Don't Blame Me! - BAIW: Cursed!

Episode Date: July 21, 2025

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welcome to a new episode of dampening nope welcome to a new episode of but am i wrong hey starting off good with being wrong and we've cleared it out now we're never going to be wrong but everybody else is megan that's just gonna be cut out well no i guess i did such a funny little intro okay do it again welcome do you need your mushroom coffee you good i didn't have any today yeah i can tell welcome to a new episode of bit of my wrong welcome welcome it's a podcast where we two people who have quite literally not once ever been wrong not even recently not even in a little bit not even in the edit of this not even any of it we are going to tell when other people are wrong

not like psychically but sometimes psychically speaking of it will be psychic today i love when that happens speaking of us being psychic someone dm'd me with something that i was like i'm addicted to this because thank you i'm feeling validated and they said i just have to say that your intuition people is scary good i've noticed it before but this season of love island just confirmed it for me i'll be following your lead from now on i'm like i love that i felt good about validated and seen exactly exactly the gina rodriguez of it all well welcome to a podcast from two people who don't fuck with gina rodriguez do you fuck with gina rodriguez you shouldn't let us know why sure there's no good reason i don't know why unless you're like

i don't fuck with gina rodriguez the only time i fuck with gina rodriguez is because she happens to be in someone great and you should know that on this podcast we give everybody a pass to not separate the art from the artist you can separate someone great from gina rodriguez because that movie is fantastic i want to watch it again i've been telling mods because he's never seen it which is odd because we only really watch movies together like i don't know that's why i made that face so when did you i mean it did come out years ago and so when it came out i was like living upstairs at the apartment that was a long time ago and i was i had strep when it came out so i was like sick when i watched it and i watched it like i think i literally watched it like three

days in a row yeah oh yeah it was like 2018 2019 and so he wasn't home i was middle of the day when i watched it and i was like this is phenomenal and i keep making him watch the trailer and he goes i feel like this is gonna make me sad i was like yeah in a nostalgic kind of way like oh it's there are sad elements to it but it's not a sad movie no and it's like it just it actually is quite uplifting to be honest it just like it feels so like real life and like it's very good act everything about it's like so good that i'm like no no it just it doesn't feel like escapism like it feels like it feels like nostalgia bottled up in a movie and so like that's part of you know but we should watch it so uh i will work on convincing him actually i'll just tell him i'm

watching it and he'll go sounds great say what kind of convincing do you have to do we can do whatever I want to. And that's how it should be in your relationship. Anyways, so we have three different segments on the show. We will explain each one before we get into it. But what you really need to know is they want you to participate and you can participate in a multitude of ways.

But most importantly, you can vote on who you think was wrong in each of the segments. So we post stories over on Instagram, add them to a highlight as soon as I do that. You can check there, vote in the polls, and then respond to the stories. the dms are the dms are open there and reply to each one of those and tell us why you voted the way you did your thoughts your feelings and we will read them all aloud on our see you next

tuesday episode we read the results along with why you voted the way you did great job thank you all right shall we get into the first segment i think we should the first segment is called but am i wrong and that's when we pick something from our lives that we would we have a hot take on or we just want to talk about we want to rant or we could have specifically been wrong but i don't think we've done one of those in a while yeah it's just more fun the other way but also sometimes i just don't want to share things from my life or there are things that i want to share but like i can't put my name on it yeah give us some time yeah so mine this week i want to start by taking you back to a very mundane yet surprisingly prophetic phone call i had with

my sisters yesterday megan and melanie not this megan but my sister megan they work very close to each other so they've been writing to and from work together and then they put me on speaker so we all just have a little chat while they're leaving work so we were doing what sisters do talking about our weekend. And I specifically brought up the Sparks game. And somehow this conversation took a sharp, unexpected turn. And we landed on the topic of the absolute worst place to take your side if you're black fill in the blank. But if you're not a side dude for everyone else, yeah, talking about side dudes. And my immediate response was any place with cameras is just dumb and in this day and age let's be real everyone has a camera your phone the venue

security even your grandma's doorbell so my advice to anyone contemplating such a class-destined activity is you know you better not leave the rented place that you're in stay hidden stay safe stay out of the public eye fast forward to this morning oh this happened after yeah oh my god Because I literally had this written down for one of my options to talk about because I know what you're about to say. But you're saying the conversation with your sisters happened. Yeah, we had this yesterday. I hadn't seen it yet. Okay, that's so funny.

