August 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Pour yourself a generous glass of wine and settle in for a deliciously cringe-worthy collection of embarrassing moments that'll make you feel better about your own bad decisions. Welcome to the world of Gremlin Stories, where alcohol transforms ordinary people into their most mortifying selves.
This episode features four listener confessions that range from hilariously relatable to genuinely sympathetic. There's the college disaster involving beer pong, jello shots, a case of mistaken identity, a nightmare of airplane sickness; and perhaps most cringe-inducing, an anonymous submission about a first sexual experience gone horribly wrong due to excessive drinking.
Between sips of Sauvignon Blanc, I'm excited to launch a brand-new segment called "Gremlin Gossip", because who doesn't love juicy drama? The inaugural gossip comes from listener Joey, who witnessed a bride abandoning her groom at the altar. It's the kind of real-life drama that puts Hollywood rom-coms to shame.
Whether you've had your own gremlin moments or simply enjoy the schadenfreude of others' embarrassing stories, this episode delivers equal parts humor and humanity. And remember, your embarrassing stories, need for advice, or scandalous gossip are always welcome here. Send your submissions to emilytogremilypod@gmail.com and follow on Instagram and TikTok @emilytogremilypod.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
all right, cheers guys.
Emily with emily to gremlin,back with another solo episode.
I have my white wine, sauvignonblanc, with me.
Um, I gave myself a prettyhefty pour, I think, and I've
had a little bit already to kindof like loosen up and get into
it.
So yeah, cheers to you andcheers to me.
(00:34):
I kind of wanted to do a circleback from last episode when I
had Jay on the podcast.
We were talking about herbirthday, we were talking about
Leo season in general, but wewere discussing her birthday
plans and we had made thedeclaration that we were going
(00:54):
to get content and be wannabeinfluencers.
And after the night was doneand I got home, I looked at what
I had in my phone and I haveone video from the restaurant
and nobody's in the video it.
It's kind of laughable at thispoint.
(01:15):
Yeah, we went to the Arden,which, if you've seen it on
TikTok or you've been thereyourself, you know that the
whole place is just covered inflorals.
The ceiling, which is what Igot my video of, is just like
draped in florals.
It's gorgeous in there, but Igot a video of the ceiling.
There are no pictures of Jayand I together because God
(01:37):
forbid we take a picturetogether.
But I like to just think thatmaybe we were just living in the
moment.
You know, I was meeting one,two, three other people that I'd
never met before, so I wasengaged in conversation and,
just, you know, having a goodtime, which is why I didn't pull
my phone out.
I feel like, you know, you kindof see people who are just
(01:59):
always at the table on theirphones and they're not
interacting.
That wasn't us and I don'tthink she got anything either.
I think maybe she got like onepicture or one video.
One of her friends did get acute video of her and that's
about it.
So, yeah, no content to share,except for I could post the
(02:21):
video of the ceiling but otherinfluencers I say that, like I'm
an influencer, other people onTikTok have much better videos
than I do.
So I would just suggest, ifyou'd like to see the restaurant
, to go on TikTok and type inthe Arden WeHo, west Hollywood,
and you'll see it.
And it was really gorgeous andwe had a great time and she had
(02:43):
a great birthday.
I met some new people.
I thought they were amazing andgreat and lovely and it was a
good.
It was a good birthday.
I did kind of poop out, thoughthey were going to go out and go
, like, have a time after therestaurant and I ended up going
home.
But that's okay, because thenext morning I woke up and I
didn't feel terrible and Ididn't turn into a gremlin and
(03:07):
you know what.
I count that as a win formyself and for her and for my
boyfriend, because he didn'thave to deal with me.
Okay, so we are going to dogremlin stories today.
I think we have, let's see, one, two, three.
We have four gremlin storiesand then at the end I have four
Gremlin stories and then at theend I have kind of a surprise.
(03:27):
I just filmed a teaser aboutwhat the surprise is, so I'm
probably going to post it.
So it's probably not even asurprise anymore.
But in case you didn't see theInstagram story, I'll keep it as
a surprise for you guys.
But if you've seen it, youalready know what it is.
And yeah, let's get it going.
(03:47):
All right, the first Gremlinstory is from Miranda.
She says I went to college backin the early aughts and for
those who don't know, earlyaughts is early 2000s.
Ok, let's revert.
I went to college back in theearly aughts and I wasn't a huge
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partier, like some drinkinghere and there, but it wasn't my
pastime.
Her and I would not have hungout.
But this one particular weekendmy friend and I decided to go
to a frat party because we bothhad crushes on these two guys in
that fraternity.
We were on a mission.
The mission, you ask Hook upwith our crushes.
Actually, you know what?
(04:28):
Maybe we would have hung out.
We were both nervous anddecided to partake in beer pong.
I suck at that game and poundthe jello shots.
Terrible idea girl.
Jello shots, murder.
The alcohol worked and we bothhad enough courage to start
flirting with our guys and itwas all working out.
