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My boyfriend is SUPERSTITIOUS with sports and it’s severely affecting my life! | Reddit Stories | EP3144 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend is superstitious with sports, and it's severely affecting
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  Speaker 3: my life.
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  Speaker 1: Well, ball is life. I, 24 female.
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  Speaker 3: Have been dating my boyfriend, uh, 24 male, for 17 months,
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  Speaker 3: and we have lived together for five months. He is
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful guy, and he treats me great, and doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have a mean bone in his body. We get along
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  Speaker 3: with each other's friends and families, and we have the
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  Speaker 3: same sense of humor and common goals and beliefs. There's
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  Speaker 3: just one problem that I feel is getting in the way.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 3: My boyfriend is obsessed with sports and is really superstitious
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to his team.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Stevie Wonder.
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  Speaker 3: We live in Massachusetts. And he is obsessed with the
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  Speaker 3: Red Sox, the Bruins, the Celtics, the Patriots, the revolution.
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  Speaker 3: And the revolution. To the revolution. And the revolution. I
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  Speaker 3: hate to break it to you. It's terminal. He's a
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  Speaker 3: New England sports guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Boston guy.
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  Speaker 3: It's terminal. It's not going to work. Yeah, he's not
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  Speaker 3: even a New England sports guy. He's a Boston sports guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's Boston.
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  Speaker 3: That's there forever. I like sports and we don't care
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  Speaker 3: who knows. But he takes it to a whole different level.
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  Speaker 3: He has routines and things he does because he believes
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  Speaker 3: it will help his team win. Some examples. Earlier this season,
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  Speaker 3: the Red Sox went on a winning streak. The day
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  Speaker 3: they won their first game, he had fallen asleep on
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  Speaker 3: the couch the night before, still wearing his socks. So
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  Speaker 3: for the entire winning streak, he refused to take off
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  Speaker 3: or change his socks.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they do in Boston, man. Honestly, this guy's whimsy. Stinky,
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  Speaker 1: stinky whimsy.
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  Speaker 5: I would wear the same socks, but I would wash them.
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  Speaker 2: For sports, I'd always wear these neon green socks. They
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  Speaker 2: were my lucky socks. But I wouldn't wear them just
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  Speaker 2: around all the time.
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  Speaker 3: You would wear them to play.
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  Speaker 6: I would wear them to play.
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  Speaker 3: See, this guy is not playing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and now if my parents were wearing them, I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, that's freaking weird.
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  Speaker 3: So, he was washing his hair and body and wearing
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  Speaker 3: clean clothes, but he would not change his socks... or
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  Speaker 3: wash his feet.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, no.
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  Speaker 3: This went on for days, and his feet smelled so bad,
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  Speaker 3: and he admitted he could smell them too, but he
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  Speaker 3: didn't care because he said it helped the team win.
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  Speaker 1: It's for the socks, baby. It's for the socks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my socks are turning from white to red.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, from the sores and blisters in my feet. My
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  Speaker 3: feet are rotting off.
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  Speaker 1: Call me Kurt Schilling, baby.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, This comes from Sports Obsessed BF. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm Keon.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm Savannah.
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  Speaker 3: And we like sports and we don't care who knows. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Go birds.
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  Speaker 7: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to talk about this story. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to have our thoughts. Who knows what we'll say. It
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  Speaker 3: might not all be right. We're freaking just people.
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  Speaker 1: I will say, a little tidbit, we're a little biased here.
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  Speaker 3: We're sports.
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  Speaker 1: We're sports guys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a sports.
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  Speaker 1: He's a sports. She did sports.
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  Speaker 6: I did sports.
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  Speaker 5: I won't watch.
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  Speaker 3: I am sports. I closely follow Ultimate Frisbee. Look, point is,
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  Speaker 3: we are here to read this story and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to give our thoughts and you can give us yours
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  Speaker 3: because we only know what we would do. We want
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  Speaker 3: to know what you would do. Let us know in
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  Speaker 3: the comments what you think. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know your weirdest superstitions in the comments for anything.
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  Speaker 3: And OP says, when the NFL season started this year,
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  Speaker 3: my boyfriend's car was in the shop. So when he
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  Speaker 3: went to work the day before opening day, he walked
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  Speaker 3: to work and then took the bus home. This happened
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  Speaker 3: for the first two games of the season, and the
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  Speaker 3: Patriots won every game, and he was convinced that this
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  Speaker 3: ritual was helping the team.
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  Speaker 1: Computer, I need you to look at when was this posted.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know when this was posted.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: He kept this up for the first 10 games of
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  Speaker 3: the season, even after he got his car back. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't care what the weather was and even made the
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  Speaker 3: trip on days he wasn't working and even though it
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  Speaker 3: was 30 to 40 minutes each way without a car.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Boston weather does to you and
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  Speaker 1: having Dunkin' Donuts on a daily basis does to your brain.
