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Speaker 18 Hi, welcome to Small Shreeds Reddit Stories. I'm Shane, and today's theme is advice.

Speaker 18 We're taking questions from all the advice subreddits, and I'm joined by two people who you should take all your advice from. Wait, Mr.
Shane, I have an eyelash in my eye, I think.

Speaker 18 Trevor, who has an eyelash in his eye, and chance.

Speaker 18 23M, no eyelash in the eye.

Speaker 18 Trevor got his eyelash out. Thank you.
Thank you, everyone. Sorry.
Huge moment. Apologize, very bad.
Do you guys think you give good advice? No, Shane. Okay.

Speaker 18 I feel like I just give like what I would do, but fair. That's not the best advice, I feel like.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 That's fair. Yeah.
I think I give, I try to.

Speaker 18 I give like an honest effort at trying to give good advice, but you know, I'm not a perfect perfect person.

Speaker 18 And so if something bad happens to someone that I've given advice to, then that's not my fault.

Speaker 18 I think that's a good point, though, because I think our initial views is like, you give the advice of what you would do in their situation, but they're a different person. They're a different person.

Speaker 18 So it's like, what is the best advice for

Speaker 18 them?

Speaker 18 Yeah, for sure. That's when you get like, I might give good advice to friends because I know them so well.
And I'm like, oh, I understand your kind of situation better than just some omniscient.

Speaker 18 because when you don't know the person,

Speaker 18 like these Reddit stories, it's like, well, I don't know your whole thing, but I can just tell you based on my experience, what I would do. Right.

Speaker 18 It also is like, if you haven't experienced the situation before, it's kind of hard.

Speaker 18 Like, if you've done something and it's like, oh, I went through that exact same thing, like, you have experience, but I feel like people on Reddit probably are just going on there, like, they haven't ever done anything.

Speaker 18 They're like, well, here's what you should do. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, people love, like, some of the advice you see on Reddit is like hardcore.
Like, here is the only answer. Yeah.

Speaker 18 It's like, damn, you're you're certain. And different, yeah, different people can move around the world in different ways based on their privilege.

Speaker 18 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 18 All right, well, let's see what advice people are looking for. Like, I move around the world like a badass muddle.

Speaker 18 I prefer the aeroplane.

Speaker 18 Yeah, I prefer boat. Oh.

Speaker 18 Teleporter. It's kind of the same thing.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 All right. Our first advice

Speaker 18 question.

Speaker 18 This comes from the subreddit advice.

Speaker 18 Just general. Just looking for advice.
All right. This was posted on Christmas Day of last year.
Okay.

Speaker 18 Do I tell my little brother what his I love cream pies shirt really means?

Speaker 18 No.

Speaker 18 Has anybody got more context? Audible reactions from everybody in the room. Dude.

Speaker 18 My younger brother is a junior in high school. Great grades.
Involved with his church, upstanding kid. He knows what it means.
One of his favorite snack foods are Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies.

Speaker 18 My mom knows this and got him a shirt that reads, I love cream pies.

Speaker 18 Mind you, the Little Debbie oatmeal cream pies, that's C-R-E with the like. little apostrophe above it, M-E

Speaker 18 pies. The shirt says, I love cream pies, that's C-R-E-A-M.

Speaker 18 Just so you know, it's not referencing the little Debbie's. What is it referencing? I don't know.
Oh.

Speaker 18 Being on the internet too much, I know what a cream pie is. However, my mom and my little brother have no idea what that means.

Speaker 18 I am pretty sure it is one of those dirty shirts that is pretending to be innocent, but my poor family is too innocent to realize it.

Speaker 18 I would hate for my little brother to be made fun of by his friends or for my family to scandalize their local church group. On the other hand, I would hate to ruin Christmas by pointing this out.

Speaker 18 Do I tell my little brother the true meaning behind his shirt? The true meaning of Christmas? Yeah.

Speaker 18 Here's the shirt.

Speaker 18 It has. Oh, it has cream pies on it.

Speaker 18 It has some cream pies on it, but it also does. It has the cookie cream pies on it.
It has the cookie cream pies on it, but it also does just say, I love cream pies underneath it.

Speaker 18 I think it's meant to be like... But, oh, I'm referencing this, but I'm not.
But the cookie is there. So I think...
The cookie's there.

Speaker 18 I think it's a shirt that arguably,

Speaker 18 like at his church and at school, the teachers or people like authorities would not get him in trouble, but other students would definitely laugh at him. Okay, watch this.
I have it.

Speaker 18 I've got it, Shane. Okay.
I think I am good at advice now because this is what I would do, but I think it's really good advice for anyone.

Speaker 18 Okay, so you just go to the brother in the shirt and they'll be like, oh, they spelled it wrong.

Speaker 18 That's all you have to do. It's not spelled like that.
That's all you have to do. Yeah.
You don't have you can play

Speaker 18 always the wise man to play the part of the fool.

Speaker 18 All you have to do is be like, I think they spelled it wrong. There's so many other things.
They'll probably look it up and be like, I wonder what that means. Lead them to water.

Speaker 18 Don't pour water down their throat. Okay.

Speaker 18 Or water on their face.

Speaker 18 And what if he's like, well, I don't care if it's not spelled correctly. I love this shirt.
Then you need to be like, they're referencing Splooge, dude. Yeah.
Not Splooge.

Speaker 18 I think what you you do is you pull up a video and you go, dude, your shirt, I heard you love cream pies.

Speaker 18 Show them a cream pies? Yeah, show them a cream pie.

Speaker 18 Do you know what that means?

Speaker 18 Dude, no? Be like, dude, me too.

Speaker 18 Just, yeah, yeah, your mom got you that shirt.

Speaker 18 That's the problem. That's the problem is he's going to go to high school.
Yeah. And his friends are going to be like, he's a junior in high school.
He's a junior in high school.

Speaker 18 His friends are going to be like, or his friends or not friends are going to be like, your mom got you that shirt.

Speaker 18 He probably won't tell them that his mom got him the shirt. Or he might if he doesn't realize.
And what if they think he's cool?

Speaker 18 This is really tough because there obviously is the plausible deniability that, yeah, you wouldn't know what it means.

Speaker 18 I think the solution is to, if you're home for Christmas, like for the holiday, at some point he has to take the shirt off. I think you steal it and just and just let them.

Speaker 18 You just burn it in front of him. I think you steal it, get rid of it, and then you don't have to tell anyone.
And then it's like, ah, like, I lost that shirt. Or, oh, who knows what happened to it?

Speaker 18 And then if mom gets him another one, then it's like, ah, well, it's just over.

Speaker 18 There's also the other aspect of just like he's going to go try to tell his brother this, and his brother's going to be like, dude, of course I fucking know.

Speaker 18 Like, I wasn't going to wear this to school. Like, I was just telling mom that I liked it, and I'm going to like pretend I don't know.

