just a little shady - We Need to Talk About Boy Moms- Using My Psychology Degree for Once - Ep. 8

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We have a little bit of catching up to do this week and also a lot of good things that happened in pop culture to discuss. Honestly, though, first, I feel like we need to start with, I guess looking back at this weekend, Elliot kind of hit a few milestones. He really did. And I'd like to talk about it here. Well, first of all, I had another baby shower, which I don't know. I actually really enjoy baby showers.

There's something about like... I like a shower in general. I think I do too, and I really like that they're brunch. I like brunch food. I like, I don't know. A lot of people hate on the games played at showers. I personally, most games I enjoy. I like competition.

I like an opportunity to win. I really don't dislike shower. I don't know if some people really hate on them. I think I don't necessarily like games where you have to. to physically, like, do stuff. Oh, yeah, no, no. But I do enjoy. This shower was super cute.

The games were, like, the scratch-off game where you, if you have the, either the groom or, like, in this case, the dad, you won. But she had a station where you could decorate blocks with paint markers. And then, obviously, she's going to give them to her baby. That was, like, right up my alley. Definitely enjoyed that. But, yeah, had a lot of fun at the shower. but then also Elliot had his first play dates.

I'll say since he's like mobile now. He's crawling around everywhere. And we had our friend bring over their two-year-old, who's obviously running around everywhere. So it was the cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Elliot was just crawling after, like just wanted to actually play. Like just crawling after him, trying to like get on him. Of course he was.

Trying to play with toys with him. It was the sweetest thing I have ever seen in my life. And then also this weekend, he's been in a carrier before, but he was never a big fan of them. So I haven't done it since he was like very little. He's now 10 months old. I don't know when's last time we had an update like that. But he did his first forward facing carrier ride, which was the cutest thing too because, I mean,

I've carried him around in stores and stuff. but usually he's like in his stroller or whatever not fully getting the whole view but he could see everything so he was just he's so patient and like the sweetest kid ever we were just talking about like he he's always so you can't be a bad baby but like he's just so good like he is a perfect perfect baby i every time we go somewhere it's funny because obviously he does have his moments every baby does but when we go in public he makes us look so good he is so far where's wood we need to like knock on wood he makes us look so good and people like he's the happiest baby ever because that's the truth he you can tell in pictures you can tell on face time you can tell just being around him

his smile in target he was like living his best life that's like we just took him to walk around and like look and obviously it's like bright in there. There's lots of colors and stuff. So we were just like cruised around letting him look at stuff. And somebody actually walked by and were like, wow, he's got the best seat in the house. He was just like taking it all and you could just see it. Just loves it. It was just like his mom.

It was a lot of fun. He had fun, I think. Oh my goodness. But let's, we're on some talk of moms. And what happened right before this episode, which is shocking because normally nothing that happens until after somehow this week Brooklyn Beckham released his statement on honestly kind of out of nowhere but on Instagram stories just calling out his family entirely that's insane I honestly I was have not seen any of this I was in the office all day to day and I have not been

on my phone so this story is you are breaking the news to me as really be. Okay, so pretty much if you're not up to speed on the situation, so Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, everyone knows that family, posh spice, if you will. Of course. And they're kids. And so Brooklyn Beckham is the oldest son. And for like years now, I think it's, it all started in 2019. There have been rumors when he started dating Nicola Peltz, I want to say. There was always rumors that there was some kind of drama.

And if you know anything like about the whole boy, rhetoric. Oh yeah. Usually people kind of fall into that and that's kind of what people have been accusing Victoria Beckham of since 2019 because everybody said like she didn't like Nicola and was trying to keep her out of the picture and all that just kind of like classic behavior of like what you hear about. And so but it was always kind of just like a rumor and none of them ever addressed it. And they would still be seen together and she's still into their wedding and they go to the their birthdays and there's pictures of them together and supporting movies or supporting when Victoria Beckham had that documentary on Netflix come out.

They were at the premiere. So everybody was just kind of like, okay, there's nothing to these rumors. It's just people making stuff up. Well, all of a sudden, and I guess I'm saying all of a sudden because I don't know if something happened recently for him to just like break this out of nowhere. But he decided to just tell all and write a huge swipe story. that there was, I think, like, six different frames of just all text saying his parents have, he's no contact with them. He's not interested in reconciling.

They don't support his like marriage or relationship to Nicola, specifically Victoria Beckham doesn't support it. And basically like the rumors are true. They don't get along. He started just dropping kind of random facts. No way. One of them was, so at the time in the wedding was going on, that's when I think we even talked about. There was drama and some group messages and things weren't looking good. Well, nothing was ever really discussed fully about it.

