Girls Gotta Eat - Where Are They Now?

Episode Date: February 18, 2021

It's our three year anniversary BONUS episode **air horn** and we're giving all the status updates. We're sharing how our lives have changed since the start of the podcast, how our listeners lives have changed (grab the tissues), and the tea everyone has been waiting for -- "Where are they now?" updates on former guests, the guys we got psychic readings about, and the most beloved GGE story submissions (yes, foot job girl, movie theater anal, and more). Thank you snackheads for three amazing years, and cheers to many more! Follow us on Instagram @GirlsGottaEatPodcast, Rayna @Rayna.Greenberg, and Ashley @AshHess. Check our website for show dates and merchandise. Thank you to our partners for this episode: Raycon: Go to buyraycon.com/gge for 15% off your entire Raycon order. Article: Go to article.com/gge for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. FabFitFun: Get $10 off your first box at fabfitfun.com, code GGE. Dame: For 15% off your first order, go to dameproducts.com/gge. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He brought over a travel pair of bunyan correctors. I repeat, a travel pair. I love this girl. Welcome back to the first three-year anniversary episode. Oh, my guys. It's a bonus episode. I can't believe it. It's like a real anniversary.

Like this is really right about when we started the podcast. Oh, I thought you meant because like one and two didn't matter. Oh, no, I didn't care about those. I didn't care about two. I cared about one because, like, it's like we did it. Yes. And I was totally kidding. You know, I cared about all our anniversaries.

I have like a super sentimental side. But also like the month of our second anniversary was the best month of our lives. We had Billboard and Times Square last year. We were on a world tour. It just, who cared. Best time of our lives. February 2020. Best year of my life.

No one asked. Can't stress it enough. Are we going to be that person that peaked in 2020? Like how like like high school athletes they say, talk about their old, oh my God. Oh my God. No, I feel like we'll make a comeback when, in like December of 2021. Okay. We'll be a, no, totally. Yeah, no, I totally agree. Listen, I've never looked better. So this is my ear. I do feel good. My waist has got a little more snatched in the last two weeks. Has it? Yeah. You look great. Thank you. You look great too. Thank you so much.

My hair's long. Okay. Okay. I am so juiced up for this. episode and it was not our idea. And I'm going to say it right now. We had a whole other topic planned and you're going to get that in April. I was on my way out the door to come over to record. But you know what my favorite sentence do you say to me is, do you want to record a different day? I like, I get ready. I'm just like all ready to walk out. There's nothing that I love more that like I will masturbate too more than somebody cancelling plans on me last minute. Yeah. Well, I think of that meme all the time. Like it's, sorry, can we reschedule. It just got really windy out.

I'm trying to live my truth more, though. I'm trying to just, like, flat out tell people I just don't want to. There's no excuse. I'm not coming because I don't want to. I love saying, sorry, I don't want to. I just don't want, you did it the other day. And so I didn't have to. And I was like, I, like, agonized how I was going to tell somebody I didn't want to go on

this trip to this particular place. It was skiing. I don't like skiing. And you got in there and you were just like, I was like, what excuse am I going to make? And you were like, no. I get invited on probably two to three ski trips a year. And I'm like, oh, I don't do that.

I don't want to do it. Well, I don't. I said no. Yeah. And it's like, I love winter and outdoors and nature's air conditioning. You know, I love cold weather. I love aprae ski. I love everything about it.

But I don't really like going on ski trips because I feel like an outsider. And I don't like the way it feels. You and I would, like you and I would go and you and I would sit in the house alone together and read and cook and drink. But like we do that in New York. So what I really want to do, which is on, I'm probably not going to happen this year. But I want to do a winter vacation that doesn't include skiing because I am dying to a dog slug.

B, walk around in snow shoes. C, a snowmobile. Because you know, I love to jet ski. So, of course, snowmobile is like my vibe. Oh, that would be fine. I'm like really love all that stuff. It's just kind of the skiing's not for me. And I just, it's one of those things.

My dad skis all the time. My brother skis. All my friends ski pretty much. And it's just like I love that I found a fellow non-skier because every ski season, I hate it. And I'm just waiting for it to be over because I hate Instagram because I feel like a fucking dork. Okay.

So here's like also the trick. And you guys tell us where we should go. has this, but, like, if you go to, like, Nemecol and Woodlands, it's the Bachelor. It's just, like, a ski resort. There's nothing to do there. If you go to, like, a town, like, Aspen, there's actually, like, restaurants, bars, fun stuff to do, like, while you're not skiing.

So, like, there's actually stuff to do. So I think that's a trick. Go to a town. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And I did a ski trip. This was a couple years ago with all my Atlanta friends. We went to Breckenridge and, like, I got a massage one day.

And then I would just meet them and drink. I skied one day. I am not. a good ski ride and skied in years. They brought me up on a black. My friend Travis had to help me down. I would go 10 feet fall. Did you sit down on your butt? It was so, so bad. And another girlfriend was there and she goes, have fun and skied off. And Travis had to help me. It was like so bad. It would scare the shit out of me. Also, I had a ski accident when I was like 13 where I like, it's scary. I like got really fucked up. So it's not for me. I don't want to, I don't know why we're

talking about this. Why did this happen? I'm sharing a bonus episode. I don't want to put all that fucking clothing on. I don't want to just, I don't want to be cold. I don't want to like lug my ass up a mountain and just like go down. It's like the joy I get from that is not. The joy I get is on the swing on the way up. So this one ski trip we took me, it was, I've gone. I can ski a little bit.

I just, I don't really enjoy it and I'm not good. So I can go down like the small hills and stuff like that. I know how to ski, barely. And we went. This was, I think, this was four girls, four or five. girls so many years ago I think I was the summer the winter like when I was home from freshman year in college so it was like eight so it was like 18 and we went skiing we had a really fun girl strip went skiing one day like up in i don't know pennsylvania whatever and

cori is so good at skiing shocker she's just so good at like athletic stuff this is like my best friend aside from rain and kate gory and she didn't fall in all day she was killing it and i wrote up the lift with her and as we got off the lift I got all fucked up and our skis got crossed and she fell. She was so pissed. She was like, bitch, I've been falling all day. You made me fall. That's, I'm that person. I make people fall. I fall. I'll get crushed by the ski lift getting off. And I dropped one of my poles going up the hill. I just dropped it. You killed a person? You killed a person. I know. They're like so late. So I dropped it. Corey was like, oh my God. She was like, I'll ski down. You take mine. I'll ski down with one pole.

You know, she's just so good. She can just ski without poles. She gave me her pole. She skied down with one pole and she found my pole and it was had been sliced in half someone to ski over it. You could have killed somebody first of all if it came straight down onto them or if they had slipped. I don't know what I was still talking about this. You're right now I feel bad. Yeah, you should. But I mean, listen, how many people? How many people are on the mountain? No, it wasn't like super crowded. And I think I wasn't that far up it. It didn't fall that. But who just drops their pole high enough? I'm just the worst. I was one time on a ski trip and I got off the lift and my skis just went wherever and I went. I, I,

beer to the right and I skied right into a ski school, a circle of kids. A ski school. And took a kid out. They were like, they were doing a lesson. You know I can show up at ski school, by the way, because, listen, because you have like the masks on and the hood and the jacket and everything. And like, you don't really know how old anybody is. And I'm the size of a child.

Oh my God. You're so right. I can go up to a ski school and people would just think I was one of the 12 years. You're totally right. But yeah, I skied like, I was like, oh, no, no, no, no. And I just kept going on plowed through two kids. I fell in the middle of, they were in a circle. And I was in the middle of their circle.

You fucked up the circle. This is so funny. No, people love to ski with me because it's so funny. I know. I'm so bad. And now I just don't go. I'm living my truth. I don't ski.

It's got to say no. Yeah. Obviously, life is short. We all know that now. So say no to shit you don't like. It feels awesome. Okay. What is going on?