So fast forward to this morning. I wake up and I'm scrolling through my feeds. And what do I see? News that went down at the Coldplay concert. And let me tell you, the irony is not lost on me. it was almost as if the universe decided to give me a live demonstration of exactly what we were just discussing so for those who might not know you might have missed the drama unfolding here's the scene Coldplay concerts are known for their incredible atmosphere I didn't

know people love Coldplay like this the way that like I kind of think I have to go to a Coldplay concert now because yes the the way that people react to this also why are there multiple news stories i can think of things happening at a coldplay concert i go the man who sings sparks and the scientist shit's going on like i don't know what it if it's like a an experience some experience that happens to people there that i think we need to go yeah i do too and uh part of it often involves big screens where they pan the camera across the audience showing the happy fans faces then they zoom in on various couples people are singing along just enjoying the moment then the camera lands on this particular couple they appear to be in their 50s their photos

on their website look younger i don't know what's going on here ai they appear to be in their 50s they're snuggled up looking all cozy romantic enjoying the music huh touchy very touchy like all up in the titties to be honest you can almost hear the collective awes in the crowd when we land on this couple but then it happens the man not only ducks down but drops to his knees and crawls away and it's like he's trying to become the stadium floor and the woman she turns away and tries to completely disappear from the frame there's also another woman next to her that she's like elbowing who's just like embarrassingly laughing and trying to cover her face and chris martin ever the observant front man i can really see why he meant to go to johnson

together ceases live on the big screen and with his charismatic charm he's quips to the audience either they're having an affair or they're really shy the crowd chuckles oblivious to the true delicious scandal unfolding before them and this my friends leads to my new very hot take if you're cheating on your spouse please for the love of all that is holy do it in a large venue with cameras, preferably at a globally televised concert. Why? Because that is how you get the proper dragging you deserve on the internet. That is how you receive the public accountability that a private hushed affair often avoids. Because what we later discovered about this particular couple was a masterclass in poor judgment. Not only do they work at the same company,

but he is the ceo married with two kids his name is andy byron and he is apparently hooking up with kristin cabot the cpo chief people officer which that means she's head of hr the person responsible for upholding company ethics policies and presumably a healthy work environment so talk about an awkward meeting they're having not only at home but at work which i'm guessing everybody at work already knew what's going on that's why she's giggling she goes finally and they're also probably doing this on the company dime this was probably paid for by the company as a work outing so to all you potential married cheaters out there i implore you be stupid please don't hide in the shadows don't be discreet go to the big game hit up the popular

concert dance under flashing lights of a public venue because when you do you're not just risking your marriage you're providing invaluable content for the rest of us and ensuring that your reckless choices receive the wide public exposure they so richly deserve thank you i i wrote this down to talk about as well because i also don't give it like big kudos chris martin give give your cameraman a raise for not dropping the frame yes they literally we literally when melissa said that that man like stopped dropped and rolled like we want he wasn't even fully out of frame like we're watching we can see his head at the bottom and like he's they're not moving the camera it's like literally cut away the director didn't cut away yeah it was perfect stay the fuck on that and i

would like to tie it to uh someone else another prolific cheating scandal that also had a concert appearance that was the beginning of their demise which is ned fulmer and his employee alex at a harry styles concert where people or fans saw them because by the way your demographic uh-huh and for them the the this couple uh at the colby concert clearly your demographic you have three employees there and i'm this is definitely on the company dime but also you're middle you're middle-aged that is cole plays primo concert going audience like the idea that you're not going to be that this is like oh we're totally in the clear like we're all good here it's just so funny because it reminds me so much of ned ned at the harry styles concert and then being like

oh my god i got the same exact position too hand in the titties yep yep yep yep and uh they literally took pictures with fans and i'm like insane to me but i just think it's i i like i like when this happens at sports games like you know in general they have the kiss cam and then people are hiding away like there's some how dumb are you like i'm just i just don't understand so dumb like it's it's it's so point blank so dumb and i know people like oh that's embarrassing for the significant other who gets to see it no i think it's more important for it to it's not embarrassing for the person who's being cheated on it's embarrassing for the person who's doing the cheating yes and not having like a public shaming aspect of that lovely it also

helps you like cope with like i wasn't being paranoid like everybody saw this oh yeah this is also why we say everyone hr is not your friend no this is why we say that no hr is not your friend because you're like should i tell hr that like i'm dating someone at my company hr is fucking the ceo so because they're there to protect the company that is this man's company yeah she's there to protect him protect and serve yeah and it's getting nasty i do feel bad for their children i hope their children are not on social media yeah also now knowing that i want to go to a coldplay concert i'm obviously mad you cheated on me i'm more mad that you didn't invite me to the coldplay concert you know what i mean like you had to cheat on me also they definitely

like smoke should do be ahead of time you know like it's giving that like cool night out and it's definitely like love it all right we're gonna take a break when we get back we'll get into Megan's. Visit scotiabank.com slash H-I-S-A to learn more. Scotiabank. You're richer than you think. You're back, and it is time for my hot take. And my hot take is, you should have at least one ship in the harbor at a time. Now, you're going to have to walk with me, okay?

