Travel Stories and Reddit Reads with the Fable Family

This week, we're keeping it in the family! Full Vin Diesel, baby. Fast X: #Storytime. Will hops on the mic with our producers Jordan, Daniela, and Jason to discuss their hilarious and sometimes horrific travel stories and pull of few of the best from Reddit Dot Com. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:20):
What's up, Fable Babies And welcome back to hashtag storytime.
I'm your host, will Bow Baggage claim Mick Baggins and uh,
we're doing a fun episode today. We've We've got the
Fable family here, my best friends who I pay, Daniella,
Jason and Jordan. How are we doing today, guys? How
are you now? I'm doing well? I wish I was

(00:44):
in Cobb. Well, well, I'm glad that you mentioned that
because on today's episode we're gonna be talking about travel stories.
I just got back from Japan, as you all well know,
and I'm sure I're tired of hearing about um, but
I thought it'd be fun to to share some personal
travel stories and also some some great Reddit stories about
travel nightmares, or travel mishaps, or or just travel. I

(01:08):
don't know what you got, Jason, but travel dream just
travel stories. Yeah, travel dreams, dreams and failures. How was Japan? Oh?
Thank you for asking, Jason. What a great segue. Japan
was awesome. It's an amazing It's an amazing country that
I recommend everybody traveling too. If you like Japanese food,
I mean I ate some of the best meals of

(01:30):
my life. The ramen there is incredible. The I had
top yaki, I had Alma costas SUCHI I mean, I
had some of the best fish I've ever had in
my life. It was great. I saw a kabuki show.
I went to a lot of weird, tiny nightclubs where bands,
weird bands played. It was it was a real adventure.

(01:52):
But I would love to share a travel story from
from Japan, but it's actually not about Japan. It's just
to story about getting to Japan. Yeah. So, uh, the
flight to Japan from Los Angeles to Tokyo Narita Airport,

(02:13):
it's a it's a twelve hour flight, so it's you know,
it's it's a it's a hardy adventure to get there.
It takes a minute. And I was, you know, I
was like, I'm gonna treat myself. I'm gonna splurge a
little bit. I'm not gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna
go first class business class, you know, lay flat seats.
Like I'm not that I'm not balling that hard. My

(02:34):
heart doesn't doesn't pay us that much. Um. But I
was like, I'll get I'll get a premium economy, you
know what I mean, I'll get the leg room, I'll
treat I'll treat yourself. So, yeah, I paid an extra
like two hundred and fifty dollars for an exit row
seat with unlimited leg room, you know what I mean? Wow,

(02:55):
hecus knowing the fives that I'm talking about infinitely. So
I was like, yeah, I was like, such a good choice,
Like you really take care of yourself. Well, you want
to show up refreshed, You've slept, you've had you know,
your legs aren't cramped up, and you haven't been in
a crumbled little ball for twelve hours ready walking around
the town. Yeah, you can't be an anti EN's pretzel

(03:17):
leg exactly. So I board the plane. I get to
my seat and I see that it's exit row. All
the leg room in the world. I could be Kareem
abdul Jabar and I would be fine. And the plane's boarding,
it's getting it's getting full. Still nobody seated next to me,
and I'm like, oh, oh am, I gonna hit the

(03:39):
jackpot here. And it seems like everybody's on the trickle
of passengers has ceased and I still have nobody next
to me, and I'm like, I've I was like, I've
got the whole row to myself. I'm gonna spread out.
I'm just gonna like put my Nintendo switch in that
chair and all my pillows in this chair. And I

(04:02):
was just ready to really take over this whole aisle. Wow.
And then and then stand by people start coming on.
They start letting on the standbys, stand stand bys to Japan.
And I see this man coming down the aisle and

(04:23):
he's a large man. He's a large, large man. And
I'm like, oh shit, and lo and behold that large
man plops himself right down next to me, and he
is overflowing out of his seat into my seat. And

(04:43):
I don't want to body shame anyone, Like I'm sure
he is really uncomfortable to this. This sucks for him.
But he like sits down into the seat and he's
very much in my seat as well, and I'm pressed
against the window, just crushed into the into the window.
And he he sits down and he's like he's like sorry,

