just a little shady - SO MANY THINGS ARE GOING WRONG | Ep. 36

Episode Date: April 21, 2023

Getting into all things disasters and difficulties including: how seeing the first shred of sunlight this spring derailed our healthy habits & turned my household into a outdoor renovation mess, how Taylor Swift’s persevering in her current battles- on & off stage, all the issues that Coachella weekend 1 brought us, the never-ending Love is Blind drama & how bankruptcy is wreaking havoc on some of the most nostalgic stores. All before reading this week’s shady stories that lead Brittany to spill a juicy one of her own! Join our Patreon for ad free content, bonus content & more: https://www.patreon.com/justalittleshadypodcast Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/wntAePFeWhtfda7u7 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. You know, a lot went down this week because over here in good old Michigan, we got our first real warm weather of the year. And with that, of course, we left our houses and we're actually out and about doing activities that we can now share with the class. Starting with, you know, the first shred of sunlight that happened, I decided I needed to renovate the whole backyard. I started power washing things. I started ordering, you know, new rugs for the deck. just got wild and one of the first things I did also was you know I decided that you don't need a pool or a body of water in order to get a pool lounge chair no like why would you need that can we normalize just buying pool lounge chairs without having a

pool I think you can because I think you did well so I think you did. Well, so I went full, you know, full all out. I, I order six, not one, not two specific, six pool lounge chairs from Walmart for all our friends. And I'm thinking, I honestly don't know what I was thinking six, like that's, that's absurd. But you know, I thought, well well we'll put them all along the along the lawn what do you mean all I don't know I was like it'll be so nice we'll get umbrellas yeah line them up I don't know so I order six lounge chairs and also in my head I'm like there's a Walmart somewhere nearby so if I need to return them it's not gonna be a problem problem well I was wrong so firstly I have Evan put together one chair and it was a difficult task we've built a lot of furniture including

everything in this studio that that is true we're pretty good at it at this point however this one was extremely difficult for whatever reason interesting so he takes like two hours he gets this chair together and i look at it and i'm like i actually don't like it he's like what i'm like yeah i'm sorry i think we need to return all of them so and i've also been on top of my return game lately you You have. Like if something, if I don't like it, it's going back. I'm not going to just keep it until I, you know, that expires. So I decided we're going to take these six chairs back. We load them up. By the way, this was the day that it was like 90 degrees out. It was very hot. So we load them all up. drive to walmart and we're thinking there's going to be some type of pull-up area that you can unload things if you have a lot not quite we also asked

inside like do you guys have anything like we could load these all on because they're huge boxes they point to like this little cart thing they're like you can take that thank you so we go out to the parking lot beating down the sun is just like we're sweating we load all six of the chairs or five because we had the one we had to carry separate onto this little cart ambitious evan straps him in with like a strap too he brought he brought his own we were we were prepared oh yeah so we go to go inside they don't fit in the door so it's too tall so we're like oh my god so i go back inside and i'm like excuse me is there like another entrance for deliveries that maybe we could roll this through because we've already got it all strapped in she's like no sorry you need to lay them down flat we had to take every single one back off reload it back on again 90 degrees we're sweating

all these employees are just watching us too like people were like and we were right in the way of the door and we like tried to move out of the way but it's they were heavy so we're like just in the people are just walking past us, watching us struggle. That's so unfortunate. We did do it, though. And finally, at the end, once we got them all in, the employees were like, oh my god, you got them in. Good job.

I'm like, thank you. I'm literally sweating. Yeah, what? Thanks a lot. So that was a disaster. And so I recommend that if you are going to be like us and get a lounger, even though you don't have a body of water, don't get six at one time. Maybe get, maybe get two. See how it goes. Start small. Yeah. So I'm still, I'm still working on that project though. You also

sent me, I don't know if any of you guys have seen this but it's like the DIY stock tank pool that went viral I guess this happened like last summer a couple summers ago and so I never seen it you sent me it and of course this gets added to my list immediately because again there's just my whole yard needs to just change because I saw one shred of sunlight. So I also decided that I want to do that too. I love this. Which is a whole nother project. Or I could just get like a blow up pool. I feel like people are doing that now too.

Yeah. Those are kind of fun. They have really cute ones too. Yeah. I've seen. Yeah. I just, you know,

what's crazy for some reason, like I'm totally down to get a pool one day, but for some reason, the little pools, I'm like, are the dogs going to get in there and drown somehow? In the blow up pool? Yeah. I don't know. Or like if they go in there and like pop it, it could be a disaster too. I mean, if they pop it, the water just goes onto the grass.

Yes, but that's just one scenario. Then the next scenario is what if they drown? I'm pretty sure the water is shorter than them not little lottie that's like my worst year out there no um so yeah that's that's what's held me back but i think we should try it this year also i think evan will be really upset because he prides himself in the grass looking good. Ooh. And, you know, if the grass dies underneath, I'm never going to hear the end of it. But I also didn't even tell you this, but he wants to be like a lot like he wants to

lawnmow our lawn. Yes. Like we usually have a company do it. Uh-huh. He wants to be in charge this year. Good. He's been researching lawn mowers like no other research yes yes i'm like really but that was like also i think his little first shred of sunlight and he's like i'm gonna mow the lawn this year like oh okay inspired i'm gonna

renovate the backyard see you out there perfect timing but that was also both of us went out there and picked up sticks in the yard oh yeah you were saying by your day i'm like what are we doing we're just out here collecting sticks and the thing i'm like if somebody saw us right now i'll be like are you okay it was tedious i got sore yeah that's what you're saying whatever what a time i was excited for it to be nice out um and then of course it literally snowed but it's fine um the whole deck that i power washed is now disgusting where it was no it's worse perfect but um yeah we also took advantage of the nice weather and we went to a tigers game yay which again like i just feel like