Speaker 18 Did he get this shirt as a gift at this Christmas? Yeah, it was a gift. Okay.
It was a gift for Christmas, which this is posted on Christmas Day. So literally, I thought he was

Speaker 18 he's like, dude, my brother got a shirt that says, I love cream pies. And I, oh, I think he, I'd be like, just tell him.
Now watch this. What if the mom knows?

Speaker 18 Everyone knows and everyone's trying to figure out what he's doing.

Speaker 18 I want him to get bullied. Yeah.
Comments. Honestly, yeah, explain to them the joke because you don't want your brother to have a weird interaction or question by teachers, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 18 Someone said to that, how do you even explain that to a brother and a mother with a heart of gold and a pure pure soul?

Speaker 18 Someone said, this post is Loki making my entire day, but you definitely have to tell them. Maybe wait a day or two, but you can't let the poor kid suffer the way he will if he goes to school in that.

Speaker 18 Someone said, OP, there is a Wikipedia page about this. I strongly suggest you pull this up on your mom's phone, hand it to her and say, this is why X can't wear this shirt to school.
See,

Speaker 18 I don't know if I could tell the mom. I'd just go tell the brother and be like, just don't wear the shirt to school.
Like, let the kid wear the shirt.

Speaker 18 He just might get in trouble at school.

Speaker 18 If the teachers catch him.

Speaker 18 If he's not fast. Yeah.

Speaker 18 We just can't catch him. And once he's in a classroom, he's safe.
Yeah, he's a safe point. The rules of high school.
Update.

Speaker 18 Between your responses and my little brother showing off his I like cream pies shirt to his grandparents, I knew I had to talk to him about his shirt.

Speaker 18 I did talk to my little brother late last night and asked him if he knew what a cream pie was.

Speaker 18 Turns out he did know what a cream pie was, but he didn't say anything because he didn't want to embarrass our clueless mother.

Speaker 18 He showed it off to our grandparents also because he figured they would have no idea what it really meant. My little brother said he didn't plan on wearing it outside of the house.

Speaker 18 I think I will leave the matter to rest here. Yeah.
That's great.

Speaker 18 I called it. Honestly, yeah, unsurprising, like

Speaker 18 a junior in high school, a boy who's a junior in high school. Yeah, he's like, he's like, dude, do you know what your shirt means? Like, I do.
And then he was like, you fucking pervert.

Speaker 18 You know what that means. You're

Speaker 18 Ugh. Christmas is ruined.

Speaker 18 He's like, Yeah, mom knows me really well.

Speaker 18 Mom's like, I got you gifts, you little perverts. Yeah, you little picko.

Speaker 18 My

Speaker 18 little perverts.

Speaker 18 Like, little perverts. Sequel to little women, little perverts.
Next year at Christmas, mom gets me a shirt and says, I love MILFs.

Speaker 18 Holy shit.

Speaker 18 Oh my god. Oh my god.

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Speaker 18 Back to the show. Our next story comes from relationship advice.

Speaker 18 I, a 35-year-old man, was caught using AI to write wedding vows, and my partner, a 34-year-old woman, walked out. What to do?

Speaker 18 The partner walked out on the wedding? She walked out because he was caught writing his wedding vows with ChatGPT. Oh, no.

Speaker 18 Yeah, no, that's um...

Speaker 18 Oh, no. That's pretty inexcusable.
That's pretty rough. Okay, how did he get caught mid-vow? She put it in too?

Speaker 18 He was writing his wedding vows, so she caught him writing them with ChatGPT. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 18 Okay.

Speaker 18 I, a 35-year-old man, recently had a wedding with my partner, who's 34. We've had a stable and happy relationship so far, and I love her more than anything in the world.

Speaker 18 The problem arose when it came to writing vows. Don't get me wrong, I love many things about my partner, but I couldn't figure out how to put them into tangible vows.

Speaker 18 I decided to use ChatGPT so I can have something well-written and expressive to share at the ceremony. The thing about my partner is that she's very confrontational and no nonsense.

Speaker 18 If something annoys her, she immediately addresses it with no room for backing out. I also know that she's expressed disdain for AI in the past, but I didn't realize how far the hatred could go.

Speaker 18 I don't know how, but she immediately recognized that the vows were AI. After I had finished, she had this angry look and whispered to me, did you use fucking AI to write that?

Speaker 18 I was quiet because I couldn't believe she had noticed that and she was choosing to address it while we were on full display for everyone. So you're right.
She caught him

Speaker 18 as she was giving the vows.

Speaker 18 She then said that I either speak from the heart or she walks out.

Speaker 18 I literally couldn't get any words out, and she kept her promise and walked back down the aisle, much to all our friends and family's confusion.

Speaker 18 She's been ghosting me these past few days, which is atypical for her and honestly giving me panic attacks.

Speaker 18 Most people agree that calling off a marriage because of AI vows was an overreaction and that maybe it was a sign that our relationship would have issues.

Speaker 18 But a few female friends have said that they would have done the same. I'm hurt and honestly just needed it to help make the day more special.
Is it worth fixing?

Speaker 18 Well, OP, you wrote this post perfectly fine, unless you use chat GPT for this.

Speaker 18 So you're able to write this out.

Speaker 18 Yeah,

Speaker 18 look,

Speaker 18 if someone, I think people can often tell, and she's going to tell because it's just not going to sound like him at all. I mean, vows are like so, they're all so different.

Speaker 18 Like some people's vows are literally like, I vow to do this. Some people's like, during the vows, they just talk about how much like they love their partner.

Speaker 18 Like, it could be a story that they're telling. Yeah, like, just something from the heart that expresses.

Speaker 18 And, like, I understand having anxiety of like not doing a good job, but I think that, yeah, to use AI to write it versus like just doing what you can from your heart is, that is, like, really

Speaker 18 not, yeah. It's also,

Speaker 18 I'm wondering what these vows sounded like. Like, I know.
I can almost hear that. I can almost hear the machinery of the vows.
It's just the problem is, like,

Speaker 18 you know,

Speaker 18 it's tough, but coming from this guy, he's saying, like, oh, I struggle with like putting my words together. I'm like, well, it's then your vows are not going to sound like you.
No.

Speaker 18 Your vows are going to sound like some perfect, yes, perfect encapsulating thing, and it's not. And she wants you.
Yeah, she could tell immediately.

Speaker 18 That is sad. It is sad.
Also, that to call out at the wedding is drama.

Speaker 18 I love it.

Speaker 18 I'm so here for it. But it does seem a little

Speaker 18 extravagant. Sure.

Speaker 18 It seems a little like

Speaker 18 time and place. But

Speaker 18 if that is a call-off.

Speaker 18 But if that's her being like, I'm not going to marry you because you're doing this. Yeah.
Also, hey, like,

Speaker 18 but it is.

Speaker 18 I wonder if they've talked about AI in other parts of their life. He said

Speaker 18 she does not like AI. Oh, yeah, and so he's using it on her vows.
And it's like the most special thing that you write in your entire life.

Speaker 18 And he has to have used it. He has to like use AI because there's no way you're not someone who's ever used ChatGPT and then you're like, time for the vows.

