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"content": "WEBVTT\nKind: captions\nLanguage: en\n\n- Hello and welcome to\n\"Smosh Reads Reddit Stories\".\n\nI'm Shayne.\n\nAnd today we have some real scary stories.\n\nThey're not true crime,\nbut they are really scary.\n\nSo viewer discretion is advised.\n\nNone of these get to extreme levels,\n\nbut there is some\ndisturbing things in here.\n\nSo just be warned.\n\nBut I'm joined with two\npeople who do like true crime\n\nand scary things, Amanda and Angela.\n\n- Our alibis are here, on set at Smosh.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nWe have our location,\n\nand we've already had our fingerprints,\n\nand we've left multiple\ntraces of where we are,\n\nand we've told our family.\n\n- The doors are locked.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- Okay, great.\n\n- We have a change of\nclothes just in case.\n\n- We're ready for a good time.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- So these are real scary stories.\n\nBut what do you like\nabout true crime or just-\n\n- Ooh.\n\n- 'Cause I have a hard time with it.\n\nI like horror movies, but\nI like supernatural stuff.\n\n- You know, like at Christmas\ntime when you turn on the fire\n\nand you have a warm little\nblanket and you're like-\n\n- That's us with detectives\nin their 60s going-\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- \"This week was hard.\"\n\n- [Amanda] Yeah.\n\n- Ha. (laughs)\n\n- This week was hard.\n\nBoom, boom, boom.\n\n(Angela laughs)\n\nAnd I just saw them all\nflash between my eyes.\n\nAnd you're like, yeah.\n\n- I think I also, like,\nin another life, I think,\n\nnot in this life, in\nanother couple lives ago,\n\nI was like a lawyer in the '90s.\n\n- Not with that jacket.\n\n- A couple lives ago, you\nwere a lawyer in the '90s.\n\n- Okay, she was a lawyer.\n\nAnd you know me, I was a detective.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nAnd I was like, Marsha\nClark status, big curls.\n\n- Whoa.\n\n- Being like folders after\nfolders, and being like...\n\n- Not the curls.\n\n- The evidence.\n\nThe crime scene photos.\n\n- And you're saying that lawyer died,\n\nyou had a couple other lives\nin the '90s, they died,\n\nand then you were born?\n\n- I was probably like a bird,\na worm, a bug, and then me.\n\n- She was definitely a bug.\n\n- Very quickly a bunch of\nthings, and then you were born?\n\n- Bird, a worm.\n\nI was like a falcon after\nmy detective series.\n\nAnd then I became a blue\nwhale and it got exhausting.\n\nAnd then I turned into this.\n\n- Now you're a female comedian.\n\n- Yeah!\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nReally saving the world over here.\n\nAnyways, but also we\nrespect the human journey\n\nof true crime.\n\nThat's the other thing.\n\n- Yeah, we don't like to sensation it.\n\n- No.\n\n- Sensationalize.\n\n- Well, I can understand liking true crime\n\nif it's been solved, and you\nget to watch how it gets solved\n\nand you're like, \"Yes.\"\n\n- We like to solve it.\n- Or I like trying\n\nto solve it, yeah.\n\n- You like mystery.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- You like solving a mystery.\n\nI understand that aspect.\n\n- It's just like humans experiencing\n\nand how they feel about certain things\n\nand how they experience it.\n\nLike, we're really, really into that.\n\n- I'll say like,\nespecially with this show,\n\nlike I don't like horror movies\n\nor mystery novels and\nstuff like that as much.\n\nI like when things really happened.\n\nIt like gets me, like always-\n\n- It's captivating.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- It's definitely captivating.\n\n- I like horror movies.\n\nThanks for asking.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- So these are some scary stories.\n\nThese are, according to\nReddit, these are real.\n\nThese are not fiction.\n\nThere's a lot of fictional subreddits,\n\nbut these aren't from them.\n\n- Right.\n\n- So it's gonna be more\nlike a get your pancakes out\n\nand grab your blankie.\n\n- Your little blankie.\n\n- Tuck your pancakes\nover your little face.\n\n- Over your eyes.\n\n- Oh my god!\n\n- Use your pancakes and go-\n\n- Oh no.\n\nOh no.\n\nTwo little pancakes\nwith a blanket over it.\n\nThat's so cute.\n\n- Oh no. (laughs)\n\nOkay. Are we ready for some scary stories?\n\n- Yes.\n\n- Here we go.\n\nThis first one comes\nfrom Am I The Asshole.\n\n\"Am I the asshole for being angry\n\n\"that my roommate was sleeping\nunder my bed for months\n\n\"without telling me?\"\n\n(Angela yells)\n\n- Oh my god!\n\n- This is not a warm blanket!\n\nThe fire is not on.\n\nI don't like this.\n\n- Oh.\n\n- At all!\n\n- That's where we're starting\n\njust so you know.\n- I actually do not like that.\n\n- \"I, a 24-year-old man have lived\n\n\"with my roommate Carl, a\n24-year-old man, for two years.\n\n\"A few months into rooming with him,\n\n\"he told me he was pansexual.\n\n\"I said, okay, cool.\n\n\"I'm not interested in\nthat personal information,\n\n\"nor am I judgmental.\n\n\"I said, all right.\n\n\"A few times-\"\n\n(Angela laughs)\n\n- Okay.\n\n- That's great, dude.\n\n- You can relax. All good.\n\n- \"A few times over the last year,\n\n\"he has asked me if I had\never considered experimenting\n\n\"with other men.\n\n\"I said, nope.\n\n\"Also, I said, I didn't feel comfortable\n\n\"with him asking me such\na personal question.\n\n\"It's not like we are close friends.\n\n\"We are only roommates by\nhappenstance basically.\n\n\"Anyway, every time I said this,\n\n\"he basically said, 'We'll see.'\n\n\"I was like, what?\n\n\"Anyways, last night I had\na horrifying experience.\n\n\"I heard a noise under my bed.\n\n\"It was movement.\n\n\"At first, I thought-\"\n\n(Angela whimpers)\n\n\"At first, I thought I\nwas imagining things,\n\n\"but then I heard it again.\n\n\"I thought, 'Oh God, is it a\nmouse or a rat or some shit?'\n\n\"My god.\n\n\"This was like 3:00 AM.\n\n\"So I got out of bed\n\n\"and looked under with\nmy phone flashlight.\n\n\"Now this here was the most\nstartling moment of my life.\n\n\"I guess I'm lucky\n\n\"because I have never before\nthis moment felt true terror\n\n\"and fear as a physical sensation.\n\n\"But I was completely jolted.\n\n\"There under my bed was my\nroommate staring wide-eyed at me,\n\n\"and he screeched when\nI looked under the bed.\"\n\n- Oh, he got scared?\n\n- I'm sick. I feel sick.\n\n- \"I literally thought I\nwas having a heart attack.\n\n\"I then just started hearing,\n\n\"'Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.'\n\n\"My roommate crawled out\nfrom under my bed crying,\n\n\"apologizing over and over.\n\n\"I was so creeped out\n\n\"and afraid that I ran outta\nthe apartment in my pajamas.\n\n\"There was a Dunkin\nDonuts that was open 24/7\n\n\"a few blocks away.\"\n\n- Seek refuge! Go!\n- Thank God!\n\n- Go! Get an apple fritter and go!\n\n- Go, honey, go!\n\n- \"So I just sat there with a decaf\n\n\"and a breakfast sandwich\nwith my heart thundering away.\n\n\"My roommate kept texting\nme, asking to talk.\n\n\"I ignored it.\n\n\"In the texts, he found a way\nto horrify me even further.\n\n\"He confessed he had been\nsleeping under my bed\n\n\"a few nights a week\nfor three or four months\n\n\"and that he was doing\nit to get closer to me\n\n\"and physically saturate each other.\"\n\n(Amanda gasps)\n\n\"The (beep)?\"\n\n(Amanda groans)\n\n- Brennan was taken out by that.\n\nYour breath was taken away\nby physically saturate.\n\n- Brennan.\n\n- \"I waited for him to go to work,\n\n\"and I ran into the apartment,\ngot my essentials, and left.\n\n\"I'm currently crashing with a buddy.\n\n\"Our lease is up in one month.\n\n\"My intention is simply to not renew.\n\n\"This dude is blowing up my phone,\n\n\"and I am getting texts from other people,\n\n\"some friends of mine\n\n\"and some bozos who are friends with him.\n\n\"He is going around\ntelling people I shamed him\n\n\"and that I am rejecting his apologies.\n\n\"Some people are claiming\nI am overreacting\n\n\"and invalidating his feelings.\n\n\"Most people agree he was improper\n\n\"but think I should work it out with him\n\n\"and give a second chance\nbecause he's sensitive.\n\n\"I feel like I'm losing my mind.\n\n\"I am seriously 20%\nconvinced I'm experiencing\n\n\"a long lucid dream of some sort\n\n\"and wondering if I'm going to wake up\n\n\"or I'm in a coma or something\n\n\"because this shit is so insane to me.\n\n\"Like, not really, but maybe really.\n\n\"I mean, what the (beep)?\"\n\n- Dude, that is nightmare city.\n\nTo be honest, the thought of\nhaving anyone in your place\n\nthat is not supposed to be\nthere, but underneath your bed?\n\nAnd saturate?\n\n- He goes to the Dunkin Donuts\nand the guy's turned around,\n\nand he goes, \"Can I get a vanilla latte?\"\n\nAnd he goes, \"Yeah, do you need-\"\n\n- And it's his roommate.\n\n- And his roommate\ngoes, \"Saturation time.\"\n\n- [Shayne] Oh God.\n\n(Amanda slurps)\n\nWhat does that...\n\nWhat?\n\n- I don't know.\n\n- I don't even think I fully\nunderstand what it means,\n\nand I don't want know.\n\n- Yeah, that's what I'm like.\n\nI don't want anyone in the comments\n\nto explain what physical\nsaturation is to me.\n\nWe could just leave that there.\n\n- Something about body oils,\n\nbut we don't need to talk about it.\n\n- No. Yeah.\n\n- Oh my god!\n\n- I am very curious how anyone\nis trying to defend this\n\nand what they were told.\n- Agreed.\n\n- 'Cause it's like there is no version of,\n\n\"Yeah, so they were sleeping under my bed\n\n\"for a couple months without me knowing,\"\n\nwhere I'm like, \"Oh, well,\nyou know, they're sensitive.\"\n\n- If that was a regular person,\n\nregardless, if that was\nlike your good friend\n\nthat you knew really well\nwho like wanted to date you\n\nor just like, even that is weird.\n\nThe fact that this is an absolute,\n\nthey're not even really friends.\n\nThey're just roommates.\n\n- If I woke up in the middle of the night\n\nand Courtney was under\nthe bed, I'd be like,\n\n\"I don't know about this.\"\n\n- No.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\nNo, I'm with you.\n\nThat would be not okay.\n\n- Sometimes I wake up in\nthe middle of the night\n\nand my cat is under the bed and I'm like,\n\n\"You're freaking me out.\"\n\n- Dude, you're freaking me out.\n\n- You can't do this.\n\n- I don't know what it is\nspecifically about under the bed\n\nthat feels extra intimate.\n\nLike, that's your place of rest.\n\nThat's where you're sleeping.\n\n- Simply him going into\nhis room uninvited,\n\nthat alone under any circumstances\n\nis enough to be fully\nkicking that person out,\n\nnot trusting that person.\n\nBut this?\n\nI mean, this is so horrifying\n\nthat I want to not believe\nthat this story is real.\n\nBut I also know that roommates out there\n\ndo some weird stuff.\n- No.\n\nHave you ever seen \"Worst\nRoommate Ever\" on Netflix?\n\n- [Shayne] No.\n\n- Don't.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Have you?\n\n- No.\n- Don't.\n\n- Roommates can be horrible.\n\n- It's really hard to watch.\n\n- The verdict was not the asshole.\n\n- No, definitely not.\n\nHe went to Dunkin Donuts, a place of God.\n\n- Dude, let him sleep under your bed!\n\nHe's going through a breakup!\n\n- Dude, you're being a jerk.\n\n- Like, what?\n- Let him saturate you.\n\nDude, come on.\n\n- He wasn't touching you!\n\n- Yeah, barely.\n\n- They were just physically saturating.\n\nComments.\n\n\"Dude is not mentally stable\n\n\"and you need to get outta there.\"\n\n- [Amanda] Yep.\n\n- \"Sounds like he'd end\nup wearing your skin\n\n\"or some shit to physically\nsaturate with you.\"\n\nSomeone said, \"Yes, you did shame him.\n\n\"Yes, you rejected his apologies.\n\n\"Why?\n\n\"Because he crossed so many\nboundaries of common decency,\n\n\"privacy, and basic human respect.\n\n\"This is the behavior of a\npredator, a stalker would do.\n\n\"Whatever trust you had\nwith Carl has been broken,\n\n\"shattered into 1,000 pieces.\n\n\"Not the asshole.\"\n\nLastly, someone said,\n\n\"Why would anyone say you\nshould work it out with someone\n\n\"who was hiding under\nyour bed every night?\"\n\nYeah, I don't know what\nthese people are hearing,\n\n'cause there is no world\nwhere I'd defend that.\n\n- Yeah, I think like you\ncan like whatever you like,\n\nbut when it comes to\ndisrespecting someone's safe space\n\nor just when it comes to like\ninvading someone's privacy,\n\nthat's just plain scary and disrespectful.\n\n- I think it's really scary,\n\nespecially when you're sleeping.\n\nYou are not fully there.\n\nLike, you feel safe,\n\nthat you are absolutely\nresting, your body's healing.\n\nAnd there is someone actively in there.\n\nLike, just the thought of someone\n\nin the corner of your room watching you.\n\nBut underneath?\n\nCan you imagine if he went up\nand tickled his little feet?\n\n- Don't do that, Amanda!\n\nDon't even bring it up!\n\n- Here's the deal, guys.\n\nYou have to wear a\nblanket around your feet.\n\nIf you don't, your feet\nare gonna get tickled.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nAnd I know-\n\n- You know this?\n\n- No, I know that Shayne\n\nlikes to have a little leg out sometimes.\n\nHe's told me this.\n\n- You guys are too close.\n\n- Which is like for the\ntaking at any moment.\n\n- Are you talking about\nfrom ghosts or people?\n\n- All the above, Shayne.\n\n- You sleep showing a little leg?\n\n- I will say though,\n\nhaving cats makes me not\nas scared of that stuff\n\n'cause like, my cats are under the bed,\n\nso they're making sure\nthere's no ghosts under there.\n\nAnd also the nice thing\nabout having pets, like cats,\n\ncats especially, is like\nif they're freaking out,\n\nthen I'm like freaking out.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- 'Cause they're so sensitive,\n\n- But you just have your leg out?\n\n- I mean, my cat's right there.\n\n- You gotta wrap everything\nup, so you're safe.\n\n- My cat will eat any\nghost that's out there.\n\n- Well, I don't have a cat.\n\nI potentially have 100\nghosts underneath my bed\n\nthat are ready to tickle at any moment.\n\n- Hold on. Have you guys ever (laughs)\n\nHave you-\n\n- Tickle ghosts.\n\n- Have you ever went to\nbed with your water bottle\n\nand woken up and been like, \"Who is that?\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- No. (laughs) No.\n\n- No. I don't sleep with my water bottle.\n\n- No?\n\n- It goes in the cabinet at night.\n\n- How big is your water bottle?\n\n- It's like this, right?\n\n- This is what she does.\n\nShe watches things like\nthis, and she goes like this.\n\n- It's like my bottle.\n\nAnd I'm watching-\n\n- And then she goes like this.\n\n- And then sometimes I'll fall asleep\n\nand it's still right there.\n\nAnd it's just like a,\nit's just like an item,\n\nand you're like (screams)\n\nAnd it's just a water. (laughs)\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- So no.\n\nI don't set myself up\n\nfor that shit.\n- No, no.\n\n- I tuck in like a burrito\nand I prepare for the night.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- I think having a cat has made,\n\nI used to be, when I\nlived alone without pets,\n\nI would be scared at night sometimes\n\nbecause you hear a noise and\nyou're like, \"What is that?\"\n\n- [Angela] You're like calm now.\n\n- Whereas luckily cats, they do this thing\n\nwhere at 3:00 AM they decide,\n\n\"Hey, I'm gonna (beep) everything up.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nAnd so anytime you wake up\nin the middle of the night\n\nand you hear a noise, you're\njust like, \"Yeah, he's...\n\n\"That's Bones being a\n(beep) weirdo somewhere.\"\n\nLike, he found a bottle cap,\n\nand he's throwing it around the room.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nIt's like, okay.\n\n- He's like, \"You gotta see this, man!\"\n\n- Like, truly like a ghost\ncould be around, I'm like,\n\n\"I don't care about you right now.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nSorry, my cat's being weird.\n\nThis was awful.\n\n- There's no update?\n\n- There's no update.\n\nThat's where that ends.\n\n- Why did he get a decaf coffee though?\n\n- You know, okay.\n\n- He's anxious!\n\nCould you imagine being\nin that anxious state\n\nand then adding caffeine?\n\nI'm like, \"Don't touch\nme! Don't touch me!\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- You know, it sucks that the texts,\n\neverything before and after\n\nthat this guy said made\nit all horrible, right?\n\nBecause he did also\nsay the things of like,\n\n\"Oh, are you open to experimenting?\"\n\nHe's like, \"No.\"\n\nAnd he is like, \"We'll see.\"\n\n- We'll see.\n\n- I'd be like, \"What?\"\n\n- Excuse you.\n\n- Like, you need to continue.\n\nWhat do you mean by that?\n\n- We'll see? No.\n\n- 'Cause otherwise I'd be like,\n\nwhat if this is like a\nLarry David situation\n\nwhere like something happened-\n\n- He's just trying to get\nhis glasses under there.\n\n- Like, he dropped his glasses.\n\nLike, he's like, \"Oh no, I left\nmy glasses underneath my...\n\n\"They fell underneath my roommate's bed.\n\n\"I need to go get them.\"\n\nSo he's underneath the bed late at night.\n\nAnd as he's crawling out,\nsaying, \"Sorry, sorry, sorry.\"\n\nYou hear (vocalizes silly song)\n\n- It's, \"No, this isn't what it is!\"\n\nHe's like, \"Yes, it is!\"\n\n- No, guys.\n\nFor three months he dropped\nhis glasses every night?\n\n- No, that's what I mean.\n\nEverything he said...\n\nWhy did he give up that information?\n\n- I think 'cause he wants\nthis guy to be like into it.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I think he wants him to be\nlike, \"God, that's creepy.\n\n\"Do you wanna?\"\n\n- No.\n\n- The prep that must go into this\n\nto like be there before he settles in.\n\n- No, he comes in while he's sleeping.\n\n- No, it's awful in every sort of way.\n\n- Picture it.\n\n- You know the boogeyman\nis underneath that bed\n\nand he's like, \"I'm not\neven the problem here.\"\n\n- Yeah, he's like, \"Go ahead, man.\"\n\n- Boogeyman looks at him and\ngoes, \"You're a (beep) freak.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Boogeyman's like, \"You\nare messed up, dude.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nThis episode of \"Reddit Stories\"\n\nis brought to you by Zocdoc.\n\nWhen it comes to booking\ndoctor's appointments,\n\nwe've all made excuses.\n\nI'm too busy.\n\nIt's too complicated.\n\nI don't know which doctor to go see.\n\nWe've made 'em all.\n\nI know I'm guilty of that.\n\nBut with Zocdoc, there's\nno reason to delay.\n\nThey make booking an\nappointment with a doctor\n\nwho's just right for you simple and easy.\n\nZocdoc is a free app and\nwebsite where you can search\n\nand compare high quality\nin-network doctors\n\nand click to instantly\nbook an appointment.\n\nWe're talking about 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Yuck.\n\n- Our next story comes\nfrom Relationship Advice.\n\nThis is a 30-year-old woman.\n\n\"My student, who's 18, 18-year-old boy,\n\n\"made a super creepy comment.\n\n\"My husband, a 35-year-old\nman, thinks I'm being paranoid.\n\n\"I'm a high school English teacher\n\n\"and have been for a few years.\n\n\"In that time, as a woman,\nI've been used to teenage boys\n\n\"behaving awkwardly around me sometimes\n\n\"and pheromones are part of the deal.\n\n\"There have been occasional comments,\n\n\"but generally in the vein of,\n\n\"'Miss, so-and-so has a crush on you,'\n\n\"or, 'Miss, would you be\nso-and-so's Valentine?'\n\n\"It's all in good humor in\nfront of the whole class\n\n\"or in a large group and is well-meaning.\n\n\"My school throws a\nJanuary ball for seniors,\n\n\"who are 16 to 18, which\nis basically an opportunity\n\n\"to celebrate the start\nof another calendar year.\n\n\"As it's after hours, not\nevery teacher has to attend,\n\n\"and this year I was asked to chaperone.\n\n\"There is no alcohol permitted,\n\n\"but obviously some of them\nsneak in hip flasks and so on.\n\n\"During this month's ball,\ntwo students were huddled\n\n\"at a table in the corner of the hall,\n\n\"not dancing, just keeping to themselves.\n\n\"I know them well as problematic students\n\n\"who have difficulties socially,\n\n\"but also perform poorly academically,\n\n\"so they don't fit in\nwith the popular crowd\n\n\"or the nerdy crowd.\n\n\"We have some of these every year.\n\n\"Poor hygiene, greasy\nhair, long fingernails,\n\n\"that sort of thing.\n\n\"Immediately I could tell\nthey had been drinking\n\n\"from the way they spoke and smelled\n\n\"and asked them to hand\nover any alcohol they had.\n\n\"One of the boys, call him\nStewart, started protesting.\n\n\"He said the following,\n\n\"and I'm 100% sure this\nis what he actually said.\n\n\"'Come on, Miss,\n\n\"'don't pretend you won't\nopen that bottle of Bailey's\n\n\"'when you get home, feet\nup in your dressing gown,\n\n\"'watching the new TV.\n\n\"'Give us a break.'\n\n\"Now as soon as he said this,\n\n\"I felt my heart drop into my\nstomach and got cold all over.\n\n\"I had just bought a bottle\nof Bailey's Irish cream\n\n\"for myself the weekend before the dance.\n\n\"I am in the habit on nights\n\n\"where I don't have much marking/planning\n\n\"and want to treat myself of having a bath\n\n\"and watching a movie/series\nin my dressing gown.\n\n\"And my husband bought a new\ntelevision over Christmas.\n\n\"I asked him how he knew those things,\n\n\"and he feigned ignorance,\n\n\"basically saying it was a lucky guess.\n\n\"I was so shaken that I left them,\n\n\"and a short while later, they both left.\n\n\"But that night I could barely sleep,\n\n\"and my paranoia kept growing.\n\n\"I simply cannot believe\n\n\"that he could have guessed\nall three of those things.\n\n\"One maybe, but no way all three.\n\n\"My husband is away for work currently.\n\n\"I phoned and told him about it,\n\n\"and he basically downplayed my concerns,\n\n\"saying I probably mentioned\nthose things to my class\n\n\"at various points and the\nstudent has just remembered it.\n\n\"But I would never mention those things.\n\n\"I just wouldn't, and I'm sure I haven't.\n\n\"I've become more skittish\nat home when I hear noises.\n\n\"I only live in a small house.\n\n\"But when I arrive home\nfrom buying groceries,\n\n\"I check every single room and cupboard\n\n\"before I lock the doors.\n\n\"I've also arranged to\nhave the locks changed.\n\n\"When cars stop outside the\nhouse, I turn all the lights off\n\n\"and peek at them through the blinds.\n\n\"I'm having trouble sleeping.\n\n\"In class, this student is\nquiet and the same as ever.\n\n\"Not completing homework\nassignments, distracted in class.\n\n\"My husband is growing\nincreasingly exasperated\n\n\"and worried for my mental health,\n\n\"than the possibility this student\n\n\"could somehow know details\nof my personal life.\n\n\"I mentioned it to my supervisor as well,\n\n\"and she also basically reasoned\n\n\"that I had either misheard what he said,\n\n\"it was a coincidence, or\na combination of the two.\n\n\"What's the play here?\n\n\"I'm seriously freaked out\n\n\"and don't know how to even\nbegin putting this to rest.\"\n\n- Get a camera.\n\n(Shayne sighs)\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- This is scary.\n\n- Bailey's is specific.\n\n- That's so specific.\n\n- Like, why-\n\n- It's really scary.\n\n- Or did...\n\nNo.\n\nI was like, did she tell\nsomeone that she trusted,\n\nlike a teacher and the\nteacher was talking about it\n\nand the kid heard it?