Don't Blame Me! - My Friend is Always the Drama

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

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You're richer than you think. hello hi happy is it spring yet i think so i want to spray or maybe it not it might be like a couple weeks away when well does spring the 20th oh wow okay well i am our weather's jumping us already to summer so it is spring for us here and if you're watching the video you can see in very springy outfits spring spring spring spring spring has sprung it has spring break spring break did you ever watch the movie spring breakers that's where i got that from i know that's why i asked have i seen it no me neither um but they're doing another one or have done another one with the same now fully grown 30 adult women on spring break oh okay they've got

a new recruit i'd like an amelia badelia edition of spring break where she just goes on a rampage just like sawing the springs of every mattress in like detona beach uh yeah so spring breakers two set with a new cast bella thorn oh and grace van she's also too old i was gonna say these women are both 30 okay so okay so they're just like a slightly younger 30 than like the rest of of the other girls from the original who are also just like 35 now like how selena gomez compared to is what 33 yeah bella thorne is 28 but still too old yeah that's not enough of a difference to be like well this is why we couldn't have no these people wow and they're recasting james franco you know he's having his own little renaissance i get oh don't tell me oh i thought i i thought i

had exited out of us talking i was just in my head going through oh my god who's even more problematic that's being he's being recast with i was trying to like i was watching i was looking at the thing and i had in the little pop-up cane oh for this window where it makes it smaller but I thought it was a pop-up for an ad and so I exited out but all it did was just exit out of the little thing it didn't exit out of this I really thought you were gonna say that like they've actually recast him with like Harvey Weinstein and I was like holy shit like who's gonna be worse I don't know who it doesn't seem like they're mentioning a man in this make it a woman but you know he's having his own little renaissance since netflix gave him a

show on or a mini-series uh i fully missed that it just happened like in december i think ew and um and i only know this because my sister had like when i went over for christmas it was just on the tv and she didn't even know what like it just was playing after something she had been watching and she was cooking i don't know what the heck is this yeah maybe he'll get cast in the um daily wire uh sinners yeah yeah yeah i could see him in that i could see that too him henry cavill that one is flying under the radar and by the way most of we watched a trailer with henry cavillant mott's was like put on he's like oh this looks like it's gonna be good and then as soon as it started he goes oh you're not gonna follow it and i was like

why because it's henry cavill and one of the other men that like i cannot for the life of me pick out of a lineup and someone comes on screen and i go well now who's that and he goes henry cavill and i go i thought the other one was what movie is this i have no idea but like henry cavill doesn't look like how i thought henry cavill was supposed to look and he looks different in every scene and so i'm like i can't we didn't watch the whole movie we watched the trailer um but i was like oh um the other no he's not in this but the other one who i think would be in the daily wire centers would be shazam what's his name oh oh okay when you say shazam i'm more so thinking the shack movie and i was like shack no no no no um it's a name that's really close to another

actor's name who's like wonderful and i don't want to mix it up but it's like a very common name it it is it's a levi levi yep but i don't know is it zachary or is that the one who's good i think it's zachary zach it is in fact a zachary is it zachary levi yeah or levi zachary zachary levi yeah who's the other Levi Strauss no um maybe it's another Zachary but there's so many Zachary's how could I get that confused are you thinking of Zachary Quinto yes I am okay that's in fact who I'm thinking about you know me I think we need to I am actually a huge proponent in making up new names for boys like I think we need more names for for men because I'm

perpetually confused i actually had this thought this week because i've been thinking that james blake and james blunt are the same person that one i like if i think too hard about the only reason i know james blunt is because like that was like the only impression i could do for so long when james blake came on the scene i said i actually don't have time in my brain for that I like both of their music, but I was looking up something for Jameel Jamil because I was like, she's with James. I thought I was like, she's with James Blunt, but I think she's with James Blake. She's with James Blake. James Blunt is the one who did drugs with Carrie Fisher when she died. Yes. But like music, same music. It's not, but it's the same.

also uh something else about them i don't know but well they're both british aren't they they're both british yeah like i just find that we have so many different names for women but yet somehow every man every white man in hollywood is named james jimmy jonathan zach zachary alex and aaron or a taylor and that's it and the issue is is that they think if they add more words to their name it will make them easier to remember and it doesn't because now once you have three names i will mix you up with every other fucking person with three names jonathan taylor thomas too sarah michelle i can't even get it thankfully i do think that now people like there's actually too many chrises in hollywood we can't have any new ones drop on the scene but like oh my god like

and also i think about names like whatever happened to william like there's there's not where are the famous wills there's like will arnett but there's will smith true but i'm specifically talking about the white men who have the will and the it's will arnett and will farrell yeah but like that's older that's what i'm saying like there's not the younger oh i don't think a lot of people are being named william as much as that's william's scene it's like very like gen x and older like who's still being they're being named liam now that's the difference because william is a form of william they're all just being named liam hold up rewind what yes so you mean to tell me that when i think a new name has dropped liam turns

out no just a variation on yes wow so we're gonna have a james jimmy john off with with liams in five years oh no so we do need more there's so many liams oh my god we need way more names we need so many more names i just we need here's the thing we need more names or less men whatever it is yeah or a combination of both i could i could i could go for both i could go for both as well like i just i truly just i can't it's driving me crazy and the fact that i was trying to remember jesse tyler ferguson's name and i said sarah michelle geller and i was like this is why the three name thing doesn't help me identify you anymore at all why did those two get mixed up for you three names it's the cadence and how you say it i just don't feel like they became popular

on the scene at the same time there's also the gender going on there whatever implants into my brain is that's that's who they are that's how they come and sometimes i'm never gonna i'm sometimes i'll make the effort to learn and other times whatever comes from the noggin comes from the noggin because also to be fair i know of sarah michelle geller from scooby-doo and but still famous way before hold up she had red hair and scooby-doo jesse tyler ferguson redhead you know where i first know about her from buff nope that's her right i think i'd love that show i've never seen it never seen it either all my children hold up so i should have known who she was but i really she must have not left a mark on me because i really should have known who she was if