Speaker 18 I guess I got to bust it out now. Yeah.
He probably uses it a lot and it's become a thing in the relationship where she doesn't like it. Yeah.

Speaker 18 It's also just like, I don't know, from my understanding of how ChatGPT works is that it's an aggregator from everyone else who uses ChatGPT. So, like, how do you mean what is that?

Speaker 18 It's that it learns from us putting stuff in it.

Speaker 18 Like, it's not private information. Whatever you put into ChatGPT is now,

Speaker 18 it owns that information effectively.

Speaker 18 But it's like, so those aren't your vows. That is effectively, it's a conglomeration of what it thinks a wedding vow looks like.
Yeah. Right.
So it's not, it's just not yours. No.

Speaker 18 And I think that's really sad. Write it out, read it for a friend, have them help you.
like have it come from the heart. But it sounds like she would have rather him just say something on the spot

Speaker 18 than do this. Yeah.
Do it live. I mean, like he said, like it's the most important thing.

Speaker 18 Like, this is your declaration of love, your public, like, declaration of love to your partner in front of all your friends and family. And it's almost like you don't trust yourself enough.

Speaker 18 It's like you have to trust your love and the relationship enough to be able to speak right now. And his thing of, you know,

Speaker 18 I use ChatGPT so I can have something well written and expressive to share at the ceremony.

Speaker 18 I think that's him caring more about the crowd and how he's viewed than this is just between you and her, really. Like, that's all it is.

Speaker 18 You're telling her, like, if you think about the basis of vows, it's like, hey, I'm just making a promise to you. Here's what I'm promising to do.
It can be so simple.

Speaker 18 It does not have to be some sort of, you don't have to write poetry, man. Like,

Speaker 18 what do you think she wants to hear? Say that.

Speaker 18 Comments, I'm skeptical. Most people told you that this is an overreaction.
Let's see the vows.

Speaker 18 Someone responded sarcastically as if it's ChatGPT being like, but being with you has made me a better person. Fire emoji.
And honestly, that's growth. We're killing it.
Fire emoji.

Speaker 18 Someone said, expressive and AI don't go together. She was able to figure out it was AI because AI doesn't have the same tone as you.

Speaker 18 You outsourced how much you care about your partner to a machine, and you're upset she didn't like the idea.

Speaker 18 I want to say this is fake, but one glance at LinkedIn proves how using AI rots the brain and and makes you incapable of critical thinking.

Speaker 18 Someone said, we are so cooked as a society if you think it's even remotely okay to use AI to write your wedding vows. Yeah,

Speaker 18 I just think it loses all,

Speaker 18 it's not yours. It's just my belief on it.
I'm like, cool, man. And I don't know.
I think it's sad. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Update.

Speaker 18 Okay,

Speaker 18 I screwed up. I didn't check this post for a while because I wanted more points of view instead of just getting torn to shreds.
But I understand why the situation is worse than I thought it was.

Speaker 18 I've been trying to contact my partner's family to see if I can talk to her again, but apparently she's been staying out of state with her sister.

Speaker 18 I'm going to tell her when she gets back what I heard here and that I understand. I'm also going to write new vows without AI and bring her favorite flowers and snacks.

Speaker 18 I still want her to know that I love her and know her. I will post an update when I can.
Thank you all, even if some feedback could have been a tad more nicely put. This is a very recent post, so...

Speaker 18 How recent?

Speaker 18 Two days ago. Oh, wow.
As of reading this. So by the time it's aired, there's probably been more updates.
There's probably been three kids on the way and

Speaker 18 deaf. They pump them out fast nowadays.

Speaker 18 Wow. Yeah guys, don't use chat GPT to write your vows.
No. Don't do that.

Speaker 18 So our producers have mentioned that there's been a lot of Reddit stories lately of people catching their partners just using chat GPT or AI for just all sorts of things.

Speaker 18 Like obviously talking to it in a way that like now we've had the story of where a guy's girlfriend was cheating on him effectively with an AI like just like talking to it romantically so much and it's like that's a weird new territory we're in but it's also like using chat GPT to like form an argument that you're in with your partner it's like no like no we're not doing this shit I had so many boys that I was talking to like when I'm like dating and I'm like I can tell you're texting me back with AI.

Speaker 18 It is so many boys. You would be shocked.

Speaker 18 You would be absolutely gooped and and gagged because it is like, I'm like, and then when I get it, even like some friends will get in fights and I will have to be like, because I know that they use AI to talk to their boys that they're talking to or girls that they're talking to.

Speaker 18 I'll be like, you need to respond to me right now or I'm going to call you because I don't want you using ChatGBT to try to communicate with me right now. Yeah.
Because it's not how you feel.

Speaker 18 It's not your thoughts. I'm arguing with a robot.
Yeah. And you're completely removing yourself from the situation.
It's also just like,

Speaker 18 I'm of the belief that like everything is a muscle. So like your creativity, your know-how, like how, your critical thinking, everything.

Speaker 18 So it's like, if you start outsourcing that and just being like, it used to be like, oh, I'll just Google it instead of like researching and like pulling out a book and learning, fine.

Speaker 18 But now it's like, oh, I need to form an argument. I'll just have chat GPT do it.
It's like, no, that's a skill. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Like understanding how you think and why you think what you think is something that you work on. And then same with like expressing your compassion for things.

Speaker 18 Like, man, like, if it's so hard for you, like, write a draft, throw it out, write another, like, keep working on it. Like, you'll find it.
But that's like an ability that you have to like build on.

Speaker 18 And when you lose that, when you give it up, then it's not going to grow. Yeah.
Where is your humanity? Yeah. Who are you? No, well, I was going to say, I've actually, and this is...

Speaker 18 feels pretty insane, but I have never once opened ChatGPT. I've never put anything into ChatGPT.

Speaker 18 I don't think I have either.

Speaker 18 I just like, even when I was like first like getting popular and people were opening it up, I was like, I don't know, maybe it's because I watched Terminator so many times, but I'm like very much like, I don't want to talk to AI.

Speaker 18 I don't want that shit in my home. Something really interesting I thought about too, if I'm playing Devil's Advocate, thinking about Star Wars, okay, let me get there.

Speaker 18 Thinking about their droids that they have,

Speaker 18 they're like R2 has a personality to him. He's a robot, but he very much has a personality and he's very much loyal to the programming of the people that he's like.

Speaker 18 He's like Team Anakin all the way and then Team Luke all the way.

Speaker 18 And so it's C3PO.

Speaker 18 And in

Speaker 18 Star Wars, I think it's The Mandalorian, maybe the Book of Boba Fett, the three episodes that are about The Mandalorian. They go into this bar and it's a droid bar.

Speaker 18 And they're like, there's like droids like chilling and drinking. And it's like, oh, they don't really like humans there because we just are like used

Speaker 18 and abused sorry I'm going on a tangent but it's interesting thinking about people training their AI companions to be like little droids that follow them around without a physical form

Speaker 18 yeah it's weird we're in the future and it's like weird

Speaker 18 weirder than we thought it's way weirder than we thought yeah it's a we really like it's sideways sci-fi underplays how much dumber it'll all be too huh Like, just like sci-fi, like Terminator and Star Wars, and like all these things that show us like possibilities of technology, right?