\n\nI don't know.\n\n- I mean, I think regardless,\n\nsomething inappropriate\nhappened here, right?\n\nLike, you know that he knew\ninformation he shouldn't.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- So either someone she trusts somehow\n\nwas telling this information.\n\nThat's like the best case scenario.\n\n- Worst is-\n\n- Worst is like he was-\n\n- Stalking.\n\n- Stalking her or spying\non her in some way.\n\nI...\n\nI mean, I don't know.\n\nBut that's a terrifying thing to say.\n\nTerrifying that he goes back\nto acting normal afterwards.\n\nJust like (groans)\n\n- I think like the only\nlike real takeaway,\n\nlike actionable takeaway from this to me\n\nis like when someone's in that state\n\nand they're freaked out like that,\n\nI feel like if you're their loved one\n\nor you're their friend, you can't be like-\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- You can't just like, \"No, no, no, no.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\nRelax. You probably told them.\n\n- Like, that's not...\n\nThat sets you off more almost.\n\n- Right.\n\nIt's like I don't understand\npeople when you're like,\n\n\"I'm afraid, this happened.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- It's like good to voice\nof reason someone of course,\n\nright?\n- Yeah.\n\n- Because like paranoia is a thing,\n\nbut I think like just\nshutting it down completely\n\nmakes that person even more alert.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I think the best\nthing, I mean, it's like\n\nwhat do you do in these\ntypes of situations?\n\nBut the best thing is\nto like believe them,\n\nand you can try to, if\nyou wanna try to downplay\n\nor offer up possibilities\n\nas a means of making them feel calm,\n\nbut your action plan should\nbe about worst case scenario.\n\n- 100%.\n\n- Okay, well in case if he\ndid, let's set up a camera.\n\nLet's figure out like, should\nyou go stay somewhere else?\n\nLike, if you're feeling this way-\n\n- You don't wanna exacerbate their fear.\n\n- It's not just, well, whatever.\n\nYou're by yourself, who cares?\n\nI don't believe you.\n\nIt's like, no, I believe\nthat this was weird.\n\n- Right.\n\n- Okay.\n\nThere's other possibilities\nthat could be at play.\n\n- Yes.\n\n- But let's take the action\nplan of worst case scenario.\n\n- Like, let's rule out other things.\n\nLet's talk this through.\n\n- [Shayne] Yeah.\n\n- But let's make sure\nI don't make you feel,\n\nI mean, the bad C word, crazy.\n\n- Right.\n\n- Right, exactly.\n\nShe's already feeling scared,\nand now people that she trusts\n\nare making her feel a little bit crazy.\n\n- That's the hard part with this.\n\n- Because now she's just alone.\n\nIt's like, what if she's right, you know?\n\nIt's like if someone's like,\n\n\"Hey, I think I'm being followed.\"\n\nIt's like, okay, maybe the\nsigns don't show to that,\n\nbut it's like, but let's take\nthe steps if that's the case.\n\n- I mean, that's like a\nhuge thing just in culture,\n\nlike it's the shift of like\nwhen someone is very vulnerable\n\nand hurt about something,\n\nthe space in which they\ntake to like come forward\n\nand bring it to someone\nis a delicate-ass spot\n\nthat you have to be careful with\n\nbecause that gets somebody\neven more freaked out.\n\n- Yeah, because then if\nyou make them feel alone,\n\nthen they won't start telling you details\n\nand then things will happen\nto them that are very real\n\nthat they start to go, \"Well, I'm crazy.\n\n\"No, I'm overreacting,\"\n\nand they're missing all the\nreal signs that are right there.\n\n- But he said three very specific things.\n\nYou know, Bailey's and a new TV.\n\nIt's like-\n\n- He said a new TV?\n- He said a new TV?\n\n- He said a new TV and she had just\n\ngotten a new TV.\n- Oh.\n\n- Okay, then...\n\n- I don't even know this\nwoman and I believe her.\n\nLike, what are we debating?\n\n- Bailey's and a new TV.\n\n- I believe her and I believe-\n\n- And a nightgown.\n\n- I believe what he said.\n\nLike, he knows this\ninformation, so it's like...\n\nI mean, all signs point to the\nmost horrifying possibility.\n\n- Creepy.\n\n- Comments.\n\n\"My thing is why would he say new TV?\n\n\"I could believe it if he\nsaid drinking some wine,\n\n\"watching TV in your dressing gown.\n\n\"But being extremely specific\nabout your drink of choice\n\n\"and new TV is a little scary.\n\n\"Wine is the trope/TV is what you\n\n\"would think people\ndo/dressing gown is cozy.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- \"But those extra added details\nmake it not a coincidence.\"\n\nOP says, \"Exactly. Exactly.\n\n\"If it was just, you're\ngoing to have some Bailey's\n\n\"or even you'll have some\nBailey's in front of your TV,\n\n\"like okay, but those\ncomments plus the new TV?\"\n\nSomeone else said, \"Is\nit possible that you\n\n\"or your husband were\nobserved buying the new TV\n\n\"and the Bailey's?\n\n\"The student's parents could\nhave seen either purchase\n\n\"and said, 'Oh, OP just\ngot a new LG 65 inch.'\n\n\"I agree you should do a sweep for cameras\n\n\"or ask a tech-ish friend for help.\n\n\"But that would necessitate figuring out\n\n\"how all the cameras got there,\n\n\"which opens up a larger conspiracy.\"\n\n- I thought about that too,\nbut like not the same store.\n\nYou don't buy a TV the same\nplace you're getting Bailey's.\n\nI mean, Target.\n\n- Yeah. What?\n\nYeah, exactly.\n\nYou're not like, \"All right,\nwe're in for the night.\n\n\"Here's my Bailey's, here's my TV.\"\n\nLike, that doesn't happen.\n\n- Let's get some toilet\npaper and then we'll call it.\n\n- And then we'll call it.\n\nLike, what?\n\n- OP responded, 'cause\nthis was another thought\n\nthat I kind of had was I'm like,\n\nwhat if he's not physically\nthere spying on her,\n\nbut what if he put cameras somewhere?\n\n'Cause OP responded to\nthat comment saying,\n\n\"How can I do a sweep for cameras?\n\n\"I genuinely wanna know.\"\n\nSomeone said, \"Open your Bluetooth\n\n\"and see if there are any weird devices.\n\n\"Obviously if you live\nin an apartment building,\n\n\"this probably won't work\n\n\"because you'll pick up\nyour neighbor's stuff.\n\n\"They sell devices that\nlook for hidden cameras.\n\n\"But I think it's just something\nthat emits a beam of light\n\n\"that would bounce off a camera lens.\n\n\"I've never seen one\nthat seems worth buying.\n\n\"Otherwise I don't have any suggestions.\"\n\nOP responded, \"There are some\ndevices I don't recognize.\n\n\"In the morning, it's late here,\n\n\"I'll go ask my neighbors\nto try and rule some out.\n\n\"Thank you.\"\n\n- Tell me there's more.\n\n- Update.\n\n- Thank God.\n\nBut also scary.\n\n- So scary.\n\nAnd I will say my first thought\n\nwas not that he planted\ncameras in the place.\n\nI didn't even think about that.\n\n- Yeah, I mean, that would be my first-\n\n- That's beyond.\n\n- I mean, these aren't great predictions.\n\nLike, I don't love this,\n\nbut when would he have\nhad the opportunity?\n\nI don't know.\n\nOkay, let's get into this update.\n\n\"I wasn't expecting this post\nto receive so much attention.\n\n\"I'm really grateful to so many people\n\n\"who have validated my concerns\n\n\"and helped me develop a plan of action.\n\n\"I got home a little while ago,\n\n\"and I'm going out shortly with a friend\n\n\"to try to rule out\nBluetooth and wifi devices\n\n\"with my neighbors.\n\n\"After that, the two of us will try\n\n\"and conduct a meticulous\nsearch of the house\n\n\"for any concealed devices\n\n\"using the lights out phone camera trick\n\n\"some people recommended\n\n\"and some other tips I've found online.\n\n\"Just to clarify a few points\n\n\"that I've seen raised a few times.\n\n\"Dressing gown is a really\ncommon term here in England\n\n\"for what Americans might call a robe.\n\n\"It's absolutely common parlance.\n\n\"Here most people I know\nwould associate a robe\n\n\"with something a wizard might wear.\n\n\"In terms of it being a lucky guess,\n\n\"if he had just said relax\nwith a glass of wine,\n\n\"I might have assumed so.\n\n\"But the dressing gown comment\nplus the Bailey's comment\n\n\"when I had just bought a bottle\n\n\"and the explicit mention\nof a new television,\n\n\"which I'm 100% certain\nI did not misinterpret,\n\n\"these things make it so much harder\n\n\"to write off as a coincidence.\n\n\"As far as social media\ngoes, I have Instagram,\n\n\"which is set to private\nunder my maiden name\n\n\"and my profile picture is not of me.\n\n\"I'm not in the habit of\nconnecting with former students.\n\n\"I only have three who have\nall gone on to study English\n\n\"at university and have\nused me as references.\n\n\"I also have a Snapchat,\n\n\"which I use only with my\nhusband and very close friends.\n\n\"I have posted nothing\nabout my new television,\n\n\"and I also don't think I've\nmentioned this to colleagues,\n\n\"let alone to students.\n\n\"Certainly I said nothing about\nthe Bailey's I just bought.\"\n\nOkay, so that wasn't\nreally any new information.\n\nOkay, here's where I'm at.\n\n- [Angela] Yeah.\n\n- [Amanda] That's not a new update.\n\n- Here's where I'm at.\n\n- That's it?\n\n- [Shayne] No.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- There's another update.\n\nUpdate number two.\n\nBut before we get into it-\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Where my head is going\nis not necessarily,\n\nI'm not sitting here\ngoing, \"Oh, she's wrong.\"\n\n- No, for sure, for sure.\n\n- I'm like, something\nbad is happening here.\n\nI don't trust her husband.\n\nI don't like that he's playing this off,\n\nand it has me worried.\n\nLike, what he could\npotentially be in this.\n\nI might be so off, right?\n\n- I was also thinking too\nduring that first update,\n\nI was thinking like, even though though,\n\nif like the kid was a Postmates driver\n\nand he came over, he saw\nher in a rob with Bailey's.\n\nBut you wouldn't know\nthat's new TV, or like...\n\n- Why isn't the husband\nlike helping her around?\n\n- Or Uber.\n\nI'm like thinking of things\n\nthat would give you someone's location\n\nas well as their identity.\n\n- Yeah, did he come in and like...\n\n- Like, deliver something?\n\nIt's just so weird.\n\n- I just, I don't know.\n\nThat's just where my head goes,\n\nbut that's also me thinking like,\n\nI'm like, someone said this to your wife\n\nand you weren't immediately\nlike, \"What the (beep)?\"\n\n- Right.\n\n- Like, that's where I'm\nlike, what are you doing?\n\n- Right.\n\n- But I also know like with\nlike a movie or a TV show,\n\nthat would be-\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Where this would go.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- It's like, oh, actually\nyour husband was-\n\n- Is the murderer.\n\n- Doing some weird stuff.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I'm hoping I'm wrong.\n\nI don't know what I'm hoping for here.\n\nUpdate number two.\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- \"I wasn't going to post an update here,\n\n\"but the number of worried people\n\n\"who have reached out to\nme made me reconsider.\"\n\n- Thank you.\n\n- \"After a thorough search of\nmy house, I found two devices.\n\n\"They seem to be camera devices.\n\n\"I don't know if audio is included.\n\n\"One of them was in the\nsmoke detector in my bedroom\n\n\"while the other was concealed in the wall\n\n\"of my living room.\n\n\"Looking at an old picture of my bedroom,\n\n\"it looks like the smoke detector itself\n\n\"has changed very slightly.\n\n\"I think that the new one\nis a device in itself,\n\n\"which the culprit somehow\nswitched with the old one\n\n\"without us noticing.\n\n\"The matter has now been\nreferred to the police.\n\n\"If it wasn't for so many\nof you taking me seriously\n\n\"and giving me practical advice,\n\n\"I wouldn't have had the courage to check,\n\n\"especially given my husband\ndownplaying the concerns.\n\n\"He has been very apologetic\n\n\"and is coming back from\nhis work trip early.\n\n\"But I've asked to spend some time apart\n\n\"and will be staying with\nmy parents for a while.\n\n\"I'm glad I raised the issue\nwith the head at my school\n\n\"and a couple of others\nas there's a paper trail.\n\n\"Another suggestion from the thread.\n\n\"Needless to say, I'm\ncompletely shaken to my core\n\n\"and I have the most revolting feeling\n\n\"of my privacy being invaded.\n\n\"I have no idea how many people\nhave been involved in this,\n\n\"but phones have been taken from students\n\n\"and we should have more answers soon.\n\n\"I won't be making any\nmore posts or updates.\"\n\n- No!\n\n- \"Thank you again to\neveryone for affirming me\n\n\"and making me feel sane.\"\n\n- No more posts or updates?\n\n- That's the end of that.\n\n- No!\n\n- That's better for her safety,\n\nbut I just wanna know what\nthe hell was going on?\n\n- I'm genuinely worried for her.\n\nLike, I wanna know,\n\ndid we just uncover a web of\nstudents being (beep) stalkers?\n\n- We didn't do anything.\n\n- No, we did everything.\n\nWe're in this.\n- We read a story that was...\n\nThis story was posted like a year ago,\n\nso we found it a year-\n\n- A year ago?\n- This is awful.\n\n- So that wasn't even like AI tech.\n\n- No. Wait...\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- Like, who knows whatever\nthe (beep) is happening now.\n\n- In her bedroom?\n\nThis is terrifying.\n\n- I'll also say this,\nthis is the takeaway.\n\nWe can go back to this part\n\nbecause this whole thing\nis astronomically wild\n\nand so hard to understand\nbecause it's scary.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But I will say her not\ngoing with her husband\n\nfor a couple days, that's what happens\n\nwhen you don't make the\npeople you love feel safe.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- They leave.\n\n- Come on.\n\nLike, she was scared.\n\n- Monumental (beep) up\non the husband's part\n\nis to not take his wife seriously.\n\n- Yeah, I agree.\n\nThat's why she's staying with her parents.\n\n- 'Cause she doesn't feel safe.\n\n- Yeah. She doesn't feel safe with him.\n\nI mean, she's saying\nhe's being apologetic.\n\nShe does say there's a paper trail.\n\nSo my understanding is\nthat whoever did this\n\nwill be found out.\n\nI mean...\n\n- I gotta know.\n\n- Unfortunately, I have to know.\n\n- Actually this story was pretty recent.\n\nIt was from January, so it's\n\nonly a couple months ago.\n- Of this year?\n\n- Yeah. So we don't know.\n\nAnd I'm assuming, you know,\nif there's a legal case,\n\nthey're not gonna be like\nposting anything about it\n\n'cause...\n\n- But maybe like in two\nyears we'll have like a...\n\n- Update.\n\n- No, like a-\n\n- Will we still be friends in two years?\n\n- No, like a retelling with like actors.\n\n- You think?\n\n- Maybe.\n\n- I feel like Hugh Grant's\ngonna be the husband.\n\n- And Nicole Kidman's\ngonna be the teacher.\n\n- The teacher.\n\n- Ah, this is just, I\nfeel so hard for her.\n\n- [Shayne] I know.\n\n- Well, that's terrifying.\n\n- Having your space invaded like that.\n\n- What if she didn't hear him say that?\n\nAnd she lived and lived and lived\n\nwith all those cameras there.\n\n- All right, this next story\n\ncomes from Best of Redditor Updates.\n\n- Okay, so good.\n\nUpdate. Resolution.\n\n- A resolution.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nOkay.\n\n- OP writes, \"Everything in\nmy house is turning green.\"\n\nIncluding the ham and the eggs.\n\n- No, don't add that.\n- Hey. No.\n\nNo.\n\n- Just read. You're just supposed to read.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Oh my god, she's awful!\n\nThis is what she does when she watches TV.\n\nGuarantee it.\n\n- I'm like, I don't\nwanna hear all that. Go.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- Everything in her house is green.\n\n- This is what your TV sees\n\nwhen you're watching a\ntrue crime documentary.\n\nStop talking.\n\n- Go to that. (laughs)\n\n- Okay, so this came from the\nsubreddit of Cleaning Tips,\n\nwhich we've never done a story\nfrom Cleaning Tips before.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Usually a boring subreddit, it feels.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I mean, interesting.\n\n- Cleaning is fun.\n\n- I like cleaning.\n\n- I mean, I like it.\n\nI just think it's boring.\n\n- Okay.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\nAnd that's fair.\n\n- That's fair.\n\n- They're gonna roast me in the comments.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- All right.\n\n\"Everything in my house is turning green.\n\n\"At first it was just my cat,\n\n\"and then it became my bedsheets, my feet,\n\n\"which then stained my shoes and socks,\n\n\"my couch, my phone\ncharger, and now my wall.\n\n\"I don't know what it is.\n\n\"I have no idea where to post this,\n\n\"but I'm wondering if anyone\nknows how to get rid of it\n\n\"or what it is.\n\n\"At first I thought it was mold,\n\n\"but now I'm thinking maybe\nit's my laundry detergent pods,\n\n\"which are green.\n\n\"But I did a test wash and dry,\n\n\"and it didn't stain my\nclothes until I wore them\n\n\"for a few hours around the\nhouse before it turned green.\"\n\n- Her feet are green?\n\n- This is so funny.\n\n- We have a picture of OP's cats,\n\nand I gotta be honest, am I...\n\n- Oh, I see it a little bit.\n\nIt's a light tint.\n\n- Okay.\n\nOkay, so we got a little bit\nof green all over the place.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- You being like the supportive.\n\nOkay, so we have a little bit of-\n\n- Okay, so we got a little green.\n\n- Little green all over the place.\n\n- [Shayne] All right, so we\ngot a little bit of green.\n\n- You're the husband who believes,\n\nand we love that about you, Shayne.\n\n- Yeah, we do.\n\n- Honey, your stuff's a little green.\n\n- [Angela] It's sweet.\n\n- [Amanda] It's very sweet.\n\n- You know, sometimes\nthings get a little green.\n\n- Okay, so there's green all over place.\n\n- You know, sometimes there's\ngreen all over the world,\n\nand, you know, and people just\nlike they deal with green.\n\nSometimes things are green.\n\n- Oh God.\n\n- Some comments.\n\n\"I've seen stories about\nindustrial materials\n\n\"like copper from roofing\nmaterials turning cats green.\n\n\"Are your cats indoor cats\n\n\"or do they have access to industrial\n\n\"or cleaning materials\nthat might be stored\n\n\"in your garage, closet, or laundry room?\"\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Someone else said,\n\n\"Long shot, but maybe check under your bed\n\n\"if you have box springs\nor under any furniture.\n\n\"Sometimes the material used\nunder furniture will degrade\n\n\"and break up over time and dye things.\n\n\"I had it happen with a chair once,\n\n\"and it took me a while to figure out\n\n\"that's where the color was coming from.\"\n\nSomeone else said,\n\n\"Or maybe you bought some\nnew jeans from Old Navy?\n\n\"LOL. They stain everything.\"\n\n- LOL!\n\n- LOL?\n- OP said,\n\n\"Me and my husband are not jeans wearers.\"\n\n- So-\n\n- Don't judge.\n\n- What are you?\n\n- You could've said, \"My\nhusband and I don't wear jeans.\"\n\n- No, I think it's totally fine.\n\nI think jeans can be bullshit, but like...\n\n- Whoa.\n\n- [Amanda] They're really hard.\n\n- I think jeans can be-\n\n- When you're six feet, you\ncan never find a good pair.\n\n- Ah, for sure.\n\n- Get that.\n\n- Update.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Anyways...\n\nAnyhoo...\n\n- Okay, what is it?\n\n- What do we think the green is?\n\n- I didn't know about the copper.\n\n- At first, I was like, oh,\nis OP like having some sort\n\nof neurological thing going on\n\nwhere everything's looking green to them?\n\nBut the way that the staining is happening\n\nwhere it's like splotches\nof green has me not thinking\n\nthat's the case.\n- It's the cats.\n\n- And we have a photo of the cat.\n\n- I think the cat went\ninto something that's green\n\nand kind of got it on\nthe sheets, got it on-\n\n- And the cat's playing\nwith the phone charger,\n\nnow it's green.\n\n- Yeah, and the cat's touching her feet\n\nand putting her feet-\n\n- I mean, I hate to be like a sore loser,\n\nbut I think it's some\ncleaning product she's using\n\n'cause of the cleaning stuff.\n\n- That would be so illegal.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Like, it's gotta be like something\n\nthat she's spraying everywhere.\n\n- Or it's a leprechaun\ntrying to send her a message.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- It's a leprechaun.\n\nUpdate. It was a leprechaun.\n\n- Oh my god, I knew it!\n\n- Next story!\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- Update. \"Hi.\n\n\"So I don't know if this is allowed,\n\n\"but I wanted to post an\nupdate to my original post\n\n\"because many, many people asked for one.\n\n\"I honestly don't know how to work Reddit\n\n\"at all that well on mobile\n\n\"and couldn't figure out how\nto edit my original post.\n\n\"Heck, I don't even know\n\n\"how to link my original post properly.\n\n\"But here's the update.\n\n\"I had my water and AC\nchecked, and both were fine.\n\n\"The technician said my water\nhardness was a bit hard,\n\n\"but he didn't think\n\n\"that would affect the green\nstains I've been seeing.\n\n\"I also got rid of the red bedsheets I had\n\n\"and put on my boring corporate beige ones\n\n\"the day I posted the original post.\n\n\"Then I waited.\n\n\"It's funny because I\nwas trying to determine\n\n\"if the green stains were going away\n\n\"based on if my cat was turning green.\n\n\"Anytime I saw she was becoming greener,\n\n\"I determined that what whatever\nI changed wasn't the cause.\n\n\"Well, I got my water softened\nand with my new bedsheets,\n\n\"my cat was still turning\ngreen but a lot slower.\n\n\"So maybe it was just\nfrom the residual green\n\n\"that was now stained on my\ncouch and velvet bed frame.\n\n\"Then we had another\nperson inspect for mold,\n\n\"which was also negative.\n\n\"Some other commenters had mentioned\n\n\"they had bought the\nsame bedsheets on Amazon\n\n\"and had a similar problem,\nso I think it is that.\n\n\"On another note, someone also commented\n\n\"asking if my husband was cheating on me\n\n\"with someone who wears Old Navy jeans.\n\n\"I won't lie, when that comment came up,\n\n\"I nervously laughed.\n\n\"I quickly checked our joint bank account\n\n\"for any Old Navy purchases.\n\n\"While there weren't any,\n\n\"I couldn't shake these strange feelings-\"\n\n- Oh (beep)!\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- \"Although the commenter did\nnot know me or my husband,\n\n\"coincidentally, I've\nalready had suspicions\n\n\"on a possible affair\n\n\"from the multiple last\nminute overtime shifts\n\n\"and just overall changes in behavior.\n\n\"Also, my husband has cheated before,\n\n\"so I've always been a bit anxious.\"\n\nAll right.\n\n- Once a cheater, always\na cheater, you know?\n\n- \"So when I saw the comment joking\n\n\"about if my husband's affair\npartner wears Old Navy jeans,\n\n\"I spiraled, and then I\nadmit I did the bad thing\n\n\"and looked through my husband's phone.\"\n\n- Do it!\n\nHe cheated before!\n\nCheck his phone!\n\n- \"And there it was.\n\n\"And there it was.\n\n\"Some sexy Instagram DMs\nfrom a woman who wears jeans.\n\n\"Cannot confirm that they're Old Navy.\n\n\"So anyway, I spent the\nlast week at my parents\n\n\"with my cat.\"\n\n- Who's now orange.\n\n- Don't stop!