just a little shady - Just Me Today... Let's Talk - Ep. 6

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast and also happy belated holidays. I am by myself today. If you are listening and not watching, you'd probably just think Britney was really quiet for some reason. But no, unfortunately, Brittany is not feeling good. And I even more unfortunately feel like she has what like everyone else I know has right now. Like everyone is just not doing well. I am selfishly hoping that whatever I had at the, the end of the first episode of this season, actually, when we were recording and I sounded like

absolute crap. I'm hoping that was what everyone has now so that I don't get it and I have immunity, but only time will tell. That's very selfish of me. But right now, I hope Brittany feels better. If you are watching this, I hope you feel better. But speaking of sick, we actually went to Cabo Mexico over New Year's Eve. It was kind of, it was for my 30th birthday, but it was also for like New Year's Eve trip. We've never done that before. So me and some friends went and I told you guys about my last experience there. So you might be thinking like, why would you do that again? Good question. Don't have an answer. I did not end up that sick from this trip. I did get the like little traveler's stomach thing that people get from going to other countries. But, But that happens to me all the time. And for some reason, before every trip, I usually either get sick while I'm there, get sick before, or get sick after because I get so stressed out about traveling, even though it's a lot of fun. I think, though, my whole thing is, when I say I love traveling, I actually don't love the traveling part. I like being stationary at the destination, but the actual physical traveling and the act of that is very stressful, which I'll get into what happened to me this trip.

But we went to Mexico. We stayed at, if you're interested, we stayed at an adult only all-inclusive. It was called LeBlanc. And honestly, you guys, when I say that it was some of the best food I've ever had, just people. period, but also being an all-inclusive, we could not help ourselves from eating about six meals a day because we could not get over how good it was and we wanted to try everything there. So, yeah, that was part of it. They also had very good cocktails.

And I started getting a drink, if anyone's also interested from the follow-up of like what to get at a wedding. I think I'm going to go to this from now on. it's called I was getting a cucumber Collins which it's the base drink is like a Tom Collins but you can put you can pick whatever you want as like the muddled fruit and I was getting a cucumber Collins they also do watermelon I don't know highly suggest and that's the other thing about this place I feel like when you go to all inclusives normally you don't get like craft cocktails no they were muddling fresh fruit they were everything was fresh delicious so highly recommend it if you're ever going to Cabo and looking for an all-inclusive that's adults only. But I will say, traveling is stressful, and I talked about traveling with a child now is stressful, but I don't think we've talked about or anyone has told me that traveling in general after you have kids will always be stressful because you're either with them and it's not very relaxing or they don't come. And you miss them so much and you can't relax also because that's how I felt this trip. I had so much fun, but it got to the point at the end of the trip where I was actually having so much anxiety and missing Elliot so much that we left a day early.

I wanted to feel better about it. So we called my mother-in-law who was with Elliot and she was like, I'm not, I'm like, start. to not feel that good and I was like that's it that's my intuition like I was right we need to go home now so we ended up leaving a day early which she ended up being fine but regardless that was um my cue and me and Evan booked it a day early and we left before our friends left and with that I didn't realize that that would cause so much more of a struggle for us at the airport because we before we even went through security, we had to get questioned. And I'm talking like the most ridiculous questions. Like I know they have to do it, but it was like, what were you doing here? And it was to the point where I was like, um, eating, drinking margaritas laying by the pool. Like, I didn't know what to say. And if I was a criminal, did the woman think I was going to say to her like, oh yeah, I was just doing illegal activities. Here, here they all are. Obviously not. So I was just like, oh, my.

my gosh, why are we doing this? So we do it the one time. Then we go through security. Then at the gate, they pull people for like swabbing and checking you again. So I got pulled for that and then got pulled again for the same questions over. So me and Evan were just looking at each other. We're like, oh my God, are they not going to let us go because they think we're sketchy because we moved our flights the last minute. Anyways, turns out they did let us go, but we at the gate in Mexico, I don't know if anyone's ever been to the Cabo airport, you have to like bus to the tarmac. So we waited at the gate and line. You go through that. Then you wait on the bus. Then you wait to get on the plane. Then you wait to get in your seats. And then we sat there for an hour. And I have never felt so

claustrophobic because you know when you're sitting there, the plane is still hot. like it doesn't get the cold air circulating so it starts getting a little toasty in there they weren't giving any updates which i don't know if this is a common theme when things are delayed like i have no problem i understand things happen and things get delayed that's not my issue the issue is just communicate with everybody how long it's going to be because if you're anything like me i can't start my like process until i'm in the air usually like I don't want to open my snacks. I don't want to start my movie.

