just a little shady - Football Season Depression | Ep. 24

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Coping with the harsh reality of no more Lions, TikTok goes silent, Elmo checks in, Justin Timerblack has a new song, and more! Head to factormeals.com/JALS50 and use code jals50 to get 50% off your first box, and 2 free wellness shots per box while subscription is active! Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/VyXLKoDfE8udBBim7 Shop our NEW CONCERT COLLECTION merch drop at justalittleshadypodcast.com Join our Patreon for ad free content, bonus content & more: https://www.patreon.com/justalittleshadypodcast 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We are first of all dry January is over. We have a little bit of drinks for this episode that we made in our bonus content. We made some Valentine's Day cocktails. So go check that out on Patreon if you want. And we are also in our original set. I know it feels kind of weird to be back filming in this space. It's also a full circle moment because I'm wearing the actual exact outfit I wore for our very first episode. So a little interesting full circle moment we have going on here today. So much has changed. Yeah, and we're back. It feels so weird to be back in the original set. I kept saying that while we were setting

things up in here. It feels like the space is bigger. Less pink than I remembered it to be. Do I got sugar on my lips? Yeah, you got it. It's just very bizarre. Feels like it's been such a long

time since we've been in here. Well, it's been a year. Yeah, a year. A very long year. We're back from the studio. No longer there. Goodbye. RIP to the studio.

But yeah, I'm excited to be back, especially during the winter. Like driving to and from the studio is kind of sketchy. Yeah it was. Neither one of us arguably are the best drivers. No. So it's a risk every time we would go film this podcast. And it's just cold. I swear it's the coldest winter we've had in a very long time.

I do not remember it being this cold. I feel like in past winters I've said, you know, it's really not that bad. Like I remembered it being colder last year. Not anymore? It's all caught up to me now. I think I need a new winter jacket. You need one of those heated ones we spoke about.

We do need to invest in one of those because... I thought you bought one after that episode because you sent me. I did. Amazon link. I was like, oh, she's buying this for sure. Well, then I saw a cropped heated vest, but I didn't feel like I'd get the most out of that. My thought process initially with that was I could wear it under any jacket. But then I used some rationality.

Probably won't do that that I definitely need a new jacket I um I agree but I was I'm getting weather confused I don't know I feel like I'm all over the place you have been all over the place where were you this weekend I mean well you know well I just um we went to the game in San Fran and And how was that? So depressing, honestly. Like the first half of the game, it was just like the highest high. We were jumping around, booking our stuff for the Super Bowl, like just ready, fully committed to go. I feel like I ruined it because I feel like I got my hopes up too high

during the first half. I was like, damn, thank God I took off Monday after the Super Bowl because this is really happening. We're really going to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I was genuinely like, the conversation was like, okay, we need to make our plans for the Super Bowl. Yeah. And then, do I have a wrinkle on my lip?

You kind of do now, you just got it. Okay. Yep. You're good. Delicious. But yeah, no, our conversation was literally like, i have a wrinkle on my lip you kind of do now you just got it okay yep you're good delicious um but yeah no our conversation was literally like we need to plan for this how are we going to get what are we doing what's the logistics of everything and then as soon as we just started dropping the ball literally literally metaphorically it was so bad it was i couldn't believe what. It was. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I mean, I couldn't believe what I was seeing in the first half in such a good way. Because I thought we were going to crush the 49ers. Oh, like a blowout. Yeah. I was in awe. I was texting you. I was like, we are going to crush them. It was weird vibes being at an away game, though.

Really? Like, I don't love it and I don't know if I would want to do that. I don't think I've ever been to an away game where I've like really been invested in the teams. I've gone to baseball games in Chicago where I'm not invested but not in the case where I would cry

if the team lost in theory. I did did do I bawled my eyes out I bawled but I did cry I was like in shock in the moment you were so much more positive seeming than I was I wasn't it wasn't over until it was over I mean I guess we're getting ahead of ourselves you were there in the suite and things were going great and then not so great well in the first half we were all excited all planning our thing and then and honestly the we were right by like a lot of 49ers fans and they were like kind of minding their own business but then as soon as they started winning in that second not even winning just tying us the level of cockiness just went up so much with everyone around us and I was getting so pissed like because they were probably

a little quiet before then I mean they were still it was a loud stadium was it yes very very very loud I feel like nothing will compare to just from watching these past few games at home the game against the rams when we were at home you could almost not hear the announcers at some point through the tv through the tv so now these games these past two have felt a little more quiet well being down like in the main crowd was so loud like everybody there was so loud but it was kind of loud on both sides like obviously they were louder there was way more um like 49ers fans but there was so there were sometimes especially in the first half when we were doing really well you could hear the Lions fans didn't you say they were chanting Jared golf yes everybody was last weekend from the Lions to the Pistons to a high school cheer competition.