okay okay i think having one ship as in relationship a couple you ship together i think is is healthy and important for us as a society and as people first it provides whimsy whimsy it's it's fun it's light-hearted this is this is a good time by the way you can't be involved in any of your ships it cannot be i ship me and harry styles because that my dear is delusion. It also should feel reminiscent to childhood. It's keeping in touch with your younger self, your younger self who's like, oh my God, I want to be invited to Bert and Ernie's wedding. It gives you that same sort of feeling that you used to have, like living for the new Tiger Beat magazine, seeing Nick and Miley together. Also, it's all positivity. In terms

of these kinds of ships, whether we are shipping someone in real life, which I will say gets a little bit dicier or fictional characters in this i'm telling you i'm this is only we're only talking about the good stuff here we're only talking about the good stuff i'm not saying you need to be shipping benefit julia who julia you did it again i got it i took a second i have locked it out so well it's actually impressive and so it brings an aspect of positivity to your day something to like look forward to, just to like think about, you know, maladaptive daydream of like, oh, all of these things, blah, blah, blah. Then it's also about love. And you know what the world needs more of? Love. Sweet love. Next, creativity. The kids are not all right. The kids have been left

behind. And AI is absolutely wrecking cognitive abilities, your memory, your recall, your funk, all of those things. But you know what we need for that? Sure. Sudoku would also be great. creativity creativity this is something that you can think whether it's oh i'm gonna read a fanfic about see i can only really think of my ships so like bridgerton some some i'm gonna go read a fanfic of this or or i'm gonna go read and kate yes i was thinking about the first one so i was trying to not just pick all of my personal ships i was trying to like why well that's the thing i was trying to be more inclusive to other people but unfortunately i can't think besides the ones skip over the best well because i was also going to finish with reading my ships in order of my

marking of my life okay um and so it gives you like a creative outlet whether that's like oh i want to write a fanfic with this or or i just want to like imagine this or whatever and imagining your all of these things of like so fun and so so lovely that creativity it can make me go maybe i want to read a new book maybe i want to do this or whatever it gets you in that creative bag and as two people who are creative you know once you get in there it starts expanding you want to do other things you want to try other things that good for the brain good for the noggin fine not finally next it gives you a break in your day so your apple watch might say stand up take a take a walk around do that whatever and you might feel like the the constant slog of work what if you

close your eyes and you just thought about your ship for a minute it removes you from reality in a positive way not in a way that ai does not in a way that ayahuasca does in a way that you can snap back into work you don't have to detox from it you don't have to shit your brains out you don't have to bar none of those things. You can just dip in, dip out. It's a healthy level of delusion, which breeds confidence. A healthy level of delusion also breeds success because you have to be a little delusional in order to have the confidence to be successful. You don't just fall into it. And finally, I think being a part of a collective or a community, a pre-existing ship teaches us about the power of a community the power of our voice which can lead to the power

of our vote grassroots organizing voting presidency and specifically advocating for the happiness that i'm gonna get there i'm gonna get there no i'm like are you specifically talking about a scandal now no but hey they do that was quite good because it is a gateway like when you become so passionate about a ship and all of it and you realize all the energy the work the creativity the fact that you having a adoration for this real or fictional couple has made you a better person you you a better person you more successful you more creative you think what could i harness this power to do and that is to get a woman in the white house and that is to save democracy i just think if we start this you we'll never have to stop you start running

and and we have snowballed into something beautiful and i think that it's good for us it's healthy and i i and and i and i endorse this message you don't have to pull my leg by any means my fan fiction that i have written has gotten me two writing jobs exactly i just changed the names of what i'm doing and then all those harry styles fucking movies yeah there's so many harry styles movies that have been professionally made i also love the communities that i'm in and you i'm not part of the old it's because no i feel like that's on a different level but everything you olivian fits oh i i never actually heard anyone say that out loud i've only ever read it i have two and i took a chance no i think that's probably how it said i just have never

thought about how you say it out loud yeah um but they do have grassroots campaign where they are on the trail and then you added in real or fictional they blurred the lines and why does she on that man's on the man that Scott Foley's birthday she's literally shading him it was yesterday

I don't know if you saw it two days ago she's literally shading him on his birthday Kerry Washington in a like an Olivia like a flirty way or in like a please just go look I'm looking

and read it for the honor of scandal being new to netflix and of course it needs to be on scott foley's birthday one is that his post yeah okay in honor of scandal being new to netflix and available on hulu and of course scott foley's birthday today but seriously hash uh seriously holy freaking hashtag airball told him i have a powerful ex-boyfriend he said like he's famous holy airball and it fits happy birthday love you why would you do that on his birthday because she is olivia pope like that is the most olivia pope coded thing ever and like here's the thing like carrie washington beautiful wonderful talented lady if you didn't watch scandal and get involved in any of this and enjoy the ship you'd miss these jokes yes years down and it is just so

important and i just think that like i really do think we could save america if we focused on caring about because like ultimately you know we we need in america we need people to care about other people more and if i need to start with getting you to care about a fictional fucking couple or a real couple on a reality show that you love i think we can snowball that to you caring about other people and then we've we've solved world hunger my fictional couple that i love the most so i'm gonna ask i wanted to ask you do you have like a timeline of like your youngest one i'm not telling my couple because then you can find my my very successful fan fiction that i've written but like as a child did you have like or even like younger my couple was

