Don't Blame Me! - BAIW: Fart Selfie

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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totally jacked gym tan laundry all that gdl i gotta say this shit is crazy i can't imagine choosing to do steroids do you know what i mean just the side effects alone that's what i'm saying that i'm just like what do you mean that like you want that you want this part like that you're like this is the for me that the the goals outweigh the benefits and for the goal is not to get absolutely swole the goal is to get less swollen inside my nasal cavities to hopefully well no not even hopefully i'm i'm willing it to be better to get better to get rid of whatever fucking infection i have but how are you i'm all right don't you see the sparkle in my eye i do it seems like you're so incredibly well rested so well rested so well rested i was up very late but

everything got done i'm done that's all that matters and there's no worse feeling than having to stay up late and then not finishing it and you're like why did i even do that but you did it i did it and now i will be after we do this i'll i'll go take a nap and then we'll be live streaming it'll be fine i don't really i need to like do an edit but i don't need to have that done until sunday so perfect i showered before this that's unheard of for me congrats thank you my hair is wet i shouldn't even be putting it up because it's bad for your hair that's why it looks so dark so i'm gonna blow dry my hair after but you guys are getting that and you're also getting me and my camp walden shirt from parent trap oh mott saw it online he was like i love this and

he got it for me that's cute yeah i like it it's fun so yeah this is a brand new episode of but am i wrong where we tell each other you ourselves and people who may or may not even know the show exists when they're being wrong sometimes it's solicited as in you are listeners who we love and care about so much we're not giving we're not like finding you doing something out of pocket in the wild and being like listen to this unless you know you happen to be like in the news or on social it ends up going viral if it ends up coming across our desk otherwise you are submitting those to us so you're in the clear yeah we're not trying to come come at you out of left field uh but there one might say swerve in the corner whoa you know what that immediately made me think

of was the person who tagged us in the duck who was like hold on grab the ball and you just wanted no and i responded yes melissa i asked that so much i showed mons is learning and by the way i was singing i was singing that song and then i got and then i saw the tag and i was like shut up like how do you know this song was already in my head and i asked my house i was like is this song like important to you and he was like no and i was like is this song really famous he was like not to the level that you think it is and then i had to look it up of course so i said okay then i assume he's from california and he is and he is from i would say bay adjacent like north bay i mean i'm quite familiar with the song but it doesn't i what time what year did it come out

2012 and see that's after my college time so i feel like a lot of those songs that are just very dance like it's a song that you hear in the club gives you instructions much like yes it tells you to slow down it tells you to grab the wall and then wiggle like you're trying to your ass fall off it's lyrically it's fucking perfection is it but anyway but like those types of songs are like you know like they they give you nostalgia yeah and none for me there's just something there's specifically there's something about those lyrics that i just go poetic prose like that is like nobel peace prize give what are the ones you get for writing a pulitzer oh yeah nobel laureate like all of those like that was it's it's art and i i just

i love it and i would kill to get one of those videos of like in the recording studio you know that classic video of like jay-z eating the banana like i need i need a video of like how is that pitched and the whole time by the way it took me i've watched that however many times a year it pops up on your feed for the last however many years this year is the year i was like is that a banana the whole time it is i never noticed that part i love seeing videos of timbaland oh my god because really if we look at it he's stimming like it's like he is vibing he is feeling it and he's already heard this beat because he created it no he's so high on his own supply and i go exactly and i am that's what we need that's what we need and he's a genius as we know but like

it's just funny because every time you see him it's like he's hearing something for the first time i and i love it and i just need one of those videos of one of my favorite songs which what is it called again gas pedal gas pedal and also what how do we get to gas pedal do you know what i mean like none of these this is why it's a haiku to me none of these things you go slow down grab the wall wiggle like you're trying to make your ass fall off ass fall off ass fall off and then suddenly it's a game of telephone ass fall off ass off gas pedal gas and now it's just gas pedal and you just can't stop shaking and i love a song that gives me instructions yeah and i hate how gen z a lot of songs that have instructions that are from the earlier aughts they're just

doing what they want to why i forgot what song it was but i saw someone to a song that the song itself is the name of the dance and they were doing something totally they were like doing this dinky leg to something like that was like i don't know something like insane and i was like what the fuck are you doing and it's just all these people from the bay area being like no let me fucking show you how to do this pmo love that acronym it applies in my life i read it in a very specific way when i see it pissed me off yeah it's not even like pisses me off well what won't piss you off hopefully is this show unless that is the goal is to piss us so we have three segments we'll get into each one of them before the respective segments we

don't overwhelm you with information but the key factor is while we love that you listen and you can also watch the video version on patreon we also love the fact that you can vote on who you think was wrong in every segment on the show so we post votes over on our instagram story and you get to say if you think who's in the wrong who wasn't in the wrong we vote who was in the wrong and therefore by voting that way it tells us who you don't think was in the wrong and then you can also respond to more complicated i know i'm sorry you can respond in a and also find link let us know why you voted that way your thoughts and feelings and then we read all of that on our tuesday episode called see you next tuesday they have 24 hours to vote and i also put them in

highlights so you can check it there and if you miss the voting you can also still like write in about your thoughts yeah if you're listening to the episode and you're like i immediately have thoughts bring them down we want to hear them shall we hop into the first segment before we do oh we have an update oh and i want you to read it oh my god i'm being bullied everybody no you're gonna love it oh okay great so oh my god i just read one letter one letter i read two letters and then i read the third one next to it and it's mbj i think we know where this is going and if you don't yes yes yes you guys are so fucking like you have i anyone who has not heard this one yet like you're in for such a fucking treat if you go back and listen to that episode because we