she was on all my children she played the first kindle heart on all my children oh it was important i thought i was gonna know who it was like she played the first like teen president well it this storyline was huge okay because it was susan lucci's daughter first of all oh okay second of all she had given the daughter up because she had been taken advantage of like susan lucci had and then like i do remember her i'm looking at yes she had dark hair then that's the thing her hair was that's her natural color is brown and so like there's this whole storyline building up to you're my mother wow i'm enamored oh well anyways everyone welcome to don't blame me a podcast where we give you wonderful amazing life-changing advice that will change your life and hey we

also do some pop culture some gossip current events just some shit talking i saw this tiktok of someone who was like it's so bad when you like have a podcast that you you like think that you like and it's like a perfect one and then they just like are really annoying but like you love like it's all your favorite genres and all that stuff and i commented on it and there was like a good amount of comments and i commented being like oh no is this play about us and i tagged us and like seconds later the creator responded like no it's not about you and i was like oh what was this on tiktok it was on tiktok but part of me i was just like so i don't know you responded so quickly you really don't want me to think it's about us do you already listen to our podcast or like did

i just get a new listener who joined our podcast who was like no no it's not about you but now i'm about to check you out and i was like that would be lovely so it would be nice you're welcome here everyone and if anyone is annoying it's gonna be me so like you've got a whole other person here who like won't annoy you okay as in you okay exactly i i take on the role of being annoying I know that that's who I am I don't think I've ever been called annoying but you know I unless I'm purposely annoying somebody you will troll someone yeah I love doing that she does she really does it and she won't drop the bit no no not at all not at all I even make whole when I was on tiktok even made a hole for that person you had posted a thing about mods yep and uh I said that

this is ai and the people were like responding to it saying that i've been following her for all these years this is not ai and all this bullshit and then i made a video where it was pictures of us yep to that's my best friend but then i said all these photos are also ai and like the amount of people who had to come in at the end and go this is her best friend guys like stop like and you're arguing with them like not like this was a joke i'm her friend like no no she's fully engaging in the what we would call method acting so um yeah but i'm self-proclaimed as being annoying but don't worry i took my meds today so i will be a little bit less annoying so welcome if you want to participate and get some advice from us you can leave us a voicemail

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okay okay but how was yours do you want me to tell you about mine or do you i mean like i'll i'll tell you about mine and then let's and then i'll decide if it's worth telling yeah so you know how you went to the movies and you're like why are they showing horror films trailers before i actually lived through actual horror this weekend oh no so picture this you're a beautiful black woman okay you get up on saturday you're being so productive you've made plans with friends later to go out to eat maybe because we're all working this weekend so we'll see how we're feeling so it's getting around the time for dinner time the friend texts you said hey we're not going to be able to do it you're actually thankful because you've been sitting in bed all day working you

don't feel like putting on clothes as you step out to the bed i'm already so nervous you look down and you see something skittering across the floor something you never expected to see in a home oh okay not a rat oh i'm so sorry i thought this was a roach nope not a roach not a rat a lizard how big it was pretty it was a decent sized lizard but i can't tell you how big because i'll continue with the story so you're scared but you have to do something the lizard is just sitting there now it's not moving it's the worst part about lizards and so i'm like okay let me get a box move it underneath here and then i'll figure it out after that so i get a box put it on top and i was like i need something to hold the box down so it doesn't

move yep so i put the closest thing that was heavy was an iron so i put the iron on top wow that's like movie okay so i'm like okay maybe i just move the box a little bit at a time to get out the door because you know like from my bedroom to the front door it's not that far at least it wasn't on the second or third floor that's immediately i worried about yes so i start moving the box a little bit at a time but the iron is dripping water because there's water inside the iron therefore the box is getting soggy and you also don't realize that you had And in putting the box on top, you ripped off the tail, part of the tail, which, you know, their tails just fall off. Yeah.

So now that the box is soggy and there's a gap because the tail has fallen off, the lizard has now escaped, ran under the bed. So you're just moving a wet box with nothing in it. I saw it come out. Oh, okay. Good, good, good. I saw it come out under my bed can't see it anymore though also I don't want to see no yeah so I'm like okay I need to contain it to this room so I get towels to cover up my door to the bathroom and my two closet doors grab my computer put leave my room and put a towel on the outside of the door I'm like okay it's contained I can't call the fellow that I occasionally see because

i know he's also working and so i'm sitting on my stairs how can how do i get a lizard out reddit usually has all the answers yeah everybody on reddit's like leave it they get rid of bugs i don't want bugs or lizards in my home oh my god i don't you are not helpful at all and what bugs are we talking about because if it's a fruit fly i'm so sorry i'm taking a fruit fly over a goddamn lizard right i don't know where that lizards can climb walls uh-huh they've got long tongues it's in my bedroom disgusting i cannot sleep in here with a lizard in here no so then i'm like okay what scents do because literally no one online is helping me what scents do lizards not like they don't like so i'm looking it up they don't like peppermint oil lavender and some

and cinnamon oil okay i'm like okay so that's what i need to do i need to lure it out and then you know get it outside so give it a fatal dose of big red gum so i go back into my room sneak back into my room get my purse leave go to lowe's they have the oils that you need yeah within the uh because it's the same things that rep or not reptiles it says i mean it is a reptile but it says like snakes don't like yeah so it's the same oils that are in that thing so i get that before i get to lowes i need gas because i see that i'm 20 miles away it's what six o'clock at night time i do not like getting gas as it is usually when i do get gas i drive a little to marina del rey so then somebody puts it into my car for me

But I have to get gas, even though Lowe's is pretty close. So I stopped, get gas. Why is gas, for the kind that I have to put in my car, $5.50 a gallon? And I saw that that wasn't even the highest in Southern California. Some places it was up to $8. We were driving on Saturday, and as we were just leaving our house, there was a gas station right by us that is the cheapest gas in, I think, almost all of the city of Los Angeles.