fran and mr sheffield on the nanny and then lois and actually it would have been lois and clark first okay from superman but those are really my my only two big ships except for my big ship so you've you'd say you have three big ships my three big ships did you have any ships that you've like left out to pasture if i did i've completely forgotten about them they've just been wiped from my Titanic yeah they're at the bottom of the ocean yeah yeah yeah hold a single sale for them yeah okay yeah I can I've only like read fan fiction for these three my big three here and that's like the like couples that you're like I'm actually I'm invested to a point where it's not just when I'm watching it I've like left the premise of the consuming of this content

and it's taking up my off hours yeah so my off hours like I don't really think about lois and clark or and when i say lois and clark i'm specifically talking about lois and clark the new adventures of superman that or the nanny anymore i only think about my other ship but at a point you used to huh but at a point you did yeah at a point i did but now i'm at the point where but now i might be adding in the new lois and clark oh this is exciting a brand new ship we're we're getting we're getting ready to set sail okay we're ironing this ironing the masks whatever they're called yeah yeah yeah I don't know any of that terminology but thank you for floating along yeah I'm trying my grandma lived in Connecticut I'm doing my best so what

are yours so I have literally like I can mark my childhood between these things because like this also is like so indicative of me because like I'm not someone who like likes a lot of people like I'm like you're hot gorgeous wonderful but like if I have a crush on you I'm like I'm gonna like you for a long period of time and then I'll move on and I'll like someone else for a long period of time I'm not I don't I don't have a lot of crushes that like withstand so to me this is like very representative of that so my first ship was and still is to this day Ron and Hermione Ron and Hermione are so important to me have always been so important to me I have loved forever I could tell you the page that they kiss on in the final book 525 oh I actually maybe I

don't know it anymore i think it's 525 but i love it i have read and written so much that was my fanfic was that was in shorts i do self-insert fanfics yes but again i have to reiterate a self-insert does not count in this ship because that can lead to something much unhealthier this leads to the saving of democracy they're different so ron and hermione nothing uh nothing came close you know i read divergent i read twilight and i was like nothing nothing nothing nothing finally i read the hunger games and katniss and pita have taken over you're actively back in well so this is what are they in it in the new book no they're in the epilogue of the one i just read like because the person the last book was hamish who's the guy who trained them for the

hunger games and so then it's his aging on and then he talks about them for like literally a sentence and of course brought me to tears so katniss and pita deeply important to me i would also this is me crowdsourcing if anyone has any good katniss and pita fanfic i have struggled to find good katniss and pita fanfic okay and i don't i want good fanfic she wants them fucking yeah watch the patreon we're doing a video well here's the thing they spent a lot of time in the woods i would love if those two people had a bed that's all i know about them so that's all i can tell you well just know at the end they finally get out of the woods and then they build a house in the woods no okay they're alive okay next we get to i would say a

ship that is in my dock i have not yet it fully set sail because unfortunately the creator of this ship said i'm not going to give you enough wind to power these sails and that is queen charlotte bridgerton and it is hard for me to let this ship out of the dock because you gave me one season and that was it was it so beautiful do i think about it often do i cry do i want to rewatch it all the time have i ever have i seen such good chemistry like that because like this is a big jump between fucking katniss and pita to bridgerton i didn't have any new ships because nothing nothing even came close to that and then queen charlotte this is also my petition i need another season i would love to shut i would love to set this ship to sail i just need a little bit more

wind beneath my wings and then finally i am back in my game and i have to say the only reason why i can do this is because i'm experienced with ships this cannot be your first ship it is a real life couple and i am reigning myself in and it's nickel andrea and that's all i'm gonna say and i said on friday that was weird and it is but i do think that i can be an exception to the rule first of all they love it they're like we're huge we love that everybody loves it so sweet I also think that like I will never go too far because a I am a public figure I understand what it's like to be like on like parasocial relationships like online people knowing things about you you not knowing things about them but also I I have a wonderful lovely

relationship you know I mean like I'm not I can't get lost in the sauce the way where someone's like my parents are divorced and everything around me crumbles it's the only good relationship I see yikes yikes no my parents are already divorced so i'm just like and was it a good relationship to see anyway first should have done it early should have never gone together to begin with so for me i'm like this is only for the only for the well-experienced can you ship a real life couple and that couple needs to not be so attainable you know you're trying to get them on this podcast hey it's not me i didn't tag them blame everybody in the comments yeah but you said tag them no i didn't someone else had tagged them i didn't say it okay i really didn't the only thing

someone said was how do we get this to happen and all i said was i have to sound less on it first and then you said you can have a wednesday yep and coco can tag in for me coco we will have to have a pre-screening meeting though because coco coco was not a nickel andrea voter and i need to make sure that nickel andrea is is in a room of fans okay well guess i can't be there at all then no i'm trying to think of maybe if she was in a sorority who oh andrea oh she went to tuskegee is that how you say it yeah if she was an aka whether i would already know oh okay she's not people would already be talking oh i feel like i probably already would have known too considering quite quickly i went serena anyways that's that's mine i would love to know

