just a little shady - Accidentally Making My Cohost Cry... Ep. 2

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast. In case you missed it, merch is now live. So if you haven't gotten it yet, go to justalittleshadypodcast.com and make sure you check it out. Also, if you want the football stuff in time for the football season, you should go now so you can have it for the whole season. But honestly, we have a lot to discuss, but I feel like it's not that much personal. I kind of laid low this weekend. I did have a first birthday party for my friend's kid, which was very wholesome, very cute. It was golf themed, which I feel like I just saw something and I kind of agree. Everybody does so many sports when they're younger and then somehow everybody always lands on golf when they get a little bit older that they do and then it becomes like their whole personality which I feel like we are kind of in that era right now that's the phase

of our life we are in very demure very mindful and considerate and exactly but you actually did kind of do stuff this weekend because you went to a festival i did i came out of edm festival retirement like we go to lala but back in back in my day back in my day i used to go to you know the occasional electric forest the occasional edm festival or concert so my brother was performing at Breakaway in Grand Rapids this weekend. So I went to see him in the Silent Disco, which was really cool. I have never been to a festival in Grand Rapids before, but it was in a park where they had a very large hill, not like your typical Michigan, like little sled hill. Because, I mean, it's very flat here. But on the west side of the state, it was beautiful.

Once you got up to the top of the hill, you looked around and I was like, wow, I don't even feel like I'm in Michigan. Which was super cool. So my brother did amazing. And after his set, we got to see Marshmallow Headline, which was phenomenal. Love Marshmallow Headline, which was phenomenal. Love Marshmallow. But I think the best part of it was in the crowd, there was a kid there wearing a marshmallow helmet. Oh, my God.

And it was so cute. And the audience was all yelling, like, mini marshmallow helmet. I don't know what. They were yelling something to the point where they got Marshmallow's attention in, like, a very loud, very, like,, very pyrotechnic, fireworks-heavy performance. And he was like, oh, what's going on out there? And he was like, oh, there's a mini Marshmello? Well, let's bring him up on stage.

Oh my gosh, I love that. It was the coolest thing. And so he brought him on stage. The kid got to say his name, jump around. Marshmello lit off fireworks as this kid him on stage the kid got to say his name jump around like marshmallow little fireworks as this kid was on stage I'm like this is insane I love that it's funny because I feel like the last few years actually going to Halloween stores I've seen a lot of mini marshmallow heads for kids and I was always like I didn't realize kids liked him so much because I felt like he was more our generation. Right.

But I guess the kids are on to him now. I mean, they have good taste. I love it. Well, that seems very wholesome. We both kind of had a little wholesome weekends. Well, not so wholesome, not so demure is TikTok drama going on. So let's get into the first story that we've been unpacking. So it's with this New York City influencer, Hallie Kate. And it's actually kind of weird. I realized

as we were talking about this, she's been viral a few times in the last, I would say year for different things. Obviously she has this boyfriend last, I would say, year for different things. Obviously, she has this boyfriend drama. Yes. But she also went viral for being so young and buying a house in the Hamptons. That was her? Yes. I did not put those puzzle pieces together.

And then also, she was one of the women who got punched in the face in New York City on the street. So. What? I know know kind of weird. Homegirls live in a chaotic life. Yes, a lot's going on. So but this drama all started about a year ago. She was dating a guy. They broke up and somebody that was in her friend circle, a girl named Sophia,

ended up finding her boyfriend, knowing that they had just broken up DMing him asking him on a date and then going out with him and so Hallie found out about this and was like why would she do this we were just together I know her and she knew the story that we just broke up you know why would she go after him when she knows what just happened and so when it all happened at that time Hallie came on TikTok and was kind of explaining the story and Sophia ended up getting like a bunch of comments like what are you doing why would you do that yeah a lot of hate and that kind of all settled down but now here we are and Hallie is back with the boy and so they did a podcast episode it was her and her like best friend that do a podcast together they brought their boyfriends on and they all sat down and

were like asking questions answering questions and supposedly the episode got deleted because everybody was hating on Hallie that she got back with this guy that he doesn't seem interested he was kind of oh no not being really nice in the podcast I guess I didn't see it I saw a couple clips he was very quiet and seemed like he didn't really want to be there again I feel like you need to take that with a grain of salt because some people just don't do well when a camera's in their face. A hundred percent. It's not everyone's cup of tea. And just because you're not comfortable in front of a camera doesn't mean you don't like the relationship you're in. Right. And so with that, a lot of people started hating on their relationship again,

hating on Hallie. So then Sophia from a long time ago took this as her opportunity to pile on to the hate and she made a TikTok series about really just going into detail about her date with this girl's boyfriend and they're together right now spoof clips of this I don't think I haven't dove deep into the actual clips of Sophia it It is what the spoofs are, honestly. She's really just going into like, well, basically, he must have liked me more. Because when we went on our date, our one date a year ago, he was really talkative. He was really nice. We went to a nice restaurant.