It's incredibly cheap gas. we've when we moved here mons was like oh my god we're next to the cheapest gas station and i look and i go i'm so sorry why is that five dollars like and mons was like no no we literally did a whole loop back and he was like couldn't believe it it was over fucking night it just everything i mean i know why totally yes i when i'm i'm asking you know why like somebody wrote on our as a comment just in case y'all didn't know pig latin is a fake language where you at the letter at the end yes we knew sometimes we just talk in hyperbole like it's entertaining were you entertained were you entertained

but and this the reason why the gas is so high is not a laughing matter no no no at all and it's not it's just funny that the man who said that he was going to drop the prices of gas has actually increased them uh at a rate no other president has seen in i don't know decades mm-hmm so i get the gas fill it up 70 in my little ass car in her clown car her tiny clown car go to lowe's thankfully everything i need it right at the door must be something that everybody so i get back home i tell my neighbor i'm like hey i'm gonna spray the stuff outside i made sure it was safe for your dog because she has a little tiny dog that just we just let run around in our little gated area and so um i was like i made sure it's safe and she goes

i had a lizard in here in october so this is not an anomaly oh my god now i'm looking around going i hope to god there's not one in here right so i so she's like watching me since we share ring cameras it's dark outside she's watching me on the camera i'm spraying all around the perimeter on the outside my place and her place then after i've done that and i'm sweating at this point like it was also hot as fuck so i've sprayed everywhere i've got the windows where i can reach spraying everywhere then i go inside i spray i was like okay i'm gonna take care of the rest of the house first because i know that the lizard is contained and then i'll come back so then i sprayed the rest of the house sprayed everywhere sprayed all the perimeters came back downstairs and got after my

room so after i sprayed the oils under the bed it eventually did come out okay and my neighbor had said that she had scooped hers up into her dustpan and so that's and she was like i scooped the dustpan and then walked it down the street so that's what i did because i have the kind of dustpan that like yeah closes up yeah so i did that after i was able to do it walked it down the street but it was dark so i was like i don't even know if it came out when i dumped it so i just left the dustpan outside and i was like i'll check tomorrow because it's either out there down the street or it will have crawled out totally yep so that was my saturday going into daylight savings time where you were talking about how i kicked my butt yeah because i was up extra hours

didn't finish the work i was supposed to also the next day was the la marathon i was supposed to go to my friend black ashley's birthday party couldn't make it because i was too tired yeah traffic and it was in west hills wherever they moved the malibu winery they've moved it out of malibu because of the fires i think it's in west hills now so that's just too far now especially on a weekend where the marathon was also happening yeah well i i do wonder if there's something in the air with the lizards because my house thankfully knock on wood um the outside of my home i live in a beautiful oasis lots of nature we have a bajillion and one lizards like i see at least stay outside i'm fine with lizards totally be outside i am a little curious about

why they're where you are because you do not live in a nature oasis so i'm like this feels the people behind me they have they um they have so many trees and like fruit trees and stuff oh okay yeah so yeah so i found the i have this bucket that i will not to be gross toss grubs in like i'll see a grub especially like in the morning or the early evening and i'll toss it out because that's what like the squirrels and gophers and stuff dig in the planter beds for so if i can remove them they don't dig as much um and i toss them in this like bucket that we have and they they die i'm sorry they're disgusting um and they turn into giant fig beetles so i don't want them and i one day i was like throwing them in and then i like looked closer and i was like is there

a lizard in this bucket like i don't know how it would have gotten in the bucket like because they can climb they can climb and i was so confused by it but i was like okay well if it climbed in the bucket then i could probably climb out of the bucket um but it wasn't like moving and so i was like is that plastic but i was like i'm not investigating and then the next day it was like still there and i was like okay but again i was like maybe i'm maybe you're feeding them well i was saying maybe it's leaves maybe it's leaves and like they're just like positioned in this way and then the other day i saw it was knocked over in the bucket and i asked matz i was like can you look in that and save to see if the lizard is there and he was like no there's no lizard and

i was like okay maybe so either the lizard wasn't dead or there was never a lizard to begin with and then the next day i went out to like look at our planter beds and i just looked down and i saw what i initially thought was a snake next to me because it was seven times the size of the normal lizards that we are seeing and then i realized i think that you're right i think i had essentially been feeding this tiny lizard steroids that it grew so large that now it has a vendetta against me because it thinks i caged him but it also thinks i'm providing him with food uh-huh And it was so huge, and I ran inside screaming, and Moss was working from home, and he just saw me on the ring, like, pajama pants on, glasses on the ring, like, oh, oh, oh, she

sweated. I'm a little sweaty. Damn. I'm cold. I probably have. Nope. Surprisingly, don't. But it is moist.

I'm confused, though, because I'm a little chilly. I'm cold, too. That's why my body does that, though. Yeah, me too. okay well wow that's broken tail yo i can tell it's it's it's not tapering off the way that i'm used to seeing them wow well i'm really glad that you've eliminated that and i hope to god you don't have any more of those it never crossed my mind to see those inside no i'll be spraying that oil because it says to do it every 30 days and trust i will be yeah i would too now i'm gonna start

getting it just to preemptively avoid it because i'm i mean you have them no i know we should i I didn't know that I needed to be working with them coming inside my home. That never, ever crossed my mind. But I will say the best thing about having like more neighbors is that that time that there was a fucking rat stuck here that I was like, I don't I have one neighbor I knew who I could call and they weren't around. Now I'm like, I am so fucking confident that I could go to any of my neighbors. And that's like, not to be selfish, part of the huge reason why I needed to meet all of my neighbors and foster a relationship with them. Because I need to be able to be like, I need you to come inside my home and get this rat for me. I'm afraid.