(04:49):
After some time my crush askedif I wanted to go outside for a
cigarette.
I said of course, but inreality I had never smoked a day
in my life.
So I followed him outside andhe lights one up and hands it to
me.
I took a drag of it and I'mpretty sure I did it wrong and
immediately started coughing andbecame dizzy.
He handed me a cup to help withthe coughing and I drank it,
(05:13):
only to find out it was whiskey.
Why would he do that?
I couldn't help myself.
After that I threw up all overthe bushes, projectile vomit
everywhere in all the shades ofthe rainbow, courtesy of the
many jello shots.
I heard him say ew and he leftme there.
(05:36):
Not really my prince charming.
He went and got my friend andher and I left together with my
tail between my legs, somortified.
To this day the mention of jelloshots send a shiver up my spine
, miranda, oh my God.
Okay, number one.
(05:57):
Beer pong and jello shots don'tgo together.
Okay, number two.
This is two.
I put up three.
Number two why would he say ew?
Like, what a dick.
Like he and his frat brosaren't, you know, puking all
over the cesspool of thatfraternity house?
Like, shut up Him to say ew,but good on your friend for
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leaving her possible hookup.
But Miranda, I hope you'velearned your lesson.
And yeah, jello shots, theysneak up on you.
Don't do that.
Okie, dokie, let's see.
Next one is Hannah.
She says last summer I washanging out with my boyfriend on
the 4th of July and we weredown at the pier where they have
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a big parade in our town,followed by a party.
I live in a small coastal townthat attracts a lot of tourists
during the summer.
By the time the fireworks hadended, I was relatively buzzed
and heading to the bar to gettwo more drinks for myself and
my boyfriend.
On the way back to our spotwith our drinks in hand, I see a
girl cuddling up to a guy andbeing super lovey-dovey.
(07:02):
The guy is wearing an obnoxiousAmerican flag shirt and I
realize that's my boyfriend.
We had had a mini spat aboutthe shirt because I thought it
looked hideous and he thought itwas cool.
I march over to the couple andscream what the fuck?
And throw both drinks at them.
One hits him in the back of thehead and the other all over the
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girl's face and pigtails.
Then I hear what are you doingbehind me?
The voice behind me was myactual boyfriend.
I look back at the bewilderedcouple and the guy is shocked
and the girl is fuming.
I'm quickly trying to explainmy fuck up that him and my
boyfriend are wearing the sameshirts and my boyfriend is
trying to stop the girl fromgetting in my face.
(07:45):
He ends up smoothing it overand buying them drinks, but the
girl was still pissed rightfully, so he took me home right after
that.
We laugh about it now, but Istill feel bad for ruining their
night.
Sorry girl hannah.
Okay, this one made me laughbecause, um, tech, technically,
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boyfriend and I, our first datewas 4th of July, so that's like
kind of like our like holiday.
But there was like a point itwas like I don't know a couple
years after we started datingwhere actually no, probably
sooner than that he had thisreally terrible cowboy hat.
That was an American flag, itwas just.
It was so ugly, it was sohideous, and he really wanted to
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wear it on Fourth of July and Isaid no because, like no, and I
ended up hiding it from him.
He found it when we moved, butI do believe I got rid of it
Like it's not, it's not in thehouse.
So, yeah, yeah, I understandthe the fight because he's
wearing something disgusting,but, yeah, I've never thrown a
drink on someone.
I would like to for likefunsies, but yeah, no, I've
never thrown a drink on someone,nor have I had a drink thrown
(08:58):
on me.
So, yeah, that I mean that'snot cool, but I now I want to
throw a drink on someone.
I mean like for fun, notbecause I'm mad, like just like
to throw a drink.
Anyway, it'll never happen, I'msure.
Actually, never.
Say never, you never know,manifesting all right.
The next one is anonymous, shesays.
(09:21):
After my sister's bacheloretteparty in Vegas, we were all
feeling pretty shitty.
I was keeping it together,surprisingly, and making sure
all of us were packed up andheaded to the airport.
Everyone stumbled out of theUber and we headed to our gate
without incident.
We had some time.
So some of us ate, while othershad the hair of the dog.
I would have had the hair ofthe dog.
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I decided to eat so I couldkeep up my strength.
She's the opposite of me.
When it's finally time to board,I start feeling not so good.
We get to our seats and Iimmediately put the air on my
face hoping it would help.
So I don't know if it was adelayed hangover or the airport
sandwich, but I was starting tofeel the need to throw up.
(10:05):
Oh God, after what felt like aneternity, the seatbelt sign
went off and I jumped out of myseat to head to the bathroom.
I'm halfway down the aisle andI think my fast movements did me
in.
I couldn't help it.
I vomit in the aisle.
I didn't know what else to do.
Oh, I felt like a child who hadhad an accident.
(10:26):
I didn't know.
I didn't know what to do.
Oh, I felt like a child who hadhad an accident.
I didn't know.
I didn't know what to do.