And even at that time, Brooklyn and Nicola did an interview with Vogue talking about she came to have her Valentino dress and it took a year to make. They had six fittings, all this stuff. They never said anything. Now he's saying that, well, she was supposed to wear one of my mom's dresses, but in the 11th hour, my mom pulled it and she had to like, Nicola had to scramble to get another dress. Interesting. People are saying, though, there's two sides on this. Of course.

Some people are really eating it up like, no, he's telling, he's got to be telling the truth. There's so many details, you know, toxic boy mom. that whole side of things. And then there's other people are like, there's inconsistencies in this story because if she had to scramble last minute to get a dress, how did it take a year to make? Yeah.

And so now people are like, hold on, hold on. Well, they're thinking that maybe she was going to do like multiple dresses. And then so maybe Victoria got offended. Like, well, I don't want to just be an option of a dress. Yeah. And so no, like, wear your other dresses then. And that's kind of how that came about.

And then people were like, wait, I might be pissed about that too. Yeah. There was just like some inconsistency. Yeah. And like people saying like, well, I don't know because maybe they have a reason not to like her. Because I guess they started dating in like October 2019 and were engaged by July 2020. So like really very quickly after. And another comment that he had made in this story on his post was.

something about how Victoria kept trying to bring around girls from his past while he was dating Nicola and he was uncomfortable with it and they were both uncomfortable and like that was the wrong thing to do. But then some people are like, well, if he had girlfriends in the past that she liked, then like obviously something happened to make her not like this girl. It's not like she just didn't want him to date anybody. It's something specific. Maybe. Yeah. Something happened. Yeah. And so, again, people are just playing.

playing into like well maybe there's more to it and I guess Nicola is 31 and Brooklyn's 26 yeah so people are like also maybe they didn't like that because you know how parents are like no like don't rush into things but and if like okay so 2019 how many years ago is that six years ago so he's 26 so he probably was 20 young yeah young I like seven years ago pretty much yeah so 19 20 years old dating an older girl, I could potentially see why parents being a little alarmed. Not that that's that big of an age difference, but when you're 1920,

26 is a different world than a 19, 20-year-old. That's like two different ones. At least for me 19 versus me at 26, very different worlds, very different people. Frontal lobe versus no frontal lobe. Which is a big, a big differentiator there. Yeah. So I don't know.

I kind of can see both sides in this. But I think people just really do believe that boy moms are toxic. They do. Fortunately, they have a very bad graph. I have no say. I hope that I don't fall into that category. A lot of people say that because it's like rooted in them kind of replacing their real partner, their husband with their son and like wanting them to fill those like emotional needs.

and reassurance and things that kids shouldn't not have to do for their parents. So, and I could see, too, why a lot of people would believe that with her because she has been under public scrutiny since, what, 1995? Like, this has been going on for a long time. Literally our entire lives. So people already have this perception of her and then being like, oh, well, she's insecure and she's this and she's that. And then this fits that more.

It fits that mold of like her putting that onto her sons and wanting her sons to be that. So her other two sons, though, have been supportive of her in the situation. So then two, people are like, okay, if there's five people who are saying like, no, this is the truth. And one that's not, maybe there is something going on. I don't know. I guess we'll find out. David Beckham actually did. He had something else going on.

And so he had an interview after Brooklyn had posted this post. And he basically just said, like, children are allowed to make mistakes, but, like, wouldn't elaborate. I mean, that's a really great statement. Exactly. So it's like, I mean, that's kind of a, he'll learn his own lesson kind of thing. That's a great statement to make. Yeah.

So we'll see, I guess, as it all unfolds. But I thought it was interesting, especially being a boy mom now. I feel like I don't ever say. I just say mom because like to me why doesn't like a child is a child girl mom a boy mom people are really into that I feel like these days like when people like find out the gender of their baby I feel that there's a lot of emphasis put on like oh I'm so excited to be a boy mom or I'm so excited to be a girl mom sometimes I get it because obviously there are things that are going to be different yeah with that but I think there's this weird emphasis on like that you're going to love them differently. or something and that part I don't get at all. I don't get that part. A child is a child, you should love your, like you will love your children no matter what they are.

