just a little shady - Baby Showers, Mean Girl Moms & the Return of 2016 - Ep. 7

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Elliot attends his first baby shower, celeb moms dish out high school tea, and nostalgia for 2016. 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 are back this week with the both of us. Welcome back. I'm alive and well and I wasn't alive or well this exact time last week. Yeah, as we discussed on the podcast, we all missed you. I am currently shocked that the germaphobe in me allowed even this to occur. I was shocked as well. But Brittany has been feeling a lot better.

So we are all good. We are ready to record this week's episode, starting with what we've been up to. Brittany has been up to recovering. Sure have. And I have been up to, quite frankly, I don't know a lot. But the main exciting thing that I was up to this past week was Elena's baby shower. Yay. I am so excited to be a girl aunt.

I don't know if we ever really. Yes, I don't know. It's the best. We did kind of talk about this because Evan's niece, which is my niece, yeah, is obviously we have her, but they don't live in state, so we don't get to see them that often. And when we do see her, I tend to spoil her because I love buying little girl stuff. It is so, so fun. Brian has three nieces.

I love them both, like, more than the world. And it's just so fun. It's so fun. It's so fun. It's so fun being an auntie. I can't. wait and it was also fun because the baby shower was obviously way more like different than mine with elliot yeah um so that was a lot of fun and she did like two fun games one we competed

doing like a diaper changing contest on baby dolls that's very cute shockingly i didn't win um what do you mean but i was up against our good friend erika oh pro who i don't we haven't really talked about her before she's been my friend for like i don't know 25 years and also she does my photos so if you've seen any like of my wedding photos or any professional photos those are all from her but yeah so she was there she also has a child recently he's just over two so she is quite up to date with the changing as well and she beat me um so i didn't win that game and then also um there was guys invited to this baby shower, which I did that with mine too. We had like a couple close guy friends and family. So there were guys there. So she had the guys do a game where they had to race to

basically like put on a diaper and chug a baby bottle. I saw videos of this. Yes. It was so funny because obviously we all like saw it there and she recorded it but Evan didn't know she was going to post it. So he like opens her Snapchat or her Instagram story and he's like, oh so this is on the internet and I'm like yeah sorry I did not know that was being posted but did they win no it looked like he won no he didn't win they didn't have the technique you had to like squeeze the bottle to like help and they did not get that technique until the end so he didn't win that one but it was a lot of fun and super pretty Elliot came and I think shower Elliot's for shower and I think he might have been the only baby yeah their only kid baby um and he did so well and it was

actually funny because anyone who has kids knows this the napping thing especially at this age is all over the place and you literally have to plan your day around the nap so i was panicking fully before going into this because i also had a job at the shower so i knew like evan was going to be in charge mostly of making sure Elliot was good and he did actually Erica same friend gave us a baby carrier that she had in the car and Evans strapped it on and walked around with him and he napped right there no way I was shocked first of all it made him look like super dad so I'm like really any other time like I would have tried that and it would have just been fully embarrassing but he looked like super dad walking around And Elliot's napping on him with the baby carrier.

Oh, my gosh. He was probably so happy. He was so happy. So that worked out great. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. And my job was seating people. Oh. Yeah.

I didn't do. Or you just were dubbed like you got to select where people sat. No, it was assigned seating. I got the chart at 8.30 p.m. the night before. And you studied it. No. I didn't have time. And truthfully, like a lot of people,

not a lot of people, but some of the people there, I don't fully know because obviously, Delaney's friends and stuff. So some of the people, I was just like, well, this is hopeless for me because I can memorize this all day, but like, I don't know who some of these people are. So I still had to, like, ask people to, like, when they were coming in, oh, what's your name, whatever? Yeah. But it was also very complicated because I'm on my phone.