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  Speaker 6: So this story.
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  Speaker 5: Was posted 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's Brady.
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  Speaker 3: Is this.
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  Speaker 1: This is Brady Bunch.
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  Speaker 3: They're still trying to capture the Brady perfect season at
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  Speaker 3: this point.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the perfect season year, but it's like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one thing they've always wanted out there. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, whatever this is with this guy... Worse
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  Speaker 3: than CTE. For sure. What are you talking about? Like,
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  Speaker 3: come on. Like, we had a thing. Me and my dad,
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  Speaker 3: we watch a game and it'd be like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to put our pinky and our thumbs together
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  Speaker 3: and then like hold our left foot up. And that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be like, but it's not like I'm not
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  Speaker 3: changing my socks for two months. I'm walking uphill both
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  Speaker 3: ways in the snow for an hour and a half. Like,
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  Speaker 3: get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you know what? It's working for the team. Hire him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it wasn't?
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  Speaker 1: Hire him. Hire him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, here we go. Two mutual friends of ours got
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  Speaker 3: married on November 28th of last year, and he couldn't
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  Speaker 3: make the trip because we had to go out of
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  Speaker 3: town for the wedding. He was actually thinking of skipping
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  Speaker 3: the wedding, but I talked sense into him and he went,
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  Speaker 3: although he was tense the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: This is insane. Truly insane.
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  Speaker 3: This is next level.
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  Speaker 1: This is the type of guy at the wedding ceremony
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  Speaker 1: watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which, that's, don't do that.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have all those people, like, in the
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  Speaker 2: dinner theater. People would just be sitting there and we
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  Speaker 2: would call them out. We'd be like, oh, this guy
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even care. Look, we're in the middle of an investigation, guys.
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  Speaker 6: It's murder mystery.
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  Speaker 5: This guy's on his phone.
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  Speaker 3: And he's just like, you guys suck.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Shut the pants around.
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  Speaker 8: Shut your mouth.
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  Speaker 3: And you go, oh. Anyways, the next day, the Patriots
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  Speaker 3: lost their first game of the season after winning 10
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  Speaker 3: games in a row. He was pissed off and still
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  Speaker 3: blames me for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I saw that one coming a mile away.
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  Speaker 3: And by blame me, he just says it is my fault.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't do stuff like yell at me. He is
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  Speaker 3: not harmful to me. He has certain rituals for game days.
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  Speaker 3: He will only eat certain foods or drink his coffee
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  Speaker 3: a certain way or go to a certain coffee shop
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  Speaker 3: or gas station.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, this is just the male equivalent of like a
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  Speaker 1: star chart. Or like their horoscope. Oh my God.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of the worst I've ever seen. Oh
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  Speaker 3: my God, it is. And I will say this behavior
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  Speaker 3: makes you undateable. Entirely undateable.
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  Speaker 1: This is entirely out of pocket. This is crazy.
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  Speaker 6: This is severe OCD.
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  Speaker 3: This is a man who's married to the game.
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  Speaker 1: But the game ain't married to him.
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  Speaker 3: The game doesn't know he exists. Okay. And it's like
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  Speaker 3: every sport, too.
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  Speaker 1: It's football, basketball, hockey. This guy bleeds Boston.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: New England, Boston. This is what he bleeds. Dunkin'. Throw
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  Speaker 1: him in a harbor.
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  Speaker 3: For the last Bruins season, he went and got coffee
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  Speaker 3: every morning, even if he didn't want coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Dunkin'. He has.
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  Speaker 3: Certain brands of shampoo, depending on what sports season it is. No!
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: I'll give him that one. That one's kind of fun.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: I got a seasonal lineup of different shampoos. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: You smell me?
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  Speaker 1: What does it smell like?
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  Speaker 3: Hockey season must have started. He smells like cedar.
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  Speaker 1: No, Irish Springs for hockey season.
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  Speaker 3: No, for basketball season.
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  Speaker 1: For basketball season, yeah. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: He starts talking in an Irish brogue. He will change
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  Speaker 3: his hairstyle or not shave if it's the playoffs, or
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  Speaker 3: he will only sit in a certain seat in the
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  Speaker 3: living room during the game.
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  Speaker 1: I was waiting for that one where it's like you
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  Speaker 1: can't sit in a seat.
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  Speaker 3: Those are normal. That's normal. Kinda. When we moved in together,
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  Speaker 3: I moved in with him because my lease was up,
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  Speaker 3: but he still had six months left on his. That's
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  Speaker 3: the best reason to move in with your partner.
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  Speaker 1: Six months.
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  Speaker 3: Just being like, oh, it's convenient. The plan was that
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  Speaker 3: after six months, we would find a bigger place.