It doesn't matter. So that part I don't get. I hope I don't fall into that category ever. Of being a boy, I will say. The only thing I've ever thought about that I'm like, that is crazy to think about because he's 10 months old is that one day when he gets married he will not like he will have his own family like I feel like girls stay with their families yeah more than like guys go with the girls family after they're married like the girls family is

who too kind of like it's like I know what you mean I don't know what I'm trying to say I know exactly what you're saying it's like when people I see this on TikTok a lot around the holidays like oh um like it's like seeing your mom's like your mom's side of the family versus your dad's side like your mom it's like who everyone's party and having a good time and then dad's it's like no one's talking like it's not a good vibe yes like I'm gonna be the mother-in-law I'm gonna be yeah the one that the girl has to like or I'm not gonna see them and like ideally I will be that person will be a great mother-in-law one day but I'm just saying that always have I feel like that just naturally occurs where like the son goes with the girl's family and a girl doesn't

really, even though they say like you're giving away the girl when they get married and stuff, it's really not because that family is going to go with her family no matter what. She's going to be like, no, we're going to my parents for the holidays. This is what we're doing. And then the guy's just like, okay. Like that's just what happens. I don't know. And so that part to me, I'm like, that would suck. But like, ideally that doesn't happen. And obviously, in a perfect world, you stay close with your kids no matter what. But for some reason, that is the thing is like, I'm going to be the mother-in-law to another girl.

And like, yeah, they have to like you. Just period. But you're going to be a cool mother-in-law. Yes. I guarantee it. But it's a risk. It is a risk. It's a risk.

It's going to be fine. But I know what you, because also I feel like there's such a, like, a stigma being like, oh, do you like your mother-in-law? Yes. There's always both ways, I think, a little bit. Have you ever seen the movie Monster in Law? I guess that is about a girl marrying a guy and it's the guy's mom. It's always that way.

That's so unfortunate. That was the start of boy mom. Yes, I feel like that it's always that way. Like, it's always the guy's mom that the girl doesn't like. Yeah. Or likes. You know what I mean? Yeah.

It's just like, it's just like, it's just something like I have never thought about until I had a son and I was like, oh my gosh. That will be your future one day. Yeah, like I'll have to make sure this random girl that he chooses likes me. Yes. What if she doesn't? I'm sure she will. I know.

And hopefully she has lovely parents that you can be friends with as well and all will be dandy. Correct. It'll be somebody you know. It's just so far away that it's funny that that is a thought that ever even crossed my mind. But it's a crazy. It was a thought that I would have never thunk until I did have a bit. a boy so I get like we got it like we got a solid like 20 25 years to prepare I would hope yeah I would hope it's like that long 20 25 years until but if it wasn't and he was 19

yeah then maybe then maybe we're acting like that exactly I mean I'll be right there with you I'll be I'll be double the mother-in-law situation whatever that is but if he's trying to pull something crazy, we're going to have to let them know. Well, you've got to let your kids make mistakes, supposedly. According to. Oh my gosh, that is so silly. David. But speaking of letting your kids make mistakes, someone on TikTok was really letting their

little girl make some diabolical choices. Did you see the little girl on TikTok who was predicting who was going to win over the playoffs this past week? No, but I've heard about it. every single team she picked to win lost lost and not only that but there was a point where she was going to choose the Broncos switched it to the bills the bills ended up losing but the broncos quarterback in the last minute of the game broke his ankle and so people were like she really screwed that team because like she picked them both she gave them double doom yes double doom but

Yeah, so she literally picked the Panthers, Packers, Jaguars, Chargers, and Bills, and they all lost or really struggled, like, after the selection. She chose the Bears? No. No. No. The Bears played this weekend. She didn't choose. Or I didn't see that one.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. These were the teams, like, she did choose, and they actually lost. So, like, she was choosing them to win, and they went on to lose. Yes. So basically people were just like she is really jinxing everyone and like she needs to stop. Yeah. I don't know how it ended up playing out in the end, but she was almost like perfect score of picking the opposite team. That's super important.

And that just led me to, we need to talk about superstitions because we have kind of talked about them before. We are superstitious. We've said how before the Lions games, Brittany, you would have to text me, go Lions. Amen. And if she didn't and they lost, it was obviously her fault. Yeah. Last year it went so far as I bought, we were going to playoff game. I think it was the first one.

And I was like, oh, like, I want to get these sneakers for like the next game. Yeah. And we didn't end up like making it to the next game. And so now it's a joke with everyone in my family that I'm the reason that we didn't make it to the next game because I had already bought sneakers. Don't ever buy sneakers again. Right. That is my apologies, but.

Were they the blue ones? Yeah. Yep. They're super cute and I wore them all year no matter what. And I'm pissed because I wanted them and I stared at them forever. And you didn't do it. Well, it wasn't your fault then that we lost. Yeah, I didn't do anything wrong.

Yeah. But I was just thinking that I feel that superstitions kind of are like intrusive thoughts. that we give meaning to like it's almost like OCD in a way no it apps it is very because truly there are some that I will actually internalize that one's not one of them right but if I like don't knock on wood after I say something sometimes and it doesn't work out I'm like oh my God it's because I didn't myself or like silly little things I make up in my head to things that aren't true. Correct.