One page is like the list of names and numbers of tables. Yep. one page was the actual drawing of like where the tables were yeah so I'm like flipping trying to remember and like in the moment when people are walking in so fast my anxiety was like through the roof I'm like could anyone else do this job like I was freaking out so at one point I just started like kind of walking with people through the venue and then I would see their name on like a thing oh here you are but truthfully I didn't find it on the actual seating chart so I tried my best but yeah my my sister made me the

greeter and greeter and cedar. Yeah. Greeter cedar. I tried my best, Elena. I'm sure you did great. Yeah, it was fun. But speaking of moms,

and I saw this right after I filmed last week's episode, and I was like, really, why does this always happen? Every week. Every season, every episode, every day, every time we film, the next day, something happens. So, I saw that.

that Ashley Tustale did this article with The Cut. It was like an essay on a toxic mom group. Yep. And at the time when it first came out, nobody was really putting two and two together that this was about like other celebrities' moms that she was friends with. Everybody was kind of just relating to the article

from what I saw. A lot of moms were like, oh, yeah, it can be toxic and this and that. And truthfully, when I first saw it, too, I didn't know about the famous mom group. I did not know that there was a celebrity mom talk. I just thought that there was the Utah Mottok. Mottok? Maw talk.

I did not know that this group existed until this happened. Yes. Agreed. And so at first I was like, oh, that makes sense. I kind of get it. I feel like moms can be the most supportive group also judgmental because there's so many different ways to do things. And everybody thinks they know like the best way. and every kid is different so i was kind of relating to it in that and then when i saw like oh no

she was actually hitting out at like a specific group of people i was like oh that's interesting so apparently her essay breaking up with her toxic mom group was about a group that includes hillary duff Mandy more Megan trainer and i think a few other like really successful well-known women in the la area not necessarily like we wouldn't know who they are but successful business owners i think some of them own like mom products yeah and own those companies so she ends up putting out this piece basically saying that they were toxic they were mean girls they acted like high school they would cut people out and so she's not a part of it anymore and she finally ended up like having to send the text this is too high school for me and i don't want to take part in it

anymore and quickly people started putting it together like oh she's talking about oh is this play about us literally so then the husband of hillary doth matthew coma goes online and basically confirms that it was about them because he recreated the photo that she took ashley to still took for the article he like recreated it himself and made a fake article page. Did he really? Yeah. I didn't know this part of it.

Oh yeah. And he wrote on it, when you're the most self-obsessed, tone-deaf person on earth, other moms tend to shift focus to their actual toddlers. And then he put a sub-headline on the fake photo. A mom-grouped hell-all through a father's eyes.

So he was not playing. Yeah, so he was fully like, obviously. Shots were fired. Trying to defend Hillary Duff in case people were coming to the conclusion that she was toxic based on Ashley Tustale's thing. Ashley Tustale's rep denied that this was about that specific friend group, but everybody was putting two and two together because I guess she made specific references in the article about being in a successful group. All the women have, like, really successful job. full jobs and are well-known and careers so she felt like uncool compared to them and she's actually tisdale i know so and then so i think that was why like matthew comus point was like

no you're just self-obsessed and tone deaf everyone else isn't like the toxic ones so i don't know Mandy Moore reportedly liked that post, but I don't think it's still there. And then Megan Trainer posted on her story, basically her doing the, it's from Stranger Things, I think, where it says like, please, you have to believe me. And it was like about when everyone thinks you're in the mom, toxic mom drama. So she was denying being in it. But a few people denied being in it. Hillary Duff's husband confirmed that it was about them.

And I don't know. I guess in the end, it kind of just bit Ashley Tustillness for, like, doing that. I mean, I don't know really what she, I guess, thought when she wrote that. I don't know either because I feel like I've seen, I haven't seen a lot on this, but I've seen enough to where people are kind of going for both. Like, I really don't think there's like,

it's hard to say have a clear stance on the situation because there's a lot of people like well it kind of sounds like Ashley you were the toxic one but like I don't know I mean you're never gonna know this group

existed until I kind of wish I was more up on this group when it was occurring because I really was unaware and apparently it was at the point like they're all posting photos together wearing matching outfits together right I saw those all these activities and meetups and all

this and I'm like why do I not hear about this until now I don't think you're alone though I really truly feel like people did not realize that this was occurring these women were their own sort of mom talk mom group whatever you want to call it and maybe this is their audition for like their own housewife show I guess maybe and honestly that would have been more interesting I wish while the drama was actually occurring we would have been in on it like when these toxic situations where like I wish they had like a celebrity mom talk right actually no and I don't think they do maybe they do but like I feel like I see Megan trainer stuff online I feel like I've seen Ashley Tista and Hillary Duff honestly all respectively I've seen their TikToks like not often but often enough

to where I feel like I would have connected that they were friends yeah but maybe I'm just out of it I know I don't know it's it's a different kind of content maybe that they just like like don't usually post about so it doesn't like yeah it doesn't do as well like people don't really see it but i don't know i would have loved that i think they should they have something here we're all interested to know what was going on um but everybody was also laughing because they're like the message she sent was like this is too high school for me and i don't want to take part in everyone's like but you're from high school musical yeah ridiculous um but speaking of disney apparently Miley Cyrus is working on something special for the Hannah Montana 20th anniversary this year and March coming out.