Speaker 18 And you go, whoa, it could look like all these different ways, like Blade Runner and all this stuff. But then, like, what it what sci-fi never delves into is how dumb some of it's gonna be.

Speaker 18 Yeah, like, just how silly some of it's gonna be, and the uses, and it's like, oh, right, that's such a big part of the equation. Yeah.

Speaker 18 All right, our next story comes from advice.

Speaker 18 Stupid, but I have a problem with a seagull at work.

Speaker 18 Classic case. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Where do you work? I'm a line cook. I smoke by the dumpsters a few times a day.
We get seagulls in our parking lot. It's a well-known restaurant, it's busy, and tourists are sloppy with their fries.

Speaker 18 I also suspect the tourists are feeding the seagulls because it's cute, even though it's very against the rules. Regardless, the goals do not fear man or God.
They are used to people.

Speaker 18 A few weeks back, one of the goals swooped down and took my sig. I think he thought it was a French fry.
I giggled and went about my day. However, it's happened a few times since.

Speaker 18 I know it's the same guy because he has a dark spot on his chest. I call him the pestilence.
I'm concerned he is now addicted to nicotine.

Speaker 18 He's by the dumpsters at the same time as my brakes every single day. This is obviously not good for him, and I'm getting mad about him bumming off me because smoking is expensive.

Speaker 18 Do I try to quit smoking? I'll make noise and try to appear large to scare him off, but the pestilence is hip to my tricks. What should I do?

Speaker 18 Are there sonar weapons, such as a dog whistle type of thing, that I could employ? Sorry, this is fucking stupid. I'm being bullied by a seagull.
He also stole a $10 bill from my coworker.

Speaker 18 It's very rural, so we don't have animal rescues, and animal control just laughed when we called. Any advice is welcome.
And yes, I am serious.

Speaker 18 He sucks, but I care about wildlife, and he's probably too young to be smoking. Watch this.

Speaker 18 Stop smoking.

Speaker 18 He brought that up.

Speaker 18 What if this seagull ends up like sitting up?

Speaker 18 Do you want advice?

Speaker 18 Quit smoking. Ding!

Speaker 18 The seagull's doing him a favor. Yeah.
Yeah. The seagull's kind of like smoking.
Maybe. It's kind of like, let's say the seagull is a child.

Speaker 18 Well, I was going to say. Oh, my child keeps taking my cigarette.
I care about the child.

Speaker 18 Stop having cigarettes in the house.

Speaker 18 See, I was thinking maybe the seagull is more of like a spirit guide, kind of like an animal that's coming to guide him and is trying to take the cigarettes, like trying to put it in the corner.

Speaker 18 Like a guardian angel. Or let the bird smoke.
Or, you know, give the give it cigarette, give it more cigarettes. Give it a bait.
Give it a bait.

Speaker 18 Start vaping.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Get a really heavy bait.

Speaker 18 One of those intense ones you have to like unlock and shit. Yeah.
Or start smoking cigars because I want to see a seagull smoke a cigar. That's how I think.
That'd be cool as hell.

Speaker 18 Tell the seagull not to inhale. You just like puff it and keep it in your mouth.

Speaker 18 Absolutely. Dude, just start giving the seagull zinns.
Just leave zinns out on the ground.

Speaker 18 Yeah.

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Speaker 14 Malice will constantly keep you on your toes.

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Speaker 18 Comments, National Geographic says seagulls don't like bright, scary owl faces on masks or balloons. Obviously smoking in a mask isn't going to work, but I really want you to try a balloon.

Speaker 18 It also suggested mirrors, wind chimes, or hanging like an old CD to reflect the sun. Someone said, I say quit smoking and get that seagull back on fries and off of SIGs too.

Speaker 18 Maybe you can be quit, maybe you can be quit buddies. It's so nice that you care.

Speaker 18 Someone said, getting him with a super soaker or nerf gun might help, but you need to check bylaws in your area because, in some, like mine, seagulls are protected and you are not permitted to fuck with them in the least.

Speaker 18 So make sure you check things out before you take my advice. It won't hurt them, but it should probably make them think twice about harassing you.

Speaker 18 Yeah, dude, you wouldn't believe the seagull bylaws in my area. Yeah.
Shit's crazy. Those guys get away with anything.
Update. Oh, the seagull's dead.

Speaker 18 Yeah, shot. Pelican ate him.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 Now the pelican is smoking. The pestilence was off today due to rain, but I am going to get photos and/or videos of our goals for y'all.

Speaker 18 I'm off a freakish amount next week, but I will try when I am in. Thank y'all for the advice and for the laughs.
I've been a bit down lately and it's much appreciated.

Speaker 18 And thanks for the awards, but please donate to rural animal rescues instead. We clearly need it.
Their dare programs obviously suck.

Speaker 18 And do do also donate to a women's shelter if you assume I'm a man. I'm just a mess of a woman.
It's easy to get those confused. Once again, thank y'all.

Speaker 18 I will tell the pestilence he has fans, but again, he's a terrible listener and can't understand my accent.

Speaker 18 Have a great night and pray for me, even though we all know God is laughing at my misfortune. Okay, so not really an update, just a thank you to everyone.
Where's she from?

Speaker 18 I don't know, just somewhere rural where there's seeds. She has an accent.
She has an accent.

Speaker 18 Could be like

Speaker 18 maybe it's like South Carolina, like the ocean there, or maybe it's like Florida or Alabama or something, like right there. Southern shores.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 Florabama shores. Nolins.
Yeah. Nolins.
Oh, yeah. Corpus Christi.
I've heard the Seagulls in Nolans love to smoke. That's what they're saying.
Yeah. I heard they like beignets, soups.

Speaker 18 Beignets, they play trumpet.

Speaker 18 Jazz. Don't even get them started on gum.

Speaker 18 Our next advice.

Speaker 18 Relationship advice. Okay.

Speaker 18 Don't do it.

Speaker 18 This comes from relationship advice. Okay.
Hired an escort once, but we keep meeting.

Speaker 18 What do you mean? I don't know. Hey guys, I, a 29-year-old man, could use some advice here.
I have been single since I was around 23.

Speaker 18 I have little to no desire to be in a relationship and don't have any plans on getting married or having a long-term girlfriend. I like being alone, especially due to my job.

Speaker 18 This, however, has raised questions from friends and family about my love life especially since my younger brother is married and has kids.

Speaker 18 This started in September when my best friend since middle school got married. I was his best man and he offered to set me up with one of his fiancé's single friends.

Speaker 18 I had no interest in this and assured him I would have a date.

Speaker 18 Not wanting to add any more complications in life, I decided to hire an escort who we will call Angie, who's 27, 27 year old woman, purely to keep up social expectations.

Speaker 18 We came up with a backstory that she was a friend of mine from a car club that that I'm part of. Wedding weekend happens and overall it went great.
I had fun and from when we talked Angie had fun too.