And that's literally what intrusive thoughts are too. Yes. And I don't even know if I've ever talked about this, but when I was younger, I used to do that all the time. Like, if I didn't touch the hand railing when I was going down the stairs with both hands, like, if it wasn't even, like, I just thought, I don't know what I thought was going to happen, but I had to do it. Yeah. There was just no option. If I went down with this hand, I had to do it with this hand. And if it wasn't even, I would have to go back up and restart.

And restart. Yes. And obviously, as I've gotten older, I've, like, grown out of it in physical manifestations of the intrusive thoughts. I still have them inside. But it just, that really is what superstitions are. Are intrusive thoughts. Yeah, that we just all have done kind of culturally.

Yeah. As a culture, we've done it. Like, breaking a mirror, seven years of bad luck. I mean, that's true, though. I mean, like, I genuinely, the thing is, I fully with my whole. heart and soul believe that spilling salt on the table if I spill salt on the table you're throwing the salt over your shoulder have to it's just a counter-axet walking under a ladder why would you do that doom do not do that I don't know but

truly I believe it and I don't do it no I or like if you see a black cat crossing your path bad luck very bad luck on the other hand finding a penny heads up. I think I'm going to have good luck. However, I don't pick up the pennies anymore. I don't know. You should because now there's no pennies. And there worth something more.

See, but I don't pick them up. I don't know. I'm scared that they're going to be like laced with something on them and I'm going to die. That is where my head goes. So I'll look at it and I'll acknowledge this is me receiving my good luck. But I leave it right there. Did you ever, when you were younger? I saw this once and it's probably in.

some movie was very cheesy. It was like some rom-com, and there was a penny on the ground, and it was face down. And then she turns it over, and the guy's like, why'd you do that? He's like, she's like, somebody else can have good luck. Because, like, Penny's only good luck if it's facing up and it's facing down. Do you do that? I did for a while.

Oh, that's really nice of you. No, it was me, I don't know, thinking I was in a 90s rom-com. Maybe you were. But not a good one that to, I always do this, opening umbrella inside. You got to do what you got to do. I mean, a garage doesn't count, I don't think. No, that's not inside. No, that's outside inside.

But like if you have it, if you're about to go outside and you open it inside before you go out. I mean, I will like stick it outside the door. That's fine. You know, and then you can like lift it on top of you. But like. No, like people think if you open it. inside back. How do you get out the door? My umbrella would probably hit the door. I don't know. Good question. That's not for me to determine. That's for the magic

of superstitions. The magic of superstitions. But it did get me, I had to look this up. So there are other cultural superstitions in different places. I believe it. So in China or Japan, the number four is apparently not good. It sounds like death. So they don't put fourth floors in buildings like how we don't put 13th floor you know but that always really gets me like when a building has like 16 floors and they skip over 13 so it just goes like 11 12 14 I'm like I got a like I truly believe there's people that probably we just wouldn't stay on the 14th floor either because technically that technically is the 13th floor but do you think there is a floor there you just can't get to it no no there's not a locked floor

But there is, we've talked about this on, during like a just a little spooky episode back in the day. There was in Chicago, we were stayed at this hotel for a hockey tournament. There was two sides of this hotel, like two like, you'd have the elevator bank over here and over here. And on whatever side that we weren't staying on, there was a 13th floor and they didn't have people staying on it. but it was said to be haunted, but if you got out on that floor, like they never changed anything on it. Like, it was all old furniture, like, creepy.

Maybe I didn't tell this story before, but, like, I think I had video. I should try to look to see if I can find them. Of, like, me, probably Matthew, like. You went on it? Yes, we went on the floor and, like, walked around. Get out. Don't bring your bad.

The elevator probably, like, went away. But, like, I think the, I think it was, like, a hospital. turned hotel and then for a while. Especially no then. Yeah. It was like I don't like that. It was a hotel, but then they just like stopped letting people stay on that floor and now like you just like walk around it's spooky. Yeah, I don't know. I guess people really do take them seriously because like actually omitting them from hotels is a crazy thing that we've reached in society. But fourth floor, that's a wild. Yeah, I would have never thought I love the number four. Do you? I mean,

It's a good number. It's just, I always have. I don't know. Very weird, though. Now I don't know if I like it. Apparently, in India and Turkey, cutting your nails at night is considered bad luck, originating from a time when low light made using sharp tools dangerous, so now they just, it's bad luck.

Oh. Also, apparently in Turkey and Russia, whistling indoors is believed to summon evil spirits or lead to financial loss. Oh. In Germany, toasting with water is considered to be wishing death upon those you are drinking with, which is wild. That's insane. I for sure have toasted with water.