I kept it moving to the bathroomand continued my shame in the
airplane bathroom.
I was grateful to thestewardesses who helped me for
the rest of the flight with somewater and ginger ale, and I'm
so sorry to anyone who is onthat flight from vegas to
phoenix, it's my mostembarrassing moment, anonymous,
(10:50):
okay.
So look, if you're on a flightfrom vegas, leaving vegas, I'm
sure you're not the first personthis has happened to.
Um, it doesn't make it any less.
It doesn't make it any lessterrible.
Um, I have been in yourposition, except for I was
feeling horrible at the airportand then I was able to, I think,
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get everything out of my systembefore I boarded the plane.
And from you know, vegas to LosAngeles, the flight's, like you
know, 45, 50 minutes, but Ikept it together and I just like
, curled up in my seat and justtried to take a nap.
I didn't, but I just kept myeyes closed and when I got home,
(11:35):
I continued my what did you say?
I continued my shame.
I continued my shame at home,and it was terrible because I
had a friend who was housesitting for me and when I got to
my house it was terriblebecause I had a friend who was
house sitting for me and when Igot to my house it was an
absolute mess.
So I had to deal with that aswell as being hung over and
feeling terrible.
What I will say that is likemaybe what I would probably do
(11:59):
from now on is like stoppartying and drinking before,
like the night before yourflight, you know, like have fun
during the day and sleep it off,that way you can get on the
airplane.
And you know, not do this.
But yeah, I also.
An airport or an airplanebathroom is disgusting.
(12:19):
Airport bathrooms are gross too, but airplane bathroom is so
gross.
You hear horror stories aboutlike the airplane bathrooms and
whatnot.
We won't get into that.
But yeah, grody, grody, grody.
Okay.
So last one for Gremlin Stories.
It is also anonymous.
(12:43):
She says my Gremlin story.
I think we'll take the cake.
It happened when I lost myvirginity.
I was born into an extremelyconservative household and never
had a boyfriend in high school.
So when I went to college Ifelt free.
I finally had my first kiss at19, but nothing really happened
after that.
It wasn't until my 21stbirthday.
I had been dating this guy forseveral months and I really
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liked him.
I had decided I wanted him tobe my first, but I was so
nervous.
But since it was my 21stbirthday, I was looking and
feeling cute and could finallygo to a bar and have some drinks
with friends.
I was the youngest of the groupand we weren't really into
going to parties, so I orderedmy first drink, a vodka,
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cranberry, and it made me feelfun.
Then I got my second drink, amargarita, and I felt even more
fun.
Oh, you're mixing.
I had several more drinksbefore my friends told me no
more, but it didn't matter.
I had decided to take myboyfriend back to my place so we
could finally do the deed.
After asking me several timesif it was okay, we finally
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started, but I didn't reallyknow what to do, so I kind of
just laid there, oh God.
But the shaking from the bedstarted to make me feel queasy
and the next thing I knew I waspuking on the side of the bed
and he jumped off of me.
He ran and got me a trash canfor me to continue.
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While he helped me to thebathroom.
I woke up the next morning tohim cleaning up after me, so I
didn't have to deal with toomuch of a disaster.
He was really the sweetest, mymost embarrassing moment,
coupled with a nice guy.
A couple weeks later weactually successfully had sex
and I'd like to think that's howI lost my virginity, rather
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than the actual mess.
That's the actual story.
Anonymous, oh girl, okay.
Again, number one you can't mixvodka and then tequila.
Girl, you're lucky you didn'tthrow it beforehand.
You probably wish you wouldhave, actually, because then you
wouldn't have been in the midst.
And I don't think anyone has agood losing their virginity
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story.
I don't Like you.
What I'll?
I will talk about thateventually on a later podcast.
I'll need someone here with meso I can banter back and forth
and hopefully whoever I have onhas a terrible story as well.
I mean, there's I don't thinkthere's a good story is there?
I don't know it's not like it'sin the movies and you know it's
(15:16):
all like romance and you know,music with rain or some shit, I
don't know.
But yeah, I don't think anyonehas a nice story, so don't feel
too bad.
But yeah, eventually I'll tellthat story today and the day and
I'm going to drink some wine,because now I'm thinking about
it and I feel like I'm gettingall red.
Drink some wine, because nowI'm thinking about it and I feel
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like I'm getting all red.
Okay, and that's the end of thegremlin stories.
Okay, so, if you don't alreadyknow, I am starting a new
segment.
It was inspired by a submissionfrom Joey and Joey told me a
story that and they say it inhere they're not sure if it's
really a gremlin moment, butthey enjoyed listening to my
(16:02):
what's the word?
Excitement over what hadhappened in a past episode,
where a woman flipped out at abridal shower because her
ex-boyfriend was getting married.
So I said I absolutely love togossip, I love being in the know
, I love knowing all that shit.
It's just, like you know, getsme real percolating.
(16:24):
So they sent in this story.
So now we have a new segmentcalled Gremlin Gossip.