(05:03):
I'm I'm kind of in your space. And I was like,
it's okay, man is key, It's like it's all right,
you know. I don't want to be rude to him,
Like we have twelve hours that we're going to be
literally touching each other for so I was like, let's
keep it nice, keep it cool, and he yeah, So

(05:23):
I'm literally crunched, I'm having to take a left turn
in my spine to just fit, and or like I'm
trying to go under his weight so that I can
like slip underneath right. Yeah. And if that was the
end of it, then that would be one thing, but
like he was also annoying on top of it. Oh

(05:49):
he wasn't. So yeah, yeah, he wasn't just in my
space and touching me the whole time. He was also
bothering me. So well, it started off with I was
playing my my Nintendo Switch and he leans over and
he goes, is that uh is that teenage mu Ninja

(06:09):
Turtles the new Arcade? They are the remake of the
old arcade game. And I was like, yeah, yeah it is,
and he goes, oh, can you play as Casey Jones?
And I was like, you can, but I'm playing as
Donna Tello. He's like, oh, okay, and it was kind
of disappointed in my character choice. And then well he's
trying to relate. He's really trying to buddy me up,

(06:29):
and I'm not here for it. I don't gone now,
and and like I'm on this one level and these
rhinos keep hitting me, and he's like, man, they keep
getting you with that charge attack. I'm like, I know,
I'm aware of. Oh my god, you had a narrator
on your righte on my Nintendo switch on screen. Oh

(06:52):
it gets worse eyes on your own screen. So then
so I'm sitting in the exit row, so there's not
screens right in front of me. The screen it folds
out from beneath the seat and kind of like you know,
comes out in front of you. So I like I
have to move his leg to get my screen to
unfold out. And I'm like, okay, what am I gonna watch?
I'm gonna I'm searching through the movies and he doesn't.

(07:14):
He can't get his screen out because he's just too big,
so he like can't unfold it. He's also trying to
ask me questions with my headphones in and I keep
doing They're like what you'll be like, oh wait you
are where are you going? And I'm like, I'm going
to Tokyo. We're all going to Tokyo. What do you mean?
Where am I going? Um? And there was also one
time where they made the announcement and then they followed

(07:34):
that announcement with the announcement in Japanese. And when the
Japanese announcement started, he goes Japanese announcement. I know, I
can hear, I can hear that this is am oh
God from Drake and Josh with the two couple. Didn't
even know what I'm talking about before my after my interaction,

(07:57):
you know what you're talking about. Get my flow, you know,
the two the couple. It's like sitting on Drake. Oh yeah,
I was gonna say I definitely remember an airplane scene
from the show, but it wasn't until you said sitting
on Drake. Yeah, okay, good shout out. Shout out to
Drake Bell who uh I got kind of drunk without

(08:18):
a playlist live. I will a little guy corner. This
reminds me of planes, trains, and automobiles. Yeah, a little bit.
This is sort of a John Candy situation. Um okay,
So he I choose a movie to watch. I watch
Banshees of of at Charon Um Benches of, which is

(08:42):
a weird It's a weird movie. Ye, strange movie. I
don't know if anybody's seen it, but it's pretty bizarre.
And I'm noticing he's just watching my screen because he
can't get his screen, and I have my headphones and
and he's like, hey, could you could you put the
subtitles on? And I was like, yeah, sure, man, I
guess this is crazy. I put subtitles on, and he

(09:06):
just he's just leaning over watching my tiny screen, watching
Banshee's ved Sheer and the movie ends. He was like,
that was that was a weird one. I was like, yeah,
it was pretty, it was great, very strange. He couldn't
even hear anything, couldn't hear the beautiful Irish lilts of
Colin Farrell. And yeah, I mean, if it's a weird movie,

(09:28):
if it's a weird movie with the audio, I'm sure
even more weird out of context about the audio. And
then so I'm not really sure why he was. That
movie ends, and then he was like, I'm just gonna
keep watching your screen. I was like sure, and I
was like, I'm gonna put on Wilcanda forever and he's like, oh,
I haven't seen that. I was a great. Yeah, wait,

(09:49):
remind me why he couldn't watch anything on his own
because he couldn't get his screen out. Yeah, it was
under He forgot his headphones too. You didn't have a
screen in the back of this because because we were
in the exit row row, so so the screens fold