Me too. Not often, but like I definitely have. Same. I'm pretty sure. I knew it was like bad luck, but I didn't know. I heard it was bad luck. I didn't know it was wishing death upon those you're drinking with. rude wild um in latin america you wear new year's underwear wearing specific colors on new year's

eve can influence your year red for love yellow or gold for wealth huh in that i get some yellow underwear well no you know what that just reminded me which i do think we've talked about this how in st patrick's day oh my gosh we used to think you had to sleep in green or like leprechauns were going to Come steal you? We were fully convinced and we drove ourselves. We were having a sleepover the night before things, or not Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, myself, you and Tracy, and we were at my house and we had, didn't have green.

And we thought by taking every sticky note in my room and writing green on it and putting it everywhere we could would save us, we made ourselves so scared that your parents had to come pick you up, like Tracy's parents had to come pick her up. And we were terrified. And guess what? We weren't taken by leprechaun. So it must have been true. But think about me.

I was left to sleep in my room. And green it is, you know what's crazy is I think at the time, like, I think my walls were green. I think they were like purple and green. They weren't even pink yet. So like, we should have been safe. We were definitely safe. But either way.

We made it. Yeah. We're here. We've lived the top and tail. Apparently in Japan. tucking thumbs in cemeteries thumbs are parent fingers and hiding them protects your parents from death oh interesting what in france and italy bread upside down placing a loaf of bread upside down is said to curse those who eat it um i think we moved on from the thumb thing pretty quickly what do you

i think like you just don't have them out while you're there to like protect but it Kind of reminded me actually. Oh, just in cemeteries. Remember when we were younger, we used to think you had to hold your breath going past the cemeteries? Yes, I did that for a long time. And I took it very seriously as well, and I thought something bad would happen if I didn't do it. And sometimes there was very long cemeteries. I also think, unfortunately, I think we were pretty gullible children.

I think that's part of it. I think that there was many instances where we were told things that were far from true. I truly internalized some of them. Yes. A thousand percent. And that wasn't one of them, thankfully, because I think I would have passed out a few times in the car by now. But there were a few that like...

And there'd be like a stoplight near a cemetery and be the worst case scenario. Literally. It's so bad. Well, moving along, superstitions are kind of like believing in magic. And speaking of believing in magic, Disney fired the viral evil queen character, which I... I knew Brittany was going to love when I put this in the notes. I was so happy.

I saw this and I think I was so invested. We'll talk a little bit about this at the end, but Universal has the Grinch character. And I always see, or on the holidays, I always see those clips and they're hilarious. And I think I've seen like one or two of the Evil Queen. Oh, yeah. From Disney.

And so they basically ended up firing her for being too good at her job. Yeah, that's what honestly, for as much as I'm like in all things, Disney news all the time, I know too much information for my own. Correct. Well-being. But what I've gathered, and this happened before. This actually happened last Christmas was the first time that, I guess, TikTok got a hold of something like this happening where a character became too notable to, I guess not. they were intentionally or essentially removing the magic, I think is what Disney's

thought process was there. So in the Christmas parade there was a character called Talley the elf and they would go around and I don't know, they had like a whole shtick where they would like talk to the people. They were like one of the first characters that came through in the parade, almost like a pre-parade show and like ask if you were like on the naughty or nice list and like I actually saw that. Yeah, really great like interactions with guests and Talley became so popular,

popular, notable. People were so obsessed with Talley that Talley was removed from the role. They got a new person to fill that role. It's not the same character actor, whatever you want to, however you want to refer to them. That happened first. So then when this came about, I was extra sad because, one, this is now a reoccurring thing, but two, I loved the evil queen's TikTok. She was like she just created like you could tell just like such magical like memorable moments for guests.

And that's what I don't get about it. So that was the whole thing. So I looked up why does this happen? Because apparently this had happened before two with the Snow White character that they had. Yeah. And this is not like a new thing. And apparently protecting the magic and they don't want people to identify who's playing the character. Right.

But then I'm like, how. does that change anything because again people who anyone who's going on the internet and looking up who it is knows that the magic is yes the magic is already a person gone yeah as a character looking that up yeah the children aren't looking that up and the people who are interested in it are going to find like find it anyways and now that you fired her you for sure ruin the magic because everyone knows who she is now because she came out because she's like hey i was fired and now this is for sure about it yeah so now it's like even more ruined in my opinion than if they would have just kept her.

She did it for eight years too. Yeah. And I think in both instances, the person that was or the actor that was playing the character was not on social media, like promoting that was them. Because like there are some characters or I keep interchanging characters in print. There's some people, actors, employees, cast members. Cast members is the appropriate term if I'm thinking Disney. slang or whatever you want to call it.