what your ships are and just remember your ship is a boat it's the wind beneath your wings there's water it sets you sail if your ship just brings you despair and or does not motivate you to seek out creativity all those things abandon ship abandon ship do not go down with that ship okay and i can't wait to hear what your ships are mary's gonna have some weird werewolf stuff where she is and then jenny's gonna have like some fairy and like three-headed beast yep i was gonna say a three-headed yeah a three-headed beast with like a nine-pronged dick that's gonna be that and there's gonna be like a milkmaid or at least someone wearing a milkmaid style skirt that's hiked up with sensible boots yeah erica's gonna say that she's above ships she would like

never participate in this but then we find out that like she like really loves like some random characters from like suits or something or like white collar it'll be like years from now because i never told anybody about my things until years later when i started profiting from and a good ship literally look at all these people like you can make money off of a good ship and hathaway just started a movie that was someone's ship now again that was a self-insert and i do need people to know that's where it gets really fucking dicey and i will also say if you have a history and i'm not even being sarcastic if you have a history of like mental illness please do not participate in that level because like that is not uh most often healthy and it

is fearful for when you are doing that with real life people but if you want to write a fake book partner who like doesn't exist in the real world isn't based off anyone in the real world and then write you in it sure that's just maladaptive daydreaming yeah this was fun i'm so glad this was like my long shot if I was like oh maybe if I don't do the uh the Chris Martin one I'll do this yeah was it where was this Florida San Francisco they look Ohio I know I wondered if maybe they were on a work trip so that I think they used it I think it was a work trip that they I mean like out of company money yeah out of city yeah because they felt safe being in public there So it makes me think they're a little farther.

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regular interest rates that grow the more you save and invest conditions apply visit scotiabank.com slash hisa to learn more scotia bank you're richer than you think all right so we're back for but are you wrong that's when y'all write into but am i wrong pod at gmail.com or you can fill out the form or you can send in a voice memo keep it to 300 words or less or three minutes or less and we can have a good little kiki talking about what's wrong in your life today we have a non-traditional one we love non-tradition so it says this isn't a typical but am i wrong situation and i'm not asking if i was wrong i'm asking if i'm cursed not in a life-ruining way more like a petty slow burn curse something like

i hope you keep running into your exes forever i'm 27 female have lived in the same metro area approximately 1 million people my whole life and have three exes here i have been happily with my current boyfriend for four years emotionally this doesn't bother me it's just weird high school ex the only one i truly hate we dated from 16 to 19 and worked together the entire time even after we broke up we finally stopped working together after college two years ago i started seeing him everywhere bike trails grocery store river path turns out he and his wife live a quarter of a mile from our house i see them a few times every month then the college ex dated for a year when i was 20 he was also my neighbor so post-breakup sightings made sense for a while but even after

moving i've randomly run into him enough to know that he's still with the girl he started dating after me and they're having a baby bonus weirdness i follow a photographer who posted both his i follow a photographer who posted both his and my high school ex's weddings shot on back-to-back weekends on the same day felt pointed wow i think you might be cursed girl post-college ex met on bumble he told me on our first date that he hates wine we were at a wine bar we dated approximately nine months he moved out of state to my current boyfriend's hometown no less but i've seen him twice since both times at my favorite local wine bar one that didn't even exist when we dated um yeah this this is odd what what do you have what's your aura like

i want to did you date anybody else for like one date in between like is this like confirmation bias is this like well it's kind of crazy that it's happened four times but is it like four times out of four times or is it like four times out of like 15 do you know what i mean because like i will be real with you four out of 15 is still kind of too much i i'm thinking about all my exes and i'm trying to think of the last time i've seen these men well one yeah uh-huh but like this is a really good advertisement for our patreon there's a lot of non-verbal communication going on because these two girls know that they're recording a podcast yes but like that was one out of both the i don't see a lot i don't see them what who else i don't see them and i i've

been going out a lot more lately yeah yeah i couldn't even tell you the names of some most people i forgot yeah i don't even share a lot of them no only the only one i know it'd be really weird if i didn't know like it would actually be quite rude if i yeah that doesn't make sense no it doesn't make sense because i didn't know that you ever dated this person until afterwards and i wouldn't even include that person anymore like they're not you know they are what they are but they're like not no yeah no without a doubt again i didn't even i didn't even know you dated this person when i found out i was like what yeah you had dated broken out by the time that i figured it out and i knew both of you at that time and i had no idea i was like whoa what

other people knew i don't know how why i guess we weren't that close but i was also focused on knowing another relationship that nobody else knew about that i knew that i was like this is definitely happening so i was keeping tabs on the one that i knew nobody was keeping tabs on and hey that was smart of me yeah my finger was on the poles this uh i yeah i this feels suspicious i will say if you are like genuinely if you like know anybody if you think there's like an actual like legitimate concern that like witchcraft has been involved we do have someone we can we can like you know who you are reach out let us know do you think that do you think that they have been actually been cursed and or is there a curse that