We did all this stuff. And basically, so he was the opposite of what he was in the podcast that's wild behavior they're literally together so like she's sitting there talking about this about someone else's boyfriend and so everybody is not happy with her i that i've seen as well i've seen a lot of creators influencers voicing their opinions and not being very happy with Sophia I did see somebody made a TikTok too and I don't know the credibility to this but it was just like a random girl she's not a creator but she made a video saying that she's from New York as well and she was in an acting class with Sophia and that basically she was taking every

opportunity to bring up the situation with the boyfriend that from a year ago when she got a bunch of hate she just kept retrying to bring it up to everybody in person like making it her whole personality in this acting class and the girl was was like, it was to the point, like, I was just like, can you stop bringing it up? So I don't know if this is all kind of just, you know, we talked about rage bait before. Right. On here. Could be a little rage bait. And I think that's maybe what she does.

I think that might just be how she gets her views. And she doesn't really care if it's from hate and again at the end of the day if everyone's commenting watching she's getting creator fund money so i don't know if that's why she just doesn't care and she's just like we'll take the hate i mean yes and no if she's also talking about this in like any situation that like she finds the opportunity to bring it up that's so bizarre it's always bizarre to me when i don't know i don't know i don't know and for one more time i really don't know do you know know that? That's just. Do you know? I want to see how this continues to unfold before I give my two cents. But I just find it to be a little odd.

Yeah. I definitely think for her it's more just like fun, rage bait. She knows people are going to hate on her for it. Doesn't care. And then obviously for Hallie,ie though this is her real relationship and she's listening to a girl talk about dating her guy like I yeah I think anyone dating date date one day yes had dinner with like at that eye that's yeah to like rehash it at a time where you know this person's getting hate and just pile on

right it's kind of uncalled for but also just doesn't make you look good but she knew that right so i think it was rage bait right i mean what i was gonna say earlier when i fell into my i don't know spell is that you just don't know i just don't know but also I was going to say like it's kind of odd when some people take any opportunity to bring up like the same topic over and over again but I realized and reflected I knew that you in the moment you realized you do that I do that and you know me so well I know and then you're like biting your tongue because you don't want to say it. I had to bite my tongue because. But I think it's different because as we say on the back of this sweater specifically is

that rehashing topics and perhaps gossiping about them, if that's what you want to call it, it brings clarity to the situation for you sometimes. However, I don't think going to the internet was the way to rehash it. Right. Also, maybe not acting class, maybe with your good close personal friends, unless you therefore don't have any because you're choosing your friends, boyfriends to go after. Then perhaps she has no one else to rehash it with fair point i would never bring up my personal drama to the internet that's just not something i would ever stoop oh for sure because obviously we don't do that i'm just talking with my close personal friends and there's a camera but that's not your

fault that's not that's that's none of my business right um well a little segue here I said kind of sounds like Love Island but maybe New York City version and there's some Love Island updates the reunion just happened I have to preface this by saying Brittany's gonna maybe have to take the wheel a little bit on this topic because I did not watch. Crazy to me. I know. I know. And I know I would have loved it and I know everything.

But, you know, when you're so behind that you just, it's overwhelming to think about catching up. And I mean, in real life, like you have so many things to do and then you just do nothing because it's overwhelming yes that's how I felt but also with the show I understand because I too felt a little overwhelmed because there's been a lot of news surrounding well there's also just so many episodes because from my understanding it was one new episode every night that the season was airing except for Wednesdays which is so oddly specific and I

don't understand that but I was thinking in my head like oh my god there's 100 episodes and I missed 100 so how am I ever gonna catch up yeah so I didn't get into it but I did I don't know how or when I guess I was persuaded by the internet to tune in to Love Island season six. Us persuaded by the internet? Never. No. Never. And I binged watched all 36 episodes but I will say that I did they were like it's something that you can watch and have in the background while doing other things. So there was occasions where I would sit down, focus solely on the episodes. But there was a lot of times where I was folding laundry, cleaning, doing things. However, the reunion just happened.

In the reunion, I did take my time to sit down, digest, and watch. But all things considered, given, you know know the overwhelming 36 episodes that are all like an hour long each this reunion was only about an hour give or take long in total which in my opinion and the opinions of those of the internet and specifically tiktok it was not enough time nothing was rehashed i feel like i learned about two things from this reunion. Maybe a third. A bunch of the couples just kind of announced like, oh, we're officially boyfriend and girlfriend now, which is great. I did see some TikToks of people just saying it felt like they cut so much out and they're not sure why. Yeah.