\n\n- Is now orange.\n\n- It's done?\n\n- That's it.\n\n- What?\n\n- The green was happening\n\nand then the green led to\nher husband cheating again.\n\n- We don't know if the\ngreen came from her jeans?\n\n- She thinks the green came\nfrom the Amazon sheets,\n\nwhich she changed.\n\n- But that led to a whole other thing.\n\n- The green led to the jeans.\n\n- It was the leprechaun.\n\nHe wanted to send a message\n'cause he knows what's going on.\n\n- 'Cause her husband's\n(beep) the leprechaun.\n\n- I love how it's like-\n\n- Her husband is (beep) a\nleprechaun that wears jeans.\n\n- And it's a girl who wears bad jeans.\n\n- Bad jeans.\n\n- It's very unfortunate\nwhenever someone's like,\n\n\"Yeah, I have these\nsuspicions about my partner.\n\n\"I think they might be cheating.\n\n\"It's like, well this, this, and this.\n\n\"And they also cheated on me before.\"\n\nAnd I'm like, yeah,\nthey're cheating on you.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- So they never stop cheating on you.\n\n- I think if you have suspicions,\n\nunless like there's issues there\n\nand you're feeling very\nparanoid all the time,\n\nbut like I think if you have suspicions,\n\nmost likely they're true.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I mean, there's smoke\nwhere there's fire,\n\nbut then also there's a\ncrazy circumstances sometimes\n\nwhere like sometimes\npeople's cats are green\n\n'cause the sheets.\n\n- Sometimes cats are just green, you know?\n\n- Sometimes cats are green.\n\n- I was mentioning my cat earlier.\n\nSometimes, you know, my\ncat's just a little green.\n\n- Just a little.\n\n- I can't, wait.\n\nThe Old Navy situation though.\n- I can't get over this.\n\n- I guess Old Navy\nstuff turns stuff green?\n\n- [Emily] It's the dye.\n\n- It's like the Grinch got back there.\n\n- Yeah. What?\n\n- Wow.\n\n- The Grinch is back\nthere making the jeans.\n\n- I thought you meant back there.\n\n- Her husband's (beep) the Grinch.\n\n- Bro, I know what this is.\n\nYour husband's (beep) the Grinch.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Dude, has your husband\never (beep) the Grinch?\n\n- Dude, dude, wait, hold on.\n\n- Has your husband ever (beep) the Grinch.\n\n- Wait, your phone charger\nwent green and your feet?\n\nYour husband's (beep) the Grinch.\n\n- Dude.\n\n- His phone's always dead.\n\n- And he's cheated before.\n\nIt's the (beep) Grinch.\n\n- And I never see him on Christmas.\n\n- He's (beep) the Grinch.\n\n- Our next story comes from Relationships.\n\nThis is an old story.\n\nThis came out about seven years ago.\n\n- What?\n\n- [Shayne] Yeah.\n\n- How?\n\n- Reddit's been around.\n\n- I was just having fun with you.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- This is a 36-year-old woman.\n\n\"My husband, who's 41, got\nfired for harassing a coworker\n\n\"and won't talk to me about it.\"\n\n(Angela gasps)\n\n\"My husband, Charlie, and I\nhave been together for 10 years,\n\n\"married for six.\n\n\"We've had our ups and downs,\nbut we are currently in an up.\n\n\"He has never done anything\nlike this in the past,\n\n\"so it came out of left field for me,\n\n\"and I'm very much shocked\nand at a loss here.\n\n\"Charlie is a computer programmer\nand was a senior engineer\n\n\"at his former company where\nhe had worked for four years.\n\n\"He'd never had any trouble with coworkers\n\n\"and we're both friendly\nwith a few of them,\n\n\"mostly other men and their wives.\n\n\"On Friday of last week, he\ncame home around 11:00 AM\n\n\"and told me he'd been fired.\n\n\"He was really upset and agitated,\n\n\"and I didn't wanna push him about it,\n\n\"but he told me that they'd\nsaid he was harassing a coworker\n\n\"and was fired.\n\n\"The information I've been\nable to get out of him,\n\n\"the coworker is Beth, a junior engineer\n\n\"who he's never mentioned to me before.\n\n\"He said she's terrible at her job.\n\n\"Beth slept with a senior engineer\n\n\"we are both friendly with, Darren.\n\n\"Darren wasn't involved in the harassment,\n\n\"wasn't fired, et cetera.\n\n\"The company's lawyers were there,\n\n\"and among the things they told him\n\n\"was that Beth could have\npressed charges but chose not to.\n\n\"Lastly, something happened with her car,\n\n\"but he won't say what.\n\n\"His exact words were, 'There\nwas something with her car.'\n\n\"He was escorted off of the premises\n\n\"and is not allowed back in the building\n\n\"to get his belongings\n\n\"and instead has to arrange\nwith security to pick them up\n\n\"after business hours.\n\n\"As far as anything else goes,\nhe won't give me any details.\n\n\"He isn't interested in seeing a lawyer\n\n\"because he says everything is legal.\n\n\"He has basically admitted\nto sending Beth some emails\n\n\"but won't say what they\nsaid or anything like that.\n\n\"I don't know if Beth's\nsleeping with Darren\n\n\"had to do with it,\n\n\"but the fact that he gave me that detail\n\n\"makes me think it does.\n\n\"I'm not sure how it relates.\n\n\"Darren is a very nice single\nman who is in his late 20s\n\n\"and approximately the same age as Beth.\n\n\"My mind is running wild here.\n\n\"Charlie has been depressed\nand withdrawn all weekend.\n\n\"Won't talk to me about it and\nwon't talk much in general.\n\n\"I work remotely, so I\nwas home all day with him,\n\n\"and he played video games all day\n\n\"and then went to bed at 6:00 PM.\n\n\"The fact that he won't tell me anything\n\n\"and isn't interested in\nseeing a lawyer makes me think\n\n\"that it's bad and makes me\nworry that everything is true\n\n\"and not just a misunderstanding\n\n\"or a small thing blown out of proportion.\n\n\"He has never been\nflirtatious with other women\n\n\"or cruel to them, and he's\nnever said anything bad\n\n\"about other women\nengineers he works with.\n\n\"I don't know what to do here.\n\n\"My instinct is to be\nsupportive of my husband,\n\n\"but I don't know what kind\nof behavior I'd be supporting.\n\n\"I don't wanna run to his\ncoworkers we know and ask them\n\n\"since they're more our\nfriends than my friends,\n\n\"and while we spend time together\nat get togethers or bars,\n\n\"I'm not close with them.\n\n\"In an immediate sense,\n\n\"I don't know what to\ndo about helping someone\n\n\"who is so depressed\nand won't talk to me.\"\n\n(Shayne sighs)\n\nOkay, someone gets fired for harassment\n\nand they're not talking to you about it.\n\nThat can only be horrible.\n\n- The husband's name is Charlie.\n\nDarren is...\n\n- The guy Beth slept with.\n- Darren is the coworker.\n\nYeah, so Beth...\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But Darren still works there.\n\nDarren didn't get fired.\n\n- No.\n\n- [Shayne] Darren is fine.\n\n- He's 30 and single.\n\n- It's apparently Charlie\nharassed Beth so badly\n\nthat he had to be escorted\nout of the building\n\nand isn't allowed back in the\nbuilding until after hours.\n\n- Very bad.\n- Very bad.\n\n- But he's not, he said it's\nnot a crime what he did.\n\n- He's not asking for a lawyer.\n\nHe's not getting a lawyer\n\nbecause he said everything is legal.\n\n- So it makes me think\n\nhe wrote some disgusting, awful emails\n\njust making her feel awful.\n\n- Well, she's not pressing,\n\napparently she's not pressing charges,\n\neven though they say she could have.\n\n- This is getting crazy.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- What if he saw Beth and\nDylan (beep) in the car?\n\n- Dylan?\n\n- They were (beep).\n\nBeth and Dylan.\n\n- Darren.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n- What if he saw Beth and Dylan (beep)?\n\n- What if they were (beep)\nin the car, he took pictures,\n\nand he sent it to her?\n\n- And been like, \"I know.\"\n\n- But that would still be against the law.\n\nThat's why I'm like, him\nsaying he can't go to jail\n\nmakes me think it was just free speech.\n\n- She could still,\n\nwell all of this, all of\nthis she could press charges,\n\nbut maybe she's not pressing\ncharges, but it's enough.\n\nIt is harassment for him to get fired\n\nand to be taken seriously\nand not allowed back.\n\n- Well, it has to be\n\nlike really bad.\n- Something to do\n\nwith her car.\n\n- Something to do with her car and emails.\n\n- Something to do with her car?\n\n- Yeah, that's what he said.\n\n- Right, right, right.\n\n- Yeah, there's something\nto do with her car,\n\nand he said that he sent her some emails.\n\n- I wonder if he's, yeah, if he...\n\n- But he can't get in without security?\n\nLike, what did he do?\n\n- He's not allowed until\nafter hours with security.\n\n- I mean, that could...\n\nI believe he could have sent a very, very,\n\nlike emotionally abusive email or emails,\n\nand Beth was like,\n\n\"I don't wanna be in the same room as him.\n\n\"He threatened me.\"\n\n- But there's something to with her car.\n\n- The car thing is, that's why I was like-\n\n- [Amanda] She park in his spot?\n\n- I think your idea of\nhim taking photos of them\n\nor something is a possibility.\n\n- Right.\n\n- And he used it against her\n'cause he didn't like her.\n\n- But either way, clearly what\nhe did was against the law.\n\nShe's just not pressing\ncharges fortunately.\n\n- [Angela] But he's not worried.\n\n- Or fortunately for him.\n\nShe's not pressing charges,\n\nwhich could also mean he\nis viewed as such a threat\n\nthat she's not pressing\ncharges as a means of like,\n\nthat could almost be a worse sign.\n\n- But him not lawyering up\n\nmakes me think he just used\nhis words and he's like,\n\n\"I'm allowed to say whatever I want.\"\n\n- That could be just a full\negomaniac move of like,\n\n\"I don't need a lawyer.\"\n\nHe's in denial so hard.\n\n- I think the wife is right in being like,\n\n\"What do I do here?\"\n\nBut I think maybe giving\nhim space for a day, sure,\n\nbut it's also like,\n\nI think she needs to\npress him a little bit.\n\n- I was gonna say the same thing.\n\nI'd be like, I think I'd put\nmy foot down a little bit.\n\n- Yeah, I would give him\nlike a day or two to sulk,\n\nbut then I'd be like,\n\"No, what's going on?\"\n\n- Well, 'cause this affects her.\n\n- Her, yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- Like, if he did some\nreally messed up stuff,\n\nthis is going to affect her\npossibly on legal levels.\n\nIt's gonna affect-\n\n- Financially.\n\nLike, all of it.\n- It's affecting them\n\nfinancially, and it\ncould absolutely affect\n\nhow people view you,\nyour network, everything.\n\n- Yeah. Yeah.\n\n- But if he's this type of person,\n\nhe's clearly not caring about his wife.\n\nHe's showing he doesn't care\nabout her in this moment.\n\nBut also I can't imagine\nwhat it's like to be\n\nwith someone for 10 years,\nthink you know them so well,\n\nbe like, \"He's a great guy.\n\n\"We've had our ups and downs,\nbut we're in an up right now,\"\n\nand then all of a sudden\n\nyou just get a full on character reveal.\n\nWe have a bunch of comments here.\n\n\"I would tell him you\nhave to assume the worst\n\n\"if he won't be honest with you.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- \"I've gotta say he\nmust have done bad shit\n\n\"to be escorted off the premises\nwith no warning like that.\n\n\"Either he was hating on\nher and went over the top\n\n\"or he tried to (beep)\nher and went over the top\n\n\"or he tried to (beep) her\nand then hated on her.\"\n\n- Oh. Oh, okay.\n\n- Someone said, \"I've\nworked at larger companies\n\n\"and when they fire people,\n\n\"sometimes they are walked\nright outta the building.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- \"The reasoning is they\ndon't want the fired person\n\n\"to make a scene and rock the boat.\"\n\n- 100%.\n\n- \"It's heartless in my\nopinion, but it does happen.\n\n\"Something tells me OP's\nhusband did something terrible\n\n\"because lawyers were there\n\n\"and apparently the girl\ncould have pressed charges.\n\n\"That is very unusual.\n\n\"My guess is OP's husband got jealous\n\n\"that Darren was sleeping\nwith Beth and not him\n\n\"as he had a crush on Beth for a while\n\n\"and he flipped out and\nwent all nice guy on her.\n\n\"He mentioned there are emails,\n\n\"so there is evidence in writing as well.\n\n\"This does not bode well for OP.\"\n\nLastly, someone said,\n\n\"Seeing as it got so\nfar that he's been fired\n\n\"and he doesn't wanna fight it,\n\n\"it sounds like the\nallegations are probably true.\n\n\"The fact that he brings up Darren\n\n\"makes it seem like he's harassed her\n\n\"as a result of sexual jealousy.\n\n\"Does he usually shut down\nconversation on things?\n\n\"Does he usually keep things from you?\n\n\"I'd be very cautious\nabout what he's hiding\n\n\"and what it means for\nyou and your relationship.\n\n\"Even if it's not sexual and\nit's just plain old harassment.\n\n\"Do you want to be with a grown\nman who harasses young women\n\n\"to the point he gets fired?\"\n\nI think if you are married to someone\n\nwhere your finances are tied\nup and someone gets fired\n\nand they won't tell the other\nperson why they got fired,\n\nthat's a (beep)-\n\n- They're (beep).\n\n- Well, that's just, even if\nthere's not sexual harassment\n\nor anything of this severity-\n- Oh, it's still wrong.\n\n- Even if it's like, \"I got fired.\"\n\nIt's like, \"Why'd you get fired?\"\n\nIt's like, \"Some bullshit.\"\n\nIt's like, \"Hey man, like you\ngetting fired (beep) us both.\n\n\"So you need to tell me-\"\n- Let's talk about it.\n\n- Correct\n\n- \"What you're doing, so\nthat we can both be aware.\"\n\n- I also feel like this OP\nopened up all those comments.\n\nIf that was me, I'd be like,\ndamn, this is hard to read.\n\nThose comments are like he\neither wanted to (beep) her\n\nor whatever.\n\nI mean, this sucks.\n\n- I think OP already knows this is bad.\n\n- She must.\n\n- Like, writing out all that information,\n\nyou know this is bad.\n\n- I also feel like we\nhave started to like,\n\nwhen you hear like can't come back in\n\nduring the office hours and\nhas to come in overnight-\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I think your brain\nthinks it's like dramatic,\n\nbut someone could be so rude to someone\n\nand hurt someone's feelings\n\nand then the boss could just be like,\n\n\"I'm gonna take care of you\n\n\"and not bring you both in the same room.\"\n\n- You're right.\n\n- Like, he could have just like,\n\nI'm not in defense of this guy-\n\n- You're gonna try to find every reason\n\nwhy it's not the worst case\nscenario in this situation,\n\nespecially when it's like, but\nI've known him for 10 years\n\nand I have no indication\nof this in my experience.\n\n- Our brain just goes wild when you hear,\n\nlike, \"has been escorted\noff the premises.\"\n\n- Yeah, yeah, yeah.\n\n- It's so horrible how\nthis does happen a lot\n\nand like a lot of people\nreally hide their true selves\n\nfrom their partner.\n\nIt's so sad.\n\n- For years and years and years.\n\n- Update.\n\n- Let's go!\n\n- Yeah! I knew it.\n\n- I was waiting for it.\n\n- Beth!\n\n- \"My thread was locked\n\n\"before I was able to respond\nto any of the comments,\n\n\"but I was able to read them this morning.\n\n\"I got up at 5:30 to go\nto the gym before work\n\n\"and my husband was still\nawake playing video games.\n\n\"I presented him with the very\ngood idea someone suggested\n\n\"of sending me an email with the details,\n\n\"but that it wasn't acceptable\n\n\"to shut me out of this situation\nsince it affects me too.\n\n\"His response was basically,\n'The paperwork is in my car.\n\n\"'Go get it if you wanna read it.'\"\n\n- Bastard.\n\n- \"I asked him to go get it so\nwe could look at it together\n\n\"and he said,\n\n\"'You're going to believe\nwhat you want anyways.'\n\n\"All of this is unusual for our marriage\n\n\"because I'm a pretty\npatient person, I think.\n\n\"We went out to the car together,\n\n\"and he got in his car, handed\nme the papers, and left.\n\n\"For about two hours,\n\n\"I was panicked because I\ndidn't know where he went,\n\n\"if he was okay, if he was\nthinking of hurting himself.\n\n\"But his mother texted me at\n9:00 saying he was over there,\n\n\"asking me what happened, if\neverything is okay, et cetera.\n\n\"His parents live about 15 minutes away\n\n\"and I guess he told her he's\ngoing to be staying there.\"\n\n- What is going on?\n- And what did the paper say?\n\n- What did the paper say?\n\n- So the paperwork.\n\n\"According to the paperwork,\n\n\"he sent her multiple harassing emails\n\n\"from anonymous emails accounts.\n\n\"The emails are printed out and attached.\n\n\"He apparently did this while at work,\n\n\"and they have been\nmonitoring his user account\n\n\"for three months.\n\n\"The emails aren't sexual\nor romantic in nature\n\n\"and are all anonymous and\nabout how she sucks at her job,\n\n\"wouldn't be there if she wasn't a woman,\n\n\"how she should quit\nbefore she gets fired,\n\n\"and how everyone in the office hates her.\n\n\"He made fake user accounts\nfor his company's product\n\n\"that she works on and submitted\nbad reviews of her work.\n\n\"He also did this while logged in at work.\n\n\"He sent an anonymous email to her boss\n\n\"saying that she was sleeping\nwith a senior engineer\n\n\"on another project.\n\n\"He put a gun catalog on\nthe windshield of her car.\n\n\"I don't know what this gesture means,\n\n\"but I obviously understand\n\n\"that it was meant to be threatening.\n\n\"Unfortunately, inside\nwas a subscription card\n\n\"that the company auto-filled\nwith his name and address.\n\n\"She also says she has been harassed\n\n\"for the same length of\ntime, about three months,\n\n\"on Twitter.\n\n\"He only logged into one Twitter account\n\n\"that harassed her at work,\n\n\"so they can only say one was him.\n\n\"All telling her to quit her job.\n\n\"So I don't know what to do now.\"\n\n- Wow.\n\n- \"This is all terrifying to me,\n\n\"and I feel so bad for this woman.\n\n\"I have no idea what this is all about.\n\n\"He works with other women engineers\n\n\"and he has worked with male engineers\n\n\"who don't pull their weight\n\n\"and he's never done anything like this.\n\n\"I would've bet a million dollars\n\n\"that he'd never do anything like this.\n\n\"He's at his parents right now,\n\n\"and I don't know what my next\nmove here could possibly be.\n\n\"This is so scary and\nout of left field to me.\"\n\n- Dude, did she reject him?\n\nLike, why is he going so hard?\n\n- You know, unfortunately,\nman, some dudes hate women.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- You're telling me! No way!\n\n- Shayne, that is brilliant.\n\n- What do you mean?\n\n- Write that down.\n\n- Thanks, Shayne!\n\n- Write it down.\n\n- I'm saying-\n\n- No, you're right.\n\n- He doesn't need a reason.\n\nLike, he's just-\n- You're right.\n\n- He might just-\n\n- (beep) asshole.\n\n- Dude, could you imagine?\n\n- He might have just came up\nwith a reason why he hates her\n\nand she never did anything wrong to him.\n\n- Being like, oh, this is my\nhusband, and reading all that.\n\n- What a (beep) loser.\n\nHe puts that (beep) gun catalog\n\nand doesn't even take\nout his (beep) address\n\nin the middle of it.\n\nYou (beep) idiot.\n\nLoser. Stupid boy.\n\n- Love that.\n\n- There was another story that I've read\n\nthat we haven't read on the show\n\nwhere a woman finds out that her husband\n\nhas a Reddit account where he goes\n\nand he just hates on women.\n\n(Amanda gasps)\n\nLike, just finds posts,\nwomen posting things,\n\nand he just hates on them,\nhates on their looks,\n\nis just disparaging\nwomen all over the web,\n\nand he logs off, and then he\ngoes back to just being...\n\nBut he just-\n\n- It is harder to treat people...\n\nIt's harder to hate people\nthan treat them equally.\n\nI swear to God.\n- Yeah.\n\n- Like, just treat people equally.\n\nAnd if your male coworkers are also bad,\n\njust treat her like that.\n\n- Yeah, and also like, if you\nhave a real issue with her,\n\ngo to management.\n\nTalk to them about it.\n\nDo you really have to like\nharass her until she quits?\n\n- Get a gun magazine, put\nit on her windshield wiper.\n\n- Just like that.\n\n- This is extreme. This is-\n\n- (indistinct).\n\nPicture of a gun.\n\n- You look like a cartoon character.\n\n- I don't know.\n\nThis set me off.\n\nI'm so sorry.\n- And I kind of love it.\n\nI kind of love it because-\n\n- This set me off.\n\n- To put a gun on someone's\ncar, a gun magazine,\n\nthat is (beep).\n\n- He's scary.\n\nAnd he's also an idiot 'cause\ninside was a subscription card\n\nthat the company auto-filled\nwith his name and address.\n\n- That's what I'm saying\nis like, what a loser.\n\n- I wanna know why.\n\nI just wanna know why.\n- I came too hard for him,\n\nbut...\n\n- No, you didn't come too hard for him.\n\n- Are you kidding me?\n\n- I just feel so bad for her.\n\nCould you imagine you're\njust bad at your job?\n\n- What if she's not?\n\nBut also she's probably having\na great time with Daryl,\n\nDanny, Darren.\n- Dylan. All the Ds.\n\nShe's allowed to do whatever she wants.\n\n- She's doing anything\nwith the Ds with the D,\n\nand she's having a great time.\n\nAnd he's probably like,\n\"I hate her because no!\"\n\n- There could be any\nnumber of reasons. I mean-\n\n- She's probably great at her job.\n\n- I love him giving his\nwife the papers going,\n\n\"You're gonna believe\nwhat you wanna believe.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Like, those are you, my guy.\n\n- That's 'cause he hates women.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- [Amanda] You said it.\n\n- I mean, look-\n\n- Quote that.\n\n- I've been on YouTube for 10 years.\n\nLike, it's astounding what\nlittle a woman has to do\n\nto make swaths of men\njust (beep) hate them.\n\n- So true.\n\n- You're the shit, dude.\n\n- This is from afar, but yeah. Yeah!\n\n- It's also just real.\n\nI mean, we all see it, right?\n\n- No, it like-\n\n- And I mean everybody,\n\neverybody at home watching\nor listening to this is like,\n\n\"Oh yeah.\"\n\nYou pull up the internet\n\nand you see an example of it every day.\n\nAnd I mean, hate goes\naround all over the place.\n\n- 100%.\n\n- I'm not saying that\nonly men are doing this.\n\nI'm just saying like, there\nare so many men out there\n\nwho are waiting for the excuse.\n\nLike, they have so much pent up hatred.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- For whatever reason that they just,\n\nonce they find a target and they're like,\n\n\"This is my outlet.\"\n\n- They go for them.\n\n- I mean, that was my argument being like,\n\nit's more work to make others less than,\n\nthan just treat her just as\nyou would your male coworkers.\n\nYou're going out of your way.\n\n- It makes me think of so many stories\n\nwhen people are just letting their hatred\n\nget the better of them.\n\nI'm like, look at all\nthis time you're spending.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I'm like, bro, get a hobby.\n\n- Meanwhile Beth is (beep) Dylan,\n\nhaving the time of her (beep) life.\n\n- Beth is (beep) Dylan\nDarren, having a great time.\n\nAnd guess what?\n\nShe did not (beep) falter, bitch.\n\nShe was like, \"Yeah, I\ndon't like this behavior.\n\n\"I'm gonna get you fired\nand escorted out of here.\"\n\n- I guess I'm just like, damn, dude.\n\n- Dylan, Darren.\n\n- (beep).\n\n- It's so much work.\n\nLook at all the ways you're\nlike messing up your life,\n\nand it would just be so much\neasier to treat people equally.\n\nJust go home.