Don't Blame Me! - REPLAY: Guest: Nikki Limo - He Murdered Someone on Accident?
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Don't Blame Me. And today, our
wonderful patriotic guest is Nikki Limo. Hey, once you guys see the video, you'll understand
what I just voted. I have a sticker that says I voted because I did. Because you're the
best. Thank you. I think everyone you're I think are you the only one who's voted out?
I mean as of right now
out of this circle
that's in this room
yeah
oh my gosh I am
you are
we're voting
but we are voting
but they will vote
they are voting
they do vote
I hope you all
fucking voted
yeah
this episode will come out
you better have voted
or else whatever's
happening in the world
right now is your fault
it's your fault
true
because this episode
will come out in December
oh shit
so you'll really know
if the world is burning
yeah
so fuck all of you
if you didn't vote
and you caused it
and yay
if we've changed the world
yeah
to make it a better place
or a less terrible place
yeah just everyone my standards are low right now everyone's playing harps and yes getting along and
having sex and oh my gosh i just all i want is just like not like the terrible stuff i'm like
you know we don't have to necessarily improve but like let's just not go backwards right so um
and maybe like less murder oh i'd be into that maybe less murder totally yes we have a saying
here where you can't own an apple tv and also be a racist and like i would just love if we like
followed through with that thing of being like you don't get to like reap the perks of living
in this century and then also be a total idiot yeah yeah i like that rule yeah thankfully all
of my friends on apple tvs they're not racist i have an apple tv me i have two apple tvs whoa
you're double not racist or does it cancel it out and now you're racist oh god something about
check yourself no they're too positive two positives two positives equal positive that's
positive positive positive positive yes uh so this is an advice podcast uh people call in they
leave us voicemails and uh then we give them some advice and our lovely producer here is melissa
hello aaa uh and our phone number if you guys want to call in for an upcoming episode is 310-694-0976
and our email address for international callers is meganpodcast at gmail.com and uh it's gonna
be good are you good at giving advice i hope so i mean it depends on the type of advice do you give
unsolicited advice uh not unsolicited oh that's yeah you're a better person always solicited but
i you know i can't wait to give that solicited advice oh it's it opened like you i always thought
because i'm an unsolicited advice kind of person okay i always thought that i i couldn't deep dive
more but then the power that you have when someone actually wants to hear what you have to say yes
you're like hold my hoops yeah let me tell you as long as i have permission oh you're in for all
i'm going in because like now you've signed up for this yes like this isn't just me like trying
to tread lightly without being like i don't want to offend you i'm like oh no you asked and here's
the thing i think you're a bad friend if you don't tell the truth oh i think you are too if you're a
good good friend you will tell them the things that they don't want to hear yeah or maybe you
say something nice and they're like oh phew i was right and that's that's cool but at least they
know that they can trust your word so i always hate that when friends don't ask your advice on
something or your opinion you're like please ask me because I have one like I got one and I really
think you should hear it but I'm not gonna tell you until you tell like you ask me what I think
sometimes I ask if I can have their permission oh my my friend she was dating this guy and we
went out together and she was like a little tipsy and then I was like I have to go to the bathroom
do you want to come with me and she's like sure and we get in the bathroom I was like how drunk
are you right now she goes I mean like I'm a little tipsy and I was like like I'm gonna tell
you something and i need you to remember it but i need you to not be mad at me and she's like okay
i feel like that's good i was like you need to dump him he's the worst fucking guy in the entire
goddamn world that's a good friend okay that's a good friend probably right and then it took like
three more months before she did but she got there but at least she got there yeah she did
breakups are hard to do oh yeah i don't know if i've ever i've uh i've ghosted a couple people
oh that's usually me no no more of that don't do this but she's in a long relationship now like
Now, I tried to ghost him.
It didn't work.
I would rather.
But here's the thing, though.
Like, I'm a big believer in, like, do unto others what you would want done to you.
I would rather be ghosted than 100% that someone would be like, hey, I'm just not that into.
No, I don't want to hear it.
Really?
It's like my exes is, like, 50-50.
It's like either, like, I'm still really good friends with them or I just ghosted them.
With ghosting, though.
I just never feel like there's closure when people ghost.
We don't believe in closure.
Oh, really?