Okay. We have a great episode planned to be you guys today. Yeah. Okay. So anyway, we got off track. But like I said, this was inspired by a listener. that emailed us. We were ready to record a whole different topic for this bonus episode, which we have another one coming in April, allegedly. So you'll get to hear what that was about

then. It's already planned out. But anyway, this was an email from a listener named Olivia. And she wrote with, this is just, I love this so much. She wrote with the podcast anniversary coming up, it might be cool to check in with some famous guests or stories like footjob girl to see where they're at now. Another thing could be asking how your audience lives have changed from the start of the podcast till now. For example, when the podcast started in 2018, I was teaching fifth grade and dating my boyfriend in long distance. Over the past three years, I dealt with a long distance relationship for two years, then found out he was cheating on me for six months, struggled through a heartbreaking breakup, was inspired to make a change in career path, and I just graduated with a master's degree from

UGA. Now I'm single, navigating the apps and planning on moving to ATL to further my career and social life. You all have seriously guided me through it all. So we wanted to credit her, because we want to give credit words to do, and we're going to do everything she said. So she outlined the episode. So now you guys know what's about, but what we're going to do today is obviously, of course, dedicate this episode to you guys. We're going to talk about we've grown in three years, specifically Olivia. I mean, you guys know how we've grown. We're not going to like harp on it too much. We talk about how we've grown, how much we love you every single week. But we're going to catch you up on our former guests and what they have going on. We're going to

check in with some like really crazy emails we've gotten over the years. We have updates on all of them. Obviously, talk about how our lives have changed. And that's it. This episode is dedicated to you guys also to us because we worked really hard for the last three years to make the show. And we are just so honored that you guys are still here with us and wrote it out. And if you are a newer listener and you're like, I don't know who these people are, these stories are, like we will tell you the original story. So we're not just going to be like, anyway, so Bunyan Girl and you have no background. So if you're new here, this episode, you should, you'll be able to follow along.

Yeah. And they're all like such incredible stories. Yeah. You guys are these ones. We knew which ones people would probably ask for, but we crowdsourced it anyway. So do you want to talk about where you are now? You want to kick it off? Yeah, I'm in your apartment.

My beautiful apartment that I am able to live in because of this podcast. Actually, it's funny. It's the first thing I wrote down about where I am now. I moved from Brooklyn, Brooklyn to Manhattan. You're literally where. Yeah, you had such a big move. I lived in Manhattan, I mean, lived in Brooklyn for eight years, which is nice. I went from never being on a stage in my entire life to selling out 75 shows.

It's going to be so much better than mine. No, life has changed so much more. I'm going. I went from never working out my entire life to five, six days a week. I work out. My hair is growing. I got new teeth. Oh my God. My son is good. Okay. Keep popping off. I respect it. You know, you and I have talked about like how we've personally grown in terms of like our knowledge since we started the podcast. I think we've always given a really great advice. And I'm always proud of the content we put out since day one. We talk about that a lot. But in these three years, I think that you and I really like made it our business to like, learn about every psychological theory, about dating, relationships, love, really read the books the people that come on the show, psychological theory, psychiatrists, writers, authors.

So I'm just, I'm really proud that we have, like, really, really, really made it our business to, like, go out and get, like, a degree in these things. And I'm proud of the advice I'm able to give today. I was proud of the advice I gave day one, too, but I'm, like, really, really proud of it today. And to give yourself. And then I have one more thing I want to say, but maybe I'll let you talk about how your life has changed.

I'm going to talk about it a little more, like, bigger. Okay. I mean, not to like get too cheesy with it, but I just found my purpose in life. Like, ultimately, I've never felt so fulfilled. Like, this is exactly where I needed to be. I said I got teeth and now you're saying a beautiful thing. No, I mean, I pretty much look the same, right? Still haven't gotten fillers.

Like, I'm still out here, same face. Hopefully. I do look. Sometimes I look back. I'm like, who is she? She looks so young. But it's fine. No, I just, I found my like true purpose in life.

I mean, before girls got to eat, I was doing influencer stuff. Bros. Being basic, stand-up, writing. So I was moving in the right direction, but I just hadn't put it all together yet and figured it all quite out. And I knew there was more for me and I really just wanted to make an impact. I wanted to empower women in some way. I wanted to talk about relationships. I wanted to make people laugh. And I just, that's all the reasons like I wanted to start this. And if you guys really want more info on how we started this podcast, we did a bonus episode in 2020, how GGEE came to be. And that's our, that's our origin story. But I just, I found what I need to do in life, I feel so fulfilled. And I mean, prior to the pandemic, like, I felt like I was living in a dream,

but like a dream that I created for myself, like that we created for ourselves. And I just had so many years of working toward this and struggling for money and feeling like I was behind and seeing other people get ahead and wondering, you know, like I have so much self-confidence. I always knew I was destined for big things, but still just wondering if I would ever get there. Like, you never know for sure. And so this was just the thing for me. You know, I don't have to, right now at least, I don't have to, worry about money, which is nice, you know, and our career is on a great trajectory. Obviously, could be better with outside of a pandemic, but we're just going to keep doing more and more and not get complacent. One day I'll finally write a fucking book. And we have some really fun,

exciting things happening in the next year that we can't wait to share with you guys. And, yeah, I mean, that's ultimately for me. I can kick it back to you. And I want to, I still want to talk a little bit about dating and just kind of like evolving as a person. And then we can wrap it up. Yeah. So, you know, two things I've learned, especially this year and things you guys have taught me. First thing is, you know, of course, the weight of your words and, you know, to be more careful and more thoughtful about what you say and how you express yourself and things that you think are funny or that you think are edgy and, you know, really taking into account what other people are going through and other people's story and what they've gone through. And so, of course, you know, no one wants to be told that they're wrong or not funny or not nice, but I've at least learned about the weight of our words. And the other thing that you guys have really taught me that I didn't even really realize

because I grew up in such a sex positive home and I grew up really empowered to talk about a lot of things. But I didn't really realize how many women were constantly ashamed for every single thing that they thought and felt and wanted to do. And, you know, whether it's that you want to touch yourself and masturbate, you want to have better sex with your partner, talking about abortions and miscarriages

and sexual assault. And I didn't know how many women felt so afraid to talk about these things because my mom always told me my whole life, if something happens to you, you tell somebody. If you feel something, you tell somebody. And I didn't realize how many women were told to be quiet and to sit down and do not say those things.

And so if you and I can be the people that normalize that conversation and make people feel not alone and make people feel like, oh my God, other people are going through this, then like I'm so excited by that. And whether it's something really huge, like we've encouraged people to report an assault or something really fun and wonderful, like we've encouraged them to master. rate more. I do butt stuff. And get something in your butthole. I'm like, I'm really, really proud to have the stage to, to normalize those kind of conversations. And I think we've earned it, you know? Like, I think that you and I've made it our business to be an expert in this field and

and to support women. And we've done that for listening to your messages. Yeah, I just, I can't believe we get to do it. It's like such an honor and I just want to like not ever fuck it up. But, I mean, I feel like I've just continued to evolve and change as a person. I feel like I've become more empathetic. I have always had a drive to help people in need, but like more than ever and just kind of like give back and use my voice for good. And a lot of this is just kind of like growing up and paying more attention. This is not necessarily just related to the podcast, but just we all grow up and change. And I just feel like I have gotten more empathetic and compassionate. And, you know, we just hear and digest so many stories from, like you said, from our listeners, from our guests.

And yes, realizing everyone has their own struggle, everyone is not. like you, brought up like you. They don't think like you. They weren't raised like you. And it's just ultimately that is empathy and compassion. And I just, I feel, I hope and I feel like I am constantly just becoming a better person. Yeah. With the help of what we've been able to do. I've seen you really, I mean, honestly, really put your money where your mouth this with the pandemic. You've done so many amazing charitable things. And I'm so impressed. And I want to talk about our relationship in three years because now we've known each other for about three and a half years at this point. But, you know, I see a lot of, like, work relationships just, like, blow up and dissolve

and people's egos get involved and they can't work together. And I think the narrative is that women can't work together and that they'll hate each other. And it's just like, that hasn't been the case for us. And I think our relationship's, like, better than it ever has been. And I'm, like, so proud of our partnership. And we talk about that all the time. But, like, I think that we both work really hard. And I think there's, like, a great balance. And I'm really proud of, like, that we have grown in the exact same direction in three years. We're so, we're so blessed. It's not just women. It's rare for anybody.