literally for like i've been over a month since we will have to put like a memorial like we can't talk about it if we are like in a rush because like we will both break down in tears laughing so hard like that's how funny it is it is still that funny to this day if we think about it or talk about it too much i i get back to day one i'm never used to it so the writer originally wrote in and asked would they be wrong to break up with their boyfriend because the boyfriend they found a burner account for instagram that their boyfriend is running where they just leave comments on people's instagrams being like so you thought you ate with that specifically so you so you thought you ate with that sweater

sweater and then for the first time ever when i've been asking people you know when you're giving us like this story tell me who would play them like who give me a vibe because here's the thing i'm going to judge i'm going to like judge what you're about to put up with to a different level depending on like how hot are they or just like the vibes and for the first time someone actually went through with it and said that but they said think of him like a white michael b jordan obviously physically mentally speaking of i can't wait to see him as a twin me too this is the first time i'm ever gonna be like twins love them actually mary kate naturally for the first yeah but these ones take me to paris so i still can't be okay with that

because of things we've heard on our podcast i'm traumatized when it comes to infesty twins yeah but like they're not real exactly if you think of it like a clone it's just like double your pleasure oh if it's like clones are a very different thing yeah because clones are intentional twins are like god's clones and it's like no one came in with that like this is just no one asked for that okay hi i'm the writer that talked about white michael b jordan first what i meant by calling him the white michael b jordan is that he's extremely handsome to the point that you can literally see heads turn while we're out very muscular and well-spoken but he's a nerd and he's very romantic loves his family oh so you fully meant vibes and this is

and when i said i said do you mean michael b jordan's architectural digest i do think you meant michael b jordan's exactly uh-huh it was loves his family charisma oh my god that is so funny this is how you know we're like in too deep like with our love of him that like we can like okay what are you referencing him on the red carpet interview with his middle school bully are you referencing his architectural digest interview like we know all of those those public facing sides or the one who i met when i tried to tell him i loved him in creed and i couldn't get the words out okay second i was cracking up during this whole episode thank you we were two third we're still together while i was initially getting the ick i listened to the

episode thought more about how much i actually love him so i had a chat with him he was embarrassed that i found out but not mad he said that the account started because he was trolling people from high school that would make fun of him for liking anime but then it expanded to him dunking on republicans see that's fine it gives him a good laugh without being extra mean while i understand his reasoning i told him it was offensive to use aave and he said he wasn't using aave because he was purposely using the slang wrong to sound like an annoying white 20 year old who quote unquote thought they ate but trying to co-op aave honestly that made me crack up so that's my update he said i see you but the goal of the character that i am playing is that which i have to say

all of those burners you have to have a character my burner account it doesn't have any photos don't say what it is but like the username is a profile and it's like you wouldn't you wouldn't know and so you you have i agree that you do have to pick a persona and i guess he picked a persona he goes actually no no i understand it's problematic that's the goal because he is problematic not me key this character this character which what's the picture i like how well thought out it is it's very intentional it gets the point across and like he said it's not extra mean but you get to blow off some steam this is so funny because i actually think this checks off two versions of white michael b jordan and it also is the interview with the high school bully

people like yeah you guys used to make fun of me and she's like what no and he's like yeah and he's having that exact same experience just behind the keys wow i love this i think you should show him this episode not this you can show him this one but like really the initial one because it is so funny and we supported him in the chaos of it all so uh i think that he would enjoy that i'm trying to think if there is a white man that fits this description and i can't think of any so i feel like you had to this was who you had to make the comparison to and like at this point i'm kind of glad you gave us no context initially because that's so fucking funny it gave us so much joy and confusion and tears and giggles and no and like now that's like something

people will comment on our shit being like you really thought you ate with that sweater like it has become a joke amongst the community and like please tell him white michael b jordan we love your work so good so good we gotta get him playing the triplet in the movie oh well i'm not gonna lust after somebody else's man no i won't do that either did you see the video recently that he posted on his instagram where he's in the kitchen cooking oh yeah but i can watch it again i just oh my god it's like hard sometimes it's hard to look at him i know that's why i didn't go back to it but i have the memory ingrained in my mind so i can just close my eyes and take take me back he means so much to me on like a sexual level on so many levels i love him so much

emotional likable delectable god anyways we're not crazy at all and this is not the only thing that we've ever been like we have to stop talking about because neither one of us is okay with the other one having him no no and even mods is like i know that like that's her man so thank you for that update we are going to take a quick break and then we'll be back with our first segment at ikea we make things just for college life like the rose and mandel blackout curtains in gray they say you can't put a price on sleep but we did for the low low price of $49.99 time. Why are you in my room? Shh, go back to sleep. You have a big exam tomorrow. Shop back to school at Ikea. When WestJet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People

thought denim on denim was peak fashion, inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when WestJet welcomes you on board. Here's to WestJetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at WestJet.com slash 30 years. We're back. It's time for the first segment. Our first segment is, but am I wrong, where we each say something that's either going on in our life or we might have a hot take a rant or something like that that we want to share with the class and mine is a simple yet poignant statement if you find yourself agreeing with candace owens uh-oh my friend i hate to break it to you but you

are sliding down the alt-right pipeline you're not even one stop away you need to get off that toboggan, hop on off, run the opposite direction, and unlearn all of that web of shit that you just accidentally fell into. And I think at this point, with everything that we know, I am finding it increasingly hard to have patience, which I should, for people who are choosing to take things in a vacuum. And I commented this on my friend Mai Tai on TikTok, her video about it, where she like said this exact same thing and this is how i've been feeling and what i comment on hers and i was like the thing that drives me so crazy is people want to people think that things exist in a vacuum but it's not a vacuum it's the pipeline you are on that pipeline and i found it in when

