October 1, 2025 • 38 mins
What did Dan do to ask, "am I the a-hole?" We also explore bare feet on a plane etiquette, lying spouses, and a woman who resorted to surgery to find a man.
Hot takes, bold opinions, and wild stories. Laugh and cringe with Rebekah Black and Dan O'Malley as they say what needs to be said, even if no one asked. We react to, comment on, and laugh at wild stories from Reddit, the news, surveys and polls, and our personal lives. No relationship is off limits.
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Hot takes, bold opinions, and wild stories. Laugh and cringe with Rebekah Black and Dan O'Malley as they say what needs to be said, even if no one asked. We react to, comment on, and laugh at wild stories from Reddit, the news, surveys and polls, and our personal lives. No relationship is off limits.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You didn't ask for it, but you need to hear it.
Hot takes, bold opinions, and bitter truths all in store today.
We're going to say what needs to be said, even
if no one asked. She is Rebecca Black, I am
Dan O'Malley, and this is unsolicited Rebecca. If it's okay
with you, I would like to start this week by
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asking the age old question. Am I the a hole?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay? I love it already?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, here we go, Am I the a hole?
For calling our friend's husband an a hole? My wife
and I were hanging out with her coworker the other day.
We are early forties, she is mid thirties. Right as
she was leaving, she complained that she had to stop
to get food on the way home for her husband
and three kids. I asked her, can't your husband make something?
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She said no, because he can't cook. I said, wow,
what an a hole? She asked me why. I said,
because that's weaponized incompetence. There is a totally there is.
There is a difference between can't and won't it won't.
He can learn to cook, but he won't. That's bulls.
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I saw the light go on inside of her eyes.
And I'm pretty sure the evening did not go well
for him. So am I the a hole? Or is he?
Signed me? Daniel Maley? This one's from me. Yeah, this
is not one that we poached from Reddit. This one
is straight from my heart to you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
In all honesty, these are my favorite ones, like when
it's one of us.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, So based on what you have heard, Yeah, am
I the a hole in this scenario? Or is he?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely not? He is one? He is? Also? Does he
not have a car? Can he not drive? Can he
not go pick up food? And or ordered door dash?
There's millions of options these days. I don't know if
you know this.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Why is it falling on her right, especially to do
it after work like she's already been working.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you go far enough to tell the husband too
that he's the a hole? Or did you just tell
the wife?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I just told her because he wasn't there. Had he
been there, I would have said, dude, you're an a hole.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Totally. I would have done the exact same. I think
you're absolutely in the right.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not only would I have thrown him under the bus,
I would have been driving it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, hopefully put the gas as far down as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Pedal to the metal in the bus. I am running
you over, dude. That is absolute a holery.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's just lazy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes, it absolutely is lazy. And I even asked her,
I said, let me see if I can profile this,
Like all of a sudden, I turned into an FBI profiler.
Let me ask you some questions about your husband. Is
he a third No?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I said, is he a mama's boy? And she's like, well,
I said, answer it, and she said yes. I said,
was he raised by her and then really never had
to do anything for himself? Laundry, cooking, obviously, anything remotely
resembling adulting. Was any of that done for him by
his mom? She's like yes, I said, there's the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Absolutely. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna say it. The worst
person to marry is a mama's boy. That should be
red flag number one. You should just like turn and
walk away.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's a difference between loving mama, having a good relationship
with mama, and then being in a relationship with mama.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Correct, which is what it sounds like with this guy. Yeah,
mom did everything for his first wife.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, Oh god, that makes me want a puke. This
is something you're absolutely right is this needs to be
a red flag for you if you come across a
man who has severe mother issues, if he has done
zero adulting for himself, he needs to learn and agreed. Now,
my situation was a little bit different. My parents were
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together for a while, then they weren't, So then I
had the balance. I had the balanced childhood of a
loving family home into single mother home type of situation.
And we lived with my grandmother for a while. So
I was about twelve years old and my mom was
constantly working, and I had laundry piling up. So I
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went to my grandmother and I said, will you please
show me how to do laundry so I can have
clean clothes?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hold on ding, ding ding. The difference is the way
you phrased it. Will you show me how to do laundry?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Not asking her to do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Your launder Absolutely not. And I don't know what that
was inside of me. I have no idea. I went
to my grandmother and I said, will you teach me
how to do laundry so I can do this myself.
And the downside of that is something we spoke about
in a previous episode. Is now I'm really particular and
how I like my clothes done. So there's a balance
to these things.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, it's like it's good on one hand, but then
and it also created the laundry monster, it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Did, I am a laundry monster? Yeah you ugh, Yeah,
I know the worst.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're the worst.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, pick your poison. So exactly. It really, it really does, though,
Like I cannot fathom expecting my significant other to do
that level of work for me. I cannot function in
that capacity at all. I don't know if it's guilt
or what, but I just can't. I would feel way
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too bad about asking someone else to do something that
I am perfectly capable of learning and doing on my own.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah. Like, it's one thing if you know your partner's
busy and they have a lot on their plate for
the day, so you're picking up the slack, right. That's
that's how marriage should be A given a take. You
should not expect that after your wife's had a long
day of work to come home and bring you dinner
on the way home just because she happens to be out,
And about what are you doing if you're already home?
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Why couldn't you have done it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There's there's expectation and expectations leads to entitlement, and I
can't I can't even fathom being in a relationship with
someone like that that has those things thrust upon you,
Like it makes my skin crawl. That's why I couldn't
bite my tongue. Normally, I'm really good at like you know,
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just you know, I'm not being diplomatic. Yeah, I know
you're not. That's why this show works. But I usually
try to play the diplomat kind of thing and try
to see things from both sides whatever, But in this one,
it just triggered me, and I was like, this guy's
a freaking a hole. He can't do He can't go
pick up food, he can't throw something on the grill,
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I mean cup. She's like, well, he can't even cook rice.
I was like, yes, he can. If he can put
together a table from Ikea, he can figure out how
to make rice. It's right there on the package.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It tells you you can't just slap together a peanut
butter and jelly sandwhich nobody is asking you to make
this super fancy meal at all, Like bare minimum here
is really all that it takes to put together a
meal for your kids and yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, we're we're not looking for you to join the
cast of Hell's Kitchen and be screamed at by Gordon
Ramsay because you overcook the scallops. Just be able to
make some food for yourself and your children like an adult.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like spaghetti is that hard? He literally just heat up
some sauce and throw it on pasta. It's like the
easiest dish on the planet.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You say that, but then this turn's gonna make a
whole bowl of crunchy sketty.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, that's crunchy sketty.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I really don't know. I just saw it in my
head and the thought, well that's the that's what it
needs to be called Today's Special. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, No, this dude's just straight up lazy. It sounds like, yeah,
somewhere along the way, his mom probably did everything for him,
and he just assumes and expect that that's what his
wife is supposed to do as well.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, so mom and moms mm hmm. Teach your kids right,
Teach them how to do things for themselves. Don't just
do the things for them, Show them how to do
those things so then they can do them themselves as
an adult. But to me, there's a weird psychological thing
going on with some parents, especially when it comes to moms,
how they will be like, I don't want my baby
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to have to do this. I'm going to take care
of you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I think that is insane. Like I'm not a mom, right,
but I would I would go insane if my kid
was constantly needing something from me, Like that is not
a functional life to live for either person.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Like get you get that when you're a baby, that
is okay, that's the expectation. It's okay to be entitled
as a baby, all right, But at a whole point
of growth is like growth growth. I believe we figured
this out. Correct. How good are your manners? How's your
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etiquette game? Well, you better straighten up because did you
know that our very own Rebecca Black is a secret mismanners.