(10:10):
out from from beneath. I would have been like, sit
on my lap, I'll get the TV for you, watch
your own. You know, maybe I should have just gone
full Santa Claus and just like we should have. Just
the other weird thing that's happening is in this area
there's a lot of like leg room. But then all
of these people who just want to stretch keep showing

(10:33):
up and standing there and like doing lunges, and I'm
just like, you're in my leg room lunging. Get out
of here. Oh my god. People are like passing gas
near you. Just oh. He also kept farting. He was
farting up a storm too, Yes, straw through his body. Sorry,
I was, I get extra gassy in the air. By

(10:54):
the way, where are you staying in Japan? Can I
stay with you? This is exactly and then it's it's
still there's more. Oh god. So then he finally goes
up to the stewardess and he asks for headphones, which
they give him and then he like before he sits down,

(11:16):
he gets his screen out after I've already watched two
movies with him, and he plugs in and he starts
like watching his own movies. First movie he picks to
watch Saving Private Ryan. Oh my god, what should have
won Best Picture over Shakespeare in Love? But on a
plane choose Shakespeare in Love? Such a strange choice. Like

(11:41):
I'm glancing over to his screen and it's just like
you know, D Day and just body parts flying everywhere
in blood and gore and just like just chaos on
his screen. So that's quite the choice. Weird choice. Second movie,
he watches eight Mile. Wait, I'm unfamiliar with this. I've

(12:02):
never seen it. I think it's kind of cool. It's
kind of a bold choice. But best scene of eight
Mile there's a sex scene in it, pretty Murphy Eminem
sex scene. That's a pretty hot sex scene. Like if
you have seen it, you remember the sex scene from
that movie. And he gets to that scene and I
glance over. I was like, oh, this is a sex scene.
This is a pretty good He skips through it. He's

(12:23):
fast forwards through the sex scene. I was like, bro,
what are you doing down? Let me let me try
to remember they're both wearing tank tops. I believe someone's
got a hooded sweatshirt. Yeah, okay. They're like standing up
in the back of like a machine shot and she
like and she like spits in her hand and it's hot. Yeah,

(12:44):
it's a pretty it's a crazy second. And he's got
his arm around you, and we are like fifty percent
of our bodies are in content. Looks over and he's like,
when was your first time? Well, another perfect segue is I, uh,
we're getting close, and he keeps also, oh my god.

(13:05):
During one of the movies, he was like, can we
check and see how much time has left? And he
hits my screen and then he pulls up the flight
path like there stop topic screen. Oh my god. He
pulled up the flight path and he was like, well
seven more hours. It's like Jesus Christ. Oh wow. And
then oh my god, when you landed the impractical When

(13:28):
you landed, did the impractical joker guys come on? Oh?
I wish I would. I would murder them if that
was a trigging prank like that is episode okay, wow,
here's the here's the conclusion is uh, he asked me
you know, He's like, or you go, He's Tokyo your
final destination. I was like, yep, I'm going to Tokyo,

(13:48):
are you? And he was like, nope, I'm flying on
to uh Ho Chi Min And I was like, oh,
what are you? What are you doing in Vietnam? No,
he's meeting his fiance for the first time, so it's
a ninety day. I was like, I'm out, I'm done.
I can't wait. That made me like him. That is hilarious.

(14:11):
That made me get on at the end. Oh my god,
I have so many questions. Oh, I don't know if
I have answers. I was really trying to do the
least amount of communicating with him as possible, but he
wanted to. Probably the best wish I should have just

(14:32):
pulled out a microphone, you know, and got an episode
of the broadcast right there. Yeah. What's so funny as
well is genuinely one of the friendliest people, and so
when you get a situation where he's not being friendly,
you just need I need to see that on camera.
You really my buttons were pushed like you. I think

(14:54):
you reacted well. I would have like made him roll
out of the plane and like I don't know, close
my seat. It would have been over for me, Like
he wouldn't get a friend. My friend Line is who
I went to Japan with. He has this thing that
he calls challenge mode, and it's just when you're in
an uncomfortable situation, when you're doing something you really don't
want to be doing, he could just goes into challenge mode.