You see men break up all the time. It's just business partners in general. Like, what we have is like so sacred. And, you know, we've learned a lot and a lot of this is baptism by fire. How do you start a podcast? How do you start a merchandise company? How do you build a website? How do you build a cool Instagram account?

You know, a lot of this was just trial and error baptism by fire working seven days a week. We get messages saying like, how do I start a podcast? How do I do X, Y, and Z? We opened up the computer and Googled it and worked really hard every single day for a lot of years. This doesn't just happen overnight. This is something we worked really, really hard on. And if you want to do something, put your head down and do it. Yeah.

And I just, our relationship is so special. I mean, like, I just feel like I found like a lifelong partner in you. And I mean, yes, I have best friends. I had best friends before. Kate and Corey are still my best friends. They're like family. They're always there for me. And my other friends too.

I've been incredible amazing friends and a lot of them. But like you've just become this like life partner, this business partner. I know you have my back at all times. It's just different. Like we are family, but we're more than that too. like it's just it's really special and I don't know this so cheesy but you always hear like these couple like these people on reality shows and just in general say like I want to find a partner to build an empire with and it's like you really want to do that with your husband or wife but go off

but like we really did it together we like built a dream together like it's just the most special thing in the world and I feel so happy about it and I mean as far as like dating and love I mean let's not forget when we started this podcast I said I wanted to get engaged that year Like now I don't even know if I want to get engaged ever. You know, like I just, I feel like I have so much love and respect for myself. And I realize you don't need a romantic partner to fulfill you, to complete you. I've said it so many times. I feel like the biggest realization I feel like I did have was at the end of maybe 2018.

So I talked about this the first episode of 2019. If like you don't get to come in and like fuck me up anymore. And I feel like I have such a strong grasp on what marriage and long-term relationships look like and that they're not necessarily for everyone. and I still don't know what will happen with me. We all know I don't want children, but like I just feel like if I am true to myself and I stay authentic to myself and I'm open to love or whatever,

I just, I have confidence that it will work out for me, whatever that may be. And I just, I know so much more about guys and how they think and how they act. And I don't take things as personally. I know we say this all the time. And I don't let myself feel as rejected and sad about guys as I used to prior to the show. It's a nice feeling of like control. Like I feel so much more in control of myself.

my emotions, my happiness. Like, I control my life. I control my happiness. You don't get to come in here. And of course, I get down. I'm a human. You're a human. We get upset.

But like, it rolls off our back quicker. We don't let it take over our lives. And I know so much of that is just like how we've been able to like find our purpose, feel more fulfilled and just all that we've learned. And like the information that we've amassed and how it's helped us kind of live our truth. Aw. I always felt like I sort of colored outside the lines a little bit.

And like my mom said to me, you know, you always mark. to the beat of your own drum. And I sort of took that as an insult. I don't think she meant it as an insult. But I was like, well, I don't want to be like that. I want to be like all the other girls that are satisfied with this like nine to five job. And I want to be like everybody else that got married at 27 and has kids. And I thought for so long, like what's wrong with me that like I don't fit into that box and that's not what my life looks like. And why don't, number one, like why isn't that working out for me? And then also like, why don't I really want these things necessarily? Why I'm not satisfied with this? And this podcast has really made me feel like that's okay.

and like you said, you found your purpose. And we were talking about it was offline the other day, but I think people put so much stock into the relationship and finding the relationship. And really a relationship, when you think about all the things in your life, the relationships you have with your friends and your family, your jobs, your hobbies, your body, your health. The only thing you don't have control over is another person

and who you're dating. And we put so much stock into those things. And what I did, even though we have a dating relationship podcast, is I put so much stock into all those other things for three years. You know, I didn't have the greatest relationship with my mom. whole life or my brother, you know, and my relationships with all those people are so great right now. We've built a good network and I'm proud of my life. And I've always said, you know, if a man comes long, then great. And if they don't, then that's fine too. And I don't mind being single. And for so

long, I felt like what's wrong with me and like, why am I so outside of the lines and what other people get to have? And it's like, just because other people have those things don't make them, don't make them happy. Right. And it doesn't mean that they won't end. And, you know, I've just, I've done what you and I've always said, which is to just build a life that I'm proud of. And so for three years, I've worked on that. That's what I've done. Oh my God. This is like really, this is like meeting a lot. I love you. I'm not done with you. I wish some guy would like say that to me in the bedroom. Some guy told me he was going to stroke his cock to my Instagram all night and I was like, oh my God, that's amazing.

No, about you though, I wanted to just like plug you one more time. I've always, just can't recommend me enough. I know that you always put us first, to put the business first, and I trust you. And you've never done anything in three years that have made me feel like what's going on here. And I don't trust this person. And again, I think that that's hard to come by. That and just the work ethic. Like I talked to this before. We don't need to have hammered home anymore. Like, I asked you to do this. And I had been like low key vetting you prior to that of like figuring out if you were someone that liked to work hard and was smart and creative. And it's like, you know, but I still didn't know. you didn't know really enough about me.

And so we just, like, we're so, so lucky. Like, I think, yes, we work hard. It's not luck that we've built this successful business, but it's lucky that we found each other and lucky that, like, we are so honest and transparent with each other. We share a bank account. Like, we're in pretty deep, you know? And we just, we had one week,

Raina was so sick. She couldn't work. It was before we had two holiday shows. I had to plan them all. And Raina could not work. She physically could not work. I've had days recently. I could not work.

I was crying. I was so devastated. You have to pick up the slack. Like it's how it is with any real partner in your life, any, you know, your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. Like it's, it's a business relationship. But like that's what it's all about is like someone picks up the slack and someone makes your life easier when you can. And that's why you have, that's why people enter into partnerships. They want that.

They need that. And like we have that with each other. Yeah. You know, we wouldn't have this community if it wasn't for you guys. and you guys have such amazing ideas and you really, I mean, this whole episode was inspired by a listener.

Half of the emails in this episode are about listeners. And that's what makes us work so hard on this. So it's for you guys. My small things, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of going to Australia, koalas. That's,

I flew Delta one. The first time doing that. I got to go to the lounge. I mean, I just, I really do love where I live. It's so important. I moved to New York. I moved into like a,

like a trap house. that shouldn't have been inhabited. Our first studio was not legit. I really feel like I shouldn't have lived there. I don't think it was safe or anything. I don't think it was up to code in any way. And that's what I could afford at the time. And I've upgraded.

I've upgraded my life. I love where I live. I'm happy every day. This is a small apartment, but it's like my favorite place to be. And that just, that meant a lot too. That was still September 1st of 2019 was like really a really special day for me

when I moved into here. I was here. Yeah. I don't have to do anything. It was great. You packed a mug. Okay, so maybe we will actually just run through a few of our partners before we get into it. And just to tease what's coming next is all the people you want to know about.

Former guests, bunions, footjob, all the things. And we didn't leave anything out. Just you guys know, we went through every single former episode. And we got the tea on all of them. We got the tea. Okay. Okay. I am so excited about that.

this. Okay, so Ashley and I went back through all of our former episodes, looked up every guest, and we're friends with a lot of them. And we have lots of pregnancy announcements, marriage announcements, engagement announcements, one divorce announcement. Ashley and I, none of those things happened for me and Ashley. Yeah, I mean, and it's not every single guest. It's like the ones that really have something happen and we're sorry if we forgot anybody, but it's not every single guest we've had in the history of the podcast that would take like an hour, but like just the ones that really have updates. And of course, you guys can always follow these people on Instagram and see these updates for yourself, but we thought we would share some.