people were trying to comment on my when i found that trump picture being like oh my god look at candace owens video and i'm like no and they're like we don't have to agree with her but like she could be right with this i go no no she a broken clock is right twice a day or whatever like her, Piers Morgan, all of that stuff. There are a couple of things that they have said in relation to like Palestine that I'm like, hey, if I didn't know all of the anti-Semitic and all of the Islamophobic things you've ever said, if I took all of that context out, I might go, huh, you know, this statement, this statement like has has some compassion here for the people of Palestine. But you can't take all of that context out because these are people who profit off of

this. They have an end goal. They want retaining viewers, all of these things. These things are connected. And if you find yourself agreeing with one thing, it's not like, oh, I guess we're all right at some point. No, because I saw who said this, but it might've been a TikTok. It might've been something else, but it was someone talking about the broken clock theory and saying you would never look at a broken clock for the right time. You'd look at the functioning watch. You'd look at the clock that works and then maybe your eyes catch a glimpse of that other clock and you go oh my god it actually has the right time at this exact time but you don't look to it to be right ever and so to view that as like a going to a source that you know is alt-right problematic

entirely corrupt like so so so so so horrific in the things that they stand for and the things that they say going to that source and putting all of that like out of your mind is impossible so you are letting that be there you are letting that be the context and the stage for what this person is saying and like what information you're receiving and at the end of the day you are not separating that you are getting closer and closer to agreeing with the rest of those beliefs and it's just been incredibly frustrating to watch. And people be like, even if I, if in my life I ever had an opinion that aligned with like Tucker Carlson, my instinct is not, damn, he's right for once. I go, this is my time for me to reflect on, am I wrong? What did I, how did we get to the same

place? And then yes, there are instances like the comments on Palestine where I'm like, oh yeah, Yours is rooted in the fact that this is an attempt to get people, young people on your side. And then the next time you when you actually have a Palestinian on, you're being incredibly racist, incredibly Islamophobic and all of this shit. You don't even align with this to the next day. This is a tool that you are using. and other than that if you can't look at if you only look at it as an isolated incident you will be so screwed on what your social political and moral beliefs are in like six months i promise and it's just making me pissed off and like i don't want to be shocked anymore but like i still am i'm like good god like really this this you align with this what was really getting me was how many people were telling you go look at candace owens videos whatever there is a marketing technique that these people are employing to say something that gets you a person

that has left-leaning views moderate views perhaps to get on the hook because not me personally not you i'm talking about no i don't have moderate views no you as in the audience yes so they can say one thing that'll hook you in be like okay maybe you know some maybe they have some things that can be of value that I can listen to and then you listen and then they'll sprinkle in a little bit more of those things that you want to hear but then the rest will be nonsense or hateful or racist or homophobic like it'll be things that are so egregious but because you've heard those few things that she said or he said or whoever it is whatever they said you're like okay okay so i disagree with them on that but i'm sure they'll say something else that will

that i'll agree with and then it's just a cycle of bringing you in holding you at arm's length until you just keep listening and then you have a change of views and once you become comfortable with hearing that kind of rhetoric and you're like i'm tuning it out you're not i'm not comfortable hearing that it immediately turn off no i don't trust anything you say this is this is you're fundamentally wrong you are fundamentally a bad person if you're able to filter that out you're not filtering it out you're hearing it it's coming in you're taking it and you're taking it and you're becoming okay with it you're being complacent with it and being complacent with bigotry is bigotry and that this there is not it's not even a slippery slope it is a one step

from being complacent in it to being a perpetrator it makes me like i i mean i have her blocked and i'm like i feel like you shouldn't be able to tag her i haven't seen any of anything like oh i have her block but like i i haven't been i haven't seen anyone even make commentary on her like i forgot she existed until i saw people saying stuff on your tiktok yeah so that started it and then it feels like she is drawing me because it it was that and then now she is the absolute like word of god for the uh justin baldoni lovers like she she says that she talked to blake lively a family member of blake lively and she is now saying and then and part of the reason what she's doing and how she's hooking people is that she's saying that ryan reynolds is like blake lively is facing

abuse but it's from her husband her husband is jealous and he's being controlling and abusing her so there are people being like i'm a feminist i believe this is a man's fault but i believe it's his fault and i go what because she told you that like yeah she talked to her family member i go no she didn't think about the work but even if she did it let's say she did think about the worst family member that you have and then someone using them as a reference for something yep and it's like you know i would rather believe through word of mouth from this woman who is entirely hateful and has a complete agenda of turning of the alt-right i would rather believe her than court documents from a woman who experienced this, as well as any of the evidence of the other people

who are on set or the fact of his other lawsuits that he has said all of these things. And it's like you're you're participating in a character assassination. A lot of people are like, well, I think Blake Lively is a bad person. I go, I hate to break it to you. This is brand new news to you, everybody. Bad people can also face workplace sexual harassment. People who get married at plantations can also face workplace sexual harassment this is the issue when you have subsets of this happens in i can speak for white women happens in the sense of like differentiating and separating yourselves from other minority groups being like no no i'm one of i'll then they'll save me the men will save me like i'm i'm a white woman so i will align myself with the white

man will turn your back on you every time like it is not you were you will never be protected in that aspect you'll be protected because you are white as a woman you are still you are still a woman so to turn your back on that and like there's also this other thing that is my point and i didn't watch jane the virgin so maybe that's why that people keep using the term like like lively and her white woman tears and i'm like he's a white man they don't know that people are convinced that he is not a white man and they're like and then the one that like it makes me like so irate i can't even talk about that like there are and it's white people doing this obviously who are comparing it to Emmett Till and I'm like what what the fuck what have you