yeah oh i need it more inclusive to guess because we're aligned on everything like we don't do that
here we haven't voted either so who are we we're going to vote we just were busy this morning
but no yeah we don't believe in closure why why is that that's so curious so you know it's so
funny the first conversation we had with this i think was ashley and ashley was wearing a very
similar outfit to you right now and she just didn't look over and i'm like wow i can talk
to you about closure it's like i've already done this yeah she had on like the exact same thing
maybe because you need closure on this subject literally it's full circle it is um so our
feeling on closure is if you need like especially in a relationship or anything like that like
whoever was the reason why you ended your relationships not ever going to be part of
like you moving on like i think like if anything the only time you'd get closure
is if you like you want to talk to your like ex or whatever and like talk it out hey you're really
going into you want to get one thing like you want that satisfaction of either like i fucked up i
really miss you or all of this stuff but like most of the time the answers you're not going to get
the one answer that you're looking for and the only time closure would happen is if like they
end up being a complete and total jerk and then you're like okay yeah i was right you're a jerk
for me it's like a puzzle like a jigsaw puzzle and then there's like pieces missing yeah and i
just want to finish the fucking puzzle but then do they ever help you do that yeah really yeah so
like uh like years later like it'll be like seven years later okay yeah that's our that's our
exception okay it has to be years later because it's usually people are trying to get closure in
a relationship like within like a couple months oh no no and that's not a thing because the only
way you can get closure is when you don't need the closure it's like when you're already good
and you've moved on and everything's fine that's when it happens yeah i can agree with that as soon
as you're trying to like tie up loose ends with somebody like it's it's just you if you if you
still have like feelings there and stuff you're giving them like a way to say oh no i messed up
yeah that's what you're waiting for yeah you're waiting for that moment until you're not waiting
for that then you can get the closure because also then you don't give a shit what do you feel
about closure with friends because i've been ghosted by friends before i do that all the time
oh jesus same same same i just get like monsters i get tired of people yeah same no no that's
hilarious but like good friends are just acquaintances it's usually good holy shit
all right it takes it takes a while to like actually be my friend and then i'll just be like
we're not on the same page yeah and also people who put in more effort than you for like most
of the time you're like dude if this was like if you put in equally as much effort as i have we
would have not been friends like five months ago yeah but like yeah like you're trying like you
really put all this effort and i've kind of just like been where you've at like i'm like okay sure
but oh yeah i get it you didn't give me the opportunity to prove that like i don't really
get your friend i'm the worst okay yeah i've been ghosted by people where like it takes me a while
to become friends with someone too because i like just have trust issues because once once you're my
friend i'm like so fucking loyal and so like very few people are in this like tight friendship
circle and so if one gets in it and then they like become a shitty friend i'm like how did you
how did you make it through the vetting process how did you make it through this
like how did you infiltrate and and then i'm just so confused about like where did i go wrong like
where did i where did i misstep and allow this person in this circle and it drives me crazy
until i can figure out the reason why it didn't work out and then i'm like oh okay then i can let
it go yeah but until then i'm just like why the fuck is that bitch such a bitch and i'm just like
yeah i'm just mad and i don't like to harbor like mad energy or toxic energy and so it's almost like
not getting this piece of the puzzle like it makes it impossible for me to let that go and i hate
that yeah see sometimes i'll ghost people and then i just need that distance for a few months and
then we'll become friends again okay yeah i've definitely like let distance happen yeah but
like full-on like not responding to confrontations and yeah definitely never done i need to
reaffirm myself i'm a shitty person we both do i also have terrible anxiety with when i think
everyone's mad at me so i'd rather just not respond to someone and then let them be mad at
me and know that's why they're mad at me as opposed to like so you come up with yes so it's
not so like it's a self-fulfilling prophecy i'm like i think you're mad at me like well at least
if i don't respond i know why you're mad at me so then i know i can control the that anger i see
because i'm insane just a little bit i understand the thought process yeah i get that way too
and then i'm just like wait but this makes me feel better when this goes away because for some
reason this feeling doesn't go away or it just stays attached and i'm like it's better for my
aura if i just like confront the issue that i'm scared of which is odd because i'm also very
confrontational huh i'm not at all no no not i could not see you no that's why i just ghost
people yeah but like not even in like a like a oh i'm scared of that you're like too much
i'm just like i don't care yeah okay guys i guess we can start and give some advice
should we get some advice now i'm 18 i recently started college and to put it as simple as can be
I'm not having the most fun.
I've kind of struggled with depression for quite a while, more recently through high school.
And now I am without some of the friends that I have had throughout high school.
And it's really hard making friends here.
I've been throwing myself out there like a million different ways.
And it just hasn't worked so far.
And so I'm really kind of lonely.
I'm only about an hour and a half away from home, but it's still kind of far.
My sister goes to university only 20 minutes away from our home, and I see her going home
on Sundays and having dinner with the family, or my mom coming up and having lunch with
her when she has a break from work and different things like that.
And really, I'm kind of getting FOMO, you know?
I love my roommate, and there are certain things I love about my campus, like the liberal
politics and stuff but I'm just not super happy and so I've kind of been thinking that at the end
of this academic year I'm going to reevaluate and maybe transfer to the college my sister goes to
which is only 20 minutes away from home so if I'm lonely and without friends there at least I'm only
20 minutes away from my family what do you think I should do should I soldier on because this is
the university I pick? Should I keep putting myself out there? Should I do what I said by
reevaluating at the end of the year? I don't know. Just help me out. I think this is not so black
and white because there's a lot of reasons someone can be unhappy. She mentioned she struggles with
depression. And if you have depression, it really doesn't matter if you're at that college or you're
at the college closer to your house or you're at home or you're around people, you're not around
people you're gonna not be happy it just is like you have depression if it's outside factors like
the stuff at this particular college is stressing you out or you think that like you're lonely and
you'll never make friends here and so you need to go back to your old friends then i don't know
maybe maybe you'd be a little happier if you knew some people but i also think that the these are
like the best parts of your life is the figuring out part because once you like become happy on
your own you can be happy anywhere and you and even if you have depression you can find if you
find ways to work through it and and stuff that like gets you past those really really hard parts
that's like the best piece of life to find yeah you know no i i agree i think uh yeah i think
there you got to figure out exactly what it is about this school that specifically makes you
unhappy and then also i would say i don't know if you've talked to your sister about it yet but
talk to her i think the thing that i learned as a college dropout hell yeah me too hell yes
um what i learned thank god i've been i i'm always outnumbered actually i'm not always
outnumbered most of my friends didn't go to college um actually here because it's la yeah
but uh usually she's giving me shit for not going to college no it's not for everyone statements
that you make it's regarding yeah i'm like now that i'm done with college now that when i was
post-grad i was like but you didn't graduate i was post-dropout yeah it was like all of my
friends graduated so i was the age of post-grad right right right that makes sense age bracket
that's what it is it's easier for people to digest it has nothing to do with a degree i did or did
not good um but i would say figure out talk to your sister about it and um find out if she's
happy because i think as soon as i kind of like swallowed my pride and admitted like to like
couple of my friends being like so i first admitted to uh my one of my best friends and