It's true, it's true. So here's your scenario, miss Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
While in flight at thirty thousand feet, passengers may exhibit
certain behaviors that would be deemed inappropriate on land. For example,
in the Delta subreddit, a user titled a post crimes
against Humanity, along with a photo of a man lying
back with his bare feet up on the seat in
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front of him. So, miss Rebecca, is this okay or
is this bad etiquette?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is absolutely the worst kind of etiquette. And I knew, man,
I knew when you started down this path. I was like,
I bet it has something to do with gross feet.
Gross feet, And I'm sorry, No, you should not take
off your shoes on a flight ever, nor should you
put your feet on like anything.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Bear.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And I'm gonna tell you if I'm on this flight,
I'm absolutely gonna take a picture of your feet, and
I'm gonna shame you. And I'm not gonna unblur your face.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right now. Are you going to I are you going
to say something to the person or just let the
online shaming do it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm gonna let the online shaming do it. If it's
not directly affecting me. That's where the online thing comes
into play. I think if this is happening in front
of me, you'll be able to tell by the look
on my face that what you're doing is absolutely disgusting
and atrocious.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So let's take it one step further. What happens if
you're sitting in your plane seat and you feel a
nudge and you look and you look down and over it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No, the thought of somebody else's foot touching me, like
besides like my husband or something is way too far.
That is, you are encroaching on my personal space. I
don't know where your feet have been. I don't know
what locker room floor they've touched there. No, no, no, no,
And I would lose my mind if it even grazed me.
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If a tonell just graze the back of my elbow,
it's on.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's on. How like there might.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Be a fight, like we may have to land the
plane and people get arrested because like, seriously, haven't you
ever been to like a concert and somebody's hair touches
you and you get like.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Eh, yes, that that is absolutely a gross feeling, especially
if it's a good show and everyone's hot and you're
in like you're in the pit area or something. That's gross.
But I'm not going to punch someone over it, although
I must say the way you describe it, if you're
sitting there and out of nowhere on your back left elbow,
you get a little big toe tickle on the back
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of your arm slash elbow. I can absolutely see not
only you, but even me worrying around and going, what
the f are you doing.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah. Absolutely, This is like not I don't miss COVID,
but this is where I miss COVID and I miss
the bubble because people do not understand personal space whatsoever,
Like I do not understand why or how you could
think it would be okay to take your shoes off
and then put your feet on other places that other
people touch, Like I don't. I don't, I don't get that.
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And I am absolutely the person like, yes, I'm gonna
shame you one hundred percent. I've had a similar situation.
I will say they were sock feet, but it was
at a football game.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, go on.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So my husband and I we both went to the
University of Texas in Austin, and we love to go
watch the Longhorns play. And we're literally again this has
happened last season, I think, and we're sitting in the
bleachers in the stands. It's hot as hell outside, and
I mean hot as hell like that. I can see
the sweat dripping through my shirt, right, so disgusting, right.
I casually look over a few minutes later and the dude,
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who's I think maybe four or five people down for me,
has shoes off, socks on, and propped on top of
the bleacher in front of him. Yeah, sweaty sock, not
just like socks out of your shoes, but sweaty sock.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like I mean, obviously because you know that's sweaty, because
if your shirt is soaked through and dripping with sweat,
then clearly his feet are.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They have to be, And that's the whole point of socks,
right to absorb like the sweat. Yeah, so they had
to have been moist. I don't even like that word.
I don't even like that word.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No woman likes that word.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But can you imagine, like I bet like if he
took his feet off of the bleacher, you could see
like the ring of feet print.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm sure you could. Oh yeah, yeah, it's probably nice
to like a dual wet spot there with the feet.
Yeah yeah, just wait, just waiting for the person to
sit down and press their back up. Now, maybe they
wouldn't even notice it because they're also dripping with sweat.
Maybe they wouldn't notice the feet sweat behind them.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't know. I'm like this now, I'm my mind
is is rolling here, and I'm like, do they wash
those fatures down with something? After games?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh? I doubt it I think that's just you know,
they just let mother nature handle that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Do its thing, like ugh, yeah, sorry, And now I've
got butt sweat in my brain, and like it's compounding.
There's butt sweat, there's feet sweat. There's all kinds of
weird bodily sweats everywhere, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We know, if we really, really really want to get
under your skin and drive you crazy and possibly get
punched by you leading to federal charges, it's to touch
you with bare feet.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Correct, got it? Yeah? I mean would that. I can't
believe that wouldn't send you into like a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It might send me into a frenzy. Because here's the
thing that I automatically assume. If you're a barefoot wonder,
if you're so comfortable on a flight to go barefoot
and stick your feet up on things where feet are
not supposed to go, then you're going to do it
in really other terrible places, kind of like Britney Spears
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at that roadside bathroom years ago, and how disgusting that looked.
Like it wasn't a BUCkies that she did that in. Like,
if you're barefoot in the BUCkies, that's bad, but at
least it's BUCkies and it's the cleanest restroom you're going
to find anywhere on the inters date. But if you're
in like that random mobile station in Po Dunk, East
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Texas that also sells fried gizzards and things, that's that's
a level of barefoot that I want nothing to do with.
And that's what I assume your daily life is. Like.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, one, I just I question your mental stability if
you're willing to walk into a bathroom or any other
environment and your bare feet that aren't your own right, Like,
it's one thing if it's my germs, it's another thing.
If you're inflicting your germs upon on someone else in
a public space like that, that's not allowed. That should
be illegal.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I can't believe that. I feel this needs to
be said, but barefoot at BUCkies is one thing, but
you really should not be barefoot at a gas station
that sells fried gizzards. No.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
The fact that we're even having to discuss it, and
that it's some people don't know that this is the
proper protocol is insane to me.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I shouldn't be wondering what's stickier the bathroom floor or
your feet, like which one contaminated the other it's like
chicken in the egg, like where the bathroom floor is
okay and then you stepped on them or were the
bathroom floor is really bad and you didn't care and
you still stepped on them.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Oh god, it's just.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And then keep in mind that's the person that's going
to take their shoes and socks off on the airplane
and then touch the back of your elbow.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Touch it, just touch it all. Yeah, no, thank you, no,
thank you. I don't want to I don't even want
to be a friend with somebody like that. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You and your husband when you fly places together, I'm
assuming you sit next to each other. Yeah, if the
scenario happened where you sat in the aisle seat and
he sat in the aisle seat directly behind you, and
he decided to play a little marital prank on you,
and oh, take his shoe off and then take his
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big toe and not touch the back of your elbow,
but instead really show off his flexibility and reach up
there and just graze your ear lobe.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I mean, in all honesty, because I know it's my husband,
I'd probably laugh because it's kind of funny. But then
at the same time, I'm like, have you no shame?