I'm sorry have you how do you know what that is so tell me in this scenario who is the young black boy the fully grown adult white man the fuck I hate it here it makes me so mad and I think if anybody on your like quote-unquote side are using these arguments rethink what you are aligning with you can be a bad person and like a character assassination of like look at all these bad things she's done yeah okay i'm they're they're like pushing out like articles about like how like she used to like crop dust on set and i'm like what like she would fart on set i'm like okay like who among us has it by the way i'm okay all i'm hearing is you've never been on set before sets are so far crafty i could say crafty is the fartiest foods in the fucking world

leo used to like on purpose he would eat all these fucking sugar-free gummy bears or make him fart and he right before i was in a scene he would run in he would fart and then he would run away and they make action and suddenly i just get a whiff of his fart and i'm like oh my god like he's well he is disgusting love him to death but like it is just i i the johnny depp amber heard one like that was like really hard for me that was like very disheartening and like i you know i had friends who were falling for that and like i was talking to them constantly about it And, like, we banned any conversation about it in our groups and, like, anyone talking about it and made it explicitly clear, like, this is a safe place for women. Like, we're not going to let anybody debate on whether or not they think that this is justified or, like, there's just no room for that.

I don't want you to agree or disagree. And the same reason why, like, I'm not going to get up on here and let people vote on who you think is wrong, Justin Baldoni or Blake Lively. Like, that goes against everything I believe in. but like candace owens in this instance to to view this even if you take away that aspect of it you throw in her fucking shit about uh emmanuel macaron like his like his wife what any of the fucking shit she's doing if you find yourself agreeing and she's made like insane takes out the fire like all of this shit just this is a you problem this is not a oh good job candy oh it makes steam come out of my ears all right my turn mine is also a simple statement not

so controversial but i hope that's not controversial i actually i was gonna say actually that's not a controversial statement it's just what it is unfortunately has been mine is just because you talk a lot does not mean that you're great conversationalists some people need to hear that first of all a conversation goes both ways like both people have to be talking if you are talking just because you need to fill space or you feel uncomfortable because you just need to keep talking because you don't like the sound of nothingness or you just like to hear your own voice or you're just being a motor mouth just to talk stop like or get better at it take a breath

talk about things people care about do not be out with someone and they order chocolate ice cream and you ask them why are you getting chocolate because i want to who did that is stupid we're just gonna keep going do like that what how stupid no i mean like try again like or you just you you're always asking why about things instead of just letting things be sometimes it's just because if you are not over the if you are over the age of five i get i give my nephew three wives and then he's he's five i'm like three wives and then i'm done but adults be like well why i go truly truly can it shut up shut the fuck up if you are just talking and talking and droning on without any humor without any back and forth any banter with that person here's the thing

people that say oh that person can talk to a brick wall that's not a compliment in my opinion that means you're talking to something that cannot talk back to you so you are in fact talking to hear yourself talk i don't think you're meant to be able to talk to everybody there's a reason why chemistry works and i mean that in in like platonic non-platonic like you do not have to have a conversation with everybody let's say even you're out networking you're not going to make a connection with everybody in that room so you do not need to talk to everybody in that room and feel like that you have to get their number if you didn't feel anything with that person if you guys did not have banter back and forth if you do not see a need to keep talking to that person

further except for to run your mouth move on i need to know if you are if you feel the need to use voice memos because you can't fully explain yourself in a text message and you also like i understand everybody doesn't want to get on the phone call but a voice memo is just a one-way conversation it's a podium let's let's summarize this and put it into a text message i don't need to hear all your thoughts and feelings on everything i don't need to know your why just because you're so constantly wanting to hear my why i don't need to know your why wrap it up summarize give me a thesis statement be better let's bring conversation back bring back dialogue less more dialogue less monologue uh-huh and you know i can stand by

that because i do have to memorize a page-long monologue can't wait to hear all about this i need to know what this came from i'll tell you later okay good um i will say though just as a quick for people so i don't because i don't want them to vote that you're wrong if you have a voice memo friendship with another person who you voice memo it these are it's not about friendships this is this is this is about a a voice memo to someone who you're not wanting it because like lily and i always had voice memos back but like because you're saying it back and forth but if it's somebody that out of the and out of the blue voice memo is truly like so startling it's just as bad as getting it out of the blue facetime yeah and well the voice memo like part i'm just like

you sat there and did all of that it's not like oh you didn't call me back you and for those people might i recommend a sony handycam and a vlog or a journal i think most people first a journal and then you can even open up your photo booth and then just talk to yourself yeah and then you can look at it analyze and be like is this something that will benefit at least 15 other people and if your answer is no that is just for you you close that up and you put it away to the next time you have thoughts and feelings make a scrapbook i'll have a scrapbook yeah express yourself in picture in photos yeah dye your hair get bangs stop talking and get some bangs right uh this is why i'm so glad i'm funny because i am like a

certified yapper and i but i can't i won't talk to anybody you have meaningful conversations though that's what i'm saying like it's why i'm funny and it's also like i never someone is like oh she can talk to a brick wall do you know here's i i will never talk to a brick wall because i don't want to talk to a brick wall because i don't need to if that's my only option i'm just gonna shut the fuck up i'm just gonna pivot away from the brick wall like but you're right that is not a compliment and i'm realizing all the times i've said that and like i'm recognizing you like i actually don't think i mentioned no and like i think i was being shady but i don't think i realized i was being i was being earnest i meant it but like i don't

think i realized like oh yeah that's actually not it's not a good thing yeah there are like there's an art to conversation that i don't have that i really appreciate one person that has that is gabe is he like for instance we were on a call earlier today it was for um his podcast and he asked the person oh so like after the call was over so where do you live and they told him like downtown and then gabe asked have you ever been to the fabric district i have been and i like like went on into like something that was really interesting and the person was like yeah i actually used to live over there and this is what like i think being able to find little things in conversation is beautiful but just to talk shut the fuck up no and you have to be good at reading