she's two years younger than us and she's my best friend's little sister they're both like
my sisters and i called her like crying being like i hate this school your sister's so happy
at college everybody's so happy at college and I don't know what to do and she's like literally
like a junior in high school being like oh man I don't know what to do like I'm so sorry like
trying to like help me and she was like panicking and freaking out and uh then she was talking to
somebody else about it and their sibling who was one of my friends he was like yeah my sister's
like really hates school and she was like wait Megan hates school and so then I ended up calling
my friend and being like yeah this is terrible and she was like oh my god I'm so glad somebody
else had said this and I think everybody I mean it's just like the Instagram highlight reel in
general nobody really likes to talk about or show if they don't love something and especially
college like I felt so much pressure to have such a good time because a I was I don't know like
so many movies and tv shows about people going to college and like it was supposed to be the
greatest time ever and my friends who had older siblings and it was so cool and fun that I was
like oh my god what the fuck did I do I hate it here like I'm doing it wrong and then when I
started talking to a couple of my other friends and they also really hated it and were super
miserable a that made me feel a lot better of knowing like wow okay it's not just me you're
not alone and then when i ended up leaving and my other two of my other friends and the friend
that i called two years later when she went to college she ended up transferring and going to
a different school and we she was able to like talk to me about it which was nice all of us
ended up uh i ended up dropping out but those two ended up transferring to schools that they really
really loved and I think once you can have like a conversation about it and about what makes you
unhappy and if it's not just the FOMO because your sister might be like she might not that I'm saying
like this could I could be totally off basis but like she might like be spending so much time at
home because she also hasn't made friends and she's also wondering maybe maybe I'm really relying on
being home so much and that's not why I'm not making friends so I think there's a lot of factors
going into it but I think if it's affecting your mental health and there are aspects that like
yeah are just detrimental to you then I think re-evaluating and making like a decision that's
going to make you happy is a good thing and something that I I don't know I wish someone
had told me is like the college experience can be whatever experience you want it to be like
college like point blank is school like it's it's classes it's getting an education it's getting a
degree but so much of it right now is relied on the social aspect and like the independence and
growing up and doing all of these different things which that experience works for some people and
sometimes it doesn't work for other people like my friend just graduated and she went to a four-year
university for a year dropped out then went home did community college and then moved into another
campus like to a different school hated it there and was like fuck it i'm gonna move home i'm going
to just take these classes i'm gonna get it done and i'm gonna like i'm gonna do that and everybody
had such a hard time with it because they're like well you're gonna miss out on this experience i
hate when people project that and you're like if i don't like this experience and i don't want this
experience like i can that shouldn't mean that like i have to endure something that makes me
unhappy to get an education when really i just have to get the education yeah exactly that's why
hated my 20s because um i'm just not a going out person like i like being at home with my cats and
i felt so pressured to like everyone would be like you need to get out and have fun have fun
have fun i'm like yeah but this isn't fun i'd go out in a little dress i'd be fucking freezing cold
have to stay in a line which i hate lines hate lines then i go to this loud club where i can't
hear anything and then some smelly guy is hitting on me and I don't like that and uh and then I just
want to get a drink but it takes so long to get a drink and it's $13 and it's $13 and then by the
time I get a drink it's like we almost have to go and it's like it's not fun yeah I never felt like
oh what that was worth it yeah you know and then when I just finally admitted to myself that like
oh these are the things I think are fun just staying at home and like doing arts and crafts
or whatever I'm doing I felt like a like an ownership of my own happiness yeah and I think
that's just something that you everyone needs to find and it is really easy to look on Instagram
and see everyone being happy and like having such a cool life and you think oh if I just went to
Fiji like I could be on the beach having a good time too and then you get to Fiji and you're like
why do I feel so alone still yeah it's because you haven't really found your happiness and you're
looking at everyone else's you know projected sense of happiness and it just becomes this like
dark web that you spiral down when you don't have a sense of self yeah yeah I think I think I think
you gotta just I think the end advice would be I would say reevaluate I don't think you need to
stick it out unless you feel like it's worth it and you feel like you actually like it there and
yeah and if you know why you're there like like you said how you're there to get an education so
if there's a field that you're studying that you're actually really passionate about i think
focusing on that will make you more happy but if you're just there because that's where you're
where you're supposed to go and that's what you're supposed to do because everyone else is doing it
then that can definitely contribute to a lot of unhappiness and confusion and darkness and you're
allowed to have picked the wrong college yeah fuck it i mean don't fuck it but get your education
just do if that makes you happy yeah so okay wishing you all the luck let us know and
on to the next. So I'm going to get right to the point. I am almost 23. My boyfriend and I have
been together for over six years and we're both close to being done with college and are excited
to move on to the next stages in life together. The only problem we kind of are facing right now
is that I'm allergic to weed and my boyfriend likes to smoke. He only smokes once or twice a
week with his roommates and never when I'm around but my allergy is getting worse and it's gotten
to the point where if I even smell weed I break out in hives so I have to avoid his apartment
and him if he's smoked within the past like 48-ish hours. We've had many discussions about how the
fact that he smokes could literally kill me and that in our state it's still illegal and so I'm
not a huge fan that he's breaking the law when he smokes but we're kind of on such different sides
of his argument that i have no idea what to do that almost makes me feel like he doesn't take
my allergy seriously and like he might see me as like a killjoy because even though i was in a
sorority at one point i'm not a huge partier um my friends like alcohol and drugs in general um
but i really don't care if people smoke weed but just the fact that he smokes weed really like
hurts um the problem that we're really facing is that i want to be able to live with him and like
i'm about to be done with school and we'll probably get married one day but because of my
allergy and resistance to dropping the habit i really don't know what to do because my health
is kind of on the line um i'm not one to give an ultimatum but i'm kind of stuck at this point
is saying like leave me a good option would really love and appreciate your input i've never heard of
like hives allergy yeah it it's if you handle it and you are allergic to it then um you can get
itchiness red skin hives dry scaly skin and it can be like so bad you go into anaphylactic shock
okay that's so that's what i was gonna say i was gonna pair it too i'm allergic to pine i'm
allergic to everything but i'm allergic to pineapple and that's for me pineapple's the
only one that pineapple and msg monosodium glutamate uh are the only ones that for me
are anaphylactic shock and that's like can't eat pineapple no but it sucks man if my boyfriend
fucking loved pineapple he wouldn't eat it yeah like even if it's one of the things like for me
it's like i can be physically around it i just like can't touch it and it would have to like
be in a plastic bag in the fridge in a separate area yeah and i wouldn't be able to kiss him and
he still wouldn't like even with that if it's a fruit salad somewhere and i'm not eating it he'll
be like oh no pineapple because he's like well no i'm not gonna like risk it do that at all even
like if we do the safest precautions he's like that's just like not necessarily worth it yeah so
does your boyfriend know how like like yeah it does sound like he's not taking it seriously
at all and that's really hurtful your feelings are totally valid um in a way he's choosing
marijuana over you because he needs it so much that even if it hurts you he needs to do it can
he have it can she like what if she's around edibles i don't know yeah i mean we have to
see have you made the argument i want they're also in a place where it's not legal so edibles
might not be readily available.
