Two Hot Takes - 100: And We're Just Getting Started..

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-host Lauren, Justin, Alejandra, and Dad Jerry!! Who would've ever thought we would be here at episode 100?!? Switching things up with my amazing co-hosts taking over and reading the stories for a change.. Let's dive in. Justin's New Show!!! https://anchor.fm/crackingthecopyright https://www.youtube.com/@crackingthecopyright Patreon for bonus content:  https://www.patreon.com/TwoHotTakes Our SubReddit to Submit YOUR Stories!!! https://reddit.app.link/twohottakes Full length Video episodes available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TwoHotTakes Partners: Babbel: Babbel.com/THT PDS Debt: www.pdsdebt.com/tht

Hi, Jan from Toyota speaking. Jan, I heard it's a good time to buy a Toyota. Sure is. From now until April 4th, you can shop all your favorites, like Corolla, RAV4, Sequoia, and more. Imagine yourself in a new tundra where... You stopped by the home improvement store and finally built that tree house you promised your daughter.

Sarah? When did you hop on the call? Hi, Dad. Mom said you were taking too long on the phone. Toyota, let's go places. See your participating Toyota dealer for details. Dealer inventory may vary. You're going to hear me thank a lot of people this episode, but first and foremost, I wanted to thank all of you. This is episode 100 and I'm not going to cry.

I cry too much. You get the tears, don't worry. But this show would not have made it this far without you guys supporting the show and making it possible. I'm blown away by how many of you there are. I'm in awe. That week after week, you tune in and you love the show and you love all of us. You guys mean the world to me

and I'm so, so grateful for each and every one of you. We've really created an amazing, inclusive community that, yeah, we share hot takes and we slip up from time to time, but we grow and we learn together and it's really, really amazing to be a part of. So thank you again for all the love. I see it. I feel it.

We all do. We all appreciate the support. And before we really get into things, I just want to let you guys know that Justin has started his own podcast. It's called Cracking the Copyright. It's an amazing show geared towards music and really giving you an insight into his career and what he's doing.

And I mean, he created this amazing song that you're about to hear. It's worth checking out. And my brother and Amy's show, it's coming too, so don't worry. It's a family requirement that you have a podcast at this point. Funny how that works, huh?

But thank you guys. I couldn't do this without you. Let's dive in. Are you ready? That's a loaded question. I'm just not even... I feel like you just take it away. This is episode 100.

This is your time to shine and be the host. Except I do have a gift for you. Don't loosen you up a little bit. A little shot. Right there. And while you're enjoying your shot, do you remember when we used to chase with compliments? Yeah.

So I have some nice compliments for you while we... While you take your shot. Okay. So I went on Instagram in honor of episode 100 and I said, what's been your favorite Lauren Realth moment on the podcast? Impossible to pick one. Lauren is Chef's Kiss.

All of them. Her slipping out under the table to pee during the live show. Anytime she's on the show. The money episode is one of my faves, though. Not from a pod episode, but she was so genuinely sweet when I met her at the live show. So many. Lauren is my favorite co-host.

Every moment. Another slide under the table at the live show. Any episode she's on. Can't pinpoint a specific, but I love how she always tries to see both sides and offers empathy. Don't have a favorite, just love when she's on. Too many to count. We love Lauren.

Not a moment, but I just love her and how humble she is. She seems to have supportive sister friend vibes. Her reactions to spooky stories are hilarious, but also I just love her empathetic approach. Her reaction to the, I want to break up my wife because she has cancer story. That was insane. Yeah, that was fucked up.

When she thought a fruit fly was an orb in one of the spooky episodes. Still convinced. When she repeats words slowly and then cracks up. Do I do that? I guess. Everything, we love Lauren. Her laugh when she gets nervous. Often.

When she simply exists. Everything, we love her so much. Why am I going to cry over this? I know, same. What the hell guys, you're so sweet. I honestly just love her. She's so genuine and never afraid to change her mind. I'm literally tearing up.

Stop, I worked really hard on this makeup today. I even did like a little cute orange eyeshadow under it. It's really cute. Thank you. Her reaction to the story about the mom who told her sons she'd wish she'd never given birth to them. BRB while I go rewatch all of her episodes. All of them.

Lauren is my fave. Everything. She's my favorite co-host. I don't know if I have one. Her laugh is great and she gives such amazing vibes. Every time she laughs it's contagious. I'm scrolling, Lauren. You had so many people respond.

Thank you guys for participating. The last one. It's one of the first ones that came in actually. Her reaction to every poop story. That's like one thing that doesn't make, I don't know why but for some reason we talk about poop stories. Love poop stories. They don't freak me out for some reason.

It's the visuals that do. Oh, well I'll try to find the next poop story for you. That's like the most descriptive visually engaging story I can find. Thank you. Okay, the rest is you. This episode 100 where I don't know the stories, didn't find the stories, haven't read the stories. It's all provided by my amazing co-hosts.

Well first of all, thank you guys so much. That is, I don't even have words. I was completely heartwarming and you guys made me blush. And you made us almost cry. Oh no, I was full on crying. Full on. But yeah, I don't public read. If you guys know that, I've made a few comments.

So I might stumble or stutter. This goes way back, you know, back in fourth grade. But here we go, Morgan, are you ready? Yeah, I'm nervous. It's weird being on this side of the couch. I know, same. You know, I don't like this side. So I'm like, I don't want to look at you.

It's so crazy. I always thought that I was the only person that had like, like sides that I would prefer. And then you realize that- No, prefer. No, no, no. Lauren. Lauren.

Fair enough. Lauren does not show the right side of her face. Ever. It's not a preference. Okay. One time when I was a kid, like I think I was like 12 or 13 years old. My aunt saw a picture of me from my right side and she goes,

that doesn't look like you. And like a voice like that. Did it scar you forever? 100%. You have like one of the most symmetrical faces I've ever seen. I don't agree, but thank you. But- I'm like, I'm still, it blows my mind every time I hear this.

Okay. Okay. So my female 25 husband, male 28, said something disgusting to me. Of course you did. Yeah. You sure you haven't heard this one? Nope.

I can't stop thinking of it. I've been in the bath for a long time because I've been dreading going to bed with him. A few hours ago, I was lying in bed feeding our baby. My husband was begging me to come do something with him. I tried to tell him to wait a few moments and he kept glaring at me and telling me to hurry up. I just gave birth a couple months ago

and my husband has been so jealous of his own son. I could see he was starting to lose his patience and I told him, honey, I have to take care of him before. You know that. And what he said back was really stunning. He looked me right in the eyes and said, if you love him so much, why don't you suck his dick instead of mine? I couldn't say anything.

Fucking gross. I didn't even know what to say. And then he stormed out of our bedroom. I don't even know what to make of this. What should I do? It just bothers me so deeply. It's going to be hard for me to forgive. I really don't have any other complaints about my husband.

Most days, things are great with him, but that just made me sick to my stomach. Am I being sensitive? Maybe I'm just emotional, but I feel like crying. That's it? Yeah. What the fuck? Are there any updates?

I hate hearing stories like this. And there's been a couple that have come up recently where there was one on Amy's episode where there was his dad and like every time he would go and put the baby to bed, he would whisper things to the baby and be like, I fucking hate you. I hope you die.

Like just crazy shit. Oh my God. He'd just whisper this crazy shit to the baby. I don't remember. That's not a direct quote, you guys, but it was bad shit. And I feel like this is kind of on that level where if he is so insecure and not just insecure at this point,

he actually resents his child. Making a comment like that makes me feel like he doesn't like his child at all. Like he sees his child as a direct threat to his wife. Right. This feels so territorial. And it's like, this is your baby. This is your baby.

This is half of you. And you're threatened by your baby. Do you think it would have been different if their baby was female? Maybe. Do you think it was some weird? I don't know. I just think like maybe the little boy thing

has something to do with it, but that's like honestly a very surprising reaction because of how many gender reveal videos that you see that are guys getting upset over girls. And even not even guys, like moms get upset over girls. I saw a gender reveal video today of a mom crying because she found out she was having a little girl. Oh my God, I want a girl.

And you don't usually see this with boys. Like unless it's like she's got four boys and this is the fifth baby and she just wanted a little girl, then you might see it. But if you know you might be disappointed, don't have public gender reveals besides the point. So true.

I just think, I think he's just a little off his rocker right now. Like this is a little scary to the point. I wouldn't trust him alone with the baby. No, I agree. It's not. So I've heard about stuff like this and I don't have a child. So I don't know what it feels like to be jealous of a baby.

Like that seems crazy to me. But at the same time, I don't know what that person's going through. Yeah. But to say those words is just the most repulsive thing, especially when that is an issue. That's an actual real serious scary issue. So to even say that because you're mad, you're jealous, it goes beyond just whatever he's going through.

It's just like he took it way too far. It's disgusting, repulsive. No one should ever say those words. No. And I think about too, like, I don't know, I look at Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and their relationships and relationship, ships. Multiple.

Polly. You never know what goes on. Yeah. But they'll always troll each other. I'm sure everyone listening knows that or has seen something like that. And one of the things that he said was like, how much he loves his wife more than anything in the world. But the minute that he had children,

he would take her as a human body shield and protect those children. And she's like, you know, laughing about it. And they go back and forth. Dude, that would crush me. What? I would like, I'm too sensitive for that shit. You have Justin said that? Yeah.

I'm way too sensitive. You can't troll me. You just got to give me love. To be honest, as much as I respected their couples that can do that. Yeah. I actually thought about that too, that would hurt my feelings. I'd be crying on a daily. Like, this is the birthday post and you're supposed to shower me with love.

And then you pick the worst picture you have of me on your phone. Like, dude, no, I don't need to be trolled. No, it's interesting. And it's not just like, I do think a lot of parents granted salt to everyone. Y'all know I haven't popped any watermelons out of my pussy. But. God damn it. But, you know.

That's the third time you've said this on the show to me. You do see some parents become a little insecure or feel like their relationship with their partner is a little threatened. Which makes sense, right? Like, they had this kid. The kid is now the number one priority, especially when it's new. All it does is eat, cry, shit. Yeah.

Like, it takes a lot of time and energy and love. So your couple-ness and your partnership really gets put to the side. So that's normal. And it might, it's normal, I think, to feel a little insecure. But, I think this is a conversation, like, if you're thinking of having kids with someone, I would definitely address this. Or even if you're pregnant, I'd be like, hey babe, when the baby comes. Yeah.

We are going to be prioritizing the baby. And we might put our couple ship on the back burner. Let's figure out a way where we can do regular check-ins or spend quality time together on a regular basis and address this. So we don't forget about us. And I think it's not just so much the fact that he is insecure. I think it's the fact that he made a comment to her basically saying, go sexually assault our child.

Go suck his dick. So fuck up. I couldn't believe that. When I read it, I literally, my jaw dropped. This time, obviously, I've already read it. So the shock factor was gone. But the first time, I just, I was like, is this a troll post? But I can't imagine.

Okay. So what are the top comments? Mental health help for sure. It's to definitely pursue some therapy. So the top comment, hold on. It's kind of, the top comments kind of confusing because of the edit, but I'll just read it. Oh, so there is an edit? Of the edit of the top comment.

So the top comment has 4.5,000 up votes. How old is this story? Three years. It's old. Oh. Yeah. Is that okay? Can I change it?

Yeah. Okay. If you need to look at the account. Okay. Top comment says, that's fucked up. He sounds like an immature child. Once you have a child, everything changes. The kid comes first always.

Hell, honestly for that, I'd go spend a few days with family and stay out of the house. And then there. Yeah. Absolutely fair. OP responded back to that comment and said, a part of me really wants to leave tonight and stay in a hotel. Absolutely. I don't want to see him, touch him, talk to him, anything right now. Someone responded, please consider it, especially if this is out of character.

You don't know what else he could say or potentially do to you or your child if he is that jealous. 100%. He has to know that this is not okay. And then the next top comment. Oh, trust me, they know. They just don't care. They want what they want regardless of anyone else's feelings. They think that they are never the problem.

Sounds like this person thinks that the OP's husband is a narcissist. Yeah. They really personally relate to it. Well, it's interesting too because OP didn't really specify what he was trying to get her attention for, but it sounded like it was just a casual like, come here, babe, let me show you something. Yeah. So that's what she was saying. She was just like, honey, I have to take care of him before you, you know that.

Apparently that set him off. Yeah. So go to the account. Let's see if there's any other comments. Please don't be suspended, you silly bitch. So what we're going to do is use my new bestie, the Wayback machine. Okay. So apparently the Wayback machine does not go back that far.

I wonder how many people deal with this though, because I'm sure this is not unique. It doesn't seem like it is. It seems like it's kind of like a thing that just pops up and like mail postpartum is a thing. It's someone corrected me on the last episode and it's not postpartum depression for men because obviously they didn't have the baby. So it's called something else. Like they don't have the chemical. Well, I'm sure it's chemical to an extent, but.

Some say like all the articles when I'm searching like what is postpartum depression in men called and it literally people are just like postpartum depression in men. So I forget what the actual term this user was saying, but the man or father is not postpartum or the other person in the relationship who didn't have the baby, depending on what your couple looks like. They didn't go through labor. They don't have the chemical imbalance. They're not recovering. So it's a little different, but he could be dealing with something like that.

Well, that's why I stopped myself because I was like, it's interesting because obviously it's still chemical to an extent because people who have depression, it's also chemical. And they don't have to have a baby to make their hormones go all over the place. So I guess maybe it does kind of, I don't know. I actually have never heard of that before. So now I know what I'm going to look up when I get home. Oh my gosh. Let's do one last thing just to make sure we cross all our boxes, copy the title.