It felt like it was just super condensed and like cut down. It was. why yeah it felt like it was just super condensed and like cut down it was and also people were saying it felt like a big ad for pizza hut yes because so in between like the whole cast was sitting down and doing your typical reunion thing where the host asked questions and for the commercial breaks they would show okay cut and then you would see people kind of walk off the set go to the side to get water have chats with each other but also they tied in like the guys in their dressing room all surrounded by like pizza hut boxes and they were like eating pizza and like this is crazy this reunion is messy yeah casually watching what they're doing on the side 100 so it really was a glorified pizza hut commercial

there was there was a little bit of drama between um kaylor and kaylor and aaron which we all expected would happen they had a lot of drama on the show. I know you don't know that. But for those that tuned in, you'll know that they had drama throughout. A lot of people were speculating that it was because of them that the reunion was so short. Because they thought that Kayla and Aaron were fighting for like hours. So they had to delay filming. Not true. Kayla denied that on a podcast she was on and was confirmed by Liv. So there was a little drama between those two,

more drama between Nicole and Kendall that really just shouldn't have even been hashed out on the reunion. It was a lot of fluff and not a ton of substance. People were speculating that maybe somebody threatened a lawsuit. I think so. And that was why it got cut. I think there's been a lot of online bullying harassment so i think they're trying to steer clear of that however some of

the things they did show i think could cause more bullying than is already happening i don't get what's going on i feel like that's with this one and Love Island UK didn't that just happen and everybody's saying like it was a traumatic experience and they're getting bullied and stuff yeah I don't understand what's going on but I also feel like unfortunately in most of these situations you can't sue or like threaten to sue because when you sign up for these shows which we've talked about with like love is blind right suing and stuff that you kind of give away a lot of rights to do that and that's why a lot of people don't do reality 100 so i would be really surprised that if there really was a lawsuit and that was the cause

or there had to be something else going on. Yeah, there's something going on. Maybe it was supposed to be two parts. They could only make it one part. But we learned a whole lot of nothing. I think the biggest takeaway from this week in Love Island news is Cordell is living his best life, living his dream. Well, he's living my dream, actually. That's the truth of the matter. I knew that's why you really told me about this because let me just clarify I have told Brittany time and time again I never watched

I never caught up and she still really felt the need to text me that Cordell got a partnership with Cheez-It I was heartbroken and I feel like in a way you were telling me that is your hope and dream. I also feel like in a way you were saying to me like, why don't you have a partnership with Cheez-It? Yeah. Why don't you have a partnership with Cheez-It? I did feel like a little undertone to your text. You did feel a little bit. I felt like there was another reason you were letting me know that. Well, yeah, because we've made it known before that our friendship did form over Cheez-Its that's why we're sitting here today pitch now um no I will say maybe it's more likely that we go the route of Pizza Hut and because we have been talking about since last episode episode one we are open to trying pizzas obviously we've had pizza we are and so

if that's an option truthfully any pizza joint that would like to like to send pizza our way turn it down no we will say yes but i i mean good for good for cordell. His Cheez-It box sold out in less than 15 minutes of the pre-orders being online. What was it? Just like his face on it? So it was his face. So on the context, because you have not watched, was he was having a conversation with one of the girls. He's actually with Serena.

And she was asking him about his long-term goals. And he was like, what do you mean? And she goes, your goals his long-term goals and he was like what do you mean and she goes your goals long term and he's like oh well I forget what he said before he's like also like partnerships like cheese it and she was like what do you mean he was like he's like I think that and he I'm 90% positive he was like yeah I think it'd be really cool if they made a cheese it that was like, yeah, I think it'd be really cool if they made a Cheez-It that was like a white cheddar Cheez-It, but spicy. So the box like has his face on it and it's the spicy Cheez-Its and the white cheddar Cheez-Its. Like in the same box?

Yeah, in the same box. So it's like a combo like the duos that they do. And it was called Cordizzi's Cheesy Couple Bundle. I would have bought it just simply because that sounds delicious. I know. I hope they continue it if that was on the shelves of target i would purchase it in heartbeat that's uh that's a nice partnership there that's funny that she's asking long-term goals and that

specifically was on his mind that was the first i maybe he was hungry because I feel like that's fair when we do this I feel like I'm always a little hungry yeah like I'm always like what am I gonna eat when we're done like pizza is it too late for us to snack um so that's fair but also speaking of Love Island and something I kind of know a little bit about. This I don't know about. So Molly Mae was from like five years ago from Love Island, UK. Right. And I never watched that either. But I did hear about Molly Mae always comes up on my algorithm. Okay.