Speaker 18 The weird thing is, she still stayed in touch, mainly through text. The first instance was about three weeks after the wedding when she asked me what I was doing over the weekend.

Speaker 18 I told her I was going on a cruise, cars, not a boat, with my car club and she asked if she could come.

Speaker 18 I told her I wasn't looking to hire an escort for a car club event, but she insisted that it was free and that she wasn't working.

Speaker 18 Since then, she calls me in the evenings to talk and has accompanied me on outings and events.

Speaker 18 During my job-mandated therapy sessions, I told my therapist about this and he said, Angie may like me romantically.

Speaker 18 Now I'm not insecure or anything, it's just that physically I am fit, but I'm short at 5'7. Hey, that, and I generally have a colder and more stoic personality towards people that aren't close to me.

Speaker 18 Angie, on the other hand, is taller than me, 5'6,

Speaker 18 but 5'9 in heels, is gorgeous and has a very bubbly personality. So I put the idea of her liking me to bed.
So really what I'm confused about is why she keeps wanting to hang out for free.

Speaker 18 Don't get me wrong, Angie is a great woman to be around, but could this be a tactic used by escorts to keep men on the line or could she be in trouble? Any advice here would be great, guys.

Speaker 18 Dude, so is she like, is her life in danger? Like, why is she talking to me? That is so funny.

Speaker 18 I usually have to pay people to be around me, but she doesn't want to be around me. Once they go for free, there's a catch, right? I also understand, like,

Speaker 18 because on the flip side, there's so many guys who like push too hard, don't take no for an answer, assume every woman's into them.

Speaker 18 And then there's guys who are just like, oh yeah, no, no, nobody, nobody wants to date me. Like there's just no way.

Speaker 18 It's like, yeah, she's hung out with you multiple times since she said she likes you. Yeah, but she means it's a friend.
It's like just not getting the hints at all.

Speaker 18 And this seems like that type of guy. He might also be writing this because he's like thinking it's romantic, but he is like scared to admit that he thinks that.
So he wants the internet to tell him.

Speaker 18 I mean, from what he said, it seems like, yeah, she just wants to hang out and get to know him or she wants to hang out with you. She's said that to you.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 It's like an extreme version of, can I buy you dinner? Or can I buy you a drink? It's like, can I take you to a wedding? Yeah.

Speaker 18 I'm like, that's an incredible first date. I'm sorry.
Like, that is like, I would love that. If I don't, especially if I don't know a lot of people at the wedding.

Speaker 18 I'm like, you just get to go to a wedding, watch these people get, do the thing, eat some free food and do a dance. It's kind of sick.
With a circle that you already know and is vetted.

Speaker 18 Like, that sounds amazing. Yeah.
Some comments here. She either likes you enough to consider you a friend or she's genuinely interested.
From the sounds of it, you treated her with respect.

Speaker 18 So yeah, she's probably into you. If the feeling is mutual, then bring it up.
Worst case, she rejects you and you continue being friends. So why not shoot your shot?

Speaker 18 Someone said, I think it has been said before, but she is a human too. Imagine yourself in her shoes and how difficult it would be to make friends, let alone a partner or love interest.

Speaker 18 Sounds like she is lonely and likes your company. Sometimes we don't find what we want, but are sent what we need.
Wow. Someone said, just ask her.

Speaker 18 Tell her you understand it to be a business arrangement, but her wanting to hang out has confused you. That feels like the best advice.
Just being like, hey, like, you want to hang out for free?

Speaker 18 Like, I'm... What's? Because we started off that I hired you.
Yeah. You did that under a professional situation What is this now? And what do you just want to be friends? Like whatever?

Speaker 18 Well, let's find out. We have an update.

Speaker 18 What do we think? I think they're going on dates now. Okay.
And he's not paying. I mean, he's paying for them probably because...

Speaker 18 He's a gentleman. Because he's a gentleman.
He's a gentleman. Yeah.
No, I think so. I think he seems like a mature enough guy to probably take this advice and be like, yeah, just go ask her.

Speaker 18 And I feel like they've been on a couple dates and it's nice.

Speaker 18 I'm hopeful that it's there. Or at the very least, she's just like, oh, like, you just seem really cool and like

Speaker 18 just like a friend. Like, that could be cool too.
Update.

Speaker 18 So, I read a lot of your comments about how Angie might like me, and I took the night to think about all our time spent together without thinking of her as an escort.

Speaker 18 In the end, I'm sure a lot of guys can relate. I had the realization of, motherfucker, she was hinting the whole time.

Speaker 18 And what made me realize was that after around December, January, we started doing more mundane activities.

Speaker 18 For example, I was taking my niece and nephew mini-golfing, and she wanted to come along for that. Okay, well

Speaker 18 he's like, yeah, we moved in together and we kind of started this really great life. Yeah.
And God, and now I'm just realizing maybe she's with me.

Speaker 18 Or how every or every other Friday she would come over and we'd just get high, weed, and watch random movies and videos after getting the munchies.

Speaker 18 Or how for the past month or two, she'd give me a peck on my cheek after we hung out. I thought she was just being nice.
As for my feelings, I don't know.

Speaker 18 I've never had a crushed or romantic feelings for anyone, so I wasn't sure what it was even supposed to feel like.

Speaker 18 But what I am sure of is that I like having Angie around, and when she's not, I kind of miss her, I guess. So Friday comes around, and we're baked and watching Lion King.

Speaker 18 The movie gets to the part before the stampede that kills Mufasa, and Angie just starts crying. I asked her if she's okay, and she said that the scene always makes her sad.

Speaker 18 Then she kind of just moved over and put her head on my shoulder. The scene gets over, but she puts her blanket over me and stays there for the rest of the movie.
Credits roll and she doesn't move.

Speaker 18 I kind of had a fuck it, just send it it moment and lightly kissed her on the head. She kissed me and things kind of escalated from there.

Speaker 18 We had a long convo in the morning and she said that back at the wedding she genuinely had a good time and didn't feel like she was working and that's why she asked to hang out again.

Speaker 18 As we started hanging out, she started developing feelings since I kind of just treated her as I would anyone else. I didn't think this was a big deal, but for her it was.

Speaker 18 And a lot of things that I did that I saw as common courtesy, giving her my coat, helping her into my car, etc. were acts of kindness in her eyes, even though that's just how I was raised.

Speaker 18 When she started working as an escort, she lost the few friends she had, and anytime she tried dating people would sexualize her when they found out what she did.

Speaker 18 So outside of her few escort friends, she had no one.

Speaker 18 When she finished school in December and became a pediatric nurse, she started reevaluating her relationship since she was no longer an escort, and she felt that I was one of the few people that treated her kindly, even as an escort.

Speaker 18 She wanted to continue seeing me. I was a bit confused by what she said next, but she said that she felt safe and calm with me, which I didn't really grasp but accepted.

Speaker 18 I told her that I liked her, but due to my past and personality, I might not be the kind of man she wants to be with, but she shot that down immediately and told me I was acting stupid.

