just a little shady - Why the Selena Gomez-Hailey Bieber Feud Escalated | Ep. 29

Episode Date: March 3, 2023

Changing things up as we move the focus from our personal tea to the massive spills that have been going on in pop culture this past week- starting with the SAG awards drama as Audrey Plaza gets visibly upset and walks off stage early (we have some theories on why), announcing our Patreon that entails bonus content & more, explaining the surprisingly expensive feat of getting a star on the Walk of Fame as we talk about Courtney Cox getting hers (revealing which “Friends” besties showed up in support too!), supporting Michael B. Jordan as he stands up for himself against a bully on the red carpet, wondering how Netflix operates as we dive into all the recent releases and their supposed talks to host a Tom Brady roast, giving our hot take on who is really the problem in the Selena Gomez-Hailey Bieber drama this time around, & reading this week’s shady stories about a garbage man getting into a sticky revenge situation, besties becoming heroes after they find a puppy in a shady circumstance, & what could have been the inspiration behind Sam Smith’s “Unholy.”Join our Patreon for ad free content, bonus content & more:patreon.com/justalittleshadypodcast Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/wntAePFeWhtfda7u7Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justalittleshadypodcastFollow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justalittleshadypodcast/Watch us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR6yk19Q/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We are going to get into everything that's been going on in the past week because there has been a lot. And, you know, I'm kind of excited to have an episode where I'm not just spilling all the tea on my life. We can kind of just talk about everyone else's. So the SAG Awards. I just really hate that. SAG. Yeah, it could be better. It's not that cute. SAG Awards happen on Sunday. So there was a lot of, of course, everyone was talking about the red carpets, which actually we have exciting news because we are going to start a Patreon where we release bonus

content from every episode. And that's, we're going to start this week. So the link will be in the description and we'll just do a little bonus content. For example, this episode, we're going to do a red carpet review of everyone's fashion. We're, we're clearly fashionistas here with our sweats every week. Um, but we're going to do a fashion review for the SAG awards for bonus content this week and like i said that will be linked in the description on our patreon but there was also more drama than just red carpet looks because did you see how they paired up jenna ortega with aubrey plaza i did and i don't think there could have been a more perfect pairing. They seriously, somebody needs to capitalize on that

and get them in a movie together. Well, literally they're identical looking, but they could do a 13 going on 30 situation where younger version, older version. That would be incredible. It'd be hilarious. I always said when Wednesday came out and I saw press runs with Jenna talking about Wednesday, I kept saying, she reminds me of someone.

She reminds me of someone. And then it came to me. And then when I saw this clip going viral of them two together, I was like, chef's kiss. Beautiful. Somebody finally did it. I wasn't crazy. I wasn't the only one seeing it. And they're literally so perfect.

But, you know, Aubrey Plaza, I hope I'm saying her last name right, but is known for her jokes, her comedy, not taking things seriously, having fun but she went viral for another clip from the SAG awards where the White Lotus cast went on stage to accept an award and she looked very upset visibly maybe I think I think she mouthed Jesus Christ and looked very pissed and then she also left the stage while everyone else was still hugging, congratulating each other. And everyone was commenting, what is going on here? Why was she so upset? Right. So a source close to her, so probably her PR team, reached out to some publications and said that there were multiple reasons that she was upset. So apparently one was that all the women cast were kind of pushed to the back while the men

accepted the awards, according to her, right in time for Women's History Month. Bad time. Yeah. And then also one of the men said to her something about her potentially having a wardrobe malfunction on stage. So she got upset about that. And then also because she was in the back when everyone was going to hug, she kept almost getting elbowed in the face. So she was not happy about those things. But yeah, so apparently that went on at the SAG Awards. And like I said, we'll talk more about the fashion stuff for the bonus thing, because I'm sure there's lots to say. But speaking of awards, Courtney Cox just got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

So well-deserved, so iconic, and so happy that she had the cast of friends there alongside with her yeah so jennifer aniston and lisa kudrow came to support her which is cute yeah i just love that um but we kind of got to talking about how do you get a star on the walk of fame right like how do you how does that process work so i looked it up yeah so we're gonna tell you how you get a star because it's actually kind of a wild process um so the first step in the process of getting a star is getting nominated anybody can nominate anybody but they only get about 300 nominations a year. So we heard that. We looked at each other.