And let's go on Google and see if there was ever an update. This one absolutely blows my mind. Damn. Okay. Well, if anyone out there can find an edit or find the user's comments, I searched way back machine and it's not in there, but it just makes me really sad that after going through something as like big as childbirth, she just can't be in a supportive, healthy home. Like she's got to now worry about her husband being jealous, insecure, potentially dangerous with their baby.

It's also like, oh, you're mad at me because I'm being selfless to another helpless human. That's weird. What the fuck? You don't even mean it's not like she's going out and gambling all their money away. She's literally taking care of their child. I just, it's so interesting what can trigger people and why and when and how they react to it. And it's just sad. Absolutely.

Well, and you think about it too. What if this was like a sick parent that she also had to help with, would it be the same reaction? Right. Because this is your baby. This is the one where you're like, this is a part of me. Right. This is a part of me. Such a good point.

Yeah. Like if it was her dad. That's so interesting. Go suck your dad's dick. So fucked up. Oh my God. What a fucking weirdo. So weird.

I wonder if they're still together. What are your bets? I guess. I'm scared. I'm scared that like we can't find an update. I just get really worried about stuff like that. Well, you have a really big and amazing audience that are little detectives. Okay.

They found out real quick who I was going on a couple of dates with when I mentioned it. That was good. Oh, it's so funny. Hi, Jan from Toyota speaking. Jan, I heard it's a good time to buy a Toyota. Sure is. From now until April 4th, you can shop all your favorites like Corolla, RAV4, Sequoia, and more.

Imagine yourself in a new tundraware. You stopped by the home improvement store and finally built that tree house. You promised your daughter. Sarah? When did you hop on the call? Hi, Dad. Mom said you were taking too long on the phone. Toyota, let's go places.

See your participating Toyota dealer for details. Dealer inventory may vary. Moving along. Moving along. Okay. Okay. So am I the asshole for how I responded when my fiancee sister commented on my flat chest? To get this out of the way, I'm a flat-chested girl.

I suffer from health issues and growth problems, so I'm small, but I'm proud of myself. My fiancee and I went over to his parents' house for his niece's birthday. I wore a sweetheart-shaped dress, and my sister-in-law, Mel, who always comments on my chest, saw the dress and went like in quotes, this dress needs boobs, and you ain't got any. That's how she- What up there? I felt kind of weird saying it. You ain't got any.

Do you want me to redo that or no? So I ignored her, but then at dinner, she asked if I was planning on getting a plastic surgery before the wedding so that I didn't ruin the wedding dress. I found this offensive, especially when others were watching. I said nothing, but when we were sitting in the living room later, Mel suddenly started wiping her nose and trying to clear it. It's stuffed due to a cold, apparently. She has a large nose, so I smiled and said,

Do you need help with that? I could get the plunger for you. She was stunned, and the room got awkward after her husband was laughing. She was fuming and told my fiancee that I stepped out of line and ruined her daughter's birthday with my words that humiliated her. My fiancee said I shouldn't have caused a scene after his parents told us to leave. I explained how her comments made me feel, but he said that she said it out of concern. But my comment was out of hate. Now she's expecting an apology. Did I go too far here?

Throw this whole family away. Throw them away. One bullshit. Oh, you embarrassed me in front of my daughter. You're studying a bad example for my daughter or whatever she said. How are you not studying a bad example for your daughter, criticizing another woman's body, belittling her, degrading her, suggesting she should get an expensive, invasive plastic surgery

to make her better, to make her more acceptable? You're creating body issues with your daughter, bitch. Right. Fuck you. The fiancee, throw him away. Throw him away. If you have a man that's not going to stick up for you, where do you think the sister heard it from first?

I bet she got ideas from her brother, this fiancee being like, yeah, you know what, I wish her boobs were bigger. Oh my God. And that's why he's defending her saying this was out of care. It was just out of care. Yours was out of hate. No, that's called karma. She deserved that clap back.

I'm sorry, out of care doesn't usually sound like this dress needs boobs and you ain't got any. Also, okay, I'm sorry, I would much rather, as someone that has large boobs, I would much rather, and I know the grass is always greener, it's one of those things, I get it, but I would much rather have small boobs or being flat chested, truly, like clothes fit you better. What do you mean that dress needs boobs?

I know. I'm so, I hate people commenting on other people's bodies. I know, and that's what's so interesting to me, that the reaction was so, as if she was shocked, because honestly, like it was more discreet. I mean, yeah, like I guess the plunger, the reference was there, but like, I mean, maybe she had, maybe it was just the plunger, but also I could see something like,

even if she would have said like, oh, you have a cold, maybe it's your deviated septum, maybe you need a nose job. Right, yeah. Maybe we could go see the same plastic surgeon and get a two for one deal. I'll get my tits, you get your nose. Oh, that's hilarious. Well, and that's what I think is so crazy, because it's like people, I mean, do whatever you want to do,

like if you want to get your boobs done, your nose done, like whatever, I'm so supportive of that, but it should never be because other people are telling you to do so. Like I remember that there was this girl who people, like she got posted because she's so beautiful. She got posted on something where like a ton of people were responding. I think it was something like bar stool. And like obviously she got posted because they were trying to,

you know, be like how beautiful she was. But then for whatever reason, people like they'll do like came in and started pointing out the things that they didn't like about her and tearing her down. And one of the things was like something about her forehead, she ended up getting forehead surgery years later. And I don't know if it had anything to do with it, but like how could it not?

You know what I mean? And like that's what makes me sick because it's like, if that's something that like, you know, you want to do on your own, do whatever you fucking want to do, but like it should never be coming from anybody else. That's fucked up. There is no, like there's no right or wrong with appearances. It is all make believe.

We've like humans have just made it up. And so I just, I can't stand when I hear stuff like this, where people are trying to tell, like push their own beliefs on somebody else. Like there's nothing wrong with any of that shit. You know what I mean? Like something that's interesting that you just said to the fact that it's like, it's literally make believe.

Like there are these make believe standards that certain people made up and they're always changing. Like the Brazilian butt lifts that are so dangerous are now out. All of these celebrities that got them are reversing them and they're getting the fat sucked back out of their asses. So it's like, you can't keep up with these trends. They're unattainable. They're unhealthy.

They're dangerous. But then you got me thinking like, it is make believe and it's these fake standards set by people that only set these standards to get us to consume more, to get us to spend more, to get us to buy their shit, support their brands. And then I went down this rabbit hole really fast in my head where it's like, what is an insecurity? Is an insecurity literally created based on us comparing ourselves

to other people or other people picking us apart? Or is an insecurity something that is just inherently in us? Because like for me, like if I had, I don't know a little extra eyebrow on the side, would I consider that weird if no one ever said anything to me? Or would I just be like, oh, well, that's just my face. And so it's just my face. I don't, yeah, I don't think that we would think anything of it.

Exactly. Like I don't, I know everyone has different ideas of evolution and whatnot, but I genuinely think that it's just. Okay. If it never got pointed out to me, I would never think anything of it. Right. And if, have you ever seen the Ashton Kutcher video where he's on Nickelodeon?

No. Oh my God, it's such a cool video. Like you guys should look it up. I think you could probably just Google Ashton Kutcher, Nickelodeon. But what he was talking about, and I think that there was an interview later of like where he was inspired to do this, but he talked about his upbringing and how at one point he was sweeping the floors of Cheerios, working in a factory.

And then the next thing he did, you know, and he was talking about like building up of what he was doing throughout his life and his career and how at every single step of the way, up until the point that he became a famous well-known name that people, you know, like one of the heartthroats. He didn't say this, but like. Yeah, he's one of the heartthroats. Yeah.

Like he never for a minute thought that he was better than. He was just happy to be giving the opportunity to make money. And he was talking about how people will always try to sell you on something like this world that we live in. It's created by people that are no smarter and no better than you. And so create your own world and live in your own world. And it, and don't, he's like, whatever they're fucking selling you, don't buy it.

Like everything that they're selling you is so that they can make money off of you as puppets. And it's true. It's like, that's why that's like, you know, trends used to be with clothes because plastic surgery wasn't as, you know, a big of an option, but now it is. And so now there's trends with plastic surgery. People get their boobs put in, they get them removed.

Like you just said, like Brazilian butt lifts. Like it's just, it's, I think it's just really important to kind of, you know, take a step back and think about what makes you happy and what is the world that you want to build and that you want to live in. Yeah. I can completely agree. Don't get sucked into these trends. Don't buy it.

Don't buy it. Unless you really think about it and decide it's right for you. Exactly. But, and I'm all for surgery. Like I'm, I want to get my breasts reduced and a little chin lipo. Like I'm all for it, but it's just, yeah. And that's another point too is that it's tough. There should never be people telling you the opposite either

because it's like growing up in the Midwest. I grew up thinking like getting plastic surgery was so bad. So bad. Yeah. And so fake. And so whatever. All this plastic. Yeah.

And it's like, that's just, you should never feel bad if there's something that you genuinely feel insecure about. Like as long as it's really coming from you, you know, not people coming around you like bullying you, but like if there's something that you genuinely want to do for yourself on the flip side of things, you shouldn't let people bully you into thinking that it's wrong to do it. Yeah.

Do whatever the fuck makes you happy. Like live your life. That's the moral of the story for this whole show. Yeah. Everyone just be happy. We love you. Live your life. Be in a safe, healthy environment, relationship.

Everything. Yeah. Just. Okay. I hate this one. That story was, all of your stories are really, is this how you feel? Sometimes.

Yeah. It's just like aggravated. You just want to like. It's really funny to be on the other side and like hear your reactions because I've never had this before. Usually you're always so calm and collected. I know. Everyone's going to love it.

We're going to have to make this a regular thing. Well, and one of the things too is like I'm also way more calm than normal because trying not to puke. I've been having just a day and we're recording another episode after this. So I'm trying to just give my energy and I'm at all but like. You're doing a great job. I'm at like 15 right now instead of 100. You're doing great, sweetie.

The percentage is not very good. Well, that's episode 100 for Lauren. For me. You picked really good stories. Yay. Yeah. I had a, some of our THT fam help out. Aww.

Look cuties. I know. I was like looking through them and I was thinking, why not work smarter instead of harder? And I know that I have so many amazing people that you guys reach out to me and I just absolutely adore you guys. And so I was like, duh, there's got to be some friends out here that like have came across a few good stories.

So thank you so much for making this episode amazing. I love that. Well, unless you don't think it's amazing, but hopefully do. If you don't screw you. Teach their own. I just want to say thank you. Ugh, I'm going to cry. Don't cry.

Um, 100 episodes. I never, yeah. Okay. I thought the show would do something, but to get to 100 is an amazing feat. And it wouldn't have happened without you. So I just want to say thank you and I love you. Love you. Don't do this to us.

I know. Okay. Goodbye. Next host coming in. I love you. I love you. I love you. And thank you so much.

Everything. No. All the things. Sweat and tears. All the things is to you. I just, I just edit, you know. You do a lot more than that. No.

Okay. Love you. I love you. Bye. Hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Two Hot Takes. I'm your host, Justin. And I'm Morgan.

And today I found some stories. So we're going to see how this goes. At least I have the experience of reading a lot on Father Knows. So at least I have that going for me. Yeah. Because it was always very nerve wracking when you'd have to do like the popcorn reading for textbooks in school. Yeah.

And I've always been scarred by that. But I think just being on the shows has helped me a lot. Just with like reading and, you know, not messing it up. Yeah. Because the worst thing was when everyone in front of you read and did it well and then you kind of mess it up and you just, yeah. It was so embarrassing. Right.

But the dumbest shit to be embarrassed about too. When you look back, it's like, who cares? Yeah. Well, before you get reading though. Oh. I just want to say thank you. I'm not going to cry. Did you cry on the others?

Both of them. Oh. Both of them. We don't need, we don't need that. No. No. But this podcast wouldn't be here without you. You bought me all my equipment.

And you really, I was a depressed, sad little person. You said you weren't going to cry. I know I lied. But I didn't really have a lot going for me. And I was probably the worst I've ever been in my life. I was sad. I was depressed. I was irritable, cranky, lost.

And you took me talking about Reddit stories. And wanting to start a podcast. And you were so encouraging. And you literally bought all the equipment to get me started. And taught me how to edit. And do my sound. And the show would not be here. Let alone at 100 episodes without you.

So thank you. Okay. Now I have some really kind words from people. Because I've been asking, I'm like, what's your favorite moment of each co-host? Okay. You're like, fuck, I need some more wine so I don't start crying. Okay. So people said, definitely the plant heard on the podcast before seeing it on YouTube.

Oh yeah. That was a nightmare last week. I love how like instantly a classic moment happened. Like episode 99. Oh my God. Probably one of the best. I don't think I've had a candle going since. I'm like, honestly terrified.

Because the wick was so short. It was so ridiculous. It's all about that reaction time. We were very slow. We were so slow. Once we knew. Yeah. No thoughts.

Yeah, you went fast then. The next person goes, all episodes. I'm so excited to start listening to his own podcast. Let's go. Which Justin started his own podcast with his music partner. It's called cracking the copyright and it's amazing. So be sure to go listen to that. Any slash all episodes because his soothing voice along with your soothing, soothing voice

is lovely in the most recent episode when he went on that rant about how it was hard for him to understand that guy's point of view on attractiveness. I struggled with self-image and it really made me have hope for my current and possible future relationships. I would love to compile all of my random rants that sometimes are and aren't like related to the story. Can you imagine if we put together like the dinner we went to last night and I went on my rant.

Yeah. You know how I do that sometimes? Like right now. Yeah. I would like to go through and find every rant and just have like an hour long of me just popping off. Okay. We could do that.