She hasn't said what it is. It's not a reboot, though. They've been clear that it's not a reboot. Thank God. We don't need a reboot. Yeah, that's kind of how I felt. Also, like, I don't know what Billy Ray's up to, but don't they, aren't they not talking or whatever? That wouldn't go well.

Yeah, I don't think it would happen. But the bangs are back, and that's basically what she keeps saying when people. are like, tell us anything about it. She's like, all you need to know is basically like I'm Anna Montana. Today's episode is brought to you by ritual. Before I was pregnant with Elliott, I didn't know much about pregnancy prep and I had anxiety worrying about getting the key nutrients to help support my pregnancy. Thankfully, that's when I found ritual and that eased the worry.

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For a limited time, save 40% on your first month at ritual.com slash shady. That's ritual.com slash shady for 40% off your first month. Thank you to ritual for sponsoring today's episode. I'm excited to see what they do, but also when I heard this, I was like 20 years. Wow. This was kind of like that episode we talked about and it's just really. very old really putting it all into perspective that this is the 20th anniversary of that i specifically remember when we were younger not only being so obsessed and engulfed in the hannah montana world but

literally having to go to the set and watch them tape because that's how much we loved it um and also is that still a thing have we talked about that live live sets and like seeing tapings and shows. I don't know. I got to imagine that people go to sets, but I feel like there's probably way more closed sets than what it was. Like back in the day, there used to be like live studio audiences.

I don't think for like Hannah Montana all the time, but like I know shows taped in front of audiences like regularly in the 90s in the early 2000s. It says many of these shows. continue to use multi-camera setups and are filmed in front of an audience. No way. Apparently. That's shocking.

I kind of love that, though. No, it is good. It's very nostalgic. It is. And speaking of, we're approaching the 10-year anniversary of 2016. And for some reason, you guys have to have seen this on social media. Everyone is saying, 2026 is the new 2016. and I look at people's photos and truly feel transported back into time

where like it was just so unproblematic. Yeah. Snapchat filters, chokers. You guys were going through, by the way, if you want to see our 2016 photos, they will be on the Patreon bonus content. on the Patreon. They're here as if they were here with us right now. They will be there.

They're in the room. They will be on the Patreon bonus content this week. And when I tell you that you couldn't catch me without a choker. No, you loved a choker. I just loved exuding all things 2016, I fear. I didn't know that I was in the good old days. when you were there and I look back on those photos and I was like like I get a little bit like I start to feel almost depressed if you will like looking at those photos as it like I will because I agree it is I mean

we've been talking about 2016 a lot and for us we were sophomores in college which I fear it was like the peak time to be in 2016 and like at first when I saw this 2016 resurgence I was like well maybe it's just like the people like like us that were like in college and everybody looks back on their college and I wish yeah no but I see people who were like in middle school in 2016 and high school in 2016 and they were like no 2016 actually was why wasn't it incredible year it was just so it was just a feeling vibe there's just a feeling in the air like when we just were watching videos putting together our little patreon what we're showing and i can smile it yes stay was playing in the background of the video it was

i was showing a video um my body like could feel i could was 2016 to a frat basement and although this video was me in a frat addict addict um i was like i was like i was like Like, Haley, listen to the audio of this video. Like, it was as if I knew in that moment that that was going to be. Like, I had, like, the crisscross shirt on. Every photo. Sunglasses with, like, the mirrored. Aviators mirrored.

I had, like, a brown skirt on, like, probably some strappy little heels. And by little, I mean tall because we didn't do kitten heels in 2016. Well, that was the other thing we were talking about. It's so funny because back then, when you went to a bar, like any bar. Oh my gosh. You dressed up. Yeah.