Why so low? Right. And there's a reason, and we'll get to it. So after you get nominated, you get selected by the Walk of Fame committee, which is made up of 25 people and a chairman. And that committee selects about 30 people every year that can be put on the Walk of Fame. However, after that step, somebody, usually the person who nominated the celebrity, pays $40,000 to the committee to go towards the cost of promotion, the star ceremony, and future upkeep of the star. That is, I mean, it makes sense.

That's why they only get 300 nominations a year. But to expect that from potentially a fan, somebody that's just trying to do a nice deed by nominating someone, I don't think that they should be the ones responsible for that $40,000. So it did say that sometimes if a fan is the one who nominated the person, they don't want to come out of pocket $40,000. So they will do fundraising for the celebrity.

But apparently the Walk of Fame committee doesn't like that. So also a lot of times people reach out to record labels or movie production companies and they'll foot the bill for it. Sponsor it. But still kind of wild and makes sense why not that many people go in every year. And then also this next step is probably another barrier. So the celebrity has to agree to go to the ceremony and it has to be scheduled within two years of the date that they're selected or it all has to start over from the beginning. That's kind of

tough. So where does the 40,000, you're out 40,000? Yeah. And I feel like a lot of people in the industry, especially like think about someone like Taylor Swift. She does not have time to just throw in a star presentation right now. Right. Or if they're touring or something. Yeah, that's my exact thought. Like some people are really busy or they're filming and, you know, a show or a movie like that could take like one to two years. So I mean, it all adds up. It makes sense. But what happens when they run out of spaces? Because I mean, that's not a big walk. I've always thought about that, too. How many stars are there? And what happens when there's no more space on the walk? Right. They're going to have like a second location i guess i don't know how is it

not full already that's what i want to know i know because i feel like they have so many iconic people already on the walk and i know they have their categories and they're some of them are a little vague but do you think we'll start to see the influencers on the walk well the categories that you can be nominated for i think already kind of could apply to influencers because you can be nominated for radio, motion picture, live performance, theater, TV, and recording. So a lot of influencers could fall under radio or TV. Yeah, I guess some do overlap a little bit.

Yeah, but even if not, I think you could probably, it probably will just become like a category. I mean, cause like, think about like, I don't know why it first comes to mind. It's like Charlie and Dixie D'Amelio, they do music. So technically they have their, Oh yeah. They have their show So, yeah, definitely some overlap there. Speaking of stars, I think maybe one of the best ways to get back at your childhood bullies is becoming a star. And that's exactly what happened with Michael B. Jordan because Creed 3 just came out. And so he was doing the red carpet and a woman that he recognized and recognized him from way back in the day when they used to go to school together as teenagers. And he called her out for being a bully to him back in the day. As he should. He had his opportunity. I feel like that's the opportunity

that every little kid doesn't dream of because no one wants to get bullied but if you do have a bully oh yeah you want your moment yeah prove them wrong and he did that so he she comes up she says oh yeah we go way back and he says oh yeah i was the corny kid right because also recently she has a podcast and on the podcast she said that he was corny because he used to bring his headshots to school stop that makes me so sad I know and then also she said that he his name is Michael Jordan but he's no Michael Jordan so no he used to bully him for that and so he totally called her out and you could tell she regretted her life in that moment should oh my gosh that literally breaks my heart his little headshot

i know that's so cute in elementary school they were teenagers well still so adorable you know what though best revenge was right in that moment when he got her roasted her life um so that happened and then also speaking of shows and movies and stuff coming out netflix decided to just release a bunch of good stuff at once i was kind of alarmed like where were you all winter when we were locked up freezing i feel like that always happens with both movies like why do so many movies they're like summer blockbusters like we don't need it in the summer we need it in the winter when we have nothing to do it's freezing yeah so they released outer banks you season four um also a bunch of reality shows kind of at once so they did like after the altar for love is blind they did um perfect match with all the reality stars watch that i'm watching it right

now i saw like half an episode with you and now i'm intrigued and i want to watch like all of the other shows that connect we even said that was very smart pr move for netflix because now it makes you want to watch all the shows that these people came from to get to this point because like i had never watched the mole which is apparently a new netflix reality show which now i'm wanting to watch it because i just watched this and i want to know who these people are what they came from um so watching that but it was funny we were talking about how you when it came out the main actor Penn Badgley hope I'm saying this right made the comment about not wanting to do any sex scenes this season which I find it totally up to him if he wants to make that call but I find it interesting the way he went about it

was almost as if he said he wanted to respect his marriage and he didn't want to cross any boundaries by doing those sex scenes in his place of work which just made it seem like well what were the other sex scenes you did well as an uneducated non-actor right I've never really been in that environment but from everything I've ever thought as a avid watcher of things was that those were strictly acting. All professional. Very, supposedly too, I've seen interviews, people saying it's uncomfortable because of how scripted those scenes are. Right.