(15:17):
So that entire flight, I was like, challenge mode. This
is a challenge and I'm going to rise to this
challenge and I'm gonna be nice and that is good.
So yeah, if you're ever in a rough spot, just
go just go into challenge mode and see how long
you can take it. I've got a challenge. Actually, I

(15:41):
thought we would play a travel would you Rather? I
have two. I have two micro travel stories from Reddit
and so I'm gonna read both of them and I'd
like to hear would you Rather? A? Or B? From
from all of y'all. So I love this game. Here's
this the jingle travel would you Rather? With Jason? I

(16:06):
just made that up. I love it. Okay, So here's
a This is story A taking a twelve hour bus
ride in Serbia while the bus driver played a CD
on repeat with Rihanna's Disturbia playing the whole time. Every
time the chorus came around, all I could think of

(16:27):
was Serbia. I'm in Serbia, so that's a that Wait,
how long was that bus ride? Twelve hours? Twelve hours?
And it was just the one song, not even not
even an album, Like how do you even get one

(16:49):
singular song? I love that song, That's one of my
favorite songs. And twelve hours, though, you would go crazy.
That's why I'm saying. I think she didn't do it
at the at the halftime, did she? She didn't if
they throw in you know, love on the brain shure thing,

(17:11):
you know, just like yeah, like Rihanna's best hit. Yeah,
it's a different story, but like Disturbia for twelve hours straight,
I think I might go into psychosis. Yeah, it's like
kind of like a it's like a creepy song. I
feel like twelve hours like going to losing in a
cramped bus. I'm gonna like my my, my good buddy

(17:33):
Charlie used to be a manager of a restaurant and
he put Toto's Africa on loop during a ship and
I mean it played on loop for like six hours
and one of the bus boys at the end came
up and was like, have I where have I heard
this song before? I've heard it literally on repeat for
the last six hours. I want to know what's going

(17:55):
on boys head. It's just a real stoner. Yeah, so
I am the boy. Let's go be Okay, So that's
option A. What's yeah, what's option be? Coach trip from
the UK to Paris. An hour into the journey, the
toilet at the back of the bus broke and for
the rest of the journey its contents spread across the
entire floor, going to and fro in waves. Basically, it

(18:19):
was an eleven hour game of Flora's Lava. Okay, this
is easy, it is I would rather go into psychosis
sewage slashing around literally, they said, Duke, he's doing whirldpool, Like,
I don't think I could do that. Um, definitely would

(18:40):
have to be re re reunblast. I'd much rather be
on the Rihanna bus because look, if I if you
brought your headphones, you can put something else on and
drown out the But you can't put on headphones and
drown out the diarrhea. That's not possible. Now, well, what
if there's a world where you don't have headphones. Um,

(19:02):
in that world, I'll just say. My counterpoint is that
trip would ruin Disturbia for you for the rest of
your life, and that's depriving a joy of Like that
amazing song. There was a college weekend where my friends
and I listened to that song on repeat because we

(19:23):
kept thinking that they were saying, uh, Disturbia, it's like
the darkest cigarette. Um, we thought that was so cool.
But I wouldn't want that. Yeah, it's like the darkest cigarette.
She does not say that, but I just wouldn't want

(19:44):
that song ruined for me, like I would take the
Flora's Lava for eleven hours, because it's also one less hour. True,
But also at what point during the trip did and
did the triangle of sadness take over and hour in
an hour? Oh okay, Like Jason, you're telling me you're

(20:06):
signing up for ten hours of sewage slashing throughout the
seating areas. They're literally playing Mark. Yeah, you have to
throw out your entire outfit. But I get also, but
I get to listen to disturb you for the rest
of my life. That there are so many Rihanna songs

(20:28):
Jason you're just gonna have to pick another one. I
hate to be the one to bring into You'll get
like e coli And I'm being so serious. Yeah, well,
I'm just concerned that that was the choice that you
made because they study they did a study recently where
they like held a Peatrie dish under like a hair

(20:48):
dryer in a bathroom and just the recycling of the
bathroom air pushed onto your hands is enough to imagine
the air in a cab of just slashed sewage for
ten hours, are gonna get like a bacterial And yeah,
everybody had pink eye in both eyes. Yes, you hit
a bump and like a used hamon falls on your lap,

(21:12):
Like no, I'm sticking with it. It's one to three.
I love Rihanna. We need to talk to your model now. Yeah, yeah,
we'll get break this. This reminded me of a hilarious
thing that happened in Japan that I'm just gonna share quickly. Um.