Everyone was chanting Jared Goff. Yeah, at the Red Wings game. It was a weird electricity in the city. Every single game in Detroit and Michigan was getting those chants. And it was like that. You could hear even when, you know, like how you're supposed to get loud when they're trying to make their, when they're on offense. Like, there were times where you could hear the Lions fans getting loud to, like, to try to mess up their thing. But it's still, like, it was, once it flipped at the half, it was hard to be around the other fans without getting pissed. Like, I was like, this is just.

That would be so unfortunate. And I was getting mad, too, because I'm'm like they've gone more than any other team like you can't just be happy for us like you can't just let us have this oh I was getting very upset but we stayed until almost the end it was like their last um drive their last drive and we were, if they get this, we should get out of here. Because also we knew that the fans were going to start being obnoxious. And so we were like, alright,

we're going to get in a fight here if we don't get out of here. But we still had a very close ending score. Kind of. What do you mean? 31-34 is very close. Yes, but I just was so much 31 34 is very close yes but i just didn't know what we were gonna do in those last two minutes i mean yeah we scored but then i was like what about the rest of the points i don't know how i guess you get those other ones

i don't know everyone around me just because i watched with brian and then brian's parents and brian and his dad were just like they kept like I don't know that was very depressing vibes that they were like mumbling like strategy and blah blah and I was like what do you mean strategy what's going on yeah I don't know it just also wasn't the best situation because for Ravens and I'm drawing um Casey like everyone wanted Ravens because it was again kind of like an underdog story everyone wanted we didn't get that and then everyone wanted Lions because again like that underdog story we haven't had it and then I didn't happen about it like I genuinely felt so sad I I went into the office the next day,

and I didn't want anyone to talk about it. I didn't want to hear anyone talk about it. They had sports on the TV because we have TVs on our floor, and they just kept showing clips of the Lions game. I'm like, I don't want to hear it. All these freaking reporters are just saying, yeah, 17-point lead, and they lost it all in eight minutes or whatever it was um i just felt like it wasn't meant to be at that point like it wasn't on our

side whatever was going on wasn't on our side for whatever reason um but everyone was although people were not happy that the ravens didn't make it. We're also still happy, though, because Taylor Swift got to go congratulate her. She's going to a Super Bowl in her rookie year. Yeah, that's unbelievable. How do you win at everything? I know. Like, that's crazy. She is winning at life.

Everything. Good for her. She got to go onto the field. She got to, you know, have her Cinderella story moment with Travis. They kissed in front of everybody in the field it was a very big deal honestly i saw clips of it where you could hear audio of them speaking and it almost sounds like him saying like thanks so much for always like showing up for me and her saying like this is the happiest i've ever been. And I don't know. I've just been emotional this week following the loss of the Lions.

So seeing clips like that, I'm just like, man, at least someone's happy right now. Good for them. It's not us. Yeah. Well, no. Now I'm just, I have such a grudge against the 49ers. No, honestly. It feels personal.

Like, I didn't really care if the Kansas City Chiefs won, but now I just want them to. I want them to crush the 49ers. No, I'm rooting for the Chiefs. Hands down. I hope they win. I hope all the Brad's and the Chad's are just so annoyed that Taylor Swift is like on the field for a Super Bowl win. And you know what? I hope she just smiles and waves and they go and cry.

Especially the 49ers fans. Because I just, I hate them now. I hate their team. It's just so frustrating that seeing everybody still celebrate as hard as they were, which if that was our team, we'd be doing the same thing. We'd be twice as loud. But seeing them celebrate so much, I'm like, screw you, man. Don't put this in our face.

How many times have you got to do this celebration? And we were America's team. We haven't gotten that. We still are America's team. I've said that all season. We will be back. Next season, we are going back to the championship, and we are going to the Super Bowl.

I know I said that last season, but I have full faith, full confidence in Dan Campbell that we're going to the Super Bowl. I know I said that last season, but I have full faith, full confidence in Dan Campbell that we're going to go back. Bless his poor heart. Like, people were being mean on the internet about him, and I would run through a wall for that man. I swear. I felt I understood the frustration

because it was just such a small, three points there were multiple times where we almost had those three points so i understood the frustration of people but also this is this is our team this is what we've been doing this whole season and it's worked it has worked so why would we change it you know exactly and if we would have so happened people would have said we should have gone for the the touchdown it would have been a different narrative if it would have worked it would have been oh my god that was a genius move dan campbell's the goal but it just chad's in the bread saying that for this situation but we're gonna be back and we're gonna be better than ever oh heck yeah we are heck yeah we we are. Heck yeah, we are.

I saw this too, which this was funny, actually. So we talked about Christian used check before. That we have. For her making her jackets, which, by the way, I did make my own jacket. No, it does not compete at all with the level of professionalism. But it was pretty good. I was very impressed. That she makes herself with, which I honestly,

you know I just love a good DIY. I just did it for that. You do. I was like, you know what, let me add one more thing that I have to do to your plate before I leave. No worries, no problem. But I had fun making it, so I don't care. It was kind of wild, though. I had to pull out my sewing machine, which is...