What about vaping?
You know,
because then you're not actually
dealing with the actual
leaf or plant.
Yeah.
But has your arguments to him
been about the fact that like
you say that you don't care
if other people smoke weed,
you just don't like that he
smokes weed
and you just don't like
that he's doing it
because it's like illegal
in general.
Has your argument to him
come from that place?
Because that sounds like
not...
More possessive.
That sounds like a place
of judgment too.
Right, right.
And like you guys have
different lifestyle choices
and you have a different
side of opinions on this.
but i think if you come from that place it's like there can be something that you're like yeah cool
not for me but like i don't care if anybody else does it but if you kind of come at it from a place
of being like i don't like that you do this this is illegal like i don't really like this i don't
like this and you don't come from like the health perspective first i think he's probably just being
like a stubborn like 20 something guy who's like no let me cool and smoke weed yeah or is there
like a documentary or something like just come at it from the health angle more i don't know maybe
you are and he's just like a complete fucking idiot i don't know if i just think that if he
can't give it up either if either he gives it up because you make him give it up and not not
his choice to give it up and then he resents you and then that's a terrible relationship
or uh he keeps doing it and then it hurts you physically and then it hurts you and then that's
not a good relationship because you're dead so the only way that this would get resolved and you
would have a good healthy relationship and move on is if it was his choice and he saw how much
it was hurting you and he chose out of free will to be like you know what i love you more than this
yeah and and so really that's what it's gonna have to come down to um because otherwise if it's just
like you making him quit that's just somewhat he was gonna want to rebel against it yeah and he's
gonna resent not being able to maybe he's trying to just like get that fun in before you guys live
together um and you saying that he's not smoking around you and he's like respectful of that so
he's not like you're you're not being bombarded necessarily with it a your allergy is getting
worse so i think like come at it from that place but i mean when my boyfriend i started dating uh
when you said you felt like a killjoy my life is a killjoy like i am the biggest killjoy um my
boyfriend stopped like drinking as much as he did with his like his like just casually or like going
out like clubbing going out and doing that kind of like rowdy single 20 year old guy like just
like partying hard kind of thing because like I'm not into drugs and I'm not I don't drink
and so that though it wasn't a conversation like I didn't have to be like hey by the way like I
don't really want to date somebody who like like is really like a super hardcore partier he just
knew that and implemented it but then at the same time if he goes out with his friends like he's
still gonna like party and do that kind of thing because I'm not around and not in like a douchey
way so i don't know if there's like for him like is there a way that he's allowed to when you
started dating your ex though um was were your lifestyles already that way my current boy my
no the one that you're talking about right now my current boyfriend oh it's your current boyfriend
okay um so were your lifestyles like that before you started dating i wasn't a big drinker and he
was yeah he parted okay he's like because this girl it sounds like that you started dating when
you were 17 and then now they're 23 and people grow apart i started dating my ex the one that
I moved to LA with when I was 18 and then when we were 23 I just realized we were completely
different you know like I thought we were really the same when we were 18 and then after being an
adult for a while and living on our own I realized like oh yeah you're totally not my type at all
and and it was really hard that breakup was so hard because nobody did anything wrong yeah and
I still loved him but I wasn't in love with him and how do you do how do you break up with somebody
like that it was a really really hard breakup I had to end up doing it because he was still in
love with me um but yeah I just kind of distanced myself so it could it could also and I'm not saying
this is true in your case but you might want to examine like whether or not you guys have just
grown apart and maybe this is kind of something he's doing to distance himself by not giving it
up yeah come at it from a health angle like a hundred percent and like just serve him the facts
don't have it like laden with like judgment and emotion and uh like disdain or like the fact that
it's illegal and all this other stuff just focus it on it being about your health make sure he's
educated on it so he knows the kind of decision that he's making and then give him a chance to
change and then if he doesn't change take that as that's what he's that's what he's gonna say
yeah and there are other people out there and it sounds like you know this has been the most
serious relationship that you probably had in your life so you're like this is the one but i swear to
god you don't have to settle like there are so many people and there's there's a person that
will value you for there's multiple people for everybody i'm not a believer in soulmates i'm
like there are multiple people that you can end up with in this world and you not one of them i
don't think you're ever going to really have to settle for something like potentially going into
anaphylactic shock yeah well let us know how it goes and best of luck don't die um i am 20 years
old and i go to a super small liberal arts school in ohio and okay so the thing about going to a
small liberal arts school is you either play a sport or you're in a fraternity so keep that in
mind so i dated this guy my freshman year of high school i'm currently in my junior year
and um when we dated it was fine but after the fact I realized he was such an asshole
like after we broke up we hooked up a lot and I super regret it but like
it got super messy like he would tell people I raped him he definitely took advantage of me
and it's just like super shitty I have so many friends that are in the same fraternity as this
guy that I dated so we like I have super close ties with that fraternity um and now this is where
it gets tricky okay so I have a crush on a boy that's in this fraternity and like he would
snapchat or like I we snapchat sometimes and I always snapchat him first and he's like always