(21:34):
We went to this one like night club that's like
a private club, and it was called Club Lex shout
out taka um and uh my friend Linus and his
bandmate were djaying there that night, and we had like
a private room was all like velvet and like super
you know, chic and classy, and the go out to
the bar and the bar is just full of of

(21:58):
European models and that's the only people in this bar.
It's us. And then like ten Ukrainian and Russian models
who are all like eighteen years old, and I'm just
like what this is? This place is fucking weird. And
they're like smoking cigarettes at the bar and like and
one of them was playing solitaire on her phone. I
was just like, what's the vibe here? And I go

(22:22):
to the bathroom to take a whiz, and I've that
toilet is filling up with pe like something's wrong, and
it like I added to it, and then I didn't
flush because I did not want to be the guy
who overflowed the toilet at the club. But I was like,
something's wrong here. This this, this freaking toilet is to

(22:43):
the brim. And then about i'd say about fifteen minutes later,
just piss starts flooding out of the toilet and all
these models were just standing in puddles a piss, not caring,
smoking their cigarettes, drinking their champagne, playing their solitaire, and
big puddles of wee wee wow. And then and then

(23:06):
a guy came out to mop it up, and he
was drinking champagne and mopping piss. It was a strange scene.
Club Lex for Life, Drop the pain. All right. On
that note, let's take a little break and uh and
we'll come back with some more story time. All right,

(23:27):
welcome back. All right, Jordan's got a travel anecdote to share.
Take it away, Jordan. Yeah, Well, I guess I just
kind of have a couple smaller travel stories. But it's
kind of like the running theme of travel mishaps. I
my mom when we were young, she said that she

(23:48):
thinks that she and the family is cursed with travel,
and then I will always just not go well. And
that was like that started when I was like nine.
So ever since I was nine, I just like kind
to assume something is going to go wrong when I'm traveling,
and it frequently does. So the first example I can
give you is certainly my own fault. But will I

(24:10):
am frequently unfortunately one of those stand by passengers on
airlines because my cousin works for jet flows, so we
get to, you know, fly stand by something. Never to Japan,
I've never never done anything like that. Yeah, exactly. That's
not my truth. But I'm gonna let him live his truth.

(24:32):
So I was flying back one day and it was
in the Orange County Airport, and when you're flying stand
by it's kind of like an unspoken thing. I like,
you really don't want to bother the people at the
desk until they call for you. So the screen on
the board said it was delayed. It was like delayed, delayed, delayed.

(24:53):
I like saw people like up there, but I had
my little Beats headphones in. I was like mining my business.
And then I I had a text from my cousin
who works for jet Blue, and she goes Jordan. It
says that you weren't scanned in, like are you on
the plane And I was like, no, not yeah, it
says it's delayed. And she's like, well, that's funny because
the plane is currently taxing away from the turbo. And

(25:18):
I missed my flight because I had Beats headphones in
and I didn't hear them call because I was just
looking at the screen and the screen did say delayed.
But she and then as soon as I realized, I
went up there and I was and she was like,
are you Jordan, and I was like yeah, and she
was like, we did call for you. I was like,
no way. So, you know, suing doctor Dre for the

(25:38):
impactable quality of this. You were like, I was just
listening to Disturbia on repeat. I didn't hear. Yeah, exactly,
I've done Yeah, I've also done this. I've done the
same thing. Like how do you miss a flight while
you're just like patiently waiting? I had there. My mom
never anytime I fly now she's like, miss don't just

(26:01):
lease it with your headphones on and miss your flight again,
Like I literally can't live it down anybody when you're
so glows. Yeah, I've been there. And then the other
one that's kind of like the plane strain's automobile commotion.
I think we internally have told this story, but I
think it's just generally funny. And it was kind of
my last day driving from across the country when I

(26:25):
moved back here, and it was just something wrong after another.
So the day started. First of all, we were in
Nevada after driving across the country from New York because
I was moving back to California for context. And then
on the last everything had gone great, Everything had gone fantastic.
Up until that point, we were in really good spirits.