we're gonna be doing that a lot like it's just something to do i know they are fun i don't know i love a baseball game not that i've ever didn't watch it i didn't watch an ounce of it but the the ambience the atmosphere is just something you want to be a part of i was saying too before i went to the game i go it's kind of like you know like we're not buying a ticket to the game we're buying a ticket to like like you said you said what did i call it the club the entrance fee yeah it's like the entrance fee to get to like a cool club we've done that before too where you like walk up to the thing and you're like can i get the cheapest ticket yeah and they're like these people like they know why we're there yeah

we're just there to hang out on on the porch and not watch no yeah but honestly it was so hot out that day that we stayed under the shade it was almost too hot you couldn't even enjoy it and then it literally snowed whatever um but you know every time we go to a sporting event or even a concert downtown yeah sometimes we end up at a bar with live music and when we got there we realized this girl like walked in and I was eavesdropping and she started freaking out and she was like oh my god like she must have knew whoever was playing in the band convinced it was her ex-boyfriend really i'm yeah i don't think the reaction was like i mean maybe they left on good terms but it wasn't really negative at all it was

just like oh my god oh my god and that's how i would react if i saw my ex-boyfriend in a band but then she was like up there dancing yeah she was trying to be like oh my god um my life is better now yeah I don't know about that so then we were kind of talking we're like what would you do if we came in here and you know how there was like always that one group of kids in high school that like had a band yeah what would you do if it was them I don't know maybe the same thing that girl did maybe like oh my god it's them they made part of me feels like it depends like on the level of drunkness at the time like on one hand I could see us going up there and be like oh my god we know you and then like on the other hand us just being like we might have to go now I could see it going either way, but like I've been social lately.

Like when we were at the bar, there was like somebody from like college that I had friends in the same friend group. Like I would consider us friends, acquaintances, but like haven't spoke to since college. And I just went up to him. I was like, hey hey how's it going my friends are going to a bar after this if you and your girlfriend what i just assumed the girl that he was with was his girlfriend if you guys want to join us and have fun he was like uh no and i was like great see you see ya um yeah we have kind of been social well speaking of being social so we're in the bathroom at

this said bar i was so and britney is you know eavesdropping like not discreetly at all not discreet my jaw was physically dropping as i was hearing what the occurrences were they were just there was these girls in there there was three girls they were talking about like one of the girls boyfriends was being like sketchy and whatever and britney's listening and she's like literally and i was like i'm like looking at her like what are you doing let's go and the girls notice britney eavesdropping and they're like oh my god can you um actually go up to this guy he's wearing this yes described his whole outfit and we're like will you see if he'll cheat on his girlfriend with you and like the girl's right there and she's like she was a little devastated her friends were like no you need to do this like this is him like you can do it and i was like um well I don't think my boyfriend would like that very much

so it's a no from me but good luck and then they looked at me and I'm like yeah I'm engaged so and then they were like oh my god you are I'm like yeah we just kind of removed ourselves from the situation but I was so shook because I've seen that online with girls having other girls message their boy yeah like on social media and see if they respond these girls were trying to enlist us to do it in real life for their friend like in their that wasn't there the friend was like um i we just bought a house together and i was like oh it was bad i was like yeah this isn't a good idea we're gonna go um but I think overall this theme of this last week that I realized at least there was a theme yeah well I don't know just the way I felt at the end of the week it is gonna be and it is already so much

harder to be healthy and like have good habits when it's nice out. Like to not want to go drink on a patio. My favorite pastime, we had a prompt at work, a little icebreaker, if you will, that was what was your favorite summer pastime? And I literally wrote drinking on a patio. Yeah. I mean, it just makes it so difficult. Like we've been talking about like, oh, we're going to cook at home.

We're going to, you know, start eating greens and lettuces. Go on walks. And go on walks and not drink so much. And then, like, the first nice day happened, and I was like. It all went out the window really quick. What patio? How many beers? Like, relax.

So, but also part of our little our little healthy you know we're trying to encourage each other we're being accountability buddies that's what we say and then we're not that good at it but I mean if we go down we go down together that's exactly how it is but you know one thing that really stuck out to me this past week that you you brought up and you said and it just really got me thinking so you know, one thing that really stuck out to me this past week that you you brought up and you said, and it just really got me thinking. So, you know, Brittany goes, oh, yeah, I'm reading a book. And I was like, I am reading a book. You are not reading a book. I go, no, you're not.

She goes, yes, I am. She starts telling me all about it. I go, what do you mean you're reading it? Oh, yeah. I said I said I will talk about this book to anyone that will listen. Yeah. And I go, what do you mean I'm like no I'm sorry you're not because let me say this you I know you can't read a book because

not because you can't read but because you're the kind of person that needs 25 things happening at the same time so there's no way you're sitting on a couch. You need the YouTube on, the TV on. We've talked about this, that I have like five different things going on. And so I'm like, to see you sit down and physically hold a book, I'm like, it's just not happening. And then the truth comes out. And Brittany says to me, well, actually, I'm listening on an audio book. Yeah. And I just got to thinking, you know, people who avidly read, how do they feel when people who listen to audio books describe it as I'm reading a book? I feel as if they feel strongly that I am in fact not reading the book. But I mean,

I comprehended everything that was happening I can't I wish I had the time and the luxury to just sit down and read a physical book but every time I'm listening to my book I'm driving I'm working I'm cleaning doing laundry I got a multitask well it's like the same thing for a podcast a lot of people just put it on and do other stuff. And that's why they're like, so great for that. But you cannot say I'm reading this book. I feel like people, I saw it. What made me even think about it too, was I saw a TikTok of this guy being like, I will assassinate you if you say you're reading a book but you're really listening to a book and I won't read your obituary and I was like that's fine that's deep it seems like they're pretty passionate about it yeah I feel um like I've been called out and targeted a lot on TikTok because I just feel like everything I scroll past I'm like this feels like an attack but you know what props to you though for even listening

to a book because I can't tell you the last time I listened to an audiobook which this was literally when you used to have to buy the cds by the way oh really because my mom I want to say it was like all the twilight books yeah when they first came out in the car, we would listen to the CDs. So if we went on like road trips or we like were driving to school or anything. So that was like the last time I ever listened to it. And I loved it, but that was like a way different time. That was literally like CDs. That's crazy. No, I've listened to now four. I just finished the last book that I listened to yesterday. I've been on Hunger Games kick. So which those I did read back when they came out,

but I re-listened to them all in audio book. And then I listened to the prequel. It's very good. See, I never read the books, but obviously I saw the movies. And I, we've been talking about it too, because you said that the new movie, that's the prequel is about to come out. November.