\n\n- It reminds me of when I\nlike I will find an account,\n\nlike I will see like a\nhateful comment somewhere\n\non the internet\n\nand I'll go down the rabbit\nhole of looking at this account,\n\nand it's kind of cathartic for me\n\n'cause I'm like, okay, who's this person\n\nwho just left a piece of\nshit comment somewhere?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And I go and I'm like,\n\noh, you just leave\nhateful comments all day.\n\n- [Amanda] Yeah.\n\n- Like, you're just going around\nfinding things to hate on.\n\nI'm like, damn.\n\nDamn, man.\n\nLike, you could live life.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Like, read a book.\n\n- You could clean your\nhouse with that energy.\n\n- You could lie under a bed and sleep.\n\n- You could wash your sheets.\n\n- You could saturate with someone.\n\n- You could get green.\n\n- This is insane.\n\nIs there an update?\n\n- There's no more updates.\n\n- Here's the deal.\n\nI bet he went to his mom's\nhouse and the mom was like,\n\n\"What happened to you, my son?\"\n\nYou know?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- It's really sad.\n\n- And then he sucked his\nthumb and went to bed.\n\n- And he went to bed\n\nin his little blankie.\n- Played some video games.\n\nAnyways, our next story\nand our final story.\n\n(Amanda sighs)\n\nThis one comes from True Off My Chest.\n\n\"Hairstylist has been\ntaking/keeping my hair.\"\n\n- Big smile from Brennan.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Brennan's like,\n\n\"Mine too. Mine too.\"\n- Like, \"No way, man.\"\n\n- They found me.\n\n(Amanda laughs)\n\n- That's me, man.\n\n- OP writes, \"I'm weirded out.\n\n\"I'm also going to be vague\nbecause obvious reasons.\n\n\"I'm a woman in my 30s, and\nmy stylist is in their '40s.\n\n\"I got my hair cut today at\na stylist I've been using\n\n\"for about nine months now.\n\n\"I think this is my sixth\nappointment with them.\n\n\"I usually do a trim or cut/style.\n\n\"Today I went from long\nhair, high lower back,\n\n\"to an A line bob.\n\n\"Again, since I started\nseeing this person,\n\n\"I usually get maintenance/trim.\n\n\"This time was a dramatic\nlength adjustment,\n\n\"so they took a picture of\nthe cut length on the floor\n\n\"to add to their social media\n\n\"intending to take before/after pictures.\n\n\"That's all totally fine and normal.\n\n\"They go grab a broom, sweep up the hair,\n\n\"and place the dust pan\non the counter for a bit.\n\n\"Again, normal.\n\n\"They grab the broom and pan\n\n\"and head to the back of the shop.\n\n\"They're gone for a\nfew minutes, no biggie.\n\n\"Then they go out to smoke.\n\n\"But here's where it gets weird.\n\n\"The bathroom is in the back of the shop.\n\n\"I need to go and step into the back.\n\n\"I don't really notice anything\n\n\"on the way into the bathroom.\n\n\"I go and start to head back out,\n\n\"but I notice my name on a\nsmall clear tote on the table.\"\n\n(Angela growls)\n(Amanda groans)\n\n\"It has no lid and it has my hair in it.\"\n\n(Amanda gags)\n\n\"At first, I didn't\nreally think much of it,\n\n\"but I looked closer\n\n\"and saw it's not just\ntoday's discarded hair,\n\n\"but looks like at least\na few of my trim sessions\n\n\"mixed with it looked like potpourri\n\n\"and a little sand or something\n\n\"and printed pictures of\nthe cut hair with dates.\n\n\"The printer is sitting right next to it\n\n\"with today's discarded\nhair pic in the tray.\n\n\"There didn't seem to be any\nother containers like this\n\n\"when I looked around.\"\n\n(Angela gasps)\n\n\"It was (beep) weird, so I\ntook a picture on my phone.\n\n\"I honestly didn't know\nwhat to think or do\n\n\"and went back out into the salon.\n\n\"They came back in,\n\n\"and I mentioned that\nI went to the restroom,\n\n\"and they seemed to freak out a little\n\n\"but didn't mention it.\"\n\n- Ah.\n\n- \"I didn't really know what to say,\n\n\"so I just let them finish\nstyling my hair, paid, and left.\n\n\"As a socially anxious\nintrovert, this was my nightmare.\n\n\"I got home,\n\n\"and the more I looked at this\npicture, the more sick I got.\n\n\"I ended up texting them an\nhour ago, sending the picture,\n\n\"and requesting they remove\nthe weird box of my hair\n\n\"and asking for an explanation.\n\n\"I said, 'Hey, so I saw this\n\n\"'and didn't know what to make of it.\n\n\"'Can you help me understand what this is\n\n\"'and why you have it?\n\n\"'I'm not comfortable with you having this\n\n\"'and request you please\ndiscard the contents.\n\n\"'Also, even though I loved my cut,\n\n\"'I believe it's best if I\nfind a different stylist.'\n\n\"They haven't responded.\n\n\"LOL. What the (beep)?\"\n\n(Amanda groans)\n\n- I hate this.\n\nWe hate this.\n\nThis is making me sick, sick, sick.\n\nPotpourri?\n\nWith sand?\n- Not the potpourri!\n\nNot the sand!\n\n- Not the pictures!\n\n- Not the dates!\n\n- Next to the printer!\n\n- The dates!\n\n(Amanda retches)\n\n'Cause I was like,\n\noh, maybe this person collects\nhair to make like cool wigs.\n\nNo!\n\n- No!\n\n- It feels like a weird thing!\n\n- Yeah!\n\n- Disgusting!\n\nIt's got potpourri in it!\n\nAnd got the dates and pictures!\n\nThat's (beep) disgusting!\n\n(Amanda and Angela retch)\n\n- [Amanda] So many hairs.\n\n(Angela gags)\n\nThat actually...\n\nI could. I could.\n\nIf we kept going, I could.\n\nYou get it, right?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n(Amanda groans)\n\n(Angela gags)\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- And when they sweep it up,\nthey go, \"Look how much hair.\n\n\"Yeah.\n\n\"Oh my god.\n\n\"We'll sweep it up.\"\n\n- A good collection today.\n\nPut it in, put it in.\n\n(crew laughs)\n\nOh, my Amazon potpourri package came in.\n\n(Amanda laughs)\n\n- The ability for her to see that\n\nand go and sit back in the\nsalon and get styled after...\n\n- No.\n\n- She's like, \"Maybe a middle part.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nDamn!\n\n- I hate all that.\n\nThat might feel more cringey\n\nthan the person sleeping under your bed.\n\n- Wow.\n\n- This is scary.\n\n- I don't know why.\n\nHair on top of hair and it's your hair,\n\nand it's your life and\nyour hair is memories.\n\nAnd why? (grumbles)\n\nDon't.\n\nI don't like it.\n\n- It's disgusting. It's disgusting.\n\nFrom previous cuts.\n\nThat got me.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- When you go, \"Oh, this\nis my hair from March.\"\n\n(Amanda gags)\n\n- Awful bold of the stylist\nto keep it in the salon.\n\n- Next to the bathroom\n\n- Where like I'm like,\nyou're gonna get found out.\n\n- And it's only her.\n\n- I guess so.\n\n- Put it under your bed.\n\n- Comments.\n\n\"Wow. That sounds strange.\n\n\"I'm curious as well.\n\n\"Good for you for\nsending the text message.\n\n\"I see your message as\nmature, fair, and calm.\"\n\nOP says, \"I appreciate that,\n\n\"but full disclosure,\nit took me a few hours\n\n\"to get calm enough to send that.\n\n\"I'm totally skeezed out.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Someone said,\n\n\"You absolutely handled\nit better than I would've.\n\n\"I would've taken it and confronted them.\n\n\"This really is the beginning\n\n\"of some crazy 'I Survived' episode.\n\n\"Thank God you're not going back.\"\n\nOP said, \"I honestly had\nno clue how to respond.\n\n\"The whole situation was so bizarre,\n\n\"and I can't imagine what\nthe purpose of this would be.\n\n\"I told my husband about\nit, and he got goosebumps,\n\n\"which was super scary for me\n\n\"and made me feel like I may\nhave underreacted to the issue.\n\n\"But I guess I am glad I got out of there\n\n\"without a confrontation\n\n\"because who knows what\nmight have happened\n\n\"if I'd brought it up to them.\"\n\nSomeone said, \"Hair in small containers\n\n\"with other items makes\nme think of spell jars.\"\n\n- Dude, I would've snatched it\n\nand put it under my coat or something.\n\n- You know I'm a skeptical person.\n\nI don't necessarily believe in magic.\n\nBut if someone takes my\nhair and they're like,\n\n\"Yeah, I'm gonna use this for spells,\"\n\nI'm gonna be like, \"No, you're not.\"\n\n(crew laughs)\n\n\"No, you're not.\"\n\n- No, of course.\n\n- No, you're not.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- They're sitting down.\n\n- Absolutely not.\n\nLike, I don't necessarily\n100% believe in that,\n\nbut I don't wanna find out.\n\n- Yeah, no.\n- No.\n\n- You know, I'm not gonna\nfind out with my hair.\n\n- Yeah. What about no?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Yeah, potpourri and\nsand and salt and shit?\n\n- Dates and pictures.\n\n- Dates.\n\n- Update.\n\n- Oh my god!\n\n- \"It's been about a week\nand with the holiday,\n\n\"I've been all over the place,\n\n\"but I ended up going to law enforcement\n\n\"to make a report last Monday.\n\n\"I'll likely end up going back\n\n\"if this person keeps contacting\nme like they have been.\n\n\"Sunday, the day after I got my haircut,\n\n\"I woke up to a bunch of\ntexts from the stylist.\n\n\"It woke me up because even\nthough I have do not disturb\n\n\"on my phone, I have a\nsetting that overrides that\n\n\"if there are repeated\ncontact attempts over three\n\n\"in case of emergencies.\n\n\"Here's what I got.\n\n\"3:49 AM.\n\n\"'I don't recommend going\nto a different stylist\n\n\"'because of this.\n\n\"'It's not a big deal.\n\n\"'In small towns, people talk,\n\n\"'and you may not find anyone\nthat will take you after this,\n\n\"'so I'd reconsider.\n\n\"'I don't like threats.'\n\n\"3:51 AM.\n\n\"'So I have your biological material and?\n\n\"'It's my property now.\n\n\"'I can do with it what I want.\n\n\"'I kept it because I can\nand it means a lot to me.'\n\n\"3:54 AM.\n\n\"'Why did you send the pic?\n\n\"'I know what it looks like.\n\n\"'It's mine.'\n\n\"4:00 AM.\n\n\"'You need to respond to me\n\n\"'because I think it's a misunderstanding\n\n\"'about what this is.\n\n\"'It's no big deal.\n\n\"'And saying you're switching\nstylist has me triggered.\n\n\"'I do good works.\n\n\"'You said so.'\"\n\n- Oh, you're triggered?\n\n- Yeah, come on.\n\n- \"4:04 AM.\n\n\"'I also charge a $350\nclient separation fee.'\"\n\n(Angela laughs)\n\n\"'So yeah, you can't just\nsay you're switching stylists\n\n\"'without more consequences.'\"\n\n- What?\n\n- \"'And I know you said you already tried\n\n\"'a few people before me.\n\n\"'There aren't many beauty\npeople in the area.'\n\n\"4:11 AM.\n\n\"'Asking for an explanation for a stylist\n\n\"'having hair in a salon is crazy.\n\n\"'Where else would you find hair?\n\n\"'I didn't do anything wrong,\n\n\"'but I will get rid of it\nif you're gonna cry about it,\n\n\"'but only if you say you won't\nbe switching to anyone else\n\n\"'for your hair care.\n\n\"'You mean a lot as a\nclient and always tip well,\n\n\"'and I do good work so\nit doesn't make sense.'\"\n\n- We know she means a lot to you.\n\n- Yeah, clearly.\n\n- \"'Maybe don't threaten\nsomeone who does your hair\n\n\"'or hurt their feelings by\nmaking accusatory statements.'\n\n\"I didn't respond to any\nof those that morning\n\n\"because it was so insane to me.\n\n\"I need to process things fully\n\n\"before I make a decision\non how to deal with it.\n\n\"So I just didn't respond.\n\n\"Sunday afternoon, I\nstarted getting phone calls.\n\n\"This person called me\n14 times that afternoon.\n\n\"About every other call,\nthey left a voicemail.\n\n\"Most of the voicemails\njust said, 'Call me back,'\n\n\"or, 'Text me back.'\n\n\"But two of them were unhinged.\n\n\"I'm going to paraphrase,\n\n\"but the gist of the first one was-\"\n\n- Yes.\n\n- \"'Call me back.\n\n\"'I'm getting scared you\nwon't come back to me\n\n\"'for your hair for real.\n\n\"'I just like how your hair feels.\n\n\"'That's why I kept it.\n\n\"'Call me.'\n\n\"It sounded like they were crying.\n\n\"The second unhinged message\nwas left late Sunday night\n\n\"at 11:38 PM,\n\n\"and it said, 'I got rid\nof it except for one lock.\n\n\"'I found out I like\nwatching your hair burn\n\n\"'more than I liked keeping it.'\"\n\n(Amanda groans)\n\n\"I didn't respond to any of\nthose messages, calls, or texts.\n\n\"The whole thing has me freaked out now.\n\n\"I decided by that time I\nwas taking Monday off work\n\n\"to go to the police.\n\n\"Even if they couldn't do anything,\n\n\"I wanted to file a\nreport for the weirdness.\n\n\"I woke up Monday to an\nemail from the stylist\n\n\"with an invoice for $375\n\n\"for client breach of contract fee.\"\n\n- My asshole.\n\n- Come on.\n\n- \"As the chargeable line item.\n\n\"The email body was just\n'for being a bitch.'\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- What? What?\n\n- I'm sorry, that's\nunfortunately hilarious.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Wow.\n\n- \"It was sent from\ntheir business email too,\n\n\"so they're really doing\neverything they can\n\n\"to ruin themselves.\n\n\"Even if I had a contract\nwith them, which I don't,\n\n\"the original amount was for $350.\n\n\"They can't even get their\nextortion fees right.\n\n\"I did email them back stating\nthat we had no contract\n\n\"and to cease all further\ncommunication with me\n\n\"from this point forward.\n\n\"I got ready and started\nheading to the police station\n\n\"around 9:45 AM Monday morning.\n\n\"I live in a rural area,\n\n\"so there are portions of my\ndrive to and from our main town\n\n\"that don't have cell reception.\n\n\"When I finally got to\ntown, I had four voicemails.\n\n\"I knew immediately who they were from.\n\n\"I talked to one of the officers on staff.\n\n\"They took my statement,\na copy of the email,\n\n\"and asked me to forward all the texts\n\n\"and screenshots of the numbers of calls.\n\n\"They said at the very\nleast the calls and texts\n\n\"could be considered\nmenacing and harassment.\n\n\"But the voicemail where they mentioned\n\n\"how they like burning my hair\nwas potentially concerning.\"\n\nPotentially.\n\n- Yeah...\n\n- \"The officer advised I\ncontact a legal representative\n\n\"in case this person tries\nto take the bogus invoice\n\n\"to a civil suit court,\n\n\"and they said, I'm welcome\nto change my number,\n\n\"but having the piling evidence\n\n\"if they continue to contact me\n\n\"after I explicitly told\nthem not to in the email\n\n\"would only help me.\n\n\"I reached out to a lawyer Tuesday\n\n\"and left a detailed message\nregarding the situation.\n\n\"They're apparently out of the office\n\n\"until next Wednesday for the holiday,\n\n\"so we'll see if they have any advice.\n\n\"I've since received many texts\nand calls from the stylists.\n\n\"They sent a happy Thanksgiving text\n\n\"on Thursday morning as well.\"\n\n- Happy Thanksgiving, bitch.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- For being a bitch.\n\n- \"Regardless, they're giving me a lot\n\n\"of evidentiary material to\nwork with, but I'm so unsettled.\n\n\"I can't wait to hear\nfrom the lawyer this week.\n\n\"I'll leave you with a\ntext from this past week,\n\n\"one I think you'll all enjoy?\n\n\"5:12 AM, December 4th, 2024.\n\n\"'Don't ever say never.\n\n\"'You're never coming back.\n\n\"'Don't make me laugh.\n\n\"'I don't want your ass back.\n\n\"'You can beg me though.\n\n\"'Might help.'\"\n\nUpdate number two.\n\n(Amanda squeals)\n\n- I'm freaking out!\n\nEverything inside of me is crawling. Yuck!\n\n- [Shayne] This is nuts.\n\n- Yuck, yuck, yuck!\n\n- \"This situation and update\nmay not be as satisfying\n\n\"as many would've hoped, but here it goes.\n\n\"I met with law enforcement\nagain this past Tuesday.\n\n\"My husband and I drove\nover early that morning\n\n\"because I was also meeting up\n\n\"with the lawyer I'm working with.\n\n\"Aside from the near\nconstant text, calls, emails,\n\n\"I wanted to pursue legal\naction for a specific issue.\n\n\"Allegedly the stylist\n\n\"tried to have my credit card canceled.\n\n\"Apparently they used the\nlast four digits of my card,\n\n\"called the customer\nservice line for the card,\n\n\"and tried to cancel it.\n\n\"I got a call from the fraud department\n\n\"shortly after this person\nattempted to do this,\n\n\"trying to verify everything to see\n\n\"if I actually wanted to close my account\n\n\"and dissolve my credit\ncard line with them.\n\n\"To be clear, the stylist\nwas not successful\n\n\"in their alleged attempt.\n\n\"They couldn't provide the\nbasic information you need\n\n\"for such things like my actual last name.\n\n\"It's unusual, and they gave a\nname that was almost similar,\n\n\"date of birth, address, et cetera.\n\n\"Apparently they thought\nthey could accomplish this\n\n\"with just my name, phone number,\n\n\"and the last four digits\nof the card number.\n\n\"I didn't cancel the card\nbut did request a new one\n\n\"for obvious reasons.\n\n\"I had no clue why they\nwould want to cancel my card.\n\n\"To inconvenience me?\n\n\"Yep. That's exactly why, allegedly.\n\n\"When I spoke with the\ncredit card company,\n\n\"they agreed to send over the recording\n\n\"of the person that called\n\n\"as well as the phone number\nthe call originated from,\n\n\"as long as the request\ncame from law enforcement\n\n\"with a warrant.\n\n\"They gave me a phone\nnumber and reference number\n\n\"for the police to reach out to directly.\n\n\"The officer began working\non that immediately,\n\n\"so that is in progress.\n\n\"I went to my phone\ncompany over the weekend.\n\n\"I had my phone number\ntransferred to an old phone,\n\n\"so I could still receive\ncalls and texts there,\n\n\"but got a new phone\nnumber for my actual phone.\n\n\"The old phone and phone\nnumber has been turned over\n\n\"to the officer assigned to my case.\n\n\"They did go and speak\nwith this person yesterday.\n\n\"Apparently they're horrified.\n\n\"I went to the police and had no idea\n\n\"any of what they'd done\ncould be chargeable offenses.\n\n\"According to the officer,\n\n\"there have been no further\ncommunications via text or call\n\n\"since their visit, and I haven't\nreceived any other emails.\n\n\"A temporary protection and no\ncontact order has been issued\n\n\"against them until the first court date.\n\n\"I have also reached out to\nthe state board of licensing\n\n\"with all this information\nand my complaints.\n\n\"All I can say is they are investigating.\n\n\"Outside of that information,\n\n\"I'm limited to any other\ninformation I can share\n\n\"since a legal process against this person\n\n\"has officially begun.\n\n\"We're just waiting to see\nhow this all plays out now.\n\n\"It's been a long few weeks.\n\n\"I'm hoping for the best here.\n\n\"I'm already so relieved to\nno longer be getting calls,\n\n\"texts, or emails constantly.\"\n\n(Shayne sighs)\n\n- And?\n\n- That's it.\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- [Shayne] I mean, I think-\n\n- I mean, yeah, it's ended.\n\nThey stopped.\n\n- We're not gonna figure out\nwhat she was really doing\n\nwith the, I mean, people said spell jars.\n\nKinda doesn't matter.\n\nIt's so invasive and weird,\n\nand everything she's done afterwards.\n\n- We're not gonna be able to predict\n\nwhat that person was doing.\n\n- What? That is terrifying.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I think when someone\ncalls you and texts you\n\nthat many times over and over, it's scary.\n\nIt's terrifying.\n\n- If you're texting someone\nfour or five messages in a row\n\nwithout a response, what's going on?\n\n- I mean, that's a lot of people.\n\nI do that to her.\n\n- But I'm saying like\nif you're in a fight,\n\nlike if you sent like...\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And then like time goes\nby and then you send more,\n\nand then time goes by and you send more.\n\n- And voicemail.\n\n- You could tell someone's not doing well\n\nwhen it's during sleeping.\n\nWhen they should be sleeping.\n\n- Yeah, this was at 3:00 in the morning.\n\n- You need their brain\nto rest, and they're not,\n\nand they're spinning.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- This is bad.\n\nShe did the right thing.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nThe phone thing was brilliant.\n\n- No explaining her way out of that.\n\n- And like putting it in writing\nthat you didn't want any,\n\nlike to cease communication.\n\nSo then from there on it\nwas all like unwarranted\n\nand just like...\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- That's really, really scary.\n\nI feel bad for that person.\n\n- I do too, because I\njust don't see how, yeah.\n\nI don't know how they're doing.\n\nLike, I understand like hair.\n\nNo, I don't.\n\nI don't, I don't.\n\n- You understand what?\n\n- I don't. I don't.\n\nI was gonna say like when she said,\n\n\"Your hair's just so soft.\"\n- I understand nothing.\n\n- I was like, oh yeah.\n\nBut then I was like, but wait a second.\n\n- No.\n\n- I would say if she were to\nmake it for like a wig, okay.\n\nThat's why I was like, there's like-\n\n- But if she had a reason, she\nwould've given that reason.\n\n- But she didn't.\n\n- She had zero reasons.\n\n- And then when she goes,\n\n\"I actually like burning it\nmore than I like collecting.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- It was like, oh, so\nyou like collecting it.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And you like burning it.\n\n- Yeah. How many other\npeople did she do that to?\n\n- We don't know.\n\n- I've also never heard a $350 charge\n\nfor breaking up with your stylist.\n\n- Yeah, that's when you\nknow this person is...\n\n- A non-exclusivity\nagreement with your style?\n\n- I will say sending an invoice to someone\n\nand the body of it reading\n\"for being a bitch.\"\n\n- It's almost legend material.\n\n- This person is not a legend,\n\nbut sending an invoice that\nsays \"for being a bitch\"\n\nis really funny.\n- Is so funny.\n\n- Like, they don't give a...\n\n- That's a really funny\nthing that people could do\n\nin other circumstances\n\nand I would think is a legendary status.\n\nNot in this situation.\n\n- No, no, no.\n\n- Well said.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- Also rural area.\n\nIs she going to see the stylist?\n\n- That's what I got scared about too.\n\n- I get scared about that too.\n\nIt's like at local bar.\n\nHey.\n\n- At local bar.\n\n- Yeah, you know, at local bar.\n\nHey, hey.\n\n- Hey. No hey.\n\n- That sucks.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nThese were-\n\n- These were really-\n\n- I think the most wild I've ever heard.\n\n- These were intense.\n\nThese were a lot.\n- Spooky is like,\n\nI don't even think covers it.\n\nScary.\n- They're scary.\n\nYeah. These are scary.\n\n- But they're like haunting.\n\n- Yeah, they're creepy.\n\nThese are all like people doing,\n\nlike unexplainable behaviors.\n\n- Like, we both almost barfed.\n\n- No, I was very close.\n\nLike, throw up was here.\n\n- Wow.\n\n- Like, it was right here.\n\n- That's gotta be a record for this show.\n\n- Yeah. Oh my god.\n\nIt was like right here.\n\n- Yeah, you're either\ncrying or throwing up\n\nhere at \"Reddit Stories\".\n\n- \"Reddit Stories\", man.\n\nThey bring it outta you.\n\n- Well, thank you both for joining me\n\non this horrifying expedition.\n\n- Yeah, thanks for making my day.\n\n- We're just gonna head back under here\n\nuntil you do this again.\n\n- This fits both of us.\n\nIt's really fun.\n\n- [Shayne] Yeah. Awesome.\n\n- Your legs crunch the\nother way, and you slide in.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Like a demon.\n\nThank you for watching.\n\nLet us know what other themes\n\nand subreddits you'd like\nus to cover on this show.\n\nAnd we'll see you next Saturday.\n\nBye!\n- Bye!"