I don't even know that you still had your sewing machine. I've never seen it come out in this household, I don't even know that you still had your sewing machine I've never seen it come out in this household I don't think I used it once for Halloween like two years ago oh I remember I made my top you're half and half gosh yes yes I made my top but other than that it really hasn't seen the light of day since 2020 because that was when I originally you were a machine girl yes I learned how to use it and I was making the face masks and then really since then I haven't used it and I still let me be clear everyone in the comments was like this isn't DIY like I don't know how to use a sewing machine what do you mean DIY you did it yourself I know but like for people I was not offended because

also I agree like when I had to pull out the sewing machine I was like this is it like check it's not gonna work out I would have hot glued that shit right no so I did have to use hot glue to keep them in place before I sewed it because the first letter I did went sideways because I didn't like I just was holding it and like I was so proud I finished it and I held it up and I was like oh my god so I just ended up putting the whole thing on a slant yeah but yeah it was definitely not the level of pro but we did see so Christian Juszczyk was on the like her husband's on the 49er so she was at the game and a bunch of people who wear her stuff were at the game. And I got so angry because at the end, she posted a video.

This really, really grinded my gears. Solidified our anger. She flipped over the inside and it said Super Bowl bound. Like they knew they were just going to beat us. And it made me so angry. So clever to have. My jacket's better. But like really, it's not. But I was me so angry so clever to have my jackets better but like really it's not but i was just so angry jacket for good luck for the lions super bowl next time literally so as it is time no and i kept saying to him like literally you know how many times when i was doing this

jacket the machine would just like not like error error and i would just unplug it said that too oh yeah like i was acting like it was a computer like i would just unplug and plug it back turn off turn it back on that's what the tech team say to do yeah interesting times i enjoyed making it um but yeah i saw her post that and i was like wow, I should have done something like that on mine. Not that I know how. But two, I have something to agree. It really was just like the salt on top of the wound. Oh, 100%. I was like, dang.

100%. Good for them, though. No. Like I said, if it was our team, we'd be like, oh, F you guys are going. Like, let's go. But because it's the other way around, we're salty. And that's fine. No, and I'm just never going to like the 49ers.

Like, I hope we play them again, and I hope we crush them one day. And I'm going to root for their downfall next season. Every time they play. Every time they play, I'm going to be very salty against them. No, I don't know how I feel. I'm still sad. Today's episode is brought to you by Factor Meals. As someone who's been on the go lately with no time to pre-plan meals or grocery shop, I swear by Factor Meals. Factor's delicious, ready-to-eat meals make eating better every day easy, even when you're crunched for time. Skip the mess of meal prep and shopping Thank you. calorie smart vegan veggie options and more get started today and have a feel good week of meals

ready to go head to factormeals.com slash jals50 and use code jals50 to get 50% off your first box and two free wellness shots per box while subscription is active that's code jals50 at factormeals.com slash jals50 to get 50% off your first box and two free wellness shots per box while subscription is active. Thank you to Factor Meals for sponsoring today's episode. What else happened this week? Coachella announced and started selling their tickets the slowest ticket sales in a decade. Oh, it's so bad and there's multitude of reasons that are allegedly the why behind why tickets are so slow most of which are potentially the headliners

i don't see why it would be the headliners it's doja cat tyler the creator and lana del rey oh you good we saw saw Lana Del Rey. What? Oh, not the wrong pipe. Um, Lana Del Ray was incredible at Lollapalooza. So I don't really think that ticket sales would correlate with that. Maybe, maybe, because I mean at one

time there was Beyonce and just insane performers there. Not that they're not insane I just don't necessarily think they're at Beyonce's level of a performance we've always said like we're not really interested in Coachella no we're not and I think that a big contributing factor is the influencer culture well there's so many other options now for festivals that I feel like everyone just started taking advantage of those. Because, yeah, like, they're not as expensive. Lala is so much more doable than a Coachella.

It's not as, like, hard to... I don't know. Coachella, from what I've heard, is hard to navigate. Yeah, it seems difficult. Finding lodging that is reasonably priced in that area. And I know you can do camping, which all about that. That would be fun. However, if you don't want to do camping,

getting in and out of that festival is allegedly a nightmare. And you have every influencer and their mom running around treating this just like the content house of I don't know what. And I think it's done the opposite of what you would expect influencers to do. It's driven people away. And on top of that, I've seen a few TikToks that have said that festivals allegedly are a millennial thing and a millennial trend. So Gen Z isn't necessarily interested in

going to festivals like that i don't really believe that i don't know if i believe that either i feel like coachella is just kind of sums up how all of like i think it's how people feel about like la in general like it's just an influencer thing. It's like, who's who? Who do you know here? Oh, I am not a fan. I think that's the vibes. I don't know. Personally, I've just never been.