And how careful they are to make sure that it's just acting and very much put your hand here, tilt your head this way, do this. And so as a watcher, I always, I never thought anything more of those scenes now this comment made me go is it more is it something that could be disrespectful toward a

wife now who's to say i don't know probably caused a lot of arguments well he definitely set a high standard for any actors in marriages because they're all gonna go home after this and be like you don't need to do that scene and he's not doing he said no why can't you so that was interesting and then another thing that I was kind of shocked with Netflix doing was they put out this I believe it's just a documentary might be a docu-series but either way it's just a documentary. It might be a docu-series, but either way, it's just a little documentary about this murder case that happened. I'm going to say Murdoch Murders. And I don't know if I'm saying the last name correctly. So this father was accused of killing his wife and son. And the alibi did not add up.

So now he's being tried. What I found interesting was that Netflix put this out just now and the actual trial is happening right now in real life, in real time. How was that legal? I don't know if that's the right word I'm looking for, but how are these people who got interviewed for this documentary and could possibly be getting interviewed by police on trial in the courtroom? How is Netflix allowed to do it first? Well, Netflix plays by no rules. I guess. They clearly wanted to strike while the iron was hot, which I get. They're probably going to get a ton of views on this documentary because it's so relevant right now.

But also, how is this going to tell the full story when we don't even know the scope of what the outcome of this trial is going to be? But I was looking it up because I didn't watch it. And I don't know anything about it. I know on TikTok, every time something like this happens, you have, it kind of just goes viral. Like everyone explaining all the details, what's going on in the trial and everything. But I started looking it up when we were talking about it because I really didn't understand how you could do this. And what actually was wild with this specific guy that's on trial right now. So he has had multiple people surrounding his family pass away, not just his

wife and son. Wait, really? Under suspicious conditions. So this family is well-known and wealthy, and they owned a law firm. So before the wife and son, and before another young person that passed away with his son in the presence, their maid passed away in their home from falling down the stairs. What? That's some lifetime like made up movie, like what? So I think these circumstances, and by the way, I think he's under investigation for that now. As he should be.

Because he, this was 2018, he's a lawyer. He told the maid's family to sue his insurance to get the insurance money for wrongful death. Yeah. They did. Who was their lawyer? Him. He got the money. He took the money from the family?

Yeah. How awful. he got the money he took the money from the family yeah how awesome all these suspicious things have been going on in this family for years before this happened so now i i think that's what the netflix documentary is about yeah a lot of impact there because now everyone's just looking into this man looking into his family and going what the hell's been going on with his family for years leading up to this um red flags after red flags yeah so i mean and where there is smoke there's fire yeah so definitely i i'm gonna watch it i watch every documentary as we know so if i find any more details that we didn't just discuss i will bring them up um and then also i'm pretty sure the jury is making a verdict soon like maybe now so we'll find out what really happens um the truth and we can update you since netflix isn't going to and maybe i don't know um but also Also, red flags everywhere, I guess, because we had the Haley Bieber and Selena Gomez war.

I would call it a war. I feel like there's been many battles and I feel like this could be the conclusion of all that has happened over the past what decade now so long literally forever um i think what we should do in this scenario because there's so many little details coming out now about things that have happened all throughout these years that should have been red flags seats so many it's like they were waiting for this that's what everyone was saying it's like they were waiting for this moment and they're just releasing everything they've ever had um but the facts of this recent debacle let's get to those because that's what really started this all right so earlier this year paparazzi photos came out of selena gomez in a bathing suit