I'm very excited. Yeah. I is about to come out. November. I'm very excited. Yeah, I'm excited to see that. Yeah. I got to be honest. I probably won't listen to. That's OK. I won't spoil it for you. I spoiled it for Brian.

I keep telling him about it. And he's like, I don't want spoilers. I'm like, but I have to talk to somebody about that. Yeah, you were trying to tell me about it. I'm like, it's so good. I got so caught up in the fact that you tried to tell me you're reading. And I was like, I have to get to the bottom of this immediately this is no chance not the case um but let's let's get away from our own downfalls and get into all the stuff that has been going on

this past week starting with a little bit more of the Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn drama breakup. Yeah. It's all speculation right now, kind of. It is speculation because Joe has now been spotted. He was included on Emma Layard. I think I'm saying that correctly. Maybe not. She's a Scottish actress.

They are both working on a film together. They are on the set of Brutalish. She included a photo of him on a scooter in a Carousel Instagram post, and the Swifties went wild. They, I think, were attacking her a bit. Oh, never mind. In the comments. Take it back.

Yeah, and then there was also, you swifties that were saying you know i do not condone this i don't support these swifties in this comment section to the point where emma then had to you know remove comments from the photo carousel she didn't take the carousel down she could have deleted the photo of joe alwyn that had everyone so she deleted comments from she just turned all comments off for the post oh so no more speculation can be had so it's interesting i'm sure time will tell how we feel about it so i did see rumors and like tiktoks about people speculating that they said that the reason that they broke up was because he was about to go do this movie she was about to go to tour and so they were like let's take this time to like reassess the relationship we're gonna be apart for a long time and then supposedly Taylor didn't

realize that he was gonna be like totally fine with it like she thought he was gonna be like oh never mind I miss you and supposedly that's not what happened so either way though if you're filming a movie together you're going to be in photos together so like right it doesn't necessarily mean that the two are together although the Swifties are implying that some other things I've been seeing is everyone's saying you know Joe, I want to be private. He's such a private person. Yet he let this Emma girl post a post a picture of him. Just seems a little sketchy, a little weird timing.

So I guess we'll see how that unfolds. I mean, definitely. I don't think I'd be happy if I was Taylor to see that regardless. I'd be pissed. Yeah. But still, it was just not a good week for her, though, altogether. No. Because I was seeing, I honestly felt bad, but she handles things so well when she's

performing. Like, whenever there's malfunctions, she is, like, on top of it. Like, immediately knows how to respond and, like. A true professional. Yeah. Well well you have to think too you're she has so many shows in such long performances you are bound to mess up yes every show's not gonna go yeah perfectly as planned but the one um the show that she had in Tampa she got the opener wrong.

So she said like, oh, everybody make some noise for Gracie. And it was actually Gail that opened. Because on her tour, she's having different artists, depending on where the location is. So different openers for each show. So she thought it was Gracie, but it was Gail. And then the mic pack got unplugged so she couldn't hear so she had to wait and have somebody come out um and then she messed up the words to speak now which you said that she's kind of she's changing the songs each time too yes so at each show she's been doing

two surprise songs and she made a comment at her very first show for the heiress tour that she would only sing a song one time for the surprise songs unless she messed it up so she threw in that little caveat and there's been a few songs where she's messed up lyrics minorly and people are speculating that she may be doing that on purpose because she wants to perform them again yes because she wants to report or like re-perform the songs that kind of makes sense um and then the the infamous dive into the stage got timed wrong so she like was gonna dive and the thing wasn't there and so she had to wait for it to come back but again like every single one of these scenarios I was like damn that I could just never I feel

like if I did one thing like I remember in dance when we used to dance and like you get one move wrong and if it like goes to your head yeah like your whole routine is thrown off so I can't imagine being up there for three hours, messing up that many times, but then like being able to right away, like correct it. Yeah. I would be so in my head about like the first thing that if like a second thing happened, I'd be like, shows off. Yep. Call it. We're done. Tell him I missed the dive. Oh gosh. Cause on the subject of that actually um you know a lot of things went wrong at Coachella this year Coachella was interesting this year it's so confusing to me because for some reason with other festivals I feel like we see so much of the actual festival and with Coachella it's

always like you see some pictures there, but everything is like, get ready with me before. This is what I'm wearing. This is where I'm staying. And then like you see the after of like, oh, I'm so hungover. It was such a crazy time. Yeah. Like nobody sees like the crazy time or like the festival.

So you're like, what goes on in there? Like, I truly want to know. It does feel like a mystery what actually happens at Coachella because I feel like so much of the time people spend at the at Coachella is to your point the before the after I don't I don't even believe that some of these influencers make it to any sense well we saw a tiktok of a girl literally being like i'm getting ready and getting dressed and taking pictures and pretending i'm going today but i'm actually not going today people are up in arms yeah and i feel like that's just so stressed like it's crazy because i think why we can't fathom it because we obviously love like Lala every single year, but the point is to like, we love the music.