vibes because like i can be a big talker even with like random people like i'll like ask like you know someone who's drawing my blood like i'll whatever like i'm i'm gonna talk but i'm you also know when to shut up and i'm gonna meet that person where they're at like i'm not it's not like hey i have a topic i want to go into talking about this i'm just like i'm opening up this for conversation and yeah sometimes it bites me in the ass like that time that the nurse taking my blood pressure a couple this was in what 2016 was talking about his love for trump as he was also saying he was visiting his family at the border for the last time and i was like oh i'm so sorry and he was like no i love trump and i was like so do you hate your family he's like no i

love my family i'm like i'm just gonna say goodbye to them forever and i'm like okay so super fucking weird and then he goes why is your blood pressure so high and i said sir i wonder why and you know that is sometimes people are just talking and they give you information that lets you know this is not a safe place for me and then you will not go back there and you go do do do hello i'd like to report one of your nurses for telling me how much he hates gay people and trans people for no reason just because i asked what his weekend plans were so you know it's good to know huh well you're not wrong thank you we are going to take a break and we will be back we're back it's time for the next segment which is but are you wrong or you right in with uh what

you are dealing with what you're facing maybe you're at a crossroads of being like oh would i be wrong if i did this or am i wrong if i did this or so sorry everybody i already did the thing was that wrong now that i'm reflecting on it it can be you know current or it can be hey this thing that i did six years ago is keep me up at night and it's affecting me put it to rest help us do that so we're here with our gathers and we will tell you if you are in the wrong so you can send that over to but am i wrong pod at gmail.com keep it under 300 words please let us know your age you just be 18 or over um or i guess you could have your parents permission but just be over 18 years old please um and simplify things yeah just just do that because also i don't really believe

if you're getting your parents permission on this show specifically um and uh it is all anonymous so use your little fake names and we can't wait to hear from you so first up hey megan and melissa i'm 22 she her my friend is 21 she her we are roommates by the way i saw john i'm too i guess like i don't know if he intentionally made the joke but during the um what is this feeling so that in in loathing he he referred to it as their first he's like he's like well you know and they are roommates i call it their first date and i was like yep this song is i think he was very intentional with that i think so too but i was like oh i i love that and so many people are just now discovering that like yeah no you're not you're not this is this is intentional they also

kiss in the book like this is you know there's tension there we are roommates and have lived together from sophomore through senior year i think that speaks a lot of our friendship Anyway, we are having a party and she wants to invite some dude from Hinge over that she's never met in person. She doesn't think it's a big deal and the perfect setting to invite someone over since a lot of people will be here,

but I don't really want some stranger coming to my home. Just because a lot of people will be over that night doesn't mean that there will be a lot of people over the next night. Would I be wrong to force her to go on a pre-date with him to vet him? I know that still doesn't mean that something is normal, but at least she'll know a little bit about him.

Here's the thing, I don't think you're wrong, but I do think of her judgment is like, Yeah, invite the stranger over to my house. I don't know how good at vetting she's going to be. And has she done this before? Have you unknowingly known that she's invited Hinge somebody over? Like, they were just coming to hang out, and this is the first time. Y'all have known each other for three years.

Like, she's 100% had people over before, but, like, is this Hinge thing new? Yeah, and she just got out of a relationship. It's, like, this is her first time on Hinge. I will say whose name, who would do this. and i used and i to this day yell at her all the time lily would do like she would like plan to go out with someone and then be like oh you know and i understand her back hurts i'm just gonna invite him over to my apartment to smoke and i'm like don't do that like first of all the best case scenario is he's weird when he's high and he's annoying and then he's like stuck as like a

fucking marshmallow on your couch and you can't get him to leave worst case scenario he's a serial a killer and he knows where you live like stop no no no no and i literally like would yell at her all the fucking time about it um and i think objectively your friend is wrong and you are roommates so you get a say to be like no you cannot invite a stranger over to our house i'm not okay with that i just don't think that this is also though it's if you're having a house party other people will be inviting people over that you don't know yeah that unfortunately is how house parties go but at least hopefully you know the person that's inviting the other people over and they actually know this person in real life because what what if y'all are having a

valentine's day party and everybody just invites their hinge people over at least get an airbnb get something don't let them gigster yeah this to me is like she doesn't sound like she's has ironclad really wonderful strong judgment so i would say i don't know that the vetting will be done for her like done well in that way you go where you guys go to a coffee shop and you sit at a table that's directly next to theirs but pretending like you don't know them and you listen to conversation and then you're texting her questions to ask him yeah because what if she like comes back and she's like okay and like okay like i've edited him it's like what did you ask oh um what's his favorite color he loves the color blue he has a dog named bingo and i go no

he doesn't that's a lot or whatever but like what's his profile look like have you seen that part of it like have you stalked his instagram yeah do you have mutual friends like where do you like you're what 21 I would 21 22 you would out of doubt you have to have at least a couple mutuals so I would think that like that's a good way to kind of go about it otherwise find another friend and be like can you bring someone for her for her to meet that's not this guy because this is you can't this is you're trying to merge two different things which is meeting someone at a party through a mutual friend and a hinge date you can't have they're not the same they are not the same instance and not some interaction and i also know people

who got together they had matched on hinge they'd like talked on hinge a bit and then nothing really came from it and then they re they met each other in person at a party through mutual friends that's the way to do it yeah but no you can't make it you can't that's like being like i'm gonna meet my hinge date at this coffee shop but like we're not gonna have coffee together we're gonna like meet in line and then pretend that like we just met serendipitously like you can't you can't you can't do that if you're meeting a stranger who knows what you look like and they're like looking for you you don't also give them your home address there was somebody that met their person by and i do believe they're still together they stalked their instagram and would accidentally

