just a little shady - A Weekend Full of Emotion - Ep. 15

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Riding the rollercoaster of emotion that was Elliot's first birthday, The Oscars, St. Paddy's, and more! Join the Patreon to see exculsive JALS content & watch the podcast ad-free: patreon.com/justalittleshadypodcast Submit your Season 4 Shady Stories here: https://forms.gle/J2DxaPzncPnYVVq98 Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justalittleshadypodcast Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justalittleshadypodcast/ Watch us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR6yk19Q/ Get home inspiration @ hailiejadehome on Instagram and TikTok #JustALittleShady #hailiejade #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We have lots to catch up on this week. We're also recording on St. Patrick's Day. I wore my green last week. Brits got her green this week. So I think we're in the clear for good luck for the episodes because like it's all equal and everything. I'm not going to lie. I completely forgot today with St. Patrick's Day.

Did you? On multiple occasions. Yeah. I mean, I thought about it a little bit. I was in office for work today and we were celebrating a bit. I thought about it in the middle of the night last night when Elliot kept waking up. And I was like, he's waking up because of the leprechauns. Did he wear green last night?

No, because I forgot. And I'm like, this is my fault. But anyways, yeah, I don't know if that was the case. I think we're at the one-year regression. Which speaking of Elliot's birthday party just passed. It turned out so great. We had a pizza party. We talked about last week.

It literally felt like we were in Italy. Yeah. Everybody who came over was like, oh, we are actually in an Italian village right now. We have been transported straight to Italy. It was exactly what we needed to do for his first birthday. And honestly, it was so crazy. I think one of the craziest things is watching him, like, be an, actual human baby and like play with other kids i know what are you doing stop growing what are you like

it's so precious watching honestly watch him watching him interact with anybody at the party but kids especially it's like it's extra cute to see the what he is just i mean i think he's the sweetest most perfect angel in the whole wide world because that's just the truth of the matter but like him interacting with other kids he's just like extra sweet and just like but it's so wild because it's like what do kids and like babies think because obviously like he communicates with us but like not right really but when he sees other kids other kids don't know like okay this is a baby i need to be gentle be this or be that or talk a certain way they just are kids yeah and like somehow he's just like oh i know what this is And he's like down to play.

It's crazy. But anyways, yeah, that was a lot of fun, very eventful. And then after that, we actually surprised one of our good friends, Matt, for his birthday, for his 30th. And we basically went to like, I would say it was like, it wasn't really a St. Patrick. We called it like a St. Patrick's Day celebration. It was like a hybrid. I feel like. But it was really for his birthday. Yeah.

Because we kept talking about he's going out of town for his 30th. and I won't be able to make it. So he kept saying like, let's just do something after Elliot's birthday. Like he's going to be going to bed because like obviously the birthday was like during the day. He's like, he'll be going to bed. We can go out. And I kept being like, no, too many logistics, too many logistics. And then we planned it and we pulled it off.

And that was a lot of fun. And then, of course, the events didn't stop there because we boarded our dogs. Dude, I swear. Was your weekend like as, I mean, you were pretty much there for all of these things. I mean, no, I was with you for almost all of it and then virtually. Virtually. In support of what was going on. Yeah.

So, yeah. Sunday, I, we picked up the dogs. We boarded them during Elliott's party because we were like, we don't want to worry about them like getting out or getting into food or whatever. So, right. One would think. So we boarded them. We picked them up on Sunday morning. Everything was fine.

And we had, when I tell you, we had fully taken apart our house for this party. Like we took out our furniture. We took out our rugs and rented tables and chairs and stuff. So by Sunday, by the time we picked the dogs up, our house was back in order. We had our couches back. We had like clean the floors vacuumed multiple times. You would have not known there was a party there. No.

I thought, okay, we're in the clear. And dogs are home. 8 p.m. I'm putting Elliott to bed. Evan calls me. He's like, hey, I think Lottie's having a seizure. And I'm like, what? And so I'm like, swap me right now. I'm going like, first baby. So I go down there and it was the weirdest thing because she was fully asleep on the couch for like four hours. He woke her up to go eat dinner. and she just like started going to the bathroom everywhere, couldn't walk, was totally disoriented, was kind of tremoring. And so I'm like, I'm taking her to the emergency vet.