I'm afraid. Oh, wow. What an eventful day for you. It was awful. It was truly awful. One of the worst experiences of my life. There's nothing like your home being infiltrated by an unwanted animal that makes you feel unsafe in your home that you like think. it's like when you hear that someone has lice and you just start itching like you just start

thinking you see things and you hear things and it's just like you can't fucking relax oh yeah so um it almost made me contemplate getting a cat the rat did the exact same thing for me or just borrowing a cat i tried to borrow my neighbor's cat i came to my senses i was like i can't what are you doing you want to you want a nine pound chihuahua that has like the tongue permanently stuck out in one eye like you don't want a cat yeah i almost just called danny and sona and be like bring nala over here i have a job for her but she'd probably run away i literally did that to my neighbor and i sent a picture of the rat and they said so sorry that's too big and i was like don't say that don't say that the rat is too big for the cat fuck uh well

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I am 26 female and my friend is also 26 female and is bisexual. I've been with my husband for four. I'm a little nervous. I've been with my husband for four years and married almost a year. I'm also prior army and I tend to be pretty direct and solution oriented I'm writing because i'm struggling with a friendship and I don't know if i'm being too harsh or if my feelings are valid My friend constantly plays the victim Every day there's a new crisis mental health struggles financial issues or drama with someone she's dating or talking to

She just got out of a five-year relationship at 25 and started dating a woman about three months later They stayed together around eight months and the entire time the girlfriend was manipulative and toxic I listened and gave advice constantly but eventually had to tell my friend to stop asking for advice if she wasn't going to take it Or leave the relationship She openly says she can't be alone and is always talking to someone romantically She's extremely anxious and struggles to do things by herself I've encouraged her to take time to heal and grow and she's in therapy But it seems like she treats it as a place to vent rather than actually doing the work or homework

Her therapist gives her at this point. I'm honestly exhausted every conversation turns into a problem She's having and i'm tired of listening and I feel like i'm repeating the same advice while watching her stay in the same cycle we've only been friends for about a year but she calls me her bestie bestie and i do not feel the same i feel she's very immature for her age i care about her but i am drained am i overreacting or is it okay to step back and end the friendship i when you mentioned that she was bisexual i was like please don't tell me you as a 26 year old who's married is about to leave your husband for you i thought that's where this story was and when she said prior army i was like sexually repressed okay like that's where i was going i was making a lot of assumptions me too

and i apologize me too i apologize as well i apologize as well i will say i don't think her being bisexual needed to be in the first sentence i don't find that part uh particularly important i really did think it was going to be very important which is why my mind went to this call is about the bisexual plight like this that is it's not you just have a deeply annoying friend who you've only known for a year i've been in situations with friends like this that there's always a problem and at first i thought it was amusing yes you know like i feel helpful giving advice you know they always have drama it's not my drama some of it was entertaining actually most of it was entertaining because they move around a lot of upper echelon people

in hollywood you see it could be fun yeah and so i was like this is cool the stories that they were telling me were so outlandish that i thought they were lying and then i would see pictures of them with said people on their instagram and i was like oh this is the truth but i digress it got so tiresome where they were always like having issues where they had to be like moving every few months because of something that happened they said to them but I'm like at some point it's your you have to take responsibility for all these things that are going on in your life and for me I just had to cut them off because it was a one-sided friendship where it was so draining where I cared about them I still care about them to this day and it's been a few years

since i ended the friendship but i can't i'm not your therapist yep and if you are coming to me for advice or i'm giving advice and you're not taking it why are we having this conversation why are we wasting my time and your time why are we wasting breath if you're not going to change anything about what you're doing this person says that they cannot be alone that is their root problem that they need to speak to some someone that can actually help them and then they can figure out the rest of the things going on in their life yeah and i do think in general like being a being the friend in this situation can also be enabling even if you are giving them actually constructive advice and you're not condoning their actions but like some people just like like to talk about

their shit like it gets to a point like i've had i've had a good amount of friends like this and it ends it my boiling point reaches a point where either you're making drama out of absolutely nothing like you're telling me something that happened like a regular interaction and being like could you believe and i'm like whoa the lens that you like look at life through that like the perpetual like victim mindset like how could this have happened to me and it's like someone got your order wrong at a restaurant and like you it was like such a personal personal offense like that is something that I'm like well now I'm now I'm exhausted because like I'm never gonna see any growth in this as a person like you're just you do this with anything and everything you seek this

out or they are people who like you said like they do it to their own lives in a sense that like why did I just sit here and give you all of this advice for you to not take it and then to tell me about like what just happened as if I didn't already give you all of this advice it's like you're just talking to hear yourself talk and I think your viewpoint of like she's just going to a therapist event is what they're also just doing to you and like that just becomes a sounding board for this and then I also noticed with those people they tend to like not have a lot of discernment with friends like they will tell the same shit to you that they will tell to someone that they met a month ago and i'm like oh this isn't that bad like this isn't this whatever is going on in

your life i'm putting in all this effort to try and help you fix this you would tell your fucking uber driver this story like you would tell anybody this there is no vulnerability in it and i think a lot of times if you are someone who keeps things which not to make a stereotype you were in the army if you're someone who's like keeps your life a little bit closer to your chest and you're not uh very vulnerable with people you can i can find that when someone is like very forthcoming with me about something because like I'm not I'm not a talker like that I like blab but I'm not like a getting vulnerable kind of talker that I automatically assume that like wow this person doesn't have anyone like if I if they're telling this to me they don't have anyone else to tell