and internet trolls do what internet trolls do and they start body shaming commenting on her and saying negative things all of a sudden hayley bieberiley Bieber posted TikTok with the sound, I'm not saying she deserved it, but God's timing is always right. With Kendall Jenner, who's kind of known to really not be friends with Selena Gomez also. And then another girl, Justine Skye, also not really known to be friends with Selena Gomez. Everybody immediately thought, okay, this is in response to be friends with Selena Gomez. Everybody immediately thought, okay, this is in response to Selena Gomez being trolled and people were pissed. Yeah. And so that kind of started this idea at the beginning of this year that maybe there is still some animosity there right then fast forward a couple months Selena Gomez is kind of caught up commenting on some of these people fans saying hey this was about Selena and she would comment

and say oh it's okay I don't want that stuff bother me right but to fans it was implying that she agreed that that was about her but it doesn't bother her exactly and it's kind of like it's like a backhanded comment in a way because you're saying oh I don't let it bother me but you're kind of confirming that right that could have been about you and you know that. Exactly. And Hailey Bieber took the video down and made a tweet or something, some kind of statement that said, oh, this wasn't about anyone in particular. And no one believed it. So then fast forward to this, you know, all this kind of happened people are thinking there's some animosity and then selena gomez makes a tiktok and says oh i accidentally over laminated my eyebrows you know here they are and kylie goes on instagram and posts her facetiming with Hailey Bieber, just their eyebrows,

and saying this was an accident. And on top of that, there could have been some animosity from Kylie towards Selena because Selena just became, again, the most followed person on Instagram, taking that throne away from Kylie because Selena had it once before.

So she had. In recent times, there could have been animosity there. So then TikToks are made about that happening. And Selena again comments and says, you know, this is silly. I agree with Kylie. I'm a fan of Kylie. And so everyone was like, OK, maybe that's true. It's fine. And then what happened after that that caused everybody to kind of. I think.

Oh, I remember now. It was Kylie also favorited a video from months ago. Yeah, long time. Talking about back in the day saying a fan made a video saying, oh, back in the day, Kendall, Gigi, and somebody else took Selena on a trip over New Year's so that Hailey could get with Justin over New Year's. And this was at the beginning of all of this. And years ago, then Kylie randomly favorites it. so people are like okay are you confirming that that happened years ago so really the the selena and hailey thing was people were always wondering people were but it was kind of even at the when this whole thing happened that video it kind of went

away yeah i feel like it was always little things a lot of speculation really what added fuel to this whole fire was kylie oh yeah once you got involved people were like game over it wouldn't have gotten any bigger than what it already was i think if she didn't step in because it was always there everyone always would speculate not. And then this was kind of solid evidence that there's something going on. I think you're right. Between that side and this side. Because the internet has been a little bit fed up with the Kardashians as a whole recently. I've seen a lot of TikToks about people being upset with the Kardashians just for this or that. So I feel like people already had like this built up, I don't want to say animosity again,

but animosity towards the Kardashians. And when they got, or when Kylie got looped into this Hailey, Selena situation, it was like, game over. We're done with you. Yeah. Because the TikToks have been brutal. It's been so out of control and i think i also try to put in perspective like i don't think that even if let's say you're never gonna love this girl that you know your ex loved for so many years that's just not realistic like as good of a person as

you can be as lovey as you might be as big as your heart can be that's just not realistic anybody who's ever been in that situation is gonna say the same thing like you just that's not realistic let's be real here yeah if you had this situation knew your. Person that you're with is potentially in love with someone else. You're not going to love that person, especially with how the Internet. Yeah, it gets thrown in her face a lot like you're not Selena. You'll never be Selena. He'll always love Selena more. He will go back to Selena like that's tough. Yeah. And especially if the friends in your corner

are also hating on this girl in front of you, that's never going to make you feel good. Yeah. And so I don't think that she specifically ever meant for it to get to this point. So in that respect, everyone's like, I'd love to be a fly on the wall in their house i feel terrible that must be the worst thing right now to just both of them probably are going at it with each other over something that was not even in their control because i mean maybe i i don't know how involved or not but when kylie stepped in that really changed the whole scenario. It flipped a switch and it got messy. And it made it seem like this side versus that side. And it's not stopping.