So I'll kick it off. Let's see. Andrew, Colin and Nikki Glazer, we have together. Well, they live together. They live together in St. Louis. They are starting a new podcast in March. You guys can check that out. They'll both be on it.

Chris DeStefano, another baby on the way. I don't know. This is, we're allowed to announce this. He's talked about in his podcast. We're not like breaking the news. He's having another baby with the same woman. I think he's having another girl. I mean, he was so clearly still in love with her years ago when he was on our show.

Yeah. And he's a girl dad now. Amy Fraser. we talked about her terrible breakup and cheating situation and she was in New Zealand with her child and her boyfriend and they are engaged. Dale, we're working with Dale single on the, well, we thought he was, but now he's like spotted with Claire. We don't know what's going on, guys, but prior to that news, we've been texting a little, not like that, but we are trying to get him an upcoming episode. He's expressed to me like he wants to come on the podcast, but he just wants

to let things simmer down a little bit. So Dale's doing okay. Connor Beaton and Vienna Farron. They had a baby. Having a baby. So that's their... That ship is sailed for... No, we respect their marriage, but we love Connor.

But yeah, so they're locked in. Casey Balsham and her... Was she engaged? She's engaged when she came on the show. She was engaged. They had like a COVID small wedding. I don't even think they really had it. But yeah, so they were planning a wedding.

COVID hit. So they ended up getting married. Andrew Shultz is engaged. Shan Boudram had her baby. Derek Path is engaged. And like living in Iowa or something now? Yeah. He's off the map.

Eden. Grinch Pan is pregnant with baby number two. Hannah Burner has a boyfriend and I have a crush on him. He's fucking on. I'm going on her podcast in a couple weeks. I'm like, am I going to tell her? Like, I don't want to make it weird. You know, he's older and he's so sexy.

Okay. Heather McMahon got married. Yeah, okay, right? Yeah, married. They just did like a little wedding. Okay. And then I'm going to kick it to you. I was going to let you read this one, but listen, I watched the show so much.

So, Shep, Shep, one of our first guests, like years ago. Shep Rose. Shep Rose has a girlfriend, which is crazy. It's funny that we've announced that two people are just in relationships. Because you never would have seen it coming. He is a girlfriend. Crispy are actually our very first guest ever. got married and moved to the middle of nowhere.

They moved to her? They live in like upstate New York. They have like a farm estate. And they're just like constantly working on this farm estate. Okay. They're just like left the city. Courtney and Casey who were on our show two summers ago, got married also.

That was a lot. Yeah, Courtney McGuinness, Casey James Selango, last episode we ever had in the old house studio. And they were engaged. They had been killing it. They graduated from couples therapy and they got married. Sydney, Washington, who could not be more beautiful,

is now like a chef on Instagram and a cat lady. Ashley's like a cat lady. Mike Cannon. If you'll remember Mike Cannon, Mike Feeney, we're on our show in June of 2019.

Mike Cannon had his baby and Mike Feeney got a dog. Got a dog. And can I tell you that I helped him with his dog announcement? I said you should do an ultrasound like of a dog

and post it. I'm at Mira Shaw who was our doctor that we had on the show for our episode about abortion recently. It is very recent. engaged. We have one divorce, which we're not going to announce. We're not going to announce it,

but somebody got divorced. So many of our guests have put out books, comedy specials, TV shows in the last year. So, you know, always just follow along with these people. We have people on the show that we love and respect and we love and respect their work and we're really excited to promote it. So always follow along with these people. There's tons of really, really great content that they've all put out over the last couple years. Before we get into our best listener submission stories, Someone wrote that they wanted just updates on the guys we talked about with Michaela's reading. So we had Mystic Michaela on. She read our oras and she read the oras of guys that we had dated and that was in the summer,

this past summer. And she did more serious X for me and then a guy that I dated casually. And she was spot on. Nothing with my ex-X. That's, I mean, whatever. I'm sure that's still accurate. Whatever she said if you want to listen back. But the other guy, it was spot on.

She was like, he's not going to have sex with you. like it's just not going to really progress anymore because we'd been dating before, whatever, and the pandemic kind of threw a wrench into it. And then Kelly pulled a card on that guy too. We talked about this with her when she came on and she said, I just see you getting disappointed. Like they both were so spot on. Like everything they said about him was accurate. So now obviously, she's incredible. Now I believe in psychics. That's my three-year update. I really didn't use to believe in this stuff. And it's just like, we've been blown away by these people. And then yours

We have two of them held true I guess I mean you saw that guy Mine held true So there was one about somebody Who like I didn't actually date I was just like so in love with And she was like that's just not the guy for you

And I've just sort of like watched his life over the last year And I'm like oh you don't live a life that I like Yeah The other one is actually That's the guy that I spent like Christmas and New Year's with Who I said that like I had spent a bunch of time with We like rekindled things through the fall And just like she said

He just wants to live on a boat And I don't know Sail off into nowhere and he's like happy for me and proud of me, but our lives don't mess in anyway. And I don't think he, like, shames me for it. But, like, that's just where our lives are going to lie. So, like, that's how our life is going to be. And so she was dead on about that, too. Yeah, I've asked her about two things since. I asked her, I sent her picture of a house. I was looking at buying. And it's crazy. She said, you can have this if you want it, but you're not going to. And I was like, why would I not? I got kind of mad about it.

We went down there to see it. It was at the beach. And I didn't. And it was part of the neighborhood. But like whatever. She nailed it. I asked her about this dog situation. I don't really need to get into it. She nailed that too. She's just incredible. So I don't know. We're just going to give an update on her that she's still credible. We miss her every day. It's not. It's hard. We did not text her every day. It's hard. We did not text me. It's hard. Yeah, that guy's life sucks too now also. So listen, it's just your update is that everybody who's not dating us, their life sucks. It was fine. It was hard to not text Michaela. But yeah, that guy's life sucks too now also. So listen, it's just your update is that everybody who's not dating us, their life sucks. now. Yeah, exactly. And they've glowed down. Really hard. Always. Okay. Should we get into a few of our best stories? We crowdsource these and we really got so many the same that you guys wanted to hear about. So we're going to do that. A couple things. There was a few that we did get updates on and that just weren't, I don't want to say appropriate. There's one that you guys wanted and I I talked to him. It's a guy.

And you can take your guesses and he just didn't feel comfortable. I've been talking to him for years now. So I got, you know, like I got updates on him before. It was a situation that we went over with one of our former guests. And he just was like, I'm past this.

It wasn't a great thing for me. And I'm in a better place now. And I would not, I actually don't want you guys talk about it. So I was like, sure. So if you're like, why didn't you talk about this person, that could be why.

Yeah, we want to respect everybody. And there's nobody we're going to talk about today that we didn't check in with that. So we got. permission and then thank and that they know that they really. But again, also, if you're a newer listener, we've done so many segments over the years. I'm almost called, Is it Weird?

Inspired by a listener, Psycho or Power Move. Is this weird? Rina. Is it weird? What did I say? You said, is it weird? I did. Just get it right.

It's Arsha. This took a turn. We've done so many segments. And so these are all inspired by those different ones that we brought in the podcast. And do you want to start? We're going to catch you up on the stories first. Do you want to read about Footjob, girl? Yeah.

Let's just come out of the gate with Footjob, job girl you know we're friends we became friends so i already knew this i already knew everything was going out but i said can you just write us in a quick update to like in a concise you know paragraph so we can read it on the on the show and she said absolutely the background is this was just a girl that was dating this guy that was she thought was really great and he wanted foot jobs we talked about it with jared and jordanna and we were like no big deal he'll probably just want a foot job and then that'll be it so it was that was a pretty simple story we don't need to read the original email it was just about this guy wanting foot jobs and they did continue to date they kind of like they had a serious relationship

Okay, she said, footjob guy broke my heart, fall of 2019, very unexpectedly. I was devastated for a long time as this was my first real heartbreak, but now I see that this was for the best. He told me to never tell anyone about what we did. So naturally, I told the entire GGE Facebook page and made hundreds of friends. She said, I'm very happy with my life now. I just graduated college. I have amazing girlfriends and I'm building a career path I'm proud of.

