288: Fake or Nah?! Ft. Lisa Gilroy

24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 36 min · 34 chapters

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In short

The hosts investigate “fake or nah?” Reddit stories—whether posts are genuine, karma farming, or performance/fiction—then discuss relationship and communication takeaways from the stories.

Guest

Lisa Gilroy is a voice actor known for character/voice work (mentioned: Jury Duty; she also voices roles in Golden Axe and in a “superhero/Amazon warrior” bit). Heavily focused on voices and comedic delivery; discusses relationship “fight hacks” and therapy-style reframing (stories/interpretations).

Key claims

  1. A boyfriend who plays the Spider-Man theme during arguments is treated as “100% real,” with the idea that music can signal “we’re in a scene, not a fight.”
  2. A Reddit user (“bestpirate5073” / “BigBlackDarius”) with hundreds of posts and explicit/erotic content is judged “fake as hell,” possibly AI-generated and/or performance art, with the account’s consistency (Texas/Dallas, gym/massage therapist, 6’7”) used as evidence.
  3. A dark-romance book club story is debated as plausible; the husband’s later unannounced attendance (dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire) is treated as increasingly suspicious.
  4. An ED-related story is framed as deeply harmful: a husband left a Claude chat expressing attraction/weight concerns, implying he may not mean compliments.

Notable examples

Spider-Man fight-music “hack”; Dark romance book club with Haunting Adeline; “Captive in the Dark” being suggested; Claude chat titled “navigating fitness concerns”; “BigBlackDarius” selfie and AI-image suspicion (water bottle/logo, iPhone lens artifacts).

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Chapters

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Casual Banter and Humor

2:18 to 4:48

Light-hearted exchange between hosts about names and experiences.

“And everything in my fridge is going rodden.”

Discussing Jury Duty

4:48 to 6:49

Hosts talk about the show Jury Duty and Lisa's role in it.

“And it's this whole concept of fake or nah.”

Reddit Stories: Arguments with Theme Music

6:49 to 9:52

The hosts analyze a Reddit story about a couple's argument style.

“Me and my boyfriend, both 25, have a good relationship for the last year.”

Examining Arguments and Music

9:52 to 14:00

Discussion about the role of music in arguments and relationship dynamics.

“But if they simply cannot muster, there's a conversation to be had.”

Personal Reddit Experiences

14:04 to 15:56

Sharing personal stories of Reddit experiences and moderation rules.

“Because at first I was going to be like, maybe sometimes she's posting as if she is her boyfriend to try to get that side of it.”

Engineering and Technical Challenges

15:56 to 17:18

Discussing the complexities of engineering topics and knowledge.

“So, you know, that's not necessarily an end all be all to say fake.”

Messaging Reddit Users

17:18 to 18:12

Discussing the practice of reaching out to Reddit users for clarifications.

“Did you say like, but I'm a famous woman with a famous podcast?”

Messaging Reddit Users

19:21 to 19:58

Discussing the practice of reaching out to Reddit users for clarifications.

“The next, someone's dropped a snack, lost a shoe, or needs a bathroom break immediately.”

Discussion on Fiction and Jealousy

19:58 to 20:49

Analyzing a situation involving jealousy over fiction in a book club context.

“One sister always lies and one sister always tells the truth.”

Navigating Book Club Dynamics

20:49 to 24:14

Exploring the dynamics of a book club with mixed-gender participation.

“The club recently got in a dark romance.”
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Reactions to Book Club Tensions

24:14 to 27:20

Discussing how members react to interpersonal tensions within the group.

“I would already be like, do the girls want to just hang?”

Unexpected Book Club Developments

27:20 to 28:00

Sharing an unexpected event involving a husband attending a book club.

“We're about 10 minutes in and then there's a knock at my door.”

The Book Club Dilemma

28:00 to 30:00

A tense scenario unfolds in a book club involving a suggestive book choice and mixed feelings.

“He walks in holding a six pack of beer like this is just a casual hang with the boys and he says figured he'd see what all the hype is about.”

Exploring the Reddit User

30:00 to 34:20

The hosts investigate a Reddit user's profile, revealing surprising details about their activity.

“Did you do any digging on what that book is?”

The Fake or Nah Debate

34:20 to 41:30

Discussion about whether the Reddit user's posts are genuine or a form of performance art begins.

“My thing is, though, I think the karma could get your posts boosted higher on the main Reddit page.”

Analyzing the Evidence

41:30 to 42:00

The hosts critically analyze the clues surrounding the Reddit user's identity and post history.

“And so is this person advertising the book?”

Discussion on Fitness and Authenticity

42:00 to 44:14

Exploring the authenticity of a viral post about fitness and personal narratives.

“No, I guess men have bodies like that all the time.”

Discussion on Fitness and Authenticity

44:17 to 44:49

Exploring the authenticity of a viral post about fitness and personal narratives.

“And the stuff that actually gets done, always the stuff you had help with.”

Analyzing a Relationship Concern

44:49 to 55:40

A deep dive into a troubling relationship dynamic involving a husband's fitness expectations and AI consultation.

“It does contain discussions of EDs and calorie counting and things like that.”

Advice and Reflection

55:40 to 56:00

Discussion on the implications of the husband's comments and advice for the woman in the story.

“was the skinniest wife you could ever imagine.”

Intervention Advice for Relationship Issues

56:00 to 56:49

Learn about navigating relationship challenges and effective advice for couples.

“Like, what is, I want to see the Claude transcript.”

Discussion on Chores and Fairness

56:50 to 58:13

Explore the imbalance of chores in relationships and its impact on fitness.

“What is there anybody saying anything else or is every comment just like leave him?”

Imagining a Motivational Glow-Up

58:14 to 1:00:38

Discuss a hypothetical transformation driven by motivation and self-improvement.

“Spend an hour or more cooking and cleaning then spend an hour in the backyard with the dog.”

The Concept of Revenge Bod

1:00:39 to 1:02:06

Discover the concept of 'Revenge Bod' and its implications in relationships.

“There was like a show called Revenge Bod.”

Navigating Relationship Insecurities

1:02:07 to 1:03:25

Learn how one struggles with self-image and relationship dynamics after an invasion of privacy.

“but he does like most of the cooking laundry's pretty split but like right now he's at home taking care of the ponies it's We'll get there.”

Strategies for Fair Relationship Dynamics

1:03:26 to 1:04:38

Explore ways to achieve a more balanced relationship through communication and boundaries.

“Do I tell him I read the chat and talk about it?”

An Unexpected Reunion with an Ex

1:04:39 to 1:05:30

Follow a comedic tale of an unexpected encounter with an ex, leading to a web of lies.

“Okay, I feel like it could be workshopped a bit, but we'll get there.”

An Unexpected Reunion with an Ex

1:05:34 to 1:10:01

Follow a comedic tale of an unexpected encounter with an ex, leading to a web of lies.

“When it comes to the newly designed Chrysler Pacifica, FML means something a little different.”

The Australian Accent Dilemma

1:10:01 to 1:15:50

Exploration of the social implications of adopting a fake accent and the humor in it.

“Like everyone in your life is just like Are you okay?”

A Wedding To Remember

1:15:51 to 1:21:54

A bizarre story about an ex's wedding and a cringe-inducing moment that unfolds.

“I even have seven days to love it or return it.”

Analyzing a Crazy Wedding Story

1:24:00 to 1:27:43

The hosts dissect a wild Reddit story involving an ex's wedding and unexpected interactions.

“Would you actually go to your ex's wedding?”

The Umbrella Dude Mystery

1:27:43 to 1:29:34

Discussion evolves into the curious concept of the 'umbrella dude' and its cultural significance.

“it's a medical mystery to me that he would like if you get invited to a wedding and you go to it that just tells me already either like you're completely socially tone deaf or you guys were on.”

Kinks and Social Dynamics

1:29:34 to 1:33:03

The conversation turns towards kinks, social situations, and unusual behaviors at weddings.

“It almost feels like, okay, can I just like say something for the room?”

Final Verdict on the Story

1:33:03 to 1:35:08

Hosts share their final thoughts on whether the wedding story is real or fake.

“How does he get to be around all these cool girls?”
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Transcript

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1:23Yay! Are you ready? I'm ready. Let's do this. Let's do this. I'm so excited. I have wanted to get you on for, it feels like years. Like genuinely, it feels like years. You've been like on my list of like, who's your dream guest? No. Lisa Gilroy. Air horns and everything? Everything. You have those? I need to get a real one because at this point— No, you don't because actually the sound you made with your mouth was just as good as an air horn. Thank you. Thank you. Can you do clown horn? No. Can you? I want to try it all of a sudden. Someone I know can do it really well, but it's like that— That was good.

2:06But someone I know can do it amazing. I feel like you're the queen of voices. Oh, my God. Thank you. And by the way, I'm sorry I wore a hat on your podcast because I feel a little bit like I'm trying to act like Leonardo DiCaprio right now, but my power was out. So I couldn't straighten or do anything to the top of my head. Your power was out? Yeah. And everything in my fridge is going rodden. Rodden. Is that how you say that word? Yeah, rodden. It's R-O-D-D-E-N. It's like what happens to milk if it's out of the fridge. How do you pronounce R-U-I-N? Ruin? Do you struggle with that one as well?

2:38Ruin? I'm a victim of the word rune. Oh, you say rune. R-O-O-N. But wait, because I would say it two different ways for two different types. Like I might be like, you ruined my day. But I'd be like, look at these ancient runes. Do you see? Do you see the like historical flair? I'm like the total wrong person to ask this because I'd be like, yeah, that's correct. You heard rune both times. Yeah. Would you ever try ruin? Ruin. Ruin? Ruin. Ruin. I'm not going to get that beautiful roll. I don't know where. Could be a beautiful name for a baby girl. I have been like looking at baby names lately. Some of them are insane.

3:18Have you been on the r slash tragedy subreddit? No, tragedy. It's like literally the name is pronounced tragedy, but it's pronounced like tragedy, like D-E-I-G-H at the end. It's like basically people turning normal names into the most horrific, weird spelling or worst names they've ever heard of. Do you watch Married at First Sight? No. Because one of the mothers of the bride, and I posted this to my Instagram story because I could just not stop thinking about it. It's like, and it was just casual wedding day. They're like, they're getting ready in the bridal suite and they show the mom. And you know, they put the little chyron underneath to say everyone's names, like blank, mother of the bride.