And I was showing Haley another phone because we were going literally through like the first of our Snapchat memories. And there was a photo of me. And the caption was, yes, we're at a bar right now. And I go. In a perfectly acceptable bar outfit today. And we were at like a dive bar, like a local watering hole dive bar situation. And I was wearing a hoodie, leggings with a flannel.

over it and like my hair was done my makeup but like I looked appropriate for the place that I was in but in my mind I couldn't fathom that I was out and about like it was like uh like I don't even know what I was doing out and about not in not a skirt and criss cross top yeah like a choker and like ripped jeans and like knee high boots like and then my friend in the photo she was wearing just like normal jeans and like a t-shirt and like again very acceptable clothes to be at a dive bar in that was the year that i actually started instagram too was it really well it instagram was very still like tumbler vibes like back then everyone was trying to get those like artsy photos and so like if you go back i don't encourage this but if you go back to the beginning of my instagram there's like random

photos of like just my shoes or like just like my wall and that's why because that was the thing i know and that was just what you did and you remember those like big tapestries everyone had on their walls and they would hang like the lights around their rooms and the flower it was just such a vibe i vividly remember being like in my apartment in 2016 with that tapestry with stay blaring yes or closer and just roses The air was different, you know what I mean? It really, really was. It was like, I felt like living life was every day it was like Coachella almost. I swear to God.

Coming from someone who's never been to Coachella. I never want to or intend to go to Coachella. But, like, I think that that was like peak Coachella. Like, Coachella was in its prime. And like those vibes, I think, like, sent sound waves. Like the music they were making there, like turned us all into like happier beings because we were all at. Look at the photos of 2016 of us and tell me at any given point in time we could not be potentially on our way to Coachella Valley. No, it's what we dressed like at all times.

And I loved it. And maybe that's why we were happier for it because like I love him. music festival. Not that one, but that could be it. In general. Yeah. In general. It was, it was a time. I don't, you guys, I don't know what else I remember about 2016, but I feel like it was just, I just picture, I swear I owned every kind of crisscross top. Yep, bomber jacket. Every kind of bomber jacket. Green jackets galore. Green jackets. I think I recently got rid of my last green jacket. I think I still have.

It was hard to let go of. The matte liquid lipstick. I just loved, I really, really loved my over-the-need boots. I remember specifically when I got them, I thought they were the coolest things in the world. I thought they were the most comfortable shoes to wear. Well, wasn't that too when like Ariana Grande had like the knee high boots and the ponytail? Well, that. People were saying that that's why like, no, 2026 is a new 26.

because she got her ponytail back. Her ponytail's back. And it's brunette. And she's not like blonde anymore or whatever. So people are like, it's real. Like this confirms 2026 is the new 2016. So. If she releases a pop album, I don't think she plans to because I think she's just doing like her little tour thing.

But like that was like when like break free came out. This is a pot when you say I don't want. Like I don't mean to sing right now because no one needs to hear that. But like, well, I just hope people don't think we're playing her music because you sound so similar. Right. And then we get copyrighted. But like that song, like, I, in 2016, I probably wanted that song, like, in my soul. Like, it was crazy time.

It was a time. I wish I could go back to 2016. Like, the smiles, the giggles I felt when. I know. When we were looking at this pictures, it was just such a different life. not a care in the world. And I don't think I look back on any other year in quite the same way. I definitely don't.

No. Like it's like 2014. Okay. No. 2018. Fine. 2016? That was.

Yeah. I agree. No. It was a time. Well, apparently also, this is right around the time when top golf started booming in the early 2010s. And we needed to bring this up because this story has. It's close to home.

And I saw this a while ago. And it went viral on TikTok because a top golf net collapsed from it being so cold and icy at the Michigan location. That's where we live around here, you know. That's where, yeah, we chose to live and choose actively to live somewhere where nuts freeze so cold they break. Think about that. Yeah, think about that.

And so a guy was filming it while he was there. And his comment was, they better have it fixed by January 9th. That's my work Christmas party. And it went viral because everyone was like, really? Like, this is what he's concerned about. No, he didn't even film the video. He just was an innocent bystander. Somebody else filmed the video and he just randomly commented on it.