Instead of just these two girls, you know. I'm curious to see how long this plays out because it's been going on, I feel like, for a minute on TikTok. And Kylie and Hailey are both just losing followers by the left and right and uh yeah so i don't know how long it's gonna play out i'm pretty sure there was some kind of speculation of some kind of kardashian announcement like something really exciting to try to take away from this drama and i forget what it was so clearly it's not well we saw that today this is tuesday the 28th you know a couple days into this whole thing maybe a week a couple days though into this whole thing justin bieber officially canceled his tour yeah so don't know if that's related but people were wondering if

maybe that was to kind of it's interesting timing take away from this situation very interesting timing could be like you know people are also upset because he's not really speaking on it yeah well i have started to see i feel like i've seen less of people i don't want to say pitting selena and holy eight selena and hayley against each other but now people are starting to pull justin into it and like show records of his pass of like i saw one tiktok where it was like one month he was with Selena the next month he was posting a picture with Hailey the next month he was with Selena and it was like he plays a part in this too he clearly messed with these two girls minds as well and was behind this so we need to not just

focus on Selena Hailey and look at the picture fully and see what he was doing to them because i'm sure there was a little bit of manipulation there to both of them his mom did tweet i guess and said in the midst of this yeah and said something about bullying is ugly don't be a bully or don't be ugly or something about bullying like not so who who is she referring to probably at the internet probably the internet but it's just weird wording because people are calling hayley a bully at the end of the day though i what i don't understand is who who is all for? We're all winners here. Who are we arguing for on behalf?

Because we all know that Selena has her fans and she has her happiness now. She says it all the time. She doesn't like when people bully. She doesn't like when people. So we're not doing. No one's doing it for her. Because if it was up to her, nobody would be doing this. I think the Internet is doing it for her because if it was up to her, nobody would be doing this. I think the Internet is doing it for for themselves selfishly. So maybe we think about that.

Maybe we think and reflect on our own actions, because I think at the end of the day, people want answers that truthfully we probably aren't going to get. Let's give them the peace that they need at this point and deserve. Yeah. So that was they need at this point. And deserve. Yeah. So that was all going on this week. On a lighter note, on a lighter note, somehow, some way, Tom Brady, always back in this podcast lineup. Tom Brady is allegedly in talks with Netflix about doing a stand up comedy act or roast. So allegedly Brady's people are, this is so funny. They're not encouraging that he goes into a comedic career path, but according to a source um it was quoted that tom was a terrific quarterback

but needs to toss this idea um before it becomes too late as a comedic he is strictly a water boy that's harsh if he's trying to get into comedy he's got a good start with his thirst trap so yeah not wrong oh gosh um that'll be interesting i wonder if they'll do that netflix really hasn't done too many roasts no i mean i mean if if he wants a roast who better to roast him than us oh my god no invite us to the roast netflix we've been on this we've been roasting him for some reason for a long time now um also in happy news adele got engaged to her sports agent boyfriend rich paul very exciting big congratulations um apparently this ring that she's wearing appeared at the beginning of 2022 i found that interesting i was why is this the first we're hearing about it i feel like people

make a big fucking deal and he doesn't big words oh my gosh anytime they see even the slightest of a ring on somebody's ring finger. It doesn't even have to look like a traditional wedding ring. And they're like, they're engaged. They're married. And I feel like no one has really speculated that with her. They've just let her be, which is nice. Yeah, well, now it's apparently confirmed,

loosely confirmed that they are getting married this summer. And I was happy to continue reading and see that it was last year that the ring appeared because i was like damn that's fast that's making me feel bad i don't know what's going on yeah i'm stressed out um so yeah that's that's pretty much it for our pop culture. You know, we're going to get into the shady stories. Keep submitting your shady stories. And also don't forget bonus content in the link in the description on our new Patreon. So let's get into shady story number one.

I am a bin man in the UK who collects food waste to be sent off for recycling towards green energy i will walk around with a wheelie bin and fill it up with food waste eventually meet up with my truck and empty it to go onto the next street food waste is heavy and smelly and it's not fun to collect i also have to put up with a lot of crap from the general public at times. During COVID, we were heroes, braving the big scary outdoors and putting ourselves at risk like we are in a zombie apocalypse or something, and people would applaud us when we were in their streets. I didn't get why as we were just doing our jobs. Anyway, there's a particular household I deal with who are really nasty mofos. They're always disrespectful. They complain about everything, even when I've done my job correctly and safely, etc. So one day I had a full bin of