this to like they must really need someone and then I'm like okay I'll step up to the plate and then it's like oh this is just the only way you know how to have interactions with people and like it is just like fundamentally exhausting because nothing can ever be just like fun or fine or cool like everything has to be catastrophic dramatic incidents and at a certain point like i will in fact start giggling like i will giggle because like you found a way there's one thing i want to say so badly but it would be like far too revealing but i just remember this one person i like said something so blasé about a person and the person was like don't talk about them and i was like what and i was like i just mentioned like i love this person they're like i just i

can't we can't even get into that and I was like huh like it's just you there is no mutual relationship like you said like it is so deeply one-sided because I am just the live studio audience and at a certain point that no longer becomes entertaining so you would you need to you need to end the friendship and just know that you will probably be replaced by someone within a month who they will say all of these other things to as well they probably already have that other person but this is what they do with all of their friends yes and I just I also find it wild when I I've had friends like that where like they have essentially done a survey to every single one of our friends like friends and like asked and talked about it and then finding out that I'm like so

what are you gonna make a decision like are you gonna do anything with all this are you just collecting a sample size of like other people's opinions on it and then you're gonna do absolutely nothing about it like it's just it's i can't i don't know i love i love research i love market research but like i cannot fad them also asking people who like their life is in shambles i like some of the people that's like oh and i asked so-and-so and i'm like what the fuck would you ask someone you would ask them for why like you just all you you just want to talk about your problems and you enjoy having problems and that i find i find exhausting people that don't have solutions to their own problems when they have advice on how to handle it and they don't take it

they just talk to hear themselves talk they don't that is their personality trait like they don't actually have a personality so therefore they adapt this thing where they become they're the perpetual victim because then they have something to talk about well i think like complaining can be incredibly cathartic but if you don't feel like after you've just like vented on if you don't feel better afterwards and like now that thing is off your plate and never like it's it's in the past if you need to do that again that's a problem like i'm fine if you want to be like oh my god you'll never fucking believe what just happened you just want to like vent and complain about it and then you you move on but if you need to turn around to someone else and go

you'll never believe what just happened it's like you just did this like it's like you're getting like it's like a it's like a an energy that people like survive off of is that and specifically the reactions that other people get and it's like oh you don't want to move past this at any point and like there's a huge difference but and it sometimes can be hard to discern because you think you're giving someone actual advice or you think that they're venting to kind of have that emotional release and then move on and then it becomes like oh no this is just who you are this is a pattern this is not how most people process information like this this would drive me crazy and it has i've done this i've had friendships like this yep me too all right let's take a break

when we get back we'll get into an update get your tickets now for the dog stars it's no surprise how fast civilization can disappear a therapist kill or be killed jacob allordy there are people out there they need our help josh brolin shoot first and inquire afterwards margaret qualley okay tough guy and guy piers arm up the dog stars directed by ridley scott in theaters friday get tickets now we are back it's time for the update i'm really excited about this i haven't read it at all i just saw the subject and i'm i'm stoked all right here we go i have an update on the bride who wants to play in the snow at her wedding from march 9th episode to answer a couple questions

she's been doing coke occasionally for a couple years but it's been about 18 months that she's been friends with these nurses that it's become more every event she's got a big bag oh my god Just recently, it's been a weekend at the beach, Halloween, her birthday, a pool party, her bachelorette. She's told me she likes to do it when her partner isn't with her because he's not there to tell her to stop. The wedding went fine. I didn't confront her. She was definitely doing coke. I assume her nurse friends split it with her, even though one of them was throwing up in the bathroom before dinner was served.

LOL. Can you tell I don't like the nurses? she tried to convince everyone to go out after the wedding even though her husband clearly didn't want to and wanted to spend the rest of the night with her i was sad i didn't feel more excited at the wedding as she is one of my closest friends until recently it's been more of a relief it's over i've decided i'm taking a break from her her maid of honor and the best man have told me they are as well whoa also not that it really matters my hair is naturally dark blonde slash light brunette and all the other bridesmaids and bride have dark brown hair that's so weird that she wanted

one blonde no and so your hair also like is lighter than everybody else's yeah hair there like also why would she want you to be the one that sticks out then with a bleach blonde hair i don't know maybe she was actually trying to prank you this is maybe she just wanted to be white to be representative of her love of coke like this is objectively crazy and like i don't know if she watches the pit but i watched i don't watch the pit but i watched i was like what the fuck no i mean why are you referencing this show that you said literally i think last week i will never watch that show no but i watch clips on tiktok because they can't show the stuff that they that's the really scary stuff and i know one of the characters um developed a drug uh problem

which is not i mean it's not uncommon in general for anyone to develop a drug habit let alone someone who has access in the medical field but i was gonna say like i don't know anybody who works in the medical field who isn't watching the pit so are they watching the pit and being like yeah that guy's on drugs he looks like he's having a good he's doing great at his job um i have a story from somebody that wrote in so this person said they have a friend that is a paramedic and she went to go save this guy who had od'd on fentanyl come to find out he was a registered nurse who had just shot up and was about to clock in for his shift yeah so i mean i i don't the the medical field is responsible for a lot of substance issues and whether that's like the

access at like whether it's like insanely long hours or the access or whatever or just like having to like work through injuries and needing something for that or also being a patient and being over prescribed something or not being warned about any of that so that doesn't shock me at all unfortunately but this is like i think she's getting divorced like she is she is getting divorced incredibly soon she's hiding the fact that she has a bigger problem as she's saying because she won't do it around her now husband it's so bad that even the best man is like i need a break from her so she's not really hiding it that much because how much is he around yeah the The best man universally typically love Coke, too.

If that's too much for him. How much is he around your friend-ish, your friend, so much that the husband wouldn't know? Like, clearly knows. No, I would be like, I'm taking a break from this friendship, and I would... It would be an indefinite break. It is. I'm done. But I would also reach out to the husband and be like, hey, can I give you a call?