We love being there. We love like, if you're just doing it for like, I don't picture like go to a desert on a different, go on a trip. Like don't go to a parking garage. People get great pictures there. That's, I do find that interesting that people just don't even seem interested in the

music yeah they don't even want to go to the festival they're like oh that's just part of this but like I have to get ready and get dressed and get these pictures and then like the festival just like one thing they're tucking off their list but like that's the reason we do all the other stuff right usually I know I feel like at for us, when we go to something like Lala, the before and after is so minuscule, but our time there, we want to maximize how many sets we can see, make sure we get there.

Like, I mean, half the time we don't even get photos because we're so busy. Like we need to see this artist. I don't care for late. Like, I don't care if your hair is ready like let's go kind of thing yeah it's just like a it's such a different world I

think it is and that's why too like I've never went I've never even considered going so I'm like I don't I don't know if I would like that environment of like not feeling like everyone's into the music I don't know if it is like that I'm sure there are a lot of people that go that really do just want to go for the music. But what we see is the influencers and like the other people going. And it's like, I don't get it. Like what's going on? But we had a lot of people go just like always. And, you know, the interesting thing was this year, we obviously had a lot of fashion.

And that's kind of, I think, what did make Coachella so popular at first. The fashion of it all. Was the fashion of it all. And we're going to talk about it in the Patreon bonus content this week. So we're going to go through some outfits and talk about some trends that were going on. But it was interesting because this year, so celebrities kind of set the precedent for Coachella fashion. It was like they would go, they would wear these crazy outfits and everyone would be like, oh my God, I want to go do that too. But now since there's so many influencers going and doing that, celebrities are kind of wearing not crazy outfits

and kind of dressing really casually to set themselves apart from the influencers. So it's kind of like a total uno reverse of like, it really is because they started the fashion and now they're like, no more of that. We are above that. Yeah. We don't have to do that. Yeah. I don't know. So interesting to me. Very interesting. But yeah, we're reviewing the looks on the Patreon bonus episode. And, you know, with that, we obviously had a lot of performances. One being Bad Bunny, which Kendall did go to see. Although Bad Bunny did recently at a concert say that he was not dating her. That's very interesting.

But she was there. And what else? Bad Bunny brought out Post Malone to do like a collab, you know, perform together. And supposedly there was a lot of technical difficulties going on, which this was not the only show that was having issues, but they were having technical difficulties. So they were trying to get post Malone to like get off the stage so they could like figure out what was going on and some fans thought that Bad Bunny was like kicking him off the stage and people got pissed but really I guess it was just

like technical yeah tech issues and then a lot of people were going off on Twitter being like whoever is in charge of this needs to be fired like so many people you know pay so much money to go to Coachella and that was kind of the same precedent and problem with Frank Ocean's set so everybody was like so excited to see Frank Ocean was performing yeah people were camping out like outside of the gates to be able to get in to have good spots specifically for frank ocean yeah and so you know he hadn't performed in a long time and people were thinking like maybe he's not gonna do it is he gonna do it and then you know he is set to do it so everybody goes camps out and then not only was it an hour late which the rumors behind that were there was supposed to

be some big ice rink performance with like ice skaters and he decided that he didn't want that anymore so last minute they had to melt the ice stage and that's what took an hour that's such an extreme change very Very extreme. And then also on top of that, supposedly people were saying he was lip syncing and also backstage for a lot of the performances. So I've seen this happen like a couple times where an artist will have to like fix their mic pack or like something's going wrong. So they like go to the side of the stage, but they continue performing and you can't see them for a second but never like multiple songs in a row but it sounded like that's what was going on in this situation so it definitely was not looking too

good and then he actually ended up canceling the second weekend yeah he's not going to be there for weekend two due to a quote-unquote leg injury that happened during the week leading up to weekend one of coachella so i guess it's going to be interesting to see people who saw him perform was he injured like because he would have been injured i know they barely saw him i guess that's a good point i guess we'll never know it's just sounds like there could have been injured. I mean, they might not know. They barely saw him. I guess that's a good point. I guess we'll never know. It just sounds like there could have been so many better reasons. It sounds like the biggest excuse to not have to show up. When you beg your parents to not go to school

so you don't have to take a test that you didn't study for and you pretend to be sick, that's what I feel like is going on here. But it's so obvious that it's almost like insulting. It's like, just like say the truth. Things didn't go well. Yeah, like I don't wanna, I'm not doing it again. Like maybe it's something like contractually that he was obligated to do it

unless like stipulation, injury he like and it was a loophole down in the on the desert i mean yeah i can't anymore no it's like this bunch of my leg my leg my leg um seriously like i don't i can't imagine what the situation was like if he obviously if he's really injured like that's not funny not funny. But hopefully he's not. And hopefully this is just the excuse. Yeah. I can't imagine that if he really had a broken leg, he was performing immediately after the first show. I mean, I've seen artists perform with broken legs, so I don't understand. Oh, well, we've also seen artists perform past curfew, which was something he refused to do.

And people were not too happy about that because his set only ended up being like 30 minutes since it was late. And then curfew was, you know, whatever time it was. So we actually just saw Macklemore was performing and he was like, it's going to cost me $10,000 every one per minute. Yeah. Every one minute that we go over curfew and so at the end of it they went over four minutes so he was like i lost forty thousand dollars physically in the crowd like

crowd surfing having a good old time it looked so hype it now makes me want to go to like a mclemore concert if he ever comes to Detroit. Oh my gosh. It would be so fun. The first Macklemore album, I was obsessed. I could, I could. Yes. I could rap every single thing on that thing. That's incredible.