Really? Yes. Okay, so maybe that's what I'm thinking. So when I first saw the video, all I saw was, The net breaking and then the guy that was like about to swing like got out of there quickly. He wasn't there. He just was a random comment. It was a comment that went viral.

And this is what I love most about TikTok. Viral comments. Yes. It is so fun. The comment section is so good. Oh my gosh. The button girl. You don't know about the button girl?

No. Well, maybe if you tell me. So there's this girl. I don't know. I'm not going to tell the story great because, like, I'm learning about it. And so essentially she was a commenter. I think her name's Maureen. And somebody was, like, posting about, like, what are you going to do in 2016 or something about, like, self-care?

I don't even know. That video is besides the point. And then some girl commented on there, like, in 2016, I'm going to get 365 buttons. And people were like, why are you going to get, like, what are you going to do with the buttons? Oh, and she said she's like, because the concept of time like scares her, so she wants to like conceptualize like time or something like that. That's me paraphrasing what she said. And then, hold on, I need to see button. Hold on, button girls comment.

It'll come up. Basically what she said back was like, hey, so it actually, like people were asking like, what does that mean? And she was like, hey, so actually it only has to make sense to me for me to me to. to do it and I don't feel like explaining it to anyone else and literally that comment got so many likes that people started like following her and like asking her about the buttons and she wants no part in it like people will be like will you give us a button update and she'll just respond no and people are like they love it mesmerized by this girl like idolize her they're like she's so brat she's so like whatever um but all just from her comment like

I don't think she's actually made a single video. She just, like, will occasionally respond to comments being like, yeah, her original comment was, I'm getting 365 buttons, one for each day, because I want to do more stuff, and I'm scared of time. So I want to be more conscious of it. And then people just went crazy. It got, like, probably over 100,000 likes. That's insane.

I feel like I've randomly commented on stuff, especially, like, recently. if it's like mom stuff, like if it's like mom stuff. But I never like see or get anything back, so, which is fine. People don't interact with you in the comments. No, but like no one ever like thinks my thing is funny or likes it. So I'm like, I'm just going to disappear. I'm so sorry. People think I'm hilarious in comments.

I've told you about this. You've told me. I get, I do numbers on comments on TikToks. You're the button girl. I'm the button girl. I have one comment. on like a Marvel video from a really long time ago and I still get likes on that. Wow.

Some girl was like had action figures and was trying to fix the ending of Avengers and then I made a comment and it's got a lot of likes. Wow. Wow. Impressive. Today's episode is brought to you by Hungry Route. Between being a new mom, managing the household, work and attempting to take care of myself, it's hard to find the brain space for weekly grocery shopping on top of it all. But thankfully, there's Hungry Root, the easiest way to eat healthy.

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Okay, so he ended up getting, the Christmas work party ended up happening this past weekend. And Topgolf literally like made a sign for Logan. They went above and beyond for Logan. When they fixed the, when they just merely fixed the fence in the little cherry picker, there was like a couple workers there that had fixed the fence and they had signs that said for Logan, like with the fence. And then when he walked into Topgolf, they shot off confetti. They had a snippet from the, like, the fence that had fallen framed for Logan.

They had like balloon arch. Like they really did this Christmas party up. And like he just works at a construction company and they just decided like this was their Christmas party. And look what it's turned into. Well, for Top Golf, this is probably the best press they've had in years. Easily. So. They could turn this shit into a Super Bowl ad if they wanted to.

They probably should. And if they don't, it's a real big missed opportunity because, like, I've never seen good press like this for a golf facility. I feel kind of like the same way. I mean, this was just like an innocent thing. One of those things were like it just works out in nature. and it comes together and it makes just like a good wholesome story wholesome story but not so wholesome of a story haley beeper reposted a video on tic-tok and i didn't see it but supposedly it was a video implying that she like tolerates abuse in her relationship and she reposted it and at first when you were telling me this because

I didn't see this or hear about this or anything, but Brittany was telling me about this. And at first I was like, okay, to be fair, on Instagram, the repost button now was like so close to the send button or whatever. And I've multiple times, like, quickly reposted and unreposted stuff. Like, just random videos, like, people I don't even thought, like, just random stuff. And it pisses me off. It does.