We have gremlin guidance, wehave gremlin gossip.
I'm kind of bummed.
I like we have gremlin stories.
Is there another word forstories that starts with a G?
Because the alliteration, likeyou know, really gets my engines
revving.
I love alliteration.
(16:44):
So if someone knows a synonymfor story or stories that starts
with a G.
Let me know.
I did look it up and I couldn'tfind anything that worked.
So if you think of somethingI'm sure there's people out
there that are way smarter thanI am write in and let me know
what I could change gremlinstories to so that it can all be
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alliteration and all be like socute.
So yes, joey sent in the very,very first gremlin gossip.
Joey says After listening to apast episode where the girl
witnessed a gremlin have ameltdown at a bridal shower, I
thought I should write in.
Not really sure if this countsas a gremlin moment, but I
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thought maybe you'll appreciatethe gossip.
This happened back in 2021.
A coworker of mine had topostpone his wedding due to the
pandemic.
So after almost a year afterthe original planned date, the
wedding was finally set.
We were all sitting downwaiting for the bride to walk
down the aisle.
The groom is smiling at thefront and the music begins
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playing.
She's walking down with her dadand halfway through you can see
her face change and she becomessuper anxious.
I could tell I wasn't the onlyone who noticed, but I didn't
know what the issue was.
So the ceremony continues andthe bride looks really
uncomfortable.
She keeps glancing in theaudience.
Her eyes are darting back andforth.
The groom definitely noticesand you can see them whispering
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at the altar.
She suddenly loudly says I'msorry.
And runs down the aisle andgreets a man who was sitting at
an end seat.
They both raced down the aisleand out of sight.
I was stunned.
The groom just stood there fora moment and left after her and
later it was announced thewedding was called off and
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everyone went home.
Everyone at work wasspeculating about what had
happened, left after her andlater it was announced the
wedding was called off andeveryone went home.
Everyone at work wasspeculating about what had
happened and it wasn't until twoweeks, when he came back to
work, that we all found out.
Turns out his ex-fiancee is anurse.
During the pandemic she wasn'tgoing home very often, he
thought, because she was puttingin so many hours at the
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hospital with the influx ofpatients.
Well, she was, but she was alsohaving an affair with a male
nurse who she said she becamecloser to due to them dealing
with the hardships together.
He was not invited to thewedding but rather crashed it in
hopes that seeing him wouldmake her leave her fiance for
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him and it worked.
They took off together and theex had moved in with him within
days of the called off wedding.
If I hadn't seen it with my owneyes, I would think it was the
plot to a movie Signed Joey.
Oh my God.
Okay, I got this submission.
(19:40):
I don't know when I got it, Ihave had to have to look, but,
joey, I emailed you back and Igave you credit.
I said thank you so much forthis submission.
See, okay, this, this is thekind of things I live for.
I don't have, I don't live formuch, but gossip is one of them,
and this, this really fed mysoul.
(20:04):
Okay, I understand feelingswere involved and there was a
groom that was jilted, and he isa person too.
I know that and I feel terriblefor him too.
I know that and I feel terriblefor him.
But if I put myself in thegirl's perspective, that was
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really romantic and I would, Iwould love to see that in person
.
That's so like runaway brideand like, oh, and you guys know
I love Grey's Anatomy, so that'svery like much.
When, like, jackson stood up atthe April's wedding and said
you know, I love you, blah, blah, blah.
And they had this whole montageand they had, you know, that
beautiful song playing over.
I don't know.
In my head I want to live arom-com and in reality I
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probably don't.
But this, this was a greatsubmission.
Joey, you created something thatI didn't even know I needed.
Mission Joey, you createdsomething that I didn't even
know I needed, which is gremlingossip.
So now I am inviting everyone,all my listeners.
Some of you guys I'm sure havethought I don't have a gremlin
story, but I'm sure you havesome gossip that you want to
(21:10):
share.
Maybe it's something you havebeen wanting to get off your
chest about yourself, orsomething that your best friend
told you and you're like, oh, Ican't tell anyone.
Send it in.
You can be anonymous, you canchange names.
Send it in and I will read iton the podcast.
And yeah, so gremlin stories,gremlin guidance, gremlin gossip
(21:31):
.
I think gremlin gossip might belike my new favorite thing.
Yeah, I'm very, I am veryexcited for this.
I have no words.
I'm speechless as a podcasterwho is attempting to make a
living talking.
I am speechless at the delightthat this submission brought me.
Joey, thank you so much.
(21:51):
I did email you back.
Check your inbox.
Yeah, I was very excited.
So for future episodes, if youhave gremlin stories, if you
need gremlin guidance, you needadvice on something, or if you
have gremlin gossip, justsomething you're dying to tell
someone about yourself, somebodyelse you can always remain
anonymous.
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Make sure to like, follow,share, subscribe rate five stars
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Do all the things.
Tell your friends.
Follow, share, subscribe ratefive stars.
Do all the things.
Tell your friends.