Side note. I really think Justin's voice sounds like Evan Peters whenever he brings up space. Literally the next person up rants about space when he said organically this past episode and sounded exactly like Jerry. Really? Communicate. All caps. Yeah.

Gekko Justin was a statement. Honestly, him being traumatized every episode is hilarious. It's a lot. No favorite moment, but the way he was so chill about it. I'm assuming the fire. I posted that as my favorite. Yeah. When you were so calm about the guy peeing himself in front of the family and Justin was like

brain blown emoji. That's not clutter. That's friend talking about the panda with Lauren. See, it's all those little moments that I wish like there could be a compilation of. Maybe someone can do that. That'd be sick. The random space tangents. We need more of those.

I think we should do a full fledged space episode. I know it'd be tough because there's probably not a lot of stories on space, but we could talk about space drama and it could just lightly reference it. Oh, my boyfriend, that's like an astronomer. He went and did this to me and then we could be like, well, that's space. Yeah. When he instantly thought of postpartum depression in the most recent episode, Morgie, you're teaching him well.

No, he's just, he's a good one. He's a keeper. Every moment, you guys are the best. You have a gem. He's so emotionally intelligent. I'm going to wrap it through the next three. Okay. Next person.

Anytime he goes on a tangent about space. Next person. When he went on his tangent about space. Next person. Down the rabbit hole episode where the girl kept saying the moon landing was fake. No dude. I can't deal with that. Communicate.

Not a moment, but much respect for Mr. Communication. We love it. Let's go. When he said he was picking his butt in that one episode. Most memorable for me was his take on the person that used their partner sock to wipe. See, I want to go relive all these moments. Whenever he talks about being blasted in outer space when he dies, gets me every time. When he said he wasn't a pick me in THT, he's so sweet to you.

It's helping heal trauma that made me fear white men. Same, honestly. Okay. I get that. I get that a lot though. And this is just the Instagram stuff. But from what I see on YouTube too, everyone is like, Justin gives me hope. So cute seeing you guys.

Well, thank you everybody. A lot of kind words. And it's still up, so I'll have more to share with you tomorrow. Okay. Okay. Now it's your turn. And I should be done crying for this segment now. Getting kind of nervous.

I'm scared myself. In the captain's chair. How does it feel over there? Feels great. Okay. It feels like where I was always meant to be. Yeah. Don't get too used to it.

Okay. Well, this is for my poop people because I've listened to the people. I've heard the requests and they have not been answered for a while. We haven't had any poop stories. This is perfect. So one of my favorite episodes that I was on was basic hygiene. Yeah. In which we did talk about poop and on the thumbnail is a poop emoji.

So I feel very connected to this. Okay. Yeah. You're connected to poop. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Am I the asshole for being disgusting in front of my fiance's family to prove a point?

Oh God. Disclaimer. Discussions of poop. You heard it guys. Skip. Skip now. Or don't. So I'm a semi-vegan.

I have lactose intolerance, gluten sensitivity, not to be confused with celiac and IBS. I get teased a lot for my dietary choices, mostly because people think I'm a preachy, pita ass, but in reality I'm fighting a constant battle to not shit my pants. Oh. I also get people thinking I have an eating disorder because I'm relatively petite and can't eat 99% of food and spend a lot of time in the bathroom. I do eat occasional fish or baked chicken, but 99% of my diet is plant-based. Red meat is a no-go, no dairy, and I don't eat grains, which sucks because I love bread

so effin much. Over the weekend, my fiance and I went to his parents' house. They wanted to give us an engagement dinner. We've been engaged for three months now, but we live a ways away. At the dinner was my mom, stepdad, younger brother, and grandma. They know of my food aversions. They know I just eat rabbit food. I've been with my fiance for four years now, but at the dinner they served very well-seasoned

chicken and sausage jambalaya with cornbread and smothered potatoes. I've lived my entire life in the southern U.S. surrounded by delicious food I cannot digest. I was really hurt. It felt like I was ignored. My fiance asked if there was anything I could eat since it was all almost completely against my dietary restrictions. The response was I should just live a little and I needed some meat on my bones anyway. After all, we were celebrating and I should enjoy myself.

Well, I excused myself and my fiance asked if I wanted to leave. I said no, I'm used to it. I didn't want to come off as stuck up. So, I ate the food. Not a lot, but enough to be polite. And listen, it was fucking good, I'll admit it. Of course it was. Smothered potatoes, sounds like a dream.

It's like when I have real dairy out of nowhere. I know, but when you can't have that stuff, I know where this is going and it's not going to be good. But less than an hour later, I felt the rumbles. Oh no. You know the ones where a deluge is imminent. We were all chatting in the living room. The night was winding down, but I knew I wouldn't make it all the way back home. I excused myself to the restroom and at the last second I decided,

rather than go to the guest bathroom on the other side of the house, I'd go to the half bath next to the living room. Let him have it. Let it rip, girl. So, dot, dot, dot, I went. In all my loud, stinky glory, I went. It lasted maybe five minutes, but the damage was immeasurable. The bathroom stunk and when I came out, it was obvious everyone had heard.

It was awkward. I said, sorry, sensitive stomach, you know? We left shortly after. My fiance was embarrassed and we fought on the car ride home. What? He said I did it on purpose and it was disgusting and I shouldn't have been so petty. We could have just left. Why would I act so immature, et cetera?

I wasn't sorry. I said his family knew about my problems but ignored me. I couldn't help it. Was I being an ass? Absolutely not. When you have someone that you've been with for four years, by this point, the family knows. And it's like they're brushing her off as just being high maintenance and picky. They're not respecting her.

They're not even considering that these food intolerances and dietary restrictions are real. They're thinking she's just dramatic. And especially with the comment like, oh, you need to put a little meat on your bones. It's like, no, would you tell someone with a severe peanut allergy, get over it, eat some peanuts? No, it would kill them. And it might not kill her but it certainly doesn't sit well and makes her really fucking sick. So no, this is the taste of medicine they needed. Maybe next family dinner, they'll actually consider her and not be so disrespectful.

Hopefully. And provide a meal that she can eat. And I'm sorry, there is no excuse to not accommodate a vegetarian or a vegan. It is so easy to make a really, really good chopped salad. Throw some avocado in there, some really good balsamic vinaigrette, a bunch of like chickpeas. I mean, you can make a bomb salad that is so hearty and good. Brussels sprouts, I mean, you go to town and it's easy. Yeah.

It really bi-packs at Trader Joe's. So for them not to accommodate her is a purposeful slap in the face. Well, especially she's not just the new girlfriend that's coming around. Fiance, four years. She been there. She been there. And I think it's really shitty on him too where I do appreciate the fact that at the beginning, he did say, do you just want to go?

That is great. Right, in support. In support. Like he recognized that at the beginning they didn't have any food. So he knew there was a problem. He recognized that, which kudos, but again, okay, the bar is in hell if that's what I'm giving him credit for. But it is appreciative versus some other stories we would hear which would for sure be like,

I don't know what you're talking about, babe, just eat it. Like it's fine. My family went out of their way to make this food. Just eat it. Yes. Like, you know, there's those stories. Right. So I do appreciate the fact he stood by her side at the beginning and was like, do you want

to go? They didn't leave. But it's also like, you know, she has stomach issues and honestly, what if she wouldn't have made it to the bathroom across the house? Never know. You never know. Like it could have been very genuine. Like we know she considered it, but he doesn't know.

So it's like stand by her side. Like you are sitting out in the living room with your family. She is blowing her brains out in the bathroom. You can just say, see you guys. This is what happens when she eats potatoes with dairy and that chicken. It just didn't sit well with her. This is, this is why we really, really need to respect her dietary restrictions. She's going to be on the toilet the whole night when we get home.

This is what happens guys. Well, and what's interesting is I think we have a generation now that we grew up in that is very cognizant and aware of dietary restrictions. Yes. Which was for some reason like taboo when you go up to like, you know, everyone above us just seems like, I don't know anyone older that was necessarily like a vegan or, you know, obviously people have always had problems. But I feel like it's been so masked or not talked about until kind of recently because

now is, and especially in LA, you're seeing like vegan only restaurants pop up. So many. Everywhere you go, now has a vegan section or, you know, a pescetarian or whatever it may be. It's very, like it's a lot easier to find those accommodations. Now. Now, yeah. Even back home, you're starting to see it like, you know, it's happening everywhere.

In Minnesota, yeah. For some reason it was like a, it seems like it was kind of this taboo thing and I'm pulling a little bit of it from this comment. Yeah. But it just seems like why? You know what I also wonder though. I think our food quality has changed. That is true.

Especially here in the United States, our food is pumped full of fucking poison. Well, and they probably just, maybe the older generations just don't understand. They're like, well, I've had stomach problems, but enjoy good. I don't know where the disconnect is. I don't, I just think they had a different quality of food. I think even now. So like my grandma is realizing like she's having a hard time eating the bread she used to love.

And a lot of it is the quality of food in the United States. The quality of food here is so unregulated even compared to our neighbor in Canada. And you go to Europe and it's kind of that misconception where, oh, I can go to Europe and I can, I can have dairy and bread and all this stuff. And it's like, okay, well, if you can go to Europe and have milk, like you're not lactose intolerant, you're just, there's different things you're allergic to, which is like, it's really confusing. Yeah.

And it's the same with gluten. You're probably not allergic to gluten, but you're allergic to like the pesticide in the bread and like, that's all this crazy stuff that's coming out now. So I always wonder, I'm like, and especially with the rates of colon cancer going up, I really think it's, we're going to find some crazy shit out about our food. 100%. It's like, it's, there's a reason like young people at 30 and 35 and 40 are, when has colon cancer ever been like this?

Right. Maybe kind of the main, the main reason, honestly. Yeah. But top comment, pretty straightforward, not the asshole. They should have made some food you could eat too. What they did was flat out rude. Maybe now they'll respect your dietary needs. Yes.

And then the other comment that I was referencing, my grandparents are like this, my aunt who they dislike is vegan for environmental reasons, et cetera. They purposely smothered all of the Christmas dinner veggies in butter and meat juice. It turns out I'm a vegan as well. Always been vegetarian, but I've been diagnosed with dairy allergy and egg sensitivity. My grandmother kicked up a stink about having to cook separate meals when she only needs to dress everyone else's vegetables, just not ours. Not the asshole.

Some people are incredibly ignorant and spiteful. Yeah. So there's a whole like mix of things that could play in, but. It's annoying. It's not hard to accommodate people and this was a dinner that was meant to celebrate them. Right. This was their engagement party. Don't you think you should have food that the guest of honor can eat?

Yeah. Who is this about? Who is this about? It's about them. What are their favorite foods? How can you make this night special for them? Yeah. You excluded literally the one half of this equation.

Yeah. I mean, this could have been instant karma episode. This does feel like instant karma. Oh, both you and Alejandra picked stories that are like instant karma. Now I'm like, fuck, I got to find better ones for my upcoming theme. We just like it. We like to see that the gratification of like, you know, I mean, it says it, it says it in this comment.

What's the old saying? You get what you give. The fiance's family gave OP crap, so she simply returned the favor. Oh. Not the asshole. That's a good one. Are there any comments from OP? I don't know how to find those.

Click up at the top of the username. Look at all the awards. Oh, yeah. So the comment is this is the kind of story that makes me wish there was a justified asshole judgment. Yes. However, I will go with not the asshole. I'm sorry, you had to sacrifice your bodily comfort for the sake of proving a point.

Yeah. That's a four years question mark and they still push the issue. You have shown saintly patience that I can only dream of achieving one day. Comment from OP. Thanks, LOL. I used to be really embarrassed about the whole poop thing and I used to be bullied when I was a teen about how often I went to the bathroom. Thick skin and a sense of humor helps.

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't appreciate toilet humor. No. Except for our friends here. I know. I'm happy. I'm happy. A lot of you do appreciate the poop. Not the asshole.

They're aware of your food aversions and still pressure you into eating something that can make you ill. OP says people can be vegan for, for what we reason, I appreciate them because it helps find stuff I can eat, but there are absolutely insufferable vegans, classist vegans, asshole vegans. And unfortunately, they are usually the loudest. Also I have zero respect for PETA and those who support it. Yeah.

There's a lot of weird shit about PETA. I don't know. I don't know. That, that one's whatever. Yeah. But those were like the two comments. Okay. Yeah.

I, I think this is a great story. I, not the asshole at all. Yeah. I think she should have sat in there for an extra five minutes with poop noises from YouTube. Like, I would. No. You got to get the smell out.

You got to open the door fast as possible. True. No courtesy flush. Well, yeah. And they probably didn't have poopery in there. But honestly, I think it is totally fair. I don't think she had another choice. It was either eat the shitty food they prepared or don't eat at all.

And when I, I don't know about anyone else, but when I'm going to a dinner party, I go hungry. I go ready to eat. So starving probably wasn't an option. Yeah. So yeah. No. I like this one.

I haven't heard this one. How old is it? Two years. Wow. This was like right when we started the podcast basically. Yeah. The podcast has its two year anniversary on February 10th. There we go.

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Flip in the script. Okay. 14 hours ago. Oh. 39 female, 39 male. I'm losing my husband and don't think I can do anything about it. Oh no. I'm 39 female, my husband is 39 male.

We've been married for 13 years. After struggling with infertility for a few years, we realized early in our marriage, we would not be able to have kids of our own. It was a tough realization, but we both decided to dedicate ourselves to our jobs and spoil the nieces and nephews and young cousins we have. A few months ago, a young woman, Kaylee, 26 female, moved into the house next door to us. She has two twin sons and is recently widowed.