Take her there. And finally after two different vets and like probably three and a half, four hours later, she finally gets seen. And by this point she was like acting okay. Yeah. The guy was just like fully convinced upon entry. like oh classic marijuana ingestion classic THC and Justin and I'm like sir I can assure you she did not get that in my house and it was make me so mad because I'm like I understand that

probably everybody says this when the situation happens but I'm like no I can assure you not in my house and then like they go down the list well what if when you were walking them I'm like, we have a fenced yard. Well, what if it blew into the... That was the craziest thing to me because you were sending me like updates on the situation at hand and when they said it blew

into your yard and she just so happened to find it, which she hadn't been outside in like four hours so it hit her after four hours. Like the whole situation was not making sense and like I hate to be like this but like I know my dog and like yeah

that wasn't what's going on. It was the class symptoms of it I understand but it's also very classic symptoms of like it's called like a post it tells like something after a dog has a seizure they can go into like a very disoriented state and like also not be able to use their hind legs which was what was happening to her yeah I was still fully convinced but conveniently the emergency vet that night couldn't do the like drug test because they like drug test your dog but I'm like that's so hilarious to me like drug testing lot You're under arrest. So I was like, no, I want it because I want to know.

Because obviously, I have a one-year-old in my house. Like, if she got into something that I have no clue is in my house, like, I want to know. Yeah. And also at this point, too, like, we were throwing away. Like, I was calling up and I'm like, throw away every, like, plant in our house, every, everything. And I even was, like, asking the event? I'm like, okay, was there something else she could have ingested because it wasn't that? I'm like, we had, like, flowers brought in for this event.

Was it that? That was me on chat. He goes, yeah, if it was a marijuana plant. Oh, my God. See, I go. I just like the fact that he like had to stick to that, it's like, okay, sir, but like I'm trying to reassure you it for sure wasn't that. Can we explore other options?

Because if he's just going to be like, well, that was it and that's. Oh, no. That's it. And then here's your $500 bill. And I did not drug tester. I did not pay $500. I'm like, I'm not getting this. I'm not doing that.

We're not doing that because it's not that. And so like, whatever, it ended up being not that bad. I do not like this vet. But it was like an emergency. Like, you know what I mean? It was like an urgent care of vet. It's not like the normal situation. So I ended up taking her the next day because I was like fully like, no, it was not.

And I know there's really nothing you can do for like seizures if they're not happening regularly. I think like if it's a one time event, they really don't do anything. And hopefully that's all it was. But even my vet was like fully convinced that it was marijuana. and I was like, it's not. And they drug tested her then, and it was negative. And she's like, but it could still be. And I literally am on like Google, which I know Google's not everything the vet would probably know.

But it literally said for 24 to 72 hours, it'd be in her system. And this was well within 24 hours. So it clearly was not? I'm like, it was not that. Like, I just know it wasn't that. So basically we got no answers. And that was how I said. spent my Sunday and Monday trying to figure out what the hell was going on. But yeah, she's okay now.

And obviously, even like, I was like so annoyed, but obviously very thankful she was okay. But by the time I had Evan stayed home. Like obviously Elliot was sleeping. I'm like, I'm taking her because sometimes I feel like guys don't like push. Like I don't know. Like won't push things. Like if a vet says one thing, I feel like they're like, that's what it was. Oh my God, it must have been. But like, I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't. I don't I'm like, I'm not going to accept. Like, I already knew I wasn't going to accept that. That's exactly what Evan would have done. Yeah.

That's what the vet said. Must have been. So I was just like, no, you stay here. I'll go. But of course, like as soon as we get home, she's completely fine. She wants to go outside and, like, run around for, whatever. Like, go to, like, whatever. She had to go to the bathroom.

So, like, I just, but also here I am standing outside in the middle of the night because I'm like, was it something in the yard? Like, you know, like, standing. She're watching her every move. So I'm just like standing out there freezing and watching her because I'm like, I need to make sure she's just going to the bathroom. Again, she didn't. I feel like people say that's like the kind of situation with, I hear this a lot with like kids.

Like they'll be come home from school. They feel so sick. You feel so you can tell that they're sick. You get them home and they're like, I feel better now. Well. Or like you take them to the doctors and they were like feeling so sick. then they're like the doctor's like they look perfectly fine and I swear to you I know I will yeah I feel like that's normally how it goes but in this case I was like thankful but I don't

understand the point of like emergency vets because they all do that which I understand like there's actual emergencies where like dogs are critical like need surgery that felt like a critical situation. Can't they just get like more emergency bets? Like I truly don't like in my mind I understand I know that there's things even with like the ER for humans it's the same way like they take the most critical patient service and all that but like I was sitting at the first place and the woman came in and she goes I have been patient for seven hours. As soon as I heard her say that I got my ass on it and I went to the car and I I was like, I'm calling seven hours.