Do you not understand where we're at and that this
is not inappropriate even if it is a joke. Other
people are watching you.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, I'm now going to alter the scenario. Your husband's
sitting behind you. He takes his shoe off, he takes
his big toe, and he tickles the back of your elbow,
which of course leads you to turn around, probably smack
him or say stop that. Then he does it again,
maybe a third time. But the final time, the thing
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touches the back of your ear, and when you turn
around this time, you see that he has switched seats,
with a seat made and someone else sitting behind you,
leading you to think it's the other guy touching you
in the ear with his toe.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Everybody's gonna die.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Note to self, never fly with Rebecca. Next up on Unsolicited,
Rebecca is ready to normalize something that might cost her
her marriage.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's everything, literally, that could be anything, but today if
we're gonna be specific.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes today specifically, what could possibly ruin your marriage?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Uh, my husband is a bad liar. Oh yeah, a
bad liar. And it's like not just to me, but
to everybody else. And it's so obvious when he's lying,
and it's annoying and I'm kind of tired of it
because I have to go along with his terrible eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, so if I'm receiving this properly, Yeah, it's bad
to lie, but it's at least today. It's worse that
he's bad.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
At lying correct correct, and like the whole thing is
like he is a homebody, and I get that that's fine,
but when people invite us to dinner and stuff like that,
rather than just saying no, I don't want to go,
or no, I'd rather lay on the couch for the
rest of the evening, he likes to come up with
this with dumb, elaborate lies, like, oh, we're going to
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East Texas this weekend to visit my family. And then
now by association, I am broked into that lie and
have to go with it, and I'm like, people are
gonna know that we're not in East Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, that's a difficult thing to carry out because number one,
if you post anything on social media for the entire weekend,
it has to be with the lie in mind. Correct
and nowhere, I'm going to assume that nowhere in your
wedding vows. Did it say rich or poor, sickness in
health and live with me?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It did not, Absolutely it didn't. I just am like,
why you say that? Why can't you just tell people no?
Why is it so difficult to say no, I don't
want to go to dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I'm guessing he is just really in touch with his
feelings and he doesn't want to hurt their feelings by
saying he doesn't want to spend time with them.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Maybe I don't know, but I don't It's not necessarily
that you don't want to spend time with them, you're
just not feeling it that day or whatever. But then
now you create this lie that involves our entire weekend.
You've literally ruined an entire weekend just because you didn't
want to go to dinner with somebody on Friday night
at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And not only have you taken it yourself out of
the equation, you took me out for the weekend too,
And I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm sensing where the true trouble lies here?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Correct? Should I double down and just be like, Oh,
I came back from East Texas because I was bored,
and now it's a lie on top of a line.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. Yeah, just just just piled dog pile the lies,
just stack him up.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Exactly so that nobody can keep track, and then they
will uncover the fact that he is the worst layer
on the planet, if they haven't already done.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So the other way to go is to just outright
out him.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh well, I have definitely done my fair share of that.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh really wow? Yeah, so you're a bus driver also.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I am. I totally am. I know, no question about it.
I'm absolutely am. I've even gone as far because I like,
I know that he'll be like, I don't want to
go uh, and then he'll lie about it, And to
avoid the entire situation, I will get someone else to
ask him directly in front of like a group of people,
so then he can't because he's not quick enough to
come up with a lie in that moment. Okay, So
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like I will literally like oust him in front of
people so that we have to go to dinner with people.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So you want him to take a verbal flogging.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And I know he can't cave if
we're in public. If if someone else is asking him
and we're in public, there's nothing he can do. He's stuck.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So now it's just a question of.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh, like, oh great, that probably makes me sound really bad.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean, look, the idea of marriage is that, for
the most part, you're supposed to have your partners back,
support them, you know, in all things. Sure, but I
do also realize that it is the twenty first century
in that holding your partner accountable for the things they
do and say can also be important, especially if that
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means you then have to perpetuate their lies for an
entire week.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I cants, and I'm like, I have the worst memory
on the planet. Like literally, I am a goldfish. I
will go around the circle of the bowl and I
will have forgotten whatever you've said. So he could come
up with this super great, amazing, elaborate lie, and I
will have forgotten, and inevitably it will come back up
in conversation. So I'm like, this is why we don't lie,
This is why we shouldn't lie, This is why we
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should just tell people we don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So no, yeah, here's here's a solution. Okay, And I
think this might be a win win for you guys. Okay, Okay,
you just have a standard lie, so that way it's
easy for you to keep track of. And it's not
an elaborate lie for him to come up with on
the fly type of thing or some or some sort
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of an elaborate excuse. It can just be something as
simple as, you know, we had a really long week retired.
Thank you for the invitation, but we're we're just going
to stay in tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That would be I don't I have no problem with
that answer whatsoever. His problem is he adds to it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh no, That's why I'm saying, can't you got to
write it down, like put it on a flash card.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And I don't think he can do it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Put it on a flash card, because he's he's he's teacher,
he's football coach, right, so he's probably got the school
idea around his neck all day. Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I was gonna say, we can get him like the
football armband. So he has know what's what play to
go to.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
He's got the whole audible list right there, except it's
just one audible one right right, it's play one and
that's it. We're too tired, But thank you for the invitation. Goodbye.
Touch not going to say we're game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm not gonna say we're going out of town We're
not gonna say it's somebody's birthday party. We're not going
to say your mom's in town, because we have to
back that up with proof. Okay, just go to the
We're tired, We've had a really busy week. Maybe next week,
maybe it's just a different day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's not hard, especially if the lie has gotten so
elaborate and stupid that you start picking off your grandparents
as as having died. Because this is something that has
happened with me and my wife where where we've had
a friend say, oh, I can't have a death in
the family so bad, and this had happened so many
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and I responded via text one time, how many grandparents
do you have? Oh? No, jokes on me, like it's
you know, all these blended families nowadays, you might have
sixteen of them, But unless you're filling out some sort
of March Madness tournament with grandparents, you're going to run
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out of them after a while. Stop you stop using
death as a lie or an excuse.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You legitimately only have four. I can't count. I can't
count if you if your parents are divorced or whatever,
I can't count like step dad, grand parents or whatever.
We can't really count that. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Everyone's divorce and remarried these days. Some people multiple times.
You might actually have a Loyola level grandparent out there somewhere, correct.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But no, we're only counting four. That's all you get.
I'm sorry, the saint. The workplace rules also apply to
your everyday life rules.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I like that you get four grandparents to kill off
as an excuse. After that, they're they're done, You're gone.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's it, no more.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And my other recommendation is, if you're going to use
those as excuses, get yourself a little poster and mark
down which grandparent you've offed.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's you have to keep track of your web.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Applying you have you do? You have to if you're
going to lie, you I mean they say, don't write
them down. Look, this is just it's it's social lying.
This isn't for court. If it's for court as totally
different thing, and that's a different episode. Absolutely, But in
this case, it would help make yourself a little poster
board that says lies yeah, and then that's the top,
and then on the side it's the what the lie
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is and how many times you've used it, and then
all that stuff that way, you know, so you know exactly. Okay,
what live I told? Okay, uh Grandma, Grandma, uh Bernie, Okay,
she's I have not used. She's gone. I can't say her.
I can use Grandma Rose. She's still alive. I can
knock her off and no one likes her anyway, So
that works. So yeah, just keep you got to keep track.
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Come up with a standard lie for your husband, and
like you said, do on the quarterback armband, just like
just like in football that we know he's familiar with,
and it's got the one lie on it.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I will say, though, it's going to be a dead
giveaway when he pops that arm up. Like I'm just saying, now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You have to do it, and I want to be
there when he uses it. Whow. And to be honest,
now I kind of want one. We all know men
will go to surprising lengths to get a woman, but
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are women now stooping to their level?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Rebecca, Yes, they absolutely are. Now this is crazy. It's
going like way too far. And there's surgery involved with
this one. Have you seen the dudes that get like
the lengthening surgery so that they're taller.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yes, I actually knew a guy. I worked with a
guy who looked into getting that surgery done because he
was so self conscious about his height or like thereof.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, Okay, so women are doing the opposite, and they're
getting their legs shortened so that they can find a
man because apparently all the tall men are taken and
they don't want to be with the short king.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So they're getting their bones, they're actual bones shortened. Oh
my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
All right, just real quick, forget the emotional side of it.