I'm not putting it in writing, but I'm going to give you a call. i want to let you know i'm taking a break from our friendship with her i hope you all have a wonderful lovely marriage um just confirm you know she's doing a lot of coke that's why we're pausing i just want you to make sure you know that i'm sure you've been told but you need i don't want it to get spun in a different way that makes it seem why i i am pausing this i mean he knows because she has said i need i only want to do it when he's not around so he can't stop me wait can they were fighting about it about her doing it at the wedding well that yeah she's like well let's have an after party because he won't go so i can do my coke and i go girl it's your wedding like

i'm going to fuck what are you doing i'm either going to sleep or to fuck no she's she's like oh perfect he's leaving now we can do coke and i'm like girl it's your wedding you're okay how big of a bag are we talking to no and i i'm like i'm i'm i'm concerned i'm concerned i'm concerned It makes me think of when early when I moved here and I had one of those unpaid internships before it was illegal, like literally like weeks before. And I was at we were having like this writing meeting. This project went nowhere. It was just a bunch of nothing. But it was in the Hollywood Hills.

and after we had this meeting in the back house they had multiple homes on this property then he's like okay in the other house the main house we're gonna just hang out and party and then they walked over and there's just a big bowl of coke and i said time for me to leave yeah the time for me to leave that was the last time i talked to those people they were blowing up my phone as if this was an actual job i was getting paid for no i'm not coming back and i don't have to even tell you i'm not coming no you'll never see me again and they didn't and that's exactly how it should be handled first time i saw coke um because by the way i actively avoided seeing coke like when i was younger but like the first time i saw it um and it was just out and also in

general my high school it was pills everyone was doing a lot of pills which back then was worse like exponentially exponentially worse than coke because kids were getting hooked on like oxy and stuff but I remember in college I saw it for the first time and I I think I started crying and I was like I and I'm drunk and I'm like are you drunk okay I'm so drunk I have to go home I don't like that and here I am absolute binge drinker and everyone's like coke is where you draw the now you have to go home like you and I was like I gotta leave I gotta leave like I became the anti-coke girl to the point where I was shocked when I found out that the guy that I was supposed to go to winter formal with um he i thought he was just like not very bright he was very tall

and very pretty i thought he was just like not very bright turns out absolute coked off his ass all of the time which i can't even imagine when he's like not on coke because he already spoke so slowly i was like what are you like without the coke like do you speak at all like right like i was just like this is making you faster okay um and he i found out that we were supposed to be he was like transporting drug and he like was planning on not just like bringing it for like the frat guys to you know do but like to sell it and to distribute and oh no and i was like i'm so sorry an accessory to a crime oh across state lines like no i'm not fucking going and i didn't say it but i found out because i my big bro in the other fraternity was like he heard that i was going

with this guy and he overheard him saying this and he was a senior and he was like oh my little is she's afraid of drugs there's no way she's gonna be able to do this and so i just told him i was like hey like could we like maybe like not be the room that like has all that and then he like uninvited me for like not being chill and i was like okay like whatever but like you are just gonna have me be a i was an accessory to transporting and intent to distribute pounds of drugs across state line and you were not gonna tell me you were a mule by association and i was like oh my god i can't believe you thought i'd be chill with this i wonder what he's up to now probably a high-ranking official honestly he probably works for like the doj or something

but when i tell you he could not string a sentence together i don't know that he's ever i've ever even had a complete conversation with him but he was very pretty well thank you for the update he unfriended me on facebook okay well i guess i'll never know all right we're gonna take a break when we get back we'll get into more stories we're back did you see um debbie allen's spirit tunnel no i did watch um ryan baith bathay bathay bathay ryan michelle ryan michelle i watched hers i adore her i i'm her number one fan hey you know what i will take number two because you have talked about her before i knew about her and it's mostly from tiktok no i'm i'm addicted to her tiktok like i love her i think she is so funny she is so

charming did you see the uh interview with her sterling and michelle and michelle's brother i don't know his name i think he would be fine being called michelle's brother uh hold on i feel like it's like i was gonna say michael but i was gonna say it's literally a variation of that i swear if you say it's james or john or jimmy i'm gonna i'm gonna scream at least i did know craig craig hey bring more craigs yeah um yes i saw them on the podcast and how sterling was freaking out about his first time meeting michelle obama and i'm like yes this is funny but y'all aren't fans of of Ryan Michelle

the way that I am because the way this woman freaks out about the men that she meets in her life not doesn't even compare

doesn't even compare she I really have been wanting I should check to see if she's done it but I've been really wanting her to do recaps of the new season

of Paradise maybe she won't because she's in it I know that's what I part of me wonders and I'm like maybe maybe when it's over

like when we have all the episodes they've dropped but i i like love i've like re-watched her watching paradise like a bajillion fucking times i guess i've seen it through her eyes her talking about his butt yep and you know atlanta everyone just goes atlanta seriously atlanta but the reason why i brought up debbie allen because they sang ease on down the road from the whiz and remember when we were talking about the whiz and them doing a reboot and we said who would direct it and i said debbie allen somebody's

listening so i didn't sleep well last night because you know i think of like there are times that i've woken up from things that i go that's the worst way to wake up like a fire alarm um you know a loud noise an earthquake earthquakes actually they kind of like lull you awake yeah if they wake you up I hear it coming yeah I'm like okay I'm in bed

yeah it's a little rock my baby go back to sleep I woke up screaming this morning like and I mean