She's like a big influencer after her time on Love Island. And she actually got with Tommy Fury, who's like a boxer. He was on it. And they've been together ever since they ended up like having a daughter together the daughter I don't even think she's like one years old yet but so kind of recently like everything's been good they got engaged planning a wedding and all of a sudden out of nowhere like within 24 hours like they were together posting each other on snapchat everything was good they announced their split that's why while like snaps of them together from that day are

still alive yes so very quick yes so people are speculating that maybe he cheated because in the past there was videos randomly that went around of him like partying well because he he travels a lot for boxing and like his career and she like stays home with the kid and so people are speculating that maybe he cheated there was also speculation i just saw this actually right before we started filming that um supposedly sources are saying they had a huge fight like a while back and this kind of started it all she went out of town to like see her mom or something and he was supposed to watch their child but instead partied and like got a nanny to watch the kid and didn't tell her joking so that like caused a problem and has really never been resolved okay i don't think i

mean i think if it wasn't it had to be something that happened that quick it had for them to have snapchats photos of them together still up it had to have been serious quick that's the most i've heard of well no that's not the most i've heard of this situation. I only knew of this because this shows my tick tock algorithm. There was a girl going to one of the London eras tour shows and she made a dress and she was like, if you know, like the smallest man who ever lived, like comment his name and I'll write that name on this dress.

And everyone was like, Tom Fury or what oh my gosh yeah Tommy Fury yeah I was like who it who the fuck is Tommy Fury I was confused it sounds like a cartoon character I was like is this like an inside joke like where is this name coming from so I guess that's two worlds colliding yeah I really don't know how I stumbled across her I really feel like it was so long ago. Obviously, it must have been around like five years ago. And I've always randomly heard her name.

But this obviously just sucks. I don't know. But although I couldn't binge Love Island, I did recently binge a new show from Netflix that just came out called Average Joe. What is this about? I seriously I cannot believe in two days I watched all 10 episodes which were an hour long each. So you could for sure watch Love Island if you wanted. Well it was over the weekend because we weren't really doing anything. Yeah. So I literally I think we got eight done in one day and then two done that's impressive next day um it's impressive and also concerning but it was actually really good and I

feel like there's a lot of like random like I had no idea the show was coming out I've never heard anything of it but I feel like this happens and if it's a Netflix produced show they always put it on the top they do and then everyone navigates so then everyone clicks it so it was like number four and I was like we need something to watch and I clicked it and it was honestly pretty good I don't want to spoil anything but basically this plumber he his dad passes away and then he finds out like his dad was secretly involved with some drug gang oh and so now he's taking on and dealing with what his dad left behind with this drug gang. And it's actually really good and interesting. But I thought the end was going to be like a cliffhanger where there's going to be a season two.

And like, I don't know. I thought it was going to be something like that. It was not. And it was a very depressing depressing ending oh oh yeah um so not reality tv no and i was me and evan literally were looking at each other like why did we just watch this really yeah well no happy ending i don't know if i can commit to watching such a thing, but I'm glad it was good, but made you upset. Yeah.

I mean, I also, I think like the day before that, I watched the Lacey Peterson true crime documentary. And then we put this on and there was like a lot of parallels crime going on and i think evan was like what are you like what are you up to why are you watching all these alarming shows but that's just what girls do honestly i'm like listen watch this documentary with me i think he fell asleep twice that wouldn't surprise me. But no, I literally told you he did that last night too. Yeah. Yeah.

Just who he is at his core. It's just something that goes on, man. And I don't even know it's coming. I don't even know it's coming. And then I hear a snore. And I'm like, is that the dog? Nope. It's him every time. I think that just meant,

because that was Brian not that long ago. And I had a full on conversation with him and he was sleep talking to me. I told you about this. Yeah. I was, it was around the time that Dr. Doom was announced as Robert Downey Jr. And I was really excited that Robert Downey Jr. was coming back to Marvel. That's a big deal for me, a big deal for Brian. So as I'm watching this video, I'm like, oh my gosh, Brian, like you'll never guess, was like showing him the video. I thought he was going to have this awesome reaction.

He's like, I don't think that's who I was like, no, it is. Look, and I don't even remember what else he said next day i'm getting ready to go to breakfast and he's scrolling through his phone he goes britney you'll never guess what happened i go what and he goes robert downey jr is coming back to mcu i go i told you that last night and we had a conversation about it fully had a conversation fully watched the video with you and does not remember right because he was sleeping that's wild never experienced anything like that but he does sleep talk so and he'll say so alarming like full sentences in his sleep i think i've said evan before has done it he doesn't do it often but what he does often is the snoring and then waking up and because i'll say something

i don't know and then he is so offended that i would accuse him of sleeping and he swears up and because I'll say something I don't know and then he is so offended that I would accuse him of sleeping and he swears up and down he was not sleeping I'm like bro you were snoring why would you say that no because you were I also just the facts of life I just think that's a thing that happens um but also speaking of things I watched this past week which I guess I'll say watched but like I refuse to watch again the somebody saved me music video is out and I did watch the thing I watched it in entirety and I don't think I can do it again um I definitely cry every time I hear it at all and actually Brittany put the like little commercial snippet on today and I was like can you turn that down like are you trying to make me cry no I'm not I haven't watched it yet I don't know when I'm gonna be able to

watch it I'm gonna have to brace myself for that one. Yeah. Between that and Temporary. Okay. Well, that I listened to and it broke me. I mean, I can't. I audibly sobbed. I think for both songs, but especially Temporary.