Like, I want to know, like, okay, this is how much time we have left to go. I should start my movie now. I know these are like first world problems, but it was getting toasty. I was starting to freak out a little bit. Like, we weren't getting any updates. And I was like, oh, my gosh, are we going to be delayed for real? And we had obviously just moved our flight to be earlier. So I'm like, oh, my gosh, was it not even worth it?

Like, are we going to make it home before? They make it home tomorrow. but we ended up making it safe and sound i will say though too i talked about this when we traveled with elliot that like if you are traveling with parents and the baby starts crying i promise the parents are the most stressed out i guess not in this case because there was an older woman when we landed there was a baby like a little bit older than elliott probably like a month or two who started crying which he was just saying i was just saying out loud what we were all thinking because we sat there for another 40 minutes.

And so I was like, good. Tell them how we are mad. And so he started crying. And this older woman who truthfully looked like she maybe couldn't even probably hear that well anyways, looks at the mom, stands up in the aisle, starts death staring at the mom with the crying baby, starts shaking her head in disappointment and put in earplugs to where the mom could see her. She was basically making eye contact with her.

My blood was boiling. And I think truly, the only reason I didn't turn into a Karen worse than she was caroning was because she had earplugs in. So she wouldn't have heard me anyways. I wasn't close enough. But like, I swear, I do not understand people and in their problems. Like, traveling's hard enough as it is. Don't be rude. You know what I mean?

Anyways, speaking of New Year's Eve travel as well, apparently everybody was partying in St. Bart's. and we weren't invited. No, but I don't know if this is a thing every year. I feel like I don't really remember seeing this before, but I think so far on this podcast, we have successfully not talked about, I guess not successfully because it wasn't really a goal, but we've never somehow talked about Alex Earle,

who was like the TikTok influencer who went on dancing with the stars and was huge on TikTok. Somehow we've never brought her up, but we have reached the point, if you get involved with our guy, Tom Brady, we obviously have to talk about it now. So Tom Brady is 48 and apparently was hooking up with Alex Earl in St. Bart's and she's 25. So this was a big deal. Also, they're both obviously.

Everyone knows who they are. And so I, in my opinion, this is what I think. I personally think that Giselle recently, which is Tom Brady's ex-wife, got remarried to the Jiu-Jitsu instructor who was allegedly not an overlapping relationship when she was getting divorced from Tom, but a lot of people did speculate that. And anyway, she just got married to him and it hit the headlines like mid-December, probably December 20th-ish. So like not even a week later, Tom's making headlines for hooking up with like a huge young influencer.

I don't think that's a coincidence. But maybe I'm wrong because apparently also there were theories that in college, when Alex Earle was in college a couple years ago before she was dating her ex, now ex, she mentioned on Jake Shane's podcast that she was dating somebody 23 years older than her, which aligns with the Tom Brady age difference. So it could have been a real thing before, and maybe they are rekindling, but I think the timing of Giselle getting remarried and that getting announced kind of looks a little sketchy. I really don't even know how to feel about this in general.

I don't think it's going to be like an actual relationship. If it was, on one hand, she's newly single and 25 years old, so you do you. But on the other hand, because we have to be critical of Tom Brady here, that's what we do on this podcast. She could easily be his oldest child. His oldest child right now is 18 and then 16 and 12. So she really could fit right in with that being the oldest child. So I don't know. I see both sides.

I don't think it's going to be a real relationship, but we'll see, I guess. And speaking of Tom and his new fleeing in St. Bartz, right next to his yacht was another yacht and a lot of other yachts with probably everybody that was at the Critics Choice Awards. And the Critics Choice Awards happened this past weekend. People were freaking out that good old Tammy Chalameh in his acceptance speech thanked Kylie Jenner. He didn't call her out by name, but he thanked his partner of three years and thanked her for their good foundation. And people started freaking out, you know, was he implying that they have a good foundation

for building a future together and maybe that future is marriage? So people started implying a lot of things by that. A lot of people also liked that he didn't name drop her specifically because they were like, they don't see, he doesn't see her as Kylie Jenner. You know, he sees her as like the person that he knows her to be and thought that that was way more thoughtful. I kind of agree with that. I like that.