And I go, I'm calling every single emergency vet within 30 minutes. And I literally ended up driving 30 minutes to a different place. Did you really? Yes. Because I go, well, in my head, I was like number five on the list. I'm like, that's no problem. But seven hours, what number was she? I don't know.

I don't know. Because, well, that's the thing. You'll wait. And then if somebody more critical comes in, they take them. And so in my head, I'm like, okay, there's only one doctor. Like there's got to be only one doctor. So yeah, I ended up going to second. And like that lady's got crazy patients.

Because I am sorry, but that's a big mistake on her part. Like she should have. I want to know. She should have done what I did. I know. What happened to like her animal. I don't know. I really don't.

And I was, you guys. And I don't want to embarrass Lottie. But I, so she was like, you're anything uncontrollably. you know like she couldn't hold it and i was covered in pee i like from my from my wrists to like my pants like from her sitting on my lap in the waiting room from in the car carrying her in and out from trying to get her like up and down you guys she peed in my phone i was holding my phone and her pee went in the phone broke my phone thankfully it forced me to set up the new phone that I've had for like three months that I've been like avoiding setting up I was going to

say I was surprised you did we had a whole conversation this weekend about how you were not going to do it alone and I would help you today I had no choice because it went into the charging port and my phone would no longer charge it just died and never turned back on so yeah it was an eventful um weekend to say the least and um yeah lots of interesting things and thankfully everything worked out fine lottie's okay elliott's birthday was a hit sure that's birthday was a hit sure and everyone's okay um somehow some way are you okay i don't know you kind of went through a lot yeah i know and it was a lot of emotions too like obviously elliott's birthday and then like surprising mat was like so fun and nice it was but like just so many mixed emotions that day then in what was so messed up and maybe we jinxed it and

shana i know you're probably watching this me and our friend shana we're talking about lottie and she's like i can't believe lottie's going to be 10 this year and i was like stop i if something ever happened to lottie like whatever and we had like this whole conversation about it and because she was like your first your baby's 10 and like your other babies one like oh my gosh whatever and then literally next day and i like text like me and sean are talking i she's like i think we made i made a mistake something so yeah not good to have that conversation but anyways let's get over um let's move on from my drama and events and talk about another event coming up well kind of in a few months Lala.

Yeah. Lala is coming up and they released the lineup today. They sure did, but they did a lot leading up to it this year. I mean, do you realize when I just read this? Because by the way, Brittany has to fill us in on a lot of what's going on because since my weekend was so eventful, I didn't really have time to scroll. Oh, and that's all I did on Sunday. I scrolled from about the time I woke up, which was I'm not going to. disclose the time I woke up on Sunday.

I'm so jealous. And I strolled on my phone until well the afternoon. I was productive in the second half of the day. That's good. But no, I was realizing when he wrote this, you said Lala line up but you said they did Lala Lollipops. They did Lala Lollipops.

That's probably why they did it. Yes, it was very clever. So they were doing a lot of Easter eggs this year on their social media leading up to Lala. There was a couple of Reels, TikToks that they were posting with almost like a lollipop, like swirl to it in the back. It was kind of like mystical, a little mystery to it, if you will, with different icons to foreshadow or to Easter egg who was going to be in the line.

And let me tell you, they were, they were kind of tough. The only one that I thought I knew from those hints were there was a Hawaiian flower, which was very much so given Zara Larson. because, you know, she's very much showing her Lisa Frank era. Yeah. If you will. But then over the course of St. Patrick's Day weekend throughout Chicago, they had folks handing out lollipops. And the way I described it to you or my understanding of them were,

was they were almost like the toothbrushes, like the touch tune. No, touchtunes is the touch tune. Yeah, they used to like sing. Yeah. They used to brush your teeth. Yeah. So you could like hear in your head, if you will, what the, like, song was.

So these lollipops had songs from the artists that were going to be on the lineup for Lala. So some people were guessing. And a lot of the TikToks I saw with people who had the lollipops, they were pretty spot on with the lineup, which was kind of cool because they announced it today. St. Patrick's Day. That is kind of wild. I actually, you just unlocked a memory. And, like, do you think those toothbrushes still exist?

And if not, should we reexist them? Oh. No, they do. I've seen, I don't think they make new ones, but I still think there's, like, backstock from, like, I don't know, Hannah Montana and things like that. I feel like that was such a good idea. It was a genius idea. It's one of those annoying things that we always talk about. Like, why didn't we think of that?