But I will say, like watching the video back and like listening to the songs, I feel like my parents did such a good job growing up where I didn't realize how bad things were. But now, like as an adult in hindsight, it's so scary to think about. And I think that's why I get emotional so much, like just thinking that that could have happened um and obviously that's the point of the song but I just I will say like if you've ever lost an addict or loved one um I feel for you and yeah that's how I feel about it But it's a great video and it's good. Like it's it's fun to see clips of us when we were younger like that. Yeah. Even Mockingbird. But I can't even listen to that anymore without crying.

The older I get, the less I can listen to any of the songs. So but it is fun to see those clips, just not in that context. I'm not crying. But yeah. No, Brittany's not crying. You're crying. I've done enough crying and I told myself I refuse. Okay.

Now that I'm stressed out, let's move on to more music related news going on. Okay. Chapel Roan just put out a video on TikTok that went pretty viral. It's breaking the internet. She turned the comments off, but she was basically saying that she doesn't want people coming up to her in public. She thinks it's weird. She doesn't like it. And basically because you know her as an artist doesn't mean you know her as a person. And she would rather not have to take pictures with people or be hugged or touched in public. Right. And a lot of people had a very negative reaction initially.

But I think now that it's had time to stew, I'm seeing a lot more people come out in her defense saying like if that's what she wants respect it um which I kind of this is the take on it I think that whatever the person wants that's what you do that's what they're asking from you and if you care about them as a fan, then that's what you give them. And I do think that a lot of people create stuff and they want to create. They don't necessarily want to be famous. 100%. And then there's people that want to be famous. And that's fine for those people. And they might want to take the pictures and do all the stuff.

And then some people don't want that. It just depends on how they are looking at it and if she's one of those people that just truly wants to create and be known for her creativeness and what she does her art but not be bothered specifically or be famous then I think you have to respect it 100% it doesn't make one person's opinion one person's outlook how they want to navigate life right or wrong both situations whether somebody wants wants that fame along with creating or somebody who wants to be able to create art and not live that type of life that I think both both are okay she's not saying I don't want to perform I don't want to be on stage

like she still wants to do the thing she loves but not be bombarded and I can totally see why like yeah and especially I think there are people who have like characters that they create to be those performances and she's openly talked about how she is her and then she's chaperone and that is a character that's not her that's another like persona that she puts on when she's performing and doing her art and she's saying basically that's the person you know that's on stage but once I'm off the stage I'm not that person and you don't know this person 100% and so I've seen her do a lot of interviews and a lot of times she'll say too like she does look at it as like a job and that's her art and that's her job to do her art

and then she's not doing it when she's not doing it so i feel like it is a fair take and like it's gonna be interesting i guess to see how it plays out if people do end up respecting it because obviously she's not the first person to have this thought right or to voice this opinion definitely happened before yes but do people ultimately choose to respect it i guess we'll see like i feel like in this day and age people might because they don't want to get like in trouble on social media they don't want to get canceled yeah so if people see them doing it they might post videos like they're not respecting and you know so I guess it'll be interesting to see and I think a lot of the shock came from her being so new to blow up in her career to be willing to say this so early I think people were just like what a hundred percent and I think it's

it's something different we're seeing but i think it's a trend almost that you see in gen z through and through regardless of like fame or not you see it in the workplace in corporate america too gen z is a lot quicker to speak up for themselves set boundaries that generations before them haven't. There's like stereotypes that millennials will just like shut up work, like do everything they need to. Maybe not that maybe boomers and generations older than that. Um, but with Gen Z coming into the office, things of that nature, they're like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. If I'm on PTO, I'm not taking my laptop with me. I'm not working. Whereas generations older might be like, oh, yeah, I'll just log on and do this, do that. So I think it might be a generational thing where generational, just where we're at in the world, that more people are setting healthy boundaries.