bump into them somewhere and then knew the kind of things that they were interested in because they had stopped their instagram yeah and then made this person fall in love then later they found out after they had fell in love and they were okay with it okay so either both of these people either one of these people is very hot or both of these people are they actually were both attractive there you go because here's the thing that helps you're able to look past that but i will say people are like well you know if they're hot anything's okay i'm gonna tell you right now i have had hot guys do some really fucking creepy weird no thank you i've had i've had incredibly i've had attractive athletic intelligent rich guys do some of the weirdest

shit and have the worst and weirdest personalities i'm out i'm out and then i've dated broke guys on drugs like there's a difference i haven't gone that far but they had good personalities at the time when they were not on the drugs and that was before i knew but like this is just no this is just such a no and i not to be like i don't know not antagonistic but like not to be like um like gatekeeping of like dating apps or whatever 21 is very young to be on a dating app when you are are when you are having these things where you can meet people through like mutual friends and house parties and all of that and you're in college yeah like that is one of those things that like it you don't all girls college yeah maybe it's that and maybe it's a sarah lawrence party

and everybody needs to bring a boy but um yeah this is no no like this like it's not even like he's gonna kill her necessarily like what if he just like steals your like bottle opener like what if he just sucks and then brings down the vibe of the party yeah like what if he like takes over the music and he's like and all he wants to play is like megan trainer and like jason derulo and you're like no like current jason derulo like no no no no what if he smells there's a lot of things here that is working against her and you do not want that person in your home so just shut it down Yeah. It's like, no, I'm not cool with that. And I say this as like, and if strangers come to your party, I've had house parties that, I mean, I wasn't throwing them, but the people I lived with

were throwing them. And then when I finally broke down the door, because of course they locked me out. You can read all this in my book. And I saw strangers with their literal, like raw ass on their own hookah coals on our carpet. I was like, I don't know who they fuck you are. Get the fuck out like you should not tolerate strangers in your space all right next one i'm 19 she her and i think my classmate is around the same age we're in a communications class together and have a group project to work on she keeps calling me all the time about things that have absolutely nothing to do with our project like talking about tv shows that we briefly mentioned or asking me for a manicure place recommendation i think she might just need a friend which i understand but this

girl is super annoying who surprise calls someone three to four times a day i think it's weird but i can't be rude to her because we have the same major and we will be in class together for the next four years would i be wrong to tell her that i don't have friendship vibes how do i go about this okay i don't think it's that way i think we could do anything we could do a little better we're just not vibing this we don't have friendship vibes we have classmate vibes we're co-workers so that's it cohorts no like uh i i understand you i respect you let's workshop let's try that again like that's just not and that's why they're here we're here to help you we agree with you let's rework this let's do it a little kinder change your phone number no they have to

work together on their group projects be like i only respond to emails what like don't answer the phone when they call and then it's you know sorry mr call what's up like two hours later like because it sounds like a lot of the stuff she's asking is like somewhat pertinent like it's somewhat topical of like i don't think she's sitting in her room with like a list of like things to ask friends about like where to get a manicure like it could be like she's going to go get a manicure whatever and like that can be like she can still like want to have a friend but uh you just don't if you keep answering the phone she's just waiting for one of them to hit one of the one of the where do i get good pho or what color pants do you think i should wear tomorrow like she's just waiting for

you to have an opinion or thoughts and feelings or care about one of them so you need to stop answering the phone and you just need to text back and then just immediately change the subject to school big breaks between the texting all of that is that meaner i don't know i thought of something but we cannot talk about it at all on this microphone but think back to something that i said i'm already there i'm already there that person very much advocated for what this person is doing here's the thing some people also might just not get it yeah you might even when people leave them horrible messages saying you know what this isn't cool this is weird and they're like nah nah i don't she didn't mean that okay yeah so you the extreme measures also might not even

work so don't start with those no this person thinks that you do have friendship vibes and she's picking up on the wrong thing from you because you're probably you you can either be one or two things you're probably like just a nice person who's being friendly and you know keeping great communications because you are a communications major and you actually face this peril in every job uh-huh and you're trying to keep the peace while you're working on your group project together or two you're just like very cool and nonchalant and she's like i gotta get to this person's brain i have to be their friend maybe you're her personal influencer she just like wants to know what where you go and what things you do because they want to be she wants to be

more like you she doesn't want to be friends with you she just like was like no i'm just like taking inspo um but like this is someone who just does not know class friends like what like what it means to be like and i'm the way i crush a class friend like i because i horrible social anxiety but also adhd and like not good at like not good a lot of subjects i needed i needed allies in my classes so i was friends with people from like people used to joke all the time like megan is friends with some of the most random fucking people that are my class friends valedictorian well i've known her forever but like smartest girl in our school valedictorian mensa scholar she would let me copy off her but then she would help me to dumb it down so it was more believable

because i couldn't copy off her she's smarter than everybody she's not even doing most of the same work we're doing but like I was friends with so many people in that instance and we knew that that friendship was like you know if I saw them out like it'd be like fun cool like we're going to this party or whatever but like we would hang out in class we would it would we would it would make our class time exponentially more enjoyable but that was what we had in common we didn't have like our hobbies really in common or any of that other stuff and when you try and push it too far you know maybe make it seem like you guys don't have much in common too yeah because it's like I had a class like somebody I sat next to and thinking about this was in like high middle

school junior high junior high we were we sat next to each other in a couple classes because it was alphabetical like we had good like class friend vibes but we were not in the same friend circles and I thought she was funny she thought I was funny and like even I think after school we'd sometimes just like sit and chat but then I invited her to my birthday party and all my friends were like why is she here and i was like y'all are being bitches but and then also she was just like sitting in the corner not talking to anybody and sometimes those people just don't mix yeah because what you share and what you have in common that like breaks that ice when you remove that like aspect of it like it's clunky and it's awkward and it's like just not the right vibe and