It's actually very easy to do on Instagram. However, this was on. TikTok. Yeah, that's what you're saying. It was on TikTok so it was not, it's a whole process. Right. So it would be one thing. So again, I from this is my own opinion, not what I saw on the internet. Then I'll get back to what I saw on the internet. In my opinion, because it was done on TikTok, it wasn't like an Instagram situation where she was scrolling, watching something accidentally clicked it and kept on going. When you repost something on TikTok, you have to click the corner and then click again like in a different spot to repost video like it's not something that can

typically be done on accident unless you are trying to send it to somebody so and what I mean by that is like the text button is like right next so it's like maybe she was trying to text it to somebody hit repost and then didn't even notice didn't even notice that she did it I don't even know if that's possible because I feel like it closes out of that screen I should have done done some more investigative journalism. So, there's like a small possibility that it was an accident. Nonetheless, she first watched the video and intended to do something with it. Like either send it to somebody.

Correct. So like at that point, I don't know what's going on that. I mean, and she very well could have been trying to send it to Justin and be like, this is ridiculous. Ha ha. Or some joke like that. But it just makes you wonder. And I do feel bad because their relationship does,

I feel like get ridiculed and dissected more than any other couples. And that's really what this video was on TikTok was a girl. I don't know who she was. TikTok pedestrian just truly dissecting, like little tidbits, videos, very parasocial, if you will, of their relationship and implying. that Justin Bieber doesn't treat her very well. Allegedly, Haley has declined that she actually reposted it, but I watched many of videos of like screen recordings

of people being like, I'm going to Haley Beaver's TikTok. Here's me playing a video of hers. Here's me playing another video of hers. Here's me clicking on it repost. It's right there. And they were like, oh, and the next one, this is a repost that like she's still. has up but she's taken the first one or she's on reposted it and i believe that was coming from people

like in other countries so like canada or like australia were seeing it because it was like lagging there is what people were saying that like when she really deleted it it was still showing up there yeah so that's the situation so all this to say she for sure saw it she for sure had something to say about it whether that was she agrees or disagrees who's to say a lot of people are implying like oh this was her trying to like tell people or like be a good guy for help but like i don't that i don't believe that i don't know if i buy into that yeah this is so random but kind of not and i don't want to be this person but that reminded me of this selina gomez live that we saw and only like 20 000 people were in and we never talked about it we never did

This was only like two weeks ago. It was like 2,000 people too. I don't even know if it was 20,000. It was a very small amount of people in the live, you guys. And I haven't heard a single people about it since then. And she was addressing like very sought after like questions like about like. I think it was like are her teeth fake? Are like just really random stuff?

Like why do you talk like that? Why is your voice like that through her home? Yeah, but it was just really random like kind of. I wouldn't say like burning questions, but things everybody comments online. Yeah. And like she was just randomly answering all the questions in her home and then proceeded to take everyone outside in her backyard on the live and show her Christmas decorations. But I was I literally looked at Bernie. I'm like, this is a security breach.

Yeah. What's going on? Do people know that this is online? And I, we were like literally just like what is going on. We felt like we were an alternate universe. I couldn't believe. It was like a very. Honestly, like this is weird to say, but like a 2016 like celebrity thing to do.

Like it was like, yes, that casual. Yes, it was so casual. And that is not her at all. And we were just like, oh, my gosh, no one knows this is happening. And obviously, it's gone now. And we were just like we felt like we witnessed something. We weren't supposed to see. And we couldn't believe our eyes.

And then also it never got talked about. Like, I never saw a single TikTok about it. I never saw anything about it. And I feel like we witnessed. like history, but like a secret part of history. Yes. Because she doesn't just go on live, like to my knowledge. Like I've followed her on Instagram for a very, very long time.

And when I clicked to open Instagram, it was the first thing, like live on text, like Instagram, like, Selena Gomez. Like it was for sure her. And it was like, she was just like casually like, she was just like sitting in bed, like chatting with all of us. we literally got to the point though too it was like one of those awkward things where she kept saying bye but then she would like wait and read another comment and then start responding to it so we're like we can't leave it was just like too much we were just like it was like secondhand like cringe because it was just like it was just like it was going on longer than it should have and it was literally just hit end just hit end like she'd like okay everyone like I need to go now bye and then she'd start reading and just sit there in dead silence. Oh, yeah. And so, yeah.