3:54And it's like over at the grooms and it's like Beverly, mother of the groom. And then it goes over to the bride's side and the mom's like, are you almost ready? And it goes to the mom and it's like, violent, mother of the bride. Her name is Violent. Some people try too hard on baby names. It's so close to the word Violet, but someone just snuck a - Maybe they spelled it wrong. Extra letter in there. Yeah, maybe. They probably just spelled it wrong. No, no, no. I thought on the show, maybe typo. But then it kept occurring throughout the season. Yeah, no, I think someone messed up her birth certificate and parents just rolled with it.

4:19Oh. Trying to be trendy. Violent. Trying to be on it. I'm so excited for you. I'm so cozy. As you should be. Comfort is key. I don't know why people try and just do anything but being comfortable on a podcast. Should we sleep here? We could. Yeah, I have taken a nap here. I don't blame you. This is the comfiest I've ever been. I planked. Put the two chairs together and planked. Oh, smart. um one of the shows I first saw you on though was jury duty where it's this whole concept of this person Ronald going in and he's the only one that doesn't know his whole experience on jury duty is a bit it's a lie it's a lie yeah and you come in and you're this like social media entrepreneur influencer and you were just so good I don't know how you also went back for season two Like, how are people not recognizing you at this point?

5:08I wore glasses in season two. That's all it takes, honey. Okay, Superman. Yeah. Take it easy over there. Thank you. But it's so good. And it's this whole concept of fake or nah. Fake or nah. Fake or nah. Like, are you kidding me? Like, is that real? That's too crazy. It can't be real. It's got to be fake. And that's something we come across week after week with these Reddit stories of like, that's fake. It's on Reddit. Yeah. Or is it? Is it real? Yeah, right. We, my producer Bailey and I have gone through these posts. Some of these people have over 400 posts on Reddit and we've gone through them to gather the evidence and help you.

5:48You did investigative journalism? Help you decide are they fake or not. They're real. This is so exciting. Suddenly this is also like a crime solving podcast. It is. It's like a detective show all in one. Because I never thought you could do, of course, you can look into someone's history and be like, are you consistently asking these same type of questions? Or is their persona changing? Right, right, right, right. Do they go from like 20-year-old female to all of a sudden their 50-year-old male? Are they doing that? We're going to find out. But woman who's never heard of telling a lie on the internet before.

6:21Like you can do that? Yeah. I thought you'd get electrocuted if you type something false into the keys. That should be a thing. Can you imagine if like there was a keyboard for trolls and it shocked you every time you were mean? I think there should be like a thing that's like if you type like a curse word or something mean, it immediately like screenshots your face and it adds it to the comment. Yeah.

6:46Okay, let's get into these stories. Yay. Let's dive in.

7:25Okay, up first for us here. You have a new show out Golden Axe Yes Yeah You're the voice of like a superhero I'm a voice of like an Amazon warrior Who has like thick legs Tyrus Tyrus, that's right Tyrus Flair That's right So this first one This, you'll see why we picked this for you So it's coming from Am I Overreacting Titled Am I Overreacting to My Boyfriend Needing a Heroic Theme Playing Every Time We Argue you.

7:58Me and my boyfriend, both 25, have a good relationship for the last year. He's really funny, smart, and kind. We rarely get into fights, but when we do, he requested that we play the Spider-Man theme song from the 2000s movies, so he feels compelled to do the right thing. To be fair, he does become somewhat more mature during these arguments and does a good job handling them, but he refuses to talk about anything pressing without the theme music in the background. It was okay at first, but now it pisses me off and distracts me sometimes from the point that I'm trying to make. I told him he needs to grow up and try to do it himself without the music, but he says he can't or he will say things out of emotion and he just needs to calm down.

8:46It feels so childish. Am I overreacting? I'm obsessed with this Do you think this is real? I think this is 100 % real You do? Okay Yes, are you shocked by that? Tell me why Because I have so much to say about this I'm so excited Because I think There's so much There's so much to discover in this lifetime In relationships Don't you think? Absolutely Learning something new every day They are our most valuable teachers And we can learn all sorts of tips and tricks in order to like connect with each other. And so this is what makes me think this is real because I saw online, this woman was saying her and her husband when they get in a fight, or you know when like you're with someone and you're like, are you mad at me?

9:32And they're like, no, I'm fine. Like, is something wrong? No, literally it's, we're all good. We're fine. That's hell on earth, right? Oh, I feel those eggshells underfoot. It happens all the time. So then they were like, if we ever find ourselves, somebody's acting like that, the other person goes, okay, well, if you're really okay, then make a silly face and a silly noise. And then the other person has to go like, and then if they can do that, that proves they're actually fine. And now both people are laughing. But if they simply cannot muster, there's a conversation to be had. So I actually love things like this in relationships that like can diffuse the tension in a super harmless way.

10:07Yeah. I think it's beautiful. But I do think he could afford to throw on some headphones if he needs the music and she really doesn't like it because that's also part of the compromise. but I think it is like if you can't fight or some people say fight naked you never heard that I love these little tips and tricks because it like adds another that is a nightmare you still remember to not like take it too seriously you're still talking to someone that you love I need everyone to immediately in the comments give me fight hacks and just like post a quick picture of you fighting naked with your spouse if you want do it do it for Lisa just to prove that you did it Oh my gosh.

10:45It's funny that you mention putting on headphones though, because one of the top comments is, that is hilarious. Get the guy one earbud. Yes, one earbud. He can play the song in his ear while listening to you in the other. Because if it's distracting for you, I get it. Yeah, you can't force both people to be spider heads. Yeah, but at the same time, like I feel like for her, it's probably just annoying because she's like, you're not taking me seriously. Right. But also, I don't know, like maybe there's a compromise for, hey, the more serious fights, we really got to like lock in. I want to feel heard.

11:15Yeah. And if it's like, oh, you didn't take the trash out. Yes, exactly. Spider-Man can be played. That's the perfect level of fight. Or like, you know, when you could feel yourself ramping up to an argument where you're like, wait, this is getting out of control for what the actual issue is. That's a perfect time for the music. Spider-Man. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people actually love this. They think it's a hack. They say I'm neurodivergent and struggle with transitions and a musical cue that we are in discussion mode and also that we are trying to do the right thing and work together. Sounds like a great idea.

11:42I could absolutely use the Bohemia theme for this in my life. It hits me in the feels every time. I have not heard that song. It's really interesting that it's like intense music. I guess that makes it feel like cinematic. And also, in a way, do you go to therapy? You're like, I'm therapized. Not yet. I need to be. Okay, because therapists always like talk about how our thoughts about our lives and everything are like stories. You're like, oh, that's a story that you're telling yourself. Because it's true. Like we don't really know what the objective truth is. So everybody just like has a story about what's going on.

12:20Yeah. Like maybe my story is like, oh, that girl's mad at me or she hates me and she's never liked me. It's like, I don't actually know that. So that's just a story I'm telling myself. So it's like, maybe the music helps both people be like, this is a story. It's a movie because it's not true. It's just like our interpretation of what the fight is. It's a script. I think it's just it's helping set the scene to imagine a movie without scoring. Horrible. Can't imagine. Horrible Someone does You know Have the question here though How do you argue With someone so much That playing a theme song During arguments Becomes an issue Like you're fighting now But about The fights That's the question It's a little Inception-y Speaking of Leo DiCaprio So Here's our evidence For it being fake Okay It's fake We do not know Okay so we're doing Like ladies and gentlemen Of the jury You can't conclusively say yeah I should have gotten you a gavel what the hell was I doing okay but can I ask you for a favor sure when you present it can you kind of pretend like I'm the judge and you're you're too you're gonna be like the defense attorney and the plaintiff's attorney as well okay your honor the user is incredibly active I'm also gonna be the um other attorney so if I ever say like objection your honor that's like if you're gonna say something I disagree with I might you know okay so I'll be the judge and also the other attorney okay okay user is incredibly active and their age, gender, marital status change every time they post.

13:47Objection, Your Honor. Relevance? In this post, they're 25 with a boyfriend. In another post, they're a 22-year-old man dating a 21-year-old woman. And in another, they're a 27-year-old man with a 28-year-old wife.

14:04Post history. Caught him. Because at first I was going to be like, maybe sometimes she's posting as if she is her boyfriend to try to get that side of it. Well, on the other hand, some of their posts do appear to be real, like asking for help landing a role as a junior engineer. So just trying to get job advice, not, you know, on a big subreddit, potentially karma farming. Is that what people do? Sometimes. I'm embarrassed by how little I know. But you can't. So like if you post on Reddit and you post something really good and it blows up, people will upvote it. and then that all, every time you post, every time you get upvotes, on your account, you have a karma counter.

14:43So the more karma you get, the cooler you look. Do you know, Morgan, I posted on Reddit once and I got banned. That's all that's ever happened to me. What did you post? I still don't understand why this happened to me. I posted on, it was like 10 years ago. What'd you post? And I like joined Reddit and it was on like r slash funny because I was like, oh, I don't want to be, I wanted to like just post, I think I posted a picture of a dog in a stroller wearing sunglasses that I saw on the street. And I got banned. My ass got banned for that. Did you? They were like, oh, sorry, ma 'am. Are you aware?

15:12This is r slash funny. It's not r slash fucking stupid. Can I say fuck? Sorry. Wait, what? Yeah. And I just like never understood. That was such a good contribution. Thank you for saying that. If I was that moderator, I never would have banned you. Why do you think I got banned? I'm wondering if that subreddit had specific rules where you needed to like, they all have their own rules. and it's like for your first post to prove you're real ad dinosaur in the body of the post and you just didn't read the rules so immediate ban. Oh. There's tricky things on Reddit you know. It's like a goblin's riddle house like you have to cross the bridge into Reddit by doing all of the special riddles.

15:50Yeah. And I didn't do it. No. And now I owe Rumpelstiltskin my baby. Yeah. I will say though there is something to be said as you mentioned about changing age to maybe be from the boyfriend's point of view like There's some people who will, like I know personally, friends and family that have posted on Reddit and have changed ages and like small details to not be identified. Yeah. So, you know, that's not necessarily an end all be all to say fake. I agree. So what do you where do you fall on this one? I do think that this person is probably an engineer, though, because can you imagine trying to lie about that?