I'm curious of just the biological side momentarily here. So
do they then just cut a portion of the bone
out and then fuse the two pieces together? That's left? Yeah,
kind of like what kind of like editing a sentence
like you that's exactly we're taking out the adverb. Okay,
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that's really horrific.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's like, you know, when you break a bone or
whatever and it fuses back together. This is sort of
the same situation, except for they're taking I guess an
inch or so out, which is wild that they can
even do that, and then it grows is back together.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's that's really disgusting.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't think I've ever done anything remotely like this
for a guy, nor would I wouldn't even consider it,
Like it's crazy to me a surgery the super expensive.
I'm like, I did get a tattoo, but it wasn't
at the request of a guy my husband.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh, okay, you cut me off. I have you cut
me off? I think you saw the glean in my
eye and I was about, does your husband know?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
No, no, yeah, it's for my husband, Like I got
his initials on my wrist or whatever. But that was
not because he was wanting it or asking me to
do it. That's because I felt like doing it if
if he had it his way, like I would never
have any tattoos or whatever. And I'm like, no, it's me.
I can do whatever I want. But I can't imagine.
Can you imagine you're paying thousands of dollars for this
elective surgery because you know insurance isn't gonna cut I
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don't think there's I don't think you can check a
place like for a boy on your medical car.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That'd be great if that that was an option totally.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But yeah, they're going They're going under the knife, which
is scary anyway, Like you shouldn't go under the knife
unless you absolutely have to.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And have you ever for a boy, have you ever
broken a bone? Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Same, Actually not that long ago. I broke a footbone
and it took forever to kill. It was not fun.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
When I was fourteen, I broke my upper arm right
in the middle playing playing football. Yeah, compound fracture. I
would not ever choose that. No, process, No, it is
terrible to this day, we're talking thirty years later. Like,
as you're telling the story, I can feel where it broke,
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Like I can feel it, my arm start to ache.
It's just like nope, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's the worst. That's terrible. So yeah, anytime you like
feel love, your bones ache because you had your you
had an inch taken out. I was just thinking, like,
can you imagine a lady that's had, you know, their
bone kind of removed right to be shorter, and then
they get with their man. And I would think anytime
like the love flutters they feel it in their shins
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because they don't have it. Is that a weird doot?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes? But I love it. It's so it's it's a
fascinating thing. Because I am not a tall man. I'm
five nine on a good day. Now, I used to
be like five tinish, so oh, yeah, we're all I
am shrinking. I don't know entirely why. I think there's uh,
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you know, the lack of discs in my spine as
some sort of a culprit. But point is, I am
not a tall man, never have been, and there is
no way I would ever consider the lengthening of my
legs to make me taller from surgery. Now, if I
happen upon a genie in a bottle type situation and
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I have the option of making things long, I don't
need to finish. Never mind, My point is.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Where you go with that, Dan? What are you trying
to link them?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But the legs would be second? Uh So it really is,
It really is dumbfounding to me that that women are
considering surgery to shorten themselves to be more appealing to
shorter men. Whatever happened to the movies and the television
shows we all grew up with Where You're Where? It
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taught us the lesson of it's what's on the inside
that counts. Yeah, you know, the personality the person, not
their height or lack thereof.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean to be fair, technically, if you're having your
bones removed that is on the inside to shape. But
what it do you think it would bother you if
you did date somebody a couple of inches taller than you?
And this is like we're saying flat feet, bear to
bear feet. I want because it thing for guys. It's
a very it's it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
For Yeah, you know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's probably your best answer, your safest answer right now.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think that's the one. I'm just gonna stick with
that for now. Yeah, that's probably a smart smarter because
because because I don't want to say the wrong thing
and ended up coming across as a tinier man than
I already am. Yeah, Like, it's one thing to be short.
I don't want to be small totally.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I like, I love the way that you summed that up.
That's perfection right there. I agree with.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You on that. Being said, I do know that the
whole height thing is a major thing, especially with online dating,
like if you're not because they have it to where
you can you can set your profile and your searches
to certain parameters. So if you're a female, typically females
want what a guy that's six feet up? Yeah, and
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if the guy like you, you set up your tender,
your bumble, whatever, and you set it to six foot plus.
There might be a hell of a guy that's five
nine that you that you could miss out on simply
because he doesn't hit that one requirement.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, I would like a taller guy. I want I
want my dude to be bigger than I am, because
I'm kind of a big girl anyway. Like I'm I'm
pretty thick, I'm tall, Like I want a guy to
be bigger than me, just because that's my preference. However,
I would not at all right off somebody that was
like the same hype as me and maybe even shorter,
if that makes any sense. I don't think I would.
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I think I have dated somebody that is my exact hype,
and that one a big deal. But I can't imagine
just being like, oh no, I'm sorry, you're short.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But I think that's one of those things where it's
really hard to go against your biological tendencies because as
the female, you want to feel protected kind of a thing. Right,
So I can understand, as I can, I can take
my male brain, set it aside and then pretend to
be okay. If I was a woman, would I want
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to then feel like the protector if when we embrace,
I feel like I'm I'm protecting you, cub.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
No, I get that, I do. Yeah, and it isn't there.
I think there's like biology that's associated with yeah, because
it's like women who are looking for spouses because of
our stupid biological insides have that like where we're looking
for somebody that we can mate with and like have
a baby with, and like if you aren't with a
bigger dude, like somehow it's not right. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did we actually just come full circle on this topic
and justify the women shortening their legs.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
We shouldn't like, Can we just say maybe we shouldn't
be just like, I don't want to justify it. I
don't think. I don't think this should be a thing.
I don't think people should care about the height of
their significant others. But weirdly enough, I do think there
is some biology attached to it. I don't know how
to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Maybe the way we should look at it is this way,
instead of her shortening her legs so she can make
herself available to a whole other crop of guys who
are single, albeit shorter, if there's truly a deep seated
thing that you are self conscious about, Like you're six
foot or you're six foot five, and you're just really
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self conscious about being tall and taller than everyone. Then
I can understand you wanting to do something about it
the way that some women might with you know, plastic
surgery augmentation, because they're self conscious about a certain part
of their body and they do this so then they
feel more confident and better with themselves, like if they
were born with you know, a wicked witch of the
(36:48):
West knows type of situation and they want to get that,
then yeah, I get it. If you feel if you
feel like a giant among people and you want to
be normal, then you do you.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
So what you're saying is like it needs to be
coming from within, not like you're you're not doing it
for someone else, you're doing it for a year.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yes, I agree with that. Now, granted, someone's gonna bastardize
it and say, well, yeah, it is for me, so
I can find a man and be happy he's like, well,
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
But I mean I guess at the end of the day,
if that's truly what you want, if that's the who
am I to say, don't do it?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
If yeah, if that's if that's the one thing that
is really going to make or break your life, then fine,
break the legs.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Damn, we have solved nothing. If we solved nothing in
this segment.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And I felt so good when we started.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I did too. I did too, and we talked ourselves out.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Oh God, bless our hearts. If you are listening to us,
be sure to follow this show so you don't miss
an episode. And if you're watching us on YouTube, to
like and subscribe for Rebecca Black. I'm Dan, O'Malley and
this was really unsolicited
You didn't ask for it, but you need to hear it.