We have cool festivals that we don't have to do all that for. I have sugar on my lipstick. No, absolutely. I changed my glass. We have some great midwestern music festivals we're just midwestern and we're just midwestern you know um just good good old miss red proper proper we're just some good old proper gals put together and live in life you don't need to do an accent because we're not midwife that's not miss apparently we do have already talked with very strong midwestern accents and i don't

even know what that means i guess yeah i guess the country accent wasn't correct no but every time i post a video people are like what accent is this i don don't know. I thought it was none. I thought it was none, too. I thought that the way we spoke was, like, baseline normal. I think that's what everyone thinks, though. That it represents nothing. A hundred percent. But my, like, fourth grade brain could not comprehend that. I wanted a cool accent. I wanted to be Southern.

I wanted to be British. I wanted to be something. Dude, I still love, like, I love Southern accents and I love British accents. They're so fun. Australian. Girl, when I went, I went to Arizona this past week and multiple people thought that I was from somewhere in the South because

I kept saying y'all. Apparently, y'all. It is a Southern thing. It is a Southern thing. But so is soda and you said that recently. But I think you need to get off tiktok that's why i probably heard soda on tiktok yeah but y'all i've said for a while yeah and they were like where are you from and i said michigan they go no like where are you from i was like metro detroit and they're like oh crazy times wild um what else happened this week this Britney Spears

song came out no I'm sorry what no it didn't come out I was confused for a minute your song didn't come out no Justin Timberlake song Justin Timberlake had a song called selfish come out so to be petty Britney Spears fans went and started streaming her old song, Selfish, so that it would beat out his own charts. And who conducted this? It was just like a general consensus. I didn't get a memo. No memo was sent to me. And... Yeah, like

where was this plan made? I don't know. I never heard about the plan. And normally I feel like if there is a public fandom plan to overthrow something or to do something this petty you would hear about it but I didn't hear about it until after the fact until the numbers were done she was number one for and it wasn't even a song off the album it was a bonus track for the album it was a number 13 bonus track that fans just i didn't even know britney spears had a

song called selfish until it topped the charts but that's the level of petty that i aspire to be well she put out a thing apologizing yeah she's embarrassed don't be embarrassed she should not be doing that she should stand and say, so excited to see my song Selfish number one on the charts. Love y'all. Bye. That's the statement we needed. Not, I love Justin Timberlake's new song, Selfish. No, you don't.

I guess I just can't tell what the sentiment is between them. Because remember last time when he did the Vegas thing and she got pissed? Yeah. And posted, he said something like. He was being rude. Yeah, and she got mad. Blatantly rude. And then now it's like, oh, no, no, no.

Now it's like, oh, no, no, no, we're cool. So I don't know if they're cool or not. I can't get the vibes. Yeah, we are picking to be the better person now. No. We don't want to be the better person. No, I never want to be the better person. Also with music, though, I just saw this today, actually.

Universal Music Group is not renewing their licensing agreement with TikTok. So all artists that are under Universal Music Group. And it's a lot. Will be muted on TikTok, not just future videos, but like past videos. So if you used any songs from any artists from Universal Music Group, which is a lot, it will be muted. So you could go back on your page and you might find some of your videos just muted, even if it was just background music.

That's crazy. TikTok's just going to be silent as of tomorrow. Yeah, I feel like they will eventually have to come to some kind of agreement. But for now. They're making a statement. Yeah. For now, it's going to be silent videos. It's going to be pretty quiet.

Yeah, it's kind of awkward. I don't like it. Hmm. I was trying to think if I had videos with like music. I feel like I use more sounds. I don't know. Right. I think you do more trending sounds and voiceovers.

Yeah, but I don't know if people do. You should be okay. We'll see. I guess we'll find out. And Elmo was trying to find out what everyone's, you know, state of being was. Elmo tweeted, Elmo is just checking in. How's everyone doing? A seemingly simple, friendly tweet

probably makes many tweets like this, but for some reason, this tweet went viral with just over 137 million views in 24 hours hours it's so funny because did you just see snl did a skit about it was like no but it was this it was the premise of you're okay like you're fine but if someone keeps asking you like are you okay you're just gonna you're gonna break down trauma yeah and that's what people started doing to this tweet. Like, Elmo was like, how's everybody doing? And everyone's like, well, now that you asked, actually.

Terrible. Somebody was like, every Monday, I look forward to Friday, and I know that that will be my life for the rest of forever. Yeah. And I was like, did he stutter? Did he lie? Oh, my God. But even the Detroit Free Press Press they retweeted with we've been better Elmo and I felt that deep in my soul it's so true though

why does that always happen like if someone's like oh how are you doing you're like oh no I'm good like but are you okay no I'm not suddenly you Yeah. Like, don't ask too many times. Yes, ask. The answer changes depending on the amount of times you ask. Oh, that's so bad. But then Elmo tweeted again following his initial ask and said, Wow, glad to... What did he say?