16:23And for what reason? It's not really a joke. And then you have to also make up stuff about engineering. No. Ask me the hardest engineering question you can think of. And I don't know anything, but I'll try to make it sound like I do. I don't know. How do you code an RSS feed? So the RSS feed is really complicated because it has all sorts of different signals. Obviously, that if you code it incorrectly, it will trigger something else incorrect. But you can definitely use any language of your choosing depending on what's compatible. So C++ or... You must have been hired on the spot for any job interview you ever did.

16:58I don't even know what you said. Did you say SSRIs? I don't even know what I said. I'm like the only techie thing. You said how do you code an SS? An RSS feed. It's what podcasts are hosted on. That's the only like techie thing I know. Did anything I say seem right? Sound off in the comments and post a nude. Okay. If you want to talk nudes. And I do baby. I will show you some nudes. Not mine. But this guy. Perfect. This next story. this has sent me wait sorry Morgan was there any evidence for it being real the last one that was just it we saw lots of different changing things and we never could get to the bottom that's all we got can we ever send a message to this person and go are you real yeah do people do that I send them messages all the time you do yeah do they respond to you yeah like there was one story where this kid like his parents went by him a birthday cake so I was like can I buy you a cake like I just messaged people all the time and did he get back to you like three months later and I was like I'll still buy you the cake.

17:57And? And then he never responded again. Did you say like, but I'm a famous woman with a famous podcast? No, I just sent him messages. Then how's he supposed to know you're real? You didn't put dinosaur in the comments. Oh, God. It's like so crazy. God, okay. So much advice for me. What do you want to say to him? Like, what do you feel would be proof that this person... This episode is brought to you by Credit Karma. Breathe in. Now breathe out. You feel that? That's the calm of having Intuit Credit Karma in your corner. If you're trying to get your life together in this crazy world, Credit Karma is a great place to start with the money stuff.

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20:19I'm excited. I'm excited. Okay. this next one please please buckle up wherever you are so this is coming from a few places this was originally posted on r slash am I overreacting and then they came and posted it on our own subreddit two hot takes we have our own sub now okay yeah this is already sending up my alarm bells okay posting in multiple places and also posting here to be like isn't this so crazy I hope you guys don't put it on the podcast So it's titled, Nice.

21:19here. The club recently got in a dark romance. It wasn't my suggestion, but everyone voted on it, and that's just where the group ended up. We spend most of the meetings talking about character development, plot, whether the MMC is actually redeemable, etc. No big deal, right? I'm friendly with everyone, but I don't hang out with any of them outside a book club. I know a few of their husbands from saying hello if they're around before or after meetings, but that's about it. After our meeting a few days ago, I was loading a folding chair into my car when one of the husbands came outside and asked if he could talk to me.

21:54He told me he would appreciate it if I stopped coming to book club. I asked why, and he said his wife has become, quote, way too excited about book club ever since they started reading Dark Romance, and that it was weird having the only guy there discussing those books with a group of married women. I laughed at first because I genuinely thought he was just joking because sometimes guys can be funny like that, but it turns out... Sometimes guys can be funny like that. He wasn't joking. LOL. He said he wasn't accusing me of doing anything inappropriate, but that the whole situation made him uncomfortable and that it would, quote, solve a lot of problems if I just found a different hobby.

22:39I told him I wasn't there to flirt with anyone. I'm there because I like reading. Everyone in the group voted on the books, and I enjoyed the discussions. I also said if he has concerns about his wife's interests in fictional, morally questionable men, that's probably something that they should talk about together. He got annoyed and said I was intentionally missing the point. I eventually just told him, quote, I'm not quitting a book club because you're insecure about fictional men. If it's that big of a deal, just join. Now I'm wondering if I should have handled it differently. I don't want to create tension in the neighborhood, but I also don't think it's reasonable to ask me to leave a group I've been a part of for a year because he's uncomfortable.

23:22Am I overreacting? I love this. This is so juicy. T. And like, is the other husband upset about a fictional character or is he upset about a real, real life man? I would say that. The lighter. Yeah. To me, I read this and I'm like, I could see it happening. When we start digging, it gets a little dicey. if you were going to give advice though assuming that this person is real yeah what would your advice be to them I mean it feels real to me I would I'm like so divided on it I have two hot takes wrestling in my mind together and it's like on one hand I'm like yeah of course he should be able to join a book club it's his neighborhood he's trying to connect with people he loves to read like we can't stop anyone from this is wonderful this is community so I love it and And on the other hand, I'm like, if I was the only man in a female space, I would already kind of be like, question mark, question mark.

24:14Is this OK? I would already be like, do the girls want to just hang? Like, I would be a little aware of that. OK. It does seem like it started as just a general book club. And then it's kind of turned into now we're getting into maybe the dark romance. We're crossing into smut territory. Things like that. Yeah, that's true. But, you know, he's already made friends. And the or then the perfect maybe third take of the hot and cold meeting, which means it's perfectly room temperature is that other husband should just join the group. That would be the most that would be the best, most lovely ending of all.

24:46And maybe he'd learn a thing or two from those books. Yeah. And wouldn't that be so cute to have a husband and wife reading a horny smut book together in a book club? I'm like, I think that's so tender. I'm gonna be honest. I don't think I could talk about my thoughts honestly if my husband was in my book club. oh like have you read fourth wing acatar have you ever like fallen down some of acatar okay which completely rotted my brain which by the way i say rotten i say rotten like regular style you do say i was just joking before about saying rotten i thought that was like kind of funny but i don't want anyone to sound off in the comments and go she doesn't know the difference between t's and d's and i don't mean tits and dicks um but yes i've read some of acatar and i I couldn't keep abreast of it, no pun intended, because it was like the sex part was like ruining my rat brain dopamine, and then I couldn't follow the plot anymore because then my rat brain was just like, we'll do more of the sex stuff.

25:42I couldn't relax. The graphic audio version does help keep things in line, I will say. Oh. And then your hands are also free. Graphic? What? There's graphic audio versions. What do you mean graphic audio versions? I'll play you some on Spotify after. Are you saying graphic as in like you see something? Or it's just descriptive? Because I'm thinking graphic novel. Audio. You hear moaning. No. Yeah. They add scoring. If there's a dragon in the book, you'll hear a little dragon roar. It really sucks you in. Oh my God. You feel like you're there. Wow. I didn't know they did that. The book that they were reading in this book club is Haunting Adeline.

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26:19If anyone out there has read it, it's a dark romance, psychological thriller about a stalker. Pretty dark. is what we're hearing. But a lot of people do respond. No one gets red flags initially. Not overreacting. That man is a loser. It's a damn book. What book is it, by the way? And that's when we find that out. Not overreacting. The guy is weirdly jealous over a book and he would have a hernia if he read my Amazon library. But it's funny because it doesn't really feel like he's jealous of the book. It feels like he's jealous of the man getting to hear his wife's thoughts about the book. Like you were saying how you'd have a hard time being honest in front of your husband it's like this man's getting a peek behind the curtain in a way that your husband wouldn't yeah but I wonder what she's saying in the group but he doesn't know any of that I don't know no he just says my wife is very excited about book club so it really has nothing to do with the guy or I mean honestly that to me reads like she's so excited to catch up and hang with a bunch of women her age like maybe this is the first friend group she's had in a while Right Like husband sounds a little bit nutty Maybe she doesn't get to go out and have a lot of friends Yeah So we do get an update Okay OP comes back and shares this with us So a couple of weeks ago I posted about the husband Who pulled me aside after book club And asked me to stop coming because his wife was way too excited Well he finally decided to join Nice Completely unannounced Our last meeting was at my place which makes it more weird that he would choose to join now.

27:53Everyone shows up normal. We're about 10 minutes in and then there's a knock at my door. And to our surprise, it's him. Dressed as a big tall Mrs. Doubtfire. Hello ladies! He walks in holding a six pack of beer like this is just a casual hang with the boys and he says figured he'd see what all the hype is about. His wife looked like she wanted the floor to open up. I think the crazy part is she had absolutely no idea that he was going to show up. We finished discussing the book that we were already on. He sat there mostly quiet, but every time someone brought up the main male character being possessive or morally gray, he'd glance over at me like he was taking mental notes.

28:35Yeah, trust me, it was hella weird, crying, laughing emoji. Then it came time to pick the next book. Normally, we would just throw out options and vote. This time he pulls out his phone and goes I actually have one The bible He suggests captive in the dark That sounds horny A couple of women laughed nervously One said she was down His wife didn't say much I stayed neutral and just said I was fine with whatever the group chose It won After everyone left that day The group chat started lighting up Three separate private messages within an hour basically saying the same thing, that it felt pointed and asking if we should say something or just let him embarrass himself.

29:22I haven't replied to any of them yet because I genuinely don't know the move here. Part of me feels like I should stay quiet. I'm letting him control the vibe. Another part of me feels like calling it out makes me look like the exact problem he originally accused me of being. Also, the book he picked is actually really well written, and the plot is wild, so now I'm stuck reading it while wondering if every spicy scene is somehow aimed at me in his head. I don't want to create more tension in the neighborhood, but I also don't feel like quietly disappearing from a group I've been a part of for a year just because he's decided to insert himself.

29:56Am I overreacting for feeling like this is about to blow up? Did you do any digging on what that book is? No, I didn't look at what it is. Captive in the dark it sounds horny as hell it is a 2011 dark romance novel about a kidnapped woman and her captor seeking revenge listen what's he on about now why is he doing this i'm wondering if like the character is like if it was almost like a subtweet where it's like i see you yeah but what is he seeing what is so perverted and horny about a man who goes to a book club so let's get into a little bit about our poster here. Okay, oh my God. This is like the scary part of the podcast.

30:39This is like being on Mori and being like, let's look at the paternity test. You are the father. So the username is bestpirate5073, but that can be your username on Reddit and then you can pick a display name. So the user's actual display name that they chose is BigBlackDarius. Do with that what you will. Just giving aura, okay? Their account is 18 plus. They have in their bio, 6 '7", Dallas, Texas, traveling massage therapist. What the? Okay, this is, wow. Okay, this is changing a lot of things for me. Okay. Are you saying 6 '7", as in a height? 6 '7", 6 '7". It's a joke or it's a height? A height.