And yeah, if you listen to lastepisode, we're talking about
manifestations and make themanifestations come true.
We're aiming for the sky, allright, and I'm gonna chug this
wine and revel in what wasgremlin gossip.
(22:54):
So exciting, love it, love it,love it.
Very excited for you guys tolisten to this episode.
And yeah, cheersies to you,cheers to me, cheers to Joey and
cheers to that jilted groom.
Sorry, you went through that,cheersies, bye.
all right, cheers guys.
Emily with emily to gremlin,back with another solo episode.
I have my white wine, sauvignonblanc, with me.
Um, I gave myself a prettyhefty pour, I think, and I've
had a little bit already to kindof like loosen up and get into
it.
So yeah, cheers to you andcheers to me.
(00:34):
I kind of wanted to do a circleback from last episode when I
had Jay on the podcast.
We were talking about herbirthday, we were talking about
Leo season in general, but wewere discussing her birthday
plans and we had made thedeclaration that we were going
(00:54):
to get content and be wannabeinfluencers.
And after the night was doneand I got home, I looked at what
I had in my phone and I haveone video from the restaurant
and nobody's in the video it.
It's kind of laughable at thispoint.
(01:15):
Yeah, we went to the Arden,which, if you've seen it on
TikTok or you've been thereyourself, you know that the
whole place is just covered inflorals.
The ceiling, which is what Igot my video of, is just like
draped in florals.
It's gorgeous in there, but Igot a video of the ceiling.
There are no pictures of Jayand I together because God
(01:37):
forbid we take a picturetogether.
But I like to just think thatmaybe we were just living in the
moment.
You know, I was meeting one,two, three other people that I'd
never met before, so I wasengaged in conversation and,
just, you know, having a goodtime, which is why I didn't pull
my phone out.
I feel like, you know, you kindof see people who are just
(01:59):
always at the table on theirphones and they're not
interacting.
That wasn't us and I don'tthink she got anything either.
I think maybe she got like onepicture or one video.
One of her friends did get acute video of her and that's
about it.
So, yeah, no content to share,except for I could post the
(02:21):
video of the ceiling but otherinfluencers I say that, like I'm
an influencer, other people onTikTok have much better videos
than I do.
So I would just suggest, ifyou'd like to see the restaurant
, to go on TikTok and type inthe Arden WeHo, west Hollywood,
and you'll see it.
And it was really gorgeous andwe had a great time and she had
(02:43):
a great birthday.
I met some new people.
I thought they were amazing andgreat and lovely and it was a
good.
It was a good birthday.
I did kind of poop out, thoughthey were going to go out and go
, like, have a time after therestaurant and I ended up going
home.
But that's okay, because thenext morning I woke up and I
didn't feel terrible and Ididn't turn into a gremlin and
(03:07):
you know what.
I count that as a win formyself and for her and for my
boyfriend, because he didn'thave to deal with me.
Okay, so we are going to dogremlin stories today.
I think we have, let's see, one, two, three.
We have four gremlin storiesand then at the end I have four
Gremlin stories and then at theend I have kind of a surprise.
(03:27):
I just filmed a teaser aboutwhat the surprise is, so I'm
probably going to post it.
So it's probably not even asurprise anymore.
But in case you didn't see theInstagram story, I'll keep it as
a surprise for you guys.
But if you've seen it, youalready know what it is.
And yeah, let's get it going.
(03:47):
All right, the first Gremlinstory is from Miranda.
She says I went to college backin the early aughts and for
those who don't know, earlyaughts is early 2000s.
Ok, let's revert.
I went to college back in theearly aughts and I wasn't a huge
(04:07):
partier, like some drinkinghere and there, but it wasn't my
pastime.
Her and I would not have hungout.
But this one particular weekendmy friend and I decided to go
to a frat party because we bothhad crushes on these two guys in
that fraternity.
We were on a mission.
The mission, you ask Hook upwith our crushes.
Actually, you know what?
(04:28):
Maybe we would have hung out.
We were both nervous anddecided to partake in beer pong.
I suck at that game and poundthe jello shots.
Terrible idea girl.
Jello shots, murder.
The alcohol worked and we bothhad enough courage to start
flirting with our guys and itwas all working out.
(04:49):
After some time my crush askedif I wanted to go outside for a
cigarette.
I said of course, but inreality I had never smoked a day
in my life.
So I followed him outside andhe lights one up and hands it to
me.
I took a drag of it and I'mpretty sure I did it wrong and
immediately started coughing andbecame dizzy.
He handed me a cup to help withthe coughing and I drank it,
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only to find out it was whiskey.
Why would he do that?
I couldn't help myself.
After that I threw up all overthe bushes, projectile vomit
everywhere in all the shades ofthe rainbow, courtesy of the
many jello shots.
I heard him say ew and he leftme there.
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Not really my prince charming.
He went and got my friend andher and I left together with my
tail between my legs, somortified.
To this day the mention of jelloshots send a shiver up my spine
, miranda, oh my God.