Hot takes, bold opinions, and bitter truths all in store today.
We're going to say what needs to be said, even
if no one asked. She is Rebecca Black, I am
Dan O'Malley, and this is unsolicited Rebecca. If it's okay
with you, I would like to start this week by
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asking the age old question. Am I the a hole?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay? I love it already?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, here we go, Am I the a hole?
For calling our friend's husband an a hole? My wife
and I were hanging out with her coworker the other day.
We are early forties, she is mid thirties. Right as
she was leaving, she complained that she had to stop
to get food on the way home for her husband
and three kids. I asked her, can't your husband make something?
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She said no, because he can't cook. I said, wow,
what an a hole? She asked me why. I said,
because that's weaponized incompetence. There is a totally there is.
There is a difference between can't and won't it won't.
He can learn to cook, but he won't. That's bulls.
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I saw the light go on inside of her eyes.
And I'm pretty sure the evening did not go well
for him. So am I the a hole? Or is he?
Signed me? Daniel Maley? This one's from me. Yeah, this
is not one that we poached from Reddit. This one
is straight from my heart to you.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
In all honesty, these are my favorite ones, like when
it's one of us.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, So based on what you have heard, Yeah, am
I the a hole in this scenario? Or is he?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Absolutely not? He is one? He is? Also? Does he
not have a car? Can he not drive? Can he
not go pick up food? And or ordered door dash?
There's millions of options these days. I don't know if
you know this.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Why is it falling on her right, especially to do
it after work like she's already been working.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you go far enough to tell the husband too
that he's the a hole? Or did you just tell
the wife?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I just told her because he wasn't there. Had he
been there, I would have said, dude, you're an a hole.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Totally. I would have done the exact same. I think
you're absolutely in the right.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not only would I have thrown him under the bus,
I would have been driving it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, hopefully put the gas as far down as possible.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Pedal to the metal in the bus. I am running
you over, dude. That is absolute a holery.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's just lazy.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yes, it absolutely is lazy. And I even asked her,
I said, let me see if I can profile this,
Like all of a sudden, I turned into an FBI profiler.
Let me ask you some questions about your husband. Is
he a third No?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I said, is he a mama's boy? And she's like, well,
I said, answer it, and she said yes. I said,
was he raised by her and then really never had
to do anything for himself? Laundry, cooking, obviously, anything remotely
resembling adulting. Was any of that done for him by
his mom? She's like yes, I said, there's the problem.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Absolutely. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna say it. The worst
person to marry is a mama's boy. That should be
red flag number one. You should just like turn and
walk away.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
There's a difference between loving mama, having a good relationship
with mama, and then being in a relationship with mama.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Correct, which is what it sounds like with this guy. Yeah,
mom did everything for his first wife.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, Oh god, that makes me want a puke. This
is something you're absolutely right is this needs to be
a red flag for you if you come across a
man who has severe mother issues, if he has done
zero adulting for himself, he needs to learn and agreed. Now,
my situation was a little bit different. My parents were
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together for a while, then they weren't, So then I
had the balance. I had the balanced childhood of a
loving family home into single mother home type of situation.
And we lived with my grandmother for a while. So
I was about twelve years old and my mom was
constantly working, and I had laundry piling up. So I
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went to my grandmother and I said, will you please
show me how to do laundry so I can have
clean clothes?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Hold on ding, ding ding. The difference is the way
you phrased it. Will you show me how to do laundry?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Not asking her to do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Your launder Absolutely not. And I don't know what that
was inside of me. I have no idea. I went
to my grandmother and I said, will you teach me
how to do laundry so I can do this myself.
And the downside of that is something we spoke about
in a previous episode. Is now I'm really particular and
how I like my clothes done. So there's a balance
to these things.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, it's like it's good on one hand, but then
and it also created the laundry monster, it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Did, I am a laundry monster? Yeah you ugh, Yeah,
I know the worst.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You're the worst.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, pick your poison. So exactly. It really, it really does, though,
Like I cannot fathom expecting my significant other to do
that level of work for me. I cannot function in
that capacity at all. I don't know if it's guilt
or what, but I just can't. I would feel way
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too bad about asking someone else to do something that
I am perfectly capable of learning and doing on my own.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah. Like, it's one thing if you know your partner's
busy and they have a lot on their plate for
the day, so you're picking up the slack, right. That's
that's how marriage should be A given a take. You
should not expect that after your wife's had a long
day of work to come home and bring you dinner
on the way home just because she happens to be out,
And about what are you doing if you're already home?
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Why couldn't you have done it?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
There's there's expectation and expectations leads to entitlement, and I
can't I can't even fathom being in a relationship with
someone like that that has those things thrust upon you,
Like it makes my skin crawl. That's why I couldn't
bite my tongue. Normally, I'm really good at like you know,
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just you know, I'm not being diplomatic. Yeah, I know
you're not. That's why this show works. But I usually
try to play the diplomat kind of thing and try
to see things from both sides whatever, But in this one,
it just triggered me, and I was like, this guy's
a freaking a hole. He can't do He can't go
pick up food, he can't throw something on the grill,
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I mean cup. She's like, well, he can't even cook rice.
I was like, yes, he can. If he can put
together a table from Ikea, he can figure out how
to make rice. It's right there on the package.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It tells you you can't just slap together a peanut
butter and jelly sandwhich nobody is asking you to make
this super fancy meal at all, Like bare minimum here
is really all that it takes to put together a
meal for your kids and yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, we're we're not looking for you to join the
cast of Hell's Kitchen and be screamed at by Gordon
Ramsay because you overcook the scallops. Just be able to
make some food for yourself and your children like an adult.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like spaghetti is that hard? He literally just heat up
some sauce and throw it on pasta. It's like the
easiest dish on the planet.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You say that, but then this turn's gonna make a
whole bowl of crunchy sketty.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, that's crunchy sketty.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I really don't know. I just saw it in my
head and the thought, well that's the that's what it
needs to be called Today's Special. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, No, this dude's just straight up lazy. It sounds like, yeah,
somewhere along the way, his mom probably did everything for him,
and he just assumes and expect that that's what his
wife is supposed to do as well.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, so mom and moms mm hmm. Teach your kids right,
Teach them how to do things for themselves. Don't just
do the things for them, Show them how to do
those things so then they can do them themselves as
an adult. But to me, there's a weird psychological thing
going on with some parents, especially when it comes to moms,
how they will be like, I don't want my baby
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to have to do this. I'm going to take care
of you.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I think that is insane. Like I'm not a mom, right,
but I would I would go insane if my kid
was constantly needing something from me, Like that is not
a functional life to live for either person.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Like get you get that when you're a baby, that
is okay, that's the expectation. It's okay to be entitled
as a baby, all right, But at a whole point
of growth is like growth growth. I believe we figured
this out. Correct. How good are your manners? How's your
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etiquette game? Well, you better straighten up because did you
know that our very own Rebecca Black is a secret mismanners.
It's true, it's true. So here's your scenario, miss Rebecca.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
While in flight at thirty thousand feet, passengers may exhibit
certain behaviors that would be deemed inappropriate on land. For example,
in the Delta subreddit, a user titled a post crimes
against Humanity, along with a photo of a man lying
back with his bare feet up on the seat in
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front of him. So, miss Rebecca, is this okay or
is this bad etiquette?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is absolutely the worst kind of etiquette. And I knew, man,
I knew when you started down this path. I was like,
I bet it has something to do with gross feet.