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"content": "WEBVTT\nKind: captions\nLanguage: en\n\n- Hello, welcome to \"Reddit Stories\".\n\nI'm Shayne.\n\nAnd today it's all about travel.\n\nAnd I'm joined by two weary\ntravelers, Ian and Amanda.\n\n- Hello.\n\n- So travel stories.\n\n- So these stories are all about travel.\n\nWe've done travel stories before.\n\nA lot of drama happens in\nregards to travel, you know.\n\nWho you go on a trip with,\nhow trips go, planes.\n\n- Passport bros.\n\n- We did travel stories together.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Here. Right here on Reddit.\n\n- Coming back for the sequel.\n\n- And now we're doing it again.\n\nHave you recently traveled at all?\n\n- You know I have.\n\n- Yeah. Okay.\n\n- Yes, I've traveled a lot this year.\n\nI went to Florida.\n\n- Oh, wow.\n\n- I went to Cape Cod.\n\n- Ooh.\n\n- And then I went to Greece.\n\n- And you talked about\nthis on \"Smosh Mouth\",\n\nbut going on your trip with your family,\n\nthere was a little bit\nof drama here and there.\n\n- Yeah, yeah.\n\nThere's four sisters and one mother.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\nThat's five Portuguese women in one place.\n\n- It's a lot of-\n\n- All trying to choose dinner.\n\nThat's a lot.\n\nWhere did you travel to, bud?\n\n- Well, my passport was\nexpired for a whole year.\n\n- Wow.\n\n- What? How did you let that happen?\n\n- It just happened.\n\nOne day I looked at my passport,\nI went, \"Oh, this is old.\"\n\nAnd then, you know, I didn't want to,\n\nlike I tried to get it\nrenewed and like went to FedEx\n\nand I was like, \"I heard\nyou guys renew passports.\"\n\nAnd they're like, \"No, we don't.\"\n\nAnd I was like, \"Okay.\"\n\nSo it just kind of sat\nin my room for a while,\n\nand then I did it online.\n\nIt was super duper easy.\n\n- Whoa. Really?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- I took my passport\nphoto here at the office\n\nwith like crappy light\nand they accepted it.\n\n- They're like, \"Smosh?\"\n\n- Yeah. Photo doesn't look great.\n\nBut I got my passport, so I'm\nready to travel the world.\n\n- Hell yeah. Okay.\n\n- Where are you going?\n\nAre you gonna go somewhere?\n\nHave you planned?\n\n- I want to go to Austria,\nbut I feel like I kind of,\n\nlike I want to go like\nwhen it's like green\n\nand there's waterfalls,\n\nand I feel like now it's\nprobably gotten snowy.\n\n- Our first one comes\nfrom Am I The Asshole.\n\n\"Am I the asshole for refusing\n\n\"when my friend wanted\nto join my fiance and I\n\n\"on our first trip together?\"\n\nHear 'em out.\n\n\"I, a 22-year-old woman, and\nmy fiance, a 23-year-old man,\n\n\"are going on our first trip together.\n\n\"I'm really excited as this\nis my first time on a plane\n\n\"and even leaving the state\nI've lived in my whole life.\n\n\"We've been planning for this\ntrip since earlier this year,\n\n\"and we've gotten our tickets\nas well as accommodations.\n\n\"Altogether we've already spent\nabout $4,500 on everything,\n\n\"which has been something\nwe've been saving for\n\n\"as we're both college students.\n\n\"Our trip is in about a month,\n\n\"and in come's my friend, we'll\ncall her Ashley, she's 22,\n\n\"who's been my friend for about a year.\n\n\"She'd brought up going to\nJapan as well kind of jokingly\n\n\"when we told her about the trip.\n\n\"I didn't think she was serious,\n\n\"but then she brought it up\na few more times, even saying\n\n\"that she had a family\nmember she could stay with.\n\n\"She asked if she could spend some time\n\n\"during the days joining\nus on our adventures\n\n\"while this family member was at work.\n\n\"I was supportive of this idea\n\n\"as I know this would be her\nfirst time in Japan as well\n\n\"and I care about her.\n\n\"However, when she told me\nshe wanted to get the tickets,\n\n\"her family member no\nlonger would have space\n\n\"for her to stay.\n\n\"She wants to know if she can\nstay in our accommodations\n\n\"and join us on our flight back home.\n\n\"I let her know that our\naccommodation has strict rules\n\n\"against having more than two people,\n\n\"and there's only one\nsmall bed in this studio.\n\n\"She said she'd be fine\nsleeping anywhere on the floor\n\n\"or couch, et cetera.\n\n\"I told her I'd be more comfortable\n\n\"if we didn't chance a fee or\ngetting in trouble in general,\n\n\"as I really just want a comfortable stay.\n\n\"I told her that we're still\nwilling to spend time with her\n\n\"during the day,\n\n\"and I began sending her\naccommodations in her budget.\n\n\"I was hoping this would be enough.\n\n\"Instead she's just asking\n\n\"if we can cancel our accommodations\n\n\"and pay for larger accommodations\n\n\"that can have a bed for her as well.\n\n\"Mind you, she's not\nsaying she will help us pay\n\n\"for the more expensive accommodation\n\n\"or anything else for that matter.\n\n\"She simply just wants to stay with us\n\n\"and for us to pay for a\ndifferent accommodation.\n\n\"It seems like no matter what I say,\n\n\"she just keeps trying to manipulate me\n\n\"into letting her stay with us.\n\n\"This is also hard\n\n\"'cause I know my fiance and I really\n\n\"wanted this to be a\nromantic trip for us both\n\n\"as we likely won't be\nable to afford another\n\n\"for a few years as we finish school.\n\n\"I'm just stuck on what to say or do\n\n\"and if I'm the asshole here.\n\n\"Should I be okay with my friend staying\n\n\"in our accommodations\nand joining in our trip?\"\n\n- I can't with this one.\n\n- [Ian] Wow.\n\n- I mean, it's 'cause they're 22.\n\nI mean, come on.\n\n- I feel like there's just\nlike zero self-awareness.\n\n- Some people just aren't self-aware.\n\n- I think, yes, I agree.\n\nBut also immediately\nwould've been like, \"No.\"\n\n- Yeah. Oh.\n\n- No.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- No.\n\n- I don't understand also,\neven from the start of this\n\nwhen it's like, \"Oh yeah, my fiance and I\n\n\"are going on our first trip together.\"\n\nThe thought of going, \"Can I join?\"\n\n- Yeah, I wanna sleep.\n\n- Like, as a joke-\n\n- That sounds really cool.\n\n- I'll sleep on the floor. Yeah.\n\n- Yeah, yeah.\n\nAnd this isn't the first\ntime we've had stories\n\nwhere people are going on\na trip and someone is like,\n\n\"Can I join your trip out of country?\"\n\nI understand being\ninvited on someone's trip,\n\nbut unless it's like-\n\n- People do it a lot.\n\n- Unless it's siblings or like\nyour absolute best friend,\n\nI don't understand, I would never-\n\n- People do it a lot.\n\n- [Shayne] I would never do that.\n\n- I tried to come to Greece\nwith her and her sisters.\n\n- Yeah, and I was like,\n\n\"You can't 'cause the\naccommodations are so strict.\"\n\n- And then when you were there in Greece,\n\nall of a sudden it was like,\n\n\"Wait, who's this fourth sister?\"\n\n- I was like, \"Hi.\n\n\"I am also a Canto.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Fifth sister.\n\nThat would've been five\nsisters and one mother.\n\nThat would've been six people!\n\n- And your mom is like,\n\n\"Ian's been my favorite\ndaughter for years.\"\n\n- I'm the short one.\n- Where do you wanna\n\ngo to dinner, Ian?\n\n- I'm the short Canto.\n\n- (beep)-o?\n\n- Canto.\n\n- I can't believe this.\n\n- And here's the thing.\n\nPeople weirdly do that.\n\nThey'll be like, \"Oh my god.\n\n\"Well, we've always wanted to go to Japan,\n\n\"and maybe we'll meet you\nthere, or I'll meet you there.\"\n\nIt's always this weird tricky thing,\n\nand the worst thing to do is to be like,\n\n\"No, you cannot come to this country\n\n\"that I have no ownership\nof, but also, no.\"\n\n- Well, and the prospect\n\nof like being on a trip to a\ncountry and if you have friends\n\nwho are also gonna be\nthere around the same time,\n\nbut you're doing-\n\n- Sure\n\n- You're going on two separate\ntrips to the same place\n\nis what it originally sounded like.\n\nSo it's like, \"Oh, I have\na family member there.\n\n\"I'll go stay with them.\"\n\nBut as soon as that\ndoesn't work, it's like,\n\noh, then I'm sorry, your\ntrip is not working out.\n\nYou were never on our trip to Japan.\n\n- Also, this is her first time\n\nleaving the state.\n- Leaving the state.\n\n- [Amanda] Getting on a plane.\n\n- That's super special.\n\n- It's super special.\n\nAnd she wants to spend it with her fiance.\n\n- Also put two and two together.\n\nYou're not gonna sleep on the floor\n\nin their small accommodations.\n\n- They gotta (beep).\n\n- Like...\n\n- That's what I was gonna say.\n\n- Sorry.\n\n- And then I thought I was\ngonna get in trouble for it.\n\n- I wouldn't want that.\n\nLike, if I'm talking to friends,\n\neven if this had all been planned\n\nand I was invited to go with them-\n\n- I probably would've said no.\n\n- I'd have been like,\n\n\"Oh, well I have to find\nmy own accommodations.\"\n\nI'm not staying in the\nsame room as a couple.\n\n- Can you imagine sleeping on\nthe floor and then going like,\n\n\"No kissing.\n\n\"Guys, I can hear you.\"\n- Ew. What are you guys doing?\n\n- Yeah. Ew.\n\nThe blankets are all moving\nand your legs are in the air.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- And then they wake up,\n\nthey wake up in the middle of the night,\n\nand I'm standing at the foot\nof the bed, and I'm just like,\n\n\"I fwowed up.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- I fwowed up.\n- I fwowed up.\n\n- A lot of times. I don't feel good.\n\n- 'Cause like it does kind of remind me\n\nof when I was in Japan for one reason\n\nand you and Damien were in\nJapan for another reason.\n\n- Yeah.\n- [Amanda] Oh.\n\n- And we were in Tokyo at\nthe same time and we met up.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- You know, we met up a\nfew times, but it was like-\n\n- [Shayne] Yeah, it's great.\n\n- We had our own thing that we were doing.\n\n- Totally.\n\n- We met up in Kauai.\n\n- Yeah, we did. Yeah.\n\n- For lunch.\n\n- We're on the same-\n\n- Ian happens to always be...\n\n- That's so weird.\n\nActually, he was in Greece,\nand he was in Florida.\n\nHe was surfing on a wave\nand I was like, \"Hello?\"\n\n- He's there in the\nlake like an alligator.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah. Yeah.\n\n- Amanda.\n\n- I think what's happening\nhere is OP is similar to me\n\nwhere they're afraid of confrontation.\n\nThey're afraid of saying no to someone.\n\nBut something I've learned-\n\n- Shayne, you would've said no though.\n\n- Oh yeah.\n\nWell, 'cause at a certain point too,\n\nyou get to the point where\nyou go, \"Oh, I just know.\n\n\"I don't think this is a big deal.\n\n\"This is not offensive to say no.\n\n\"So if they're offended,\nthat's their problem.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But it's just no.\n\nIt's just simply No.\n\nAnd I think it's not too\nlate for them to even go-\n\n- You know what? No.\n\n- We kinda actually want\nthis to be a romantic thing\n\nfor just the two of us.\n\nI think we're gonna go do our own thing.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And we don't really wanna...\n\n- Here's what I'm thinking.\n\nI'm thinking OP's friend,\n\nit seems like stepping on eggshells\n\nbecause if they're that close,\n\nit seems like the friend gets mad about...\n\nAnd also remember there's always a friend\n\nwho gets kind of either\ncool or upset with a couple.\n\nIt's kind of always\nlike a weird line there.\n\n- Yeah. Interesting.\n\n- Not the asshole in my opinion.\n\n- Oh, definitely not the asshole.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Definitely not the asshole.\n\nComments here.\n\n\"Not the asshole, but you will\nbe if you allow her to go.\n\n\"This was to be a romantic trip\nfor you and your boyfriend.\n\n\"She invited herself,\n\n\"claiming she had someone\nshe could stay with.\n\n\"This was probably false all along,\n\n\"and she waited until the last minute\n\n\"to ask if she could stay with you,\n\n\"thinking she could guilt you into it.\n\n\"Then when you told her no,\n\n\"she wanted you to pay\nfor a larger accommodation\n\n\"so she could stay but\nshe offered you no money.\n\n\"Chances are she also has\nno money for accommodations\n\n\"or food and planned to mooch\noff you and your boyfriend-\"\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- \"On all your sightseeing and meals.\n\n\"Just tell her no, you are not willing\n\n\"for her to join at all.\n\n\"Maybe sometime in the future,\n\n\"but this is just a trip\nfor you and your boyfriend.\"\n\nThat could all be true.\n\nWe don't know.\n\nSome people are also,\n\nthere are people out there who are just-\n\n- Travelers.\n\n- Unaware.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- Unaware and totally just like\nnot thinking things through.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I'm not saying that's\nwhat this commenter\n\nis saying isn't true.\n\nIt could be, but that wouldn't\nbe my initial thought.\n\nIt also doesn't matter.\n\nYou say no.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- Someone else said,\n\n\"Not the asshole, but\nthis is a no-brainer.\n\n\"You aren't being honest with her.\n\n\"Stop using accommodations as an excuse\n\n\"and tell her the truth.\n\n\"This is your first trip with your fiance.\n\n\"The two of you have planned it carefully\n\n\"for just the two of you.\n\n\"Your plans are final.\n\n\"They cannot be changed.\n\n\"You look forward to traveling\nwith her in the future\n\n\"but not on this trip.\n\n\"If she was truly a close friend,\n\n\"she would have had the good sense\n\n\"not to try and force herself on you.\n\n\"You haven't known her very long at all.\n\n\"You may just now be seeing the real her.\n\n\"If she doesn't drop the subject\nimmediately, then drop her.\n\n\"She's an acquaintance, not a friend.\"\n\nOh. So that's-\n\n- Drop her?\n\n- Let's see. Did they-\n\n- I thought it was like best friend?\n\n- [Ian] She didn't know her for very long.\n\n- \"In comes my friend Ashley,\n\n\"who's been a friend about a year.\"\n\n- Oh.\n- Oh.\n\n- That's a lot for after a year.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- A year. Maybe it's not like\nevery day kind of friend.\n\n- That's shocking though for that quick.\n\n- But I think like the mooching thing\n\nkind of has me a little bit,\nlike I somewhat suspect that\n\n- Now with that amount of time,\nthat does fit a lot better.\n\n- They're also still\nin college, they said?\n\n- Yeah. Yeah.\n\nSomething that I also think their behavior\n\nwhere they're trying to\nfind physical reasons\n\nwhy this person can't come on,\nit seems like this is someone\n\nwho's not respecting her feelings.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- 'Cause, you know, it's\nokay to use your feelings\n\nas a reasoning for something,\n\nbeing like, \"You know, I want\nthis to be my husband and I.\n\n\"That's my reasoning.\n\n\"It's not our accommodation.\n\n\"We could be staying in\na five room hotel room,\n\n\"but I want it to just be\nmy husband and I,\" but this-\n\n- We have to use all\nfive rooms to bang in.\n\n- She's clearly afraid of\nusing just her emotions\n\nas a reason.\n\n- Nice.\n\n- Sorry.\n\n- 'Cause this person clearly is gonna go,\n\n\"That's not a reason.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I don't know. This\nperson's not respecting 'em.\n\n- She has to tell her.\n\n- Lastly, someone said,\n\n\"Ashley, it seems like a lot\nof things you were counting on\n\n\"for this trip are falling through.\n\n\"I think you'd better try again later\n\n\"when things line up for you.\n\n\"Fiance and I will be\ntaking this couple's trip\n\n\"without you.\"\n\nLike, that's what she should say.\n\n- Yeah, I mean, I totally\nagree with what you're saying\n\nabout like just speaking\nto your feelings about-\n\n- Just being like,\n\n\"I want this to just be my husband and I.\"\n\n- Yeah. There's no real\nwiggle room with that.\n\n- Yeah, and if you can't respect that,\n\nthen that's (beep) up.\n\n- Then you're not gonna\nbe friends for very long.\n\nPlease tell me there's an update.\n\n- Update.\n\n- Oh!\n\n- Okay, what do we think?\n\nDo we think it's a mooching\nsituation or do we think it's-\n\n- Okay, I think the roommate,\n\nI think the two of them went there\n\nand the roommate was at\nthe hotel like, \"Hey guys!\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nRoomies!\n- That's what you do.\n\n- Yeah, but I mean, it's our\nfun little thing, Amanda.\n\n- I know.\n\n- It's our thing that we\nhave that he does every time.\n\n- We were on the flight to Kauai,\n\nand I was walking down\nthe aisle and I went...\n\n- Huh?\n\n- That really happened.\n\n- That really did happen.\n\nHe doesn't care. He doesn't care.\n\n- I care.\n\n- Doesn't seem like you do.\n\n- I care.\n\n- It seems like you're not\nlistening to our feelings.\n\n- Yeah, Shayne.\n\n- Shayne.\n\nLet's all go to Japan together.\n\n- You know, feelings matter.\n\nFeelings matter in these\nsituations, Shayne.\n\n- I think there's some like jealousy\n\nwith the girls.\n- With the fiance.\n\n- Yeah, the girl's getting\nmarried and maybe she's not.\n\nShe's like, \"Well, I'm your friend too.\n\n\"And like we always do things together.\n\n\"And then he came along.\"\n\nBut then again-\n\n- But she's only been\ntheir friend for a year.\n\n- I know.\n- But maybe she's in love.\n\n- I was kind of reading this through\n\nthinking like this is a 10-year friend.\n\n- 10-year friend. No.\n\n- Which makes a lot more sense.\n\nBut a year in?\n\n- It's either that or mooching.\n\nCan I have both options?\n\n- Sure.\n\n- [Amanda] Okay.\n\n- All right.\n\n\"I ended up refusing for the 10th time\n\n\"and told her no bluntly\nand as clearly as possible.\n\n\"I also made sure to say\n\n\"that I wasn't down with changing anything\n\n\"and that I wanna spend\ntime with only my fiance,\n\n\"that I've been trying to nicely say no,\n\n\"but I don't appreciate\ngetting manipulated\n\n\"nor having my partner's\nand I's feelings ignored.\n\n\"She said, 'We've been talking\nabout this trip for so long,\n\n\"'why didn't we just work it out earlier?\n\n\"'It's not my fault that\nthis is last minute.\n\n\"'Why won't you just do this one?\n\n\"'It's not much different.\n\n\"'There's just an extra bed.'\n\n\"And she sent me a link to\na specific accommodation\n\n\"where the two beds are\nside by side by the way.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Stop.\n\n- \"She basically ignored what I said.\n\n\"So I have ignored her since.\n\n\"We're in the same friend group,\n\n\"so I think it's probably\ngoing to get weird.\n\n\"But honestly I'm okay with that.\n\n\"Regardless of how that goes,\n\n\"my fiance and I'll be going alone\n\n\"and not meeting up with her\n\n\"or anyone anywhere during our trip.\n\n\"I'm going to work on the saying no thing\n\n\"and setting harder boundaries.\n\n\"I just had an abusive upbringing,\n\n\"and I'm still working on it all.\n\n\"I keep needing to remind myself\n\n\"that I'm not in that place anymore.\"\n\nShe's not the only 22-year-old out there\n\nwho's really bad at saying no.\n\nLike, I was horrendous at it at that age.\n\nI had to come up with all these\nreasons to say no to people\n\ninstead of just saying no.\n\nIt's okay.\n\n- Well, it's hard because\nsome people make you feel bad\n\nabout being honest.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Also, the two beds together?\n\nLike, girl, move on.\n\n- Yeah. What the hell, man?\n\n- Move on.\n\n- What?\n\n- 10 times?\n\n- 10 times is wild.\n\n- I cannot stand people who\ndon't take no for an answer.\n\nLike, it is enough of a reason\nfor me to slowly drift away\n\nfrom someone because I-\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- It's like the most basic\nlike form of disrespect\n\nthat people can do.\n\nIt's like you go like, \"Oh no. No thanks.\"\n\nAnd then they're just like,\n\n\"Yeah, but I'm not gonna listen to that.\"\n\n- You're not really like\nthinking about this.\n\n- It's just like, \"Hey\nman, just listen to that.\"\n\n- Truly.\n\n- That's all. That's all.\n\n- Tell me there's\npictures of them in Japan.\n\n- No.\n\n- [Ian] Did they have a good time?\n\n- Whoa!\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nThey got pictures.\n\n- It's them and it's the girl\nin the background like this.\n\nLike \"The Grudge\".\n\n- Well, that's, all right.\n\n- That's it?\n\n- That's it.\n\n- Wow.\n\n- Well, she did the right thing.\n\n- She did the right thing.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Yes.\n- We're happy for her.\n\n- [Shayne] Our next story,\n- We're happy for her.\n\n- Our next story is a doozy.\n\n- Let's go.\n- Okay.\n\n- I've read this one\n\nand it is dumb.\n- Whoa.\n\n- Dumb.\n- Okay. (laughs)\n\n- Okay, here we go.\n\nThis was on Am I The Asshole\n\nand it got reposted onto Am I The Devil.\n\nSo this is a real piece of shit here.\n\n- Ooh.\n\n- \"Am I the asshole for parting\n\n\"with my friend midway\nthrough a Grand Canyon hike?