Okay, number one.
(05:57):
Beer pong and jello shots don'tgo together.
Okay, number two.
This is two.
I put up three.
Number two why would he say ew?
Like, what a dick.
Like he and his frat brosaren't, you know, puking all
over the cesspool of thatfraternity house?
Like, shut up Him to say ew,but good on your friend for
(06:19):
leaving her possible hookup.
But Miranda, I hope you'velearned your lesson.
And yeah, jello shots, theysneak up on you.
Don't do that.
Okie, dokie, let's see.
Next one is Hannah.
She says last summer I washanging out with my boyfriend on
the 4th of July and we weredown at the pier where they have
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a big parade in our town,followed by a party.
I live in a small coastal townthat attracts a lot of tourists
during the summer.
By the time the fireworks hadended, I was relatively buzzed
and heading to the bar to gettwo more drinks for myself and
my boyfriend.
On the way back to our spotwith our drinks in hand, I see a
girl cuddling up to a guy andbeing super lovey-dovey.
(07:02):
The guy is wearing an obnoxiousAmerican flag shirt and I
realize that's my boyfriend.
We had had a mini spat aboutthe shirt because I thought it
looked hideous and he thought itwas cool.
I march over to the couple andscream what the fuck?
And throw both drinks at them.
One hits him in the back of thehead and the other all over the
(07:23):
girl's face and pigtails.
Then I hear what are you doingbehind me?
The voice behind me was myactual boyfriend.
I look back at the bewilderedcouple and the guy is shocked
and the girl is fuming.
I'm quickly trying to explainmy fuck up that him and my
boyfriend are wearing the sameshirts and my boyfriend is
trying to stop the girl fromgetting in my face.
(07:45):
He ends up smoothing it overand buying them drinks, but the
girl was still pissed rightfully, so he took me home right after
that.
We laugh about it now, but Istill feel bad for ruining their
night.
Sorry girl hannah.
Okay, this one made me laughbecause, um, tech, technically,
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boyfriend and I, our first datewas 4th of July, so that's like
kind of like our like holiday.
But there was like a point itwas like I don't know a couple
years after we started datingwhere actually no, probably
sooner than that he had thisreally terrible cowboy hat.
That was an American flag, itwas just.
It was so ugly, it was sohideous, and he really wanted to
(08:37):
wear it on Fourth of July and Isaid no because, like no, and I
ended up hiding it from him.
He found it when we moved, butI do believe I got rid of it
Like it's not, it's not in thehouse.
So, yeah, yeah, I understandthe the fight because he's
wearing something disgusting,but, yeah, I've never thrown a
drink on someone.
I would like to for likefunsies, but yeah, no, I've
never thrown a drink on someone,nor have I had a drink thrown
(08:58):
on me.
So, yeah, that I mean that'snot cool, but I now I want to
throw a drink on someone.
I mean like for fun, notbecause I'm mad, like just like
to throw a drink.
Anyway, it'll never happen, I'msure.
Actually, never.
Say never, you never know,manifesting all right.
The next one is anonymous, shesays.
(09:21):
After my sister's bacheloretteparty in Vegas, we were all
feeling pretty shitty.
I was keeping it together,surprisingly, and making sure
all of us were packed up andheaded to the airport.
Everyone stumbled out of theUber and we headed to our gate
without incident.
We had some time.
So some of us ate, while othershad the hair of the dog.
I would have had the hair ofthe dog.
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I decided to eat so I couldkeep up my strength.
She's the opposite of me.
When it's finally time to board,I start feeling not so good.
We get to our seats and Iimmediately put the air on my
face hoping it would help.
So I don't know if it was adelayed hangover or the airport
sandwich, but I was starting tofeel the need to throw up.
(10:05):
Oh God, after what felt like aneternity, the seatbelt sign
went off and I jumped out of myseat to head to the bathroom.
I'm halfway down the aisle andI think my fast movements did me
in.
I couldn't help it.
I vomit in the aisle.
I didn't know what else to do.
Oh, I felt like a child who hadhad an accident.
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I didn't know.
I didn't know what to do.
Oh, I felt like a child who hadhad an accident.
I didn't know.
I didn't know what to do.
I kept it moving to the bathroomand continued my shame in the
airplane bathroom.
I was grateful to thestewardesses who helped me for
the rest of the flight with somewater and ginger ale, and I'm
so sorry to anyone who is onthat flight from vegas to
phoenix, it's my mostembarrassing moment, anonymous,
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okay.
So look, if you're on a flightfrom vegas, leaving vegas, I'm
sure you're not the first personthis has happened to.
Um, it doesn't make it any less.
It doesn't make it any lessterrible.
Um, I have been in yourposition, except for I was
feeling horrible at the airportand then I was able to, I think,
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get everything out of my systembefore I boarded the plane.
And from you know, vegas to LosAngeles, the flight's, like you
know, 45, 50 minutes, but Ikept it together and I just like
, curled up in my seat and justtried to take a nap.