could do this and even if you're like no there's no curse that like really could do this in this kind of way because like i would think of a curse of like one singular person like you're having your ex becoming like that one ex who comes back it could be somebody that hates the writer and they're like i want them to always run into their exes and that's who cursed them yeah and so then my follow-up question how do we break the curse yeah blood of a virgin moonlight water um a double double toilet in trouble so let us know and this is objectively wild the only time like i can't imagine how you must feel because for me i have seen two exes right two exes people i would ever one was on a buzzfeed video which was very alarming two was not so alarming because it was at

one of our hometown bars and he didn't recognize me and he goes and he hit on you yeah and he tried to take me home and i entertained it until i was like no and then i was like that felt pretty well but like i'm also like friends with that person still on facebook like it's not like like we were 16 like he was 18 i was 16 he was 17 but so this to me i do think anyone could probably tell you that maybe you do need to move like this is not unheard of and you've stayed in your entire when you've had high school college and life in the same area you're you're gonna have more relationships and run into more people but i looked it up to see like what like approximate populations of like a metro area but so like jacksonville is about a million that would

be crazy to me if you're like i live in jacksonville and i ran into my ex this many times and then san diego is only like it's less than 50 like less than 1.5 million so i'm like oh that to me san diego i think of as being smaller austin is less than a million san jose is less than a million denver colorado 700 something thousand so are you in an area that is like dense like is it where it's like la like a million people or like montana a million people you know what i mean how yeah how many miles yeah because you said someone lived what 2.5 miles someone lived a quarter of a mile oh you're right yeah a quarter of a mile from your house are there is that the first house that's next to your house or are there other houses closer than that

to you because it does sound like you're having small town syndrome and it just so happens that that small town is a million people if it's a million people in a small square like mile a small mileage range that makes more sense to me if it's not that and you just keep seeing them everywhere i do think it's time to like maybe maybe just move like a couple bus stops over do you know what i mean like just a couple yeah do you talk to these people like i would just pretend i don't know who they are the photographer thing is fucking taking me out though that's the that kind of solidified the curse yeah who have you wronged i just hate you a lot of people hate me yeah i would not be surprised if someone tried to curse me me either i could i could i could give

the cops a couple names so also if this was a movie you would need to make amends to break the curse so if you could come up with a list or was it supposed to be teaching you a lesson like were you ghosting people and then someone was so hurt by being ghosted that now you will be visited by every ghost of your past and do you have to make amends and essentially like when the next time you have a relationship that comes into your life even like a friendship that you're like i just want to ghost them you're like no no i have to tell them i have to their face i have to finish this i have to get this done and then it lifts the curse so like megan write this down okay i want you to know that i do have like 1500 notes with just like three ideas on them and i need to put

them all in one because the one i did find the other ideas on here is divorce through exorcism which is that a storyline or is that an entire plot then we have this one i always liked people who have the same dreams and they meet in their dreams uh and then i don't know what the other one is it says miscasting in a tv show where are your chris your christmas ones on a different note in another note so there's one i just need to figure out what i have named the note okay well um yeah i think your curse i do think your curse and um let us know if you can uh sign off your likeness if we want to use it it's all anonymous and i'm gonna be honest with you it's 2025 film and media is dying this will not be compensated you just need to do this for the

love of the arts okay we're not gonna give you any money for it okay because everything's being taken over by ai right now and i need you to take them for the team to save to save film and television please please think of it as like as like a charitable donation in the name of your favorite tv show that got canceled just think of it like that yeah so many of our faves got canceled i can't even i got sent it no less than 100 times me no you were you were the first one i should be number one because i was getting them straight from when i woke up like at five o'clock in the morning from variety and then i was devastated but then of course people didn't know that you already sent to me so then i got about a hundred others rolling in and i know okay yeah at least

the thing that quinta said about abbott elementary was taken out of context so they had to set up another interview to be like can you guys chill yeah and also because i'm like not only is quinta dealing with the public backlash quinta's phone is the line is constantly buzzing with people who work for her going am i am i gonna be without a job yeah she goes that's not what i meant people are going should i start applying to grad school work in the summer that's what she's saying go do your other things during the summer it's like school exactly now let's get into the next one okay hi ladies i'm wondering if i'm wrong when it comes to situation i'm 29 she her turning 30 in november and all my friends have turned 30 this year or

will be 30 in the next few years i feel like the same epidemic that has taken over bachelorette parties like how you need it to be a full trip somewhere expensive crazy outfits you know those ones has hit 30th birthday parties from trips to vegas to cabin rentals and huge ordeals it feels like each friend has to outdo the last person's 30th birthday don't get me wrong i love to celebrate my friends and 30 it should be a big deal but the most recent plan is now a week i'm sorry the most recent plan is now a week-long trip to a villa in greece that is still two years out what happened to a fun night out a fancy birthday dinner is this just my circle or is it happening all over i need to know if i'm in the wrong for thinking this is too much i just want to have a

fun game night for mine and i'm afraid that my friends will think that's lame thank you first of all your friends will thank you i'm on the other side of 30 so i can't tell you if this is what people are doing i don't know we went out of town for megan's but that's because like was that my 30th yeah yeah because but that was because it was like we were freshly vaccinated and we wanted to do something but wanted to be safe while doing it and i'm also often someone who does do like a let's go either to like a beat let's go out of town or let's go to a beat let's do something like out of the city for my birthday so like but not like specifically oh for my 30th it has to be something like this to me it sounds like you i'm assuming you also either have or