Gross feet, And I'm sorry, No, you should not take
off your shoes on a flight ever, nor should you
put your feet on like anything.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Bear.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And I'm gonna tell you if I'm on this flight,
I'm absolutely gonna take a picture of your feet, and
I'm gonna shame you. And I'm not gonna unblur your face.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Right now. Are you going to I are you going
to say something to the person or just let the
online shaming do it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'm gonna let the online shaming do it. If it's
not directly affecting me. That's where the online thing comes
into play. I think if this is happening in front
of me, you'll be able to tell by the look
on my face that what you're doing is absolutely disgusting
and atrocious.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
So let's take it one step further. What happens if
you're sitting in your plane seat and you feel a
nudge and you look and you look down and over it.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No, the thought of somebody else's foot touching me, like
besides like my husband or something is way too far.
That is, you are encroaching on my personal space. I
don't know where your feet have been. I don't know
what locker room floor they've touched there. No, no, no, no,
And I would lose my mind if it even grazed me.
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If a tonell just graze the back of my elbow,
it's on.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
It's on. How like there might.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Be a fight, like we may have to land the
plane and people get arrested because like, seriously, haven't you
ever been to like a concert and somebody's hair touches
you and you get like.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Eh, yes, that that is absolutely a gross feeling, especially
if it's a good show and everyone's hot and you're
in like you're in the pit area or something. That's gross.
But I'm not going to punch someone over it, although
I must say the way you describe it, if you're
sitting there and out of nowhere on your back left elbow,
you get a little big toe tickle on the back
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of your arm slash elbow. I can absolutely see not
only you, but even me worrying around and going, what
the f are you doing.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Yeah. Absolutely, This is like not I don't miss COVID,
but this is where I miss COVID and I miss
the bubble because people do not understand personal space whatsoever,
Like I do not understand why or how you could
think it would be okay to take your shoes off
and then put your feet on other places that other
people touch, Like I don't. I don't, I don't get that.
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And I am absolutely the person like, yes, I'm gonna
shame you one hundred percent. I've had a similar situation.
I will say they were sock feet, but it was
at a football game.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay, go on.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So my husband and I we both went to the
University of Texas in Austin, and we love to go
watch the Longhorns play. And we're literally again this has
happened last season, I think, and we're sitting in the
bleachers in the stands. It's hot as hell outside, and
I mean hot as hell like that. I can see
the sweat dripping through my shirt, right, so disgusting, right.
I casually look over a few minutes later and the dude,
(12:57):
who's I think maybe four or five people down for me,
has shoes off, socks on, and propped on top of
the bleacher in front of him. Yeah, sweaty sock, not
just like socks out of your shoes, but sweaty sock.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like I mean, obviously because you know that's sweaty, because
if your shirt is soaked through and dripping with sweat,
then clearly his feet are.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They have to be, And that's the whole point of socks,
right to absorb like the sweat. Yeah, so they had
to have been moist. I don't even like that word.
I don't even like that word.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No woman likes that word.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But can you imagine, like I bet like if he
took his feet off of the bleacher, you could see
like the ring of feet print.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I'm sure you could. Oh yeah, yeah, it's probably nice
to like a dual wet spot there with the feet.
Yeah yeah, just wait, just waiting for the person to
sit down and press their back up. Now, maybe they
wouldn't even notice it because they're also dripping with sweat.
Maybe they wouldn't notice the feet sweat behind them.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I don't know. I'm like this now, I'm my mind
is is rolling here, and I'm like, do they wash
those fatures down with something? After games?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh? I doubt it I think that's just you know,
they just let mother nature handle that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Do its thing, like ugh, yeah, sorry, And now I've
got butt sweat in my brain, and like it's compounding.
There's butt sweat, there's feet sweat. There's all kinds of
weird bodily sweats everywhere, all right, So.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We know, if we really, really really want to get
under your skin and drive you crazy and possibly get
punched by you leading to federal charges, it's to touch
you with bare feet.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Correct, got it? Yeah? I mean would that. I can't
believe that wouldn't send you into like a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It might send me into a frenzy. Because here's the
thing that I automatically assume. If you're a barefoot wonder,
if you're so comfortable on a flight to go barefoot
and stick your feet up on things where feet are
not supposed to go, then you're going to do it
in really other terrible places, kind of like Britney Spears
(15:05):
at that roadside bathroom years ago, and how disgusting that looked.
Like it wasn't a BUCkies that she did that in. Like,
if you're barefoot in the BUCkies, that's bad, but at
least it's BUCkies and it's the cleanest restroom you're going
to find anywhere on the inters date. But if you're
in like that random mobile station in Po Dunk, East
(15:30):
Texas that also sells fried gizzards and things, that's that's
a level of barefoot that I want nothing to do with.
And that's what I assume your daily life is. Like.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, one, I just I question your mental stability if
you're willing to walk into a bathroom or any other
environment and your bare feet that aren't your own right, Like,
it's one thing if it's my germs, it's another thing.
If you're inflicting your germs upon on someone else in
a public space like that, that's not allowed. That should
be illegal.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, I can't believe that. I feel this needs to
be said, but barefoot at BUCkies is one thing, but
you really should not be barefoot at a gas station
that sells fried gizzards. No.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
The fact that we're even having to discuss it, and
that it's some people don't know that this is the
proper protocol is insane to me.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I shouldn't be wondering what's stickier the bathroom floor or
your feet, like which one contaminated the other it's like
chicken in the egg, like where the bathroom floor is
okay and then you stepped on them or were the
bathroom floor is really bad and you didn't care and
you still stepped on them.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Oh god, it's just.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And then keep in mind that's the person that's going
to take their shoes and socks off on the airplane
and then touch the back of your elbow.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Touch it, just touch it all. Yeah, no, thank you, no,
thank you. I don't want to I don't even want
to be a friend with somebody like that. That's disgusting.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
You and your husband when you fly places together, I'm
assuming you sit next to each other. Yeah, if the
scenario happened where you sat in the aisle seat and
he sat in the aisle seat directly behind you, and
he decided to play a little marital prank on you,
and oh, take his shoe off and then take his
(17:20):
big toe and not touch the back of your elbow,
but instead really show off his flexibility and reach up
there and just graze your ear lobe.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I mean, in all honesty, because I know it's my husband,
I'd probably laugh because it's kind of funny. But then
at the same time, I'm like, have you no shame?
Do you not understand where we're at and that this
is not inappropriate even if it is a joke. Other
people are watching you.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, I'm now going to alter the scenario. Your husband's
sitting behind you. He takes his shoe off, he takes
his big toe, and he tickles the back of your elbow,
which of course leads you to turn around, probably smack
him or say stop that. Then he does it again,
maybe a third time. But the final time, the thing
(18:03):
touches the back of your ear, and when you turn
around this time, you see that he has switched seats,
with a seat made and someone else sitting behind you,
leading you to think it's the other guy touching you
in the ear with his toe.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Everybody's gonna die.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Note to self, never fly with Rebecca. Next up on Unsolicited,
Rebecca is ready to normalize something that might cost her
her marriage.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
That's everything, literally, that could be anything, but today if
we're gonna be specific.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yes today specifically, what could possibly ruin your marriage?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Uh, my husband is a bad liar. Oh yeah, a
bad liar. And it's like not just to me, but
to everybody else. And it's so obvious when he's lying,
and it's annoying and I'm kind of tired of it
because I have to go along with his terrible eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, so if I'm receiving this properly, Yeah, it's bad
to lie, but it's at least today. It's worse that
he's bad.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
At lying correct correct, and like the whole thing is
like he is a homebody, and I get that that's fine,
but when people invite us to dinner and stuff like that,
rather than just saying no, I don't want to go,
or no, I'd rather lay on the couch for the
rest of the evening, he likes to come up with
this with dumb, elaborate lies, like, oh, we're going to
(19:32):
East Texas this weekend to visit my family. And then
now by association, I am broked into that lie and
have to go with it, and I'm like, people are
gonna know that we're not in East Texas.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Yeah, that's a difficult thing to carry out because number one,
if you post anything on social media for the entire weekend,
it has to be with the lie in mind. Correct
and nowhere, I'm going to assume that nowhere in your
wedding vows. Did it say rich or poor, sickness in
health and live with me?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
It did not, Absolutely it didn't. I just am like,
why you say that? Why can't you just tell people no?