She's lovely and completely overwhelmed. She has no family in the area, so my husband and I of course offered to help her with anything she needed. She'll come to us for help with little things. She'll ask my husband to fix something or ask for an ingredient for a meal along those lines. You have sugar? Yeah.

I didn't know if people still did that. Yeah. My husband is always respectful and I don't think he would ever cheat, but I see how he reacts when Kaylee calls or rings the bell. His eyes light up. He gets excited. He loves her twin boys. They play in rough house with him all the time.

Our driveway runs along the side of her yard. When he used to come home from work and they would be outside, he'd take a few minutes to play with them before he came in. So now they're out there every afternoon waiting for him. Oh no. My husband has admitted seeing them run up to him after work brightens up his whole day. I know my husband would never cheat or betray me, but I see him losing himself in this fantasy of what if this was my family?

What if these were my kids? I know he wouldn't cheat, but I have this fear he's going to realize what we have isn't enough and he's going to leave me for the ready-made family next door. I don't want to discuss these concerns with him and sound accusatory, but yesterday I saw him and Kaylee talking outside and I wanted to cry. They looked like a happy family. They were on her deck talking and laughing. He was holding one twin boy while the other was climbing on her.

I feel like I'm losing my husband and there's nothing I can do to stop it. I don't know what to do. Oh my God. This is like the worst. This is a recipe for disaster. Oh, this is horrendous. Step one, you do have to talk to him. Yes.

I don't think you can keep hiding your feelings, especially if boundaries need to be set. I definitely don't think you're losing your husband unless you don't put in the effort to have these conversations and really put in the work on the relationship and say, honey, this is making me uncomfortable. I know I love you and I trust you and I know you wouldn't cheat, but I'm feeling like I'm being replaced. I'm watching this life around me form and it's just not making me feel good. You don't want to sound accusatory or insecure.

We've all been there in situations with a partner where it's like, you know the worst and you don't want to assume the worst is even possible, but sometimes it just helps to get it out there and say it. Say it. Especially with the narrative that's building up inside in your mind and just like, that can take over you. Aside from this, you can think your partner's cheating and then you'll start to look for reasons to make your insecurity get stronger and then at the end of the day, you can find

out like, no, they haven't been doing a single thing, but I've built up this whole narrative and getting myself wound up to where I'm like, yep, and you almost start to believe it. You start overanalyzing everything and then it's like, oh my God, did you see the way he was smiling at her? Like you said, you build this case in your head no matter how innocent something is. If it fits or if it's close enough to fitting, you might just try to wedge it in that hole. Yes. Would you like, this is where like I go from zero to 100 so fast and I know it's not necessarily

rational, but I mean, what do you do in this situation to set a boundary like besides up and moving? Right, because it's really like, he's genuinely, if there is, if you could predict the future and it doesn't lead to anything between them, he is being a very good person. An amazing guy. He's giving the boys attention, they're excited to see him. He's helping her with stuff when she needs help because she's overwhelmed. I mean, it is, if there wasn't that possibility, it is a very beautiful, like awesome human

interaction happening, but it's just the what ifs because that can lead to what she's fearing. Yeah. And it doesn't sound like she's as involved. I think that also like, and I know like gender sometimes does come into play when it shouldn't, but it does make this situation where we all kind of are like, if it was the wife, no one would bat an eye. But because it is the husband, which also kind of like plays into this like, is it a big

deal or are we all just like overanalyzing this one? Right. We have some edits. Oh, God. Are they bad? I'll just read them. No following up yet. Okay.

It's all like preliminary. Okay. Okay. First one. I'm also friends with her. We also hang out. Just because I'm also friends with her doesn't mean that it is not hurtful to see how happy and excited my husband gets to see her and her family.

Well, and it's also like he's getting excited to see her. It's not just like he's excited about the kids. And just about helping. Yeah. Yeah. Like that. And some people really get off on feeling needed. Some people have hero complexes where they need to be that white knight.

They need to be helping people and saving the day. And if he hasn't been feeling needed in his home, like the reality is people cheat for less. They really do. Edit two. Just because I'm on here looking for advice on how to say this without sounding accusatory does not mean I am not willing to have a conversation with my husband. Okay, good.

I don't always know the right thing to say or the right way to say things. Three, thank you everybody who has encouraged me to try fertility treatments, IVF, adoption or fostering. I know your intentions are probably well-meaning. However, my husband and I have tried everything exhausted, every resource to have a family. I'm not going to go into the years and years of shots, treatments, injections and close to $100,000 of our savings that we spent trying to start a family. The heartbreak that came with every unsuccessful treatment, every miscarriage is unable to

be put in words. We did try adoption. The adoption fell through last minute after we had a whole room set up. We were so excited and ended in heartbreak. We also fostered and it ended in a similarly heartbreaking fashion. I would prefer not to discuss it past that. My heart just breaks for her because you just came and imagined and the heartbreak again and again and again and you finally get to this point where it's like, I can't keep

putting myself through this. You finally get to a point where you're like, life has to be enough. It has to be enough with just us and fuck, does that hurt? That hurts because they really did try and really do want them and that sucks. Yes. And so there's one more edit, but I want to read the top comment before it because I think it leads into it. You have to talk to him about this insecurity.

Even if that's a possibility, he can choose you by not entertaining those thoughts. If he lacks emotional intelligence, these feelings could sneak up on him, so you would be doing him a favor by drawing his attention to it. Now you should have this conversation in a calm, non-accusatory, but vulnerable matter so that he is drawn to you rather than pushed away. Fight for your marriage, but do it calmly with love. That's a great comment. I know.

I think that is true too because there's sometimes where I think even like, I look at you and me and it took me a while to realize how much I cared for you and Lauren would be like, Oh, you really like him. I see you smiling at your phone. I'm like, what are you talking about? No, we're just friends. And it does sneak up on you to the point where you wake up one day and you're like, shit, I really do love him.

Okay. So I think pointing it out now and just being like, hey, I see this, your face lights up when you see her and just talk your way through it. And I think in conversations like this, I don't even know if you need to really plan it, but you just start where, what you're feeling, what you've been noticing and give that other person time to talk and then you just go back and forth. But at least you're getting it out there. And I think that could help prevent him from really spiraling and then like one day waking

up and being like, Oh my God. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So that leading into this final edit, I've received so many helpful comments that have really given me a lot of perspective on what to say to my husband. I'm coming up with what I'm going to say now and I'm going to have a conversation with him when he comes home from work tonight.

I'm very thankful to everybody who took the time out of their day to give me advice. I am autistic, so it's not always easy to know exactly what to say in the situation. So it does not come out wrong. I'm very thankful that I got some outside perspective on here. It really made me understand the core problems of what was bothering me and what I don't need to focus on. Thank you all very much. I'm sure the conversation is going to be a productive and constructive one.

Thanks to the advice and perspective I've gotten here. Have a wonderful day. Amazing. Any updates yet? No updates yet. No, I was showing you because I'm not sure. If you click on post, do you see anything? That's it.

Okay. What are the comments that they respond to? Sometimes people put updates in the comments. A lot of them are, thank you so much. I appreciate it. It all kind of resembles the final edit. Okay. Well, damn, we're going to have to keep our eyes peeled for this one.

Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah, that is really, that's tough and that's scary too because you know how hard they both tried. They both went through those things, both of them. So you know he wants it and that's like, that's your biggest fear.

As like her, that's your biggest, I mean, that would be my biggest fear at least. And then it's unfolding right in front of your eyes. It's just, I honestly, I would have to move. Yeah. I literally, and this is, that sounds fucking crazy, doesn't it? Doesn't that sound crazy selling your house and moving because it's like, well, you can move, but you could still just drive over there just as easy and then you can't even see them.

Yeah. But then it's like, if you get to that point, then you're fucked. But then that's a problem with you guys. Yeah. It's just scary. It's so scary. It's tough. You're just having that temptation and that's where it comes in your relationship where

that trust, that basis that your relationship is built on needs to be so solid. Yeah. I wish you could see when the edits were posted. Yeah, time stamps. Like I wish they had a little time next to them so you could be like, when was that? Wait, you're talking to him when he comes home tonight? I know. What time does that make it?

I know. What time does that make it? No, they talked. They talked. We're going to check tomorrow. Okay. And then if there's an edit tomorrow, we're popping on. Okay.

Cool. No. You picked amazing stories. You did really, really good. Okay, good. I like this. I think I'm going to, after this theme, I think I'm going to give each of you your own episode to roll with.

I think it's going to be good. You guys have all proven capable. I might lose my privileges after that. What? After you come out a full episode? Yeah. No. You'd crush it.

I think you all would do really, really well. I might be out of a job if anything. Nah. You're fucked. No. Well, thank you. Thank you for everything. I'm not going to, I'm not going back down the cry row.

No, no, we don't need to do that. No. Okay. Well, that was my segment. So thank you for tuning in to, I want to say the whole show, but thank you for tuning in to my segment. And I hope you enjoy the other segments. And this has been a good one.

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Take it away. Where am I? Hi everyone. Welcome to Two Hot Takes. Today I'm your host, Alejandra. And I'm Morgan. It's so weird. That's weird, right?

No, I like it though. It's kind of like, I feel less stressed over here. I'm more stressed over here. I'm literally already crying. Okay. Happy? Sad? Yeah, a little bit both.

So we start off each segment, I'm literally already crying. Yeah, I'm just like, I just feel so thankful and like this show wouldn't exist without you as well and I know it's just like it's, it's changed my life and many others. And so it's just amazing and I just owe you all the world and so I'm so appreciative. And so I have some nice words to share from the listeners. Oh my gosh. I hope they're nice. It's that time of the month.

Dude, there's so many. I like, I'm scrolling. Okay. Of course you have one starts off and they go, I gotta be honest, I get Lauren and Alejandra's voice confused. Yeah. Yeah. Of course.

I corrected you regarding the Power Puff Girls. Yeah. LOL. Set it with her chest. So this is all of their favorite moments. The paranormal episode, they loved, powder puff girls, literally too many to count. I just love her perspective, everything. She's my favorite co-host.

All of them, like every episode with you is good. Sweeties. When Alejandra and Justin were so focused on building their gingerbread camper during the live show, that was such a good time. And then, and then it died. When she couldn't stop laughing during the work episode, when you said good morning, I think we all know what it was. That's actually to be really honest, one of my favorite moments.

The most iconic for you. Yes. Because I just like genuinely couldn't stop laughing. Like if you watch it, I'm like covering up the mic because I'm embarrassed at how hard I'm laughing. Oh my God, definitely the Power Puff Girls. So confidently wrong. This is, I mean, it keeps popping up.

Definitely Power Puff Girls moment. Oh no. They quoted you and they go, my mom always likes to tell me I'm biracial. That's like an early episode. It is. It's probably one of the first couple. I think it's one of the first ones you were on. When you were mixing drinks and she goes, oh my God, Morgan, it's a Tuesday.

The violence you're choosing. These are so specific. They remember everything. Wow. Her not being able to calculate the age gap when her and her boyfriend at the time had the same age gap. It's because we're bad at math. That's so bad.

Talking about kids and you were reminding her of pics she had with kids at a wedding and she goes, those kids are different, Morgan. They are. They are. It was so cute. I'm literally like crying over here. This is ridiculous. All of her one liners, queen of comedy.

Whoa. Whoa. Queen of comedy. Ooh. Okay. How she doesn't feel motherly towards children because she didn't get to be a child heart. Fuck them kids. Fuck them kids.

God, I love you guys. All of them. She's my favorite co-host again. Oh my God, when you guys are trying to match energy on the perfect, perfect, perfect. Oh, and we were like, we were completely off. So wrong. Yes. Love the way she speaks her mind but can see all the angles.

She always says things with such elegance. I love the way she articulates things. That's a personal fave. First is realizing second hand anger slash sadness and happiness is describing empathy. That's you too. You're coming down with me. I struggled. Her saying respectfully, fuck them kids, then crying of laughter.

The pathological liars episode, LOL me finding out her last name was Nagel and not Angel. So okay, let me take an opportunity because now there's one created. I've had a bunch of people message me being like, I thought this whole time that your last name is Angel. What? Yeah, because if you flip the N and the A, it's Angel. Yeah. So I'm not saying I'm perfect.

But basically. But I'm pretty close to being an angel. And last but not least, every Alejandra moment has been my favorite. She's such a queen. Oh, that's so sweet. I know. I'm so emotional. Look, at least I'm over here bawling.

I know. Okay. I'm going to look like a raccoon the rest of your, your episode. It's good. It's good. You look good. I had to tell you this earlier about the way you matched your eye shadow to your sweatshirt and I, I'm willing to bet you didn't try.

Oh, I did. Oh, you did. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Okay. Cause it's perfect. I was having an orange moment today.

Love it. A burnt orange. Yeah. It's just a rust, if you will. It's probably not the color for my skin tone. I want to do one of those skin things where they put all the colors on you and tones. Yeah. But no, I think it is exactly your color.

It's a good time. Okay. Take it away. That was beautiful. Thank you everybody for those kind words. Really encouraging to hear as Morgan knows, I have like breakdowns where I like am convinced everyone hates me and I'm like getting voted off the show every week, but it's this isn't survivor.

I know. I know. But sometimes it's just you get your in your own head and you question whether or not people like what you say or like identify or resonate with you. So that was really sweet. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm out of fucking a week guys. I have to rewatch that.

The way you did it was, this is why you straws. Do you want to go grab one? No, fuck it. Let's go. I'm sorry, but that was so funny. You can't cut that. Sorry. You can't.

This is my, my episode. I'll do a zoom on it just for you. Thank you. All right. Let's get into it. Am I the asshole for giving one daughter more inheritance? My husband and I have two daughters. Let's call them Emma, 32 female and Sam, 29 female.