I mean that I think if I think there's a chance my neighbors could have woken up and were alarmed okay

so at first I'm the lightest sleeper in the fucking world so we have our watering days which are Tuesdays and Thursdays we record this on Thursdays

and um we have a like drip line system and so it automatically we have timers it automatically goes off and i can tell when it's on but i can also tell when it is on too strong which means that like one of the little joints has come loose and it's just like hose water going everywhere so i could tell it was that and i told him once i was like hey did you turn that down i think it's disconnected and i could just hear it so i'm like asleep saying this and he was like oh go look and he goes to look and it was and he like fixed it i'm already back asleep then i wake up

because he does he didn't wear his glasses i don't think and he was half asleep he gets tangled up in like the phone cord he trips and falls hits me my hip head first but i still to this day still till this moment i was gonna say that was to this day it was today i still don't believe he said it was his head and i go that's the pointiest head i've ever felt when i tell you i thought he john cena elbowed me like i thought he fell like a wrestling move right into my hip socket i screamed waking up i was just and he felt so bad and he was like i didn't know how to so fucking clumsy the columbia's people ever the way that i was bringing up to him that he was clumsy and he was like what and i go you have to stop fighting it that was yesterday and now he goes i'm you know

you were right you were right and i was like there are times where like i know i could have been i could have thought through my my physical movement process more and that was one that i was like you had no control over that no but i'm like you didn't think to which now that i think about it i was like i'm he was like well i'm just like picturing like what would have happened if the bed wasn't there i would have like eaten shit and i go why didn't you put your arms out to catch like that should scare you more that you didn't brace yourself i do he's an athlete like a former athlete he should know how to fall well i think the reason why because he was like i don't know why i didn't put my arms out i think the reason why it's because he put his elbows out and then

claimed it was head or subconsciously i think that he didn't know where i was in the bed and if he fell with one physical point if it really was his pointy ass noggin if he fell with one physical point there's like exponentially less damage than like three different ways of like hands and like you know pulling hair or whatever but i i was like and he like called me this morning on the way to work he felt so bad he did buy me the yarn that he said he's been getting me for a while so i was like okay now how long can i milk this right i'm gonna have the fattest bruise on my body oh my god i was and it was like he was shocked because my scream also scared of him and i was like you do you know i was still in the bed like yeah right there but um you know

it i've been taking advil i'll be i'll be okay but it was just so incredibly jarring so incredibly jarring we both had very jarring experiences in the bed yeah and with lizards yeah yours much more much scarier awful awful awful um i i had a dream oh yeah that i did something fucked up yeah i don't even particularly remember what the dream was but i feel like we were in a meeting like i saw us in a meeting and you were saying some shit like complaining about stuff that i was doing and i was like the fuck and i couldn't like really combat with you because there was somebody else there and then i woke up completely pissed i texted you because i was like i had to tell you the lizard story but i couldn't tell you the lizard story because i was saving it

for this moment but i was like i woke up and you were being the biggest cunt derogatory and i'm fucking pissed at you right now your dream you were was such a fucking piece of work and here's the thing i am like unlike men who like when you're like wow i'm really mad at you because of me my dream and you and my dream and they're like that wasn't even the real me i'm always like oh yeah i bet i was a real i dream me i bet she was a real bitch like i'm over here going like yeah god sorry for whatever she did i i know that the people in my dreams they can't be helped us on as well for those actions but the real life versions of them i want to be able to commiserate and have them be like yeah that she does sound like a bitch right she does sound like

the fucking worst it took me a moment to even shake it off no oh my god yes like it it gets you that's why you know you had this fondness for chloe kardashian and why i had this like lingering fear of selena gomez like what our dreams do dream chloe kardashian i just want to make it clear yeah it was she had a dream it was it was because of the dreams and like i understand i d i really i really understand and then i it was funny because when you sent that i was looking through my phone for like something and i had stumbled upon a note that i had written i was like searching for something else in my notes and this is what popped up instead and i was like this is just so funny because this is the same time that you're telling me about what

i didn't dream my note app from november 9th 2025 i must have woken up right from my dream and then started writing about what happened in my dream so it says kendall jenner and a white cowboy she whispers to us kenneth wedding in jamaica or someone gay i think this would say jody jody sweet and broke ribs i'm sorry this one i remember this specific part because in my my in my dream my dreams are so fucking weird in my dream i was reading a letterboxd review i don't know fucking why and this was the review and i thought it was so funny and now i'm like what movie was i what i didn't write the review i was reading the review in my dream so someone else in my dream i was like that was really funny and i'm like bitch you made that up you're really

funny uh 13 million people die before 10 people can go on vacation what movie would have that been describing no clue um post 9-11 iran iraq frankie muniz i made art so someone loved it thought there were two dads another person shyla buff died pudding money pap pics staged i don't have like paparazzi or pap smear i think paparazzi of like like of pudding so i'm like did pudding call paparazzi on themselves or is it a putting a person i don't know what they even were at the time and i was like wow i need to start writing down my dreams more i wish i was still having dreams of math those were the best dreams i'd wake up feel accomplished i would just be doing math problems in my dreams didn't have anxiety yeah like it was great well you start the day

off like you said you feel like you accomplish something versus like you feel like you like fought for your life and now you actually have to take on the real day and you're like but i'm exhausted i just saved the fucking world right and no one's no one's even acknowledging it i'm just supposed to walk around like i didn't just like save humankind it's fucked up i understand i understand i'm picking up my uh sleep test on a week from yesterday okay congratulations thank you so much i'm quite excited for that did you see that um katherine heigl went to mar-a-lago oh she didn't watch the video see that live reaction you did not hear about this i did not but also not surprising well speaking of people who care more about animals than humans um she

went for like a dog charity okay so i saw the dog stuff because i saw she was doing post interviews And there was something in her interviews where she said, no, the photos were like rare outing for Katherine Heigl. So I did see the photos, but I didn't know where it was located. You could have maybe been able to tell by her dress and the hair choice that she made and the makeup choice. It also could have been Palm Springs. I don't know. Well, to be fair, whoever did her makeup really said, we're going to do you up for the occasion because she looks like she's ready to go to Mar-a-Lago. and i've seen people be like well it was for the animals and i'm like i can't with you fucking people who are like able to overlook that to be like well she was caring about the animals and