(26:45):
We spent the night at my cousin's house in Las Vegas,
and the desert is really hot, so it's like one
hundred and five degrees. When we were like ready to
leave at like eleven am, so we get in the car,
or my friend actually went and turned the AC on
so it would be like scorching hot when we went
got into it. So then we were in the car,
it was fine. We went through the drive through at

(27:05):
Starbucks ordered to drink and then I heard a pop
noise and I was like, what was that? But I
didn't really see anything, so I didn't think anything of it.
And then as we're in the drive through at Starbucks,
my friend E who I drove with, was like, have
you always had that crack in your windshield? And I
was like no, like what And I look and there
was a small crack on the bottom right like close

(27:28):
to the like the AC like vent that had just
kind of like just like a little baby crack. And
then I was like, Okay, well, you know I'm not
going to let that ruin the vibes. I frequently have
travel issues the day that I get to California specifically,
So I was like, I'm not accepting this energy, I'm
breaking the curse. Moving on. So we're driving, We're listening

(27:49):
to our audiobook, Betty White's Memoir, and it's dusty in
the desert. It is dusty in the desert. So I
needed to use my windshield wipers. So I was like
spraying the spray and my little win chew wipers, and
the crack was going like it was like starting to
spread slowly, and so my friend did like a Google

(28:10):
search and found out that sometimes when it's so hot
and your liquid from the spray is so cool, the
contrast of the of the temperatures can cause a crack
and then it spreads when you're adding more of the liquids.
So I was just ruining my windshield. Yeah, and then
that pretty much turned into I got to my new

(28:32):
apartment and it was like dirty. There was like peon
the c I had to have them clean it. And
then I got locked out of my apartment because we
only had one set of It was literally the first
night there, like could not even sleep in my apartment
because I couldn't get into it because my roommate lost
the So just like all in my car. Yeah, with

(28:56):
my friend. I was like, thank you so much for
driving across the country with me. I'm going to treat
you to a nice night in my twenty and fourteen
prey And it all worked out. But just it goes
to say that travel like curses are really real, and
I feel for you having to endure a twelve hour

(29:17):
flight with that man, because you know it's funny is
in Japan, I went to this one, this one temple
in Tokyo, and they have these these like fortune stations
where you like put in a little bit of money
and then you like shake a box and a stick
comes out, and the stick has a little character on it.
You go to the corresponding little drawer and then you

(29:38):
pull out a fortune and it says like like the
one I got was like highest fortune, and it was
like basically like you've you've got really good luck, but
like don't be careless with it or to confront um.
And then my buddy Linus, whose birthday it was, did
it and he got lowest fortune, and so the whole

(29:58):
time like we're like lines lowest fortune, Like sorry, dude,
it's because he got that lowest fortune. So you got
the Jordan, you got the lowest fortune on the travel
side of things. I did. I did. I think I
must have been like someone who caused other people travel
issues in a past life and now this is my

(30:19):
karmaic retribution. Wow, my only personal travel story is very sure.
But once I was in um, I was in Madrid
and we were going to Barcelona. We were really excited.
We had our bags pack, we left the air airbnb,
we kissed all the locals that you know, gave us
a baghette, like it was very cute. We were like

(30:41):
we loved in here, like Sayanara. My feeling was really high.
We're taking photos, were like that's trip Eva, like now
to another city. And then we got to the airport.
We're like whing our bags were excited um and they
were like your flight isn't until tomorrow, and we had
to go back to the airbnb. Everyone was like hello

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or like throughout all the homo and like so bizarre
yone was like hi, We're like, don't look at us.
And we had like such a weird day, just like
in the airport for two hours for fun, came back,
had to leave tomorrow. So at least it was tomorrow
and not yes yesterday. Yes, correct, we we got ahead

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of ourselves. Oh man, Daniella, do you have a Reddit
story to share? I do. This is am I the
Asshole travel story Edition? Am I the asshole for stopping
my husband for traveling for conduct. My husband loves to
travel and sometimes even does it solo. We went together