I didn't, but I just kept myeyes closed and when I got home,
(11:35):
I continued my what did you say?
I continued my shame.
I continued my shame at home,and it was terrible because I
had a friend who was housesitting for me and when I got to
my house it was terriblebecause I had a friend who was
house sitting for me and when Igot to my house it was an
absolute mess.
So I had to deal with that aswell as being hung over and
feeling terrible.
What I will say that is likemaybe what I would probably do
(11:59):
from now on is like stoppartying and drinking before,
like the night before yourflight, you know, like have fun
during the day and sleep it off,that way you can get on the
airplane.
And you know, not do this.
But yeah, I also.
An airport or an airplanebathroom is disgusting.
(12:19):
Airport bathrooms are gross too, but airplane bathroom is so
gross.
You hear horror stories aboutlike the airplane bathrooms and
whatnot.
We won't get into that.
But yeah, grody, grody, grody.
Okay.
So last one for Gremlin Stories.
It is also anonymous.
(12:43):
She says my Gremlin story.
I think we'll take the cake.
It happened when I lost myvirginity.
I was born into an extremelyconservative household and never
had a boyfriend in high school.
So when I went to college Ifelt free.
I finally had my first kiss at19, but nothing really happened
after that.
It wasn't until my 21stbirthday.
I had been dating this guy forseveral months and I really
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liked him.
I had decided I wanted him tobe my first, but I was so
nervous.
But since it was my 21stbirthday, I was looking and
feeling cute and could finallygo to a bar and have some drinks
with friends.
I was the youngest of the groupand we weren't really into
going to parties, so I orderedmy first drink, a vodka,
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cranberry, and it made me feelfun.
Then I got my second drink, amargarita, and I felt even more
fun.
Oh, you're mixing.
I had several more drinksbefore my friends told me no
more, but it didn't matter.
I had decided to take myboyfriend back to my place so we
could finally do the deed.
After asking me several timesif it was okay, we finally
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started, but I didn't reallyknow what to do, so I kind of
just laid there, oh God.
But the shaking from the bedstarted to make me feel queasy
and the next thing I knew I waspuking on the side of the bed
and he jumped off of me.
He ran and got me a trash canfor me to continue.
(14:08):
While he helped me to thebathroom.
I woke up the next morning tohim cleaning up after me, so I
didn't have to deal with toomuch of a disaster.
He was really the sweetest, mymost embarrassing moment,
coupled with a nice guy.
A couple weeks later weactually successfully had sex
and I'd like to think that's howI lost my virginity, rather
(14:29):
than the actual mess.
That's the actual story.
Anonymous, oh girl, okay.
Again, number one you can't mixvodka and then tequila.
Girl, you're lucky you didn'tthrow it beforehand.
You probably wish you wouldhave, actually, because then you
wouldn't have been in the midst.
And I don't think anyone has agood losing their virginity
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story.
I don't Like you.
What I'll?
I will talk about thateventually on a later podcast.
I'll need someone here with meso I can banter back and forth
and hopefully whoever I have onhas a terrible story as well.
I mean, there's I don't thinkthere's a good story is there?
I don't know it's not like it'sin the movies and you know it's
(15:16):
all like romance and you know,music with rain or some shit, I
don't know.
But yeah, I don't think anyonehas a nice story, so don't feel
too bad.
But yeah, eventually I'll tellthat story today and the day and
I'm going to drink some wine,because now I'm thinking about
it and I feel like I'm gettingall red.
Drink some wine, because nowI'm thinking about it and I feel
(15:39):
like I'm getting all red.
Okay, and that's the end of thegremlin stories.
Okay, so, if you don't alreadyknow, I am starting a new
segment.
It was inspired by a submissionfrom Joey and Joey told me a
story that and they say it inhere they're not sure if it's
really a gremlin moment, butthey enjoyed listening to my
(16:02):
what's the word?
Excitement over what hadhappened in a past episode,
where a woman flipped out at abridal shower because her
ex-boyfriend was getting married.
So I said I absolutely love togossip, I love being in the know
, I love knowing all that shit.
It's just, like you know, getsme real percolating.
(16:24):
So they sent in this story.
So now we have a new segmentcalled Gremlin Gossip.
We have gremlin guidance, wehave gremlin gossip.
I'm kind of bummed.
I like we have gremlin stories.
Is there another word forstories that starts with a G?
Because the alliteration, likeyou know, really gets my engines
revving.
I love alliteration.
(16:44):
So if someone knows a synonymfor story or stories that starts
with a G.
Let me know.
I did look it up and I couldn'tfind anything that worked.
So if you think of somethingI'm sure there's people out
there that are way smarter thanI am write in and let me know
what I could change gremlinstories to so that it can all be
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alliteration and all be like socute.
So yes, joey sent in the very,very first gremlin gossip.
Joey says After listening to apast episode where the girl
witnessed a gremlin have ameltdown at a bridal shower, I
thought I should write in.