So people say that my, like, and we were just like that. No, hang up. And here's the thing. I felt like we were on FaceTime and I was just like wanting to be like. And we didn't realize this until like later. There was a question feature on top of it because like she kept answering questions and we're like, that's nowhere in this chat. And the chat, it was so few people.

And I think everyone was as confused as we were because the chat was not. going as fast as you would anticipate on alive with Selena Gomez. Like in a situation like that, you would think that the chat would be going like a mile a minute. Like you can't really read questions. It was slowly going. Like I could have said, hi, my name is Brittany. And like she would have for sure saw it.

But there was a question tab too where she was reading questions from. So we're like, why is it? Why is she answered? We eventually found the question tab. It was such a bizarre experience. Yeah. I felt like we saw some. we're not supposed to see live is always so weird it's like such a weird we live once and we did

go live once and honestly that was fun though and maybe we should do that again or maybe we'll do that on the patreon we should go live on the patreon i fear it'd get out of control no we act out of control in general on i know but i fear that like we act as if we're hanging out yeah and it's just not the case but whatever that's fine if you guys want to see that in the future go over there and also we are going to talk about the golden globes and the bonus episode we are going to talk about honestly like kind of like little dramas with that last week in the patreon bonus content i did this with the critics choice and i kind of did a pretty long just giving some info about the critics choice so we're going to talk about the golden globes we're going to go through red carpets and we're going to

share our 2016 photos with everyone. So if you want to see that go over there. But let's get into this week's Shady Stories, starting with Shady Story number one. Fumbled me for felony fast food. I'm 17. He's 23. Already questionable, but stay with me. He was my first love, first everything, and a Marine. I thought the uniform meant emotional maturity, but it's did not i should have ran we were happy spend weekends together talking of marriage and kids etc fast forward i'm 19 we break up why because he says he's busy with an upcoming deployment wants to stay friends he's sorry etc i'm hysterically crying broken-hearted crying myself to sleep every night cue bella in new moon montage then i find out not from him but from a friend of a guy that's trying to get with me

that my ex is getting married. One month later, he was engaged, and two months later, he was married. Oh, okay, so you didn't cheat, but you were lining up your replacement while still clocked in. Cool, cool. Fast forward, karma was no time. About seven, eight months after they get married, he comes back from deployment on R&R, not to rest, but to file for divorce. Divorce.

Why? Because his wife cheated on him with four different men. That's not a mistake. That's a roster. And just to really seal it, she also gets arrested for helping stage a fake robbery at the weiner's knitzel she worked at. Sir, you left me for a criminal conspiracy involving corn dogs. Time passes, I move on, I get married, I'm thriving. And every once in a while, like an unwanted software update, small town, we run into each other at bars, at my job, and he slides into my DMs after 15 years.

Ugh. You were the one. I never wanted kids with anyone else. I still think about you. You belong to me. I miss you. Meanwhile, I'm married, unbothered, and he's sending confessions like I'm a priest. I don't respond because the pettiest thing you can do is live well and let the message sit on red.

If I was the one, you shouldn't have fumbled me for a felony fast food. This is impeccable writing. And for a moment, I was like, did this story take place in 2016? I fear it was about 2011 based on the 15 years ago timeline we now have. But what a wild ride. Yeah, I just feel like this is classic, always coming out of the woodwork so much longer later. And also, like, that was just his karma. Like you left her and then you got cheated on.

Yeah. That's what's going to happen. It's just classic karma as she said in the story, karma waste no time. It sure doesn't. It sure doesn't. But that is so true. Though living in a small town. Oh, is like...

You will run into people. Ours isn't that bad, but there are specific places that like if you go there you know you're running into like your high we call it like high school reunion yeah every time if you go to specific bars or like places in our area that's just what it is it's what's going to happen specific targets you know like it you could be running into somebody at that exact location yeah and yeah just tough out there we avoid those locations so that's our advice there shady story number two working as a product designer remotely at a company for over a year and we were a team of five. Our last boss was kind of crazy and ended up getting fired for drinking on the job.

We are hiring for a new boss and somebody who I saw at multiple conferences messaged me. They applied and while I never worked with him, I thought he would be great because he seemed like a leader. Traveling across the country giving talks. He was always the right. He always said the right things as expected from a leader. I pushed him through and ended up getting the job. Literally would tell the team, I'm here for you. You can tell me everything.