the one that responds and it's always super flirty and two of my best friends are in this fraternity
so it's super hard to like cut ties with it and I just like I have a really hard time like
separating myself from being like this guy's ex-girlfriend and I don't know how to move past
it I feel like everyone because I have so many close friends in this fraternity and I feel like
they all think of me as this guy's ex-girlfriend and like this crush on a boy that I have I feel
like he doesn't want to date me because I'm this guy's ex-girlfriend technically even though it
was super shitty and I wish I like it never happened so I need some help what advice would
you give a girl like I don't know I don't want to be known as this guy's ex-girlfriend and I
really really like this guy and I don't know how to like get him to think of me as like
not this girl's or this guy's ex-girlfriend does this guy care no no no and it's so hard because
oh I know it's such a big deal right now I know it's such a big deal but like oh I'm so like that
older sibling or mom or whatever that's like oh once you get past once you get over college like
none of this will matter like this is not anything but also like i i mean i will say i definitely
i don't know i i don't know if i would call it a mistake or not um it made for a really great
chapter in my book um coming out soon guys this spring check it out you're not special go on
amazon uh but i started dating uh a guy like my second week of freshman year of college and he
this is a creepy part he was an orientation leader and i immediately saw him and i was like
i will date him like at like my college orientation like figured out who he was and then like told the
girls that i when i joined a sorority and they're like oh my god we know him let's like go to his
house and i was like drunk and i was like i feel like we're gonna date and he was like sure um so
i we dated like literally that's how i was introduced and that was like at college so
like i had that title of being like once we broke up i was his ex-girlfriend uh did not stop me from
hooking up with other people right right like god like you can be known as that a if you were really
known as that and it was like he was harboring a lot of negative feelings you wouldn't have friends
in his fraternity like that's not how it would work uh they would like completely like it would
yeah they wouldn't want to be your friend if it was that like such a huge deal and this guy
wouldn't be flirting with you and text like this is his sign of showing you that he doesn't give
a shit who you dated before yes and you might date this guy and then you'll be known as his
ex-girlfriend like yeah i don't think if this guy is still worried about like talking about it
i kind of think it might be in your head you think this guy is flirty flirting back if he's
snapchatting her but she's always snapchatting him first but is he responding flirty i don't know did
he did she say that no she just said he that she's flirting on snapchat well maybe she's flirting
see this is where it gets dicey because i i wish i knew the details because i don't want to give
you the wrong advice no she did say it's always super flirty oh it's always super flirty has he
made a move like i mean i don't like i just feel like if a girl is showing you like signs that she
wants to hook up yeah and you're in a frat i i would think if it's flirty both ways that you
would hook up yeah that would happen had the opportunity i think like if you if there's an
opportunity where you go to a party at their frat and like he's there and then he doesn't
like flirt with you and he doesn't talk to you and he's like hooking up with some other girl
like take that like if unless you really want to like ask him and like really get like potentially
really rejected yeah yeah it's like i don't if you're especially in college like if you're into
somebody and somebody's into you like shit happens hella fast so fast so give if you haven't given
the opportunity for it to happen and like this is like you've been stopping yourself because you're
convinced that this other guy is like potentially gonna ruin every relationship you have forward
um but if you've also like given an opportunity and he hasn't kind of taken that's what i thought
happened i thought that she was getting rejected by him and so i was like hey this is you gotta
move on you know maybe she needs to go date somebody that's not in the fraternity yeah
you gotta make the fucking rounds this is the thing you don't go to pike and then you don't
stay at pike you go to fiji then you go to pie cap and then you go to sing then you like you
make the fucking rounds and you do it again so if you started a pie like me or actually nope started
at fisa no fiji okay great no so you gotta start and then you and then you can slowly come back so
then by the end like end of my um or right before i dropped out sophomore year i like finally came
back to a pie and i was like okay i can i can be here for a minute but like don't yeah don't stay
in one place too long make like do you know what i mean yeah like totally feels like so you're
there's so many routes you can go also like i know that's why i had to leave i literally dated
everybody who i was even mildly interested in that i was like cool there is nobody left for
me to hook up with yeah i'm out if you really want to piss off this guy you know just hook up
with his big bro that yes not little bro i was just gonna say all of his friends you know and
then it's like now you're not this guy's ex you're a girl that you know yeah likes to hook up with
people okay well good luck with that yeah and stay safe protection because also don't get stds
revenge glow up yeah and then also a revenge glow yeah and maybe he'll glow down yeah yeah dim dim
oh that's a good one i love it dim down okay guys we're going on a break and um we will be back
bye
okay okay everybody we are back from our break did you miss us oh my god i was just gonna say
that we're like on the same level now we finish each other's sentences sandwiches
okay let's hop back into calls i'm 21 and i am a junior in college and i um and i'm exploring
you know the dating world again after you know breaking up with my boyfriend of three years and
um I've just kind of run into some assholes if I'm being honest like and one particular asshole
um we met on tinder which was like kind of weird for me like I wasn't super comfortable with it
But anyways, we met on Tinder and I'm like really, really short.
I'm four foot ten and he is like five, six or five, five or something like that.