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in some countries. It was fun being with him doing so.
But I got but I have gotten pregnant over the pandemic.
So we sat down to talk about this. Because it
was an accident. I always wanted a baby anyways, just
not this soon, and my husband's reaction was unexpectedly caught
off guard and had mixed emotions. Both took it as

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a sign and wanted to keep the baby. But my
husband says he still wants to travel and ask if
I'm okay with it. My parents said that they always
wanted a grandchild anyways, and that they were able to
watch the child if we were to go out and travel,
even before I was pregnant, so I knew my baby
would be in good hand if I were to travel,
so I said yes, we decided to go through with

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the pregnancy. I love that the deciding factor on whether
to keep this baby or abort it is like, I
just want to go to the Maldives. Bro, Like I can't,
Like I can't be like way down with a baby
and be like freaking meek a nose, you know, like
I need to be in cool blue turquoise waters and

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I can't have a freaking screaming baby freaking crushing my vibe. Dude,
So get rid of it. No, it's fine, we'll keep it.
Grandparents will watch it. Literally give it abella. Um. Okay,
so now we have the child. Yeah, no, it's just

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I guess I'll save my judgment until I hear the
whole thing. Okay. Fast forward to now our babies eight
months and my husband is an incredible father, says who um, yes,
I must see nice. He hasn't been anywhere since the
baby was born, but he did occasionally talk about where
to travel next. I honestly thought at this point that

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he should stay home and be a father because he's
a parent now. He shouldn't be gone even for a
day without him from our baby. I told him this
and he got a bit upset. He wanted to think
things through about this, so he asked for a little
mental space to not talk about the subject right now,
and I agreed, But then literally the next day, his

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college friend contacted him and invited him to a wedding
in Tiawallonah. He told me this and too that his
friend was the one that helped him go through a
lot in his college years and at least to give
him four to five days to visit. I said no,
because things change. My husband exploded and said that I
broke the promise I made while I was pregnant. He

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kept telling me to give the baby to my parents
to watch, but I said we wouldn't be responsible parents
if we were to do that. He kept claiming it's
responsible because we know the baby will be safe, but
I kept arguing back that it doesn't work that way,
and I can really take him to court if he
wants to abandon the baby. He broke his gaming system
out of anger and got silent afterwards. He only yeah,

(34:38):
not the Xbox. He only communicated about baby related things,
but wouldn't talk to me about anything else. Am I
the asshole? Um? Wow, this man, this man is a baby.
He's a Baby's a woman. It's the woman talking about
the husband. Oh, the husband, right? The husband? And is

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a man baby. Yeah, he broke his gaming system because
he couldn't go to Tijuana wedding. What a child? Well,
how old were they did saying they didn't do male female,
twenty five whatever, they didn't didn't they didn't disclose, So
they sound young. They sound like youngsters. Yeah, yeah, because

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like I can kind of understand a young person who
has sound a child before, like, this is gonna change
my social life. And I'm yet like if that was
the case, Like if he's thirty and he's like, but
I want to go and see the counts, I'm gonna
go tour, like then I would be like a different story.
But like if they're like twenty two and he's like

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oops and they're like you know, and and they mutually
talk about like them, I understand him having, you know,
concerns about being a father, but like app you have
the child, you have to find ways to communicate. I
love that she was like, I love that he was like,
can I just have some five days to not talk
about the subject of my parenting of our child? I

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think that was It's like I was just gonna say
Jason is the only parent on this yeah podcast at
the moment, I feel like I'd love to hear I
got some thoughts, So I do not think he's an asshole.
I just think he responded really poorly in one way.
So my thoughts are when sometimes when you find out

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you're going to have a child, uh, you just freak out.
And if he was like hanging on to travel in
his head, that was probably his freak out, Like you know,
you kind of see your life flash before your eyes
and you're like, I might not get to do all
these things I want to do, and travel's clearly like
important to him in his head, So he freaked out

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a little bit and was like travel is like the
thing I need to hold on too. But then I
am finding it very weird that she was like, no,
we can't just give the baby to my parents for
four or five days, Like why why grandparents? Or that's
want to do that? Yeah yeah, and like parents need

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a break. Um, So I thought that was a little strange.
I do think he responded really poorly when when when
he said you went back on your promise, like that
seemed like a little little Christians promise. Yeah, but I
actually thought that it was a little Yeah, I thought

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it was a little I liked him being like, let's
not talk about this for a couple of days, like
let it simmer. Personally, I think that that was an
okay move, But same, I don't know. I think she's
a little unhinged in the sense of being like, you
need to be with your baby every day of his life.