food waste and this particular house had the last bin I had to empty. I walked down the driveway to the front of the house, empty their bin, and just as I'm about to walk back up the driveway, the front door flies open and I get bombarded with a load of abusive language by the resident about how I don't empty their bins properly, how they smell, etc. So my response was to be as professional as possible. I can only bang the bin on my bin. I can't put and won't put my hand in your bin because there could be something sharp, etc. If you want the bin that doesn't smell, just put some bleach and water, clean it, and leave it overnight. It'll be fine tomorrow. I then got a tirade of how dare you speak back

to me like that and how I made a mess on their property every week, which would be counterproductive to what I do, which is clean up and collect waste. I'd had enough and it was Friday. I had a shit week and I wasn't putting up with their crap. I wheeled my bin back to the front of their house and topped the whole bin of food waste on their front doorstep, sloppy juice included. I picked my bin up, looked at this mofo and said, send that complaint to the office. By the time I was back in the office, my manager called me in. I explained everything, including past issues, had it confirmed by other workers what these people are like, I have a lot to say. I feel like, one, I was like, what is a bin man?

That's a very polite way of explaining their career but also i think this person is they're from the uk so we don't have in the u.s a food waste thing like specifically for food waste no but i just love the term bin man yeah i i think it's nice it is nice i could a bin man but yeah like i feel like that's just like so beautiful it's cute um but also this was super well written um i just love this part at the end the complaint was filed in the bin yeah that's incredible um i'm glad they weren't it seemingly they were not fired for um dumping the trash honestly you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes is that what they said yeah at this

point it's it's just food waste so it's compostable yeah if it flies away animals will get it yeah it's a deal yeah it's not harming the earth just more inconvenient for the person that was inconveniencing them so yeah they could learn their lesson i'd say this is a eight out of ten i was gonna give it a seven cool shady story number two when i was 18 the summer after i graduated high school in 2004, I worked at a pet store in the Metro Detroit area with my best friend. One of our co-workers invited us to hang out with him and a friend at his house one night and we agreed. When we arrived to the house, it was a total dump with no electricity, no furniture. It was dark out so our co-worker and his friend wanted to hang out outside

we needed to use the bathroom at one point and went inside and tried to find the bathroom in the dark my best friend opened a door which turned out to be a closet and a little pit bull puppy came running out our co-worker's friend shoved it back into the closet and scowled at us that scowled when we tried to pet her, telling us that it was his brother's puppy and to not to be nice to it because they were going to use her for dog fighting and wanted her to be mean. We were so horrified and immediately concocted a plan to rescue the pup while we were in the bathroom. I lured the guys into the backyard under the guys that I wanted to jump out on the trampoline in the backyard with them and get frisky wink wink. I stripped down to my bra and underwear and started jumping on the trampoline with them and they were super distracted and it was and into it obviously so mission accomplished while i had the guys busy

on the trampoline my best friend snuck into the back of the house grabbed the dog and put it in her trunk then when she came and told me that her mom then she came and told me that her mom had called and was really mad how late we were and we had to leave immediately. I threw on my clothes and we hopped in the truck and we peeled out like bats out of hell. Shortly later, our co-workers called us to ask to see if we had seen the dog or knew where it went. We played dumb and said we had no clue. Our co-worker and his friend ended up getting their asses kicked by my friend's brother or by the friend's brother for losing the dog.

And we rehomed the puppy with a sweet elderly puppy that sweet elderly couple that wanted a puppy. Our coworker never found out that it was us that took the dog and we had no regrets. Attached is a picture of the puppy who we named jenna and i still have the picture almost 20 years later they did the absolute right thing why does everything in me just wish they would have infiltrated this ring and got the whole thing shut down i understand these people like taking it a step further yeah like i understand they're working in the pet shop and you know they're not detectives but i want them to

infiltrate this ring and get it shut down but i did just hear on the news actually recently that in metro detroit a dog fighting ring was shut down hopefully it was this one hopefully it was this one um that jenna was saved from but yeah i really wish that somehow they could have infiltrated and the guy who wanted to use the puppy kicked the other people's ass he needs his ass kicked yeah that's kind of what i was hoping what was happening and why i got tripped up on my words there because i was like wait why is it why aren't they all getting their asses beat right now i don't know no one should be doing that to puppies so i would say animals um shady shady meter 10 i was gonna say 10 they saved this puppy they did what they had to do we applaud you Shady story number three.