Speaker 18 We decided that it really...

Speaker 18 I love her.

Speaker 18 Sorry, you're acting stupid.

Speaker 18 We decided that it really wouldn't make sense to start over and start dating since we've spent the past few months together, and we kind of just picked up where we left off.

Speaker 18 So we pretty much became boyfriend and girlfriend that day. The past two weeks have been really good.

Speaker 18 While I'm still getting my bearings straight and processing my feelings, Angie has changed quite a bit. She's a lot more emotional and likes being held a lot.

Speaker 18 Like if I'm just laying on the couch, she'll walk in and yell huggies and lay on me. It's a bit different for me since any sort of intimacy outside of sex is completely foreign, but I do like it.

Speaker 18 She also does a lot for me. Like one time she slept over and I had to throw on a suit for a meeting the next day.

Speaker 18 I wake up and go in for a shower and when I come out, not only are my shirts ironed, but she had a pot of coffee ready and a lunch bag made. Like who the fuck does that?

Speaker 18 A few days ago, I even met a few of her escort friends, and guys, seriously, don't judge anyone for what they do because her friends were some of the nicest people I've met.

Speaker 18 While I use Reddit, she turned to them for advice about me over the months, and they were all nearly in tears when they heard about us finally getting together.

Speaker 18 I told my family and friends that I was dating Angie, and they all laughed since they thought we had been dating since before the wedding, so some of your guys' jokes, comments about her being my girlfriend were right, I guess.

Speaker 18 So yeah, things are great between Angie and I. I know I got some work to do to transition into a relationship, but I'm taking it one step at a time.

Speaker 18 Angie has been really patient and understanding through all of it, and even though she's told me she loves me, she told me to only say it back when I'm ready and I mean it.

Speaker 18 But seriously, thanks for all of your guys' help with this. I doubt things would have ended up like this if it wasn't for you guys.
Okay, why can we not? I have a question. I have a question.
Okay.

Speaker 18 Why can we not pay people for their emotions or like their

Speaker 18 social ability?

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Speaker 18 Like, why is it so looked down? Because of the sexual,

Speaker 18 but I don't know if it's or not.

Speaker 18 I don't know.

Speaker 18 I don't know. Because if they're really good, okay, so let's say there's like really rich men who are really bad at talking to people, really bad to going to social events.

Speaker 18 If you can hire a person, it's like, yeah, this is my, not like a translator, but like, this is my translator. It's someone that I enjoy being with that I can.

Speaker 18 This is my really cool guy that I'm really cool guy. What's up, dude? I'm a really cool guy he hired.
When it's like, oh, we're going to have sex later is why it's... Probably.

Speaker 18 That's why it's a lot of people.

Speaker 18 It's why society has its views on it, right? Like, I don't want to say good or bad thing, right? Like, right? Like, it's just like,

Speaker 18 it's this thing that society is weird about. And

Speaker 18 it's like this legal gray area, and then it's also this just like moral thing for everyone. Yeah.
But. Because so many people in that position are abused.
Absolutely.

Speaker 18 Now, we blame the people, we blame the wrong people.

Speaker 18 We get mad and we shame

Speaker 18 the people who are doing the job, not the

Speaker 18 industry and society and the people who perpetrate stuff against them. Yeah.
Right? Like, it's not her fault.

Speaker 18 And it gets greasy when it's like, okay, this is legal, but you're not allowed to have sex with them. You can go to the event, and who's going to monitor that? And how would you even do that? Right.

Speaker 18 But if you could do it ethically. But what he's saying is, like, hey, all these people are really cool.
It's like, yeah, they're humans, man.

Speaker 18 Just because they're. They're cool people.

Speaker 18 Yeah, just because of the, like, the the jobs people do is not all that they are yes um and their job they excel at being sociable likable with another person that is their whole thing

Speaker 18 but i also imagine the amount of disrespect that they deal with yes um and beyond that on a daily basis yes he is he sounds like an interesting man he reminds me he almost sounds like uh fuck what's his name from parks and rec with the mustache uh

Speaker 18 ron swanson uh yeah he's he sounds like ron swanson where he's just so like, oh, I'm not interested in you. And she probably was just like, oh, hell yeah.
Like, I'm so used to guys who are like pushy.

Speaker 18 And he's like, oh, I'm really not interested in anything.

Speaker 18 And that must be so refreshing for her.

Speaker 18 There's an endearing nature to this guy.

Speaker 18 He sounds, at least on a certain level, a little asexual and aromantic, but... I don't know.
Like, it sounds like there's just a lot buried down.

Speaker 18 But it oddly sounds like it was a pair that worked out well. And it sounds like he's enjoying this.
He's acknowledging like, oh, I'm okay with this. I love it.
Which is really cool.

Speaker 18 And he's experiencing new things for the first time. And it's so funny because it doesn't seem like, from the way he talks, it doesn't seem like it's something he would have sought out.

Speaker 18 Like he's very clearly like, I'm not looking to be in a relationship or anything.

Speaker 18 So the way that it just like weirdly worked out that they both kind of fell into it and it worked so well is like really sweet. It's really cool.

Speaker 18 And, you know, the funny thing is like they've been hanging out for so long. They've effectively been dating for so long.

Speaker 18 What's funny is they've not had sex or do anything sexual but I think that's this connotation she brings up of like just because she's an escort doesn't mean she's like some wildly sexual person maybe like maybe she likes their dynamic a lot that it's not a big thing you know it's very interesting to me

Speaker 18 I think it's a really cool story I understand all the criticisms of

Speaker 18 these certain industries because like yeah people get taken advantage of but it's like So shaming the people who are getting taken advantage of.

Speaker 18 What the hell are you doing? Why are we protecting the people who are doing the bad thing and protecting the people who are just trying to be good at something?

Speaker 18 Yeah, or doing what they frankly have no other option. Or what they have no other option.
Which is what the case for a lot of them, you know? It's like,

Speaker 18 she does that because that was a job. That was a job she needed to do to get through nursing school.

Speaker 18 And so he's like, yeah, like, she's an awesome person. It's like, yeah, I'm not surprised.
She's a person. I'm saying this also as a person who is in the world of both sex workers and escorts.
I know

Speaker 18 a good amount of both.

Speaker 18 And it's so interesting how they are so not protected. Like they're not, and they're taking advantage of them.
And then they are the ones who get the flack for it.

Speaker 18 Or like if they post like even their,

Speaker 18 what happened to them, everyone's like, you deserve this. This happened to you because you chose this line of work.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 And it's not like those people did that to you. That's wrong.
And they should be like under, they should be held to a standard. Yeah.

Speaker 18 No, it's it's kind of like when people like shame only fans models and then it's like uh who's the dude who sent them half a million dollars yeah like yeah who's like that's that's who's fueling that industry

Speaker 18 like let's talk about them uh but we never do no so

Speaker 18 um

Speaker 18 all right our next story I got posted in one of those are we dating the same guy Facebook groups.