And he honestly comes off as like having little man syndrome, like I'm not a doctor or anything, but that's honestly what it seems like.
and he just like has no chill and we stopped talking like i was like set up with him we got
into an altercation and i just goes like you know what you're kind of an asshole and so he
you know was still following me on social media and saw like i'm not kidding months later
um but i've been talking to another guy and posting pictures with him and he's like wow
you're a hoe and i'm like what do you mean i'm a hoe and he's like well you probably started
having sex with that guy like within minutes or something like that and i'm like what like
what does that have to do with anything like i was like yes he's like i was like we had sex
like pretty like off the bat like what is that like what does that matter and he's like only
because I asked you to and it's just super like backwards and it honestly stresses me out that
like I'm having to deal with this like he was like you're a hoe you're a bitch like I know that he's
like jealous but I don't know why this bothers me but like why does it bother him and like how
can i like tell this kid off and just be like get the fuck away and i see him sometimes like
in passing at school so just i'd like to know what to do because this kid stresses me out oh my god
let's just block him on everything yeah i mean this is the kind of guy that wants he wants you
to respond yeah and like my original advice would have been like just fucking ignore it
as somebody who's confrontational and loves to tell somebody off especially like at school like
on campus like in front of other people i love that anytime any of my friends got cheated on
like the friends i had in college for five minutes i was like let me talk to him in the library during
finals week um even someone who's super confrontational like if somebody else is like
confronting you in that situation that's because they want a reaction yeah and like the most the
most upset you're going to get him and the way that you're really gonna get under his skin is
to not fucking respond yeah and it'll feed him if you respond yes it doesn't matter what type
of attention it is he just wants your attention my friends and i started we've started realizing
and talking about the fact that no matter how you treat a guy a guy is going to feel the same way
about you like so we've decided like if you want to date with a guy and i'm really interested in
him he's going to be as interested as he is like no matter what if i'm a total dick to him he still
is going to be completely as interested as i was as he was before that this guy like if you give
him no matter what you do he's gonna come at you with like the same if you if you match what he's
doing he's doing this because he's like he's enjoying getting this rise out of you like
you're not proving any sort of point at all like yeah he's he's getting off on that kind of
confrontation and drama so even if it's something that you're like if i heard someone say this to
me this would really help me like no you have to go about it from a completely different tactic
because he's he's being the aggressive one so like you gotta be obsessed with you yeah so block him
isn't it nice you can block people's phone numbers now i remember like seven years ago you couldn't
block and my ex would like you know text or call or whatever and i actually had to use a service
that made it sound like my number was out of order when that number called i forgot what that service
i think it was called you it was you something i can't remember but yeah and so i told him i'm like
i'm changing my number and then whenever he would call it sounded like i did change my number oh
that's that was the only thing i could do yeah but and i blocked him on facebook anywhere i could
block him i blocked him instagram wasn't really around yet yeah i know right so it's weird i know
i've really recently started getting into muting people on instagram this is liberating it's like
youtube comments like the way that it happened you can't it doesn't really ban people anymore
but it just hides them from anyone else seeing what they're saying like i love this it's like
without starting drama and you just get to kind of like walk away from it um and i was gonna say
the reason why this bothers you is because he's being a dick like yeah that's why like if someone
talks to you terribly like someone calls you a hoe like that's gonna bother you and i don't think
like you don't owe him any sort of explanation and i think also there's maybe potentially if
this is me in the situation so i'm projecting there's kind of like a part of you that like
when you are happy with this other guy there is something a little bit flattering about another
guy coming out of the woodwork being like I mean that happened when my boyfriend I started dating
I had a couple guys that I was talking to before they're like oh wow so you're dating someone new
and I responded because I was like oh wow I feel so hot and desirable right now it's so cool but
then ultimately I was like oh no you're just like being like a like a sore loser and like kind of a
dick because like I didn't I wasn't into you and now I'm happy but like why am I wasting me being
happy talking to somebody who even at the time when I didn't have another op like it was you
were the person i was seeing i was like yeah no i'd rather not i'd rather be single than date you
and now i'm not single and happy why the fuck am i giving you the time of day exactly there's
you don't gain anything from it and if you see him on campus like literally just ignore him
nothing's gonna piss him off more and send him into like an embarrassing rage that someone's
gonna capture and like put on twitter and it's gonna like blow up and be viral act like you
don't recognize him i love that oh my god what was your name again if you want to be i would
never ask something really bitchy and that sent me into short people because i'm tall so i can't
make that but i'm not gonna say it but you know yeah um yeah and also i do love the fact that uh
a doctor could diagnose for short man syndrome well you have a case of short man syndrome that's
what i have here on your charts uh i see you are under five six you have some aggression issues and
uh you dm people on uh instagram who don't respond to you and call them a whore you're like oh okay
small man syndrome well yeah best of luck and good luck with the new guys congrats on the new
yeah okay on to the next I went out with this guy back in high school my seizure year in 2016
um recently I ran into one of his family members and I asked how he was doing because I knew he
had got married he was a really great Christian guy just like me and we kind of hit it off but
he left for school to Florida and I ran into one of his family members and they're like
Yeah, well, he's not doing too well.
You should check his wife's Facebook page.
So I check his Facebook page, and it turned out that in 2015, a year before we dated,
he murdered somebody on accident.
He shot him on accident and then hid the body.
Period.
