd be like, sorry,
Speaker 2: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The standards are high. Now you're playing
Speaker 2: has to be so good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you're right. I think we learned
Speaker 1: a lot today. I think we all had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 2: So anyway too, Yeah, y'all have to tell us what
Speaker 2: you think.
Speaker 1: Definitely. I know again you'll ask for these Reddit episodes
Speaker 1: and that's what you want. We got them. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We'll do it.
Speaker 2: We're having fun it and read it to you.
Speaker 1: The amount of time Diana and I just sitting next
Speaker 1: to each other, like laughing about what either one of
Speaker 1: us is seeing on our phone. Look at this idiot,
Speaker 1: you hear this dummy set. Yeah, we'll set up a
Speaker 1: microphone for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're getting all worked up about somebody else's problem, right,
Speaker 2: and I'll be like getting all turns up, and minutes
Speaker 2: later we're like, it's actually not.
Speaker 3: Relevant time, not at all?
Speaker 2: Why did I let this to get me worked up?
Speaker 1: Please send us some of the answers of your own
Speaker 1: for some of these questions, because we want to hear
Speaker 1: what you all think.
Speaker 2: Especially when you found out you're dating a fucking idiot.
Speaker 3: I would like to hear Mark.
Speaker 1: I know y'all got those stories, send them in. You
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