My husband died of a stroke two years ago and he left everything to me. I'm rewriting my will as well in case something happens to us. Originally, everything was split 50-50 between the girls, but now I'm splitting about 70-20 in favor of Emma. Emma has ADHD and isn't doing great in life. In those days, everyone just assumed she was lazy and she didn't get the help children would get today until she was in her teens. She just finished high school and is working at a retail store as a stalker.

It's backbreaking and she doesn't have much in the way of savings or anything. Her car was her father's when he passed. Sam works in tech as a project manager and her husband is a doctor. They live in a million dollar house and have two kids. I'm not worried about Sam. She's always been very capable and excelled at everything. She was always the overachiever and I don't think she needs help financially. Her and her husband probably take home $500,000 after taxes a year.

I want Emma to inherit the house and the car when I pass. I think it would be good for her because she can live in it or sell it and buy another one. Sam will be fine and her and her husband have several houses in a summer home. But Sam is angry with me because I've made it clear that Emma gets most of our belongings. The bank savings and stocks will go to Sam, but if I live to 80s, she won't have too much, probably 20-30% of what the house is worth. But I think it's fair because she's doing much better.

Sam called me to yell at me saying I'm favoring Emma. I reminded her of how much worse off Emma is than her, but she said that since they were both her daughters, she should get things 50-50 or its favoritism. She said I should will half of the inheritance to her children for college funds, but I reminded her she makes more and she can save for them. I told her it's not about favoring Emma over her, but Emma is worse off and she will be fine, which resulted in her hanging up and refusing to come over for Christmas. Am I the asshole?

I first started off and I was like, yeah, a 70-20 split, which I don't know where the other 10% charity, whatever she's doing. But I think it's really hard because this will was written when her husband was alive. And so it was also his intention to have his daughters equally share their assets and everything. So it's hard when one partner goes first and then the will is changed, kind of without their decision involved. But I get having 80D, it's something I really struggle with. And I get having to work harder and go the extra mile to get what it might take someone

who doesn't have that a quarter mile to do. I have to go a mile and they go a quarter mile. But at the same time, like Emma is really young and she's got a lot of opportunity, a lot of life ahead of her to get to that other place where her sister is. But I don't know. I think if you want to make sure she's going to be okay, I think you won. You leave her the house if it's paid off. She doesn't have to worry about a place to live.

She can afford the property taxes, hopefully. And if she can't, she could sell it to buy a more affordable house. But I think leaving everything to Emma, I would feel like I was getting slapped in the face by my mom. I would feel like there's heavy favoritism at play. It's not a good feeling. No, not at all. So a couple of things.

I don't know if this makes a difference. Emma's older than Sam. Oh, really? Yeah. So Emma's 32, Sam is 29. Oh my God, I totally mixed their ages up. I did too. That's why I went back and looked.

So yeah. So I guess I don't know if that changes the calculus for you. It makes me, you know, whatever she's going to do at the end of the day, it's her fucking money, but it does make it, I think even more so, like leave Emma the house, leave her a little extra, but not 70%. Like if you want to do 60, 40, that's a little better than what she's offering. But I, you know, just because the other daughter is in tech and making a shit ton of money, it's still not fair.

And it's also not what your husband intended. I, that is a really good point that I actually didn't consider when I first thought about this one, about how the husband or, you know, weighed in on the will that was 50-50 and then didn't get a say in this new split. I think that's a really valid point. I guess some might argue when he passed, it's now. The wife is now the beneficiary and it's kind of like hers to reallocate, if you will, which is true, which is true, because things change, right?

Like after the dad's passing, Emma or Sam could do something really, really like terrible to, you know, anyway, that's a whole nother story. It's hard to weigh in on this because I personally haven't written a will or even thought about like, who would I leave anything to? This has crossed my mind though, kind of recently even because my great aunt passed away and like really the only people who were left are like her, what would they be, nephews? And that was my dad and then his two brothers.

It used to be three, but one had just passed right before that anyway. And she like allocated to them based on certain things. And that's where I thought of like, well, does she factor in like how much? Because there's huge income discrepancies between them. And it, it sucks because, you know, let's be honest, the world that we live in is a merit, meritocracy. I don't know that word. I'm sure you're right.

It's a word. I just don't think I'm saying it, right? A system that like rewards skill and rewards achievements, right? So whatever the big word for that is. And so, you know, some people are like, you know what? In this world, it's, you got to, you know, eat what you kill, dog eat dog. Like they were technically raised in the same environment. Like Emma, who has ADHD, should in theory, obviously has this additional, like, I

don't know much about ADD or ADHD, but, you know, obviously it's one more thing that she has to kind of work through. Yeah. But at the same time, you know, some might be like, well, why is Sam being for very blunt lack of better words, punished or like penalized for being an overachiever? Like now her inheritance is getting slashed because she did all of these things. And so it's like, I really, I know I always accused of like being doubles advocate, but I really do see both sides.

I do. I'm really torn on this one. Yeah. I, because if it was me personally, cause like, I mean, the same could be said for like my little brother and me and Morgan, you're, you're, you're doing so great. And, you know, your other brothers aren't whatever. And it's like, for me, if I got cut out of like my family farm that I love so much. And my mom was like, I'm going to give the farm to Matt and Taylor completely.

Yeah. Because you're doing so well. I would be beyond livid. I'd be so hurt. And it's not even about doing better because honestly, I look at like previous crashes, like the 2008 housing market where people lost their homes, their jobs, like we're on the brink of a recession. Yeah.

Anything can happen. All of that could be taken from Sam. That's a really good point. And she works in, I think they said tech. So how many people just got laid off in tech right now? So it's, and the husband's a doctor. Okay, maybe like, but I mean, even doc, you know, during COVID, like being a doctor was hard in the healthcare industry, but like, I don't know.

I, I really struggle with this one because same thing you just said, Morgan is like my brother, he's younger than me. First of all, I had an adult job for longer. So arguably it's, it would make sense that I've been able to like make more of a living for myself than my brother, but my brother also does have some form of like ADD, ADHD. We've known that. I forget which one it was when he was growing up.

So it's like, my parents could make that same argument, right? So it's tough, but, but yours is unique because you have ADD. Yeah. And so it's like, but you're still the overachiever. So it's kind of, you're almost like the exception here because it's almost going to show like, is that enough for Emma to be overcompensated? I don't know. I think everyone's manifest so differently.

And like, it's just like, it's so funny how much we relate to this cause my little brother's dyslexic. So it's, it's no, it's literally, it's preaching the choir. And I think, yeah, like, is it worth 10% extra? Is it worth giving her the house? Because, okay, Sam, Sam has, how many houses? Three fucking houses. She's got a big ass mansion and a summer home.

And houses and a summer home. Yeah. So Sam doesn't need a fucking house. So give Emma the house and then other stuff, like fit, like divide a little more fairly, like 60, 40. So this is where it's getting into the weeds. I think that is kind of the split. And I think that turns into a seven.

That's what makes the seven 20. Oh, the house. I think because Emma gets the house and the car and then Sam gets 20 to 30%. How big is this house? Like, what are we talking here? Like it's, it's a two bedroom and like a suburb in Ohio, or is this like a mansion in the Hollywood Hills? I don't know.

What are we talking house here, lady? I got to know. I don't know. But let's dive into some comments. And I do this, maybe the comments will get into this, but I do think that like the way that the mom did this wasn't great. So it's just, it just, it doesn't feel great. It doesn't, it doesn't leave both daughters feeling loved and respected.

I do appreciate the fact though that she told them up front. And so this isn't something that like comes to light when she dies. True. So they have to duke it out now. Yeah. Because that's one thing that tears families apart is like money and death and all the assets after, but I mean, it's tearing them apart now. So it's like, oh, it doesn't matter.

For sure. Um, okay. Top comment underwhelms me to be honest, but I got 14,000 upvotes and the comment is might be better to put Emma's in a trust than give it to her outright. So it's like a suggestion. Yeah, which honestly could be smart if Emma's got a track record of not managing money well and like people do that with their adult children with disabilities. Like I have one family member that their son has Down syndrome.

And so they, what they did is they actually bought him a home and then like hired a team to work in the home. So it's like a group home facility and like essentially the house gets paid for by having other people live there too. Oh, because they wanted to make sure they were like, he was going to be taken care of after they passed. Yeah. And they're old.

They're almost 80 and you know, their son now is I think 58. So like they were setting him up. Obviously Emma has ADHD. Like we have no idea what that looks like for her, but there's ways you can protect your children if you're really that worried about them. Exactly. Um, this next comment I actually do really like and it kind of touches on what I was getting at here.

So I'm not a professional, but that sounds like a good idea. And they're responding to that comment of putting it in a trust. Yeah. Also, maybe it would have helped if OP at first invited the younger daughter, younger daughter being Sam over for coffee and explained her predicament to her. Her daughter is also a mother and might be able to relate to the issue more than if she had thought of how she would feel if she had her own children in the similar situation.

Yeah. Maybe the daughter would do something completely different. More along the lines of what she says would happen now, but it would be, but it would open the discussion from a mothering view, not a daughtering one. OP could have at least had her over to chat in person now and talk to the mother side of her daughter, not the daughter side of her daughter, not to persuade or change her mind, but to show it from a mother's perspective, whatever it is that the OP ends up doing.

Yeah. I do like, I do think that would have been beneficial, but I don't think it, I think if I was in Sam's perspective too, like being the younger kid and still having to grind and work your ass off because it's no easy feat to get where Sam is. I mean, you've got to grind in school. You've got to grind up the corporate ladder. You have to work your ass off.

It, it's not like she's had this smooth ride just because she doesn't have ADHD. And from her perspective, it might feel like, well, fuck, why did I try so hard? Yeah. Why did I try so hard? That's what I mean about the system that rewards hard. Work is like, and a lot of people feel that way about like taxes, right? They're like, I make all this money. And then the more money you make, like, especially in California, like tax the

top rocket, you know, kind of different, but a little bit like similar parallels here where it's like, you hit a certain threshold where now your success is being viewed as like a detriment, like in some ways, right? And the right perspective, I think would be like, for me at least, I would be like, I know I'm doing really well. I don't really need this. Like, I personally would be okay. I think if my mom came up to me and said, and this is a hypothetical, because

my brother's actually really good at managing money. But anyway, if my mom came up to me and said, Hey, Alejandra, you know, the will is going to favor and Ryan, because, you know, you have won like five years on him and five more years of income to like, you're in a like high paying market. Like you do well for yourself, whatever the story is, right? I'm making things up. I would be like, you know what? You're right.

Love my brother, want him to be set up for success. Yeah. I don't operate from a mindset of scarcity. So I know that I can go make more money. But one thing I want to highlight that we haven't really talked about is they're factoring in Sam's husband into this like income, which I understand. But that's not divorced every day bingo. They get divorced every day.

You should analyze this on apples to apples like Emma and Sam. Don't count. I know she's married. So it's like a joint thing. Emma could marry a billionaire tomorrow. Emma could marry a billionaire tomorrow and Sam could be, he could file for divorce tomorrow. Yeah. And Sam could have to pay alimony.

You never know. You never know. So it's not fair to kind of like use the fact that her husband is a doctor. No, it's really interesting. I think like when it comes to tangible items like money, if this were me, I'm not so, I don't know, peeved about the money, but it's like I want to still inherit like family heirlooms. I still, I don't know. This is just fucking.

This is hard. Here's one that I'll read. The most important thing in this issue isn't the money at all. That's a symbol of the inequality of care for the girls. It's the way the money's been wielded is being wielded and is to be wielded in ways that don't even seem to be trying to foster independence on the part of Emma as much as being spent on her like attention or love. Paying half someone's rent is a way of helping, but also a way of fostering reliance on the

one that is paying rent. Where is OP's plan to help foster independence? She hasn't mentioned one in her comment and I've seen and asked if there was one. The OP says the bulk of her estate is mainly the house and the car, which are to be left to Emma. Sam gets the leftover stuff. Okay. How much is the car worth and how much is the house worth?

Yeah. She has ADHD, which is a wild card. She could very well sell the house and spend the money and then where will she be? Or she might just keep the house and live in it just fine. Who knows? What OP needs to be working on is less about the will and more about fostering Emma's independence and repairing her relationship with Sam. Absolutely.

She's not really doing her best for either one of her daughters, just doing more of the same old, same old. Yeah. Enabling. And I completely agree. It's hard not knowing really about what her ADHD looks like for her and her deficits and how she, you know, functions on an occupational basis. But I don't think I can say it any better than that comment.

Honestly, that was perfect. Because it's, you got to set your kid up for success. And if it's, it's no different than, you know, if you do your son's laundry every day, are they ever going to learn how to do their laundry? No, why? They don't have to. So make sure Emma can take care of herself while you're still here. It's like that old, we all know it, like give a man a fish.

She eats for a day, teach a man a fish. She eats for a lifetime. I probably butchered. No, I think you had it right on. Really? Yeah. It's not a two out takes episode unless we butcher saying though. Yeah, absolutely.

So, you know, we got to butcher one later then. But I, the consensus is that this is really split. You know, this is probably one of the harder ones. It is hard because it's really interesting. You can see it if you're, you know, you can see it from so many different angles. There's also a lot of details that we still need. But I think that last comment really hits on something that we didn't really get on is that like, it's kind of just throwing a bunch of money at her

and hoping for the best. That's 1000% what it feels like. Yeah. Instead of like, devoting the resources to like, we don't know what it is that Emma struggles with in terms of their ADHD. Like, how is it affecting her? Does she have like impulsivity with money? Does she like, is she too focused to stick with the job?