Exactly. But, yeah, the Lala lineup is now out. Some of the people we've seen Tate McCray. We've seen her at Lala now twice. Yeah, actually. crazy that is kind of wild um i don't even know i didn't i don't even i feel like i didn't investigate her enough as i should have we've got charlie xx we've got tape mccray lord olivia dean john summit some of the bigger names on the list we also got people like the chain

smokers do you know who i was surprised to see will oozy vert on there because i think we talked about how he's the same guy that that had big, big chaos at his show. Chaos. That was, that was a couple years ago. Correct. It was a, yeah. It was a minute ago, but I remember like, but like that.

I can still, I can remember exactly where I was standing as we were watching. Chaos and too. Around us. People were, like, throwing trash cans. I vividly, it was like scary. This was a long time ago. Rushing the stage and like an unsafe way. No, it was very alarming because I then remember.

a couple weeks later, I was going to see G. Easy and little Uzi was opening for him. And I was like, I refused to watch. Like, I can't. Like, I'm having like, not PTSD, but I was like, close. Yeah. I was hearing the same music that I was hearing when chaos was exhumed. No, and I remember they, like, told him if you don't stop it. And they ended up going out and being like, if you guys don't stop, we're shutting the show down. Um, so yeah, yeah, that's going to. be interesting. What else happened this weekend? The Oscars. Oh, I saw a bunch of stuff about the Oscars just being this weekend and like people's looks, but I really didn't hear too much. We're going to go over some of the Oscars looks in the Patreon bonus content. We sure are. The Oscars, I actually

tuned in for a bit and I was very surprised to see live that there was a tie and I didn't know that that was possible. But I guess it's very rare. This was the seventh tie ever in Oscars history. And it was two of the best live action short films. And even the announcer or the announcer, yeah, presenter was shocked that. Yeah, I feel like they probably thought there was like a misprint. Yes.

They were very clear about it. They were like, so this is a tie. This is not a joke. We're going to announce. And this is the way they did it. Because I'm like, oh, how will they go about it? Like, well, they will. They both come up on stage at the same time,

but they announced one, which was the singers, a musical comedy, and then everyone clapped, they had their moment, and then they announced the second winners, which was two people exchanging saliva, which was a French language drama.

And this was the first tie that's happened since 2013. So it's been a minute. Somebody that I think was probably more upset and a little bit disappointed, was Timothy Shalame, who did not, win an Oscar. Well, he didn't, his film

didn't win any Marty Supreme, which I feel like he was really on that Oscars like, what's trained? I don't know. He just really, really wanted to win awards. And he was very clear about that. And that's all I have to say

on that matter. He was very vocal. His whole PR marketing parade circus, whatever you want to call it. I feel like he was doing the most. Um, which is cool, you know, I respect it. I did see something about this that like, so Marty Supreme and sinners were going up against each other.

Yeah, and sinners I think was on top. Yes. Because Michael B. Jordan won his first Oscar for best actor. Yes, but to promote Marty Supreme, they had a legendary ballerina, Missy Copeland. Yeah, this is a real drama. Her form and like be a part of that. And then after Timothy made those comments, she, ended up performing at the Oscars for the movie C sinners.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't see that part of it, but it was a little... Love the pettiness. Love the shadiness. Like, that was exactly the way to handle that. It is kind of crazy that he made those comments after using a... I know. I know.

We talked about it. What was that last week? Maybe the week before. I feel like it's all blurring together. But it's still... I feel like it's going to take a minute for people to get... past what he said. Oh yeah and everybody too I guess after that performance it was a standing ovation and like the camera was um like right in front of him like waiting to see and like he obviously did

stand and do the standing ovation of everyone ready to go everyone was like his maybe mother-in-law one day had him prepped ready to go for that yeah that was shocking you know what else was shocking was K-pop demon hunters performed and they gave everybody in the audience the like, you know how a lot of K-pop bands, I think all of them have like the light up. Yeah, we always see them at Lala.