I spread the footjob gospel whenever possible. A few months ago, I met some GGE fans in my neighborhood in South Boston and taught them how to give a foot job. Did she tell you what she used? Did she tell you what she used? No. Okay, I'll get more on the side. Oh my God, let me finish this. I taught them how to give a foot job in public on the side of the street. That's amazing. To walk by that. I have yet to find someone special enough to use my talents on since, but I'm in no rush. I'm living my life for myself and for the new podcast episode every Monday morning. And she's wonderful. Her and I chat. She's no she can. Ashley becomes friends with so many of you guys. If you know, we talked about this for years, I become friends with every single

person's ever worked for us. Like, every person has been a photographer for us, Nettie City, all of our graphic designers. You're closer with like those kind of people and I get close with like the fans. I'm friends with the people we paid. I know, I had to tell Raina not to invite our accountant to her birthday party one year. I was like, you cannot, you have to stop this. It's so true. You got kind of mad.

I was like, we have to draw the line somewhere. You told me that I wasn't allowed to invite someone to my own birthday party. I should have. I even suggested it. Look, you, so we do, our agents, we love them, we're friends of them. we hang out with them, but I was like, we have to draw the line of our accounts, Raina. You cannot invite the accountants to your birthday party. It's too close. They're not accounts. They're not accounts. They're our business managers. Like,

they know more about you that they know all my grandma borders. Are they CPAs? I don't know. Am I right? No. They're Jewish. One of them. Oh, my God. They know more about us. They probably know more about me than you know about me. I got to keep my grandpa borders. I'm going to draw that line. Okay. Okay. This is an email that made us laugh out loud. This is bunion girl. This is maybe we're coming out a little too strong. Are we going to be able to continue this? Well, those are like our two most famous emails. No, we can't. Okay, okay. We got some crazy shit. Oh, we got. Badhold, dad girl. Yeah. We have. We have them all. Okay. Let's go. Let's do bunnies. We have all that here. This is,

okay, let's be honest. This is probably the most, the funniest, most iconic email we've ever read on the show. And this was very early on this 2018. And we also, like, we really dig deep to find emails that aren't just about weird sex stuff, like just weird stuff in general. Almost positive. This was the first is this weird segment. Really? I'm almost positive, but don't. It's like, don't damn me if I'm wrong. Okay.

All right. So the original email, if you guys haven't been listening. I've been dating this guy for about three months and we're super comfortable with each other already. However, I was sleeping in his house and he told me that his bunions hurt and he had to sleep with his bunion correctors. I said, sure, because I'm not an asshole. He whips out the scariest thing I've ever seen. Basically, these are splints for your bunions, but the most cringe-worthy part was when he was clacking around like a horse. walking around in his bunyan

correctors. It sounded like he was wearing hubs. I could not live. I was in meeting. It's like bringing me back to mouth media reading this. It's clacking around. The way you said clacket.

Yes, and you did that. I was immediately dried up and couldn't have sex than that night. Is this a deal breaker? Am I being too sensitive? Is this weird? And then she would touch base. So her name's Tori. She said we could say her name. So shout out to Tori.

Love this girl. Tori. I just, I hope this isn't funny to you guys that there's a man just clacking around in his apartment. It was the email itself, the hooves clacking around. And then we said, Raina goes, buy him socks, carpet your apartment, do whatever you need to do so he's not clacking around. And you admitted later that you weren't really paying attention at the beginning of me reading the email. And then you piped up. And when you said carpet your apartment, I lost my mind.

It's one of my favorite moments of the podcast. It was hot in that. studio and there was bugs and I just sometimes like zoned out. I like forgot where I was. Okay. We have an update. Okay. She said, he walked back in and you were like, buy himself, carpet your apartment, whatever you have to do so he's not clacking around.

All right. Of course I'll fill you guys in on Bunyan Guy. Bunyan Guy is no longer R-I-P. He didn't die. I'll try to keep it brief, but I'm going to give you guys all the important details. First of all, I need to mention this. After he debuted his prized bunyan correctors to me at his apartment the next time he slept over my apartment he brought over a travel pair of bunyan correctors i repeat a travel pair i love this girl so much i cannot i don't know i didn't know bunyan corrections were a thing before him let alone a travel pair i was shell-shocked and

told him he could leave him in my apartment again because i'm not an asshole about a month after i wrote this to you guys things with bunion guy fell apart i think whipping out the bunyan correctors gave him a new sense of comfort around me. And basically, he started expecting our relationship to move extremely fast. He told me he wanted to get engaged within the year, but never once considered my feelings slash plans. I told him I wasn't ready and he was moving too fast. And ultimately, I ended the relationship because of this.

I guess when a girl doesn't run away, spooked from you clacking around in your bunyan correctors, you want to put a ring on it. Now I'm dating this amazing guy for one and a half years and he is bunyan free. Hashtag blessed. Also, you can absolutely use my first name because I hope I was able to bring bunyan corrector awareness to the Chi Chi-Chi-E community. Stay woke out there. Also, she attached a photo of the bunyan correctors he had.

Yes, they are extremely orthopedic and would dry any girl up. Love Tori slash bunion guys X. Oh, God. You guys are so funny. I love when you guys write the punchlines. Yes. Like, no jokes needed. Bunyan awareness.

Bunyan girl update. Okay. Let's get back into it. I'm going to do a quick one. Just tell you guys what happened because you asked. And then I'm going to talk about movie theater anal girl. Her and I've been chatting. So if you guys remember, I went on this date where this was back in September, I believe, early

September, late August, and the waiter sprayed me in the face with this rosewater. Come to find out that waiter was fucking one of our listeners' moms. That was like her booty. That was like her booty call. And I asked her if her mom is still booty calling that waiter. And she said, she had like the cry laughing emojis. And she said, I don't believe they're together in that way anymore. But they have this connection or whatever.

And she says he's a really important person to her. I wish I knew how to explain that dynamic in an easy way. But last time I got an unwarranted update from my mom and her dating life, she was seen someone else. Her mom went through a divorce and her mom like has multiple dudes in the mix. Her mom's like sort of an icon. We talked about it. She wrote a whole bunch of stuff.

I'm not going to get into her mom's personal business. but she's got like guys and she's got bros in different area codes, all different countries. And then she had the young waiter, like her mom's like, I was like, is your mom an icon? Lerner, she was like, she said in the past two, three years of my parents' divorce, post-divorce experience makes me want to write a memoir.

So I guess Rosewater waiter is still part of her mom's life, but she has too many other guys a mix. So she doesn't really care. And I'll tell you guys about movie theater anal. This was when we asked you guys like crazy stuff you'd done when you were younger, like your younger childhood teenage years. And her submission was, was with my first boyfriend in high school when I was 16.

I did anal in a movie theater with his brother and mom. A few rows up. I got away with it. Thank God. But I farted come in the bathroom, which was gross. Okay, that is just, do you remember that part?

I don't actually remember that part. Maybe we didn't read it. No, we did not read that part because I would remember it. All right. Wow. You guys really were like, that's not possible, yada, yada.

I was like, that's not possible. And his mom's in the room. So she sent me even a video to, like, she's cute. She's so great. And she was like, I promise you, I'm not lying. I know you guys think I'm lying, but I'm not. And I asked her like all the, I was like, can you give me like all the tea?

And she was like, of course, I'll give you all the tea. She said he was my first boyfriend. I lost my virginity to. I started dating when I was 15. The anal situation happened. I was 16. The movie was a Kristen Stewart movie. It was called like American something.

I don't know. Something you guys probably don't know about. And she was on her period. So she had a tampon and they couldn't do normal sex. And she was like, I was young and spright at the time. Anal didn't hurt. Now it does. But that's besides the point.