I've got your back. After 90 days of him being there, I was the third person on our team out of five that he pushed out of the company. He used constructive criticism for a mandatory survey against me from a co-worker who had to give a response on how I can improve. I recently found out that he didn't even last a year at the company and just left. Okay, why come and cause all that chaos just to leave? Corporate America is definitely shady a.

F. I thought this was fitting because you're Mrs. Your Mrs. Corporate America. I sure am. No, I always thought about that, like, how awkward it is. I know most jobs, like, don't share what each person says, but when they make you, like, review your co-workers and stuff. I always find that so awkward. Like, oh yeah. What are you going to say? It just puts employees in like a weird position. Like, yeah, you review them. Yes. Don't make me do it.

Yeah. Like, I don't know. No, and especially if you have somebody like this where they're a toxic leader, it's not going to end pretty for anybody because toxic leaders cause toxic teams. And then that's when you're going to have people turning on each other, not good, not good culture. Especially if it's mandatory. Like, I don't think that writing review, like, peer-to-peer should be forced upon anybody because then you're not even giving real feedback.

You're just making something up. Yeah, you're going to have me talking, like, real corporate in about five seconds. I don't think anybody wants that. But I, that sucks. That's actually, like, such a crappy situation. And of course he left. Like what was the point?

And I guarantee he'll do it to the next company. Shady story number three. Two years ago on Christmas, my mom made a golden necklace as a present to one of her friends. This year, this is funny, actually, the same exact friend made a Christmas and birthday present for my mom. She celebrates her birthday on the 26th. When my mom opened the present from this friend,

her jaw literally dropped. She gifted my mom the same exact golden necklace that my mom gifted her two years ago. And yes, it was the same exact one. She did not bother to repack it, change the packaging, or even the Christmas letter that my mom wrote her. Bro. So she handed back the letter that, like, she had given her, like, two...

I will say... I... It's so bad. don't know how someone could do this just because you would look at that and know that that's like a very specific gift regardless of like who got you it like let's say you were gifted that and you thought susie gave you it but then really it was from Tiffany like either way you know that like someone specifically gifted you that correct it's not like something generic I don't know like sometimes I feel like a gift card like if you get a gift card somewhere and you're like oh I'm I might not use

this like have you done this no I always I always get like coffee gift cards and I end up using a coffee gift card I end up using them immediately so no but I will say though I don't know how people even do that because I feel guilty when I reuse like a gift bag yeah and I could see that accidentally giving back to the same person because like I don't remember who got me this gift bag like you know if it's just like a paper bag I'm like oh I'll reuse that yeah and some of Sometimes when I go to like put a gift in there, it's obviously a new gift, but I'm like thinking like, okay, now who gave me this specific gift bag? Because I don't want to give them back the gift bag. But I mean, that's not as big of a deal.

But even still, like, I'll overthink that and be like, I'll just get a new bag. Like, I'll freak out about it. I have a fear of feeling like I were gifted something even if I like specifically didn't. Like, you know what I mean? Or like somebody like thinking that you did even like you're like I went to the store today. Like I got this. I that's what I mean too. I feel like with gift cards that sometimes I will literally have the same gift card.

Yeah. But I will go buy another one because I'm like, oh, they would like this. Yes. But then I'm like, are they going to think that I regret this? Are they going to think that I just got this and gave it to them? I don't know. Sometimes those things like, who cares? It's not that big of the old.

Then it's the same thing. but like a specific golden necklace. Yeah, you can't do that. You have to at least try to remember who got you that. It's not like a bottle of champagne or like a candle where it's like there are a lot. Those are gifts that I feel like people re-gift a lot. Oh, people for sure re-gift candles and they for sure re-gifted like wine, champagne, like things like that. Like there's no question about that.

Those are I feel, I still feel like probably you shouldn't, but like those are re-giftable gifts. Yeah. But this, not one of those. So yeah, that's definitely shady of that friend. Maybe she has a bad memory. I don't know. But we are going to go down memory lane in the Patreon bonus content.

So if you want to see that, make sure you go over there. And keep writing in your shady stories. We'll see you guys next time. Bye everyone. Bye.