will deal with weddings back to back to back because like i don't have a friend group of people who are all my age or right around that so that to me to me i'm gonna say this sounds like your friend group but also my friend group is not comparable to your friend group because we're not all within the same age range and i'll say same with me too yeah like samantha's not even 30 yet yeah so like that's i when it's spaced out like that i will say a villa in greece for a birthday is fun but i think like it is a lot to ask of someone and i do think it's kind to ask for two years in advance but also asking two years in advance it kind of makes it seem like well of course you can save up the money to go like what's your excuse if you don't want to go two years in

advance but also like what if we aren't friends anymore you know i mean like it like you're committing to hopefully you're still friends and also even if like you've been friends for years but hopefully my job situation doesn't change plus you could be friends with someone for decades yeah and then and an international trip could be what breaks it yep and are your flights refundable so um i don't think your friends will think you not doing something like that will be like boring or stupid uh if it was me i'd be like thank god someone is doing a fucking normal because like a lot of people think if they spend a lot of money going to someone else's birthday they're like well then i want people to spend money going to my birthday but they're doing

that because they were annoyed that they had to spend money for some what like it's just beginning it's getting to be too much i couldn't have a friend group this big doing all of this over and over and over again i literally okay can someone stop now right like or like why don't we if we're all turning 30 in this year why don't we plan a group fucking birthday trip yeah that's for all that's just one for all of our birthdays so and also god forbid if you tell me that someone has a birthday god forbid if somebody has a birthday in december if somebody has a birthday more than one person has a birthday in a month or back to back month like that's just how big is this friend group this is too much this is too much if you're not middle-aged like me according to brie then

please write in and let me know how what people are doing for their 30th like is this something that's happening amongst your friend groups i don't think so just based on our patreon members i don't think anybody's talking about yeah doing stuff like this i want to know if you are all in relationships long term or not and if you are married and or have had weddings so like is this like a because i could totally see of like oh you know our larger peer group is planning weddings and like people all come out and spend all this money to do that i totally understand being like i'm not in a place of my relationship like that or i don't ever want to have a wedding i want to have like a big blow up like big birthday i think you should be able to be celebrated like to like

a wedding level of that so that would make sense to me but like or is this like an in-between period from I don't know where you're writing in from because this would not apply if you were in LA because this is not the right age timeline but like if you're between you're after a wedding before having kids and people are treating it like a last hurrah kind of like a like big spend party sort of a thing but like I also think a great way around this is if you want to be I like love going out of town for my birthday like I I love that it doesn't have to be like far anywhere but like Mots and I, for like many years, would go to Malibu and then we would go to the beach. Melissa saw an ad one time.

Wasn't it like they had a masseuse there and you saw it without sound on? You said Megan's going to a sex resort? No, it was like a sex retreat that was happening. It wasn't just that. It was legit a sex retreat. Yeah, so that it's a beautiful resort that I guess. Megan likes to go to a sex resort for her birthday. Megan doesn't even like to make vacation friends.

You think she's going to go to a sex resort? One on one. no it was one-on-one thing like it was a resort itself but then the things were one-on-one i can fuck in my own house i can also fuck in our regular hotel yeah but you can't like set the mood the way that they were setting the mood i don't want that mood take it back yucky i don't want sticky yeah yeah yuck yuck yuck so but so we used to when we would go to malibu mods and i would go like we would have like a like a two-day weekend trip you can even do like a one night But then we would go to the beach in Malibu and then have all, like, have my friends meet there to do a beach day.

So, like, you can have kind of the best of both worlds without doing everything crazy big like that. And, God, whatever happened to shared birthday parties? Me and Ivy used to do that a ton as kids. We'll have a shared birthday. I don't. I'm an only child, so. Yeah. I think there was, that was more of a novelty.

Mm-hmm. yeah but let us know did you have like a dirty 30 like what i just added dirty 30 because they didn't actually say it but i put it in okay because i was like damn there's we're calling the grace helbig movie name for sure no but dirty 30 is a thing though no but like the name i recognized so i was like oh we're bringing it this feels like a big a big trend then if this is we're using a terminology trend yeah so i wonder if it's coming back um so let us know i just put it there put no i know i'm asking other people is it back for you gotcha in your friend groups yeah but my friends i have friends that are well in their 40s and i have

one friend that hasn't even turned 30 yet so my friend group is wide yeah but they're also not a group that's what i mean that's how i also feel too like my friends all know each other and are friendly with each other but like we don't like we could hang out as a group and it wouldn't be weird but like that's not we don't pair off like that so anyways um we're gonna take a break when we get back we'll get into but are they wrong hear that it's your money calling it wants a promotion elevate your savings with the scotia high interest savings account always earn high regular interest rates that grow the more you save and invest. Conditions apply. Visit scotiabank.com slash H-I-S-A to learn more.