She said, the first time I did anal with him, my boyfriend at the time, this sounds like a lie, and this is super embarrassing for me. So seriously, please keep this entire situation anonymous, please. She said, but I shit on his dick. The first time we did anal, I cried and started freaking out. He was super nice and calm and had baby wipes guys. That's so normal, by the way. Like, there's anal. Usually there is poop up there, okay? Poopie involved. And so she was like, that first was clearly not traumatizing enough for me not to do it again. So yeah, the movie theater time was just one of the many anal situations with that first boyfriend of nine. Since then, I haven't done anal with any guy. I don't know why it just hurts too much now. I guess anal was my high school thing because now I'm 22 and I eat ass. And then

then she said, then she said me this really funny video. She's so cute. And she said, again, please keep this anonymous. So that's the update on movie theater girl. She eats ass. Let me see the video. The video is her like showing you how she. No, no, no. The video was just her being like, I know this sounds crazy. I probably, I need you to see my face and know that I'm not lying. She was like, I had my period as a whole thing. It's like, you don't, you just don't have to fuck in a movie theater. Like, no one was making you, she was like,

you know, it was just, it was this weird situation. We're at the movie, so we had to fuck. Yes, yes. And, you know, his mom was there, so we definitely had to fuck. And his brother. Right? And so he got on the floor in the movie theater. Oh, that's, you're right.

Okay, that was an update we had talked about before. The first time she actually tagged us in a story. I reposed her story. This was a while back. And she goes, hi, I'm movie theater, anal girl. And then I was like, oh my God, girl, we've been dying to talk to you. And so I did ask Hal. She said he was laying on the ground and I like wrote him and we were hiding behind the seat since we were on the floor.

So yes. And then I gave you that update and you were like he was laying on a dirty movie theater. Again, you don't have to do it there. Yeah. No one is making you fuck in a movie theater. And this guy was like, we're doing it. I'm going to get on the floor in a movie theater. I can't get over it, guys.

Okay. Next, we're doing one of Raina's favorites. This is an email. We use it in our YouTube reel. It's a classic. This is Dad Butthole. Oh my God. I'm so excited I get to do this.

Okay. Dad butthole. Let's do the original email for this because it's a good one. Oh my God, of course. Okay. My dad is the key to my house because he often comes over to check on the dogs, etc. A few months ago, I had brought a dude from Hinge home one night.

The next morning we were fooling around and my dad comes over unannounced and walks in on me, butt-ass naked on all fours, giving the dude a blow job. I was on top of the sheets on my bed. There was literally no time to react or pull anything over me. There was nothing to save me. My dad saw everything. He freaked, shut the door and ran out.

The guy looked at me and said, I think I just locked eyes with your dad. I said, yeah, well, I think my dad just locked eyes with my butthole. So I think I have a bigger issue. Keep in mind, I am 32 years old. 32. This should not be happening to women are age. Oh my gosh. It's true.

If you're 18, it's like, all right. Well, you didn't know how to lock the door. But like, okay. So we have an update. Sadly, a butthole guy and I only made it three more dates after this tragedy. I was hoping it to be a great story at our wedding, but he turned out to be a total doorknob. I've never heard any be...

I say that before, but that's pretty funny. Luckily, my dad and I are super close, and we were able to semi- awkwardly laugh it off, but we have never spoken about it again until last weekend when he decided to drunkenly bring it up at dinner. I don't know why I thought this was an appropriate time to clear the air, but he definitely knows now that he has to announce himself before just letting himself in. Thanks for checking in and looking forward to hearing your episode.

You guys are the SPS. I'm sure there are more guys out there. They're just waiting to have a super unfulfilling and awkward sexual encounter with me. So I'll be sure to fill you in when it happens again. So I'm glad that you guys, you and your dad are okay. Yeah. Listen, my dad watches our live shows. He knows all about Ashley's vagina.

He knows about my first vibrator. After the live show last week, he knows what I wrote my journal. He knows I was getting just banged out by dudes at 19. So I don't know. Listen, dads at some point, I guess, accept that their daughters are people. Yeah. I just saw her my dad to see my butthole. next let's talk about spaghetti hands just quick update you guys really do want to know about

spaghetti hands this was a girl that her boyfriend's family they reached into the they reached into the spaghetti pot with their bare hands so she told us and you guys thought this was crazy it was it is it's crazy she said my boyfriend and I are still together I finally brought up the situation how I felt to him and now I make fun of him for it every time I cook noodles LOL my mom also bought him one of those spaghetti spoons that is so funny her mom was like listen your family's fucked up I have not eaten spaghetti with his family since this day. I have, however, talked to several people and no one thinks this is a normal thing to do. My real question now is which of his parents started this?

Surely they did not both come from families who use their hands to scoop noodles, right? Okay, so we'll get an update next time. If she can crack that code. I still honestly, even though some girl's dad saw her butthole and there's bunning and cracked. This is one of the weirdest emails to me. I can't imagine it. I know.

It's hard to picture. I can imagine. We got one email or one DM. I forget where this came through. And some girl said that her family did that too. So we did get like one more like validator. I don't understand this. Okay, this is just a quick update because with Kelly Knight's episode,

we were asking Kelly to basically say, just give some feedback on some different things. And this girl's sister was dating her roommate. So Kelly pulled cards for these people. Right, right, right. And we were just talking about whether that's a good idea or a bad idea. What was Kelly's exact feedback? We, Kelly, I think Kelly said it was good.

And because, yeah, the email was kind of crazy. Just like her sister was dating her roommate. That's kind of not the order of how things go. It felt very like new girl, but we all felt good about it. Right. Okay. All right. So we have an update for you guys to let you know how it's going.

Okay. Hello, Queens. Hey, girl. Kelly and I read my email about my sister that was dating her roommate and you guys were all rooting for her. Well, I am shocked and so excited to share that she married him last week. Kelly was right. He really is a king.

Treats her like the royalty that she is. As Kelly said it, it was very fast and no breaks, but we couldn't be happier for them. I officiated the wedding with five days notice on a sunny day in San Francisco. Here are some pictures because my sister is the hottest wifey ever. Can't wait for the live show and she shared pictures. They really, really are so beautiful. And they just had like a small little thing. Like, you know, like overlooking San Francisco.

Okay, this is crazy because Kelly, that was in the fall. I mean, like they were just started dating in the fall and they're married. That's really great. You guys asked a lot about the girl who was thinking about women from Kelly's episode. I talked to her. I feel like you guys are like, does she have a girlfriend? She does not. She's actually still with her boyfriend.

But some things have happened and she feels closer to him than ever. And she feels really supported. And she feels in a really good place with her boyfriend of that relationship. So I know you guys were curious. Don't need to read her whole story. But, you know, she just was like, I hope I don't let anybody down. We're like, girl, as long as you're happy. So she's doing great.

Yeah. And that guy was great, remember? I think that she feels like you and me and the audience inspired her and empowered her to have those conversations with him. And she did. At least he knows. It's on the table. And then there was one more that Kelly pulled the devil. Remember that? Yep. I forget the whole story. Kelly pulled the devil card and that girl touched base and said he was the devil.

And it was awful. Oh my God. And it was worse than we could have even anticipated. Okay. Last one. This one overwhelmingly. Shuck. This was crazy. I'm not going to read the whole email. Bottom line, this girl was engaged and her, her, her, fiance was going to have his ex in their wedding. He stayed close with his ex-girlfriend and she was going to be in the wedding and she was getting like really crazy and she was like kind of a bully. It was wild. We were all like so shook by like how could this possibly happen? We met her, the girl who wrote the email in Miami in April 2019 and we couldn't believe she was there. She goes back and forth between Canada and Miami. So we met her in person. We were so excited to meet her. She's such an icon for

the story. And so we were like, whatever happened with the ex in the bridal party. And she said, Unfortunately, as our wedding was supposed to be in 2020, I am one of those COVID brides that has had to postpone. Our new date is set for later this year and come hell or high water or ex-GF, we are getting married. One good thing is we are getting married in Canada. And currently they have a mandatory three-day quarantine upon entering the country. So although I don't put a pastor to show up, it's going to cost her a little more than she probably anticipates. Keep her out. Okay.