That do post a lot online. Like when they are like a character performer at Disney, they, it is almost not their entire online persona, but it's a lot of it that it's like they will post. Saying like this is who I'm playing or whatever. Well, they're like careful in their captions. It's like direct all comments to Cinderella. I think they kind of got away from that,

but that was like the like. She wasn't doing that. No, she wasn't doing it, but there are some people that do that. Which is what's even more wild. It's like, it's not in her control. And now she's losing her job over that for like being too good at it. Yeah. It's weird.

And then like I was saying, on the other hand, you have the Grinch who everyone knows to the Grinch. Like the one Grinch that like goes viral all the time is Nick Darnel. And everybody like talks about him on TikTok and they know who he is and they still love it and they still want to go see the Grinch. It doesn't change anything. Yes. In fact, like more people.

want to go so it's just like a weird thing of why would you want to stop that i wonder i wonder if it's because people get disappointed when maybe they go to the parks and it's not that person playing that role like say you go see the evil queen and it's not her and you're like where's whoever so yeah so and so i don't know doesn't make sense to me it doesn't make sense especially in like such a niche role like that like they probably don't have a lot of people playing the evil queen like they only have like two Captain Jack Sparrows at one point, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. It's like some of those more niche roles, like, just let it be.

Let it be fun. Right. If it doesn't last forever, it doesn't last forever. But now people are still going to go and be like, where is she? Yeah. And then find out she was fired and then they're going to be pissed. But speaking of niche, as you were mentioning, I just, we are going to rapid fire say niche things that are on our TikTok because it's so funny to me when I,

I bring up stuff to Brittany when we're no clue when we're planning things and I will with my chest say oh my gosh this and she will be like who what what are you talking about say and speaking up so on the Patreon bonus content we are actually going to like live watch TikToks and react to them our little niche FYPs and share what they look like but if you want to see that go there but for an hour rapid fire things on our tic-tok for-you page and you need to comment if your for-you page looks more like mine or brittney is because i feel crazy sometimes mind has been filled with the impressions of an owl tic-toks have yours been yes but this is a relatively new niche that i've stumbled across when i saw the first video i thought it was just somebody i don't know know there's a lot of videos online of people impersonating the Kardashians for some reason so i thought somebody was just being funny one alo alo alo a owl um one owl video later that was half my for you page was owls and i was like what's happening i don't understand i didn't realize that it's the meme of cynthia

rivo um i didn't know this was happening that was literally about the owls that's my half of mine right now. Another super niche thing was when Ashby was the Lorax. And I brought this up to you months and months ago. And I thought everyone knew who Ashby was. I thought everyone saw the Lorax impersonations. I was fully laughing, telling you about it. I couldn't even get it out. And now, even more niche crossover was Ashby and Baby No Money. I don't know who Baby No Money. I don't know who baby no money is yes you do we've seen him before oh yeah yeah okay yeah they just did a random video together and i it came up on my four you page and i'm like how does my for you page know me this well it was i it was one of those where i was like actually feeling weird about it but like also

the crossover that i never knew would ever occur very niche for you page thing again we'll be watching that video on the patreon can't wait it's funny So my for you, I had, I had notes, but my computer stopped working. Oh, good. But I know what's on my free you page right now. So mostly this weekend, it was UDA Nationals. Was that on your food? No. That's crazy.

In my mind, everyone in the world was tuned in to UDA Nationals. And a lot of discourse about the LSU Tiger Girls being robbed. I didn't get to watch all of the dances just yet. So, like, I haven't, like, fully formed my thoughts. But in my opinion, well, how was that not? I know what you're saying now, but for one moment in time... You didn't know what UDA was. No, for one moment in time when you said the LSU girls getting robbed,

you mean of the title. And for a moment in my head, I'm like, why are you rushing over? I thought they actually got robbed. And I was like, wow, you're just kind of throwing that in there. Like casually, like no heart, no sensitivity. Yeah, they got robbed. No, of their title that they should have taken home. I believe in the hip-hop category.

Tough times. What about Tonka Jihari? Not on my for-you page. Have you ever watched? Please, I really hope. Even Joe Jonas is on Tonka-Jahari. I'm sure he is. He's more online than I am.

It's from Impractical Jokers. I do love the impractical joker. Basically, Sal was the character, Tanka Jihari at one point, and they were all sitting in a waiting room, and the joke was like, a pizza gets delivered. And then the guy comes in, he's like, I've got a pizza for a Tanka Jihari. And Sal's like, I probably have seen this. I'm Tanka Jihari, but I would never order a full pizza to myself. It's just, basically, it's hilarious, and we will be watching that also. I'm very excited to watch it.