Yeah, I agree. Instead of being yes men. Yeah. So I guess we'll see how that plays plays out we'll report back on any updates which speaking of updates there are a lot of new instagram updates some controversial some not so controversial but one that's not so they just added carousels now instead of 10 photos or videos you can do 20 let's go which I appreciate because I love a good photo dump I love a photo dump and something that I was thinking about recently was because I saw a TikTok about Facebook how back in the day in

like the early 2000s people would take their digital camera out and then the next day after they go out they would have to think of the perfect photo album for their Facebook like yeah photo album naming it putting them all in there and how big of a deal that was and I was like oh my gosh we are literally doing the same thing just with photo dumps now oh yeah it's the same thing just different font yes different yeah I feel like that's everything on social media. Like it always comes back in a different way, but that's definitely what that is. And I love them. But now there's also an update where you can add notes to posts. And so basically if I left a note on your post, if you follow me and I follow you, you'll see my note on your post. Yeah.

I haven't seen anybody's in action. I tried it last night on myself. What? Like I did it to the podcast Instagram for my main account. And I didn't see it on the podcast. Like when I went to the podcast account. So I don't really know how exactly works. I still don't get how it works either because, so, say you left a note on my post.

I could see it. But then, would, like. Someone else you follow see it? Yeah, like, would, like, Evan be able to, like, see it? I don't know. That's what I couldn't figure out. But I was alone when I did it. And I couldn't ask anybody.

I think this was when Evan was snoring last night. So you didn't have another party to look. So I didn't have a third party to look. But I don't totally get them. I think it could be weird because it's just like, why wouldn't you just leave the comment then? That's what I'm trying to differentiate in my head is how is a note different than a comment?

And if it's hidden. What's the point? Why would you like dm the person that correct i don't get it so that's one that i'm not a big fan of also instagram is rolling out a change to the profile grid going from square which is like one to one ratio to vertical i don't like it which is four to five i will say this and I don't know why I've done this but I have always put my ratio in four to five have you really yeah all your photos for like probably the last few years and I don't because you post reels no really reels is a different ratio really yeah but when I edit like in VSCO I always do four to five and I don't know why, but I swear one time when I Googled like, what is Instagram ratio? It said four or five. So I've always edited that way. So this one, I, it's not, I don't know if it's going to affect

mine at all. And I guess I'll be interested to see that. Not everybody has this feature yet. That's what I don't understand about instagram is the way they roll out new features because it will randomly pop up on selected populations instagrams and then one and you'll hear about it and you're like what is this sorcery that's happening over there because my instagram does not look like that nobody ever likes them when they do it like the people who get the populations who get the updates never like them. They're always negative. How are they choosing the people who get it first?

And in theory, that would be their test population. Oh, the test population does not like this. They still always end up doing it anyway. They always do it. They've taken away so many good features, like the activity page, the activity page, RIP. Need that back. Need that back. Need that back.

Would love that. We would find so much more tea with that. But also, along with these updates, I've seen, and maybe this is on the notes of things we're going to touch on, but people saying, oh, if you edit your photos using different editing tools, it's going to say like. Made with AI. Yeah.

Wait, made with AI yeah wait made with ai made with a i think that's what it says but i'm like so where does that go just go on the photo because next apparently this is on some people's updates that they've already received i just yeah i don't understand and i also don't understand what the point of that would be unless it was actually made with AI. Wouldn't Instagram be able to differentiate if it was really made with AI or if it was just edited? Like, I don't know. You would think that we would be able to differentiate, but. Well, especially because one of the new features that they're rolling out is an AI where you can make a character that is AI of yourself. And so you can use it for two ways. If you're just a user that uses Instagram, you can basically curate this AI to be you and like help

you with tasks. So for example, you could say, help me come up with the Instagram caption for this photo and as thinking like you supposedly your character would tell you a good caption but they're also going to make it so that if you're a creator on the platform you can have your character AI actually respond to DMs for you I think it can like respond to comments respond to DMs and basically act as you for people who follow you and respond. And I don't know how I feel about that. I don't like that part of the feature. I will say that it says that if you get responded to by the AI and not the person it will notify you in some way like there will be like I think it showed like little sparkles next to it oh cute so you love that yeah but I don't

know exactly how you'll know and I also just don't know what if they respond to people you don't want them to or give away information that maybe they shouldn't be giving away yeah so i it'll be interesting to see how that works out i know for a while we talked about this that celebrities were having ais created of themselves right to basically do campaigns and do things that they aren't able to do and this i guess is just that in another way of it so i guess we'll see how this plays out on instagram time will tell could be shady but with that let's get into this week's smooth shady stories we had a lot of smooth transitions this episode we really Props to you because

that was quick. Shady story number one. I used to work at this company about a year back. Originally, it was only supposed to be a part-time job I'd acquired during the pandemic and was only supposed to last while I was finishing up college. But a year in, my then boss, let's call him Josh, told me I had been offered a higher up position within the company and asked if I'd be interested. Although I didn't really see myself there as a full time employee, I said, sure, why not? I could use the money. Josh really pushed me for the interview required for this new job, saying, do what you got to do to get in. I was like, OK, odd, but sure. Anyways, long story short, the interview went great, I got the position, and my new boss, let's call him Ryan, seemed to really gain a liking to me at first. He'd call