31:24There's very few people. That's too mungo. Very few people 6 '7". So I have this tool because if you go look at Best Pirate, Big Black Darius's account, it is very hard to see all of their posts because there are so many. So I have a tool that lets me look at all their posts across various subreddits. A magnifying glass? Basically, this person has posted at least 300, if not 400 times on Reddit across various subreddits. Whoa, various Darius. Posting in Entitled People, posting in Malicious Compliance, r slash Dallas. I will say very consistently lives in Texas, moved to Dallas, started a book club, works at a gym, massage therapist.

32:12The gym, the massage therapist, the 6 '7", it's all starting to kind of fill out the world of the husband being like, Get out of the book club, man. The girls kind of don't want you in the book club, man. yeah yeah there's a lot a lot a lot here it is interesting because there are some posts that are very i mean you see dick his dick oh my god don't send me the link seriously margaret don't you see but you have my number if you need like if i have to look at it for part of the research for the story um there's a there's a there's a lot of shots so and people sucking people fucking other people they're not it's not him being like here's all the stuff i'm working with no it is it is him do you want to see you're kind of curious okay i'm kind of curious so turn to turn to me i don't know if i should show me i can handle it there's no like just a shot of it it's all like it's being acted upon yeah so it's okay then no because who knows if it's even they everybody even knows I will say everything looks everything looks consensual okay okay I mean I would say like because I think the accusation here is like is this person fake or are they karma farming and like my thought because at this point they have 157 ,000 karma points on reddit okay can I ask you a really naive question about this yeah does it and you guys just relax I've never been on it before I spend most of my time on neopets okay that's a great place to be um does this translate to money at all for people so what so why would you be karma farming it's just for like attention it's the same reason you would munch housey by proxy your daughter correct okay in a yeah I think in like a you could maybe connect that in a realm sure so you can buy awards from reddit but the awards, it doesn't do anything.

34:06Like we connected with Direct Caterpillar. He's one of our new besties, big poster on Reddit. He's got over a million and he's like, I think it translates to like six cents or six dollars, something astronomically low for how much karma he has. My thing is, though, I think the karma could get your posts boosted higher on the main Reddit page. Oh, so every time you post something, if you need like advice, you're going to get a lot of people. Yes. And if this is someone who is trying to actively then sell an OnlyFans page and all of the posts are leading back to his account, maybe it's good traffic.

34:43But this person is very active on the Too Hot Takes subreddit. Very, very active. There's at least 20 posts on Too Hot Takes. Wow. So they could be out there listening right now and could be like, hey, no, I actually am real. Here's a picture of my face. There actually is a picture of his face. Well, I'd love to see that. Okay. Let me find that. Has been posting in r slash boy dinner diaries. This is a new sub where you like share a picture of your meal. It's like turkey, bull, rice, slot. It is. No, it's like protein. Yes. Like steak and broccoli. It is very boy dinner. Boys need dog food so bad.

35:19Someone make dog food for men. They will buy it in by the kilo. So this is a post that Best Pirate has posted. This is on their account, so didn't go to a subreddit. It is titled, drop to your knees and worship me until you have every fucking vein memorized. And it's a selfie of him. Okay. Very jacked. I'm going to say I don't think I'd want him in my wife's book club either. Do you know what I mean? Very fit guy. I mean, it's kind of crazy. I know that it's like we shouldn't be judging people on how they look but I would be like with all those muscles you must have a different reason for being in the book club do you know what I mean like it just suddenly like is like especially if it's like a book club with literally all women all women it is it is that's how judgments happen I know but like I'm like good for him for having his interests and hobbies and all of these things so I'm gonna read some titles that are from our writer here best pirate in other things so this is coming from r slash slutty confessions okay it's titled our book club discussion turned into me six seven completely cucking her five five boy friend here we go another post coming in r slash off my chest coming coming from my mind's in the gutter clearly um this is titled i left a note in a used books margin and someone wrote back a week later now i can't stop thinking about it and he details this story about going to a used bookshop and opening this book and in the margins seeing notes from someone like responding to the book being like why would she stay with him this is horrible treatment blah blah, blah.

37:08He apparently leaves a note in a random page that says, you deserve better than this. And you're right. Puts the book back on the shelf, comes back a week later, happens to be in the same row, grabs the book, opens it. And there's a new note in response to his. I came back looking for this exact copy. Thank you for writing that. I left him two days ago. That was it. No name, no date just those three lines i put the book back and walked out i've thought about it every day since what are the comments to that saying are people just so earnestly like hey that's actually beautiful wow i think because no one's really connecting the dots of like how much if you told me nothing about this man i would say this whole thing is a lie then there's another post r slash romance books looking for a book to properly teach a married slut how to obey and be a good girl r slash confession i create audio erotica and erotic novels as a hobby and my highest viewer is my married neighbor okay this is so funny because the original story that you read i was going to say this sounds like a plot of something it's like cinematic in the way that even how the husband joins and he happens to join on the last day of that book and then he happens to be the one that gets to pick the next book it's all very like how a movie is where you're just like oh convenient timing for everyone involved that so given this extensive post history yeah i think he's like writing or she is writing yeah exactly is writing a lot of like literatica and is like trying to just kind of i mean it's like performance art it's being like is this a believable you know storyline you know what i haven't done is i haven't google image search the selfie so now i'm like let's give it a go let me see a detective at work If there's anything that pops up, like if it actually does lead to someone's user profile.

39:02No, there's no exact matches. So does that mean it's real? Because otherwise, where'd you get it? Where did you get that selfie? Unless it's AI generated. I'm not sure. I'm like, I'm looking. Obviously, it starts to like then find people. Can we look at it one more time and then maybe we can see an AI clue? do you know how to tell i mean some things but do you post these for your listeners oh yeah they'll see they see like do you see any clues i don't like i want to look at this water bottle get in there get in there yeah it's ai you think it's ai 100 i'm gonna tell you for two reasons the first this is my this is i'm the benoit blanc of ai images okay i think look at the logo on the water bottle it looks like it's two words but they're like smushed together to become that nonsensical language and then second thing is the the quality of the picture appears to be on film but he's taking it with an iphone do you don't think that was like the tezza app where you add the grain effect i mean it could be but i don't know i guess i just don't really see that type of man adding that type of filter okay do you know what i mean but if you really are club i mean he's he's a erotic reader he could be artsy i guess you're right massage therapist really in touch with his feels but i'm devil's advocating because you know that's fake or not yeah this is where we're at okay judge where do you fall on this one fake as hell but i think it's performance art okay my hunch and i think it's decent writing i i actually do think the writing is great because also it could have gone to binky bonky world and it didn't it didn't like if you're posting on two hot takes all the time you could be like oh what do i do my you know you there's a cookie stuck in my asshole and that's the thing i think if you were like i mean one 300 to 400 posts is an insane commitment i do think this is leading to back to their business whether it's writing a book whether it's writing a book and trying to sell the erotic graphic novels whatever which i think is a huge thing.

41:15There's a lot of accusations now about Reddit posts being like hidden advertising, where it's like, oh God, they're kind of mentioning that car way too much in the post. I bet that's an ad for the car. Like there's now this question of like, are these posts or are they ads? And so is this person advertising the book? I literally, my thought was like, who wrote Haunting Adeline? Is it the author trying to come in and sell their book? I mean, the post on Reddit It can go viral. Lisa, you're totally right about this being AI generated, by the way. Really? You think so? Look at the camera on the iPhone.

41:51Do you see the lenses? They're all screwed up. There's like one that's like all wonky. I think it's fully. Yeah. And we're all like ignoring the fact that his body is like superhuman from the gods. No, I guess men have bodies like that all the time. Like beyond fit. But hey, I mean, I know it is possible. Works at a gym. Look at us. I mean, there was another post in his history that was like, the manager of the gym told me my shorts were inappropriate. Because my big dick is too huge. It's slopping around on the ground while I try to lift weights. And one girl tripped over my dick and she thought it was a big skip rope.

42:25And she was doing CrossFit in the class and so she tried to pick it up to do that thing where you wank it around. No! Hashtag, am I the asshole? So you're stamping it. It's fake. Fake. But I do love it. And you know what? It's like, I have done things like this before where I'm trying to write something. Like, honestly, the idea that if, for example, this person is writing a book and then they're like, this is the situation. What would you do in case they're missing anything? Like, you know, when you watch a movie and you're like, oh my God, that would never happen. You would just go to this person and say this and then this would all be over.

42:55It's kind of a way to like poke holes in your own story to be like, what is everyone seeing with this dynamic? Is there something I'm missing? If you're writing fiction. No, I definitely think it's fan fiction. and that's where I landed as well. I said this as someone who is doing a creative exercise and writing and building their ability to write because what great feedback. If your writing is so good, people buy into it. Yes. Like I do think this is someone who 100 % should be an author. Yes. If they're not already and using this as a means of selling their books. And by the way, who wrote Haunted, Haunting Adeline?

43:30You know, we looked her up. We did not find that it was her. I'll show you a picture of the author. Because now how do I know that it's not you and you're not, this whole thing hasn't been an ad for your book? I will say, I think this is the author. H.D. Carlton. I'm going to confirm with another picture. Very young looking author, only 29. Someone you would see potentially on Reddit. I could. I know. Work in the red lip and the winged eyeliner. I wish I could do that as well as her. It's beautiful. You can be anyone on the internet. You can be anyone. Wow. Yeah, but I agree. Definitely, definitely giving fake.

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44:51It does contain discussions of EDs and calorie counting and things like that. So if you can't handle that today, please skip ahead. Thank you. This next one We've got some thorough research Okay So I can't wait to present it to you Buckle up I'm scared This is coming from our very own Two Hot Takes subreddit It is coming from user Roger Rabbit It is titled Need advice A Claude chat was left open on our TV Where my husband told Claude He's worried I'll never lose weight oh no oh lord to clarify my 29 female husband 34 male often plugs his laptop into our tv yesterday we were playing ping pong outside and i went inside to grab some water while i was waiting for my bottle to fill i glanced at the screen he had up on our tv there was a closed clawed chat titled quote navigating fitness concerns in a long-term relationship when i went back outside.