Why is it so difficult to say no, I don't
want to go to dinner.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I'm guessing he is just really in touch with his
feelings and he doesn't want to hurt their feelings by
saying he doesn't want to spend time with them.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Maybe I don't know, but I don't It's not necessarily
that you don't want to spend time with them, you're
just not feeling it that day or whatever. But then
now you create this lie that involves our entire weekend.
You've literally ruined an entire weekend just because you didn't
want to go to dinner with somebody on Friday night
at seven pm.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
And not only have you taken it yourself out of
the equation, you took me out for the weekend too,
And I don't like that.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I'm sensing where the true trouble lies here?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Correct? Should I double down and just be like, Oh,
I came back from East Texas because I was bored,
and now it's a lie on top of a line.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. Yeah, just just just piled dog pile the lies,
just stack him up.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Exactly so that nobody can keep track, and then they
will uncover the fact that he is the worst layer
on the planet, if they haven't already done.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
So the other way to go is to just outright
out him.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Oh well, I have definitely done my fair share of that.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Oh really wow? Yeah, so you're a bus driver also.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I am. I totally am. I know, no question about it.
I'm absolutely am. I've even gone as far because I like,
I know that he'll be like, I don't want to
go uh, and then he'll lie about it, And to
avoid the entire situation, I will get someone else to
ask him directly in front of like a group of people,
so then he can't because he's not quick enough to
come up with a lie in that moment. Okay, So
(21:52):
like I will literally like oust him in front of
people so that we have to go to dinner with people.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So you want him to take a verbal flogging.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely, And I know he can't cave if
we're in public. If if someone else is asking him
and we're in public, there's nothing he can do. He's stuck.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
So now it's just a question of.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh, like, oh great, that probably makes me sound really bad.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I mean, look, the idea of marriage is that, for
the most part, you're supposed to have your partners back,
support them, you know, in all things. Sure, but I
do also realize that it is the twenty first century
in that holding your partner accountable for the things they
do and say can also be important, especially if that
(22:42):
means you then have to perpetuate their lies for an
entire week.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I cants, and I'm like, I have the worst memory
on the planet. Like literally, I am a goldfish. I
will go around the circle of the bowl and I
will have forgotten whatever you've said. So he could come
up with this super great, amazing, elaborate lie, and I
will have forgotten, and inevitably it will come back up
in conversation. So I'm like, this is why we don't lie,
This is why we shouldn't lie, This is why we
(23:07):
should just tell people we don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
So no, yeah, here's here's a solution. Okay, And I
think this might be a win win for you guys. Okay, Okay,
you just have a standard lie, so that way it's
easy for you to keep track of. And it's not
an elaborate lie for him to come up with on
the fly type of thing or some or some sort
(23:32):
of an elaborate excuse. It can just be something as
simple as, you know, we had a really long week retired.
Thank you for the invitation, but we're we're just going
to stay in tonight.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
That would be I don't I have no problem with
that answer whatsoever. His problem is he adds to it.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh no, That's why I'm saying, can't you got to
write it down, like put it on a flash card.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And I don't think he can do it.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Put it on a flash card, because he's he's he's teacher,
he's football coach, right, so he's probably got the school
idea around his neck all day. Right.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I was gonna say, we can get him like the
football armband. So he has know what's what play to
go to.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
He's got the whole audible list right there, except it's
just one audible one right right, it's play one and
that's it. We're too tired, But thank you for the invitation. Goodbye.
Touch not going to say we're game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I'm not gonna say we're going out of town We're
not gonna say it's somebody's birthday party. We're not going
to say your mom's in town, because we have to
back that up with proof. Okay, just go to the
We're tired, We've had a really busy week. Maybe next week,
maybe it's just a different day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's not hard, especially if the lie has gotten so
elaborate and stupid that you start picking off your grandparents
as as having died. Because this is something that has
happened with me and my wife where where we've had
a friend say, oh, I can't have a death in
the family so bad, and this had happened so many
(25:00):
and I responded via text one time, how many grandparents
do you have? Oh? No, jokes on me, like it's
you know, all these blended families nowadays, you might have
sixteen of them, But unless you're filling out some sort
of March Madness tournament with grandparents, you're going to run
(25:20):
out of them after a while. Stop you stop using
death as a lie or an excuse.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
You legitimately only have four. I can't count. I can't
count if you if your parents are divorced or whatever,
I can't count like step dad, grand parents or whatever.
We can't really count that. I don't think.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Everyone's divorce and remarried these days. Some people multiple times.
You might actually have a Loyola level grandparent out there somewhere, correct.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
But no, we're only counting four. That's all you get.
I'm sorry, the saint. The workplace rules also apply to
your everyday life rules.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I like that you get four grandparents to kill off
as an excuse. After that, they're they're done, You're gone.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's it, no more.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
And my other recommendation is, if you're going to use
those as excuses, get yourself a little poster and mark
down which grandparent you've offed.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
That's you have to keep track of your web.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Applying you have you do? You have to if you're
going to lie, you I mean they say, don't write
them down. Look, this is just it's it's social lying.
This isn't for court. If it's for court as totally
different thing, and that's a different episode. Absolutely, But in
this case, it would help make yourself a little poster
board that says lies yeah, and then that's the top,
and then on the side it's the what the lie
(26:35):
is and how many times you've used it, and then
all that stuff that way, you know, so you know exactly. Okay,
what live I told? Okay, uh Grandma, Grandma, uh Bernie, Okay,
she's I have not used. She's gone. I can't say her.
I can use Grandma Rose. She's still alive. I can
knock her off and no one likes her anyway, So
that works. So yeah, just keep you got to keep track.
(26:57):
Come up with a standard lie for your husband, and
like you said, do on the quarterback armband, just like
just like in football that we know he's familiar with,
and it's got the one lie on it.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I will say, though, it's going to be a dead
giveaway when he pops that arm up. Like I'm just saying, now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
You have to do it, and I want to be
there when he uses it. Whow. And to be honest,
now I kind of want one. We all know men
will go to surprising lengths to get a woman, but
(27:44):
are women now stooping to their level?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Rebecca, Yes, they absolutely are. Now this is crazy. It's
going like way too far. And there's surgery involved with
this one. Have you seen the dudes that get like
the lengthening surgery so that they're taller.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yes, I actually knew a guy. I worked with a
guy who looked into getting that surgery done because he
was so self conscious about his height or like thereof.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, Okay, so women are doing the opposite, and they're
getting their legs shortened so that they can find a
man because apparently all the tall men are taken and
they don't want to be with the short king.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So they're getting their bones, they're actual bones shortened. Oh
my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
All right, just real quick, forget the emotional side of it.