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Yeah the baby didn't even admit if it, Like, yeah, yeah,
did the baby consent that? Does the baby want you
around that much? You know? Like I feel like, um,
I disliked she's like, you can't be away a second
from little Nathaniel, Like what if the guy is to
take a dump, you know, like maybe true poke ranite

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with the boys or like, I don't know, a day
or two, and I feel like she um for going
the promise, you know. But again, I do think that
unless there's like I didn't see anything that was here,
anything that was super troubling in this. So like I
think any new parent can't be the asshole unless they're

(38:38):
like putting the baby in danger, because so is the asshole. Yes,
all babies are assholes. But no, here's the thing that
is troubling is he broke his Xbox or a PlayStation five,
which is like a weird rage because yeah, exactly, you

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can't go to TJ for a bro wedding, You're gonna
like smash your your xbox. Like that is some of
the childhood. Yeah, it's childish and it's anger management and
like you're gonna freak your child out if you're breaking
you know, electronics, you're doing the boy if you can't
find oat milk and time, Yeah, that's weird. You gotta

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you gotta respond differently. My I mean, my thing is like,
this is why I don't want to have kids. Is
I'm selfish with my time. I want to do what
I want to do when I want to do it. Um,
and if that means go to the Maldives and like
be in some turquoise ass water, like I can do that, dude.
And I don't have to worry about, like about scarring
my childhood or like leaving them with my parents or whatever.

(39:44):
So yeah, you know, I think this is a This
is a great PSA for like, don't have kids if
you want to do shiit, do not get pressured into
having kids. That is really important. Yeah, I do think
there are a lot of people that just think they
have to have kids. You don't you don't you don't
have to. No, oh you don't let me have them
out there. No, it's not a rule news to me. Yeah,

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I feel like my mother wouldn't let that fly like
a tiny just look alike, it's not your it's not
her life. You could do the old Varsity blues like
I don't want your life. I'm not having kids. That's fine. Yeah,
I'm Troy, and my mother used the coach. Well your

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head in the game, Daniella, thank you. I do think
that he tried to like communicate the concerns that he
had ahead of time, and they like had a conversation
about it. So I do think it is a little
messed up for her to backtrack, like once the baby
is like a fully formed person, yeah, like no, we'll

(40:50):
we'll like help make sure you can still travel and
do the things that you want to do. And then
he's like, Okay, I'd really like to go do that
thing we talked about. She's like, wait, are you crazy,
I can't leave our kid for Yeah. Like, I do
think it's a little mess on her part to like
I'm with him, Like I guess she should have been.
I think she should have been very clear on her

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own feelings about it ahead of time and communicated them
rather than like waiting until it was a child. Also,
just TJ wedding sounds like chaos to me. Oh, I
think that sounds like my cup of tea. I mean,
I bet it would be awesome. It's just like it's
that's going to be a chaotic weekend, like you know,

(41:32):
there's might come back with another child type of thing,
yeah right, yeah, or like they're I don't know, they're
going to donkey shows or they're seeing you know, some
hardcore shit. I don't know what they're getting into out
of TJ wedding. But and these these two bros where
he was like he really helped me get through some
dark times in college. Like I don't know what that

(41:53):
what is that relationship that they have there? Yeah, let's
unpack that, right, I want to dig into she Well,
her post was voted that she is the asshole, just
too clear she is the asshole. Well, I think I
think he's I think his response was asshole ish. I

(42:15):
think he was being a baby rage out rage he
rage quitted on that on this child weird m But
you guys think she's the asshole. I do, I do
I'm on, I think they're both kind of as they're
both Yeah, I think they're both assholes, but I also

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don't think either of them are big assholes. They're both
just like little baby assholes. I agree that. Yeah, all right,
I think we've I think we've figured out we've accomplished
some ship today. Well that's all the time we have
for this episode of hashtag Storytime. Thanks for listening, everybody,

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and Danielle Jordan Jason as always, thanks for joining and
for bringing some great stories and making me laugh. I
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