i think like you aren't picking up on the friend vibes because they're not there she's not picking up on friend vibes that she feels you know i mean like it's like i think you're probably placating her in a way that makes her feel like oh yeah we definitely would be friends where it's like it's not being rude but it's just like you know if you're trying to like get her to shut up and you're just kind of agreeing with her she might just think you have a lot in common so so i don't think you're wrong for feeling it you would be wrong if you just said this point blank sorry hey but i don't have friendship vibes nah man okay all right so we're gonna take a break when we get back we'll get into but are they wrong

okay we are back and it's time for our final segment but are they wrong where we nominate a person place or thing pop culture news zeitgeist who needs to be publicly shamed now this has been hard for me to find things that are not political because i don't want to talk about it mine is political adjacent but it's not specifically political yeah so that's that's how i have been feeling about it so i had one that was like it's like one of those political things that like is so fucking ridiculous that it is almost it's it's it's obviously sad and like deranged but like it is also low-key funny and i know the news anchor who's talking about it was like trying to hold back her laughter being like there's no way no you actually just said this um

but then i have one that for me is a mystery wrapped in enigma i don't know if it's wrapped and cash maybe because there's bail and this one is something i just want to talk about that's not political because i'm so confused by it and this is something i saw on mine the title from bbc and i guess my nomination is the woman in question and what did that woman do woman used fart selfies to harass partner's ex what brand new sentence exactly did you find this on the subreddit called brand new no but i i should i should post it on there because why bbc why are you talking to me like i know what a fart selfie what is a fart selfie great question great do you open up your booty cheeks as one is about to ripple through and then click like a whole pic

but only when a fart's coming an active whole thing interrupting whole thing a woman who sent videos of herself passing wind so british passing wind in a series of harassing messages to her boyfriend's ex-partner has been given a community order she's a 25 year old uh rhiannon yeah rhiannon evans uh pled guilty to pursuing a course of conduct amounting to the harassment i would like to say i don't know how many fart selfies you could send to somewhere in america should then be able to press charges because like i feel like no one would let us do this so it's a video yeah and that's why i get annoyed they said selfie because it's a video um prosecutor said that her first vlog

day in my fart pov you are my fart evan's first inappropriate video she proceeds to pass gas by placing the camera on her bottom and passing the gas she sent three more fart selfies to uh victim deborah fry search via whatsapp in december and four more in the following days showing her passing wind with her face smiling in the camera and i did have questions about the angle because by the way what is she eating that she's able to like hey here's one coming it's a bruin let me do this and then make sure that like she can get her ass and her face in it at the same time. She might be having those sugar-free gummy bears.

This also makes me think this is not the first time that she has done this. Like, who thinks of this? That's what I was wondering. And the way that they're talking about it, I'm like, is this an epidemic in the UK? They're like, you know, those fart selfies. And it's like to the point where like,

I'm not saying that like she shouldn't be able to like press charges against her. I'm just saying that like, people say like America's so litigious. The way you could not fucking press charges for this. Like, you wouldn't be able to. Like, any time that someone's like, oh, this person's harassing you over text, they go, block their number.

Like, just turn your phone off. Like, they do not fucking care. So she was warned after police caught wind of the issue. You know, their BBC. But she sent further messages on Boxing Day and New Year's Day. So I guess they showed up to her house and they said, please stop sending those videos of you farting to this girl. And she said, okay.

And then she just sent more. She was arrested at her home. And she was given 12-month community order and fines. And I assume that's like community service or I don't think it's like parole. I don't think she's like on house arrest. And she suggested that she wanted to send videos because she felt her partner was being treated unfairly. It was purely malicious. She was smirking through it, found it hilarious, but the victim didn't.

And I think there's probably more to this because it does. I just would like to feel safe in my home. Was her ass just bare? Because then I can see how they can ratchet that up because it's a sexual harassment because that makes it sexual. bit is she sitting winning the poo on her bed ass cheeks she's just sitting it like it reminds me you know that she has pink eye without a doubt that grinch it's like a grinch where it's like the grinch bent over it's not the actual grinch but somebody in a grinch costume like on a couch looking back at it that's what's happening like this is just wild and the part that like makes

me feel bad i'm like i'm sure that like she's been i don't think this is the first round of like i'm gonna harass my boyfriend's ex-girlfriend but like this is the one that gets traction i'm like i'm sure she sends so many up like you know what i mean like this is to me this is not the first this isn't this isn't step one no no fart selfies are never step one then this part that they throw in the end who is this probation officer i don't know but one of the people involved quoted saying there are some issues going on between miss evan's partner and his ex-partner with in regard to child contact and i go i'm so sorry are these going to be in your custody hearings that's going to be like the judge is going to play these videos of you farting so

she said she at the time she sent these videos she had some drinks she had some drinks and she sent them now understanding that she has caused the victim some distress so she's a two-year restraining order oh by the way she must pay a hundred pounds compensation and then 200 pounds in cost no it's not at all 300 pounds in total 100 pounds is 123 dollars in american money well it's also because the court fee like the the cost fees i guess are only 200 pounds which is not what our legal system would cost um so thank you for sharing megan you're welcome i just thought it was a little bit a little more like off kilter than like the uh the congressman who said i don't like child labor laws and i think kindergartners should get jobs yep i saw that yep or just rfk's

whole what's that thing how is this happening all right now it's time for mine and my there's this really dump first of all instagram reels is one of the most awful places on the i don't know how i'm always getting some videos of like sex classes i don't know either and you need to stop sending them to me if i have to see it somebody else has to see it i do that to moms too i i saw somebody else they were in some other type of workout class where they were just holding their partner and they were shaking and the thing is i'm never just clicking on it for fun it is an accidental tap the only i i don't understand it's terrible it's awful and i saw something that was it's not what i'm about to say isn't funny but it's a trend that's