45:57He could tell something was wrong. I was honest and told him I had seen the title of the chat. He tried to explain that he was just worried that I don't have the same motivations he does when it comes to fitness. I told him I feel like he's convinced I'll never lose weight strictly because I hate going to the gym. I have had an ED in the past and going to the gym was a big part of why I developed it. I walk for an hour every morning. I live in Arizona. It's way too hot to walk during the day or after work right now. I also exercise at home instead of going to the gym. I quickly changed the subject and focused on our ping pong game because I could feel myself getting emotional and I didn't want to get into it right then.

46:35This probably makes me an asshole, but today I decided to look at his laptop and see exactly what he had said in the chat with Claude. It was really hurtful to read. He said things like, quote, I've always fantasized about having a thin wife, and I'm worried she has given up, along with other things along those lines. Thankfully, Claude kind of put him in his place and told him he needed to focus on himself. But still, the fact that this is apparently what he thinks when he looks at me feels awful. Now I'm questioning whether he actually means it when he's telling me I'm beautiful, which he does often.

47:17The thing is, we started a fitness plan together two weeks ago, and so far, I've actually stuck to it more consistently than he has. I spend an hour at the dog park every morning with our dog, doing laps around the park. He's joined me a handful of mornings, but he often skips. To be fair, when he skips, he usually works on projects around the house, so it's not like he's just sitting around and doing nothing, but still. Also, I hate to even bring this up because I don't want this to turn into a comparison of our bodies, but while I'm kind of chunky, I'm about 60 pounds lighter than he is. When I lost weight for our wedding years ago, I was on a heavily restricted calorie diet.

47:55Obviously, that was extremely unhealthy, and once I started eating normally again, I gained weight quickly, but he also gained weight over the years. My biggest issue with fitness is honestly just time and energy. I have a stressful job and a very busy schedule. I spend most evenings training and tiring out our 10-month-old Australian cattle dog, which usually means spending another 30 to 45 minutes in the backyard kicking a ball around with him. Until recently, I was also doing probably 95 % of our household chores. By the end of the night, I might have one hour to actually relax before bed, and I haven't wanted to spend that hour working out.

48:30Apparently, to my husband, that means I've given up. I don't know. I'm just really hurt. this poor lady to literally find out your husband has turned to ai to be like i'm unattracted to my wife she's given up what do i do like he clearly knows how wrong it is because he's not talking to real people. He's talking to a fake ass robot. Exactly that. Like, you know it's wrong. Yes. You had to rat away in your little squirrel cave and talk to your fake little squirrel rat friend. Mm-hmm. Damn. I know. Well, listen, can I Benoit Blanc for a second here? Have at it. Do you know who that is? No. It's the detective from Knives Out.

49:22Oh! I love him! Daniel Craig, yes! Okay. Listen, they live in Arizona, correct? Now I'm going to do this like now I'm cross-examining you, okay? Okay. Morgan, actually, you're going to be OP. OP, you stated earlier you live in Arizona, is that correct? Correct. And you walk for about how long every day? At least an hour. Right. What time do these walks normally take place? Well, it's really hot in Arizona, so before work, because I also have a full-time job. So, you know, 7, 8 a.m. Right. Because if you were to walk in the afternoon, for example, it might be too hot. Would that be true? Dangerously, dangerously hot.

49:58Okay. So now I don't know about you, OP, but if I was going to enjoy a game of ping pong with my significant other, I guess I probably wouldn't want to do it at seven in the morning. Is that around the time you normally play ping pong? No, this was an evening on a weekend. Oh, an evening on a weekend. I didn't think about that. So then it was cool enough to do that. Yeah, and you know, we do have a pergola outside of our house with a fan on it. So we did have a nice gentle breeze. Objection, Your Honor. Not too much to affect the ping pong throw. Pergola is too fancy of a word, Your Honor. The witness is trying to distract.

50:38Bailey, you're the judge now. You can say overruled or you can say sustained. Overruled. Fuck. I'm losing this court case. My kids are going to kill me. literally my kids are in private school I'm not going to be able to afford anything for them after this this case is not going my way what advice would you give her if if you believe this is 100 real what advice would you give this person I'm genuinely freaking out right now I've never lost a case this is your friend coming to you being like I found out my husband Johnny said this about me to Claude well wait are we giving advice or are we discerning if this is true or false let's give advice first okay what would you tell her because she's on two outtakes this could be a listener hearing her story right now so some people are wanting are wanting real advice some people literally find out i read their story it's too painful for me to even consider this to be a true story it's like i had an easier time thinking that the horny porn book club thing that was going to turn into like group sex for this one man was real and now this i really want to believe is fake do you want to get into the validity of this story first yeah because please i just like really want to i need some comfort i want to believe it's not true so unfortunately no i would say this has a lot of evidence for being real screenshots of the clod conversation um screenshots of the dog oh and that's an adorable dog and it looks to be about 10 months old suspicions confirmed definitely a cattle dog with a big ball um op's very active the account is nine years old so not a new Reddit account coming on Reddit just to post this story and blow it up.

52:18Pictures of dog, pictures of, you know, vinyl action type figures and figures that she's trying to trade online. Okay. So, it is giving very real. Do people not get, like, worried that they post their dog and then someone's like, hey, I know that dog and then therefore I know this woman? I mean, I don't know. I'm sure a lot of people do fear being found out. I think that's why there's information that gets changed. But that dog is cute as hell. If I knew that dog in my social circle, I would never forget that. Oh, I'd immediately be like, that's Barney. Yeah, exactly. I know him. That's my ex-boyfriend.

52:53That's literally Sarah posting that. Oh my God, I should reach out to Sarah and help her get a divorce. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is really hard because it's like, oh, I don't know. Can you go first with advice? Yeah. I mean, I don't know because this is something I do struggle with. It's like, I feel like, and I think a lot of people do of just like feeling confident and comfortable in your own skin. I think that's a tough battle. And so knowing that my partner who's supposed to love me the most, who sees me naked, who's intimate with me is going to clod even more so. And like saying these things, I would have a really hard time coming back from that and being naked and being vulnerable with him again.

53:36I don't know if I'd ever be able to get the trust back. And like she said, like he calls me beautiful all the time. I don't know if I can believe it. Right, right, right, right. And it's like, I look at her life and I'm like, you're the one taking the dog. You create this fitness plan. Was this fitness plan a little, we'll do it together, sweetie. But it really wasn't a, we'll do it together. It's, he made it so you would get on board. Right. And that feels manipulative. And then you're doing 95 % of your household chores. Meanwhile, you both work. Yeah. Where, where's the like upside in this relationship to where you're like, I have like about an hour every night to relax and I don't want to spend it working out where's the yay in this?

54:14totally I don't know I would say like if you really love him and want to move forward then couples counseling for sure but at the same time you're 29 and you gotta you could start fresh honey like this you could chalk this up as like hey you had some years to burn now have some fun I think that's a good idea give him the D divorce you don't have kids yet or anything no mention of kids then start from scratch yeah like what would you say to your sister if she was coming to you with this oh yeah oh my god i'd be like you gotta get out of there that's crazy you'd be like i'll go get the u-haul let me let me help you back only like i guess b of the d benefit of the doubt is like he didn't bring it up to her for a reason because he i guess was trying we all have like nasty thoughts about the people that we love.

55:03It's not good to have them, but at least he hasn't been saying it. It felt like he was trying to get right in his own mind without hurting her feelings, which at least feels like half of a good thing, but I still agree with you. I think she should go get another boyfriend. It is sad that he couldn't just process this in his own brain of angel on one side, devil on the other. People argue this all the time. Attraction is just what it is. Like, if he's not attracted to her, he can't help it. I know, and him being like, I always wanted a skinny wife. My little dream as a little boy was the skinniest wife you could ever imagine.

55:44Do you, like, do you hear yourself, dude? A wife that could fit in a toaster. And like, Claude is the one being like, Claude's like, you need to relax, you're insane. You sound horrible. You're being an asshole. Focus on yourself, actually. Exactly. Like, I wonder if Claude was like, well, how much do you weigh? How much do you work out? Literally. Like, what is, I want to see the Claude transcript. Claude's like, I'm literally sucking the oceans dry and contributing to the water wars, and you are a worse kind of guy than me. Like, you had to use AI for this? Yeah. Loser. Loser. Just loser behavior.

56:13Loser, loner, whatever. Get the picture, duh. This is only a day old at this point in time. Oh. It's very fresh. So it's not too late to intervene. It is not. We could change a life. And wait, she posted this on your subreddit? Yeah. Oh, so she's going to hear this. Hopefully. Likely a listener. Oh, my God. Okay, wait. I want to have another try at the advice. Because now it feels a little bit also too callous to just be like, get another boyfriend. I also understand that. There's like sunken cost fallacy of like, we've been together for this long. We're married. I mean, married. They have a dog.

56:46This is a very intense thing. House. So I feel like couples counseling is your first order of business. And if that's not working, try throwing some Spider-Man music in the mix. That was a good solid take. It's a great second attempt. and also make sure you get to keep the dog if anything does oh yeah of course devolve into divorce because sounds like she's walking the dogs really really cute you could do that thing where you walk in separate directions and see who the dog follows and i guarantee it's gonna be miss mama girl uh-huh that i wonder would you do best of three just in case i'm just like i would literally bathe myself in a meat stick the night before yeah oh yeah just make sure top comment personally, I'd leave his bitch ass.

57:25He doesn't respect you. Yep. I approved the comment. Good job. What up, bruh? What is there anybody saying anything else or is every comment just like leave him? Pretty much like they kind of break down. You're sticking to your shared exercise plan more than he is. You're doing almost all of the household chores. You're the only one training your dog and he has his own weight problems. He needs to focus less on your weight and more on pulling his own weight around the house. Maybe if chores were 50-50, you'd feel more inclined to work out at home. Above all that, you don't have any obligation to change your body for him.