As things progressed following that email, I sent two years ago my fiancee finally saw how crazy she really was and no longer wanted her part of his groomsmen. dodged that literal bullet, I hope. She continued to slander me on social media for about a year or so after I sent you that email. I thought that was it until I started receiving threatening letters in the mail with no return address, unclear how she got our house address. I haven't received anything yet this year, but try not to speak too soon. She remains in contact with my fiance's groomsman, prying them for information on our new wedding details and trying to have them join her and ambushing our wedding. They too don't understand why she is so fixated on our relationship and after nearly four years why she can't move on. At this point, I don't put it past her to show up at our wedding or even

our doorstep. Going to need GGE bodyguards at the wedding to take a bitch out if needed. If she's serious, we'll put the call out. We have so many Canadian listeners. We'll have you guys to go stand guard. Crazy. Oh, man, I left out the fact that my fiance and their mutual friends have asked her multiple times to stop harassing me. I think these attempts only fueled her fire and he's broken off all contact with her for almost two years now. Okay. Something to note that I learned after all this started that her and my fiance had been broken up for nearly a year before I met him. They remained friends.

She helped him when his mom died, as I said in my first email, and she helped him move on for residency. He had dated a few other girls casually prior to meeting me, but I was the first one that was Instagram, Facebook official. The only thing I can drum up is that she was thinking their friendship would lead back into a more romantic relationship at some point and that me being in the picture would jeopardize that.

To this day, I've still never had a conversation with her or replied back to any of the slander, notes or threats, just trying to ride it out like the whole. Horse girl, I am. Also, like, we really love this girl. Her energy is so great. We were so glad we got to meet her in person.

And she just, like, she really did keep her cool through all of this. And it's like, it benefited her. She just had faith in her relationship. She just chilled out. And her fiance finally saw the light. We're really happy for her that she wrote it out and they got to this place. And they wrote her in a... Anytime I can use a horse girl pun.

We're excited that you guys are getting married. and we will send the Gigi squad to protect your wedding. You just ask, girl. We'll fire up the Facebook group just for it. We'll get foot shop girl in there to mobilize. And she'll teach all you guys how to do foot shops at the reception. What if the foot squad was outside of her wedding? Okay.

Okay. So we are going to move into the last part of this episode, the most emotional part of this episode. And this is that we asked you guys how your lives have changed in the past three years. Okay. Here's the thing. These emails, like, we don't do this to, like, jerk each other off. This was an idea from a listener.

Like, we're not, like, tell us how we changed your life. We just, we wanted to know how your life has changed. And you guys say these things and we're going to read them because they're your words. And this is not self-serving. I think it's very, like, a lot of people will resonate with a lot of these stories. And I think more than anything, yes, they're like, girls got to eat helped me. We are so honored. It means so much.

But, like, it's more so just inspiring. Also, you helped yourselves. You know, like you heard something that inspired you and you took the reins and you did it, you know? And how many of us hear something that's inspiring and don't even take one minute to try to put those things into action. So every one of these things is something that you guys did. And we love and appreciate your emails. Yes. Yes. I do. I'm going to kick it off. I do. I'm going to kick it off. Thank you for. Ashley, I'm actually labeled this below jobs. And I was like, it's fine. Okay. Since starting to listen to GGE in October 2018, I have. adopted a dog, RIP King Dewey, told a guy that blowjobs are for boyfriends to get out of giving one. Subsequently got very into giving blow jobs to the point where it's maybe my favorite thing to do to a guy, girl, I masturbate to blow jobs. Why is she both of us? Why is she? I masturbating the other day to giving road head. Okay.

But enough liquid IV to always save me when I'm hungover, tired, whatever. Go, Gigi. Masterrated so much more and used different methods and ways to get me in the mood. I thought you were going to like, hype me after everyone line. Okay. Oh. Take it.

Okay. Do it again. Masturbated so much more and used different methods and ways to get me in the mood. Taking and sent fire naked picks to a guy. Hey. Survived a pandemic laughing with you ladies all along the way. And so much more. Thanks for spending time with me each and every week.

The number of times I relay you both is insane. It makes me feel not so alone in this world that can sometimes be very insanely lonely. Oh my gosh. Okay. You really were just like, so are you going to do a sound like this? I was just like, did I not read that one okay? Honestly, we have said this since like day one. If we can make one person feel less alone, like somebody else is exactly like you,

then like we have done our job. And girl, you are not alone. If you can dream it, if it's something you're going through, someone else is too. Yeah. And go off with all your masturbating and blowjobs and liquid IV and all the things. I couldn't be happier than when somebody. DMs me that they gave a blowjob to completion. They masturbated to a blowjob. They sent fire nudes. I'm just crumps. I might be the most proud of this girl. I know. Okay. I'm going to read the next one.

This one starts. You women have changed my life. Picture this. 23-year-old virgin who had her first date and first kiss six months prior to the start of your show. I would send paragraphs of text to my bumble matches would get loads of dick picks and hardly get last on a date. I stumbled across your show while working in a graduate school research lab and I remember laughing to myself and at the past dating mistakes as I was completing my experiments. I love the smart experiments. I just picture with like a beaker and she's like, God, I was so fucked up. She said the first line.

She's like, did not nail that. Yeah. Okay. Since listening to your show, I've gained a healthy dose of confidence and asking for what I want in a relationship and not being afraid of the person I'm seeing cannot meet my needs. I bought a vibrator and read, she comes first, written by previous guest, Ian Kerner, and have had well over 100 orgasms go off for counting. Did she count?

I love it. She's got a little tick marks in her journal. Okay, I have bought a vibrator for three other women in my life so they two can experience orgasms. A hundred vibrators, yeah. I bought my first dildo and took my own virginity after listening to Like a Virgin as I was petrified to have sex for the first time. Later, I got my first boyfriend, confidently made my sexual debut, broke up with my first boyfriend, tried bringing friends with my boyfriend. And then after I learned he voted for Trump blocked my ex-boyfriend. Go off!

Guys, my job's on the floor. I'm so thankful I've had you, Ash and Raina and the Gigi. gang supporting me. You are the first thing I listened to on Monday morning at 6.30 a.m. and you have awoken this beautiful, confident, kind, and sexual being. I mean this with all my heart. I love you. And I'm so grateful for the lessons I've learned from your podcast. God damn. Like a virgin. She took her own virginity. Yeah. I mean, you have people, I am like that. Thank you for normalizing that. I've definitely heard about that where you're so petrified for like what's going to happen when something goes inside of you, if you're going to bleed, if how it's going to feel,

you do it yourself, who cares? I'm crying. Yeah, I know, I'm crying. Sorry, I want to respond to what you said, but I'm crying. No matter how many your emails we read, I still cried all of them. Okay. And all right, next one. I've been wanting to write this email to y'all for some time now to thank you both. In November of 2018, I found out I was pregnant. I was 20 years old. I was ashamed and went through my abortion alone. It was through that dark time that I found y'all's podcast. After my abortion, I lost the fun wild Amy that I had always been. Y'all's podcast allowed old A-Aid Me to come back. Y'all remind me how beautiful and strong women are.

Y'all remind me to love myself and forget what the haters say because I literally don't care anymore. Raina remind me to bring out my sex toys and keep cooking, not at the same time. Ashley reminded me to be boss-ass bitch and bring out my inter-re-iance. I'm truly grateful for you both and constantly listen to the podcast and hope one day I'll see you both live in Austin, Texas. Sorry for all the y'alls. I was raised in Texas and it rubbed on me. Thank you again for bringing out the fierce Texan Rican that I was hiding for too long. Oh my God.