I should have screenshotted and put it on our notes. But basically saying, Elmo learned today that it's important to check on my friends. Like, I'll be checking in again soon. I'm like, Elmo, not sure things are going to get much better between then and now. That's funny. Yeah. I didn't even know Elmo was on Twitter.

Apparently, Elmo is an active user on Twitter. Frequently checks in in the morning, at night. Hello from Elmo. Are you even on Twitter? Which, by the way, it's X. Oh, yeah. Sorry, man. X.

Am I on Twitter? I have a Twitter account. But you don't use it. I don't use it. I follow. You just creep around? Yeah. No.

In the shadows? I follow, like, three people. And sometimes Brian will send me things on X. He is a big X user. He doesn't have social media. Oh, yeah. Period. We talked about this on here, actually.

But he gets his sports updates on X exclusively. So I follow him and I think I follow Marvel and that's it. Yeah. I don't do. No, I'm not interested in it. I have an account, but I don't use it. Oh, you do? I don't. I don't do. No I'm not. I'm just not interested in it. I have an account but I don't use it. So I don't. Oh you do? I don't.

Oh you do? Promote it. Like I just. Right. I've never posted on it and I don't really plan to. I think I had to make it because somebody had some fake account with like a bunch of followers. No I remember this.

And the only way to get it. They did brand deals? Yes. Good for them. Brand deals. Like scammy ones too. And I was like oh my god you're making me look terrible. So but I think the only way to get it taken down was if I made an account.

So I made one. But then I just never. I see. Did anything about it. Oh, and no. And I just found out some person has a Facebook account of me with like a lot of followers. And for real, like they're me what are they up to whatever I'm up to apparently I want to look into this oh I'll send you the screenshot

I just found it this past week really it came up on my like like suggested friends yes like I have a private Facebook that I literally don't use I had to make it in college because when you're in a sorority, you have to have a Facebook. Mainline communication. Yeah. And so I don't even use it, but once in a while, I'll open it to see, I don't know,

who's pregnant and whatever. And all of a sudden, I see me. And I'm like, that's crazy. I just posted that on Instagram. No way. And then like,

it's got a bunch of interaction. So they're just living it up like they're you. Yep. Living it up. Having a good old time. You know. I didn't see any brand deals.

I mean I guess at least that's good. But. That's wild. But it's weird too because sometimes they talk in. First person. Third person. Third person. Oh.

Or. Third person is how Elmo talks. Elmo is just checking in. Yes. Like they'll be like. Haley's just checking in. How's everyone doing? Daughter of like, and they just have like weird bio and stuff. I'm like, I would never say that. That's so uncomfortable. I'm so sorry. It's not that serious, but I am

going to try. Here's the thing though. They're probably going to do the same thing where they're going to be like, Oh, unless you make a public account, we can't do anything about it. That's so messed up. I remember that when it came to Twitter because I feel like for the longest time in your Instagram bio, it said, I do not have a Twitter. I know. Well, because I used to get pissed because like people just tweet weird stuff too. Yeah, I don't like that. What are you up to?

I had a small fake account once of me. Do you like reshare things? That are inappropriate? No, but like that, like my dad will post or something. I'm like, I would never reshare that. I'm like, please stop. Dang. But, yeah, I don't know.

It's just wild out there. No, there was a fake Twitter of me at Once Upon a Time. Or maybe a fake Instagram. Maybe both. And they would just tweet. It had to be a Twitter. Just tweet, like, out outlandish inappropriate statements. And I was concerned because if,

if like I was applying for a job and they did a background check and we're like, they would think that that was me and it was in fact not me. So I think I got it taken down. I don't know. We'll look into it. It might still be there. You have a job,

so. Yeah, no, I've had to think. No no they don't think it's me they know me they know I'm I'm you know not like that I'm pretty quiet we just had a talk

and I forget what meeting this was today about how we used to have the shuttle system for work so where we work we would like park out like further away from our buildings and there was a shuttle that would take you like to the buildings you work in and then take you back and thankfully that system has gone away now we have parking much closer to our buildings but when that was a thing I was an intern at the company and you would wait but there was no like. There was bus stops.

But it wasn't like line up here with little stanchions or anything. You just gathered in a general spot. And then buses would come. And people would flock to the bus. So even if I was the only person there when I first got to the stop. And then people would come afterwards. They would run on. They would run on they would run

on and there'd be times where i could not get on the bus and i would have to wait for another one and it would happen again and then i would just end up ubering it was terrible and so what your twitter account would tweet at those people no they actually had no correlation with the twitter but i said that to i was like yeah I basically got bullied when I was like because I don't have a aggressive bone in my body and everyone was like dang that's so unfortunate for me no I remember taking the buses at MSU in the same situation like you could just flock yes like you could be the first person at the bus terrible but everybody's things about pulled up trying to run on especially because I feel like it's cold a lot of times so yeah I So everybody's trying to just run on and get warm, which there was always room for everybody.