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  Speaker 1: Honey, we're moving to Fenway. We're going to live in
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, and you better like it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a nice spot across from the stadium, a nice
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  Speaker 3: little patch of dirt. I have an almost new living
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  Speaker 3: room set with a couch, love seat, and two recliners.
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  Speaker 3: His living room furniture is ripped and on the verge
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  Speaker 3: of breaking. He insisted on keeping his because he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: know the temperament of my furniture anymore. when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the teams. Seriously. His furniture is being held together
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  Speaker 3: with pieces of wood and duct tape and has holes
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  Speaker 3: in it. At the time, it wasn't a hill I
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  Speaker 3: was going to make my last stand on, so I
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  Speaker 3: agreed to keep his furniture and give mine to my parents.
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  Speaker 3: But now in the big picture, I see why it
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  Speaker 3: was a problem.
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  Speaker 1: This guy, I want to see this guy's wardrobe. How
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  Speaker 1: many holes he has in his boxers, his socks. If
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  Speaker 1: he can keep his furniture like this, You know he
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  Speaker 1: can keep his clothes like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I just realized what the equivalent of
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  Speaker 3: this is. It's like this is like, you know, on
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  Speaker 3: the male-female, like, sides of the coin. You have absolutely
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  Speaker 3: unhinged sports guy who thinks his old furniture is making
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  Speaker 3: the Red Sox win games. And that's like, for a woman, like, oh, okay. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's... I can't make that word.
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  Speaker 5: I'm waiting for it.
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  Speaker 3: Other side... The men equivalent of that, just e-girl with
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  Speaker 3: roaches in the kitchen, but like a full plush collection
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  Speaker 3: that's worth like a thousand dollars. plus dollars like in
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  Speaker 3: like a ventilated case you know.
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  Speaker 1: In a sense yeah because it's like i thought you
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  Speaker 1: were gonna literally say say what like a horoscope girl
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  Speaker 1: like no basis her life off like no no no.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's like It's like you could look past that.
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  Speaker 3: It's like there's a certain amount you can look past.
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  Speaker 3: But when it's like, oh, like the entire apartment is
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  Speaker 3: dilapidated except for the one corner where you keep like
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  Speaker 3: your Five Nights at Freddy's collection.
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  Speaker 1: Like you see stains and those stains are from.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knows. And that's when you got to go. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm done. I'm out.
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  Speaker 7: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. I can't do it. Sorry. Another example is
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  Speaker 3: our wedding. We aren't planning on being engaged or married yet,
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  Speaker 3: but we have talked about the future. He has said
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  Speaker 3: that if we ever get married, the proposal and wedding
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  Speaker 3: would have to be on days when none of his
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  Speaker 3: teams are playing because he doesn't want the wedding to
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  Speaker 3: influence a game or a winning streak.
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  Speaker 5: No, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: That's insane.
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  Speaker 2: Do not have children with this guy because the game
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  Speaker 2: will come first. I'm telling you right now, he's already
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  Speaker 2: playing the game above you. The game will come first
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  Speaker 2: before your children.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to have his football, whatever jersey it is
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  Speaker 1: when you do have, supposedly you do have kids, whatever
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  Speaker 1: sport is in season, wearing that jersey, having the game
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  Speaker 1: the first thing your newborn sees.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I'm not trying to say it's disgusting behavior
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  Speaker 1: to be a fan or have superstitions. Or, you know,
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  Speaker 1: love your city, love your team, love your sports, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: what have you. But basing your entire life, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like that's what he's doing. He's basing his entire life
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  Speaker 1: off superstitions for his sports teams.
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  Speaker 6: Seems a little religious cult-y.
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  Speaker 2: Truly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Truly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's not bad. This guy needs, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, this guy, he needs help with something. I
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  Speaker 3: think we had someone in the chat being like, I
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  Speaker 3: have OCD. This feels like this could be legitimately a
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  Speaker 3: mental health thing for him. He cannot get over this.
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  Speaker 3: Without help. He's not, like, aggressive about it either. It's just, like,
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  Speaker 3: he's just, like, insistent.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So far, he thinks July or August because three of
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  Speaker 3: the five teams are in the offseason. He can't guarantee
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  Speaker 3: it will be a Saturday, though. I have tried talking
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  Speaker 3: about this, and he says I don't understand how important
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  Speaker 3: all this is. His family members are sports fans also,
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  Speaker 3: and they say he has always been like this, although
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  Speaker 3: they don't take it as far as him, and they
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  Speaker 3: thought he was being dumb with the walking to work
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  Speaker 3: so the Patriots would win. I convinced him to talk
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  Speaker 3: to a therapist about these compulsions. and that included couples therapy,
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  Speaker 3: where we could talk. He agreed to go, but the
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  Speaker 3: therapist said he didn't have a problem and was normal.