She mouthed, I love you back to him. So it was a whole cute moment. I have a lot more to say about the Critics Choice Awards, though, and like a lot of the stuff that went down, what people wore, all that good stuff in the Patreon bonus content. So if you want to see that, this week I will be going over red carpet looks and some info about the Critics Choice Awards. But before we get into shady stories or anything, I need to talk about football because obviously, but I know you are all on the edge of your seat to hear what happened in my fantasy football league. You're probably not. But listen, I was the underdog.

We talked about this. Everyone loves a good underdog story. I had like five losses in the beginning. And in a crazy turn of events, you guys, I won my league. Like so undeserved. And truly, like, the last game was over the holidays. And I was not paying attention at all. I was like fully locked in on holidays, getting ready to go on this little trip.

And I just was not watching. And the person that I was playing against, shout out Sophie. She was fully locked in, making her. trades up until the last second, like totally doing her thing, deserved it, and I won. So whatever, I don't know how that happened, but in more football news that you actually might care about, the Lions won their last game. And they had such a weird season. They had the opposite season I had in my fantasy league.

They were on a winning streak and then went on a losing streak. And they ended the season at 9-8 without making the playoffs, which is fine. because as we say every season, they'll get them next season. But I think worse than all of that, who had a worse time than any of us was the Ravens because they won't be making the playoffs either. But the internet is currently coming together as a collective to the defense of the Ravens kicker, Tyler Loop, because he missed the season-ending field goal. and the Ravens lost the AFC North Division to the Steelers.

And apparently this was a very big deal because, one, he was very upset and people were like, don't bully him. He is not the only person on the team. But two, this was a very rare circumstance where not only was it the game winning kick in the final seconds, but also the fate of both teams to get into the playoffs. So it was a very rare circumstance. and people were blaming him because obviously he could have won it all, but it takes a whole game to win or lose.

So I don't blame him. But you know who I might actually blame a singular person? Apparently, the Steelers brought in a local priest to bless the field for their game. And that end zone that the priest blessed is the end zone that Tyler Loop missed the the winning field goal in. And so I didn't even think priests could pick sides like that. But I'm starting to think that could have had something to do with it. And that's where it all went wrong for him.

So it's low-key, kind of shady of the priest. But speaking of shady, let's get into this week's shady stories. Starting with shady story number one. So this is maybe more of like an eye. Am I the asshole story? But my daughter got me into this podcast and we listened together now, and people on Reddit are weird. My husband and I have now been married for 24 years, 11111, because I'm the blueprint for a basic white girl, apparently. We had five beautiful, healthy children, and we felt like we got so lucky. Our youngest was born in 2009 as well, so they got to be pretty

close in age, and they're all really close emotionally, which again just adds to that blessed feeling. My husband's youngest brother and his new wife have recently got married. It's a second marriage for both of them. And a few weeks after their wedding, we found out that the baby factory wasn't quite as closed as we thought it was. And now we're expecting a baby in May. We're excited and she seems to be healthy based on all accounts. But I had given away everything over the years. And in some ways, I feel almost like a new mom again because so much has changed.

Not to mention coming to grips with the fact that instead of looking forward, to being grandparents or something like that, we're going back to sleepless nights and diapers in our 40s. Our family is being supportive and they've even planned to shower and have really tried to make this a fun experience, except my new sister-in-law. She and my brother-in-law are not going to have more kids. He and his ex-wife were done, and he got the snip, plus his new wife got her tubes tied after her youngest was born. At Christmas brunch, she flipped out on me, calling me stupid and selfish for getting pregnant when I was supposed to know how hard it was for her to watch someone else have a baby when she can't, which I didn't even know they wanted a baby, by the way.

My oldest daughter says she's just being a bitch, and my husband pointed out that it's not like we planned on getting pregnant with another baby, but now I keep finding myself canceling family baby events. We have a tradition where the men and the family come and help set up the nursery, while women make the freezer meals. But because I get overwhelmed, we break it into three. days a few months apart and i just canceled the most recent one and i kind of want to cancel the shower and my family gender revealed to keep the peace my husband is the king of f them kingdom and wants to just do whatever we want but i don't want to cause riffs because we've had such a wonderful support in family environment for our oldest kids that i want this baby to come into the world with the same love and support