Well, we got to go if he's coming. Yeah. I mean, I would have, I would have loved to before I saw him crowd surfing for $40,000. But yeah, no. What a guy. No, I know. It seems really fun. Um, but I feel like every time when you're in that situation, yes, it sucks. And like, you don't want to be in that situation, but as an artist, I feel like it's so beneficial and your fans appreciate it so much that it's just like, even a question i feel like most artists do are like just let's go over a couple minutes it's fine well and my thought is how strict of a curfew is this

like at lala i get it because it's the the festival's in the middle of the city everyone can hear what's going on but from my understanding coachella happens in a desert in almost the middle of nowhere so how strict are these curfews right like who's coming out there being like oh that was 30 seconds past yeah especially with how late he was I don't know just the whole thing doesn't sit right with me yeah it seems like people were just mainly disappointed because again like these people were camping out they were so excited and like even when we've missed an artist because we were late ourselves like it's so disappointing I can't even imagine like actually being there camping out and then being like oh well I'd be

sad here's 30 minutes and like also you don't get to see him and also the set wasn't great yeah i don't know um hopefully though i don't know who i can't remember now who the headliners are for lala but hopefully things go a little bit more smoothly when we go oh yeah oh yeah no there was good ones there was like a lot of good ones i just can't think right now no there are a ton of good ones i can't you can't think either okay perfect my brain's running on e what what else even happened so that was all the coachella stuff you know it was interesting this year because i feel like last year it was all about Revolve Fest like Revolve

Fest gate like everyone was complaining about like frying out there not having water all this stuff and it was quiet this year and I didn't hear a single peep about Revolve Fest and it happened they still had Revolve Fest with actually you know what I did see there was i'm 99 sure it was at revolve fest lewis the child was performing and nobody was there because all of the influence because lewis the child themselves they posted it to tiktok they were like nobody was there because they were all taking pictures that is that's exactly what we're talking about i could never imagine but also they're going to lala so like we'll be there we will absolutely be there their set's gonna be hype i've seen them at electric forest so good so good i'm excited for that but yeah it was so weird it

was like all revolved last year and then it was like nothing this year and then i feel like the theme this year though was everybody was in like houses or like little villas and we're talking about like oh we're going back to our villas or like we're going back to our houses or yeah i didn't even know that was out there you didn't know that they had villas and houses out there no i thought it was like the desert and there was like one hotel no some um a lot of brands take over houses but i feel like this year was the most prominent where there was like camps and yeah that's what i mean like compounds like that's kind of what i feel like i never heard about that before it was a really big thing this year it was it was interesting

i don't know i just feel like last year i felt like i was physically there at coachella and this year i felt super removed from it yeah it's definitely one of those things that's kind of i think it's losing its like hype it's losing its touch for sure yeah i feel like it peaked i mean they had like beyonce a couple of years back and that was a huge deal. Yes. And I feel like since then, I mean, last year, Harry Styles headlined. That was cool. They still had some good headliners this year. It's like they have good artists, but I think it's just weird for everybody because it seems like the people who are attending don't even really care. And you're like, I feel like're like give us those like big headliners because we care i feel like people because i mean there's people

leaving early that you mentioned earlier they're just coming for a picture and then dipping out and then you also have influencers that are just seem like they're complaining that they're there they're like yeah i don't even want to be here and just like blatantly and some people will react and be like oh you are so real for that like that you're great and it's like what why did you even go in the first place i don't know i guess you don't know till you know anybody who's anybody is there oh are they and that's why we weren't there yeah because we're nobody's um anyways so yeah that was pretty much all that drama also you know speaking of this lack of water terrible conditions questionable conditions um apparently love is blind is in some hot water

for their conditions for the cast and production is being questioned about what was going on because people are now coming out from past seasons saying that they didn't get enough food didn't get enough water were over served alcohol some said that they were deprived of sleep and were made to film for over 20 hours a day absolutely ridiculous and i guess they're sleeping quarters at least in the first season because that's where most of the information is coming from they had the girls and the guys in these camper trailer situations and in bunk beds that didn't seem safe there was cockroaches they finally got moved to hotels oh my god yeah i know which is so interesting and then i saw online people saying well yeah it makes sense why they're always sleeping on the couches because yeah this last season too one of the contestants literally

fell asleep while on a date with her who she ended up marrying but literally fell asleep and it makes way more sense now because of the time they're sleep deprived yeah damn um yeah and then also they had their reunion that was supposed to be a live reunion but it ended up not being live because it was delayed tech issues more tech what's with all these tech like is there a mercury retrograde right now isn't there always i don't even know what that means i feel like everyone's always saying that i mean because it's a thing and it ruins people's lives. And if there's one right now, that's why we're all dealing with these tech issues. I'm looking it up. Well, also during the love is blind reunion, everybody was surprised at who they left

feeling like was the real villain, which was actually the host, Vanessa Lachey. So Nick Lachey and Vanessa Lachey have been hosting Love is Blind since the first season. And obviously this was the fourth season. Each season, it feels like more complaints come out about them and their hosting abilities, specifically when reunions come around because people feel that they don't really ask the best questions that we're all thinking after watching the season. And they don't really ask the best questions that we're all thinking after watching the season and they don't really get down to the bottom of it. And actually, you know, Andy Cohen does the watch what happens live for Bravo. Yeah. And he does such a good job with their reunions,

always getting like down to the good questions. And he actually commented on the fact that this was a live reunion and said, you know, live reunions are never a good idea because the best parts come out of reunions of talking for hours and hours, because you don't even mean to get these things out of the people sometimes because it's just, you're talking so long, it just comes out. And those are the best pieces. And you can't do that if it's a live reunion because who the hell is going to watch 12 hours of footage that isn't cut and so he said it's always better to do it after the fact and put it together and make it make sense better

um and that's how you get all the good little pieces of drama too so i feel like there apparently there's a petition to get them removed as the hosts so i feel like next season we may be seeing different hosts which will be interesting who they pick it will be very interesting i feel like prediction that it could be past cast mates i was gonna say the same thing like perhaps um that would be cool lauren and cameron were one like really successful couple and they do like a lot of stuff now i feel like i could see them taking over so that'll be interesting um but also speaking of weddings david's bridal supposedly David's Bridal. Supposedly, they're not closing, but they filed for bankruptcy. So they started as a small bridal salon in Florida in 1950, and they now have about 300 locations.