Like they'll have some kind of like light thing. Yeah, I'm sure there's a proper name for it and now I'm losing it, but they gave them out to everybody in the audience. And it was very comical to see some people that just like clearly are not used to. interacting in such what's it it just says specialized LED powered device that's called light sticks

oh so we weren't off two shows to make it a unified ocean of light yeah it's fun no it always looks so cool and like we've seen it so many times and also we never have like I want to be a part of it I want a light stick but I think it's like actually don't sometimes

they have actual choreography that you're supposed to do with it or something I would imagine so like there's a lot lot of that these days with like audience interaction knowing the choreography for certain things yeah i kind of like it i do i i i love a moment to be involved we would have lived for that for having a light stick and like dancing in choreography yeah like when we were younger if we all yeah we were like we were like the annoying ones that would have the choreography just amongst us but like that's not cool i mean no we had like arguably we thought we were cool we thought we were very cool very cool

at the concerts we attended, I would say. Now, what is this? The what? What are we looking at? The next bullet point? Yes. So, fill me in. So Law was on the red carpet,

and last week, or maybe the week before, again, blurring together. Same. He was making comments and told everybody, Zendaya's wedding already happened. Y'all missed it. Turns out he was on the Oscar.

red carpet and everybody was asking him I'm sure about the wedding about the comments that he made and he almost would not acknowledge that he made those comments he was like so you know what the sun's going to come up tomorrow the same way it did today it's going to be a beautiful day and was just completely like refusing to clarify anything like completely changed the subject and then I think in a few since he was like, yeah, I said what I said. But you know what? Tomorrow's a new day and it will be lovely. Like, it was just like...

Oh, so I wonder, like, do you think they were mad that he... That's what people are saying. I'm like... I mean, I feel like some people might just be joking about it. Like, oh, he got in trouble. He got a phone call. But, like, maybe he did. Zendaya has been out and about herself because she's doing a lot of press for her new movie.

It's called The Drama, which is... Isn't that with Robert Patton's? Yeah. I actually really want to see it. It looks very interesting from the trailer that I watched. But it's a A-24, like, it's her new movie. It's based around a wedding. So she's been doing a lot of wedding-related promo.

And she went to a Las Vegas chapel. I want to say this past weekend in promotion for it. And she was going to be the witness for a real live wedding. It was a surprise. Nobody knew she was showing up. I'm not even sure the bride and groom knew she was showing up. and she was able to sign their marriage license and she joked as she was doing it

she was like oh last name reveal and was signing it but you couldn't really tell like what she put on there because it I believe her real last name is Zendaya Coleman but she's going to find Zendaya last name. She hasn't had a last name. Yeah so somebody's like it kind of looks like she put Colin Holland

but not too sure but she's going to be around the press I mean she was she was on a red carpet and people were and her Miss Holland. She was on Jimmy Kimmel and they were joking about the AI photos of the wedding. That's what I was going to say. I've seen AI photos of it.

And this is another thing that at some point we are doing. But like the AI is getting out of control. Like that's actually insane. It's gotten to a point where like I will show Brian videos of things and he has to tell me Bernie that's for sure AI. And like in some cases. I love it. It's, no, because you know what?

He can't get a grasp on. He thinks the whole Gerald the dolphin, the situation of that where they took that human allegedly. I was telling him the story as if it was true in fact and he could not fathom that I, for a minute, thought that this was a real story and thinks it's hilarious. And then I was showing him more videos like that were clearly. Wait, did you see, we have to follow up on this really quickly because did you see the AI videos of the dolphins, like beating him up and dragging him into the water and, like, taking him to the city.

So many. And then the comments really get me. They're like, Gerald runs like a tight ship, like Gerald. Same. Like, it's actually, now thinking back on it, the fact that I even, I was like, Britney, did you hear about the dog? Well, because we recently were talking about the dolphins, like. I, we've encountered dolphins. and we talked about it recently, and then we saw this, and I'm like, oh, my gosh, I should have known.

They were, like, bad news. There's been too many dolphin conversations as of late. Too many. There was, like, in New York, and this is probably AI, somebody's going to tell me it's AI. There was, like, dolphins in, like, it wasn't the Hudson River, but that it was, like, in West something of New York. No, it was real, and the comments were, again, about Jared. Gerald, they were like, he's looking for his face, too. I told you.

It says dolphins have been increasingly spotted in New York City's waterways, including the East River and Bronx River. Yes. With notable sightings as recently as March 2026. Correct. That's exactly what I'm referring to. Facts. Brian didn't believe that either.

Wow. Yeah. Interesting. Well, yeah, they're infiltrating the system so they can build more cities. They are infatuated with the way New York is built up, and they're getting in spoke. They're just moving less discreony. For their infrastructure. That's amazing.

And I will say, the only other thing that I did do this weekend. What'd you do? At night, I put on The Secret Life of Mormon Wives, the newest season. Oh, my gosh. So did you watch the entire thing? No, I'm on like episode two. I've watched via TikTok. I feel caught up on everything that's happening.

Really? So, okay, spoiler alerts, maybe if you're not caught up totally. But, like, I've seen them and I'm not caught up. So maybe it's not really spoilers because it's everywhere right now. Yeah. So one thing I will say is every single season when I turn the show on, Evan rolls his eyes, gets his phone out. And he's like, I'll just go on my phone. Because, like, we're not watching something together.