Speaker 18 So the other day, my girlfriend asked me if I was cheating on her out of nowhere. I said said no, because I'm not, and have never had a thought about doing so.

Speaker 18 She then sent me a screenshot she got from a random Instagram account of a post made anonymously in the Are We Dating the Same Guy Facebook group located in the city I went to college in years ago.

Speaker 18 The only thing it showed was a screenshot of an old Hinge account of mine. I explained that it was an old account that I thought I deleted after I met her.
All the pictures were super old.

Speaker 18 I even re-downloaded and logged in to show her there was no activity. Anyways, after doing some digging, we are pretty sure it was my ex-girlfriend since we met on Hinge.

Speaker 18 You can't look up people on Hinge, and if the account is inactive, it's not even shown to others. So there's no way someone randomly found it.

Speaker 18 She probably posted it after she saw some pictures of me and my girlfriend on Instagram from a vacation looking happy. Ex is still mad about stuff I don't feel like getting into.

Speaker 18 We think this annoyed my ex and she had my old account on Hinge and thought she could start something.

Speaker 18 A little while later, that Instagram account sent her another screenshot showing one comment saying something like, confirmed that he has a girlfriend. Cheaters are disgusting.

Speaker 18 I'm not super comfortable with being posted in there and falsely being accused of being a cheater when I'm not and have never been. So I guess my question is, should I do anything about this?

Speaker 18 Is there anything I can even do? Should I message my ex something about stop harassing me? She'll probably just deny it was her. Any advice? I already went back and deleted the old Hinge account.

Speaker 18 I was going to say the best thing you could do is then go to Hinge and then unmatch your ex.

Speaker 18 But the post is already there. No, I mean, just so that they see it, because if they're on Hinge and they're seeing,

Speaker 18 then they could be like, whoa, he unmatched me. So he obviously knows the bullshit I'm doing.
It also is giving the ex attention

Speaker 18 inadvertently. It's like, this is not how you access me.

Speaker 18 This does not flag me. This does not get my attention.
This does not get my time and energy. Yeah.

Speaker 18 So my ass is report, first off, report to Facebook, to Meta, click those three dots and go report why, this is me, I don't want it here. Right.

Speaker 18 I'm pretty good about taking shit down, honestly, a lot of the time. I never use Facebook, so I don't know.
Or Meta in general. Oh.

Speaker 18 If that doesn't work, there's a line you can call and you can be like, you can get on the phone with a person and be like, take this down. Cool.
Why?

Speaker 18 Like, it's harassment, it's false, it's slanders, blah, blah, blah. A million words you can use.
I have a couple thoughts.

Speaker 18 One is that with Reddit, it's always hard that all we have is what OP is writing. And they're writing like, oh, I've never cheated.
I never would think about it.

Speaker 18 And I'm like, I have no choice but to take you at your word. Yeah.

Speaker 18 But what we do know is that your girlfriend is so suspicious of you, like so intensely suspicious, and your ex-girlfriend's starting this type of shit. That's a tough spot to be in.
I also...

Speaker 18 Wait, why is the girlfriend suspicious? The girlfriend is super suspicious. His girlfriend, the other day, my girlfriend asked me if I was cheating on her out of nowhere.

Speaker 18 I said, no, because I'm not and have never had that thought. So, okay, so

Speaker 18 it's the girlfriend is kind of buying into what the ex-girlfriend is doing, but he has an ex-girlfriend who's trying to start shit. Yeah.

Speaker 18 And he says, ex is still mad about stuff I don't feel like getting into. And it's like, well, what is that stuff?

Speaker 18 We don't know who posted this, but we do know, according to him, that it's a super old, it's super old photos. So it's not like, oh, he was recently spotted somewhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 He's not, this is indicating that it's fake. If we think about the girlfriend's perspective, let's think about it that way before

Speaker 18 she talks to him. I just saw a post on Facebook that is,

Speaker 18 are we dating the same guy? And it's my boyfriend. Now I'm really worried.
Do I go to him? It sounds like we would all be like, yes, show him the thing and go to him.

Speaker 18 Because your partner, we're trusting them first rather than a random source on the internet. She did that.
She did the right thing. I think she did that.
Going to the partner and saying, what is this?

Speaker 18 Because this, it looks wrong, but I'm trusting us to decide what this is. Right.
And he's like, yeah, I don't know what that is either. Now we get to work on this together.
It feels good to me so far.

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah, there's really nothing indicating anything. It is weird whoever's doing this.
Yes. It's weird that they're like sending multiple messages and really egging this on.
Yes.

Speaker 18 He kind of immediately jumps to, it's my ex.

Speaker 18 But we don't know, but it would be like, who would it be?

Speaker 18 And I mean,

Speaker 18 the question he's asking advice for is like, should he like contact his ex or not, right? Or like say something to the person. Don't.

Speaker 18 I feel like at that point, it's like, you and your girlfriend have like worked it out.

Speaker 18 If you're both on the same page, of like, okay, this is clearly like most likely my ex trying to start some shit because she's still mad at me. Like, haha, let's just forget about it and move on.

Speaker 18 Don't because it's not affecting them at all anymore. Comments.
I actually had an ex do something similar. I was about six months into dating this new girl and things were going great.

Speaker 18 I posted a picture of us on a date on Instagram. My ex commented under the video, I didn't know you had a girlfriend or I wouldn't have brought you back to my place last weekend.

Speaker 18 This was a total lie and I hadn't seen her since we broke up several weeks before I had even met my current partner at the time.

Speaker 18 When my current girlfriend saw it, she raised an eyebrow for like one second, but we had spent both of the last two weekends entirely together, so it was literally impossible.

Speaker 18 I explained to her my ex was just salty and trying to cause problems for us, and my girlfriend seemed relieved. I blocked my ex fully on everything, and that was the end of it.

Speaker 18 But if my ex had picked a day when my girlfriend and I weren't physically together the whole time or I didn't otherwise have an alibi, it definitely could have caused some damage.

Speaker 18 I can't imagine people being so awful like that.

Speaker 18 Someone said the Facebook page probably has a mod. Just reach out to them and explain the situation plus show proof and they'll probably ban whoever did the post.

Speaker 18 Those pages usually have strict guidelines so that people don't abuse it unless it's run by a shitty person, lol.

Speaker 18 I think the Insta account sending it to your girlfriend is more sus though, but I don't know how you'd look into that.

Speaker 18 Someone said, the are we dating the same guy groups can be beneficial when appropriately utilized. However, there are many women in them that seem to be addicted to chaos.

Speaker 18 The admins are pretty impartial and try to keep the pages respectful. I would definitely have your girlfriend asked to join the particular group and reach out to the admins to explain the situation.

Speaker 18 Just the other day, my wife showed me that a hinge profile with my name was posted to one of those Facebook groups.

Speaker 18 I've never had a hinge, but frankly, I'm flattered that I'm being used to catfish people. Update.

Speaker 18 Catfishing is also like such a tough thing with that. It's like, well, I'm talking to this guy, it's like, well, have you met him in person? Or is that really him?