my daughter wanted me to add that of all of our kids are fine with the pregnancy outside of it being gross that we're still having sex. First of all, congratulations. Growing a baby is a miracle. And I feel like sometimes we just get exactly what we need at the right times in our lives. And this is probably going to be that for you. So congratulations. And again, I understand how this could be like triggering for somebody if that was the case. Obviously you didn't know that in this scenario so like that is not on you but also it's kind of giving like bean soup theory in real life i feel like millennials are probably googling that right now um it's just basically taking things that people see or like here that aren't about them and making it about them when it's not

the first time this happened online supposedly is when a vegan creator was creating like a bean soup recipe and then people were in the comments being like i don't like beans can is there a different recipe and it's like this isn't for you like this isn't about you um and so basically that's kind of like giving those vibes so hopefully don't cancel your stuff you should still enjoy your moment and your life um and yeah congratulations shady story number two so me and my friends went on a school trip to canada to catch the bus we had to be at school at 4.30 a.m. One of our mates was running late, and as he's walking away from his mom's car with his suitcase, she chases him with a bag full of red apples. We're all taking the piss because it's a ridiculous thing to forget, and he gets properly annoyed, he doesn't like apples, and it was his mom's idea.

Fast forward, we're on the plane, and the customs announcement comes on telling us that you must declare any foreign farm products in the airport when we land. Everyone's shattered, and my friend clicks no, as he's never read it. Of course, customs finds the apples and asks him, is that his suitcase? I jokingly say, well, if there's apples in there, then yeah. And we confirm it is his suitcase. They pulled him aside for questioning and warned him he could be deported over apples. Thankfully, they let him stay, probably because it was innocent and we were all losing it laughing. But the apples almost got him sent back to the UK.

I had to put this one in here because when we were going to Mexico, they came over the announcement. with the customs announcement. And for some reason, the pilot really, like, was reiterating. Like, if you have any prescription drugs, like, you know, fill out the form properly, which I didn't even realize was on there, I guess. And when we got there and landed, like, one of our friends in our group was panicking because they were like, oh, my gosh, I put yes, because I have birth control. And I was like, I don't think that's what they mean by that.

So then we were, like, kind of debating and we're like, dude, you should have put no because now they're going to like pull you aside and flag you and think you have like actual drugs when you just have birth control so I don't think that's what they mean but yeah we were also worried that we were going to be deported back home for birth control I guess um okay shady story number three to top it all off I have some holiday drama My partner and I decided to spend the holidays at a ski resort with my cousin and her boyfriend. We've traveled with my cousin many times before, but this was the first time meeting her boyfriend. She's been dating for about a year, although we only officially knew about him two months ago. At first he seemed lovely, polite, friendly, sociable, but after two days, my partner and I realized something was off.

We somehow survived two full weeks with them, and honestly, I still don't know how. The biggest issue was that I couldn't spend any real time talking to my cousin. We live in different countries, so I was really looking forward to catching up. But every time I tried to talk to her, he would interrupt, join in, or even answer questions for her. At one point we were talking about skin care and he jumped into the conversation listing the face masks he knows she uses. It was bizarre. On top of that, there was constant physical affection, kissing all the time, very clingy behavior, and things that made everyone else uncomfortable.

You could tell my cousin wasn't always at ease, but she's the kind of person who avoids confrontation in public. The cherry on top was when he repeatedly talked about how he can't wait to have children with her, even in front of extended family. She was visibly embarrassed. And later, my partner told me that this guy had mentioned knowing exactly how much money my cousin and her siblings would inherit one day. Then I genuinely got worried. The holiday was fun on one side. Snow, skiing, laughs. But on the other, it felt unsettling.

Even now, I don't know whether I should talk to my cousin about my concerns or stay silent. You should tell your cousin your concerns. It sounds like this guy is classic love bombing, but also like maybe with a twist of that he wants her inheritance. So I feel like that's a no. Also, I don't know why. and maybe there's something wrong with me, I don't know. But I always feel like people who are overly affectionate in public are like overcompensating for something.

We've talked about before like when people post huge social media posts about their partner and you're like, what are you up to? Why are you overcompensating online? This is the same vibe to me when people are super physical in public. I'm like, what are you showing that for? I don't know. It just feels like there's something toxic going on there. And we don't tolerate toxic.

So I hope that you can convince her to run while she's ahead. And speaking of run, I'm also going to get running. I am running over to the Patreon bonus content to film that for you guys. Also, thank you for submitting all your shady stories this week. I cannot wait to get to them. But for now, that's all. And I'll see you guys the next one. Bye, everyone.