Like, I'm putting my show on. Yeah. Every time. after like 20 minutes in. He's invested. He's so invested. He's like, who's, is this Jordan guy, like the Scott Dissick of this show? And I'm like, I love the comparison.

I'm like, no, because he's not funny. Like, I'm like so, like, I don't know, like, I get so invested in it too. And it's so funny, too, because he's like, all this drama is just like manufactured. And I go, I mean, I think it really happens, but I think like, yeah, they make them talk about. no one would have these conversations like straight up with each other in front of other people like this no one does that. Like be so confrontational. Yeah, I go, but I think it really does happen.

It's just like, yeah. Obviously producers provoke the situations and stuff. I mean, think about like our friend group if like. If we were forced to have the, no, I said that to him. At least I would say like five to eight years ago, like when we were like, Because a lot of the, I mean, I guess they're spread out, like, between, like, early to mid-20s. Yeah, but not even. Early to mid.

Honestly, even now, just, like, mom stuff, just ran, like, wedding stuff. Like, we could make drama out of anything. And if, like, I was being provoked, I mean, you know what I mean? Like, if you were being provoked constantly, like, oh, this person said that about you. Like, what are you going to do about it? Like, go, go confront them right now. Honestly, you're going to do it. I feel like, unfortunately, I feel like I would feed right into whatever the producers were putting in my ear.

100%. Because I have a little bit of a petty side. And if they were feeding, they were like, you know what you should do? This is and this. I'll be like, you know what? You're right. You're right. I'll do it.

We've said that before. Like, what we used to say, we're like, yeah, if I went to Bachelor in Paradise, I'd burn the beach down just like Dimmy. No, truly. And some of like some of the conversations are so ridiculous. Like even the first conversation when they were calling each other to be like, who are you going to invite to the sip and see for the babies or whatever? It was like the first conversation of the episode. I'm like, no one's calling each other to say that.

Like you guys already know who's inviting who and like what's going to happen. And we would never like invite someone that we all didn't want there and be like, oh, she's going to invite this person. like we would just never do it but if if a producer was like if the producer told us to do it you should invite them we'd be like okay yeah let's see what happens okay so anyways that being said we're only a couple episodes in and we're fully invested but i saw that so taylor frankie paul the basically one who kind of started the whole thing which main character she's the bachelorette this season actually in like two days yeah yeah like I think whenever you're watching this in like two days

her season of the bachelor comes out supposedly supposedly and some people weren't happy about that to begin with I think because correct just in general she's already like a well-known person and a lot of times people give somebody a chance to like go on there and meet guys who are taking it seriously and stuff yep not doing it for a show and everyone felt like maybe she was just going to do it for a show well basically now confirmed she did just do it for the show because she on the Mormon wives she has her baby daddy Dakota and very on and off again with him during the Mormon wives show and supposedly before she even left to go on the Bachelorette slept with him like the night before going correct that's what I heard allegedly allegedly but I'm pretty sure it's confirmed on on the

Mormon wife yeah I didn't get there yet watched it and then she like wasn't gonna go because of him ends up going and then the day she gets home and she's supposedly like called a hundred and fifty times or something insane yes at some like an insane number like something like do you know how long it would take to call 150 times I thought about that I feel like that would like how do you even get to such a number. No, like, I mean, after like five. Five feels like a lot of calls with no answer. But like if you were panicking and like answer, answer, answer.

I feel like after five, I'd probably just throw my phone into the ocean. Yeah, that takes a lot of, like, determination to get to 150 or something crazy. I mean, I've heard a lot of spoilers, too. So I don't know if we want to. Don't tell me everything yet. about The Bachelorette. Oh, okay. About how that ends.

Yeah, that she got engaged to somebody. Well, you could have said spoiler, warning. Well, you said spoiler. I heard the name, too, I think. Oh, okay, so you know more than me. I didn't hear anything like that. I mean, you have to imagine, and I'm sorry if you're listening, and that really just broke your heart, but you have to imagine that she's going to do it because it's for

the show, and like, that's the point of the show. Right. The producer told her to do it, and like we alluded to earlier, of course. Who's going to say now? But that also does lead me to believe. with her calling him 150 times when she got home. Yeah. Allegedly.

We don't know if it was right when she got home. But sometime in the near future of her getting home. But that leads me to believe that the way that she acts on the show is not for show. No, I think. Truly. I think they truly, and this is terrible. I think she probably needs a lot of help right now, a lot of support. but I think that the producers do not have to give her direction.