I'm curious of just the biological side momentarily here. So
do they then just cut a portion of the bone
out and then fuse the two pieces together? That's left? Yeah,
kind of like what kind of like editing a sentence
like you that's exactly we're taking out the adverb. Okay,
(28:56):
that's really horrific.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's like, you know, when you break a bone or
whatever and it fuses back together. This is sort of
the same situation, except for they're taking I guess an
inch or so out, which is wild that they can
even do that, and then it grows is back together.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
That's that's really disgusting.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't think I've ever done anything remotely like this
for a guy, nor would I wouldn't even consider it,
Like it's crazy to me a surgery the super expensive.
I'm like, I did get a tattoo, but it wasn't
at the request of a guy my husband.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Oh, okay, you cut me off. I have you cut
me off? I think you saw the glean in my
eye and I was about, does your husband know?
Speaker 2 (29:37):
No, no, yeah, it's for my husband, Like I got
his initials on my wrist or whatever. But that was
not because he was wanting it or asking me to
do it. That's because I felt like doing it if
if he had it his way, like I would never
have any tattoos or whatever. And I'm like, no, it's me.
I can do whatever I want. But I can't imagine.
Can you imagine you're paying thousands of dollars for this
elective surgery because you know insurance isn't gonna cut I
(29:59):
don't think there's I don't think you can check a
place like for a boy on your medical car.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That'd be great if that that was an option totally.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
But yeah, they're going They're going under the knife, which
is scary anyway, Like you shouldn't go under the knife
unless you absolutely have to.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And have you ever for a boy, have you ever
broken a bone? Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Same, Actually not that long ago. I broke a footbone
and it took forever to kill. It was not fun.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
When I was fourteen, I broke my upper arm right
in the middle playing playing football. Yeah, compound fracture. I
would not ever choose that. No, process, No, it is
terrible to this day, we're talking thirty years later. Like,
as you're telling the story, I can feel where it broke,
(30:46):
Like I can feel it, my arm start to ache.
It's just like nope, yeah, no.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's the worst. That's terrible. So yeah, anytime you like
feel love, your bones ache because you had your you
had an inch taken out. I was just thinking, like,
can you imagine a lady that's had, you know, their
bone kind of removed right to be shorter, and then
they get with their man. And I would think anytime
like the love flutters they feel it in their shins
(31:10):
because they don't have it. Is that a weird doot?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yes? But I love it. It's so it's it's a
fascinating thing. Because I am not a tall man. I'm
five nine on a good day. Now, I used to
be like five tinish, so oh, yeah, we're all I
am shrinking. I don't know entirely why. I think there's uh,
(31:35):
you know, the lack of discs in my spine as
some sort of a culprit. But point is, I am
not a tall man, never have been, and there is
no way I would ever consider the lengthening of my
legs to make me taller from surgery. Now, if I
happen upon a genie in a bottle type situation and
(31:58):
I have the option of making things long, I don't
need to finish. Never mind, My point is.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Where you go with that, Dan? What are you trying
to link them?
Speaker 1 (32:09):
But the legs would be second? Uh So it really is,
It really is dumbfounding to me that that women are
considering surgery to shorten themselves to be more appealing to
shorter men. Whatever happened to the movies and the television
shows we all grew up with Where You're Where? It
(32:31):
taught us the lesson of it's what's on the inside
that counts. Yeah, you know, the personality the person, not
their height or lack thereof.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I mean to be fair, technically, if you're having your
bones removed that is on the inside to shape. But
what it do you think it would bother you if
you did date somebody a couple of inches taller than you?
And this is like we're saying flat feet, bear to
bear feet. I want because it thing for guys. It's
a very it's it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
For Yeah, you know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
That's probably your best answer, your safest answer right now.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think that's the one. I'm just gonna stick with
that for now. Yeah, that's probably a smart smarter because
because because I don't want to say the wrong thing
and ended up coming across as a tinier man than
I already am. Yeah, Like, it's one thing to be short.
I don't want to be small totally.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I like, I love the way that you summed that up.
That's perfection right there. I agree with.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You on that. Being said, I do know that the
whole height thing is a major thing, especially with online dating,
like if you're not because they have it to where
you can you can set your profile and your searches
to certain parameters. So if you're a female, typically females
want what a guy that's six feet up? Yeah, and
(33:58):
if the guy like you, you set up your tender,
your bumble, whatever, and you set it to six foot plus.
There might be a hell of a guy that's five
nine that you that you could miss out on simply
because he doesn't hit that one requirement.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, I would like a taller guy. I want I
want my dude to be bigger than I am, because
I'm kind of a big girl anyway. Like I'm I'm
pretty thick, I'm tall, Like I want a guy to
be bigger than me, just because that's my preference. However,
I would not at all right off somebody that was
like the same hype as me and maybe even shorter,
if that makes any sense. I don't think I would.
(34:35):
I think I have dated somebody that is my exact hype,
and that one a big deal. But I can't imagine
just being like, oh no, I'm sorry, you're short.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But I think that's one of those things where it's
really hard to go against your biological tendencies because as
the female, you want to feel protected kind of a thing. Right,
So I can understand, as I can, I can take
my male brain, set it aside and then pretend to
be okay. If I was a woman, would I want
(35:05):
to then feel like the protector if when we embrace,
I feel like I'm I'm protecting you, cub.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
No, I get that, I do. Yeah, and it isn't there.
I think there's like biology that's associated with yeah, because
it's like women who are looking for spouses because of
our stupid biological insides have that like where we're looking
for somebody that we can mate with and like have
a baby with, and like if you aren't with a
bigger dude, like somehow it's not right. If that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Did we actually just come full circle on this topic
and justify the women shortening their legs.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
We shouldn't like, Can we just say maybe we shouldn't
be just like, I don't want to justify it. I
don't think. I don't think this should be a thing.
I don't think people should care about the height of
their significant others. But weirdly enough, I do think there
is some biology attached to it. I don't know how
to overcome that.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Maybe the way we should look at it is this way,
instead of her shortening her legs so she can make
herself available to a whole other crop of guys who
are single, albeit shorter, if there's truly a deep seated
thing that you are self conscious about, Like you're six
foot or you're six foot five, and you're just really
(36:25):
self conscious about being tall and taller than everyone. Then
I can understand you wanting to do something about it
the way that some women might with you know, plastic
surgery augmentation, because they're self conscious about a certain part
of their body and they do this so then they
feel more confident and better with themselves, like if they
were born with you know, a wicked witch of the
(36:48):
West knows type of situation and they want to get that,
then yeah, I get it. If you feel if you
feel like a giant among people and you want to
be normal, then you do you.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
So what you're saying is like it needs to be
coming from within, not like you're you're not doing it
for someone else, you're doing it for a year.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Yes, I agree with that. Now, granted, someone's gonna bastardize
it and say, well, yeah, it is for me, so
I can find a man and be happy he's like, well,
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
But I mean I guess at the end of the day,
if that's truly what you want, if that's the who
am I to say, don't do it?
Speaker 1 (37:25):
If yeah, if that's if that's the one thing that
is really going to make or break your life, then fine,
break the legs.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Damn, we have solved nothing. If we solved nothing in
this segment.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And I felt so good when we started.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I did too. I did too, and we talked ourselves out.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Oh God, bless our hearts. If you are listening to us,
be sure to follow this show so you don't miss
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