I'm not really sure how to feel about this, and I'm not really sure if I should reach out
because he still is a good Christian man, and we're still friends.
and so i'm just not really sure how to feel about this anyways so yeah he murdered him on accident
and then he hit the body and he had his car crushed and he's married now but he's already
50 years in prison so i'm just not really sure how to feel about this and i thought i'd get your
advice okay bye okay i just need to i just want to say i think you missed the part because you're
laughing but he crushed the car after he hid the body i definitely missed that part my god okay
let's just have like a little bit of like like just okay you can't accidentally murder murder
someone also that would be involuntary manslaughter like let's just talk about that like and also he's
convicted then because he's going to prison and he hid the body yeah so you're tampering with
the crime scene oh he's guilty it's not even like a hit and run where he just like left like
he literally what okay first of all wait isn't it in the bible to not kill yeah so we shall not kill
how he's accidentally murdered someone but he's a good christian man he's not he's not very good
at being christian because uh he lost me isn't that like you can't kill that's the number one
pretty sure you can't do that my god he's a bad christian homie what is no offense what's up with
you like girl we gotta talk you should feel really disgusted by this guy and honestly not to shit on
you probably should feel if this was me i'd be like wow i'm a fucking idiot for going out with
this guy i dodged a bullet thank god i dodged because it happened after yeah what the fuck
like how like think like i'm glad that i didn't spend more time with him and like i'm okay and
that i didn't i don't know like shit i need to reevaluate my picker and like figure out if i
wasn't picking up on something sketchy as fuck it was just two years ago yes you don't you should
feel weird as shit very weird and well and the murder happened in 2015 and she went out with
me so 16 it's it's and so it's been three years also so he has 147 the whole time he was with her
and afterwards he felt no guilt or any sort of thing that update my friend okay this i mean
granted my friend went on a date with this guy who was uh he had like seven he literally their
first date he's like by the way i just want to let you know i have a court date coming up i
um i've committed about four different felonies and she was like okay granted she stayed for like
the rest of the day because you want to hear like yeah yeah i'd be definitely he told her on the
first fucking date and like even this guy we cannot meet my friend and i have agreed like
he's pretty much scum he didn't tell us exactly what he did but just figuring out how many felonies
like they're only like what are considered felonies yeah like figured out arson must have
been involved like this guy's not good right and even he managed to tell her on her first fucking
date well so that like you know you have a choice like you get to know okay i'll stay with you
willingly knowing that or it's like having a kid or not like that's like being like oh this is
something that would like potentially affect not it doesn't relationship this is it affects
everybody yes i'm potentially taking a job in china and how does she how is she still like i'm
sorry how are you still defending him and knowing that his the the murdered guy's family is like
looking for a body all of these years and now they finally get closure and you're like oh i feel bad
for the murderer boyfriend i had and also i'm not to like make this about religion because i'm not
religious but like get being being a good like just because you're a christian doesn't like mean
you're good mean you're a good person and it also like this is not i'm not shitting on anybody's
religion as long as your religion doesn't like affect other people and like say that other
people's existence shouldn't that other people shouldn't exist or invalidate or take away other
people's rights believe what you want to believe whatever makes you whatever like yeah whatever
feels true to you yeah and like satiates you and gives you that feeling of like hope and all of
those things that's great as long as it's about for you but somebody was fucking killed in this
and you're using that as a blanket statement for like no he's still a good guy just be yeah just
because you're christian doesn't make you good i mean i was raised catholic and then i was christian
and then now i just i'm spiritual like i have a relationship with god but like i'm not
part of a religion and one of i when one of the things i didn't like about religion was the
structure and the and the in this notion that as long as you're part of this church then you're a
good person or you're a bad person if you're not part of this church it that to me that doesn't
define your character no this like being part or not part of something um so yeah you need to see
this person as an individual not as someone that's part of your group but as a person that's
an individual that made these choices on his own that were actually against your religion so yeah
you know it's like a moral issue that's the thing it's like it's a moral issue like someone can be
a part of any sort of organization but if they don't if they they're morals that's what speaks
for them like it doesn't matter you don't get it it's not a get out of jail free card like yeah
you did something hella fucked up morally and they took away someone else's right to live yeah
you know and that's like and hit it and hit it like girl girl like watch of like good god like
just forensic files watch like and watch watch some crime shit dude i've been obsessed with
making a murderer uh because season two just came out and i'm just like we just finished it last
night and it's just oh my god i'm so into all that shit but yeah god it's just and also like
it just pisses me off because there there's like so much sadness for people who
have like when involuntary manslaughter is a thing like somebody who's got a substance abuse
problem got behind the wheel and killed somebody while they were drunk driving and that guilt that
those people must feel and they do like walking around this whole time knowing that they hurt
someone unintentionally because of like a selfish choice or something like that was happened like
that and then you're giving you're putting this guy in that category or even if they weren't didn't
have a problem like uh so my neighbor hit somebody and killed him um but this guy was jaywalking and
it was during an hour of the morning where the sun was like perfectly blocking that and it was
there was no crosswalk or anything and my neighbor like ran him over at like 45 miles an hour and he
was just like whoa what you know just in so much shock for like weeks and months just like didn't
know how to feel was just sobbing uncontrollably could not handle that he like killed somebody
that's an accident yeah shooting someone and hiding the body and crushing a car that's not
an accident no we need definitions for words yeah yeah and also again accidental murder is not a
thing murder involves intent to kill so i yeah i just i think you need to figure out like on your
end like why do you want to reach out to him right and like the family member told you to check the
wife's facebook page so are you friends with the wife too yeah and also how long did you like date
for this to be like no matter who i fucking dated from my past like my high school boyfriend it
could have like i found out now that he like accidentally killed somebody my or purposefully
in this case and i wouldn't my instinct wouldn't be like i should reach out to him to see how he's
doing my instinct would be like oh my god i wonder how that family is doing of that person like that
is so heartbreaking and sad right like you know what i kind of feel like maybe because i'm just
trying to understand the mindset of what would make you want to reach out sometimes maybe it's
a little sexy to be part of the drama like something big happens and you're like oh shit
i was part of that yeah i was part of that guy's life so that's the only thing i can think of and
then you just need to check your own self like yeah what is the what is your intention for this
yeah and yeah you just need yeah that's what you need to figure out and you need to not reach out
to him and focus on uh guys who can be a part of if that's what you want to date people part of
your religious organization but people who are good people and actually good people yeah and not
just oh cool he's christian so he therefore he's a good person so focus on like the people amongst
that he talked about god a lot and like recited verses so therefore he's a good person yeah so
if he shoots somebody it's okay yeah like what the fuck we said a hail mary first yeah oh my god
holy goddamn tits he got married like a year i guess it would have been soon right after he
dated you so no no no no no not at all just think about this as something this is a great story to
tell people at parties if you listen to the podcast my favorite murder you can do your hometown on
this and be like let me tell you guys the story about this great use it for that but like by no
means is this like anything that you should be thinking anything else besides like thank god
that wasn't me and oh god i need to make sure to ask any guy i take from now on hey have you
killed anybody accidentally murdered someone yeah have you murdered someone and hit a body
and crushed a car just i just need to check because also his poor fucking wife i hope they
don't have kids what if the wife is like he's a good christian man though oh my god oh my gosh
can you imagine i can't yeah not a good maybe yeah interesting very interesting well i wonder
maybe no but also she probably did say something like that because how else would she know that
he was accidentally he accidentally murdered someone right yeah oof oof and i like how the
family member just didn't say it outright because she was they're like just go look at his wife
some drama it's like oh did you hear you need to go check this out for yourself yeah because like
i remember this guy at my high school he got killed in a bad drug deal like he was the one
doing the bad drug deal thing and he had just texted me the night before and i thought it was
so creepy like you know and i got like kind of obsessed with what happened yeah because it was
just so kind of close to me and so in a way that's the only way i can think that maybe you're like oh
I should reach out because you were at one point close to that person and now
they did something fucked up and got themselves in a terrible situation,
but really,
really just like we get at peace with it,
with yourself and let it go.