me just to chill and gossip about things going on with him, crushes, etc., and said he felt really comfortable around me. Again, odd, but I didn't think too much of it, as we were the same age, 22 at the time, and I tend to get along with people very easily good listener I guess this was semi-short-lived however as the day I went to sign my contract for the position officially I met with a few friends from work who also went to sign and they brought up the idea that Ryan was romantically into me and that's why I was chosen for the role I never received any negative feedback etc initially. Initially, I intended to talk to Ryan about this. However, as close and good friends we were, I didn't want to make it awkward. The day

I decided to bring it up, we'd gotten into a small discussion about a meeting I'd had earlier in the week where he just got up and left, seemingly upset, and never really gave me any follow-up or feedback on my performance. After a while, he said my engagement with other departments wasn't very professional and that I was basically picking favorites. Although this didn't make sense to me as I explained that my approach with all departments was the same and I was just doing my job, I just let it go and decided to take the feedback into consideration. A few weeks later, Ryan, some co-workers, and I happened to be in a Zoom call discussing a project in the works. Ryan had his Alexa playing music in the

background and randomly asked the Alexa to pause the music by calling her love. I laughed because I thought it was cute slash funny and wasn't even aware you could program it to do that. But anyway, this seemed to hit a nerve with Ryan and he screamed, well at least she admits she loves me. I'll admit I was just too stunned to speak and let it slide, rerouting the conversation to work. This sort of attitude was persistent for the remaining time at the company. We'd have hangout meetings, he'd complain about other people, we'd vibe, and then out of nowhere we'd be getting into arguments about how things were done and he'd justify his fave's actions and somehow I'd be blamed for it. Things got to a point where I'd be changed from teams on a weekly basis after I would receive praises from those teams.

It was later justified as other people couldn't handle the change well and I could. It obviously got very boring and annoying after a while, so I decided to quit mid last year. About a month ago, I had lunch with an ex-coworker and friend at some point, and she asked if I thought of ever coming back. I told her that I did genuinely like my job, but I was not going back if he was still there. To my surprise, a week or two later he informed the team that he'd be leaving as he'd found something better a part of me thinks it was obvious and about time because as far as I heard things were a bit of a shit show after I

left but you gotta admit the timing is weird not gonna lie I'm genuinely thinking of going back perhaps not to that specific area but I'm still on the fence about it because we were, in my head, really good friends outside of work. And aside from that, apparently multiple coworkers had jumped on the bandwagon of him and I having a thing during my time at the company, and I feel like me returning would just push that narrative further when that was never the case first of all shame on your friends for trying to put on you maybe not friends co-workers maybe the better term here oh yeah you just got that position because your boss likes you like it is so insulting to one say that to somebody but like are you insinuating that she was in on it like how would she know that this person had those feelings for her and also can't control that

exactly she clearly is very smart very intelligent very good at her job and deserves better than this company sounds like you know not that there's the one rotten apple the whole company is rotten i don't know there's some kind of rotten apple saying that like where there's one there's many but i just think you deserve better you deserve to be around co-workers that treat you with more respect um and a leadership team yeah that is know, actually going to treat you the way you deserve to be treated. Well, especially if everything went to crap after you left. Obviously, it was more than just him liking you. You were obviously good at your job.

So for people to be insinuating that and implying that, I definitely don't think it's a good environment to be in. You deserve better. Super shady company. I don't think we've had a shady story it was like the company was shady yeah this much people first time for everything shady story number two my husband and i started dating in high school and have now been together for 19 years we had a baby when we were 19 years old and my husband wasn't ready to grow up so we had split up for a little in our early 20s. One night I wanted to go out with my friends and my husband was supposed to take our daughter for the night but he told me

he had some important things he had to take care of so he wasn't able to take her. My friend and I decided to take my daughter and go have dinner. When I got out to town I noticed that my husband's truck was sitting in the store parking lot and he wasn't in it. I got out to town, I noticed that my husband's truck was sitting in the store parking lot and he wasn't in it. I found out later that evening that he had went bowling with his friends and in fact didn't have important things to take care of. My husband's truck had truck nuts hanging from that ball hitch. If you know, you know. Me and my friend and my baby went to Kmart and we bought some blue spray paint and got, got it dark enough that, or when it got dark enough, I went to my husband's truck

in the parking lot and spray painted his truck nuts blue. Let's just say he had blue balls. He was told about it a couple of days later and I act, or he told me about it a couple days later, or he told me about it a couple days later, and I acted surprised. We've been married for now 11 years, and I just told him that it was me a couple years ago. I think it's funny now because it's been so long, but I still look back at that night and laugh. I thought this was so funny when I put this in there, and I also knew it was going to cut you off guard.