\"\n\n(Amanda laughs)\n\n- Sorry. Partying or-\n\n- Parting.\n- Partying. Parting.\n\n- Like, I am parting ways with you now.\n\n- Splitting from my friend.\n\n- Can you imagine partying\n\nin the middle of the Grand Canyon?\n\n- Seems pretty sick.\n\n- That's true.\n\n- Set up some speakers, some lights.\n\n- Oh, sick.\n\n- Partying in the Grand Canyon,\n\ndope.\n- [Ian] Would be sick. Yeah.\n\n- I wanna do that.\n\n- Unless there's a flash flood.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- \"My friend Crystal and I\nspent six months planning\n\n\"and training for a very\nintense all day hike\n\n\"of the Grand Canyon.\n\n\"We would go down South Kaibab\n\n\"and up Bright Angel on\nCrystal's birthday in June,\n\n\"which would be over 100 degrees.\n\n\"Two weeks before the hike,\n\n\"our friend Valerie said\nshe wanted to join us.\n\n\"Valerie looks way fitter than us.\n\n\"She does CrossFit and has a six pack,\n\n\"and we assumed she would be fine.\n\n\"On the trip leading up to the hike,\n\n\"Valerie was eating salad\n\n\"while Crystal and I were carb\nloading with pasta and pizza.\n\n\"Crystal and I each bought four\nliters of water, trail mix,\n\n\"and granola bars\n\n\"and believed Valerie had\npacked her bag with the same\n\n\"as it was all in the hotel\nroom for all of us to share\n\n\"when we packed up the night before.\n\n\"About half the way down,\n\n\"Crystal and I realized that\nat the pace Valerie was going,\n\n\"and thus the rest of us,\n\n\"we would not finish\nthe hike before sundown.\n\n\"We told Valerie about our concerns,\n\n\"and she said we should\njust hike ahead without her\n\n\"and that she would either catch up\n\n\"or if it was too much turn back.\n\n\"We asked if she was really sure about it\n\n\"and she said she was, so off we went.\n\n\"When we got to the bottom of the canyon,\n\n\"we waited for about an\nhour at the Colorado River,\n\n\"but did not see her.\n\n\"At that point, we\nreally had to get going,\n\n\"so we would finish the\ntrail before nightfall.\n\n\"We tried to call her from a payphone,\n\n\"but got her voicemail.\n\n\"None of us had reception.\n\n\"We explained the situation to a ranger,\n\n\"and they said they'd look out for her.\n\n\"When we were close to the top\n\n\"and it was actually already dark,\n\n\"we got reception and\ngot messages from her\n\n\"that she had collapsed\n\n\"and had to stay at the lodge\nat the bottom of the canyon.\n\n\"The lodge is booked months out,\n\n\"but I guess they hold\nsome emergency beds.\n\n\"She would hike out the\nnext day with another group\n\n\"and said not to worry about her.\n\n\"Both Crystal and I were\ntotally destroyed physically,\n\n\"but we got in the car,\nwent and demolished a pizza,\n\n\"then went to sleep at the hotel.\n\n\"Oddly we found half of Valerie's water\n\n\"and all of Valerie's food at the hotel.\n\n\"I don't wanna make too\nmany assumptions about her,\n\n\"but I think it's clear enough to say\n\n\"that it seemed clear she\ndidn't know how to eat\n\n\"during or before a hike\ndespite our guidance.\n\n\"The next day, Valerie said\nshe would be up by 3:00 PM.\n\n\"I was planning to pick her up.\n\n\"However, the one update we got from her\n\n\"was that she would be hours late.\n\n\"6:00 PM rolled around\nand she still wasn't up.\n\n\"I left her a voicemail letting her know\n\n\"we needed to continue onto\nour next hotel one hour away.\n\n\"We were both feeling really beat up,\n\n\"and I didn't think I\nwould have the energy\n\n\"to do the drive much later.\n\n\"I told her in the voicemail\n\n\"that I'd pay for her\nto Uber to the hotel,\n\n\"just tell me how much it was.\n\n\"At around 10:00 PM\nValerie called me furious.\n\n\"It took her over 13 hours to hike up\n\n\"and she almost didn't make it.\n\n\"She was suffering from sunstroke.\n\n\"She said she could have died\nbecause we abandoned her,\n\n\"and we were really selfish\nnot to stay with her.\"\n\n- Okay.\n\n- This is the dumbest shit.\n\n- I'm in a nightmare right now.\n\n- So all of the stupidness is\nallowing her to go on this.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- 'Cause people who don't hike regularly\n\nprobably underestimate how intense it is.\n\nAlso the Grand Canyon, I\nthink for a lot of people,\n\nthey think like, oh, you hike\ndown into the canyon, back up.\n\nIt's like, it's massive.\n\n- That's what, 2,000 feet?\n\n- Gigantic.\n\n- Can I be honest,\n\nI hiked the Grand Canyon when I was seven-\n\n- [Ian] And it was easy?\n\n- In Keds.\n\nThere's home video of it.\n\n- (beep) yeah, dude.\n\n- And I was like, \"Mom, why\ndidn't you pack me good shoes?\"\n\nShe was like, \"I forgot.\"\n\n- We also don't know\nwhich hike they're doing.\n\nThere's a million hikes.\n\n- It sounds like they're\ndoing an aggressive one.\n\nI think it was called Blue Angel?\n\n- Yeah. South Kaibab to whatever Angel.\n\nBut this is the thing, they're\nlike, \"Oh, she's really fit.\"\n\nIt's like, yeah, but-\n\n- Doesn't matter.\n\n- There's fit and then\nthere's like hiking shape.\n\n- There's endurance fit.\n\n- I mean, unless she\nneeds to do a bunch of...\n\n- Yeah. (laughs)\n\n- On a ledge.\n\n- We have to climb up\nthe side of the cliff.\n\nAnd she's just like leaping up.\n\n- She has to clear a fucking rock.\n\n- It's a completely like,\nit's its own unique thing.\n\nI mean, it's really-\n\n- She wasn't prepared.\n\n- It was really dumb of them to accept.\n\nLike, they should have been\nlike, \"No. Like, I'm sorry.\n\n\"We've been planning this for months.\n\n\"We've been training for months.\n\n\"We don't feel comfortable\nbringing on someone that we-\"\n\n- 'Cause she didn't train with them.\n\n- No. This is two weeks before.\n\n- And that's dangerous.\n\n- Super dangerous.\n\n- [Amanda] Super dangerous.\n\n- No, it's like, I'm sorry.\n\nThis is 100 degree\nweather, an intense hike.\n\nWe have to be accountable for each other.\n\n- I don't think it was great\nfor them to leave her behind.\n\n- I was gonna say that.\n\n- Oh no, no, no, no.\n\nLeaving her behind is the\ndumbest thing of it all.\n\n- Even if she said \"leave me behind,\"\n\nyou never leave someone alone.\n\n- No. It's 100 degrees.\n\nYou're doing an intense hike.\n\n- And you know better than anybody.\n\n- I know better than anyone\n\n'cause my brother and I\ngot lost on a hike once.\n\nBut it's one of the rules.\n\nYou don't go off trail, and\nyou don't leave anyone alone.\n\n- [Amanda] Ever.\n\n- And the second they had that,\n\nbut she's not an experienced hiker,\n\nshe's going, \"Oh no, go on without me.\"\n\nAt that point they go,\n\"No, we have to turn back.\n\n\"We simply have to.\n\n\"We're not gonna make it there.\n\n\"We three are one unit.\n\n\"We're not gonna make it\ntogether, so we're turning back.\n\n\"I'm sorry.\"\n\n- [Amanda] Sorry.\n\n- So then was this like a loop?\n\nIt wasn't like an out and back?\n\n- It sounds like an out and back to me.\n\n- 'Cause they would've\npassed her in that case.\n\n- Oh, you're right.\n\n- It had to have been-\n- It wasn't an out and back.\n\n- It is a loop.\n\nAnd maybe it's down\none side out the other.\n\n- Well, they went down\nto the Colorado River\n\nand then they must have\ngone up a completely-\n\n- They go up a different side.\n\n- That took her 13 hours.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nWell, yeah, she's probably\nhiking really slow.\n\n- Also she had sunstroke.\n\n- Sunstroke, dude.\n\n- She was (beep).\n\n- Oh, absolutely destroyed.\n\nAnd they left her twice,\n'cause they get up,\n\nthey abandoned her there\nwhich is really dumb,\n\nthey get to the bottom,\n\nthey go, \"Well, we gotta keep going,\"\n\nso they abandoned her again,\n\nand then at the top they're like,\n\n\"Well, we gotta get to our next hotel.\"\n\nThey abandoned her three times.\n\n- Why do you-\n\n- That's crazy.\n\n- Why do you have to get to your next?\n\n- I was gonna say that.\n\n- They're like, \"We gotta\ngo smash a pizza, dude.\"\n\n- Demolish a pizza.\n\nHoney, you've demolished too many pizzas.\n\n- No, they're really inconsiderate.\n\nLike, this is why it's dumb.\n\nIt's like you clearly\ndidn't care that much\n\nabout bringing this person on your hike.\n\n- Also, getting an Uber from somewhere\n\nnear the Grand Canyon to your next hotel,\n\nthat's gonna cost more than\njust booking a new hotel.\n\n- Just stay for a second.\n\n- We're in the middle of nowhere.\n\nYeah. Get an Uber.\n\n- Just wait for her.\n\n- Like, just literally wait and be like,\n\n\"Hey, we're not gonna\narrive till 10:00 PM.\n\n\"Our friend has (beep) heat stroke.\"\n\n- Yeah. This is all insane.\n\nAnd also the fact that\nthey were on the hike\n\nand then they were like,\n\n\"Oh, we realized like we gave her guidance\n\n\"and she didn't bring anything.\"\n\nIt's like before you leave\nthat morning be like,\n\n\"What's in your pack?\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Like, what are you bringing?\n\n- Show us what's in your pack.\n\n- Like, straight up though.\n\nI'm like, you guys\ndidn't actually give much\n\nof a shit about this.\n\n- No. They're like,\n\"Uh-oh, she didn't pack.\n\n\"Well, here we go.\"\n\nIt's like...\n\n- It's mind blowing to me.\n\nI mean, like she could have died.\n\nLike, straight up could have died.\n\nThis is what could have\nrealistically happened.\n\nThey abandon her, she's by\nherself and she just falls,\n\nlike falls somewhere,\nand she's by herself.\n\nLike, that's what happens.\n\nLike, when my brother and I got lost,\n\nand we were lost for like a whole day,\n\nI was immediately realizing like,\n\nit was such a wake up call for me\n\nof like what's actually scary in nature\n\n'cause I was not scared of\nbears or wolves or anything.\n\n- Badass.\n\n- No, you're not.\n\nYou're scared of falling-\n- Running out of water.\n\n- Well, and we did run\nout of water very quickly.\n\n- You're scared of falling.\n\n- Which was like, oh, since\nthen, since getting lost,\n\nI'm like, I'm bringing so\nmuch (beep) water with me.\n\nBut also I'm like, if I just\nfall and break my ankle.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- And I'm like, and now my brother\n\nhas to just go on for\nhours and find someone\n\nand then come back and\nfind my exact location.\n\n- That is so scary.\n\n- Like, I was like,\n\noh, that's how you die\nin the middle of nowhere.\n\nAnd that's why you never\nleave someone by themselves.\n\n- No.\n\n- This is so stupid.\n\n- Especially the Grand Canyon.\n\nLots of people die in the Grand Canyon.\n\n- Oh my god. Yeah.\n\nWell, it's 100 degrees,\nand it's treacherous.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah, that's nuts.\n\n- This is maybe the dumbest\nstory I've ever read on this.\n\n- I mean, everybody was pretty dumb.\n\n- There's a lot of stupidness.\n\nBut these experienced hikers-\n\n- Yeah, they should've known better.\n\n- Leaving someone by themselves\n\nwho they know is an inexperienced\nhiker is the craziest.\n\n- Sounds like they weren't experienced,\n\n'cause if they were, they would\nnever leave someone behind.\n\n- No, that's true.\n\nThey trained, but I don't think they're-\n\n- They trained for themselves.\n\n- Yeah, I don't even know\nhow they could walk off\n\nand be fine with it.\n\n- I bet she was embarrassed\nand was like, \"Please go.\"\n\n- Totally.\n\n- And even if it gets to\nthat point, it's like no.\n\n- But it's just a hard line rule.\n\nIt's a hard line rule of\nyou just don't do that.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- Especially these conditions.\n\n100 degrees?\n\nI don't care where you are.\n\nYou could be like anywhere,\nand if it's 100 degrees,\n\nyou're not gonna leave someone behind.\n\n- Yeah, and also like if\nshe was under equipped,\n\nwhat did they leave her with?\n\n- Yeah, well they said they didn't,\n\nuntil they got back to the hotel room\n\nand saw that most of her food was there.\n\nMost of the water and food was there.\n\nThat they're like, oh, she\nmust not have brought anything.\n\n- Well, didn't they all leave together?\n\n- Were you not checking on\nher at all before you left?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- This is just shocking to me.\n\n- [Ian] It's just weird.\n\n- Just say no to this person.\n\nLike, why did you do any of this?\n\nThey kind of just seem\nlike they don't give a shit\n\nabout her at all.\n\n- No, 'cause this is their\ndream to do this hike,\n\nthey've been training for it,\n\nand that's all they cared about.\n\n- But then say no to this person.\n\n- Not that I'm excusing what they did.\n\n- But say no to her then.\n\nWhen she's like, \"Can I join the hike?\n\n\"It's two weeks out,\" just\nlike, \"No, you can't.\"\n\n- But how old are they?\n\n22?\n- It doesn't say their ages.\n\nIt doesn't say their ages.\n\n- I'm gonna guess late 20s.\n\n- Yeah, me too.\n\n- Early 30s.\n\n- But like obviously this\nwouldn't be the same level,\n\nbut like imagine if you were\nlike training for a marathon\n\nand then like a week before\nI'm like, \"Yeah, can I join?\"\n\nIt would just be like, \"No, man.\"\n\n- Mile one, you're like,\n\"Go on without me.\"\n\n- Yes, you can.\n\n- Yes. Join, Shayne.\n\n- Some comments here.\n\n- I know what that means.\n\n- \"When you were noticing\nshe was eating salad,\n\n\"I would've stopped her immediately.\n\n\"Better yet, don't invite\npeople to go on difficult trails\n\n\"that you don't know\nare experienced enough\n\n\"to have the long endurance required.\n\n\"Why not make sure she\npacked her food and water?\n\n\"So many opportunities\nhere to back out or advise.\n\n\"Since you did invite her\n\n\"and have her as part of your group,\n\n\"you also took on the responsibility\n\n\"of making sure she doesn't die.\n\n\"Never leave your team on the trail.\n\n\"Take her back up.\n\n\"Send her to the hotel.\n\n\"Anything except just leave her.\n\n\"You're the asshole.\n\n\"Next time don't take people with you\n\n\"on potentially deadly hikes.\"\n\n- Whoa. Mic drop.\n\n- So true.\n\nSomeone else said, \"You're the asshole\n\n\"for trying to do a rim to\nriver and back day hike in June.\n\n\"That's really dangerous.\"\n\n- Whoa.\n\n- The hike itself sounds insane.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- Someone else said, \"You're the asshole.\n\n\"That's how people die\nat the Grand Canyon.\n\n\"You shouldn't have let her come.\n\n\"If you let her come,\n\n\"you don't ever abandon\nsomeone like that.\"\n\n- I fully agree.\n\n- Whoa. Getting roasted\n\n- Once you say yes, they\nare your responsibility.\n\nYou're fully responsible for them.\n\nThey had so many opportunities.\n\n- I must've done that\nexact hike in my Keds.\n\nThat must have been the hike that I did.\n\n- Must've been the one.\n\n- Yeah, I did that\nbarefoot, and it was easy.\n\n- It was actually pretty easy.\n\n- I was six. I climbed-\n\n- And I'm pretty sure it was\n110 degrees when I did it.\n\n- Yeah, which is crazy.\n\n- And the Colorado River was rushing,\n\nso we had to swim across it.\n\n- And I went in, (beep)\nnose dived in there.\n\n- Yeah, and I did it no problem.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- [Shayne] Yeah, it was pretty easy.\n\n- I even caught a fish\nwhile I was down there.\n\n- Oh, with my teeth.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Yeah, it was like 150 degrees.\n\n- [Amanda] Yeah, it was crazy.\n\n- And I didn't have any\nwater, but I was fine.\n\n- Yeah. So anyways, what's\ngoing on with these kids?\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- So dumb!\n\n- Is there an update?\n\n- No.\n\n- They got heat stroke\nfrom all that roasting.\n\n- Yeah, baby.\n\n- [Shayne] Straight up.\n\n- Nice.\n\n- I can't believe that, dude.\n\n- That is dumb dumb dumb.\n\n- So dumb.\n\n- That's why when people are like,\n\nyou know, in Kauai, speaking of Kauai,\n\nyou know how they put on the rocks\n\nlike how many people died in this area?\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- That's what they do in attractions.\n\nThey're like, \"This is how\nmany tourists have died here.\n\n\"Good luck.\"\n\nBecause they're just like,\n\"Don't do dumb things.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But so many people do.\n\nAnd then those like\nbeautiful parts of nature\n\nthat is Kauai get shut down,\nand it's just, I don't know.\n\n- People underestimate nature.\n\nI think hiking especially\npeople underestimate\n\nbecause if you do it right,\n\nand most of the time\nhikes can feel very chill\n\nand very like, oh, how\ncould that be dangerous?\n\nThat was such a nice day.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But it's like one small thing goes wrong\n\nand a hike turns into the deadliest shit\n\nyou've ever dealt with.\n\n- Yep.\n\n- No, when my brother and I got lost,\n\nand it started off very\ndumb, it started off with,\n\nour camp is probably down there,\n\nso if we cut off the trail here.\n\nCut to 12 hours later us hiking.\n\n- So scary.\n\n- You straight up did Donner Party.\n\n- Dude, actually. It was so dumb.\n\nAnd ever since then, it's like never.\n\n- Never again.\n\n- [Shayne] I don't care.\n\n- Don't go off trail.\n\n- No. Ego will get you killed on a hike.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- All right. Moving on to our next story.\n\nOur next story is an old one.\n\n- Oh.\n\n- A 10-year-old story.\n\n- Old time.\n\n- But sometimes these old\nones are the craziest.\n\n- He's gonna be talking\n\nabout watching \"The Big Bang Theory\".\n\n- [Amanda] Yeah, I was gonna say.\n\n- Yeah. Okay.\n\nWe're watching \"Game of Thrones\".\n\nThis show is always gonna be good.\n\n- Yeah, yeah, yeah.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- This comes from r/Relationships.\n\nThis is a 24-year-old man.\n\n\"My girlfriend, who's 21,\n\n\"wants to go on an out of\nstate camping trip alone\n\n\"with another guy, who's also 24.\"\n\nOkay.\n\n- Okay.\n- Hot.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- [Amanda] Got it\n\n- Hot.\n\n\"So I love my girlfriend\nand I do trust her,\n\n\"but every girlfriend I've\never had has cheated on me,\n\n\"and I'm terribly insecure\nabout her spending alone time\n\n\"with someone in a situation like this.\n\n\"We've been together for two years now.\n\n\"I met her my senior year of college\n\n\"because my college town was her hometown.\n\n\"I moved up to her college\ntown to live with her\n\n\"after I graduated, and I\nfound a great job there.\n\n\"For months, she's been\ntalking about us going to Maine\n\n\"to camp for a week for vacation\n\n\"with one of her best\nfriends, let's call him Kyle,\n\n\"and his girlfriend.\n\n\"I've never met Kyle\n\n\"since my girlfriend lives\ntwo hours from him now.\n\n\"But she was very open with\nme when I asked her about him.\n\n\"He's been one of her closest\nfriends since middle school.\n\n\"They liked each other for\na bit through the years,\n\n\"and the summer after she\ngraduated high school,\n\n\"she had sex with him,\nbut it never went anywhere\n\n\"because she was going to school,\n\n\"and he ended up meeting this girl,\n\n\"his current girlfriend, let's\ncall her Anna, soon after.\n\n\"They've been together since.\n\n\"So I was all down for a couple's trip.\n\n\"Well, recently I found out\nthe week they had planned,\n\n\"I'm being sent out of state for business\n\n\"and can't take it off,\n\n\"and now Kyle's girlfriend\ncan't go either,\n\n\"so it will just be my girlfriend and Kyle\n\n\"on the coast of Maine,\n\n\"camping and spending alone\ntime together for a week.\n\n\"I asked her what Anna thinks of this,\n\n\"and she said she's only\nmet Anna a few times,\n\n\"that she knows my girlfriend\n\n\"and her boyfriend had a sexual past,\n\n\"but that it's okay because she trusts him\n\n\"and knows how excited my\ngirlfriend and him are to catch up\n\n\"and see a new state.\n\n\"I wanna tell her no, but\nI can't be that boyfriend.\n\n\"It's the only week she has off\n\n\"between summer and fall semester.\n\n\"And she said her friend Kyle\nis moving to North Carolina\n\n\"for a new job in September,\n\n\"so she will probably not see\nhim for a long, long time.\n\n\"It wouldn't be fair to expect her\n\n\"to stay home her only\nweek off from school\n\n\"because I have to go on\na business trip either.\n\n\"But I can't help but\nfeel it's unfair to me\n\n\"to run off with an old\nflame/current friend.\n\n\"It just seems really off to me.\n\n\"I've never met this guy.\n\n\"I don't know his motives.\n\n\"And he's going to be\nsleeping with my girlfriend\n\n\"and our dog in a tent for a week.\n\n\"How do I tell her I don't\nwant to go alone together\n\n\"without being a\ncontrolling douche (beep)?\n\n\"Thanks, Reddit.\"\n\n- Thanks, Reddit.\n\n- Look, here's the thing though.\n\nI get saying it's wrong to be like,\n\n\"You can't go on this trip.\n\n\"I'm telling you you can't go.\"\n\nIt's also okay I think\nfor him to say, \"Hey-\"\n\n- I'm uncomfortable.