58:01OP does respond. That's what I tell him whenever he brings up his frustrations with our healthy eating and exercising plans, the 50-50 chores things. I tell him that if I wasn't so busy, I'd love to work out more. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that I'm up every day at 5 a.m. for the dog park. What? I work until 5 30 p.m. Spend an hour or more cooking and cleaning then spend an hour in the backyard with the dog. That brings me to 7 30 8 p.m. which is basically bedtime. Once I'm home from work I don't sit down and take a breath for at least two hours. Whoa. She's amazing. I think since it's not traditional weights and machine-based he doesn't consider what I'm doing exercise.

58:42Thankfully fall is approaching so I'll be able to walk after work with our dog without getting sunburned and sweating to death. I do the backyard play right now instead of walking since it's too out for a dog on the pavement. Okay, I think this is also an alternate path. I think option number one is to leave him. I think that's probably the best one. Option number two is to get counseling. That's also a decent option. And here's the wild card. Option number three, I'm going to throw in the mix. Oh. She goes, okay. She starts like, okay, remember when Jasmine gets kidnapped by Jafar and she starts to wear the red outfit because he puts her in a red outfit and she's like, oh, Jafar.

59:15Like, sometimes you have to like, you're like, oh, Jafar, I love you. I actually love wearing this red outfit. Because you're trying to like, you know, trick him. A little fawning. Fawning. So she's going to go, babe, actually, you just kind of blew my mind. Like, you're so right. I need to get more fit. Like, you're the smartest man I've literally ever met. I'm going to take your advice to heart. And every day after work for two hours, I'm going to go to the gym. And then she starts going to the gym for two hours or whatever the hell she wants to do after work for two hours. Get your nails done.

59:40And get your nails done. Get a massage. Imagine every day. Go to a movie. absolutely bloody stumps then then he's home alone being like wash the dog make the dinner do you know he's suddenly being like oh my god there's so much to do at home when this woman's at the gym like how the fuck were we managing before so he starts drowning in the household duties she's not at home and if she is going to the gym she's slowly and slowly and slowly getting more and more ripped and ripped and ripped and then on the eve of his 40th birthday or whatever sort of is like a magical time she's going to await a certain compliment he's when he when he's when he utters the phrase i finally have my skinny wife the magic is going to encapsulate that a dark cloud will come and swirl around them and then she's gonna turn and go no someone else finally has a skinny wife and she's gonna walk out the door and go marry someone else talk about some erotic fan fiction i'm on board for this because you know when people get sometimes Sometimes people get really fit before they're going to leave their spouse.

1:00:39I mean, there was a show. This feels like a fever dream. There was like a show called Revenge Bod. Really? Where people would like start working out to get back at their boyfriend or ex or whoever. Oh, so it was like a makeover transformation like. Out of spite, which, hey, that's your motivator. Sometimes it works. Wow. And then probably at the end, there's like a really cheesy, heavily produced thing where they're like, Amanda is about to run into Justin at this bar that he's always at. and then she walks in and she's like big mistake huge huge like julia roberts pretty woman style yeah i would watch that i i would i think this is don't waste that much time because you know but wouldn't you like to see him have to do all the chores for a while while she's at the gym oh he needs to start doing some chores i'm like i'm i'm actually kind of mystified that you've had this conversation about how chores should be 50 50 and he just is like basically like nah we're good and you still keep doing it okay you know before we talked about how we were saying tiktok is marketing things to us have you heard of this card game with the all the chores on it it's called like fair play or something yes i feel like they should do that before you have yeah my um my brother and his wife are like big believers in this little card game yeah so you played it with your spouse no i just kind of like looked at it with my brother and his and his wife you didn't want to bring it home because you were like i'll be in trouble honestly i would be he does i think he does more than me i i vacuum the fuck out of that place like i love a vacuum but he does like most of the cooking laundry's pretty split but like right now he's at home taking care of the ponies it's We'll get there.

1:02:17It's funny because I feel like the people who buy the card game and bring it home are the ones who know they're doing more work. Because I also would never purchase it and bring it into the family home. I would never allow that to cross the threshold. I'm like, we just gotta... Why open Pandora's box? We don't need to know who's doing what. No, I literally had Otzko on recently. I love her. Just obsessed with her. And she was telling a story where she's like... And Ryan is amazing. I haven't met him. She can't be playing this game either. No, she's like, after seven years, I realized I've never done laundry.

1:02:46And I go, seven years? Yeah. I love that for you. Amazing. But yeah, no, it should be a little more fair. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hope you're out there, OP, sending you so much love. I love you. I think you're going to have an amazing, amazing glow up. You're so young. Mm-hmm. Life is ahead of you. Yeah. there is like a line here kind of at the end that I somehow missed but it basically says I know I invaded his privacy by reading the conversation I'm not trying to pretend that was okay but now that I know what he said I cannot know it I don't know how I'm supposed to hear him tell me I'm beautiful without wondering whether he actually means it sorry for the long read I genuinely don't know what to do from here I'm worried he's using the times I had eating struggles as a comparison for how hard I'm trying.

1:03:37Do I tell him I read the chat and talk about it? Do I leave it alone? Or do I use this as motivation for the world's most spiteful glow up? Yes, yes, yes, that one. But I think just like be you, be happy and healthy. And like, if you want to work out a little more, then do it. But like find a partner who's going to carry some of the household weight with you. Yes. Because how can you, like, how can you do anything if it's all on you? You would have less shit to do if you got a divorce. Like, haven't you heard the thing where people are like, oh, I'm married and me and my husband have a baby and I'm like a single parent, even though I'm married.

1:04:13And it's like, once you get divorced, you have less shit. Yeah. That's going to be you. Yeah, because then your partner actually has to like take custody sometimes and they actually have to do their part. Yeah. I'd stop. I'd also stop doing things. Even if like you want to make this work, I'd stop doing his laundry. Oh, yeah. I'd like literally find a way to like force him to do shit. Yeah. I'm so pissed for her now. And then still leave him. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, that's so good. Want to give it a go? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Very good. Okay, I feel like it could be workshopped a bit, but we'll get there.

1:04:50It's hard doing it on the spot if you've never practiced. Do you practice that a lot? No. Bailey, do you want to try? An evil laugh? Yeah. Give it a go. I'm scared. I know. It's very, it's very like, ah. I know it's scary. I mean, that's how I felt at the beginning of this when I did the big clown honk. You know what I mean? It's like, that's what this is about. It's about just like women being vulnerable to each other. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay, you need to be the next Maleficent. Thank you. Oh, that was good. You ready to pop in? Yeah. Pressure's on, man. Fake or not theme. And now it's your turn to be the judge.

1:05:27Okay, let's do it. Lauren is popping in. It is now time for FML brought to you by Chrysler. When it comes to the newly designed Chrysler Pacifica, FML means something a little different. F, free to lounge in the back. M, my phone's fully juiced. And L, low key, I love this. That's the FML you say in response to features like seating up to eight, extra cargo space, and the fam cam. Now to the Redditors who are saying FML for less fun reasons. This next one is coming from r slash tiff you. It's titled today. I messed up by improving myself after a breakup about eight years ago. Just before I went to university.

1:06:09My girlfriend at the time broke up with me reasons included but not limited to my appearance distance at different universities, blah, blah, blah. But very importantly, and I quote, you've got the most annoying voice on the face of the planet. it. Okay. Being my first girlfriend, I was heartbroken in a good way. I decided to improve myself at university, the whole glow up procedure. I was going to a different university from all of my other friends anyways. Might as well start new. I started working out, eating healthy, doing more skincare, even ended up getting a six pack. I started looking up how to dress better out with the baggy shirts that hide my moobs in with the fitted jeans and collared shirts.

1:06:51I got contacts, started learning how to style my hair, took self-improvement classes, got some therapy, started being happier with myself, started calling myself with my middle name instead. And very, very important, I started practicing an Australian accent. Stupid me thought, hey, let's try and learn the sexiest accent out there. By no means do I look Australian. Heck, I'm third generation Chinese Canadian. but I got good. I studied it religiously, hours of practice. It got to the point even Australian natives couldn't tell the difference. Problem was I couldn't turn it off. Meh, it's okay. It's a good accent.

1:07:34So now I look completely different, sound different, and even go by a different name. Top it off with me moving to another province for work. Now here is where we start the F up. fast forward to where we start fast forward to about one month ago when i started a new job boss is doing the rounds introducing me to the team he then introduces me to my cubicle mate slash work buddy for orientation it's my ex and i start sweating bullets this girl is triggering a massive flight response i'm terrified of her i'm ready to quit right there and then and she doesn't recognize me. Wow. At all. I obviously can't ignore her, so I try to play it chill.

1:08:24She starts asking me some generic get-to-know-you questions. Where are you from? I love your accent. Where did you go to school? Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I panic. And I lie. A lot. I grew up in Brisbane. Nope. Chemloops. Did my MBA at U of T. UBC. Oh, yeah. Totally miss Australia. I went there once during a layover. And it keeps going. Can't be that bad, right? Just one person that thinks I'm someone else. And then we have a team icebreaker. Introduce what you know about your buddy to the rest of the team. Of course, my ex then introduces me with what I just told her. And now the entire team thinks I'm their resident Australian.

1:09:12And I'm now living a complete lie. On the plus side, the ex asked me out for dinner. Oh. I don't know if that's the plus side here. Is there a plus side? Oh, my gosh. How do you not recognize a person at all? That's what I'm thinking. I'm like, their teeth, like, their eyes. Smell? I don't know. There's got to be, like, something. The smell? I don't know. Getting in there, getting a whiff at the pheromones? Yeah. I don't know just like or just like the energy. I just I just don't feel like I could I mean never know But I would be very shocked if I ever dated somebody That I couldn't recognize later No, i'm just blown away also the commitment you learn this australian accent, but like what does your family think when you go home for the holidays?

1:10:07Like everyone in your life is just like Are you okay? He almost like austin butlered himself where Austin Butler had the Elvis accent forever after being Elvis. Yeah. Which. Higher method. That would be me. If I learned an Australian accent, I would never be able to stop. It would be me now. Your new personality. Yeah. Like I wouldn't be like, I don't know. I just, one, love the accent. Two, I just feel like that's the way my brain works. I'm just kind of like if I get fixated on something, I'm like, yeah. You're hooked. You're set. Yeah. The comments on this one, they kind of from the get go kind of are like, are you serious?