It really did. It took me aback when I first read in there and I also knew it was gonna cut you off guard it really did it took me aback when I when I first read what was on his truck I swear though I thought it was funny because I have seen this in real life same not blue to be clear but just in general just there and I do not get it like I don't get it like it it it's obviously supposed to be funny right but is it but it's not and so i don't laugh me either when i see it in the real world i'm just like what i feel like i need to look away and like i get distracted by i'm just like i need to look at anything else that's not around this it's yeah sometimes it feels offensive, I will say, because, like, it's unprovoked. I didn't ask to see that.

It is very unprovoked, and it's just there. But I do think what she did was genius. Oh, yes. Very smart play on the situation. And I will say it is kind of wholesome that instead of him being, like, doing something terrible, he was bowling with his friends i feel like we've heard the story in different fonts and it's usually something way worse yeah with a girl on a date but you know he just felt like his important things to do were

bowling with his friends and can we shame a man for that? Maybe, but could have been worse. Yeah, definitely could have been worse. So shady, but turned out to be funny. Yeah, harmless. Wholesome shade. Exactly. All right, shady story number three. My former college roommate emotionally manipulated me for almost two years. She claimed that she had a friendship with a boy on our floor

and that friendship turned romantic. She never showed me or any of our friends any evidence of this. It was all word of mouth or through text. Then things took a turn and she started to make accusations against him saying that he won't leave her alone, very stalker behavior, even when she claimed she told the school about it and was told that it's not that important we'll get to it when we get to it she also claimed that she tried getting a restraining order and no contact order on him and no such paperwork exists then it turned worse she began to make some serious allegations against him due to three instances that supposedly happened on campus proven false since there were cameras in every one of those locations during all this

she would emotionally manipulate me so bad that the majority of time we would be arguing about the boy she would even say that he would hack her snapchat and pretend to be him and talk to me one instance she told me one thing about him that didn't make sense to something that had happened so i confronted her about it and she began to cry because every time she says that she has had to see him or deal with him or him showing up to our dorm, it would ironically be when I was not around. I felt so bad for not believing her that I apologized for ever doubting her, but when she began to make those serious allegations, the doubt began to grow. A friend and I informed the dean of students office and let them know what she had been saying and that we didn't know if it was true or not since no one had seen any type of evidence. Me and the friend contacted this boy he was off campus and let him know what was being

said. He couldn't believe what was happening. Mind you my roommate kept the charade up even after finding out that he had a girlfriend but we talked with two of his friends and they had called her. She came clean and said she lied about him and everything in a chill way but was texting me that she feels so bad and can't stop crying. I asked her why she would lie about this and all I got was excuses. I moved out of the dorm after that and I informed her mother. I didn't go into details. Her mother did not believe me and blame me for her daughter's mental health. That hurt because when she would pretend to be him on Snapchat, I would send many audio recordings of me crying because of our fights. And to top it off, there was a couple times when she would say, I'm keeping a big secret from you, one that could ruin our friendship if I

told you. And this was that secret. She was right. it ruined our friendship for good i went through five months of therapy because of what she had done and not once had she taken any accountability i started my final year of college in two weeks and i have to deal with her on student senate i know i'll be fine as long as i don't talk to her i no longer hold an ill will towards her but just wish that myself and others got a genuine apology from her i mean how does one lie about everything in a quote-unquote chill way um i don't know but i think i'm gonna start saying that when it's not appropriate like oh no no i didn't mean to do that but it was just in a chill way like respectfully speaking yeah respectfully i Yeah, respectfully, I lied about a whole thing for a whole however many months. I mean, that's just crazy.

I am guessing that the reasoning for this was to emotionally manipulate the roommate. 100%. Or else, like, what is the reason? Like, what are you gaining from this? Obviously, at some point, the story is going to fall through when there is no boy that you're really seeing and talking to i feel like if somebody lies that much at that point they just get caught up in their lies and almost get like a dopamine rush from lying so extensively yes it's a pathological lying i think that is the root of the cause here.

And I know it's great to wish for an apology, and you do deserve one. You do deserve one for everything that she's been through, but pathological liars and apologies don't tend to go hand in hand from my experience. Yeah, I feel like perhaps you may just get more lies told to you. That's what tends to happen. Instead of just the apology that you deserve in this situation. So I feel like you're doing the right thing by avoiding and staying away.

And I'm sorry that this turned out. Yeah. How your experience went. Yeah. But at least you're out of there now and not having to deal with it. A hundred percent. You don't have to forgive her, but you can sure as hell forget her. And that's on shady roommates.

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