But my anxiety would go through the roof. Like, what if they close the door on me? Same. They don't see me out here. Well, there wasn't always room on our work buses. And it was messed up. It was so messed up. My gosh, I do not miss the buses.

But one thing I do miss about the buses is the drama. You would hear so much work drama. People would be pissed coming either into the office or leaving. Really? Yeah. And then they would just air out all their business. And I would sit with like my headphones or AirPods in. Pretend you're listening. I'd pretend like I was listening

to something. But I was listening to their conversations. Kind of smart. What else went on this past week? Oh, I did see this. Did you? Charlotte Tilbury PR boxes with missing lipsticks. Always something.

And no one knows if it was on purpose or if it was a genuine mistake. But I feel as if that many lipsticks are missing. How is it not on purpose? Well, they already had. So if you didn't see this, Charlotte Tilbury sent out a bunch of pr boxes of their new lipsticks and the hollywood beauty lipsticks excuse you did you get some like jesus no i wish if you're out there i like lipstick and not the missing ones not the missing kind um. And so they sent these out. But then some influencers had multiple lipsticks missing from their PR box.

And then some got the whole thing. But it did seem like the people they knew would post it got the ones with missing. Like, didn't you think so? Like, Mikaela. Yeah, hers were missing. Like, she's always in some kind of little scandal drama. like they knew she would post that like oh my lipsticks are missing and they had a whole thing a whole response planned out of like almost like a murder mystery like who was here at the time what employees shut up yeah they had a response like what employees

were here at the time of the shipping and who was there like they were trying to make like a little murder mystery i saw a tiktok about something about like the missing thing and all this stuff and i thought the tiktoker was just really running with what had happened to the lipsticks i was like wow this is a little dramatic but okay it was genuinely their marketing, then they had to have been missing. Or not missing, but planned. I think so, too. Or they just had somebody that really thought on the fly quite quickly. To, like, squash it.

Map all that out. Yeah. To make it seem like it was on purpose. Who's to say? We'll probably never know, but it's cool. What else? You put this in here. I did.

I'm a big fan of Groundhog's Day. It's something that I personally choose to celebrate each year. What do you do to celebrate it? I think about it. I've tuned into the live stream. You just think about it? Well, to celebrate, i normally think and i feel pretty good i get really excited about phil do you believe him you believe that the groundhog

thing is accurate yeah and pita does not pita's highly against phil well pita's knows more about animals they they do we do however i know in my heart and soul that phil is right correct um phil um and i looked up some fun facts so let me read those off for the group fun fact number one according to the groundhogs club members because there is a club i wish to be a part of there's only been one Phil and he has predicted since 1887 which means Phil is 137 years old in 2024. Fun fact number two from 1887 to 2023 Phil predicted long lasting winters 107 times while only predicting early springs 20 times. And fun fact number three, for the past three years, he has predicted six more weeks of winter.

So we're really hoping for that early spring this year. However, PETA did write an open letter to the Groundhogs Club in Pennsylvania, which was encouraging the president of said club to remove the animal from the celebration. And they did say that they would present the group with a giant coin to flip in replacement of Deer Phil. Okay, but can I say this? Yes.

If it were just as simple as a coin flip, that would be 50-50. Right. And Phil is not predicting 50-50. Phil is not predicting phil is not 50 50 no he is not great great point out there i was gonna ask you this though and i don't see this in the notes but what percentage of times has phil been right um we don't speculate about phil's accuracy what phil says is is basically the word of god um but pita thinks that phil is an individual who um although intelligent and self-aware cannot predict the weather um which i felt was blatantly disrespectful to phil um even if he could um he could keeping him or any other animal imprisoned

for cruel annual gimmick. Is he in prison? I don't think he's cruelly imprisoned. I don't know if that's something that's been stated. I like to think that Phil is well taken care of and probably the best fed, the best, you know, well-being that a groundhog could be. Yeah. He is a hundred. I think we're making assumptions about

how he's taken care of he is 137 years old do you think that he is being imprisoned and cruelly treated if he has lived that long he has got the best of the best one could only hope to live the life that phil currently lives if i could live to be7, he only has to work one day a year. They only put him to work one day a year. That is nothing but cruel. I mean, that is not cruel. I don't know how to reverse what I just said. It's the opposite.