1:10:48Because they go seems like a comedy movie to me. If it's true, I'm sorry for the mess you have right now. But thing is, I can't get it to sound serious in my head. op responds if it wasn't happening to me i wouldn't believe it either and then someone does say on the plus side the ex asked me out for dinner that is not a plus side and that has 8k up votes i think it is a plus side are you kidding like the whole op went through trauma because of this person and now he's like look at me now look at me now how do you come out with this though Like your whole team thinks you went to Australia. Your whole team thinks you're from Australia.

1:11:27You went to a different university. All your boss has to do is be like, well, resume says this. What? I know. Like you're. No, I know. That's it's really bad in it. If it was just like a stop by, say hi to the classroom, not go to dinner with the eggs and then get out of there. There's a little bit more wiggle room. But this this is this is bad. This is bad. This is super. about. And really embarrassing. Like really embarrassing. Oh, the social pariah you're going to become when this comes out that your accent's fake. Because the girl is going to be like, he probably found me. And he's like pretending to be this whole other person.

1:12:06That's scary. He probably found where I worked and is like trying to get back at me. Oh my gosh. Yeah. No, that's terrifying. Like she's going to be like, this guy's, he's off his rocker. I just need to know how he gets discovered if he gets discovered do you think she knows and is kind of rousing him you don't think she knows at all okay because a lot of the comments did think she could potentially know no and they say bruh she knows she's just curious as to how far you're going to take the charade no I don't think she knows I don't think so either I feel like she would have called him out I think she would have had unless he's not picking up but I feel like she would have had like giveaways like kind of like body language laughing just different I don't know I don't I don't think she knows a lot of people just kind of question the post this right here either that or OP is just lying about this OP is definitely making this up nobody just adopts an accent for fun and then carries it into the workplace yeah people do that they definitely do are you kidding there people do my strange addictions like there's a lot of things people do that's not that crazy i mean there's people that turn themselves into cats yeah so i don't think an accent is that out of the realm a sexy accent yeah to complete your sexy transformation after you literally got told and i quote you've got the most annoying voice on the face of the planet oh my god that is yeah no that's insane also like i didn't even get to address the fact that the ex is so mean genuinely so mean just break up what yeah just break up my goodness so where do you fall on this one do you think it's fake or do you think it's it's real I think it's real so this post is seven years old okay so it's kind of pre-ai yeah it's pre where people really were posting to like karma farm I feel like after after covid like 2021 is when you really started seeing an influx of like fake posts on Reddit.

1:14:09And then really in the last like year, it's increased. So seven years old to me is kind of like, okay, it's pre-air. Yeah, more reputable. Still could have been a creative writing process. I feel like the creative writing stuff though, I feel like they don't reply back. Like I wouldn't believe it if it was me either. I know. that is true but this is their first and only post okay so could have came in just to drop this i mean it is very hard to believe that the ex wouldn't recognize op no matter how much they changed that yeah i guess but op is also going by middle name now yeah it's like and how many years ago was it because there's like growth spurts that happen within that too about eight years ago yeah just before i went to university i could see actually yeah 18 to now 26 i mean i see people's tiktoks about like their boyfriend glow up that they make about their partner and like truly different people yeah this this guy was like anti-girlfriend he went glasses contacts yeah canadian accent whatever that was to australian i believe it i actually could see this whisper and a believer oh my gosh I need to know what you guys think of this one but he doesn't have any updates or anything that's it that's all we got well I love this as a movie please somebody make it um and if you're out there op please come back and update us and let us know if you and your ex got back together again and she never found out who you were and then you had a family and then here we are like another seven years later and you've got two kids let us know Let us know if you ever came clean.

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1:17:18Shop at Macy's.com. I literally can't wait. I'm putting this into the air. I need to know. OP, are you out there? We need to know. OP. Questions. Are you ready to put your family first and drive into the future with confidence? Check out the newly designed Chrysler Pacifica. Visit Chrysler.com to learn more. Chrysler is a registered trademark of SCAUS LLC. Thanks, Chrysler. okay this one coming from r slash tiff you today fucked up basically a subreddit to just like out yourself about like a stupid weird mess up and it's titled today i fucked up going to my ex's wedding interesting my ex-girlfriend invited me to her wedding it was unexpected but i accepted the invitation said the people who were allowed to bring a plus one were married or engaged couples I was not engaged or married, so I went alone.

1:18:18I managed to couple up with another single guy at the wedding and stayed with him throughout the ceremony to avoid looking like I didn't belong. The two of us got separated at the reception because we were allocated to different tables. My table only had single people. As we got to know one another, we realized we had one specific thing in common. We were all exes of the bride. It was a little weird, but we made a joke of it because we assumed that was the point of us being there Fast forward to the speeches when it was the bride's turn to speak. She asked all of her exes to stand up Which we did She informed the audience that we were the people she dated and had disappointed her over the years before she discovered the love of her life Aka her husband She wanted us all to know how grateful she was to have been with all of us but then she locked eyes with me and said, maybe not all of us.

1:19:14She said my name and asked me to wave at everyone. I waved like an idiot. She warned all of the women at the wedding to watch out for me because I literally peed on her. The husband stood up at that moment and covered the microphone with his hand while he whispered something to his wife that made her look confused as fuck. The bride sat down without saying anything else. The husband made an awkward joke about his wife having too much champagne and instructed us to please take our seats. The DJ intervened and asked if any of the groom's exes were also in the house, which actually made the audience laugh.

1:19:52The music played and everyone pretended none of that just happened. Except for me. I got the fuck out of there as soon as the lights dimmed for the disco ball today i fucked up okay i don't think it's real no you're immediately going to fake can't be too unhinged well it's kind of like why is the dj telling everyone to take their seats right before he turns on the disco ball these stories are so stressful to me i have to go like into one detail. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think the husband took the mic, said, you know, take your seats. But what do you think he could have said to his bride that made her confused as fuck?

1:20:36That I would love to know. Like, okay, ha ha. And it's just like, okay. Your cuckold speech is over. We're good now. Right. I don't know. So, and he, and she said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Morgan. Can we take it back? You said, um, he peed on her? He did. He peed on her. Okay. Well, that's really interesting Because at the time, it would have seemed like a fun thing for everybody to be doing that he thought that an invitation to her wedding was good and normal. Yeah. I mean, I don't think I would go to the wedding of someone that I had peed on in the past. Especially if they didn't enjoy it. Yeah.

1:21:06Like you would have thought that would have caused a huge fight. And then it would have been like, uh-oh, this invitation to the wedding surely is going to be a trap by which I'm ensnared in some sort of tar that has a nail sticking up Home Alone style that I'm going to step in. or a paint can is going to come and swing and hit my head or cracked ornaments on the ground for my bare feet or a blowtorch to my head or sticky, sticky doorknob or something like that. That's kind of where my head would go. We do get context about the P.E. It was consensual. Okay. So Opie does share here in a comment because people just kind of go down the line of, man, if I were her husband, I would be considering an annulment at that point.

1:21:42That kind of behavior is unhinged. She made the wedding more about her exes and less about her actual husband. I'd be looking for an exit immediately. And OP says, the most emotionally exhausting person I've ever been with. I was actually curious to see what kind of person she was now to make someone want to marry her. Not going to lie. It's a horrible reason to go to a wedding. I'm disappointed, but not surprised to see that not much has changed since our relationship came to an end. And someone goes, but did you pee on her? And OP goes, yes. And someone goes, we really need the context. Did you pee on her by accident or on purpose?

1:22:15Was it a drunk? I thought I was in the bathroom moment or a you're a crazy bitch and here's me peeing on you to match your crazy shit kind of thing wow can't believe that's something i typed but answers are required op says it was just one of the kinks the two of us agreed to test out we did it once and never again adding some context is it making it more real for you it's making it less real for me because I'm like, if you guys were both, it's like then her saying that in the speech is basically just as embarrassing for her as it is for him. It's not like she's outing him for something bad. She's just basically saying, hey, here's something I'm into sexually at her own wedding.

1:22:55It just doesn't feel like quite the revenge you're looking for. I just wondered if she got hammered. I wonder if she just got so drunk. But then don't you think he would have said she was so blackout like she started doing this? But he doesn't even make mention of that. I don't know. I feel like some people are now starting to turn speeches into this like clippable moment. that goes viral. Like I saw a post and this was actually the reason why I hired my videographer team. I saw a wedding video of one of the groomsmen giving a speech for his best friend. And he goes, you know, I, I saw love in Rachel's eyes the minute she saw Jack and I knew they were meant to be together.

1:23:33The only problem was I was dating Rachel at the time. Oh, funny. And like that's in the speech. So I'm wondering if this was her just like, this is going to be funny. Look at all like the frogs I had to kiss to get here. Hee hee ha ha. Don't pee on anyone. I wonder if she just kind of went off the rails and it went too far. But then don't you think it wouldn't be in, or I guess he's saying I fucked up by going. I shouldn't have gone. So here's our evidence, okay? Okay. Evidence for being fake. Obviously, incredibly crazy story. Why would anyone actually do this? Would you actually go to your ex's wedding?

1:24:08Right. Probably not. OP is also active. in r slash overheard and tiff you and like a very active in r slash overheard like i think this person must ride public transportation or just have a lot of experiences in public and seems to be documenting basically everyone on r slash overheard wow okay so that's kind of random evidence for it being real the account is pretty old it is a part of the four-year club on reddit not an insane amount of karma. So despite all the posting they do, low karma score, which again, doesn't seem like you're karma farming and like trying to write all these fake posts to garner karma, has posted back in 2022.

1:24:54In TiffU, today I fucked up, calling my best friend cute. At that time, back in 2022, was a 20-year-old male, so would now be a 24, 25-year-old male. So an age where your exes could get married. And yeah, we also do get an update. What's the update? So the husband of the bride reaches out to OP. So it starts the husband. I almost didn't answer when I noticed an unknown number calling me, but I did end up answering the call and realized it was my ex's husband. He said I was the first of four exes he was calling with an apology on behalf of his wife. He wanted me to understand that he was traveling for work during most of the wedding planning, so he apparently had minimal involvement, which actually suited him, because his wife made him feel like she had had everything under control.