They filed for bankruptcy protection days after the company announced that they were going to be laying off 9,200 employees across the nation. But supposedly for now, they're going to keep the 300 stores and website operating for all customers. But, you know, supposedly they are not doing so hot. Are you okay? Sorry, my mic keeps going like this. I kind of saw that. Yeah, everyone can probably see I keep fixing it that's okay i'm not judging you um so yeah so supposedly that's happening which is kind of interesting because i'm pretty sure at one point they were dressing one-fourth of the nation's bride so like oh yeah one out of four brides were wearing david's bridal dresses extremely popular so it's kind of it's

just so weird because i feel like too growing up like you kind of just knew that that was like the store that everyone went to but it's kind of like the same thing theme with party city also just filed for bankruptcy and that one just kind of hits because it's like damn that's why i used to go to get all my halloween costumes before like me too like i feel like i frequent party city to get halloween costumes i feel like spirit week stuff for school oh every time they have those giant aisles of basically any kind of color you could think of color you could think of for birthday parties. I feel like that's where I got like goodie bags to give away at birthday parties. It's so nostalgic of like when we were younger, but I kind of wonder now, like, do kids still do that stuff? Or is it all like, oh, well, we'll just order it from Amazon. I think that's what it, I think a lot

of it comes off. It was such a good experience to like go to a store when we were younger and like, and do you remember too, like the Halloween costumes costumes they'd have like numbers it'd be like a52 and then you'd have to go like find the a52 and pull out the costume it's just like so nostalgic you're like damn if these stores close like first of all i'll be sad but second of all like i feel old as hell i know and it's gonna be weird like telling our kids one day like oh we used to go to the like the store to pick out yeah our halloween costume or things like that so much is online right now and it it's sad seeing brick and mortar stores go away yeah well they filed for bankruptcy as part of 150 million dollar restructuring but this is exciting as part of

the strategy to restructure and hopefully get better business they are going to be evolving halloween city pop-up stores so they're going to try pop-up stores oh what do you mean for halloween stuff i like instead of party, it's going to be Halloween City. And they're going to do pop-up stores. Oh, that's cute. I like that. That's just part of their plan. They're also going to be improving the online shopping experience

and converting the stores to next generation prototypes. So just doing some updating. But the main one that I noticed that they were doing was Halloween City. We're halfway to Halloween. Like just about six months away. I don't know if that makes me super happy or like what the hell's going on, but. No, I'm super happy. And then also another one that I feel like was like something you did as a kid,

which I don't know why, but like Bed Bath & Beyond. I do feel like I was there a lot. I think my mom just but like Bed Bath & Beyond. I do feel like I was there a lot. I think my mom just really liked Bed Bath & Beyond. For some reason, it feels like we went a lot. Frequently. But you know what I think it was? And I think this is part of their problem with their business model, which I don't know what I'm talking about,

but I'm going to give my two cents. I think they got all of like the generation generation above us like our parents in there because it was like 20% off if you sign up they actually had so many coupons yeah all the time yes but now I feel like people don't really like fall for that as much because the prices are higher it's like it's like 20% off was a scam yeah it's It's kind of like. You're just bringing it down to normal pricing. That's what a lot of stores I think do now. But I don't think people fall for that as much as they used to. Like when you used to get a coupon and go into the store, it'd be like so exciting.

You're like, I'm really getting this as a deal. And like now if you do it, you're like, it should have been this price already. Exactly. It's like not even excited about it anymore. Well, and I feel like we have so much more access i feel like before if you wanted to compare prices you'd have to do it in the magazines newspapers what have you and now you can just quickly google the price comparisons online oh and what i do a lot is if i find something i like i will never just buy it I will always like Google image search it. Yeah.

And see if it pops up anywhere else. But also, which I know people get pissed about Amazon, but the thing about Amazon is one returns are easy. So like, let's say I get, and we know how you feel about returns. I know. I'm getting better. And so I'll find something. I'll look, I'll see I'll find something. I'll look.

I'll see if I find it on Amazon. And in my head, I'm like, even if this is like way shittier quality and like that's why it's cheaper, I can return it. And I'm like, sometimes it's just not though. Yeah. Sometimes, you know, it's quality. Sometimes a dupe is a dupe. No, a dupe is a dupe. It's not always.

Sometimes the dupes aren't duping. That's true. I've seen a lot of good dupes on Amazon. But also just like, I don't know, anywhere. Like even those chairs that I was talking about, like I saw them being sold on like so many different stores. And like sometimes it was like four times the price. I'm like, thank God I didn't go here first.

I would have been so pissed if I would have found this after the fact, like on um somewhere cheaper so yeah that's um our two cents on that but I don't totally understand the space but I thought this was interesting so you know speaking of financial troubles here FTX is a cryptocurrency that's known for being a crypto scam that used influencers and celebrities like Shaq, Giselle, Tom Brady. Stop really? Of course. And more. Always stop. Before they filed for bankruptcy under really sketchy circumstances and the founder, Sam Bankman, fried. I don't know if I'm saying that right. That seems interesting. Faces fraud charges as prosecutors accused him of cheating thousands of investors out of billions of dollars while casting himself as a trustworthy savior of cryptocurrency.