That is, I think. Well, like, I think we just need to actually know, like, how is he? How's he doing? You know what? Elmo should talk too, Phil. And then we just need to actually know like how is he how's he doing good you know what elmo should talk to phil and then we get to the bottom let's put elmo and phil in contact they'll work it out and i just truly think if this man's is only working one day a year and he's living this long let him be he's not actually he is 137 yes he is no he's not it's like when people get a new dog and they say like oh it's still like roxy and it's really the third one it's still phil no it's not phil lives on forever it can't be but it did kind of freak me out knowing that from 1887 to now is only 137 like 1887 if you would ask me that's 500 years ago like at least easy

500 years ago at least 500 years ago 1887 they're churning butter and sharing bath water yes there's no way that 1887 is only 137 years like someone was alive back then for sure someone's lived this long i mean if phil did anyone can do it but i mean here's the thing i don't have a lot on my bucket list but i think i would say seeing phil predict the weather might be up there on like top three you know how hype i would get for that crazy amounts of you think about it i think if they brought phil to coachella they would have sold out quicker shut up no way yeah oh my and that's just that's just my take i do enjoy a good groundhog's day prediction do you but i will be honest i don't think it's it hasn't been that accurate i don't think but it's no problem it's no no no problem just

disrespecting him no no no no no everybody makes mistakes everybody has those days but phil knows what he's talking about it's not the next words something gets that i don't know if you've noticed i've slowly been just eating the icing and sprinkles off mine mine's almost gone you interesting i'll work on that while you tell the first shady story all right shady story number one which by the way, Brittany picked these out, so I have no clue what I'm getting into here. Perfect. Shady story. Ideal state.

I picked this first one. I want to give it some context. This first one I picked because it felt like something we would do when we were- I'm so terrified now. Okay, great. Can't wait to hear. All right, shady story number one. So when I was 11, my dad wasn wasn't home and I was really hungry so I made

some ramen noodles as soon as I was just about to eat them my dad pulled in the driveway and I didn't know what to do so I poured them into a strainer and shoved them into a drawer I was so nervous he was gonna find them but things were going pretty good he hadn't found them yet and dinner was almost ready then he notices the water is boiled in our cuddle so he asks if anyone used and everyone said no of course but I was lying but I thought I would still make it and then he goes to grab a ziploc bag and he finds the noodles and just think of it from his perspective. You got home from a 12-hour shift, you're making dinner and you find ramen noodles in a strainer still warm was probably really weird and then he

basically interrogated us all until we're all laughing really hard because it's pretty funny and still to this day no one knows it was me i know the story wasn't shady but i thought it was funny so i mean that's hilarious i can absolutely picture you trying to bake ramen noodles and hiding them i made ramen noodles so often we there would be no reason to hide them everyone knew i was making ramen noodles i was making ramen noodles a lot ramen noodles but also buttered noodles i think we lived off of buttered noodles hot take though do you crunch up the ramen noodles so they're in small pieces or do you leave them whole i think we crunched them we crunched them up yeah i don't think i've ever had them hold crunched up was the way to go i'm pretty sure now though whenever i see them on tiktok they're

the full but also i think some people strain them and like don't eat them with the broth and i feel like i remember us eating them with the broth no No. Did we strain them? No, this is what we would do. This was the way. I remember the butter noodles better. You would cook the ramen noodles, but for, okay, you boil the water, you break them up. Yeah, that was the most fun part was breaking them up. They had to be like tiny chunks.

But you can't pop the package because you don't want the noodles flying out. No, that was bad. So you do that, then you cook them, then you strain them, then you add a ton of butter., then you add a shit ton of butter Butter, butter, butter Stir them all up Add the packet, add the seasoning packet So good

In college I ate ramen noodles so much My freshman year For no reason I ate a lot of Easy Mac Oh yeah, those two, the little like Individual containers Yep Easy Mac honestly sounds really good right now like easy mac all the time oh yeah those two the little like individual yep containers yep yep

but yeah easy mac honestly sounds really good right now we did have an era right we did that's been our favorite it's just oh i feel like i would rather have ramen noodles than easy mac right now yeah I also haven't had that since, I think. Since we were... Freshman year. Oh, since college. Yeah, I couldn't tell you the last time I had an Easy Mac either. But here's another hot take beef or chicken flavor. I feel like when we were younger, beef.

Beef. For sure. For sure. But I feel like right now, chicken. What? I don't know. I could, I mean, I would eat either. We did beef because that was a red pack and chicken was orange.

We were beef girls. Shady story number two. In college, I had a class where attendance was mandatory. And if you missed more than three times, you got an automatic F. A girl who I knew growing up would sit by me and one day started telling me stories about my then boyfriend cheating on me. They were all lies and we confronted her and proved that she was wrong. I told

her no worries, no hard feelings. If she was going to miss class, she would ask me to sign up and get her credit. And I said, absolutely. But I never did. I got an A and she got an F. Sucka. I loved it.