\n\n- \"I'm letting you know how I'm feeling.\"\n\n- Yeah, yeah, yeah.\n\n- I'm feeling really\nuncomfortable about this.\n\n- I think he should.\n\n- You slept with this guy,\n\nand you guys are about to\nbe in the woods together\n\nfor a week.\n- [Amanda] For a week.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- That makes me feel a little weird.\n\n- It makes me feel blank.\n\n- Does it not make you\nfeel a little weird too?\n\n- No, I think he should definitely-\n\n- 'Cause if I'm in her position,\n\nI'm not going on this trip.\n\nIt's also we're talking about, you know,\n\nand this isn't fair\n'cause plenty of people\n\nwho are this age are not gonna do stuff,\n\nbut it's just when you're young\nand figuring yourself out,\n\nit's just like they've been dating for-\n\n- Like, (beep) it, let's just hang out.\n\n- They've been dating for two years,\n\nbut it's just like, you know,\nthey're so young and stuff,\n\nand he's been cheated on before.\n\nIt's just tricky, and it's scary.\n\nI think like we're coming from\na place of like relationships\n\nthat we have a lot more security in.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But for him-\n\n- It's definitely tricky.\n\nI think he should be honest.\n\n- I don't think he's wrong at\nall for feeling uncomfortable.\n\n- No, no, no.\n\nNo, I don't think he's wrong.\n\n- I also wonder if he's not\ncommunicating how he's feeling\n\nabout this whole situation at all.\n\nIf he's like, \"No, no, it's fine.\n\n\"It's fine. No, no, it's fine.\"\n\nAnd like, so I wonder if like\nshe's going along with it\n\n'cause she has no idea how\nuncomfortable it makes-\n\n- Exactly.\n\nAnd I think speaking anecdotally\n\nabout like young relationships,\n\nwhen I was younger in relationships,\n\nI think what was different\nwas just I was bad\n\nat communicating,\n\n'cause I was operating out\nof a place of nervousness.\n\nAnd I think that's often the difference\n\nwhen we're reading stories\nabout really young people\n\nis they're not communicating\n\nas clearly to each\nother or being as honest\n\n'cause they'll doubt\nthemselves as he's doing.\n\nAnd so, yeah, I think that's possible\n\nthat they're just not\nseeing what this looks like.\n\n- Here's my thing, these relationships,\n\nit's like you wanna trust your partner,\n\nhere's a perfect way to\nstart trusting your partner.\n\nI don't know, you can't\ngain trust by being like,\n\n\"Don't do it.\"\n\n- Right.\n\nNo, I do agree with that.\n\n- I don't know.\n\n- Because I think like if\nhe says \"you can't go,\"\n\nthen he's acting on his insecurities.\n\n- [Amanda] Yes.\n\n- She's never done anything to him-\n\n- [Amanda] Yes.\n\n- That's ever made him\nquestion her loyalty.\n\n- [Amanda] Yes.\n\n- So I think-\n\n- So now he's already not trusting her.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- So like I think like he-\n\n- He did explain.\n\nHe's like, \"I've been\ncheated on a bunch before.\"\n\nSo like he's being very\nupfront of just like,\n\n\"I feel insecure in this area.\"\n\n- But she hasn't cheated on him.\n\n- Yeah, it's not an ideal scenario.\n\n- No, it's not.\n\n- I recognize like yeah, clearly\nthey were, at some point,\n\nthey were attracted to each other\n\n- And they had sex.\n\n- They had sex.\n\n- And it only ended because\nhe met his current girlfriend.\n\n- Yeah. It's tricky.\n\nIt's a tricky situation.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- Would you tell her not to go?\n\n- No, but I would have questions.\n\nLike, are you guys\ngonna be sharing a tent?\n\n- What I will say,\n\n'cause I know it is more\non the unpopular side,\n\nit's not unpopular, this is just,\n\nbut the perspective that I\nknow at this stage in life\n\nafter having been cheated\non and stuff of just like,\n\nif your partner's gonna cheat on you,\n\nthey're gonna cheat on you.\n\n- That's what I'm saying.\n\n- I do understand what\nyou're saying of like,\n\nif you cheat on me, then\nyou were gonna do that,\n\nand all right, this is over.\n\n- That's what I'm saying.\n\n- I get that.\n\nBut that's also so scary to\nbe like, \"Okay, go off and-\"\n\n- I don't think he\nshould be like, \"Go off.\n\n\"I'm strong and you should do...\"\n\nI don't think that.\n\nI think he should tell her.\n\nHe's like, \"I feel insecure about this.\n\n\"I feel worried about this.\n\n\"I'm worried.\n\n\"I have questions.\n\n\"Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.\"\n\n- And you know what?\n\nIf he's saying like...\n\nI also think it's okay,\nespecially when you're young,\n\nI've said this,\n\nof just if he's like,\n\"I'm super uncomfortable,\"\n\nand she's like, \"Well, this is who I am\n\n\"and I want to go on this and I-\"\n\n- Right.\n\n- And it's like, maybe\nyou're very different people\n\nand maybe your perspectives\non these types of boundaries\n\nand stuff are different,\nand it's okay to break up.\n\nYou're so young.\n\nWho cares?\n\nLike, if you guys are just\nnot the same types of people.\n\nI understand you've been\ntogether for two years,\n\nand you don't wanna break up\n\nand you probably care about\neach other, but I don't know.\n\nI've said it a lot of like\nwhen you're really young\n\nand if you feel like who you're with,\n\nyou're not seeing eye to eye,\n\nnow that's after communicating\nand talking about it.\n\nTalk about it.\n\nMake sure you're not on the same page.\n\nBut if you talk about it clearly\n\nand then you're not on the same page,\n\nit's okay to be like,\n\"Maybe this isn't for us.\"\n\nThat's totally fine.\n\nSome comments here.\n\n\"Tell her you don't feel comfortable\n\n\"with her going alone with a guy.\n\n\"Make it about your feelings,\nnot about her cheating.\"\n\n- [Ian] Yep.\n\n- OP responded, \"I tried this at first.\n\n\"She just brushed it off kind of.\n\n\"'I've known him most of my life.\n\n\"'We've had these plans for months.\n\n\"'Just because you can't come suddenly\n\n\"'doesn't mean I should rearrange my plans\n\n\"'for my only week off\n\n\"'for you when you\nwon't be around anyways.\n\n\"'I want to go hiking and\nsee the cliffs and coasts,\n\n\"'not to elope with a good friend.'\"\n\n- Yep. That's probably\nexactly what she's thinking.\n\n- Someone said, \"I don't\nknow what you should do,\n\n\"but you are not alone in\nthinking this is shifty and weird.\n\n\"I too would feel extremely uncomfortable\n\n\"with this situation.\"\n\nYeah.\n\nI don't think there's\nanything wrong with thinking.\n\nLike you said, they're going out alone.\n\nAnd it's probably about\nas bad as it can get.\n\nI'm trying to think of\nscenarios worse than this.\n\n- And I hear a week and I'm like, ooh.\n\n- A week is also-\n\n- A week is a long time.\n\n- A week is a long camping trip.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- A week in a tent?\n\n- My god.\n\n- (beep).\n\n- Oh, they will be.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Yeah.\n\nJust to make sure. Just to see.\n\nDo they still have it?\n\nI'm just kidding.\n\nUpdate?\n\n- Update.\n\n(Amanda gasps)\n\n- Yes!\n- Yeah!\n\nYeah!\n- The dog is single.\n\n- Let's go.\n\n- \"So I was overwhelmed with responses.\n\n\"Thanks, everyone, for the help.\n\n\"I decided to talk to\nher about my feelings\n\n\"and see how she dealt with them.\n\n\"Telling her she needed\nto make it a group trip\n\n\"and not share a tent alone with him.\n\n\"Here's how it went.\n\n\"So she comes home, and she's so excited\n\n\"to show me the new climbing\ngear she bought for the trip.\n\n\"Great.\n\n\"I tell her we need to talk\nabout the trip and Kyle,\n\n\"and she looks a little worried.\n\n\"I preface the conversation\nasking more about her\n\n\"and Kyle's relationship.\n\n\"From what I gathered,\nthey're closer than I thought,\n\n\"yet this actually reassures me.\n\n\"She was his rock when his dad died,\n\n\"and he was hers when her best\nfriend committed suicide.\"\n\n- Jesus. Trauma bond.\n\n- \"He has a place in her\nheart as a lifelong friend\n\n\"that no one else can fill,\n\n\"and I have one in hers\nas a lifelong partner\n\n\"that no one else can either.\n\n\"I have to suck it up and live with that.\n\n\"She seems to really like Anna,\n\n\"and Kyle apparently really\nlikes me from their talks.\n\n\"They're happy the other\nfound a great person\n\n\"and realized they\nweren't compatible anyways\n\n\"and only tried it out\nout of a loneliness thing\n\n\"after both losing important people.\n\n\"I can live with that.\n\n\"So I tell her I know it's impractical,\n\n\"but I don't want her\nsharing a tent with him.\n\n\"She says that's fine, completely\nreasonable for me to ask,\n\n\"and just wants to make me comfortable.\n\n\"She says she can try and\npack lighter in other aspects.\n\n\"Cool.\n\n\"So then I tell her the trip\nitself makes me uncomfortable.\n\n\"And why doesn't she invite someone else?\n\n\"She mentions that's okay.\n\n\"She can invite her friend Ally\n\n\"who just got back from Colorado.\n\n\"They can just bring the four\nperson tent again for them\n\n\"and the dog if Ally wants to go.\n\n\"Oh, but Ally's a very hot,\nvery promiscuous lesbian\n\n\"and was my girlfriend's\nfirst sexual encounter.\"\n\n- Stop. Stop.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- You know what? You know what?\n\nThis man should be\ncounting his lucky stars.\n\nHis girlfriend sounds awesome.\n\n- Wait, I have my other best\nfriend, Chris Hemsworth.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- He comes in.\n\nWhere are we camping?\n\n- Oh, how's it going?\n\n- It's fine.\n\nI'll invite my other\nfriend, (beep) (beep).\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Doctor (beep) (beep).\n\n- Doctor (beep) (beep).\n- He's a doctor?\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- He makes money.\n\n- And he's single.\n\n- And this is my other\nfriend Cassian from \"ACOTAR\".\n\n- Stop. Do not bring that up right now.\n\nI just finished the book.\n\nOh God.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\nDon't even bring up his name.\n\n- [Ian] Contain yourself.\n\n- I can't.\n\n- \"Hmm. Nope.\n\n\"Anyone else?\n\n\"Oh yeah, her friend Taylor maybe,\n\n\"but she'd be kind of a drag.\n\n\"Oh, that's okay.\n\n\"You used to hook up with Taylor too.\n\n\"At this point, I realize\nit boils down to the fact\n\n\"that I am jealous and I\ndon't want my girlfriend alone\n\n\"with anyone who is attracted to her.\n\n\"Not because I don't trust her,\n\n\"but because I have\nthis (beep) up mentality\n\n\"that I have to prove myself\n\n\"and be there to claim her or something.\n\n\"If I want this relationship to work,\n\n\"I have to force myself to get over that.\n\n\"This trip will help.\n\n\"So I tell her that, and she\ninsists she doesn't have to go\n\n\"if I'm really that insecure.\n\n\"We can take baby steps\nand work on it together.\n\n\"'No', I say, 'I want you to\ngo enjoy your only week off.\n\n\"'You earned it.'\n\n\"So we decided we are going to\ndrive down there next weekend\n\n\"to Kyle's, we're going to all\nhang out and properly meet,\n\n\"eat some dinner, drink some beers,\n\n\"play Cards Against Humanity,\n\n\"then Kyle and I will go out to the bars\n\n\"and get to know each other,\n\n\"and she and Anna will do\nwhatever they wanna do.\n\n\"If I don't like him, I\ntell her and we call it off.\n\n\"I think this will really\nhelp and make me comfortable.\n\n\"In the end,\n\n\"my girlfriend's sexual\npast makes me uncomfortable,\n\n\"but I'm sure mine from my fraternity days\n\n\"scares the shit out of her too.\n\n\"But just like I only\nhave eyes for her now,\n\n\"I know it's the same.\n\n\"She's still not going to\nsleep in the same tent as him\n\n\"and said she can probably\nrent some single tents\n\n\"from the university outdoors club.\n\n\"Way cool.\n\n\"You guys were all divided\n\n\"on whether to ask her\nto stay or let her go,\n\n\"but I think we found a good compromise\n\n\"to make us all feel better\nand still let her go.\"\n\nOkay.\n\nI mean, hey, look, he made his decision.\n\nWe don't have another update,\n\nso we don't know what happened.\n\n- I will say I'm proud that\nhe came to that on his own.\n\nHe literally had to verbally talk it out.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And then it's kind of what\nwe said in the beginning.\n\nHe's gonna let her go\n\nbecause he has to move on from this stuff.\n\n- Okay, I will say,\nmaybe I'm wrong for this,\n\nbut I think it was a little crazy\n\nthat they were planning on\nsharing a tent before he asked.\n\n- I kind of agree.\n\nIt's like, \"We don't\nhave to share a tent.\"\n\nIt's like, \"You were gonna share a tent?\n\n\"Get your own tent.\"\n\n- I've never had this type of situation.\n\nI've never, so for me,\nthis is all hypothetical.\n\nI'm very curious what our\ncommenters will think,\n\nwhat they would do in\nthis type of situation.\n\nSo let us know.\n\n- Let us know.\n\n- Move on to our next story.\n\nThis comes from Relationships.\n\n\"I, a 29-year-old woman,\nam traveling overseas\n\n\"to meet my online boyfriend,\na 38-year-old man, in a week.\n\n\"He just said he had to cancel.\"\n\n- Yeah, because he's\n65 and his name is Bob.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- And he lives in Carolina.\n\n- Like, Bob, come on, we gotta go.\n\nHe's like, \"I'm meeting my girlfriend.\"\n\nSorry.\n\n- \"I met someone online through r/PenPals\n\n\"about five months ago.\n\n\"It started off getting\nto know each other,\n\n\"and it turns out we had a lot in common,\n\n\"and we were really compatible.\n\n\"I think it's safe to say\nwe fell for each other.\n\n\"It quickly turned intense,\n\n\"and we shared every\nsingle intimate detail\n\n\"about each other.\n\n\"We both were in serious\nrelationships that fell through,\n\n\"but sometime had gone by for us.\n\n\"My seven-year relationship\nended about 10 months ago,\n\n\"five months before we met.\n\n\"And his four-year\nrelationship ended four months\n\n\"before we met.\n\n\"We text all day every day\n\n\"and FaceTime for two to\nthree hours every night,\n\n\"save for maybe one or two nights a week.\n\n\"He lives in Ireland.\n\n\"I live in the US.\n\n\"I found an incredibly\npriced flight to visit him.\n\n\"We were both so excited\nand maybe a bit rash.\n\n\"I booked the flight only after\ntwo months of knowing him.\n\n\"He told his family about me,\nshared photos of his family,\n\n\"and we planned all that I'm\ngoing to do and see with him.\n\n\"At 5:30 this morning, I\nreceived a video message\n\n\"and a long text that his ex-girlfriend\n\n\"was in a serious car accident\n\n\"and that he would have to cancel.\n\n\"I've begged him not to, and\nI am trying to be supportive\n\n\"of what he's going through.\n\n\"So far at most, I've only\ngotten that he will try,\n\n\"that he needs to sort this out.\n\n\"I'm freaking out that in seven\ndays I will be in a country\n\n\"where I don't know anyone.\n\n\"Do I cancel the flight?\n\n\"I've been telling my friends\nabout going on a trip,\n\n\"not really saying that\nI'm meeting someone.\n\n\"I have no idea what to do now.\n\n\"I feel sick.\n\n\"I feel like a fool.\n\n\"I feel like everything\nhe said to me was a lie.\n\n\"What should I do?\"\n\n- Okay.\n\n- I mean, I think this is\nthe perfect opportunity\n\nto do a solo trip.\n\nI mean, Ireland, plenty of green grass.\n\n- [Amanda] Yeah.\n\n- You know?\n\nCheck out the Guinness factory.\n\n- Ah, it's a lovely day for a Guinness.\n\n- I've still never been to Ireland.\n\n- You must go.\n\n- I think like make a solo trip out of it.\n\n(beep) that guy.\n\nGo on trip.\n\n- Yeah, also like if\nhe is telling the truth\n\nabout his ex-girlfriend\ngetting in a car accident,\n\nthat's really scary and sad.\n\n- Yeah, it could be real.\n\nI mean-\n\n- Okay.\n\n- I'm a little suspicious.\n\n- [Amanda] You're suspish.\n\n- I don't know.\n\nYou know, they did say\nthey were FaceTiming.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- So he-\n\n- He's a real person.\n\n- [Shayne] He's a real person.\n\n- Yeah. We know that.\n\n- He just always has a filter on.\n\n- But the problem is when you're,\n\nI mean, and I've never been in\na long distance relationship,\n\nso I'm not experienced in this.\n\nA lot of 'em work out and are real.\n\nBut there's also the element of like,\n\nyou don't know him in person,\n\nis what he's telling you the truth?\n\n- Right.\n\n- That is the possibility here.\n\n- I think she should go on this trip.\n\n- [Ian] Absolutely.\n\n- But not plan to, not care\nif she sees him or not.\n\n- Yeah. Yeah, there's plenty\nof stuff to do in Ireland.\n\nEnjoy the-\n\n- But how soon is...\n\nThat in seven days.\n\nSo she has seven days until-\n\n- Or she could cancel it\n\nand save for when things\ncalm down a little bit\n\nand not spend all her money.\n\n- I think if she can get her money back-\n\n- If she can get her money.\n\n- That might be true.\n\n- She can get her money\nback, I would cancel\n\nbecause go on a solo trip.\n\nBut like cancel this and then plan a trip.\n\n- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,\n\n- Okay. Comments.\n\n\"I'll be honest, his ex-girlfriend being\n\n\"in a car crash a week\nbefore you come over\n\n\"shouldn't affect his\nability to make time for you\n\n\"even if he was to go out and see her.\n\n\"From what I've seen of people\nin online relationships,\n\n\"there is often one party\n\n\"that bails approaching a meetup date\n\n\"as things are suddenly to become real.\n\n\"This is a big possibility,\n\n\"but I'm not saying it's\ndefinitely the case.\n\n\"I definitely wouldn't cancel\nunless you can get a refund.\n\n\"You could use this time to\nexplore the country by yourself\n\n\"and turn it into a good\nempowering experience.\"\n\n- That's what you said.\n\n- Eat, pray, love, bitch.\n\n- Yeah. Eat, pray, love in Ireland.\n\n- Someone else said, \"Everything\nhe said likely was a lie\n\n\"since this is a classic catfish line.\n\n\"Just because someone can FaceTime you\n\n\"doesn't mean every other thing\nabout them isn't bullshit.\n\n\"I'm sorry this happened.\n\n\"I'd still take the trip\nand have an excellent time.\n\n\"Find things that interest\nyou and go do and see them.\n\n\"It's an awesome opportunity\nto see the world,\n\n\"and I wouldn't pass it up\n\n\"just because the opportunity came\n\n\"from a shitty situation originally.\"\n\nIf he's lying about all of it\n\nand it's like she's FaceTiming him\n\nand he's just like, \"Oh\nyes, I'm here in Dublin.\"\n\nAnd she's like, \"My Irish\nboyfriend is so cool.\"\n\nIt's like, \"Yes, I'm\ndrinking a Guinness again.\"\n\nLike, that's all he does.\n\nI'm eating Lucky Charms.\n\n(Amanda laughs)\n\nIt's like, no, that guy's from Kentucky.\n\n- Yeah, exactly.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- He's like, \"Look, I'm really sorry.\"\n\n- He has a filter of a\n(beep) leprechaun hat on.\n\nStop.\n\n- Yeah, do they even have\nLucky Charms in Ireland?\n\n- Probably not.\n\n- Probably at those, like they\nhave like specialty stores.\n\n- He's going off the only things he knows.\n\nHe's like, \"I'm doing,\"\n\nand he like is watching \"Trainspotting\".\n\nHe's like, \"Heroin!\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Well, now that's Scotland.\n\n- Oh, that's Scotland. I haven't seen-\n\n- Ewan McGregor.\n\n- Yeah, he gets it wrong.\n\nShe's like, \"Wait, that's Scotland.\"\n\nHe's just like, \"Oh (beep), oh (beep).\"\n\n- And then it's like,\n\"Bob, come upstairs!\"\n\nHe's like, \"Okay, honey.\"\n\n- He's just saying quotes\nfrom \"Banshees of Inisherin\".\n\n- Yeah.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Just like, wait.\n\nShe watches the movie.\n\nShe's like, \"That's all that he's saying.\"\n\nOkay.\n\nUpdate.\n\n- Yay!\n\n- The guy was Barry Keoghan.\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- I mean, that'd be pretty-\n\n- He's single now.\n\n(Ian gasps)\n\nYeah. Him and Sabrina broke up.\n\n- Uh-oh.\n\n- She's touring, and she\ncan't with him right now.\n\n- Wow. Never could have thought.\n\n- So people are like,\n\n\"So what happened with that boyfriend?\"\n\nShe's like, \"He's sort\nof not a real person.\"\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Jesus.\n\n- Sorry. I had to.\n\nAll right.\n\n\"After my post, I FaceTimed\nhim to say what I wanted to say\n\n\"and end things.\n\n\"He tried to get me to postpone my trip\n\n\"and even tried to give me money\nto make me less mad at him.\n\n\"I told him whatever we had was over\n\n\"as I could no longer trust him.\n\n\"He cried, which made me feel weird.\n\n\"I wished him and his ex\nthe best and ended the call.\n\n\"I went on my trip and\nhad a top class time.\n\n\"The Reddit community really\nastounds me sometimes.\n\n\"I received a lot of private\nmessages of suggestions\n\n\"of things to do and see.\n\n\"And the trip to Ireland\nbecame a trip of a lifetime.\"\n\n- Yes.\n\n- \"In Dublin, I did meet up\nwith a very kind Redditor\n\n\"who showed me around the city\n\n\"and came with me to a bunch\nof museums during my stay.