And so I thought this was interesting because actually taylor swift our queen avoided being in the mix of this financial scam because she was offered 100 billion dollars to do a deal promoting ftx and she ended up turning it down heck yeah she did which what kind of money can you be making to turn down a hundred billion dollars? But anyways, so Taylor Swift avoided that. And unlike Taylor, Shaq did not avoid it. And supposedly what's kind of held up this trial and prosecution for so long is lawyers have been trying to serve Shaq with paperwork and allegedly they couldn't find him to serve him this and I'm just sitting here I'm reading this I'm thinking how the hell can

you not find like the biggest man in the world homeboy can't be missed he cannot like I feel like how could you if you asked me to find them I feel like you just have to call like three people in LA and be like, hey, when's the last time you seen this man? Yeah, where's DJ Diesel? You cannot miss him. Which actually we did see him DJ. It was honestly one of the highlights of my life. Yeah.

He was so happy. Supposedly he's in a little hot water with this FTX thing. But yeah, I thought that was hilarious. I was reading this article. I'm like, damn, wow. Taylor Swift avoided this. That's crazy. And then like they couldn't they couldn't find shack i feel that just seems so unlikely like were they clearly weren't trying that hard no so that's um all the drama that's been going on this past week. It's a lot.

It's a lot. And guess what? The Mercury retrograde starts the day this podcast comes out. So I feel like you spoke that into existence. Probably. And then it goes until like May 18th. Perfect. So just everyone beware.

Don't sign any crazy documents. Beware that your technology might go haywire um communication stop putting this bad stuff in that's just that's just what comes with a mercury retrograde and people should be aware alert um okay and proceed with caution okay thank you you're welcome thanks for scaring everybody um okay now let's get into this week's shady stories shady story number one me and my ex-boyfriend let's call him josh met at school 10 years ago when we were 15 and became inseparable everything was going great until it was time for us to go to university and he moved six hours away so we became long distance.

I was never worried about him cheating and we drove to see each other on the weekends. My friends, however, kept telling me he was becoming too close to this other girl, we'll call her Rachel, who went to his university. I brushed it off as I had complete trust in him. Four years passed and we both graduated. I got a job and Josh decided to start medical school, the same one Rachel was going to. I moved six hours away from my family to be with him and we bought a house. My friends still didn't have much faith in Josh and Rachel's relationship, but whenever I'd ask, he'd say she was just a friend. I never asked to meet her because I was

just too trusting. After a couple more months, I found out I was pregnant. Both me and Josh were super excited and I felt like my life was perfect. I had the dream pregnancy and Josh was doing great in med school. I went into labor whilst out with my best friend and we went to the hospital. I called Josh multiple times, but I went to voicemail. The same happened when my friend called him as well. I put it down to the fact that he was probably at school and might be with a patient so I texted him to tell him what was happening. Nine hours later I had our baby girl and finally managed to get a hold of Josh

and he'd said he'd be at the hospital soon. He walked in hand in hand with Rachel, kissed her in front of me and told me both him and Rachel would be taking care of our daughter and moving her 11 hours away to Dubai. I was heartbroken and scared i was going to lose my baby girl we went through months of court battles and eventually i was granted full custody now i have a beautiful one-year-old daughter and a boyfriend who was the best father to her as for josh he got what was coming to him he and rachel broke up and he managed to get himself kicked out of med school and arrested what i guess karma really is a bitch and you say he's just a friend no it's never just a fucking friend yeah um that was automatically red flags right away um But how was he about to just come in, swoop in nine hours after labor and take the baby?

Sir, you weren't even there. Get the fuck out. I can't. Don't let him sign the birth certificate. No, I don't know. I mean, she won the custody of the baby. Thank goodness. Rightfully so.

But I'm so sorry. I kind of want to know, like like what did he do to get arrested yeah no i need more i need like i need to know yeah please write back in we're nosy we are very nosy um i'm shook that that wasn't included in this i feel like first of all when you're in a situation it's hard to see but like if your friends are telling you it's kind of like the girl at the bar it's like if your friends can see it and they're not in it like they might be right and if you have a gut feeling that your man is with a different girl he is like but she didn't she was trusting him i tried to do that and didn't work out for me what do you mean in high school i had a boyfriend once and okay here we go i had had a boyfriend once and I just had a feeling.

He was like becoming really close friends with this girl. And I chalked it up to, oh, they're going to the same college because we all had like decided what colleges we were going to. You know, another friend from out there, like no reason to like think anything bad was going to happen. Oh, and bad things did happen. He cheated on me with her took her to the movies but also what do you mean he took i was at the movie they kissed at the

movies or something they went on a date to the movies well and spring break happened before that we were on the same spring break homegirl was on another spring break trip and they were texting the entire time like he would stay in his hotel room to be connected to the wife yeah yeah him you um he so he could be connected to the wi-fi and would text her the whole time and they were like texting like not inappropriate things but not like not inappropriate things you look at his phone no people told me i somehow got screenshots i don't i was well connected at the time um so apparently that yeah and then i went to the movies it was like the sunday we got back from spring break and he was at the movies at the same time with this girl and i was with that girl's friend and we somehow none

of us ran into each other and then the next it was a total fucking selena mood like yeah that they pulled yeah yeah yeah friends were like will distract her no i swear because it was like that girl's best friend and then we were deep i know then we were at school monday and he broke up with me and we were all in the same first hour class and And I had bad vibes. He sat behind me and she sat two rows over. And to this day, I still regret not, because then he broke up with me and I knew what was going on. And we had to pick prom dates that week too. So that's a whole nother story.

But then the next day when I walked into class and they were still, like he was still sitting in the seat that was behind me and she was still two rows over and they were both sitting there. And in my head, I wanted to say, do you want to take the seat that was behind me. And she was still two rows over and they were both sitting there. And in my head, I wanted to say, do you want to take my seat too? Since you already took my boyfriend. Um, I didn't say that.