Speaker 18 It blows my mind sometimes. People are like, yeah, we just FaceTime and I don't really see them.
They're like, it's like camera up. And I'm like, okay, that's the big, that you should see them.

Speaker 18 You should see them. You're going to want to see the face.

Speaker 18 You have to see them before you go to the place that they live if they don't live in the same place as you. Yeah.
It's just so common knowledge. Okay, update.
Yeah.

Speaker 18 First, I'm not going to text my ex anything. I had similar thoughts about that as everyone here, just wanted some other input.
No, it was not my current girlfriend that posted it.

Speaker 18 I confirmed with her that she isn't even in any of those groups. Also, I'm not trying to say these groups are bad.
I actually think it's good that girls can let others know about abusive men and more.

Speaker 18 Just sucks that I'm being accused of something I didn't do. We are going to have her join the group and try to clarify in the post.

Speaker 18 We are both going to reach out to the admins and see if we can get them to have the poster banned and possibly tell us who it was.

Speaker 18 We are going to explain that the post is in a city I don't live in, a very old account that couldn't have been active, and that we think we know who did it and the screenshots she got from that Instagram account.

Speaker 18 I don't really have any other proof besides that. Anything else y'all can think of that might be helpful? And that's all we have.

Speaker 18 But

Speaker 18 they did the right thing. It sounds like at the very least, the girlfriend's not buying into it.
That's good. So they're good.
But

Speaker 18 it's annoying.

Speaker 18 I've never dealt with, thankfully, any sort of vindictive ex situations. But one time I did have a nightmare.

Speaker 18 And in my nightmare, my ex had hacked my RuneScape account and dropped all my shit. That sucks.
And I literally woke up and I was like, and I logged into my RuneScape account. Wow.

Speaker 18 Because I was so scared.

Speaker 18 And that's the one time I was ever worried about an ex doing something. Well, you've now told everyone your weakness.

Speaker 18 I changed my password. Now everyone knows.
Changed my password. Your weak spot.
Yeah. I don't think I've experienced that.
I get sent a good amount of photos of people catfishing with fake accounts.

Speaker 18 I'm like, that's not me. That's not me.
Damn. Even like the TikTok videos, and it's like

Speaker 18 they did this to me and now I'm doing this. Or like this text on the screen.

Speaker 18 Yeah, I'm like, it's embarrassing, even if your ex was really shitty and deserves it I'm like I just I'm like no the best thing you can do is move on like you're talking you're still talking about your ex yeah and that's embarrassing like I just am like it's always a little embarrassing when you're like publicly working through it so like obsessed yeah you know it's like no the best thing you can do is continue on with your life yeah if you want to you know be a little obsessed in private and annoyed privately like that go ahead like be upset in your room but yeah when you're like going and like gotta tell my you know gotta tell my 998 followers about how much I hate my ex.

Speaker 18 Yeah, get them. All right, our final story.
Told girl I've been running, now she wants to run with me. She's a triathlete.

Speaker 18 And I'm such a fragile person.

Speaker 18 She's

Speaker 18 fast as you feel.

Speaker 18 I, 28-year-old male, got myself into a George Costanza-esque situation here where I told this girl who's 27 I've been talking to for a few months that I've been running and training when when instead I mostly just play RuneScape and chill.

Speaker 18 Oh no,

Speaker 18 dude. Oh no.
I've been playing so much RuneScape. Oh no, no, no.
I've lost a significant amount of weight just by cutting soda out of my life and just eating healthier, so she's really bought it.

Speaker 18 Anyway, this girl is literally a national triathlon competitor and overall athletic person.

Speaker 18 Now she sent me a text saying she wants to run together Saturday and I have no idea how I'm going to do this because she wants to run 3.6 miles together as her warm-up for her long run.

Speaker 18 Do I just fall and die or something?

Speaker 18 Run the 3.6 miles. Run that 3.6 miles, dude.
Yeah. Pull it together and run it.
Now, I mean, so here's what you do. The obvious solution here is

Speaker 18 what day, what day was the run? Whatever the night before the run is, you just have to go get really hammered and then you'd be like, hey, can we take it slow this morning?

Speaker 18 I had so much to drink last night. I had so many beers.
I had so much to drink last night. Can we take it slow? Just drop the pace a little bit and then you power through.

Speaker 18 I feel like it's just easy also just to make an excuse and just be like, I can't this Saturday. No, I can't.
And then you need to start running today.

Speaker 18 You have to be prepared for next Saturday. I think he's got to do it.
He's got to do it. He said he's been doing it.
He said he's been doing it. This is what you get.
You dug your own grave. No lying.

Speaker 18 That's when he shows up and he's like, Ah, yeah, sorry if I'm a little slow. I already ran 20 miles today.
So

Speaker 18 this was running. I've had to run here to where we're going to run from.

Speaker 18 It's a little cooldown for me. I've ran like a hundred miles over the last few days.

Speaker 18 But he's like, he's been talking to this girl for a few months. I think it implies like he is interested in her.
He's saying he's running because she's into running.

Speaker 18 So it's like, dude, when you lie, you are in the George Costanza-esque situation where you lie and then someone innocently kind of calls your bluff and now

Speaker 18 Yeah, you're in a bind.

Speaker 18 He was gonna have to keep lying forever. Yeah, it's a great opportunity to build a new healthy habit.
Yeah, man. That was born out of a lie.

Speaker 18 You're going to start running, but you're going to start at 3.6 miles. That's brutal.
Yeah. Fuck.

Speaker 18 Comments and quotations. I didn't say I ran far.
OP said, Elmeo, thank you. I ran to the fridge.
I ran to the fridge. Soda water.
To get water. Get soda.
Dude, I ran from Falador all the way to Varak.

Speaker 18 Nice.

Speaker 18 Someone said start time to start biking. Someone said, LOL, this made me chuckle.
Go on the run with her. The exercise will do you good.

Speaker 18 Maybe the two of you will bond over this experience and she'll find it endearing when you tell her that you claim to be a runner to impress her. Good job on your weight loss, by the way.

Speaker 18 Update.

Speaker 18 While this is a real scenario and actually my life right now, I just want everyone to know that I'm going to harness all of high school slash collegiate athleticism as a wrestler and just jog with her until I'm gassed.

Speaker 18 Ha ha. I'm going to bed, but I'll comb through the comments tomorrow and respond to the ones that help.
Well, we don't have those responses. It's It's just, that's it.

Speaker 18 All right, he's going to go on the run. Tom.
Yeah. I wonder what's going to happen.
Hey, he's going to get level 99 agility IRL. This was posted back in April, so he's probably dead.

Speaker 18 He probably died on that run. And that's okay.
And that's okay. At least he died doing what he loved.
Doing what he loved. Yeah.
A triathlete.

Speaker 18 That was awesome.

Speaker 18 Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me.
I feel like

Speaker 18 I didn't give any advice. I don't think I gave a lot of advice either.
That's good. That's fine.
That's good, I think. That's better for everyone that I didn't give any advice.

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