\n\n\"I saw amazing sights, met a\nbunch of really cool people\n\n\"through my travels, and met\na few really cute Irish boys.\"\n\n- There we go.\n\nI was gonna say she could\nbe her own boyfriend there.\n\n- Exactly.\n\n- \"I learned a lot about myself\n\n\"on my first solo trip abroad.\n\n\"I am pretty self-reliant,\n\n\"and I did a lot of self-reflection.\n\n\"This relationship was\nmy first serious one\n\n\"after my ex and I split up.\n\n\"I think in my desire for\ncloseness with someone,\n\n\"I ignored a lot of red flags\nand downplayed my self-worth.\n\n\"I'm now focusing on\nmaking real connections\n\n\"with people I meet in real life\n\n\"and have decided to stay away\n\n\"from anything long distance indefinitely.\n\n\"My first night in Belfast, I messaged him\n\n\"after I had what was\nprobably too many beers.\n\n\"Damn you, delicious Irish beers.\n\n\"And he said he was sorry,\nbut it was what it had to be.\n\n\"It didn't really seem sincere,\n\n\"and it extinguished any\nromantic notions I had.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who commented\n\n\"and private messaged me.\n\n\"It really made me excited for my trip,\n\n\"and it was the best time.\"\n\n- Oh. That is the best story ever.\n\n- It ended up being the best story so far.\n\n- Good for her.\n\nI didn't realize she was gonna\nimmediately just cut it off.\n\n- Yeah, that was extreme, but hey.\n\n- There might've been other details.\n\nIt might've all added up in her head,\n\nand she was like, \"I need to end this.\"\n\n- Good for her.\n\n- Hey, good for her.\n\nI'm jealous of her.\n\nI really want to go 'cause\nI've heard Guinness in Ireland\n\nis crazy.\n- It is amazing.\n\nIt tastes so good.\n\nAnd the Guinness factory\nhas this bar at the top\n\nthat you can see the whole\n(beep) city of Dublin.\n\n- Cool.\n\n- [Amanda] It's really cool.\n\n- I really want to go.\n\n- Do you wanna come\nwith me next time I go?\n\n- Yeah. I mean, I won't tell you.\n\n- You're gonna be there.\n\n- Yeah, I'm gonna be there.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Yeah, I'm not gonna tell you though.\n\nI'm just gonna be like-\n- Oh good.\n\n- Hey, this Guinness\nplace, pretty cool, right?\n\n- And I'm like, \"There he is.\"\n\n- Also to all of our Irish\nviewers, I'm sorry for my accent.\n\n- I'm not sorry.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nI'm sorry.\n- I will not apologize.\n\n- [Shayne] Okay.\n\n- That wasn't class of you.\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\nThat's what they say.\n\n- I gotta watch \"Derry Girls.\"\n\n- Ah.\n\n- Oh.\n- Yeah.\n\n- [Shayne] I need to watch that too.\n\n- I need to watch that,\n\nthen I'm gonna come\nback with a sick accent.\n\n- Just such a good accent.\n\nOkay, it is time for our last story,\n\nand it comes from Am I The Asshole.\n\n\"Am I the asshole for\nleaving a couple's trip\n\n\"in the middle of the night\nand ruining the vibe?\"\n\n- Oh no. The vibe's been ruined.\n\n- Leaving a couple's trip\nin the middle of the night.\n\n- I mean, ruining-\n\n- That sucks.\n\n- Ruining a vibe-\n\n- Sucks.\n\n- Sucks.\n- Immediate asshole.\n\n- Worse than death.\n\n- You ruin the vibe...\n\n- Oh no, dude.\n\n- Naur.\n\n- Naur.\n- Oh naur.\n\n- You gotta keep the vibe intact.\n\n- Yeah. Yeah.\n\n- All right. This is a 26-year-old guy.\n\n\"Last weekend was my birthday.\n\n\"Me and my girlfriend of\ntwo years, Kenzie, who's 26,\n\n\"had plans to get dinner.\n\n\"She came to pick me up from\nwork, and her car was packed,\n\n\"and my best friend/his\nwife were in the backseat.\n\n\"To my surprise, she\nplanned a whole weekend away\n\n\"to my favorite lake, rented\na sick house on the water,\n\n\"and invited all our friends.\n\n\"Her sister/husband, my friend/their SOs,\n\n\"and a few of Kenzie's friends\nall arrived Thursday night.\n\n\"It was awesome, and I was\nstoked for the weekend.\n\n\"We met through my best childhood\nfriend, Grace, who's 26.\n\n\"Grace and Kenzie were college friends,\n\n\"and I never thought I had a chance.\n\n\"Kenzie is beautiful.\n\n\"And while I'm not ugly,\n\n\"I've always felt like we\nweren't in the same league.\n\n\"No idea how I got her, and I still don't.\n\n\"Thursday night went well.\n\n\"Friday we swam and hung out\nat the house most of the day.\n\n\"We started drinking and\nplaying games at night.\n\n\"Kenzie's sister broke\nout this couple's game.\n\n\"Basically, you pick one\nperson in the relationship\n\n\"that fits the description\n\n\"or it has prompts to engage\nin debates between couples.\n\n\"Kenzie was pretty drunk by\nnow because she's a lightweight\n\n\"and was drinking most of the night.\n\n\"It was fun until a question\n\n\"of what originally attracted\nyou to your SO came up.\n\n\"Kenzie blurted out,\n\n\"'He was safe and I knew he\nwouldn't cheat or leave me.'\"\n\n- Ooh.\n- Ooh.\n\nOuchie ouchie.\n\n- You know, I think the\nvibe got ruined right there.\n\n- The vibe has been broken.\n\n- Oh.\n\n- The vibe has been shattered.\n\n\"I looked at her with a\nface and was like, 'Huh?'\n\n\"She then says, 'Yeah,\nyou seemed nice enough.\n\n\"'And after my abusive ex,\nI wanted a safer option.'\n\n\"Things got really awkward,\n\n\"and her sister quickly\nread a different card.\n\n\"I was really embarrassed and flustered,\n\n\"so I said I had to\npee and walked outside.\n\n\"I called Grace to tell her what happened.\n\n\"She was working and couldn't come.\n\n\"And she got upset.\n\n\"I told her I wanted to leave.\n\n\"She said I didn't need to take that\n\n\"and she would be there\nin the morning to get me.\n\n\"The night died down,\n\n\"and Kenzie tried talking\nto me in front of everyone,\n\n\"but I told her we'd talk\nabout it another time.\n\n\"I decided to pack my bags\nand sleep on the couch.\n\n\"And before anyone woke up, I left.\n\n\"I texted Kenzie and told her\n\n\"that I didn't wanna\nfight about what happened\n\n\"and ruin everyone's trip,\n\n\"so I was going home for the weekend\n\n\"and we could talk whenever she got home.\n\n\"She blew my phone up all Saturday,\n\n\"as did a few of my friends.\n\n\"I decided to go golfing\nand just turn my phone off.\n\n\"I just didn't want to talk to anyone.\n\n\"When Kenzie showed up at my\nplace Sunday, she was fuming,\n\n\"saying that me leaving\nearly ruined the whole trip.\n\n\"It was all anyone could talk about,\n\n\"and the whole vibe felt off\n\n\"because the birthday boy was gone,\n\n\"that she felt like a piece of shit\n\n\"and I didn't give her\na chance to explain,\n\n\"and she hardly even remembers\nwhat she said to begin with.\n\n\"She rented a boat.\n\n\"I love boating.\n\n\"And felt like I disrespected\nher efforts/money\n\n\"to put together the trip.\n\n\"I told her that I\ndidn't feel like arguing,\n\n\"so I went home to avoid the drama.\n\n\"Some said that it was an\nasshole move to just bail\n\n\"and I should have stayed\n\n\"because she put a ton\nof effort into the trip.\n\n\"Am I the asshole?\"\n\n- Yes.\n\n- Yeah.\n- Yeah.\n\n- I mean, he's kind of on some baby shit.\n\n- It really sucks.\n\n- All of that sucked.\n\n- Like, there's no doubt his\nfeelings were obviously hurt.\n\n- Yeah. Rightfully so.\n\n- Yeah. And I mean, that sucks to hear.\n\n- But you're gonna\nleave the whole weekend?\n\nAll your friends took off\ntime to be there for you.\n\n- You're punishing a lot of people\n\nfor what your girlfriend said.\n\n- Grace?\n\nHey girl, don't get involved like that.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- I think like, I mean,\nat the end of the day,\n\nI think he felt so embarrassed\nin front of all his friends\n\nthat he couldn't stand to be around 'em\n\nbecause he's probably\nthinking in his head,\n\n\"They're all judging me for\nthis, and I just need to leave.\"\n\nAnd so I don't think he realized\n\nthat when you just dip out\non something like that,\n\nyour absence will be all\npeople are gonna talk about,\n\nand that's gonna make\neverything way worse.\n\n- [Amanda] So much worse.\n\n- No, it's the most\ndramatic move you can make.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And to say like,\n\n\"Oh, I just wanted to\nleave to not cause drama.\"\n\nI'm like, you wanted to cause some drama.\n\n- You caused-\n\n- Maybe.\n\n- Maybe. Maybe he wasn't.\n\nMaybe he was in his feelings.\n\n- Yeah, he was probably in his feelings.\n\nHe did what he felt he\nneeded to do to feel better.\n\nHe went golfing.\n\nI'm sure that was nice for him.\n\nBut like when you're\nthinking like long game\n\nwith your friends,\n\nlike doing that is kind\nof a dramatic thing.\n\n- It's a cop out.\n\n- I don't blame him for wanting to leave,\n\nbut I think it would've\nbeen a much better idea\n\nfor him to work it out there.\n\nAnd also if he didn't leave,\n\neveryone would've forgot about that.\n\n- They would've been like, \"Ooh, awkward.\n\n\"They'll figure it out.\n\n\"But I don't like him less.\"\n\n- But now it's like, \"Why is he gone?\n\n\"Oh yeah because he was the safe option,\n\n\"and that's what caused this whole thing.\"\n\n- It doesn't help your cause.\n\nHere's what I would've done.\n\n- [Ian] Okay.\n\n- Your partner says,\n\n\"Oh yeah, you were the\nsafe option,\" whatever.\n\nI'd be like, \"Okay, yeah, for sure.\"\n\nEveryone goes to bed that night.\n\nShe wakes up.\n\nWhat's that sound?\n\nThey go out to the lake.\n\nI'm on a jet ski going around.\n\n- Oh my god.\n\n- I hit a huge ramp.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I land on the ground, skid\nonto the beach, slide it.\n\nI'm wearing a leather\njacket, nothing else.\n\n- And you're backwards on it.\n\nYour hands are on the back.\n\n- I'm backwards on a jet ski. I land.\n\nThey're like, \"Holy shit,\ndude, you could have died.\n\n\"That's so dangerous.\"\n\nI'm like, \"You're right. It is dangerous.\"\n\n- That was my plan all along.\n\n- Guess I'm not the safe choice.\n\n- Guess I'm not that safe, am I, babe?\n\nAnd she's like, \"Oh my god, you're right.\"\n\nShe hops into my arms.\n\nWe get back on the jet ski,\nride off into the sunset.\n\n- Wait, just a leather jacket?\n\n- Just a leather jacket.\n\nWinnie the Poohing it.\n\n- Winnie the Poohing.\n\n- Oh no.\n\n(everyone laughs)\n\n- Not very safe.\n\n- No, no, no.\n\n- [Ian] Not safe.\n\n- No, no, no.\n\n- Especially out in the woods.\n\nAll those twigs.\n\n- They're all just sitting there.\n\nThey're going like,\n\"Wow, his (beep) is out.\"\n\n- [Ian] I was thinking the whole time-\n\n- Not very safe.\n\n- [Amanda] Not very safe.\n\n- The whole time I was thinking like,\n\nthis is the perfect setup\nfor a slasher movie.\n\n- Oh yeah.\n\n- That's what I was thinking.\n\n- Like a lake house.\n\n- And on the road heading\nhome, they get murdered,\n\nand then something's on\nits way to the cabin.\n\n- Here's what I thought he could have done\n\nor should have done.\n\nOther than like get\nmurdered on the way back.\n\nBut like he should have just woken up\n\nand left for the day, like the morning,\n\ndone his own thing in the\nmorning, written a note,\n\nand being like, \"Hey, I\njust need to do some time.\"\n\nAnd then come back after he cooled down.\n\nNot like leave fully.\n\nI would be really upset with him as well.\n\n- He also turned off his phone.\n\nThey didn't know-\n\n- He could've been unsafe.\n\nHe could have-\n\n- It's true. It's true.\n\nIt's just, it was all, you know...\n\nI felt like what I think it comes across-\n\n- It's childish.\n\n- It comes across childish.\n\nIt was really inappropriate\nwhat his girlfriend said to him.\n\nAbsolutely.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- But what you do is you\npull her aside the next day\n\nand you go, \"Hey, that was\nso disrespectful, so mean.\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- I felt awful.\n\nAnd also, do you still\nfeel that way about me?\n\n'Cause if you do,\n\nlike that changes my\nperspective on our relationship.\n\nLike, have that serious convo,\n\nand then if you're there,\n\nyou could also talk to your\nfriends that night and be like,\n\n\"I can't believe she said that to me.\"\n\nLike, you could like talk\nto some of your friends too\n\nand get their perspectives,\n\nand then they'd all\nprobably be on your side\n\nand be like, yeah.\n\nAnd I don't know.\n\nThis could have been handled.\n\n- And then we send her packing.\n\n- Yeah. Get outta here!\n\n- Here's the tricky thing, guys,\n\nis that she was in a\nreally abusive relationship\n\nfrom what he said.\n\nAnd her first initial thought\nwas, \"Okay, this guy's safe.\"\n\nWhich I know is such a buzzkill.\n\n- There's a nicer way to say it.\n\n- There's such a nicer way to\nsay it, but she was wasted.\n\n- Yeah. It's-\n\n- No, she (beep) up.\n\nShe definitely (beep) up.\n\n- Definitely (beep) up.\n\nIt's definitely a, I will say like,\n\n'cause I don't know if he later\ngets clarification from her,\n\nbut like drunk words are sober\nthoughts, like absolutely.\n\n- They really are.\n\n- But I also think we don't\nspeak well when we're drunk.\n\n- No.\n\n- So it could also be like,\n\nyes, sorry, I viewed you as safe.\n\nI viewed you as like someone\n\nwho actually gave a shit about me.\n\nThere's maybe some better\naspects to her point of view\n\nthat we're not getting\nbecause she was so drunk.\n\n- Like, think about like,\nthis is saying the same thing.\n\nHe was a safe choice, and\nhe makes me feel safe.\n\n- Yes.\n\n- It's the same thing.\n\nBut one is incredibly disrespectful.\n\n- [Amanda] So true.\n\n- And one is a really sweet thing to say.\n\n- Even in her wording, it's like,\n\n\"I knew he wouldn't cheat on me.\"\n\nIt's like, okay, that is\nactually a good reason\n\nfor wanting to date someone.\n\nThat's not bad.\n\n- But the way she said\nit is such a bummer.\n\n- Oh, absolutely.\n\nNo, it hurt, reading that part like hurts.\n\nBut then he just continues to dig a hole\n\nfor himself after that.\n\n- Yeah, he did.\n\n- And feeling awful is okay,\n\nbut there's just other\nactions you could take.\n\n- I think you were right.\n\nI think he was embarrassed to\nshow his face to his friends.\n\n- Yeah.\n\nAnd it is embarrassing.\n\n- It's really embarrassing. Yeah.\n\n- Comments.\n\nWell, the verdict was asshole.\n\n- Okay.\n\n- Comments.\n\n\"Feels like you massively overreacted.\n\n\"That may be the truth for the beginning,\n\n\"but no one stays for\nthat reason for two years\n\n\"and certainly wouldn't\nsplash all that cash\n\n\"and spend all that time\n\n\"and effort organizing such\na lovely weekend for you\n\n\"unless the emotions were true and deep.\n\n\"You are not the rebound\nafter an abusive relationship.\n\n\"the rebound would've\nlasted a couple of weeks.\n\n\"That's not to say it was hurtful,\n\n\"but if you care about her,\nwork to make it right.\"\n\nI think that's very true.\n\nAlso the question was\nyour first impression.\n\n- Exactly.\n\n- And first impressions can\nbe (beep) wild and different.\n\n- [Amanda] They're crazy.\n\n- [Ian] Sure.\n- Yeah.\n\n- She also spent so much, she\ndid this whole weekend for him\n\nand he loves to boat and he\ncouldn't even get on the boat.\n\n- I know. It's so sad.\n\n- Sad.\n\n- Someone said, \"You're the asshole.\n\n\"You'd seriously bail\non a birthday weekend\n\n\"in front of all your mutual friends\n\n\"because two years earlier she\nfelt you were a safe option?\n\n\"It seemed to work out.\n\n\"She went all out for\nyou for your birthday.\n\n\"If you bailed over something\nso seemingly ridiculous,\n\n\"what would you do\n\n\"when you face actual\ntough times together?\n\n\"You won't discuss it?\n\n\"You'll just run away?\"\n\nAbsolutely.\n\nNo, this is a huge red flag.\n\n- Love that.\n\n- It's like what she said\nis, it's like I said,\n\nI'm like, oh, that would hurt me.\n\nBut it is minuscule compared\nto what a lot of couples\n\ngo through at some point.\n\nAnd it's like he kind\nof showed himself there.\n\nAnd it is a scary thing.\n\nBailing. It's a hard thing\nto get over, you know?\n\nEspecially if she went through\na bad relationship before.\n\nShe's seeing this and probably\ngonna be like, \"Oh, well...\"\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- And yeah, and he left her.\n\nWhat I do think about that\none comment is true is that\n\nwhile you left her there\nalone with all the friends\n\nand they have nothing to talk\nabout but you who is gone\n\nand ghosted and not responding,\n\nso you probably damaged your\nrelationship with everyone.\n\n- Shit's about to get talked.\n\n- I mean, look, I think in relationships,\n\nthe response is to communicate always.\n\nAnd he chose to do the\npolar opposite of it.\n\nIt's not always that I think\nyou're wrong or you're bad.\n\nI just think it's going\nto make things worse.\n\n- It's legitimately like self-sabotage.\n\n- Totally.\n\n- 'Cause he's clearly extremely insecure\n\nabout this whole thing, and\nhis choice is to run away.\n\n- I wonder if in his head he\nthought he was gonna do this\n\nand everyone was gonna\nfeel so bad and be like,\n\n\"Oh my god, this poor guy.\"\n\n- Oh my god, this poor guy.\n\n- Wow. Ah.\n\n- He's such a hero.\n\nIn fact, he's not safe.\n\nHe's so dangerous for leaving.\n\n- Can't do that.\n\nYou just can't.\n- What a risk taker.\n\n- 'Cause when your brain tells\nyou to do things like that,\n\nthe result is never\ngonna be what your brain\n\nthinks it's gonna be.\n- No.\n\n- You just need to communicate.\n\nWell...\n\n- You on a jet ski in just a\nleather coat, it's something-\n\n- Just a leather jacket.\n\n- Burned in my-\n\n- You gotta admit, had he done that,\n\nthe situation would be better\nthan where it's at now.\n\n- And they're like, \"I'm the safe-\"\n\n- Tell me the situation\nwould not be better.\n\n- If he hits a wave and\nhe's sitting on that craft-\n\n- Dangerous.\n\n- That craft?\n\n- That's dangerous.\n\n- It's not safe.\n\n- Watercraft.\n\n- They wake up the next morning,\n\nit's like his balls have exploded.\n\n- Yeah, dude, that's not good.\n\n- He's safe and he doesn't have balls.\n\n- Also, do you drape like one ball?\n\nLike, do you drape one ball to one side,\n\none ball to the other side\nof the thing that you're on.\n\n- Oh my god.\n\nHe's ball-less and safe.\n\nI'm happy.\n\n- Do you suck them up\nbefore you get on it?\n\nI have a lot of questions\nabout naked jet skiing.\n\n(Amanda laughs)\n\n- Look, I've never jet skied before.\n\n- What?\n\nDude, you're such a safe-\n\n- Everyone in this room\njust lost their mind.\n\n- I didn't. I just stared at you.\n\n- No, I've never jets skied before.\n\n- It's a blast.\n\nAnd also terrifying.\n- [Shayne] Have you jet skied?\n\n- Sure.\n\n- Never jet skied.\n\n- Do you want to?\n\n- Yeah, sure. I'll jet ski.\n\n- Get out there, buddy.\n\n- I've never had the opportunity.\n\n- Jet skis like one of those things\n\nwhere it's like you're on, you're like,\n\n\"Oh my god, I'm having so much fun.\"\n\nAnd then after like 15\nminutes you're like,\n\n\"It's the same thing.\"\n\n- Ow. My whole body hurts.\n\n- My family, we never, I've\nhardly spent time at lakes.\n\n- Okay. Fair.\n\n- [Amanda] You can jet ski in the ocean.\n\n- I know.\n\nBut like when we went go to the ocean,\n\nwe were like scuba diving or\nlike snorkeling and stuff.\n\nWe weren't like a jet ski family.\n\n- Yeah. We gotta take you\nto a lake for your birthday.\n\n- Yeah.\n\n- You wanna go on your birthday?\n\nBuddy, you wanna go on your birthday?\n\n- Let's go where they went.\n\n- I did jet skiing up at Big Bear.\n\nWe can go to Big Bear.\n\n- On the mountain?\n\n- You wanna go Big Bear?\n\n(Shayne laughs)\n\n- I'm gonna jet ski on snow.\n\n- Yeah, there's a lake.\n\n- There's a lake.\n\n- There's a lake at Big Bear.\n\n- Oh, Big Bear Lake.\n\n- [Ian] Yeah.\n\n- Whoa, someone hasn't\ntraveled, am I right?\n\n- Okay.\n\n- 'Kay.\n\n- Thank you for watching.\n\nLet us know what other themes\n\nand subreddits you'd\nlike to see on this show.\n\nLet me know your opinions\non some of these stories\n\n'cause these are some wild ones.\n\nAnd we'll see you next Saturday.\n\nGoodbye.\n\n- Bye!\n- Bye."
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Please Note:
This is a poorly-formatted dataset, and may not train well.
These are simply WEBVTT captions from the episodes with the timestamps stripped out.
The user prompt was automatically generated by an LLM, and the request is a vague reference to the overall topic of the episode.
Example of dataset performance:
Gemma-3 4B was able to pickup on the overall episode structure (introductions with back and forth chatter, reading through the story, commentary afterwards) and the wording sounds like how the Smosh cast talks/Shayne reads the stories, but the coherence of the story and the commentary was flaky. A higher parameter model is most likely needed, but improving the dataset quality would also help as well.
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