Um, I kind of wish I would have never in the moment. It's always like after you think of it and you're like, damn, I wish I would have done that. It would have been a real good one liner. Um, it's okay, but it's okay. They, you won in the end. Yeah. Yeah, I did. I did. He made a tweet once and it was kind of funny he was like he was like i traded in a um a ferrari for a station wagon and i'd like to think that that was about me that is so shout out that is so sorry that was a lot of detail um that's okay we appreciate it was like a bonus shady story it was

a bonus shady story i'm pretty open with these things all of a sudden like i don't even know what you're about to go into i'm like damn what's she about to say like i'm scared i swear sometimes i've been told by many people that i should write a book about some of the things that i've been through because you can't make this stuff up yeah that's um your story i would say it's like a nine out of ten thank you no there's more to it too i mean we won't get into it today but maybe later okay and i think this one was also a nine out of ten i i agree shady story number two or three if you will for the day um one day in college the teacher had stapled answer sheets to the back of every test by mistake a few minutes after passing the test around his phone rang and

stepped out everyone had noticed the answer sheet and we decided that we would all use it and tear it off hopefully he wouldn't notice so i checked each of the answers and they were all correct except for the last one. We were to draw a flow chart for a process. I checked the answer sheet. Answers will vary. I drew the flow chart and tore off the answer sheet and walked to the front of the podium to turn my test in. When I got to the podium, I had to know.

I needed to see what everyone else had drawn with their flowchart. Answers will vary. Everyone had written that on their tests. I feel. What? I mean, it's like when people get caught copying because like, it's like something that you have to interpret on your own. Uh-huh.

But like, you don't't that's so bad they had one job yeah it's it's disappointing like you were given all the tools but then again i just feel like so many missing things like what happened clearly that the teacher probably had to have said something about this but at that point like what are you gonna do now they all know now you gotta make a whole new test yeah that's not fun for the teacher yeah and then technically like you could all get expelled you could but that also was a lot of paperwork yeah i feel like it's his fault i feel like this is one of those situations where it's the teacher forgets to collect the homework and there's that one kid in class that says,

are you going to collect the homework? And ruins it for everyone. And all these people that just could have read and not put answers will vary, would have saved a lot of trouble. They could have just left it blank. They probably still would have gotten an A. I would say this is a

seven out of ten because i did find it funny i i agree despite my lack of laughter i thought it was funny i i can i could imagine this happening but i i could see before it occurs somebody being like excuse me you forgot that I might have been like I'm could have been me I think that would be like you anyways um shady story number three and this one has a title a spring break playa playa sounds like Britney's story could be or it could be like another one of my stories who knows just add it on um okay a spring break playa playa several years ago i went on spring break with one of my friends and one night we were walking down the beach watching the waves and having a chill night on our way back we met a couple of boys about our age and we started talking one of them took an interest to me and was very nice, but honestly, I was suspicious of his actions.

Call it a girl's intuition. I'm quite shy and have social anxiety, so I normally wouldn't do this, but I thought, what the hell, it's spring break. And we ended up exchanging numbers and talked about hanging out later in the week. The next morning, I woke up to a good morning text from him and him being really sweet. I couldn't quite shake that suspicious feeling of him so I did my homework and searched his socials and sure enough I was right. There were tons of photos of him and his girlfriend. This immediately turned me off of him. Instead of confronting him I just ghosted him because he didn't deserve a response. Naturally I told my friend and she told me that his friends were

texting her to tell me that they had broken up and weren't together anymore i still didn't care and didn't fully believe him because the last picture they posted together was a week before spring break started after all this he still shows up outside of her hotel later that night asking to hang out my friend told me to have fun and just hang out with him as in the two of us alone. I said no and went to my room to watch a movie and left his ass waiting outside for who knows how long. I didn't feel bad one bit. Also, a couple weeks after I got back home to Michigan, I checked his socials to see him posting a photo with his girlfriend and made me even more happy.

I trusted my gut and I left his ass outside and ghosted. Hell yeah, brother. you gotta trust your gut yeah i'm telling you she knew she knew and she did not let the playa playa play her it's kind of what like were you really that desperate to have a spring break hookup that you're having your friends text her and be like no well they they broke up. Yeah, that's disgusting. Like, relax, man. Just enjoy spring break. Yeah, just have fun with the boys. We know what that's like.

No, that was literally, I kind of posted this on social media this past weekend when we were at the Tigers game. So it was like supposed to be like a girls day, but Brian and Evan were coming with us to the Tigers game eventually. But Brian went golfing. And so Evan came with us immediately. So it was just me, Britt and Evan for a while. And we also met up with some other girls that were like having a girl's day. And so Evan was just like with us with a group of girls and all of his guy friends and pretty

much every guy who knew was golfing and we know Evan loves his golf so he was like yeah no I'm having a good time I'm glad I didn't golf I'm like oh I'm sure he's like no no it's just a girl's day I'm with the girls like having so much fun like yep yeah you are and so I have proof of that and it was posted on social media. It was hilarious. It was really funny. But yeah, so I don't see why he couldn't just do that. No. Yeah. Scum.

She dodged a bullet. Mm hmm. I give this one like a six out of 10. Yeah. She she knew. She knew. But nothing shady really happened. Well, I mean, like he tried to initiate shaviness. But failed. Mm hmm. A failed. A failure. Failed. know but nothing shady really happened well i mean like he tried to initiate shadiness but failed a failed a failure failed damn okay um well that can close conclude concludes um i'm apparently british now um that concludes this week's shady stories i was gonna say

what were you gonna say i was gonna say episode but like it does conclude the episode yeah but like damn that's the problem like that concludes the episode goodbye um no we don't mean it um yeah keep submitting your shady stories there was a couple other good ones in this week to pick from so we had to pick and choose this week so keep sending them and that's it we'll see you guys in the next one or if you are on the patreon we will see you in the bonus content so make sure you go subscribe to that and see you guys next time bye everyone bye