Just the right amount of petty. Yeah. I feel like that's perfect pettiness level. You love the petty stuff. I do. The stories just bring me life in a way that

I feel as if justice has been served and sometimes karma you know karma always finds its way to who it needs to find itself to but sometimes karma needs some help and you know the opportunity was and the opportunity was presented and she went about this flawlessly honestly i was the kind of person in school if someone was cheating off me absolutely not no no no no no no no i wasn't that nice like i was not the kind of person like oh yeah no problem you can no not no problem no i studied hard for this you're out here. I used to feel some type of way about in middle school when people would be in lunch copying off of others papers just because they had the next class or whatever when it was due. And I felt like that was wrong.

And I remember telling my mom that is wrong. I don't know if I ever did anything about it. I wonder if they still use these but like the cardboard dividers made out of literal boxes yes in Mrs. Grabs class specifically she had the big nice ones and then sometimes people would draw on the inside of them. Do you think they still use those?

I don't know I feel like school has changed a lot since we were there it's definitely gotta be weird. they don't have textbooks i'm pretty sure now i think everything's on ipads and chromebook no see that would even still if i was like i know in college even did you use books in college like the textbook version i have to be physically touching it yeah interesting and same thing with like writing notes

like i would write notes but then i would have to write them out or i won't remember yeah i don't know what it is but yeah i know even like books and writing like calendars like i use my calendar on my phone but then i take it and write it on an actual calendar. And you need both. Because I need to see it. I also have both. I don't know what it is. I've always been that way. I love writing things down. Just sometimes I'm too slow at writing. I'm a slow reader and I'm a slow writer.

So in college, it was really hard to keep up with this. Even in, I feel like, middle school, high school, I was always the kid who they would skip to the next slide instead of raising my hand and asking if they could go back to another slide i would just leave it and never get the information because they didn't send out slides like that in high school or middle school in college you could get the whole thing which was nice they should do that they should have done that they probably do now yeah because now they have things like like blackboard and no i was i would write the notes really fast as we were in the class and then rewrite them nicely go home and

rewrite see that's what i couldn't stand was having my notes look messy so i would take for and you know how slow i i write really slow i read so slow too if someone shows me their phone to read a text message they'll start to pull it no no no i'm come back i'm online too oh my god all right shady story number three i feel like this is more of a shady confession than a shady story. This is in 2021. I was dating my now husband at the time, although I still had a crush on this guy from my church group. I thought me and the church group guy had something going on, although he never made a move and my husband beat him to it. My husband and I had just started dating and

things were very steamy all the time if you know what I mean. We had recorded a dirty video one night and the very next day I had a church group meeting. So shameful, I know. The meeting was at Starbucks. As I arrived, I was greeting and hugging my friends around a table. I saw my church crush coming over to meet me as well. He was waiting his turn to hug me when I saw him make a weird face at me. I didn't realize that my phone had unlocked and the sexy video we made from the night before was playing. So as I was hugging my friends, my phone had the screen facing him basically at eye level. Once I looked down at my phone and made the connection between his expression and my bare ass on the screen, I quickly locked it and turned that bitch face down

on the table because I could definitely tell that he noticed. It was so embarrassing and the vibe was gone after that. I guess it turned out for the best. I married the guy in the steamy video and we're now expecting our first baby this summer. Although a little part of my brain still wonders if anything would have happened with the church guy if I wasn't such a whore. That's absolutely wild. That's so unfortunate. I did not expect that.

I didn't either when I was reading it i was like oh my gosh this is that's like worst case scenario though but also it makes me think of how every time i'm talking i'll like check my phone to make sure i'm not calling somebody yeah kind of thing yeah like if you have that video on your phone why are you having i don't know before you walk into right was she watching it in her car on her way to starbucks maybe she was seeing how she looked i don't know i mean i maybe close out the tab before you go into the place make sure everything's gone no but i'm always like that it's actually funny because i was telling you

one of our friends actually they weren't talking like shit or anything. They just accidentally left me a three minute voicemail of them telling a story. And it was I was in the story. So it was kind of funny, funny, but it wasn't anything bad, but it was just funny because what if it would have been and they left me this three minute voicemail and so after that especially I always check and make sure I'm not calling somebody like I don't need them hearing my conversation absolutely not no I've had people butt dial me before where you can kind of hear them talking and I will listen I will not hang up on that call because I want to know what's going on yeah they could be doing anything they could be at work i don't know i until i am determined if the like that is what's happened it is the stars have aligned and some piece of information that i need to hear is going to be said and i will not hang up the phone call i feel like i do the same thing gotta listen in we like want to do it we want to catch other people we do it but we don't want to catch other people we do it but

we don't want to be the people no no no if we were ever caught um nope not that we like we obviously don't say anything shady no i've never talked shit a day in my life i am not petty at all um all right we'll keep sending in your shady stories that's it for today's episode we'll see you in the next one bye everyone bye