Yeah.
Well,
is it time for,
what are we calling it?
Melissa's happiest hour?
Melissa's moments?
No,
it's time for a listener advice.
If you guys have a better name,
we're,
we're,
we're shopping it.
you could hear her uncertainty listeners
make it shiny yeah sparkles so this is the part where uh people call in with their own advice
with the other calls that we've had for different episodes so something that they might have
personal experience with sometimes i get yelled at for doing something wrong but we don't like
i don't like liz when she picks those so but it's nice but for ones that we have no relation to so
Maybe from this episode, somebody will call in and be like, I also dated somebody who
murdered somebody.
Hi, I'm 22 years old and I just had some insight on the episode with Andrea Russett for the
girl who said that she got drunk and her co-worker's husband or fiance ended up sexually
assaulting her and she hooked up with her friend or they finally got sexually
intimate with her friend of five years I kind of did the same thing after my I
was raped at 16 and it was my first sexual experience and it was horrible
but I did the same thing I ended up going on tinder like three months later
and just getting my body back getting being in control and having sex with
with guys so I felt like I was in control and I didn't tell any of them
none of them asked me why I was doing what I was doing I didn't tell anybody
and honestly my advice to her is that you don't need to tell anybody I do
advise that if you do want to talk about it you do see somebody a therapist or
they also have groups um therapy groups for multiple people who have been in this situation
or who have been sexually assaulted so just knowing that you are not alone and like megan
said about the me too movement um there's so many women and and even males that that go through
sexual assault and go through these traumatic events and you're never alone and I just wanted
to share that with her that she's not alone and she doesn't have to tell anybody
I didn't tell anybody until like six years after
um the actual event happened and that was like my first serious boyfriend
um we were actually even engaged and he was the first person I ever told
that's awesome yeah makes me like i think we had said this in the reference to the me too thing in
that call that i was like it sucks that so many people totally relate to this story um and like
yeah proof in that so yeah but yeah i think i'm happy like the finding your healing of like taking
your body back like whatever works for you you know because it's not about anybody else no like
at all like and yeah because that wasn't about it's also like taking your body back that's about
like your control and your power and that and like sexuality and that and like yeah like being
feeling like a sexual being and like feeling like like like hot and sexy and powerful and it's not
about like uh an act of like rage and something that's not they're two totally unrelated things
that suck that they're core like that they're the same physical act that gets correlated
um i think group therapy sounds like a really like great idea especially um
if like anybody i mean anybody who's listening to this who has any sort of similar experience
which sadly is probably a lot of people um if you don't want to talk to like a therapist
it might be really nice to do like something group related a to hear other people's stories
and kind of how they're healing from that and then also that sense of okay everybody's kind
of dealing with this stuff together so you don't feel as alone and so i think that'd be a great
call for anybody who's doing that and uh thank you so much for calling and sharing that because
he totally didn't have to and i'm sure hopefully that she hears that and he knows better about it
too because yeah that was a that was a that was a dark one yeah like not a fun one yeah on that
note guys our episode is done thank you so much for being on thanks for having me great advice
thank you hope someone got something out of that and i'm glad we have another college dropout here
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yeah no we like lost that ability in 2018 oh i only know if if anything happened my i don't know
my boyfriend's phone number i couldn't even tell you his area code really no seven something i
didn't memorize my husband's until he became my husband because i was like oh i should know that
like yeah as your wife if it's like official emergency like if someone is like they i don't
know i got shot or something knock on wood i don't and they're like what's the number right
now the number i'd be able to give is my best friend in san francisco or you can give this
honest to god i would have to i'd have to give the podcast number if i like got in trouble
that's it and then i know acelyn's phone number because her area code is one well acelyn is good
no but i only know her area code because there's only one umbrella from my area you have it listed
in your phone i do but i'm saying like at the top of my head got it yeah i could have my couple of
my friends home phone numbers that they don't live at the house anymore have those still stocked
every hannah montana lyric still up there yep yeah but no problem with song lyrics yeah no
none of the actual important phone numbers but um yeah they don't want you to remember
i don't want you to know phone numbers i want you to be dependent on this phone
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