happening of people going to their local mexican restaurant and saying i and then like setting up a video in front of the people that work there and doing like a little dance and being like distracting ice so they don't come and grab the workers at my favorite mexican restaurant i guarantee these people don't know that you're in there that they're in this video what you're saying they probably just see some weird ass white man dancing in front of them and they're laughing at that and judging what they're doing and then later you're putting something on the screen and they had no idea that they had been put in this dumb ass video this offensive video this disgusting video and a video that implies that these people are illegal immigrants then putting it online on

social media as their faces attached to people you do not know if they are quote-unquote illegal immigrants and i use that term undocumented that's right in in in the aspect of who is being quote-unquote targeted is they as they say people who have committed crimes and all of this lineal white-ass canadians that are here that are undocumented elon musk was not born here and i they were his brother said that when they first got here that they were undocumented too mm-hmm that just it makes me so fucking mad and like you're doing the exact opposite and like now you're bringing attention to them and then they're gonna get raided for no fucking reason because you made this stupid fucking video and and those people probably think that like oh well

you know they will without a doubt like you know if if they they they're here legally they legally again quote unquote in these terms oh they're here they they'll show their papers it'll be fine they don't care about that they just want anyone who is not quite out it's they're going to detain them without looking in they're not going to do it you're going to traumatize people all of these things people are going to be falsely accused of this target on their all x y and z whatever people could lose their jobs all of this stuff like it is not like this oh i'm this is how much i care about them and i also really hate even if it's like well-meaning again quote unquote this kind of relation to like personal relationships with people who have immigrated

to united states gives the same vibe as that lady on the view saying well who's going to clean your toilets like it's the exact same thing it's racist at its core when you're you think that you're doing something actually i don't even think the people participating in these videos think that they're even doing something that is quote-unquote helpful i think they're just doing it to make content and they probably would be the first people to call to i think that i think the people who are maybe engaging or commenting on it think like oh my gosh this is how i feel and i'm like no no why why is that your instinct is like why do you just automatically assume that they're undocumented and and why is like the first person that you think of is like someone who works at

establishment where you go to pay money and then you're treating them like oh these poor little poor little bit these are humans that are doing their job and like you're viewing it as like a oh but they do this thing for me and i'm like they're doing their job and you're a paying customer of their job like that's such a fucking weird as opposed to being thinking of like oh my gosh all of the young kids in schools all of the any of these things that come from an aspect of like you don't have to know people personally and if the only people you know personally are people you're assuming are immigrants at a restaurant you go to is so fucking weird pisses me off if i see anybody doing that shit now i will oh your phone has suddenly shattered

i gotta say that is uh people want to talk shit on california if you want to talk shit on la we have never been more united now is not the time the way that like the way that la is rolling up on like people are driving to huntington beach when huntington beach like had a celebration for not being um safe not safe well whatever the space of like we're not going to we are not using our police officers or any of our police force to come in and assist in in any sort of ice raids or anything like that and like we're not going to pursue this as like a as a state or a city um there's a city and the huntington beach was like we're actually gonna do that and like here's our celebration all these people in la were like cool i'm gonna run up there and they like literally

showed up and they're like oh okay i'm scared never mind like no like oh trash absolute fucking trash absolute fucking trash all right well that's the end of our episode thank you so much for joining us again if you'd like to participate send us an email to but am i wrong pod at gmail.com keep it to 300 words or less cast people in it if you want change any real real names give us the race if you give us their uh ages and pronouns if you'd like and or plus you can send us dms to our instagram megan and melissa megan with an h melissa with one s give us your thoughts and feelings you can also participate in an additional way by voting and you can always tell us like things you want us to cover or talk about or whatever

and we always appreciate that and punch a nazi if you see anyone do anything nefarious and also no matter where you are in the country there's lots of great things to like learn resources about you know how to say like ice and like there's an ice raid happening or whatever whatever language is most common with that i think a lot of people are racist and are just viewing this as solely happening to border cities and border towns and specifically like mexican appearing like latino brown skin or whatever it is also happening people of asian descent it's happening in like all this other stuff um so stay vigilant and all the aclu they've not a good a lot of good um language to use to communicate and i'm also like retweeting anytime

i see i mean not retweet not tweeting i am like resharing on tiktok anytime i see people are like watch this video for a minute for pay for immigration lawyer fees as well as like teachers talking about um that kind of stuff and our local news has also done a whole breakdown for teachers of like the specific state and city laws for what they to do to how to protect your students um and most states and cities are also doing that so i know we do have people who are teachers and that's a another thing that you should not be having to fucking deal with this teacher in this country insane but how about what if your kindergartners just got jobs they can pay for their lunches for their school lunches he goes i was working and i go

shut the fuck up also then as he kept talking he was talking about having a job as a high schooler uh-huh and she kept going well we're talking about kindergarten she goes i'm not and she's like but that that is the discussion that is on the table these fucking idiots getting rid of school lunches for people over 16 you want to get rid of you're getting rid of the school lunch program for all students that starts at in california that's our tk like that's you you're insane he's like well i had a summer job and i'm like okay please tell me where a five-year-old is child labor but also a summer job isn't going to pay for your lunch for a whole school year won't it pay for your lunch then who's going to pay for your lunch during the summer where's that money

coming from and like i just know as someone who like my summer job was like it's probably similar to his and grew up in a white affluent area i was a lifeguard assistant making five dollars an hour like that versus like my dad i think he was underage he worked in the steel mill like those are different things and like this idea of like children he goes well he's passing child labor laws and that woman though she was trying so hard not to like laugh at this man being like you're kidding and he also was kind of turned on by her and that whole like interaction i was like you're a fucking freak all right well the end we will circle back this is a sister sign production hosted by me megan rinks and me melissa d montz plus diamond

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