Marty's friend is addicted to starting group chats! Nat & Marty step in to help their friend out in this apparent time of need. Catch The Sleep In with Marty & Nat 11am – 2pm weekends on iHeartRadio, DAB+ or 96.1 FM in Sydney.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
You are now listening to the sleep in.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I noticed something about a dear friend of mine, a
friend I've known for ten years, that he has an addiction. Okay,
he has an addiction to something that's serious, yeah, super
specific as well. Now it may not be a traditional
addiction that people think about. He has an addiction to
(00:27):
creating group chats.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, okay, right, okay. And I realized this.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yeah when I got added, you know, I'm I'm in
a basketball group chat with him.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That was fine, that was all good. Then it went
to like, there was a Simpsons meme group chat.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
This is your friend writer, there's my friend. I'm in
a group chat with writers.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You're in a group chat. You're in one, yeah, the
basketball basketball one.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm in another one called Melbourne versus Sydney because he's
in Melbourne. Yeah, okay, so there's a need to state
rivalry one.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
And then I got added to like I'm in a
few others. I kin't going into listing. But then there's
another one I got added to this week that made
me like draw the line and say.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Okay, what was the one from this week.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
It's called Milky Companion.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It's a group dedicated to our friends obsession with drinking milk.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's completely unnecessary. Yeah, that's unnecessary. It's like, okay, I like.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Eating homeless, right, I'm not going to create a group
chat about it with some friends because like we don't
need to be discussing home moos like on the regular.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, it's just something I eat.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, your recipe is a secret too, there's no reason
to be sharing that around.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So look, I brought it up. I just sort of
brought it up in the group chat. I said, I
don't think this one's necessary.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You're resisting the group chat shortly after being added in. Okay, Okay,
that thinks that's brave.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
And I put it up on my Instagram. Hey guys,
you know, do you have friend that's putting you in
too many group chats?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Because my friend writer does right. And then all.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
These people started contacting me saying that's so weird Rider
added me to this group chat. One was like one's
called got Guys, where he just rates AFL and NBA
players based on like their level of hotness.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Okay, and that someone's got to do it. Someone's got
to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's got another group chat dedicated to Jews for regrowing
their foreskin because he's Jewish. And so people started coming
out of the woodwork and saying, dude, my heart, he's
been adding my husband to group chats. I was just like,
oh my god, he added my brother to a group chat.
(02:47):
So like all these people started coming forward and say, yeah,
he's a serial group chat creator, okay, And that's what
I realized.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
It's a problem. It's a full bone. This is a
full point addiction and a best friend of mine.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I probably need to do something I've never had the
privilege or opportunity to, which is I need a stage,
an intervention.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I've never been a part of my worst fear in life.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Basically, the way it works is like someone has to
set it up. Yeah, so in this case it would
be you mm, and you have to sort of introduce
me as like I've got something to get off my chest.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Do I have to do like a like a come
to the thing We've got like a surprise for you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, you've got to make sure creating.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
You've got to make they're ready, like either seated or
you know, chilling in some way. And then I come
in and I sort of go like, this is you
know this my mind?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
How okay, let's do it? Are you happy to do
that for me? Okay?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I'm bombarded by how any group chats. This guy has
got me in and it's it's got to come to
a stop.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So we're going to call them up right now and
we're going to host a bit of an intervention.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So let's ring up a friend writer.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Hello, Hello, hello rider, Yes, how are we doing today?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Who is this? This is?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
This is Nat Demeanor?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hi, Nat, Hi?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How you doing? Look?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Which I just wanted to call up because Marty has
a few things that he wants to say to you
and get off his chest. I just want to make
sure that you know you're in a in the right
frame of mind to take this. And are you sitting
down right now?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Is this going to be feedback that's like hard for
me to digest.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I just I just yeah, I think you just you
really need to be sitting down, preferably with a glass
of water.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yet, Okay, great, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
To be careful with how much?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay, look, okay, look you're a position now. So look,
I'm just gonna let Marty get off his chest what
he needs to get off his chest.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Writer, for a long time now, I've looked on my
phone and are used to excite me that I was
added to a brand new group chat. It started with basketball.
Next thing, you know, it was an interstate rivalry group chat.
(05:19):
Then came the Simpsons mean group chat. Then things started
to get a little weird. The group chats no longer
resembled the original group chats that they were created for.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Next thing, you know, they became very specific.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They started getting niche, and next thing you know, I
look down on my phone.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'm a part of.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Fifteen or more groups. How did it happen?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
How did it come to this? I can't reply to
all of them, and.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's what I noticed.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He has an addiction and I can't let it go
on any further. Writer, as your friend, as you're confident on,
I've known you for over ten years and I say
this from the bottom of my heart. You have a
problem and it needs suck. It's time to leave the
group chats behind. It's time to delete them. It's time
(06:18):
to go off on cold turkey. Sometimes the chat is
not worth the group.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Very powerful words there, Marty.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Thank you so much for sharing writer, How does that
make you feel?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
How dare you? How dare you call me on my
day off? And that is the most manipulative thing I've
ever heard, Marty. If you don't want to be in
the groups, don't be in them. You don't really contribute
that much, like I do. Think sometimes you're funny because
you play this whole antagonistic thing and you try to
like cause tension within the groups. And I don't mind
that at all, But if they're too neat for you,
(07:00):
please please leave them.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I keep getting added to new ones, like every day, dude, you're.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
In like only three of the group. Like that's the
tip of the iceberg. That's nothing, nothing compared to what
I'm juggling at the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I have got multiple like feedback from different people who
say they've been added to these groups as well, and
it's gone too far.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Well, Marty, I consider myself a man of the community.
I consider myself a glue man. I know how to
unite people from all different backgrounds on topics that people
are passionate about. Now, you clearly don't like being a
part of the creamery because you probably have an allergic
reaction to dairy based products.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Okay, and that's fine.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Leave the creamery. Oh no, sorry, it's creamy companions. If
you don't want to share milk memes, don't be in it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It takes no sense to have a group dedicated to milk.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Our friend Chris is a massive milk Do you remember
when he once down two leaders at one night? I
had to put him on my shoulder and burp him.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
How much more do we need to discuss that in
a group?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I don't know. It's a part of who he is,
so I wanted to It's like, think of it more
as a support group. Yes, anyway, I don't appreciate you
putting me on your little radio show and trying to
humiliate me when I'm doing something that's good for people.
I have a group called Vulnerability where people share like
mental health meets.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Would you not agree writer that if a group chat
is it, you know, is for the community, then is
it radio really the big group chat?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Now? Like, I can't argue with that, But people feel
more safe in a group chat than they do on
being on live radio.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, I tried my best. Look Obviously, I'll say to
it now it's out there. That's how I think about it.
Maybe it's worth mulling over and your head.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
But it's more thinking about Marty, what your fear is
of it, because I feel like that is more like
you're not forced to be in the groups. You can
leave at any time. It's not a cult, mate, well.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
It feels like one anyway, you know. That's that is,
That is what it is. Stick around. You're listening to
cater Well this is a failed intervention.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
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