Like we don't know it. Like you said, it manifests itself so differently. Everyone. Yeah. So until we as like the passive audience know those things, it's really hard to weigh in here. Yeah. But hard one.

It's so hard. I'm just like, I'm going down a little downward spiral of questions right now. It's I'm so confused. This one, I think for us, like you and I, hits hard because we know that one day there will be a similar situation and I hate to think about a day where my parents aren't here, but I mean, my parents have wills and I'm, I have no idea what that looks like, like, you know, so, and like you mentioned, sometimes you don't know until it's over.

I know, I know, I like, I, something I really talked to about my parents and like, even my dad, cause like we, we collect this furniture together and that's like our thing and he wants. Not going to drop the design. No, absolutely not. Someone commented recently, have we figured it out yet? No, someone has. Someone literally messaged me and they're like, I'll pay you $20 to tell me.

That's it? And I'm like, I'm, I'm sorry. I can't, I was like, I can't trust you. I love you, but I can't trust you. No, it's, it's not, honestly, you can find it. It's on like first dibs and cherish. Like it's, it's all over the place, but if you do figure out what it is, I have not ever paid a cherish or first dibs price.

I get all of my little babies on offer up Craigslist, eBay, Facebook marketplace, bargain girly, but so we, um, we collected this furniture together. Yeah. And so I talking to him, I'm like, can we please make sure that, you know, me and you have this connection. Can you make sure in your will that I get the furniture? Because I know my brothers, they don't give a shit. They would sell it.

It would, they would literally just sell it. Really, really? You're, you're like sparking ideas in my head now. I didn't think about the shit Ryan's going to try to like pun off. Yeah. And I love my brothers. I love you guys, but I know you don't give a fuck about the credenza with the burl, the velvet green chairs.

You don't care. It's like, they would just be like, give me my money. Yeah. So it's, yeah, you're right. It's like when it's sentimental stuff like that, always like ask your people ahead of time and it's, it feels really morbid. It feels weird, but it's better than feeling like shit when they're gone and you don't even have that thing to remember them by.

Wow. So I should go find out who my dad's going to leave his like vintage, limited edition Porsche too. Yeah. So I'm going to go duke it out with Ryan later today. Honestly, well, on something we've talked about, you know, it's like with the farm, like I want to preserve the farm. Like I love my family's like farm.

It's, I almost said a state. It's not a state. The estate. We literally just had a metal building fall down because of so much snow in Minnesota. We got like two feet of snow in a weekend or whatever and the building collapse. So it's not, it's not nice, but it means a lot to me. And so I've like talked and like Taylor's like, I want to sell it.

And my brother Matt's like, let's build storage units on it. And I'm like wedding venue, wedding venue. Preserve it. Yeah. So it's like, it's a conversation too, where it's like, if you appreciate something and another family member doesn't, you could always buy them out. Yeah. Like that's an option too.

That's absolutely. And that happens. Yeah. And it's not, it's not always as expensive as it sounds. Yeah. No. Well, we got very tangential on that one. I like it.

It's not a two hot takes show without tangents. I know, I know. But I'm excited to see what you have next. I know. Okay. This one. Let's move it along. Speaking of morbid.

Oh God. Why am I so nervous? No, it's not that morbid. I feel like I, I like know you so well that I feel like I know your take on that is going to be, what your take is going to be. Okay. So I'm curious. Okay.

And you'll know why. Okay. Okay. Am I the asshole for pretending not to recognize my parents when they tried to reconnect? Oh God. Okay. All right. I was raised mostly by my uncle and aunt.

My older sister developed a serious illness when I was six and my parents decided that they couldn't care for both of us, I guess. So they kind of unceremoniously dumped me at my grandparents and my uncle took me in. Like, didn't even explain to me what was going on. Just, you're going to go visit grand for a while. Paraglots. What the fuck? And never picked me back up.

Okay. My grandparents and uncle explained it later and they were pretty livid at my parents. I've seen my parents maybe five times since then and not at all for the last nine years. I decided to stop having contact with them when I was 12. And since I was the only one reaching out, all communication broke down. It turned out okay. I love my aunt and uncle and it turns out they can't have kids. So they've always said I'm their miracle kid.

I was just mis-routed by the stork at first. Oh my God. That's so cute. I was formally adopted by them when I turned 18. I wish it had been earlier, but there were some red tape things that would have made that really expensive and difficult. I'm 21 now. 21.

Can you do some for me? Can you? Okay, wait, your computer's going to die. Oh no. Yeah. Okay. My sister passed away between Thanksgiving and Christmas and I made a trip back from school for the funeral, but I stayed in the back and left before my bioparents could talk to me.

They called my uncle and tried to talk to me, but I said I didn't want to. So he told them that I wasn't available at the moment. They finally caught up to me over Christmas when I went to midnight mass with my grand and approached me and tried to give me a hug. I did recognize them, but I pretended not to and just backed off and said, sorry, do I know you? I love it. They said, we're your parents.

And I said, my parents are at home and went and sat down with my grand. They sat behind us and I could just feel the stare and on the way out, they were like, you really don't recognize us. And I said, oh, are you my dad's brother? I think I remember you from when I was little. I love this. I absolutely love this. This is the perfect justice.

Justice was served. I knew it. I love this. This is like the most wholesome fucking story for me. This is Morgan's wholesome. All right, let's close the loop. It's so sick. It's so twisted.

My grand thinks they deserve it. Yes. Trying to come back to my life like nothing happened. But they wrote me a long letter about how hurt they are and how I should understand that they were trying to do the right thing and how they will always be my parents and I can't change that. Other family members think I was too harsh as they're grieving, but I don't think they should get a pass just because they remembered me now that my sister is gone.

Yeah, no, they absolutely do not get a pass. When you choose to have kids, it doesn't matter if one becomes sick, you have kids, plural, and it's really, really hard. You can't sacrifice one kid to save the other. Like you need to make sure both kids are still accommodated and cared for and loved. And to just drop a what, a six year old off and say, oh, you're going to go to Grands for a while. Yes, a six year old.

What the hell is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? And then to the fact where I think at 12, OP said, I was the one constantly reaching out, a 12 year old shouldn't have to be the one reaching out to their parents after they abandoned them. This is disgusting. I know. Thank God for the grandma and the aunt and uncle who formerly adopted OP.

Amazing, amazing. Fuck the parents. They're not parents. Just because you birthed a child doesn't make you a parent. No. Bingo. Absolutely not. Well said.

But no, seriously, you make a good point. Like bioparent, bio mother, sure, maybe for life. But parent, that's a role that needs to be played from start to finish. Yeah. You don't get to half asset for six years, then pass it off like a baton. Yeah. And then when they finish the race, oh, congratulations, teamwork, like no. No.

Well, and it's the fact that they're only reaching out now that their daughter died, right, which is really sad. It's really shitty. It's really sad. But, you know, you still could have made an effort along the road. You didn't, it doesn't sound like they invited OP to any holidays. It's, it sounds like it was literally here. We're dropping you off and that's it.

It's like, it doesn't work like that. It's so fucked up too that they wrote OP a letter and were like, we're so hurt. Yeah. What about me? You're so hurt. What? Yeah. The delusion, the absolute delusion.

In the entitlement, I think that sometimes, and I know we've talked a little bit about this by way of enmeshment, which that's a whole nother topic, but like sometimes it seems like parents, because they birth you, there's a sense of entitlement. Oh, yeah. That can span any age, whether you're four or 40, there's an entitlement. And especially for me, you know, it's funny you say it, like one of the comments that you had read that you, that one of the listeners said was my favorite moment is that my mom reminds me that I'm biracial.

My mom also likes to remind me that she brought me into this world. And she can take you out of it. And she can take me out of it. I used to hear that saying all the time. I was actually just going to mention murder me. Like, what does that mean? Right, right. Are you threatening to like hire a hit man?

Come at me, bro. Yeah, let's fight. Do it. Let's throw some hands. Let's go. Come on. Bring it on. Exactly.

But I don't do it. Especially like in like having a Latina mother, like I know anyone listening out there, there's like a little bit more of like a kind of a sense of like, you know, the family, the family's just very close in Latino communities. And sometimes your mother can be very like, I don't want to say overbearing, but kind of like very involved and very like that's how my mom was always at least for me and some parents take it a little too far is where I'm going with this. And that's clear here with thinking that they can come back a decade later and

essentially be like, we are your parents. Like that's a title that you, you forfeited. Yeah, they did. I'm so happy for OP in the sense that I, I, if they were me, that moment would feel so satisfying to be able to be like, who are you to play dumb? I would just, I would, I knew it. I would get such satisfaction out of that. And I hope, I want to say hope it gives OP some closure too.

Like I hope it, because that's not, they didn't have an easy life. Yes, it ended up okay. And they had other amazing family that, you know, took them in and maybe they even had a better life and a better childhood because it's, it almost like, it reminds you of like my sister's keeper almost where I didn't see that. It was like an older movie where this couple found out their daughter was really sick and so they had another daughter to essentially be their other daughters, like organ donor and like blood marrow donor.

It's a really interesting movie, but the other kids in the family, like their lives suffered because of the one that was sick. And that's, that's understandable. Like if you have one sick child, you obviously need to spend more time, more resources trying to get that child better or making adaptions in your life so that child can still function and flourish and all these things. But again, it doesn't need to come necessarily at the complete disregard of your other kids.

Yep. I guess we're kind of assuming, but you chose to have two children. You chose to have two children and you know that nothing is guaranteed. And the older sister was not born with that illness, developed the illness. So it's like, you've already been raising two children. Like you said, you have to make adaptations. Yeah, make it work. Life changes.

People are not like static their whole lives, like health and everything can fluctuate. I mean, it's irresponsible to be honest with you. So yeah, what are the comments on this one? I feel like Reddit probably ate the shit up. They ate it. They ate no crumbs. All right.

Top comment. Not the asshole. Are you my dad's brother was pure class. It's iconic 45,000 up front. Honestly, it's iconic. OP, if you're out there, you hear this. You are iconic to be able to think that quick. I know, I know, you know what?

It's funny, you and I'll read some of the clapbacks here because they're funny. But when you were talking about like a moment of closure, I know that everyone out there has fantasized about a moment where they left a bad breakup. I know it's different than this. These are like your parents and you dream of that moment where you can like deny them or they come up to you and they're like, oh, I've missed you or something and you're like, who? Are you looking up?

Oh, are you talking to me? I think you have the wrong person. Yeah. Sorry, she's not here anymore. She can't come to the phone. Like everyone fantasizes about that moment. And I feel like similarly they felt like they fantasized about the moment where they could kind of like, I don't want to say take their power back.

Like it's some like power struggle game. It kind of is. It's deeper than that. But there's, they, I mean, the way that they wrote this, they felt rejection. They felt like their parents had abandoned that. They stopped reaching out because they were the only one making the effort. The beautiful thing is here is that this OP was like miracle child for their own goal, which I thought it's beautiful.

It's beautiful. But, um, so, you know, are you my dad's brother, a peer class? And then someone says, and it's technically correct with the adoption. Someone said the best kind of correct. And then somebody linked are the like r slash accidental, accidental, accidental, future karma, I think is what they meant to say. Yeah, I don't know. Um, and then I said, actually, this was, this one was intentional.

And then this is a good one. Another comment says, yeah, their line of will always be your parents and you can't change that. Well, actually you can with this piece of paper. Yep. Absolutely can. The law begs to differ. Adoption is legally binding.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Mom, yeah, a person who delivered me, you'll always be that person, but to wear the hat of parent, to own the title of my mom. No, I love that up. Yeah, I love this. Sad, but it did have a happy ending.

It had, you had mentioned like a future karma. This is kind of that. Yeah. In sync karma, karmic justice, karmic justice. We love to see some poetic justice. Absolutely. So yeah, I mean, everyone's just kind of team, like you're not the asshole. You handled this in a way that was iconic, funny, satisfying.

This was a really good find. Yeah. This was a really good find. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you for coming on episode 100. Thank you for coming on the past, I don't know, probably 30, 25, whatever you've done. I, I went, like I said, I wouldn't be here without you and I appreciate you so much.

Love you. Oh, it's just so crazy. Crazy. Absolutely. How does it feel to be in the hot seat? I like it over here. Do you? Yeah.

I think we'll make it a regular thing. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. You're good, Adam. You're really good at comprehension. You would have done really great on the LSAT.

I, um, you remember those like tests we had to take in Minnesota all the time? Yeah. I forget what they are. MP something. I'm, I'm, yes, I know what you're talking about. And we, we didn't have the SAT. We had the ACT. Yeah.

I got a perfect score on reading. Same. So that's why, like I can, if I read it, I remember all the details, but I like, I really have to sit here to listen. You know, you're really good at comprehension. You really good. Like I, I read this and I would, like you would repeat details that I'd be like, Oh yeah.

And you don't even have in front of you. So although Morgan and I are not very good at math. We can read. We can, we can read. We can, we're better than Leah, Michelle. Oh my. Just kidding. Oh, okay.

Well, that's, uh, that's your segment. Hondo P. Bring in the next victim. Switch them out. The thought of my sons growing up without me inspired me to quit smoking. I talked to my doctors and then I threw away all my cigarettes, ashtrays and lighters. I started exercising instead of smoking.

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I've, I've actually hijacked the show from her today. Welcome to, am I the asshole? Am I the asshole for hijacking the show? That's right. It's too hot takes. So am I the asshole for hijacking her show? See, her show is totally different than FKS, but we're going to have fun. Now, one of the new things that goes on here, and she'll cut all this out,

is I have never read a story. I'm dyslexic. So the story will probably get totally read backwards, which will be interesting. So this is again, very unconventional show for two hot takes. Because I'm, I'm not as hot of a take as some of the other takers. Oh, don't sell yourself short. You fire some people up sometimes. So this is a little different.