1:25:47He joked about her trying to gaslight him into believing she informed him about all of her exes beforehand, but he remembered no such conversation. He made it sound like it was something funny because he never expected us to actually show up, even though we had to confirm we were coming. The longer I listened to him, the clearer it became that he was gaming while talking to me. As a gamer myself, I automatically recognized the mechanical sound of those dead-by-daylight generators in the background. Dude would repeatedly pause mid-sentence to do whatever he needed to do in the game and then forget the last thing he said to me.

1:26:19I eventually asked if it was a bad time, but he was like, quote, I'm on my honeymoon, bro. It's all good. I said I was sorry if my presence at the wedding made anyone uncomfortable. The husband said he appreciated my apology and playfully or not playfully encouraged me to avoid going to weddings of people I've peed on. I said I learned my lesson. The husband literally said nothing for like five seconds and then asked, what lesson? Like you no longer had any idea what we were talking about. That was it for me. I was done having a conversation with someone whose attention was obviously elsewhere, so I said I had to go.

1:26:52The husband thanked me for calling him, even though he was the one who called me, but I didn't care enough to correct him. I just said goodbye. All of the above happened during the week. Thankfully, it's been radio silence since Thursday, with the exception of the umbrella dude. So hopefully that means everyone else has moved on. What's the umbrella dude? I have no fucking idea what the umbrella dude is. The umbrella dude, I believe, is Slovenian culture. It's like Santa Claus in Eastern Europe where the umbrella dude shows up if you think you've made a horrible mistake. Yeah. And he comes at night.

1:27:24You have to leave a tooth under the pillow. It's kind of like the tooth fairy but it's the umbrella dude and then the umbrella dude tells you if you did something wrong or not it feels like a little added piece of callback to something to like further valid validate validate why did i want to say validitate i thought you were saying validify and i was like that's the word okay validate the story where are you falling on this one well i don't know it's it's a medical mystery to me that he would like if you get invited to a wedding and you go to it that just tells me already either like you're completely socially tone deaf or you guys were on.

1:27:58You don't go to weddings? No, like to an ex. Oh, okay. Like either you can't read the situation at all. I missed something. I don't think I said it. If I get an invitation to a wedding, I'm disgusted and I'll never go to that. I was like, what? They're so fun. You're socially inept if you go to a wedding. What are you doing there? I honestly, there's one ex I would go to his wedding. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It's like, if you go, if you're invited, that means the one person was like, hey, I'd love you at my wedding. And then if you go, you're like, hey, I'd love to be at your wedding.

1:28:23And that tells me that both consenting adults are like, we ended on good terms. This is a good idea. So for it to end this way is just so confusing to me. And for him to be like, I kind of always thought she was a bitch and I just wanted to see if she still was. It's like, what? Creep on her Instagram. So I figured out who Umbrella Dude is. I guess one of the other exes at the wedding. His dad owns an umbrella business or whatever, and he's been trying to sell me umbrellas, even though at the wedding he joked about their umbrellas being poor quality and absolutely not worth buying. Apparently, he was drunk when he made that joke, and now he's spamming me.

1:28:59Okay, so you thought you made a friend, but he really just wants to sell you umbrellas. Imagine sitting at a wedding next to someone who's like, hey, have you ever been anywhere where it's raining. Imagine this. An umbrella, but it's bigger than a regular umbrella. Hey, hey, let me see your hands. I make umbrellas that are a perfect size for your hand. Literally, you and me should have a Zoom. Imagine no worse person to sit beside it away. I would actually just go take my plate in the bathroom. Yeah. Eat on the toilet. You gotta do it. I mean, at that point, you know, if you would have left at that point, then you could have avoided this weird speech.

1:29:35Yeah. Probably would have been the play. It almost feels like, okay, can I just like say something for the room? I'm almost wondering like, I guess Darius has put me in a certain headspace now. Because I'm like, is this just someone who wants to say to everyone like, I peed on someone. What do you guys think of that? Anyone else into it? Yeah, like is it like that? Is it like, can you believe they talked about me peeing on her in front of a room of 200 people? How cripplingly embarrassing. How crazy. For me and my tiny penis. And uh oh, my tiny penis is getting hard. and like is it that? I honestly I don't know I feel like the pea kink is starting to feel more normal in the world of what else is out there.

1:30:17Yes but there could also be the kink of like okay for example I used to live in Toronto and there was a man in the neighborhood that I lived in who would wear skin tight bike shorts and he had a huge fake dick that he would put down the leg of one pen and this man was always wearing a helmet and a biking outfit never a bike to be seen around him and he would just walk around and he would like clock all the groups of women that were like oh my like because you would look and then immediately like oh my god it was like cartoonishly big i know and so like some people it's not like he was going look look look at my dick he wanted to be act like he didn't want you to see his dick so that when you saw his dick and you were horrified by it that was what he liked but he didn't know that she was going to mention the pee in the speech but do you think this whole story is fake that's what i'm just so ob can be like i peed on someone.

1:31:01Yes, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying if the story is fake, the Redditors are the audience and he's not trying to draw attention to it. He's just trying to be like, you know what I mean? Like an understated way of being like, I peed on someone. That does happen, right? So like I think looking back to Darius, that does happen where you'll get the posts that are like, I'm so hot to be in book club 6-7, like a hubspins, like threatened by me in book club. And then you go to their account and you'll start seeing the nudes, which is what happened with Darius. Right. With this OP, you go to their account, seemingly normal post history.

1:31:34No dudes, not trying to sell, no dick pics, not trying to sell sexual content, just a normal account. What are some other posts that are happening in that account? Just like the overheard ones. Like I overheard a guy on a bus talk about like some of them were like very— Are they sexual? Not really. Just really random, seemingly random. Of course, there's like an occasional like borderline inappropriate, but their username is dude. Where's my cute car? So like not a super inappropriate username. What a twist. Yeah, like this one talking about a bus ride. Overheard a dad and his daughter at a restaurant today talking about a bug.

1:32:14Dad, how big was the bug? Younger daughter, big, bigger than my hand. Dad, were you scared? Younger daughter, nope. like literally sharing seemingly boring conversations in r slash overheard interesting there's a girl talking about um like girls having a conversation at a house party talking while tripping i overheard my roommate saying random shit while tripping girl number one do you think there's any guys at this party that would be willing to piss on me girl number two i don't think so guys have to be really brave and strong sexy smart and cool to be willing to do something like that. Yeah, the title of that post is Strawberry C-U-N-T.

1:32:54Oh! So it could go down that path. I've learned so much today. Girl with gum. At least he didn't have smegma. Girl with vape. You really need to get over that. Girl with dimples. What flavor is the vape you're smoking? Strawberry C-U-N-T? How does he get to be around all these cool girls? That's what I want to know. I don't know What's happening? What's your final verdict on this one? Um, I guess I'll say it's real just because I want to. I don't know. Morgan, I don't like this part of the internet. It scares me. I know. I do think this one is real. Because I'm like, I just don't like all these sad stories.

1:33:33I'm like, if they're not real, I'm mad at these people for stressing me out and making me sad. I mean, this isn't that sad. I know, but some of them were sad today. So I almost feel like if I have to say. No, the AI use was sad. Yeah. Yeah. But the other ones were. Yeah, you're right. It was okay. So I think maybe this one is real then. Okay. You think it's real? Yeah, I do. We're the same. We're twins. We're having the best sleepover of our lives. I know. I'm not going to leave, by the way. I'm so comfortable. Come back and just stay forever. And may God bless whoever made this blanket. I know.

1:33:59Her sister made it and she had an Etsy and I literally went to go to the Etsy link to go buy another one and the Etsy account is gone. No, make more. It's fit. I know. So I'm trying to convince her to start the Etsy backup so I can post the link because listeners ask me about it constantly. The hogs will go wild for this. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen the hog on TikTok? Her name's Cheeto and she brings other hogs back to the trap. No, I need to see everything you're talking about. Okay, I'll send it to you. I'll send it to you. By the way, I meant to say like the fans will go hog wild, but I ended up saying the hogs will go wild.

1:34:33And I don't even think that's like what I think. You're calling my listeners hogs? Wow. Sound off hogs. Send your nudes, all the hog nudes in the comments. We actually don't really have a username. I wanted to be the hotties. Meg the Stallion's already got it. so be the hoggies the hoggies the hogs hey hogs hey no okay I do snort when I laugh you don't have a nickname for your fans I need help I need you to just workshop it oh my god oh yeah because you would want to be the hotties oh wow make the stallion I'm like why wouldn't she like call herself the studs like I would love to be like hey stud like you've seen those hats they have like the weird like animals on them and then like a term like I have a deer that says big rack or rack yeah and so I have that and then I do have a horse one that says stud so I'm like I don't know but then people are like it's a very sexual term within I forget what community so you can't do the studs so Meg The Stallion if you're out there can we share it just you know let me know we'll get back to it it'll come to you this is really I'm gonna be texting you later because now I'm like I have to think of a name for your please let me know because you are just like creative genius you have so many projects coming up where can people follow you where can they find you at the Lisa Gilroy on all the things and on brothers coming to Apple TV.

1:35:48Dude, I just saw the trailer for that. Looks insane. I can't believe I get to work with these men. Looks insane. Woody Harrelson, Matthew McConaughey. Like, iconic. And I get to be so mean to both of them. You're going to love it. So, yes, that, the paper, season two on Peacock. And Golden Axe. Okay, I saw a clip from that, too, where you're the HR person. Yes, on paper, on the paper. She's allergic to eggplant, but not that eggplant. Exactly. oh you could call your fans um Swifties I don't think that's been taken has that been taken by anything no Bailey can you google that thank you for having me I love you oh thank you for coming on this was so fun go check out Lisa all of her links will be in the description follow subscribe she's amazing until next time guys bye

1:36:46Thank you.

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Two Hot Takes host, Morgan, is joined by guest co-host Lisa Gilroy! The queen of committing to a bit is here, and just in time to help us identify if these stories are fake or not! From a boyfriend needing a theme song for fights, a husband asking Claude if his wife should lose weight, an OP getting asked to leave book club by someone's husband, a serious glow up that adopted a fake accent, and a guy that went to his ex's wedding and got called out in a big, wet way. Can't wait to hear what stories you thought were real and fake!

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