No, I think they follow her lead. Yes, correct. Which is wild because that probably never happened in the history of a reality show. They're like, oh, she's got this. We'll follow them. We'll just follow your lead. Yeah. That's why they give her the swing in the, in the middle of the promo pictures.

The other girls were upset about that. Did you hear that? No. Yeah, because in like their little, maybe not the promo. Well, no, it wasn't promo. And I want to say it's in like the opening credits or whatever of the show They're all standing there in their little blue dresses and Taylor's on the swing because it's alluding to you know like call back to season one

The swinging scandal on a swing and Taylor's the only one on it So I heard just via TikTok people were like well why she still the center of the attention like She always will be I think yeah it's this is why people were mad though too because they were like well, one, the Bachelorette franchise is like probably going to be pissed because now everyone knows all this before that even comes out. They're like, I feel like that. And we've talked about like that show. We're like, maybe it'll make a comeback. Maybe it won't.

I feel like that's what's hurting them the worst right now is like that's what they rely on so heavily is like it's a secret. We don't want to know what happens. But I feel like in this day and age, like with things like Love Island where it's literally happening in real time and you know the end. ending when it comes to love shows like that, I feel like we need a new approach. Well, especially here because everybody, the allegation always with like every season, I was like it's all fake. Everyone does it just for clout. Everyone just wants to be like an influencer after.

And like that ending and like everyone knowing that's the end just kind of confirms that it was just for show before it even began. So it's like, why am I going to invest my time into like watching this unfold when like we know it's all fake anyways? because she's calling her ex 150 times now. Do you think with everything surrounding this, because this is the biggest discourse that I've seen online, is this going to drive more ratings to The Bachelorette

if they choose to continue to air it? Or do you think less people will tune in because no one cares because we already know what happened? I think whoever was going to watch it just to see the drama of what she's going to do, will still tune in. Yeah. But I think that as it goes on, they might not be as invested.

I could see myself doing that. Yeah. I think I fall into that category. Once you see that relationship form between her and whoever she's allegedly like chooses, I feel like you're going to be like, okay, who cares? Like I already know. Like it's not real. I know.

I could see that happening. I feel like for me sometimes like with. like the Kardashians. I used to. I have in recent years like their show, even though we already knew literally everything that already happened in a season because we saw it play out in real time. I was like, oh, but this is like the behind the scenes of like what was going on. And maybe that's how people will feel about it. I think that they're still going to be mad. Because like you said, I think that's a lot of their biggest thing. That's their like big thing is like it's a secret. Well, that's with every reality show and like every contest.

for ruining the pot. Probably. Probably. Well, I was actually thinking while I was watching the Mormon wives. I was like, how do they overlap this and like not get worried about like secrets coming up between shows? Because it's the same thing with them going on like Vanderpump Villa and filming that and filming while the husbands are gone and like FaceTiming. And it's like you know that they're going to want to tell the secrets in their show first and who's going to tell. You know what I mean? I just think that all gets kind of blurry when they start casting like reality members on everyone else's shows. But we will see how it plays out. But that's really it for this week's pop culture shady stuff. But we've got some shady stories. And these ones are kind of just funny, honestly. We asked parents to write in their shady stories about being a parent.

and these are some of the ones we got. I think we're going to continue this for a little bit because we got quite a few. Yeah, I like that. Starting with Shady Story Number 1. My daughter was four. We went to Disney World. We went all the time. She would have meet and greets with the princesses.

Anna and Elsa were together at Epcot. Anna was first. My daughter gave her a hug and then Anna chatted with her. My daughter then loudly said to Anna, I'm done talking to you. Elsa is prettier than you. I wanted to crawl into a hole. I was mortified.

Anna smiled very awkwardly and said goodbye to my daughter, and my daughter happily skipped over to Elsa. Needless to say, I had to have a talk with her about saying things like that to people. Well, first off, I don't think Anna would be very happy with you either, because you keep calling her Anna. Oh. Anna.

Should I restart that? I think it's great. What's crazy is, have you ever watched Frozen? I was going to say is I have watched Frozen, but truly I feel like it was one that I only watched once and it was crazy. So long ago. Like, when did it come out? It came out in 2013.

Okay. So, like, we were older. Yeah, we were in high school. Yeah, I went out. I saw it when it came out. Okay. So, to be fair, like, I was not invested in it. I mean, that's very fair.