I'm going to read to you guys and trust me, this is going to be a real effort for me. I may, you know, I like to be not pessimistic, but you know, it's going to be an experience. So, well, before you get going, I just want to let you guys know, I'm because I, you know, I don't want to set myself up to be a failure. I'm trying to always do self-improvement. I'm really going to give this a shot and see if I can do it. AKA, he's nervous and he's trying to warn you guys that because of his dyslexia,

he's not the best reader, but you're pretty good. So you'll be okay. And I have some nice compliments to maybe pep you up a little. Oh, I can't wait to hear them. So I asked, and this is something I've been doing for everyone. What's your favorite dad moment on the show? And we have some responses. I can't wait.

Did they watch my first show? The very first one you came on here? No, the very first two hot takes when we were in the other room. I'm sure they did. Yeah. You also have a lot of people that watch your own podcast. Your father knows something. It's very clear in the responses.

Okay. So everyone loves your socks. It comes up throughout a lot of these responses. So what socks do you have on today? Well, these are cabs, but I saw them as cars. You got to really hold it up. Well, that's gonna be an interesting thing. It's I love New York because New York have yellow cabs everywhere.

I don't know if they have yellow Ubers. Maybe. Maybe. Anyways, I love my socks and I thought that we probably need to get some socks for Holly. We have Holly today. Yes, we have a little Holly. And maybe Morgan will somehow splice in a picture. I found out a picture of Holly when she was like six weeks old.

She's a little baby. No, she was eight weeks. She waited eight weeks. Okay. Everything. They love you in every episode you're on. Too many to say. Jerry is the goat.

I thought it was really sweet when he was thanking you and Justin for all the work you do. Yeah. Well, you guys really do. You guys, you guys out there have no idea how much time they put into this thing. It's this, this is a full-time job for Morgan. In fact, it's adult, it's three jobs for Morgan. Okay. Enough about me.

All right. Not on THT, but every time he introduces Holly to father knows my heart. Whenever he says, I don't know everything, I only know something. And I'm finding that I even know less. The next person, literally they were back to back from two different people. Every time he says, I don't know everything, I only know something. When Justin's dad was a guest and someone submitted the plot of an Adam Sandler movie. And I was clueless.

Again, I don't know everything. His endless support, talking about his socks. I love how close him and Justin have gotten. LOL, it's so wholesome. All of them, I love every episode. But I've loved, I've actually really loved Justin from the very beginning, way before the show. So that, that, that's a, that was a thing that really happened really in a wonderful way, especially, you know, COVID when we were stuck in the house for four weeks.

We all just played beer pong. We played beer pong every day. We had nothing going on. That's great. When he was admiring Justin's dad on the podcast, the socks. When Jerry was counting in different languages. And getting it wrong. Getting every language wrong.

Jerry quote, do all things with elegance. Uh, I, I do believe in that. And by the way, there are a couple of times that I have failed that guys and it's not good to be, to, to let them get you. It's not good. When he sat down with Morgan, listened about the past and apologized. Hashtag dad goals. Everything Jerry is literally perfect. For me is when he talked about being a parent and said something that is stuck with me.

What was that? He said, it is what you make it. All of it, the whole experience, and it truly is. And I'm a better parent for that in every situation. Well, you know, you were going to like this, one of, one of my first reads in this. Go ahead. All of it. He's so freaking wholesome.

His podcast always puts me in a better mood. So wholesome. The episode with bad dads, y'all did with Jerry. He was so on point. His ugly Christmas sweater this year. My Hanukkah sweater. Telling us how we all deserve better. Yes.

His socks and everything goes until I say I do. He is just so funny. I'll bet her off until you say I do. Yeah. The relationship one. Yep. When he talked about how happy he was to wake up in the middle of the night for you. Yeah, that was great.

When was that? Was I puking? No, no, I used to wake up in the middle of the night when you were. When you were a baby, you were an infant and you were just, you know. I thought this was a recent experience. I mean, I hear these fathers, you know, having to fit because they're, you know, they're, they're, they're newborn infant is crying and mom is exhausted. I mean, you know, they work all day.

And so, you know, when, when you were crying, it didn't matter what was going on. I would fight to get there first. You didn't cry more than a second. Yeah. It was, it's always been that consistent. And even today, I still jumped 22 feet for you. Yeah, you're pretty good. And last one I will read.

Oh my God, this was at the live show in LA, but when he talked about the chin dildo. Well, coming from the man that had a chin dildo. Oh, thank, that's a classic. We were waiting for that one. That's a classic. That was on your. I'm going to have to go buy another one of those and just word for the show with the glasses. I mean, with, with, with the headlights.

I feel like we would get pulled off of YouTube. Oh, then we won't do it. We could, you could try it. We'll put it, we'll put on one of the other, we'll send you there from one of the, one of the other platforms. No, put it on your channel. Put it on my channel. You can go on your channel.

Very funny. I can't take the risk. But that is all the responses I'm going to read. I just want to say thank you for coming on my show. I'm being a big part of it. Thank you for being in my life. And when I first started this podcast, I mean, there's a lot of trying times and a lot of tears, a lot, a lot of tears and just a lot

of stuff that happened behind the scenes and you came on and you were filling in the guest shoes and you made the show go on. So I really appreciate it. I'd like to share something with everybody on that note. It just goes to show you that when things are really at odds and you just don't know what's going to happen, things work out. And long as you just allow it, you will see it's all part of life. It's back to that same statement that someone said, you just got to live it.

Yeah. You got to experience it. On that note, I'm going to start my first read out. First of all, you all know the rules at FKS. I don't pick any of the stories. I don't want to know them before we read them. So Morgan really picked me to come on tonight to get even with me. Yeah, I sure did.

And she says, I'm going to show them what to do. I'm going to let him see what he can figure it out. So he is going to go pick his own stories. I'm sorry ahead of time, guys. I have no idea what to expect here, but I had to hold true. I don't know what's coming and here we go. It may be a disappointment to you. I'm going to do my best.

So just know that I... Just shut up and read. I'm trying. All right, you ready? You're fine. Okay. Somehow the story got mixed to the wrong one. Here we are.

Okay. So it's, am I the asshole for moving to a hotel because my wife's family insisted I sleep on the couch? Now, I think I got that right. I didn't read it backwards, couch on the sleep. So that was good news. My wife and I got married last summer. Her family lives across the country from us.

So up until this point, I had never actually visited them. I had met them a handful of times, but we've always gotten along fine. They invited us to come visit and stay with them for a few days, and we took them up on it, up on the offer. We flew in yesterday. Everything went well. Her dad and I watched football. Well, that's fun to do.

While she caught up with her mom and her sisters. And then we finally had a nice dinner. But things went south at the end of the night when it was made clear that they did not, they didn't want me sharing a bed with my wife while in their home. And that they expected me to sleep on the couch. Now, I would imagine Morgan does not want me to insert any of my comments yet.

So I'm going to keep going. By the way, I had a handful of comments on this, but she won't let me do it. This is her show and I got to behave. I honestly thought, what? You're just still adding comments. I'm going to shut up and read. I love this show.

I honestly thought they were joking at first, but they insisted we sleep separately. I had a problem with the implication that I shouldn't be allowed to sleep next to my wife. And also I have a bad back and the couch did not look at least bit comfortable. They didn't have a guest room. After arguing back and forth for a bit,

I decided to leave and book a hotel. I told my wife she didn't have to come with me. She chose to stay and I said, I'll come back the next day. I went off to the Marriott about 10 miles away and got a good night's sleep. Trying not to let the whole situation bother me. Hell yeah.

This morning I called my wife. This is going to be interesting. This morning I called my wife asking when I should come by. She told me, again, my brain is wandering. She told me, thy parents want me to apologize for leaving the way that I did. I told her that I am willing to apologize to keep the peace. But they need to acknowledge that it wasn't appropriate

to insist that I can't share a bed with my own wife. She said she talked to them and then called me back. Okay. About 10 minutes later, I hear back from her. She tells me that not only will they not apologize for it. Go figure. They are now insisting that I need to come back and stay on the couch for the rest of our visit.

If I don't agree to this, I'm not welcome back in the house. I'm pretty livid at this point. I told her that there is absolutely no chance that I will do that and I am no longer willing to offer any sort of apology. This is a great negotiation. My wife's sisters are now bothering me saying, this is just the way their parents are,

that my wife is very upset and I need to just give in and stay on the couch for the rest of the trip. Before it turns into something sort of a family feud. From my perspective, I didn't care what they think and I'm willing to treat the rest of the trip as a solo vacation. Go sightseeing, meet my wife, and meet my wife back at the airport at the end of the week. Am I the asshole?

So how do we do this? Since I read it, I look at- I typically would go first. I try to let my guests go first, but sometimes my guests don't talk and I have to kind of initiate the conversation. Well, you had no problem with me on that one. It sometimes doesn't come across that way in editing.

And I feel like I'm talking a lot. So sorry if anyone else feels like that. It does happen. But yeah, not the asshole. I think this is a very weird request. It seems like they're having quite the pissing match between them. And it's weird. I think it's understandable if they weren't married.

I know some people are traditional and blah, blah, blah, blah. My mom was that way. And then I did get a hotel and she came to the conclusion that she would rather spend more time with me than fight about my boyfriend sleeping on the couch. So she had to acquiesce. So the hotel worked. I'll put it that way.

So maybe the wife should have gone with, but I don't know. I think this is very, very strange. They're married. So it's like, are you just uncomfortable with them having a bunch of sex in your house? Because you can say that versus just he needs to sleep on the couch.

They're adults. How old are they again? They don't give the age. No ages. I don't think so. Okay. I mean, the whole thing to me is so moronic. I mean, I understand the parents have their,

their Christian values, if you want to call it that. And they don't say that. No, but there's a lot of religions that don't like premarital sex or they're very... These guys are married, they got married. And maybe they should say, you know, mom, maybe you guys should realize that this might be where we can see

if your first grandchild, I mean... They would probably throw up. I don't know what to say about that. Maybe the kid would too. I am just lost on this thing. And when I saw it, I said, I just can't, I can't not read this one. No, this is a really good find.

I hadn't seen this yet. So that is always really nice. I like being surprised. It is very strange. I don't get what their power dynamic is. And it is interesting where he's like, yeah, I apologize and you know, whatever, but it is wrong for me to sleep on the couch.

But it's weird. Maybe they just don't trust him. Maybe they... I think it's more about the sex. I think it's more they don't want to have them have sex in their house. Why? I don't know.

Some people don't enjoy listening to other people get it on. Give them a pillow. An extra one. What's the pillow going to do? Okay. I don't know. I think it's weird that she's not standing with her husband more. And I thought that too.

I really thought that she would really say, you know, mom and dad, this is really... This is getting ridiculous. This is, this is crazy. Yeah. And we're way beyond that. And I'm sorry, this is my husband and we are... The fact that she didn't do that really, you know,

struck me funny. Yeah. Well, especially now that this fight is happening, I, you know, let him go sleep at the hotel the first night because what's the difference? You guys are all sleeping. He's not missing out on anything. If he leaves when everyone goes to bed

and comes back in the morning for breakfast, what is the difference of him sleeping at the Marriott or on the couch? Nothing. And you figured this thing out at the age of 18. Yeah. No, I didn't do it until Justin. I, I've played by the rules and my college boyfriends

did sleep on the couch, but I still crept down to the couch and had sex with them down there. It could have, it could have been worse. It didn't, it didn't do anything. It could have been worse. You could have made him sleep in the car and it was in the middle of winter. It was winter when he stayed.

You would, you would go back and find some different kind of stiffs. Yeah. But I think, you know, it comes with age too. I'm now 28. I'm not 19 or 20 in college. It's a lot different. But yeah, it definitely did when I drew the boundary that

no, we're not going to sleep apart. We're just going to go get a hotel because that's what we're going to do. That's what she should have done. It came like a certain level of respect where it's like, okay, I get it. I can't control you anymore. I love you.

I want to spend time with you. Stay at the house. Stay in your room. Well, that's what she should have had. Absolutely here. And I think that she would have been smarter if she went along with her husband. I do too.

And I think now, even after the fact that this is becoming a thing and they're like, he must stay on the couch. I would say, you know what, mom and dad, I love you. We're going to enjoy the rest of our trip, but I'll be staying at the hotel with him and we'll be coming back every morning.

If you want to see us, we'll come back. It's not a big deal. This is all about power. This is power and control and it's bullshit. Weird power dynamic. Okay, what does the top comment say? The top comment. Where do I find that?

I just scroll down a little bit. Not the asshole. Your in-laws are abhorrent hosts. Is that correct? Yeah. It's their house, their rules, and their rules are stupid. Rather than fighting a pointless battle,

you set a clear and valid boundary and they choose to take offense to it. They want you to stay on their couch because it's a, back to the same thing, it's a power play. You're staying in the hotel, takes that power away. I thought that was beautiful, by the way. So good.

And they can't handle it. In fact, that your wife doesn't have your back. This is a giant red flag, good luck. And we, We nailed it. We nailed it. I feel very accomplished. Is there another comment down from that?

I believe there is. What does it say? I just saw a similar story like this on Pretty Revenge. Wait until they come visit you. Offer them a place to stay, but you insist your FI, your what? Father-in-law sleep on the couch. Your house rules.

Your house, your rules. I'd honestly, I'd get behind that. I would actually really force, I would really force the parents to have to sleep together because he might like the fact he doesn't have to sleep with her. I don't know. But I would give them a tent in the backyard.