I'm on that. And this one, we are fully unpacking now, too, but it's probably a super niche. I've become a part of the Marshall's TikTok. I did see this. Unpacking what the numbers on the tags at like Home Goods Marshall's T.J. Max mean. And I saved it and I fully intended to use the system later to uncode. Yeah. So apparently if you look at the tags at any of those stores, there is a box around

one of the numbers, which is the week that it came in that year. And you can use that because, like, if it's been there for so long. But it starts at, like, 13 or 14, doesn't it? In the box? And it goes up for the month number. It's like January is, like, 13 or 14 instead of one. Okay, see, I didn't know that part. Yes, that's what I heard.

So basically, you can just kind of calculate if it's been there for a long time, it'll probably get reduced soon. And then also, if it does get reduced, they will put up to four red reduction tags on an item. And then once it goes to yellow reduction tag placed on it, that is the lowest price it will go. So like you will know that this is the lowest best deal. Also, the number at the very end tells you if it was made for Marshalls, then it will be a number one, which means like you're not actually getting a good deal.

That company just made it for that store. So you're not getting savings. It was like that was the price. It was always intended to be. Right. The number two means that it was actual overstock from the regular like department store or main store that those items normally come from.

So you're getting a good deal. A number seven at the end means high-end designer item that appeared in a designer store that's probably been discontinued. It's like a really, really good deal. I didn't know of number seven. And then a six means that it comes as a set. So like if you grab something and there's a six,

but it's only one item, it's supposed to have more items attached to it. Yeah. So we just, I needed to share that information. I literally started seeing these randomly and then more kept coming up. And I'm like, oh my gosh, people like actually have investigated this. I've always wondered that too because I've heard rumors like a lot of stuff does just get made for like T.J. Max Marshall's and it's not really like the deal that you think you're getting and then sometimes it really is. So now that's how you can distinguish. I don't know how people got this insider information. No, I feel like it had to have been somebody that like formerly worked there or like worked for like the parent company and like did coding or something. Well, it's kind of shady, but I like it.

So let's get into some more shady stories. Starting with Shady Story number one. So my husband and I just had our son Malcolm four months ago, and we're going through the process of setting up our will and just doing all those fun new parent things, which got my husband and I talking about what happens if one of us dies. I'm super close to my family. My sister, who is my best friend,

lives across the street from us with her husband and their three kids. and my brother and his husband lived next door to our parents, and we are all in the same subdivision. We do Sunday dinners without fail. Like I discharged from the hospital on a Sunday morning after Malcolm was born, and we were at family dinner that night. When my husband and I got serious, I told him that he was going to live his life in my dad's shadow, because he is literally my person in life. My sister calls it youngest child syndrome. My husband just sends the My Daddy bit from Steve Trevino into the family group chat.

it's never been an issue in our relationship ever it's a joke or i thought it was but as we were talking about all of this my husband mentions that if he dies i should move closer to his family three states away and i told them that if he dies i'm moving back in with my parents not to freak in ohio now he's upset because he says i don't view his family as my family and i'm like yeah if he dies i'm never seeing those people again outside of my child we're not friends so now he's like pushing for me to spend summers in Ohio or find a job in Ohio and I told him that he can do whatever he wants but Malcolm and I are not moving. I asked my sister about it and she's saying that it's because he feels threatened as a man and I'm in the camp of he knew what he was getting. So the petty side of me kicked up and I

told our lawyer that I want a condition that if I pre-deceased my husband he couldn't leave our current state because he's being so weird about it which I don't think is enforceable but at least my wishes would be known. And then this person wrote in again and said, sorry, Malcolm's mom again. I just realized I forgot to add that my husband and I manage our own people and he is not close to his family at all. In the last year, we've missed his sister's engagement party, his mom's 50th birthday, and his dad's retirement just because he doesn't care. He only cares in regards to if he dies and making sure our son knows these people so he doesn't spend time with. Dude, I'm so. I'm so. on her side here it's crazy