This one has a title. I love it. And it's pretty good. This one's called At the Body Shop. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. In my 20s, I developed an unconventional relationship with the mechanics at my garage. My car was older, and with all the commuting between work and school, I was in and out of the shop a lot. I dealt with several mechanics during the four years I patroned

the garage, and over time, I was privy to things one usually wouldn't know about the guys who serviced their car. In late 2012, early 2013, my car was on the fritz and needed to be serviced weekly. By this point, there was a guy we'll call Ralph would become my primary mechanic. Ralph was originally from the South and he'd married a woman from up North. And now they lived in Massachusetts, just them, no kids. That winter, Ralph started bragging about some women he met online and how they were planning to meet in person. Every time I was at the shop, Ralph was always on the phone with her. One day I bring my car in and Ralph is giddy like a school girl because he's finally going to meet this woman. But here's the thing. She lived in Virginia. Yes, that's right. We're talking over 500 miles each way. The garage was

a chain and Ralph was laughing with the other guys about how he told his wife he was going to some training seminar in Connecticut for the weekend. That was his excuse to drive to Virginia to get laid. The next time I went to the garage, the guys were on pins and needles because Ralph's wife had come in looking for him earlier that day. She'd been calling him all weekend, but his phone was going straight to voicemail and she was ready to file a missing person report. She wanted the contact info for the alleged training seminar and the guys were bugging out because no one knew what to tell her. Eventually one of them got in touch with Rolf and told them to call home ASAP. When Rolf returned,

he actually acted with no remorse, laughing about how sore he was from all the sex he had that weekend. He couldn't have cared less that his wife was so distraught over his whereabouts. Even I told Ralph it was messed up that he dodged his wife like that. Fast forward a few months later, one day I receive a private Facebook message from a woman that I don't know. It turns out it was Ralph's wife, and she had straight out asked me if I was having an affair with him. I was pissed.

I had no clue where her accusations were coming from and demanded to know why she was asking me this. I cannot tell you how deeply his wife's pain poured through that message. She pinpointed the marriage breakdown to the same time frame that Ralph had met this Virginia woman, but because she kept hearing about some Danielle, that's me, who was always at the shop, whose car Ralph was always fixing, she put two and two together and assumed we were having an affair. She had no clue about the Virginia woman and that she even existed. She kept saying how destroyed she was and that all she wanted was closure. I could tell by the tone in her writing that Ralph's wife was truly innocent and wouldn't

hurt a fly. That's what sucked the most. A large part of me wanted to tell her the truth about Ralph and the Virginia woman, but I knew it wasn't my place and I didn't have it in me to hurt such an innocent person. I forgave her for accusing me of being the other woman, and I wished her the best for the future. But inside I felt horrible for what I knew and how I could have spared her from all that wondering. It's been about 10 years now, and sometimes I still question if I did the right thing.

I don't think she did the right thing. It would have taken only a couple more minutes of her time to just tell ralph's wife what happened yeah and here's the thing i understand whoever wrote this in you know allegedly ralph's wife forgave her for or said sorry that she accused her wrongly but if i was ralph's wife i would think that she was lying you know yeah she had no other explanation i would ralph's wife probably still believes that this danielle girl was who ralph cheated with i mean what else what else is she gonna think so i really don't know how you came to the conclusion not to throw the virgin what did you why were you saving something to this

virginia woman i would have thrown her ass under the bus yeah i mean maybe she felt closer with ralph because she was with him every week ralph is trash yeah i don't know i feel like i at that point just tell her you have nothing to lose at that point um yeah at that you already lost your mechanic she came to you in her time of need and you could have given her the answer she needed again it really wasn't her place but at the same time yeah this poor lady's reaching out on facebook that's just tell her. That's tough. Yeah, I think Ralph makes this one pretty

high up there for me. High up there? Yeah, he ditched his wife and moved to another state. 500 miles away. That's bad. Also, the title of this just deserves a 10 out of 10, by the way. Okay, yeah. This one isn't terrible, maybe a 10 out of 10, by the way. Okay, yeah.

This one isn't terrible, maybe. Seven out of 10? Six. Your standards are getting low around here. I know. Okay, well, that concludes today's episode. And like I said, we have the link for the Shady Stories. We have the link to all our other social media where we post everything.

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