We don't have a guest room. We have the tent for you in the backyard and, you know, we'll bring you coffee in the morning. That's what I would do. Yeah, that makes it going a little too far. And if you leave, you're not welcome back. Do you see any comments with big red boxes? Big red boxes?

I don't see a big red box. Someone said, I see the word in bold. I want to inflict some discomfort. This is what happens when you refuse to let total control freaks control you. They lose their shit. They couldn't handle O.P. sleeping in a hotel and being perfectly at ease and comfortable.

They wanted to inflict some discomfort on him and he refused to play along. Yes, yes. Yeah, I think all the comments here really nail it. I think it is a weird power dynamic. Maybe they're traditional, but at this point, they're married. Like, I mean, we do see this a lot on Reddit, though, where couples are unengaged

and their parents won't let them sleep together. And so I get that. But for these two, they're already married. It's it's totally a power dynamic. Oh, you got more. I got more. I got more. Okay.

This was a part of the writing that I probably need to bring out. You're early in your marriage, you've taken the first steps in letting the in-laws know you have backbone. Don't quit now. Their daughter married a man, not a doormat. I think that is was the most perfect thing that I took away from this thing.

And I really do want everyone to digest that one on our listeners. Yeah. And I, you know, it's really hard. And this is something that I think I've personally really struggled with. And I, I don't know if maybe there's some people out there that have had an easy time with this and can tell me how. But I think there's this really interesting transition

in your late twenties with your in-laws or your boyfriend's parents or whoever, you know, your partner's family. And it's really interesting because I've always felt like who am I to be able to establish a boundary with them? They're older than me. This is my boyfriend's parents. This is my, you know, my partner's family.

Like what, who am I to say something or set a boundary? But the reality is like as we age and get older and get married or are with our partner's long term, we're on the same level as their parents. We have every right to draw a boundary and hold fast to what we want and things like that. So this situation, he absolutely is right in not being a doormat.

And a term on Reddit that we often see is like, oh, you have a shiny spine, huh? You have that shiny new silver spine because it's nice and strong. And I'm glad he found his and I hope he doesn't lose it. Well, I have a story I could share with you. Oh, you do? Oh, yeah.

Okay. So you may be aware, I've only been engaged once in my life. Yeah. And when I went to go meet her parents or I went to her parents to ask her father for her hand, actually, and they said, you know, yes. They were very, it was from the deep south. They were very, you know, God-fearing family.

And when I went to go to, and we kind of lived together for the most part before, you know, for a period of like four or five, three or four months. Okay. And when I went to her house, all her brothers and brother-in-law and father said, you got to take him snipe hunting. Now they knew we were going to sleep together in the room,

but what they, what they were going to do is they were going to take me out snipe hunting and tell me how wonderful it is. And you got to get a paper bag and we're going to take you out in the woods and you got to catch these snipes because- What are snipes? That's a good question.

I had a feeling snipes were bullshit. They were make-believe birds. They were going to take me out in the forest, get me out there in the middle of nowhere and abandon me and let me figure out how to get home that night. Is that what they did? They did.

However, because I had a feeling that's what this was all about. You just walked to the road and hitchhiked to a hotel? I went out with them. I knew exactly where I was the whole time and my fiance at the time, also, I told her what I'm doing. And I said, wait, I'll be back in an hour. She says, you do know what they're up to.

Absolutely, I know what they're up to. And so we went about about two miles out. I immediately went back to the house, got back in about 45 minutes, maybe it was an hour. And no problems, straight, boom. Full moon, bam, back. Okay, cool. And so when they came back in,

they were drinking beer downstairs, laughing and we were upstairs having our good time. And I said, I think it's time to go out there and say, where is he? And make them go back out because they're drunk off their asses. Let them go out and find me because I'm lost in the woods.

And I'm going to get hurt and get eaten by fire ants or something. From snipes. And she sent them back out. They were out till seven in the morning looking for me. Oh my God, that's so karma. So there you go. That was my story of in-laws and bedrooms. Yeah, I like that.

Okay, well, I got to share that story with you. Okay, well, you got another one. I do. Okay. Number two. Okay, I'm ready. Okay, it also has some of these wonderful little things. This one says, oh, this is the poop knife award.

Oh, wow. Remember the poop that he had? I could never understand that. That's another two hot takes classic. Yes. I'm the disappointed award. I'm not bad. I'm just disappointed.

Okay. I don't know if that's good or bad. That's not to read the title. Now I'm scared. Face palm award. Oh God. Yeah. Okay, read the title.

Am I the asshole for leaving my son's wedding after he denied his stepmom the mother-son dance? Probably. Okay, let's go on. Okay. Here we go. My son, Jordan, is 27. His stepmom, Natalie, came into his life when he was 16.

So 11 years ago. His mom had passed away when he was 13, never really considered Natalie as his mom. He refused to let her get close and shut down every attempt to have a close relationship. He even moved in with his aunt months after Natalie and I got married. As years went by, they started reconciling

and seeing each other more often. He invited us to his wedding, which took place days ago. We got there and the atmosphere was great. Until later, I found out that Jordan had denied Natalie, a mother-son dance, instead chose his aunt to dance with him. Natalie told me this minutes later and I couldn't help feel irritated and quite upset. I decided to get up and leave and we both left.

I got calls from my family after they saw me leave. Jordan called later and I told him why I did it. He got mad and said it was his wedding and that his aunt was basically a mother to him and that Natalie shouldn't expect special treatment. But it's not a special treatment, but a tradition, besides that he hurt her feelings for no reason other than for the sake of being malicious. He got offended and accused me of ruining his day and causing a scene.

Now the family sided with him and said, I shouldn't have left no matter what. I'm with the family. Natalie's not his mom. End of discussion. It's called a mother-son dance. Natalie's not his mom. What's not making sense here? What's not clicking in your head? This is a stepmom that came into his life when he was 16. Basically an adult. They're not close. Not close and probably had a lot of other issues,

so much so that he moved in with his aunt when they got married. There's a lot going on here that OP isn't telling us and trying to play the victim of, oh, he hurt my wife on his wedding day. God forbid. Grow the fuck up. Support your kid. Tell your wife that she's out of line for even being hurt. Be supportive, but don't ruin his fucking day. Don't be a douche of a dad. I happen to agree with you. I don't think I have as much caustic acid to throw on him. I'm mad, but I will say this.

He's lost his mom. What does this mean? So he did get the overall vote of asshole. He did. Good, because he lost his mom, so he's already got one parent who can't be there on his special day, and then the other one just fucking leaves. I want to throw rocks at him. I just kind of curious why she just didn't go up to him after he was done with his aunt and say, can I have a dance with you afterwards? And not had a fit and not been childish and not made a big issue of it,

just accepted the fact, look, it's a wedding. And I understand that you have a position of being married to his father and that he certainly was a part of your life for the last 11 years. You have two dads, and whatever you decide to do on your wedding, I'm okay with. I get you 365 days a year, basically, and I'm cool with whatever happens. With Matthew, it was the same thing. He had a wedding. I mean, his biological dad was there. He was asked to say something. I don't remember if he did, but I know that I did.

No, he wanted to beat you up because you gave the speech. He was mad you gave the speech instead of him. But he could have got up and said something too. Well, he wasn't asked to give a speech either. So yeah, I think that's like a rational supportive parent. Like a lot of good, healthy parents would think that same way. But I think this is someone who wanted that recognition as, oh, she stepped in after such a tragic loss and she helped raise him. And I think she wanted that attention on her.

And when it wasn't granted, she threw a fit. Well, that's not being a mom. No, but she's not a mom. She's not. But if she wanted to have that position, her position should have been total understanding, compassion and just gone along with the flow. Yeah. Now, that's my thought. Yeah, I completely agree. I think the dad really blew it here and needs to apologize.

And the sad reality is, I don't, if this were me, you can apologize, but there's not a lot you can do to make up for it. Like the day is gone. So it'll be interesting because this is enough for me if a parent did this to me. I wouldn't talk to them. Well, I think that he has, I think the father has something to save here. I think he just has to own up to the fact that this was the wrong timing to do such a thing. And no matter what, that they love, and she needs to come along too, that we love you and

we get it. And I'm so sorry for that inconvenience to that misunderstanding. And it won't happen. I want to be here for you. The dad's the one that really needs to step up though because he's the one that could have easily, easily resolved his wife in this and said, you know what, honey, why don't you come out there and dance with me? Like blah, blah, blah. It's on him. He chose to give in to her pouting and whatever and walk out. But for this to really heal, she's got to show up and say, you know, she's got to stand with him now, stand with her husband.

And apologize. And apologize. Absolutely. What does the top comment say? I'm going to get this where I'm rolling to. Oh, wow. Picked it up fast, huh? Well, I don't know. Let's see what happened. Oh, it's got a red box too. Where do you see the, oh, this red box. Yeah.

I get it. Yes, the asshole. Your wife has never been his mother and he has every right to not have a mother son dance with her. I strongly suspect this isn't the first time you've chosen your wife over your son and is probably why he moved in with his aunt. If you, if you want any kind of relationship with your son going forward, I very much recommend both of you and your wife's apologies for throwing a tantrum at his wedding. So again, we're back on, we're back on track. And there are a lot of these little boxes now, these little things. Let's see. We have, wait a minute.

See, I'm just learning about this stuff, guys. Go down, go down to the next one. Well, I'm kind of excited because I get to see what these are. Oh, you're talking about the rewards. This is a gold award. That means it's very good. This is a starry award. This is a Bravo award.

Yeah, that comment got a lot. This is a rocket like award. Why don't you read the next comment since it has a red box too, which means it's very good. Okay, take my energy award. All right. But I like reading all that stuff too. I mean, some of these people may never have done this. For OP son, certified, what's this? Proctologist. Guys, I've never been on this site before.

So I'm finding these funny. You literally said to me, you're like, this is a gold mine. And I looked at you today and I go, yeah, this is why I have a show dedicated to reading these stories. It's a good website. For OP son to have moved in, moved out after only a few months, I have a feeling the reason is because OP and his wife were trying to force him to accept the stepmom as his mom right from the start. And after all that happened, OP sons invites them both to his wedding and then an OP has the audacity to demand a mother son dance. Then they leave when they don't get their way.

Wow. There goes any chance of them mending their relationship. Well, I'm hoping they can mend their relationship, but they got a lot of work to do. They really do. There's like a lot of weird, weird stories lately. Certified Proctologists. I mean, I'm obviously saying they think that OP's head is up his ass. That makes sense. But there's been a lot of stories like this on Reddit and TikTok. I've seen some crazy videos, but of people that either lose their partners or get remarried

and they want their new partner to so badly be accepted as mom. And the reality is that's not their mom potentially. If the kid wants it, let the kid make that decision. Let that happen as you love to say organically, but you can't force that. You can't force that love, that bond, that relationship. You can not. It needs to really come from that child. And that's the only way it's going to work. When you are the biological parent and you bring somebody on board with you to write this train of life and they have children. And then you have you out there that fit that description.

The only thing that you can be is an adult person to stand next to them should they want to call upon you. You can't force yourself upon them. No. You can only be there. And when I showed up in Morgan's mom's life, her brother Matthew was five. And he had other male figures that she dated before I came along. And he had his favorite. He had Chuck. That was his favorite. And I made sure that I was not going to try to compete with anybody else for Matthew's affection. I just wanted to be there and said, Matthew, I'm just here if you need me. If you want to do something with me, I'm here. And I got to tell you, he resisted till he was 20. I had 15 years of a cold shoulder and never really tried,

never lost my shit about it. You always understood where he was coming from. So you got to be more than patient when this is going on. And remember one thing, we are the adults. They are not at that time. They are they are they're young adults or young kids. They're growing. They're getting trying to form. So all we can do is try to show them what they are to grow up in life to be strong, resilient, and patient. Yeah. There's one TikTok I saw and it went pretty viral. And then the stitches and other people talking about it after were really crazy. But there was this story that a woman was sharing about her husband. And she started off by sharing pictures

of this other woman pregnant. And she goes, that's my baby in there, but that's not me. That's Brooke. That's my husband's wife who died during childbirth. And then like shared this story about this guy who lost his wife, Brooke. And three months later after she died, met her. And six months later, they were married. And she is now this little girl's mom. And a bunch of crazy stuff came out how that girl who married the husband after was only 19. And he would test her by like having her change the baby's diaper. And a bunch of other weird stuff came out, I think from like friends or whatever her sharing. And they don't let that little girl call her mom, mom. They like make her say, oh, that's mama Brooke. And the stepmom

technically gets called mom. And it's just this like crazy fucking story. But yeah, I got to show you the video. But there's just a lot of interesting people out there. And it's okay not being your step kids favorite person. It's hard, like it's hard having someone not like you or fawn over you. You just have to be patient. Yeah, just don't force it and just be there, support them and be yourself. And just don't be a dick. If being a dick is yourself, don't be yourself then. Okay, well that is story number two. I got more. I know you have more, but here's the thing. Yeah. This is it for the episode. You're going to go over and you're going to read one more for Patreon. Even if it's a fast one and I have more for Patreon. Yeah. Okay. So everyone thanks so much

for allowing me to be on the show this time. And if I said anything backwards, just know that I am backwards. You did a really good job reading. Did I? Yeah, you did a great job. Then we'll try it again. Yeah, I think honestly, I think I'm going to let you guys read a little more often. It's been a nice break. It is fun. It's fun just to be able to sit there and just chill. Have the ball just come at you and you just put your mid up and catch it. Yeah, I got my nice little drink. I'm just having a good time. And I have my drink and my drink was a gift to FKS. Yeah, it's from SPUR. And it's almost like those little squirt. It is a little squirt drink, but it doesn't have dye in it. It's healthier and it's to replace my dad's toxic squirt drinks

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