And I think of anything that I did see, it was like always the little snowman. Olaf? Yeah. Did you not know his name? No. Whatever. Anyways, point being, and you guys, that is like rage bait. Like, we can't clip this story because simply me reading it and saying Anna instead of

everyone's going to be correcting you. Rage bait. It is. We should clip it for that exact reason. I hate rage baits everywhere. But. Yeah, that's so unfortunate. I feel like you really cannot trust kids sometimes.

But I feel like also those that work at Disney World probably hear absurd things. Here way worse. Way, way worse. Agreed. It's still probably really her feelings, though. I would be upset. If I was her, I think I would have to quit immediately. But yeah, that is funny.

I mean, you have a talk with them and hopefully they learn not to hurt people's feelings. Oh, so unfortunate. Shady story number two. Worst moment ever. Luckily, I cried harder than my baby boy.

We had just finished some shopping at Walmart when I was pushing my son who was sitting in the front of the shopping cart. To be silly, I started to run. My boy giggled, so I kept doing it. I jumped on the cart in an attempt to ride on the car cart, but instead flipped the cart on its back on top of myself. My son landed mostly on me, but scraped his arm a bit.

I was so embarrassed and felt like awful for doing that, something so stupid, nearly eight years later, and this is still a moment that makes me wince. I mean, I would not be able to look at a shopping cart the same. I think this is so funny because as a kid, I, like, vividly pictured this in my head, and I was Like this would happen to me and I would never step foot like in that place again. Yeah. Because I would only be able to see that. That exact thing happening.

But I feel like as a kid, you do it and you like run and you get on the back. And like it's fine because you're like not an adult. So the cart just goes. But like have you ever tried to do it as an adult or like stepped up on it on accident too hard to like rest your foot? And it like starts to tip and you're like, oh. No. But Brian frequently. tries to run with the cart and does stand on it and I maybe he's just more aerodynamic than me but like

I have tried like not like purposely but like I've like rested my foot too hard and then like it starts to like maybe I've done that and I'm like yeah my bad yeah I would actually like no Brian is going to have a situation not with a child hell no but for himself I'm convinced every time he doesn't that he is going to either hit a car or hurt himself. That's nice that he still has some like fun energy. No, he's injury prone and we're not happy about it. He is. Uh-huh.

Well, this reminded me also today I was grocery shopping and I was at the self-checkout. And I had way too many items for self-checkout, but like the lines were too long on the other things. I just went anyways. Yeah, so I was like a little kid again. I grabbed like the little like hand. scanner and I was like scanning things in the cart because I was like I'm not taking this all out so I started scanning why don't I do that I don't know and so I freaking went to go like put it back and like I kept visibly like having to be like deep breath in deep breath out because I kept trying to scan stuff and it wouldn't scan and then the thing kept going off and being like assistance required assistance and I kept getting so mad so I kept being like

And I saw a lady watch me deep breath. And like she was like, I feel like, you can see. She was like, I feel you. But anyways, so I'm like, oh, I'll piss. I'm like trying to scan everything. It's not working. The ladies come over like three times now. And I'm like mad.

And I go to like set the thing back in the scanner back in the little charger thing. And it just goes like flying out. And everyone in the self-checkout looks at me. And I'm just like, great. And I like visit like out loud. I was like, You said to the crowd. Great.

And I know like everyone was just like, it's been a day. I love a moment with the crowd. But yeah, so that was my experience. That reminded me of this. All right. Shady story number three.

My second child was about eight years old. We were at a water park where there should be no smoking. I don't know where this came from, but she's like, mom, someone just flicked their smoke and it was near us still. And it was lit. I'm like, that's against the law and should be reported. She pipes up and says, well, do you want me to step on it to get them in trouble?

Not sure if it was a proud mom moment or scared or what. Now she's 32 and we still laugh about it. That's incredible. It's so shady and petty and like she obviously got that from you. So like, props to you. But like, yeah, I would. You would own that water park and like five other at this point. I, yeah. I think it is like a scary moment. like oh my gosh sometimes your kids like listen and pay attention way more than you think they are everything i feel yeah because she definitely like got that from like oh i can get them in trouble if i do this and uh heard probably a parent be like if a kid stepped on that we would they would get you know what i mean and so like it's one of those moments we're like oh so kids are paying attention

of course so the things like you don't want them to but i thought that one was fun me to step on it it's so funny um but that concludes this week's shady stories and this week's episode if you want to join us over on the patreon bonus content we're going to hang out for a little bit longer go through the oscar's looks i already know i have some hot takes on some of these looks so join us over there if not we'll see you guys in the next one by everyone bye