Scotiabank. You're richer than you think. All right, we're back. And you know what time it is. it is time for but are they wrong where we nominate the worst of the week they could be a public figure it could be a politician someone in the zeitgeist it could just be truly anything and everything that we think deserves some public shaming so um mine is very weird a teddy bear that looked like it was made out of human skin was found at a victorville gas station which is in socal over the weekend um it turned out to be a practical joke and uh the person that is suspected of being the joker has been arrested so my wrong of the week

is hector villanueva he was arrested for suspicion of filing a report to authorities of an emergency knowing that it was false and intentionally planting evidence to falsely present it as real According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, incidents such as this take up valuable emergency resources and put the public at risk, possibly delaying response time to legitimate calls for service, according to the release. We would like to thank those that reported the information that was helpful during the investigation for this case. so on sunday this past sunday well two sundays ago when you're listening to this the deputies in victorville responded to a call at the ampm gas station deputies found a teddy bear that was made to look like it came from human skin and then the artist whose name is robert kelly not to be confused with the robert kelly that's in jail r kelly of dark seed creations confirmed in a

facebook post that he was the creator of the bear and it had shipped and had shipped them to one of his etsy customers in victorville last week the bears in the facebook video kelly posted were stitched together like a frankenstein monster with quote-unquote human skin and tinged with what appeared to be blood and then the robert said no i did not have any knowledge of the buyer's intentions nor was i involved in a prank on the other side of the nation from me the bear sells for 165 dollars on etsy and it's now sold out so mr hector why so did he buy it from etsy he bought it and then placed it and then called the police and was like hey there's human skin teddy bear at the gas station and then like he he ha ha like what do you get out of this did

go viral like no i haven't seen his face anywhere this feels like an expensive poorly thought out quote-unquote prank that just sounds like you wasted your your money yeah because that it's evidence now yeah you're not getting back ew and you've got to go you've got to go to court and you got arrested and you're going to be charged for falsifying a police report and and the call something not even fun like no i think we could have done better i love wasting police time and like but there's other things we can do yeah this was this was expensive and unfortunately not that effective my guy oh which is weird yeah that is weird okay my nomination my nomination this is this is a little complex because you know what you know how this the the

the, I don't really love the phrase, a broken clock is right twice a day. And I wouldn't say this, that encompasses this person. But just to give you a little tease, this person is not Gavin Newsom. This person, similar to Gavin Newsom, but Gavin Newsom does a better job, will have every once in a while, will say something, right message, wrong messenger. And they will do something. and at the end of the day this person is has a way with words and sometimes the words are bad and sometimes the words are bad or good i would like to nominate connor mcgregor connor mcgregor dm'd naked dick pics of himself to azalea banks okay does this man have a death wish does this man want to so he said this is all news to me he sent a photo he's in his closet

do you want to explain who he is oh he's he's a rapist he's a boxer he's a he's been hit in the head so many times he's a violent horrible nasty little man emphasis on little he sends a very sunburned naked dick pic including his whole body and his tattoos in his closet you know wide stance that's exactly how i pictured in my head by the he looks like a gi joe like if you took like that is the stance and the caption or not the the message that goes along with the photo in the dms which by the way it you have to just accept this dm this is not a they don't have a dm relationship don't be a rat because all rats get caught and then sends another one with his face at this time and his whole body his dick sunburn saying lifting weights so is he hitting on her

i may be in his own way so she posts of course the screenshots of both of these things it's azalea baines my thing is i think me thinks you must have wanted these to come out because you send to the person who is not going to censor them yeah she posted how are you going to send a bitch some crooked dick pics then threaten her not to tell tags him blank do you know who the fuck i am and then she says like how are you going to sexually harass me with the potato farmer dick and then threaten me to not tell honey ain't you trying to be the president of ireland what is it giving fam also sorry also use use some fucking sunscreen damn and i can't stress that this man is incredibly sunburned there are some people who are irish being like yeah this sucks i do i think

you are unfamiliar with azalea banks is you this is not this is this is this was this was her being very kind um and she's not trying to protect the irish save the irish it is it was just truly so fucking funny to me and um she does this every every so often did i think that this was going to be the next time no and like at the same time can azalea banks anybody who's like we need azalea banks to stop she's being enabled by people connor mcgregor you send her this you're giving her content what what was she she exposed somebody who was being gross yeah so this this comment on reddit i was like yep uh conor mcgregor not beating the literal fucking idiot allegations by sexually harassing azalea banks of all people while he's trying which is currently happening

while he's trying to appeal a court judgment that found he raped a woman which is currently what he is dealing with like of all the people you could be a total scumbag gobshit too she is most likely to publicly put you on blast he's also a right winger and i just have to say though the sun's like put on some sunscreen because like this man is so sunburned and that's it wow well thank you for bringing that to my attention i almost sent it to you and i was like let me let me save this if she doesn't send it to me in the next like it's like three days ago i was like i'll do it on the pod yeah i didn't hear anything all right well that's the end of the episode uh thank you for joining us uh tune in tomorrow for see you next tuesday wednesday listen to my audio series

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