I don't mean to laugh because I understand this is a serious matter but like I'm so giggily about it this ties in so well though too to what we're talking about earlier with the marriage thing literally this is so facts like for some reason the guys family is just guys don't push for their family to be as involved no usually no and I thought of this after like I've seen the TikToks that it's like growing or um like growing up and like

like learning more about like my mom's family versus my dad's family like my mom's side just had like the better PR team because like moms yeah yeah but like honestly period because if god forbid something ever happened to brian i would be absolutely moving back in with my parents like i i i don't know what i would do like i don't think i would continue to live in our house i just i would go back to my parents. I mean, yeah, and she's already set up in a situation where they're closer to their family. They're next door. Because, yeah, they're physically also closer. I kind of love their little or compound situation. I know. I love that too. But I think that's fair, but I also don't think you can like enforce that after. No, but I love that she's like. She's trying anyway. No, because that is

something that like I would say and I would try to do like, I don't care if it's like legal or not. Like I want my presents to be known. I want my wishes to be known. Like, that is, I just can relate. Yeah, I thought this one was perfect for the other topics. I love that. Shady story number two. A story from my holiday. All was going well while my grandma was preparing for Christmas dinner. When it was time to take out the dinner rolls and drizzle butter on them, I saw her take out an old denture toothbrush from the sink and spread the butter on the roll or the butter on the rolls. I almost threw up as my family gathered around. I saw each take a dinner roll from the pan.

I didn't tell anyone what I saw my grandma do with the dentures toothbrush, but it's safe to say I did not eat any of the rolls. And my family did not seem to enjoy them, but little do they know? Oh, they did enjoy them, but little do they know? That's crazy work. This is so funny because, one, I knew you were going to be like, ill, but two, I originally asked people to write in like holiday shady stories, but when I was going through, I'm like, oh my gosh, I missed this one. So had to include it now.

But also, I swear there's something about like grandparents cooking that I don't trust. Like I remember like God love my Nana. She is no longer with us. But when she used to cook so much every holiday and I swear I would catch her like tasting things with her finger. And like, not that she was putting her finger back into things, but just the thought that like, maybe she was. Yeah, like, I don't know. I guess I wasn't in there the whole time. And I swear, it's like, when you're cooking at home, I think people just don't think about it.

And like, oh, like, let me taste this real quick. Oh, yeah, that's right. Or like, it needs a little more salt or whatever. But when you catch somebody doing it, you're just like, oh, and you think about, like, what else? But by the way, she always had the best cooking. So, like, maybe that's the secret. I don't know. Could be.

But this, like, just to remind me of, like, why do people do, like, weird things? You can do it if you're just cooking for yourself, but you can't do it if you're cooking for. You can't use an old denture toothbrush. It's like, like, to play devil's advocate, maybe this toothbrush was never used and, like, was only used for cooking purposes. Like, I have, like, a toothbrush that, like, is used for, like, cleaning, like, the hair out of, like, the hairbrush. Like, I've never used this toothbrush. but like it helps you like clean your hair brushes. That is what is meant for.

Somebody might come in and think that's weird. I mean, I guess I'm not like, it's not food. I'm not cooking. So my only benefit of the doubt would potentially be. It was never used for that. It was only ever used for butter. And it looks old because it's been being used for butter for like as long as like we can remember. But I don't know.

I'm not going to think too much. I love a dinner roll. I do. Are you just getting hungry now? Yeah, I am, unfortunately. Okay, we are almost wrapped. Let's do. Shady Story number three.

My ex-husband and I were married for 17 years and had three children. Twin boys followed by a little girl, and I was a stay-at-home mom, became a work from home mom after our daughter started school. My ex worked a lot, and I was left with the bulk of the emotional labor of parenting. And when our boys were 13 and our daughter was nine, we split up. It was the kind of ugly divorce that ended in a court order counseling. We eventually reached something of a truce and just became co-parenting partners after a bunch of work. Two years ago, when our daughter was a senior in high school, I got really sick from cancer and I needed extra support and my ex was a huge help.

I actually remembered why I fell in love with him because he was so amazing. One thing led to another and we've been dating for about 18 months. The shady part of it is that we're sneaking around our kids. They have no clue. They know my husband is dating someone, but I haven't even admitted that. I'm sure if things keep going well, we'll have to tell them. But right now, our daughter is in college and our sons have just started their careers. So even though they're all living at home, we've decided not to tell them.

I mean, this is like a movie. Literally. That's wild that they are young adults. and I feel like they have to be, like, catching on a little bit. I feel like at that point, though, is, since they're at this point in their lives, they're probably over the, like, caring if their parents, like, did or didn't do that.

Like, I don't know, when kids are little and stuff like that happens, like, you're always, like, kind of, like, hoping, like, the parent trap where the kids are, like, trying to secretly get the parents back together. but like once they're adults and they're like uh whatever they kind of know how like relationship stuff goes i feel like they're just like people get over it like whatever and i feel like if they did find out at this point they're like okay are you getting married like why are you telling us what's the situation but no that's funny that it literally is like a movie so yeah let's uh go watch a bunch of short little um

clips on patreon bonus content we will see you over there hopefully if not we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye everyone. Bye.