It's heavy. I just, we're just so proud that you guys have grown from this. And we can speak to someone. Like, the next one is like we debated because it's really long. But this one I just think might resonate with people. So she says, so let's create the scene. It's 2018. I'm engaged, getting married in the fall.

I pretended I'd everything figured out. My friends thought I had. everything figured out, but I didn't. I had my true feelings and acted and responded and made decisions based on what others wanted, not me. I got married that fall. I was excited truly, but there was something in me that wasn't feeling it. I had hoped it would go away, but alas, it didn't. We bought a house a few months later. I wasn't excited. I began listening to you guys early in 2019 and talking about relationships and all of that helped me truly realize what I was feeling, why I felt it, and then I can't keep hiding it. So then COVID hits. I told no one but hoped quarantine would help.

It didn't. It got worse. I began to actually hate being home and being in the same room as this person and felt trapped because I couldn't go anywhere. When my office opened in July, you bet your ass I went in. Going into the office still didn't help. And so finally one day, I come home and finally release this pressure built in me by telling him I'm not happy. It was so fucking hard. I literally held onto this for over a year. And to be honest, I thank you too in some way because you've inspired me to think for me, not for everyone else or care about everyone else. One of my issues about saying this out loud was to not disappoint others, but you guys taught me that by not disappointing others, I will continue to disappoint myself. So here I am.

It's been about three, four months since I've said it to him. Divorce is underway, and I feel so fucking amazing. It's sad and I'm sad, but I finally feel free. Truly, I am so happy to be going through this. I've learned so much about myself and what I want to partner. I wish I realized this before, but I was a dumb 22-year-old who said yes to an engagement and a 24-year-old who got married without truly wanting it, but faking it. And now I'm a 26-year-old who's smarter, wiser, and a boss-ass bitch.

I'm so happy for my growth and for finally choosing myself before anyone else. So thank you both for helping to shed the light. I'm growing into a beautiful sunflower because of you love your sunflower child. You guys, I'm so proud of her. And honestly, like, anything you choose yourself, I'm just, like, proud of you guys, you know? You're not going to make anybody happy

by choosing their happiness and, you know, staying just to make them happy. Yep. And that guy will thank you. Okay, I'm going to pull myself together. God damn it. Okay, this next one, it's a little lighter. I'll make you guys laugh.

And it's from a woman, clarify. I have been listening since day one. Fast word to now. I bought a house. got my masters, got my job, making six figures, got engaged, got married, and got a second dog, both Southern rescues, and sending love to Ash and Dewey. Yes. But what you are probably interested in looking at you, Raina, took some sex tips from you ladies and switched it up in the bedroom. I blindfolded it and went down on my wife. This bitch literally thought I was because she started shaving a landing strip. But anyways, keep slang girls.

I read it in person thought a man was referring to his wife as this bitch, which made me laugh anyways, but Ashley Clarified. And then I was like, no, this is for a woman. But it was so funny because she was like, my wife thought that I started going down on her because she had a landing strip. She's like, no, it's this podcast.

I've been listening to. But also like shave landing straps. Okay. Okay. This, I'll just, this is a, there's a little bit of a trigger warning for this one. that's going to be triggering to you guys about suicide. It's not too graphic, but may as well give that.

Okay, she says, I first just want to say thank you. I'm tearing up even as I'm beginning to type this out because I truly can't thank you ladies enough. A little over two years ago, I was in a very all-consuming relationship with who I thought was my person. We had gone through an abortion together. His family took me in because of physical abuse from my family and he was everything I didn't know I wanted or needed.

Eventually we broke up and that day I knew it was for real this time. That night, I overdosed and tried to take my own life. but was later revived. I went through liver failure, a psychiatric stay, and all the therapy you could ever imagine. However, around this time, there was a podcast you ladies put out called Breakup Boot Camp with Amy Chan.

After I listened to this episode, I completely broke down. I didn't feel alone anymore or like the pathetic girl who would kill herself over a guy. I can't even describe in words how much that episode meant to me. All of it just resonated

and it gave me the push I needed to actually move on. I still suffer with depression and anxiety, but listening to this podcast holds me accountable each week and has become a way for me to track my progress in my growth. She's like, not journey, L.O.L. We still say journey, girl, it's fine. I can now confidently say I'm in a good place mentally with an absolutely incredible job in cybersecurity,

and I'm living my truth. It may not be the truth of who I was back then, but the truth I'm living now is much more fulfilling. Thank you ladies for getting me through the difficult times of the best guests, the best comedy when I need it, and the constant love you make your fans feel. I wouldn't be here without the help of your podcast. I love you both.

I hope to see you soon at a live show. Oh, my God. We are going to wrap it up with something funny, but it's such an honor to make you guys feel like this and help you to find a community. And whether it's through our words or our guess words or the writing that they have, it's like, we rarely ever get an email from somebody where I think like, this is the first time I've ever heard this. Like somebody is always experiencing where you're experiencing. While we're here, we have an episode coming out on a Monday with an incredible guest who's going to talk more about depression and anxiety. So if you guys have any of that going on, it should be a great episode for you. Yeah.

Okay. I've quit my toxic job, started my own business, and killing it, saying no to men that haven't done the work and saying, hell yes, to all the sexy butt stuff. You ladies are a force of good. Thank you for all you've done and helping people make little shifts that will transform their realities. Well, thank you guys. We wouldn't be here without you guys three years later. So we can't thank you enough. And this just means the world.

You know, people say mean things to us, but like these are a remember. reminder that like why we do what we do and that we are an amazing community and that it's overwhelmingly positive and supportive and loving. So we love you guys. Yeah. And most of you. Um, you guys say all the time that we like change your lives, but like you changed my life and Ashley changed my life and this community of women and you know, the couple of men that listen. Um, I'm a totally different person than I was three years ago. It's because of these stories. It's because of these emails. It's because of our guess. I just, it's made me like a much more, I'm going to stop crying. It's made me a much more accepting person, accepting of myself, accepting of other people. Everyone's just human. Everybody has a story.

Everybody has a different life experience. It's brought them there. And we are so honored to be the place that you guys tell your stories. Yeah. Thank you guys. I echo all of that too. I say this all the time. I've said, I say this all the time now. Like it like gets to me that we can't respond to all of these. you know what I mean. Like we just have a job to do. Like we can't, you know, we could actually spend all day answering emails and like we can feel that you guys, we can feel them in our heart. Like, you know, I couldn't ever possibly respond to all the messages I got about Dewey. Like I wouldn't be able to like, you know, work and it would take a lot out of me. But like we are really, we just thank you guys so much. If we didn't read it on the episode or we didn't respond

to you. Like, we are just so thankful that you trust us with your story. And thank you for sharing it was with us. And it wasn't because it wasn't as good or as important. You know, we could only read a few for timing. And we, just thank you guys for even submitting them. Yeah. And what we promised to you is for the next three years, the next however many years you will allow us to. We'll make a great show. We'll have great guests. We will do everything we can to put out the best product and show that we can to uplift you guys to make your lives better and to help you divorce your husband. Yeah. And get butt stuff. And get those rescue dogs. A hundred orgasms. But stuff. Break up with toxic men. Get a rescue dog.

Better nudes. Yes. Better blow jobs. All the things. Have better divorces. Have better divorces. Or don't get married in the first place. Yeah. Have no kids. Don't get married.

Be like us. Eat your wife's pussy better. All right. We love you guys. Thank you for sticking with us. Yes. Thank you. We hope you guys enjoyed this episode.

Like I said, we have a really great life-changing episode coming on Monday for you. So in just a few days. And in the meantime, you know where to find us. Girls Gotta Eat Podcast.com. We are Girls Got to Eat Podcast on Instagram and Ash Hess and Raina. Greenberg on Instagram, Girls underscore Gotta Eat on Twitter and YouTube.com slash girls got to eat.

And we'll see you Monday. Thanks, guys. Have a good weekend. Bye.