Not really sure if this countsas a gremlin moment, but I
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thought maybe you'll appreciatethe gossip.
This happened back in 2021.
A coworker of mine had topostpone his wedding due to the
pandemic.
So after almost a year afterthe original planned date, the
wedding was finally set.
We were all sitting downwaiting for the bride to walk
down the aisle.
The groom is smiling at thefront and the music begins
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playing.
She's walking down with her dadand halfway through you can see
her face change and she becomessuper anxious.
I could tell I wasn't the onlyone who noticed, but I didn't
know what the issue was.
So the ceremony continues andthe bride looks really
uncomfortable.
She keeps glancing in theaudience.
Her eyes are darting back andforth.
The groom definitely noticesand you can see them whispering
(18:15):
at the altar.
She suddenly loudly says I'msorry.
And runs down the aisle andgreets a man who was sitting at
an end seat.
They both raced down the aisleand out of sight.
I was stunned.
The groom just stood there fora moment and left after her and
later it was announced thewedding was called off and
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everyone went home.
Everyone at work wasspeculating about what had
happened, left after her andlater it was announced the
wedding was called off andeveryone went home.
Everyone at work wasspeculating about what had
happened and it wasn't until twoweeks, when he came back to
work, that we all found out.
Turns out his ex-fiancee is anurse.
During the pandemic she wasn'tgoing home very often, he
thought, because she was puttingin so many hours at the
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hospital with the influx ofpatients.
Well, she was, but she was alsohaving an affair with a male
nurse who she said she becamecloser to due to them dealing
with the hardships together.
He was not invited to thewedding but rather crashed it in
hopes that seeing him wouldmake her leave her fiance for
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him and it worked.
They took off together and theex had moved in with him within
days of the called off wedding.
If I hadn't seen it with my owneyes, I would think it was the
plot to a movie Signed Joey.
Oh my God.
Okay, I got this submission.
(19:40):
I don't know when I got it, Ihave had to have to look, but,
joey, I emailed you back and Igave you credit.
I said thank you so much forthis submission.
See, okay, this, this is thekind of things I live for.
I don't have, I don't live formuch, but gossip is one of them,
and this, this really fed mysoul.
(20:04):
Okay, I understand feelingswere involved and there was a
groom that was jilted, and he isa person too.
I know that and I feel terriblefor him too.
I know that and I feel terriblefor him.
But if I put myself in thegirl's perspective, that was
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really romantic and I would, Iwould love to see that in person
.
That's so like runaway brideand like, oh, and you guys know
I love Grey's Anatomy, so that'svery like much.
When, like, jackson stood up atthe April's wedding and said
you know, I love you, blah, blah, blah.
And they had this whole montageand they had, you know, that
beautiful song playing over.
I don't know.
In my head I want to live arom-com and in reality I
(20:49):
probably don't.
But this, this was a greatsubmission.
Joey, you created something thatI didn't even know I needed.
Mission Joey, you createdsomething that I didn't even
know I needed, which is gremlingossip.
So now I am inviting everyone,all my listeners.
Some of you guys I'm sure havethought I don't have a gremlin
story, but I'm sure you havesome gossip that you want to
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share.
Maybe it's something you havebeen wanting to get off your
chest about yourself, orsomething that your best friend
told you and you're like, oh, Ican't tell anyone.
Send it in.
You can be anonymous, you canchange names.
Send it in and I will read iton the podcast.
And yeah, so gremlin stories,gremlin guidance, gremlin gossip
(21:31):
.
I think gremlin gossip might belike my new favorite thing.
Yeah, I'm very, I am veryexcited for this.
I have no words.
I'm speechless as a podcasterwho is attempting to make a
living talking.
I am speechless at the delightthat this submission brought me.
Joey, thank you so much.
(21:51):
I did email you back.
Check your inbox.
Yeah, I was very excited.
So for future episodes, if youhave gremlin stories, if you
need gremlin guidance, you needadvice on something, or if you
have gremlin gossip, justsomething you're dying to tell
someone about yourself, somebodyelse you can always remain
anonymous.
(22:12):
Make sure to email the podcast,emilytogremlypod at gmailcom,
and if you want to follow thispodcast and myself, you can find
me on Instagram and TikTokemilytagramlipod.
You can also watch this episodeand watch all the past episodes
on YouTube emilytagramlipod onYouTube.
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Make sure to like, follow,share, subscribe rate five stars
.
Do all the things.
Tell your friends.
Follow, share, subscribe ratefive stars.
Do all the things.
Tell your friends.
And yeah, if you listen to lastepisode, we're talking about
manifestations and make themanifestations come true.
We're aiming for the sky, allright, and I'm gonna chug this
wine and revel in what wasgremlin gossip.
(22:54):
So exciting, love it, love it,love it.
Very excited for you guys tolisten to this episode.
And yeah, cheersies to you,cheers to me, cheers to Joey and
cheers to that jilted groom.
Sorry, you went through that,cheersies, bye.
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