i'm like no no no no no no no no have you started paradise yet no i've got so much work now that job that i told you i wanted got it oh fantastic also i've signed the contract for that head writer position as hell yeah so i've got two consulting jobs this podcast i've directed in q1 i've directed five audiobooks oh damn yeah so like i went so long with no work yeah i need to get i need i need to get like current you i'm still i'm still in the past yeah i'm still last week i need to i need to get in this this week you yeah but my god this season of paradise i will say they did change they find they changed the header now where it is sterling k okay i will say though i not i get it now i get why she was the the cover of it it wasn't even it was just a screenshot no

i saw it i saw it i looked after the episode um and i was like what the fuck but i understand it a bit more now but my my fucking god people were saying that this season two is like lackluster um and i saw that on reddit before i started watching it and i was like very okay with it being lackluster because season one was like so great and if they redid season one it would have been so boring like it needs their needs they needed to essentially expand what was going on they needed to they needed to move on and not move on but they needed to broaden this and they needed to take a journey um so it was driving the plot forward but now that i've seen that the people who wrote that were men that was like it is there is an episode that like holy fuck like it's just

it it is it's incredible like it's so good already and like the character development of people it's just it's so fucking good i will say the only thing that's taking me out of it is i keep going that's Thousand Oaks is I just keep going I don't know where that road is like and before when they film it on like the Warner Brothers lot I'm like that's it really adds to the story like it makes sense when when they are using Thousand Oaks or Valencia to be Alabama I am I've never been to Alabama so someone from Alabama let me know if that's what it looks like but I look at that and i go actually it does maybe it does it does certain parts depending on where you are that's probably where they're supposed to be but it's just like the writing everything like the plot

devices everything is like so fucking creative the acting is phenomenal and i am just i'm hooked i'm so fucking hooked and i will say there is we talk about men who shape shift we talk about people who shapeshift in general there is an actor who's in this season who i'm like who the fuck is this guy like i've never seen this man before in my life he's got like you know beard mustache all that and then i see an interview like press for this show with shailene woodley and the kid who was on descendants and i go oh i guess i haven't met this character yet who is it i look it up and that kid is scottish and i'm like i we haven't run into him yet and he's very like chiseled he looks i i told i told him that's what looks maxing is and now he's

obsessed with like making fun of and he goes that guy absolute chad like pinnacle looks maxer and i was like by the way i'm so glad you paid attention because you're right they they love him they love him he's got that face and i was like oh i guess we haven't met this character yet he he he shaves in one of the episodes and i go holy fucking hell best american accent i've heard in my entire life like it is the level of like almost like margot robbie where i'm like i am not picking up on the fact i assumed he had american parents or he grew up in the states i was shocked absolutely shocked that that is him and then he shaves and i was floored floored complete shape shifter oh i have no idea his name is um he used to be with uh i think you should date dove cameron that does

nothing for me he's got that same kind of like look like front like dove cameron's got that like very like like a severe kind of beauty i can't even imagine her in my face like alien my favorite kind of pretty which is like an alien kind of look she's got that um and he does too i think he was in the new gossip girl too thomas doherty hold him up i'm doing it so this is him in his everyday an absolute looks maxing chad and him in paradise and i can't dress this enough scottish like he looks scottish fully scottish i yeah wouldn't i would think that is jake johnson i was and like taking my absolute perfect american accent and i was like who is this actor like i was just i i was completely shocked and taken aback that i watched multiple episodes

and until he shaved and then i went holy fuck that's that guy but he's also very good and i it's oh my god it's just it's it's phenomenal i will say i don't want to give anyone any spoilers but like the show is is heavy like the show is heavy and like if there's anything that would potentially like I don't know like I don't think you need to give like warnings about like this is a literally after like the world like this is like a very intense premise of the show so I don't think you need like specific trigger warnings necessarily but like for anyone who might be like especially sensitive to anything if you are like actually watching the show you'll know if it's coming do you know what i mean like you'll you'll know if

there's something there's a seed being planted that seed does grow up into the tree and you know that it's happening but i don't think that anyone would be caught off guard knowing the content of the show but my god i'm just it's fucking great fucking so fucking good you're gonna you're gonna love it okay it might be better than the last season okay acting wise storyline wise character wise like oh i'm i'm i'm geeky it's kind of doing a good place where they're like going each characters get like you're finding out how they got where they got which i love that shit i love it so addicted absolutely addicted obsessed with it but i'm afraid they're only gonna get three seasons because it's streaming no i thought i thought

they already announced that it's only going to be three seasons well i think they probably wrote it with three seasons in mind because you can't get more than three seasons on streaming most likely i think they announced that it's only going to be three seasons that it was ending after the next one well no that makes sense i think they wrote it to be three seasons because three seasons is pretty standard of like what you can get and then from there you know you might walk away for more money and all that stuff so they wrote it in a way that i think without a doubt it will be done in three seasons but like i wish it could go on forever yeah yeah that came out it's easy it will end with season three god it's fucking good i can't wait for you to watch it

all right i yelled in you beyond and you weren't even looking up no had no idea all right uh that is the end of our episode thank you so much for tuning in join us on thursday when we'll be revealing one battle after another i can't believe that we have to do this i just think that this is a proof that we're living in two americas oh my god that's a very great point uh thank you um join us on patreon um if you want ad free episodes and to be part of our live stream um you can also watch episodes watch watch keyword episodes full episodes on spotify with ads so choose what you want to do your adventure all right goodbye bye this is a sister sign production hosted by me megan ranks and me melissa d montz plus diamond

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