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  Speaker 3: The therapist, like, behind all of the, like, the stuff
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  Speaker 3: on the walls in the therapist's office.
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  Speaker 1: Like, all the documents, like, all the official stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Boston. They just, like, pull, like, the string on
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  Speaker 3: their light, like, and everything just, like, pulls back.
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  Speaker 1: Therapist by day, Boston super fan by night, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The wall just like turns around and it's all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's like all the jerseys. Yeah, exactly. Okay. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted a second opinion. So I picked a therapist and
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  Speaker 3: the same thing happened.
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  Speaker 1: You're in Boston. They bleed Boston. They are going to
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  Speaker 1: be like, yeah, you're the reason that Brady didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the perfect streak.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so confused how two therapists could go, oh, you're
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  Speaker 3: planning your wedding around whether or not a sports game
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  Speaker 3: will be on or whether or not it will influence
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  Speaker 3: a winning streak. Yeah, you're good. That's a death. You're fine.
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  Speaker 3: That should be. That's a normal thing.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, it has to be what he's
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  Speaker 1: telling them. No, because OP also talked to their therapist.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, OP was there as well?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's normal.
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  Speaker 3: OP's an OP.
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  Speaker 1: I say get one more therapist. Give it a third try.
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  Speaker 1: You know, third time's the magic number. See what they say.
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  Speaker 1: But after the third one and they say the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're in the twilight zone.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy. Maybe this guy just didn't even go.
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  Speaker 3: So now he's convinced that he doesn't have a problem
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  Speaker 3: and I just don't understand.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We are due to move into a bigger place in
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  Speaker 3: a month. And while we haven't signed the lease yet,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I want to do it without addressing this.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know what else to do to make
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  Speaker 3: him listen. Am I being irrational or am I right
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  Speaker 3: to be concerned about this and thinking of ending it?
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: And there is an update. Yeah, dude, you are right
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: to be thinking about ending it because that's insane. How
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  Speaker 3: has this.
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  Speaker 1: Not affected you to the point you're like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like this? I can't date you anymore. Because I get it,
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  Speaker 1: but this is extreme. For a superfan, you think a
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  Speaker 1: guy like this, of his caliber of superfan, he would
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  Speaker 1: have OP right behind him.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be, for me, the one thing
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  Speaker 3: that's getting me is that this guy really sounds like
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  Speaker 3: he fully believes with his heart and soul that this
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  Speaker 3: stuff has a tangible effect on the actual games, which
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  Speaker 3: to me makes you a complete lunatic.
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  Speaker 1: Truly. That's what I'm saying.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: And I cannot have a family with you.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: He's the sole, he believes he's the sole reason Boston
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: is winning. It's his city is winning.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: I think it would have been curtains after the stinky
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: sock fiasco for me.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I would have been done right away.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Like the, like you said, the shampoo or whatever, changing
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: the soaps ever, like every new sports season. Fine. It's
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: not really, honestly, at least he's using soap.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. But this guy is like, I can't change
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: my dirty socks because, and this is for football? Or
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: is that for baseball? It doesn't matter.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Just as disgusting. The only way that this would be
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: any way acceptable is if he made a mountain of
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: money from it. And even then, I don't like it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Because what happens when we have a family? What happens
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: when it's like our kid has a football game, but
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: you're like, I don't want his football game to influence
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: the outcome of the Patriots game, you know? I don't
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: want my mojo to rub off on the wrong game.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: It's a funeral. It's a funeral. Nope. Pat's game's on.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: The Bruins are playing. It's playoffs.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Funeral?
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: That can wait.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: He does a call-in. I just know if he was
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: still alive, he'd want me to watch the game today.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: And Crosby scored. Okay, bye. See what I'm talking about?
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: It's already at the point of delusional.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Like I said, there's some things where it's cute to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: be a fan of and enjoy whatever. Disregard sports. It
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: could be musicals. It could be movies. It could be
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: what have you. And it's fun until it gets to
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: the point of this is not okay. This is not healthy.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: It's like that's your life, and you base everything on
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: your life on that. that's unhealthy i remember my um
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: my ex he really liked the steelers and i remember
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: um walking into the room and he was like whoa
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: whoa wait i was like what and he was like
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and he threw a jersey at me and he said
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: you have to put.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: This on if you're gonna come in and i was
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: like what.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: And i was like okay that's just like boy treehouse
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: thing i don't know that doesn't seem too and.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: Then i was talking and he was like Well, no,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: he was talking.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: He was like, come on, boys.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, they can't hear you. And he
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: got so pissed. I was like, stop talking to people
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: that can't hear you.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: What?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You're talking to the TV?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: He's like, he's trying to coach.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's like, oh, my gosh.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Like, come on.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: And then he's like, come on, boys.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: You got this.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, I couldn't stop laughing.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I said, I got to leave. I got to go.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to talk a little bit.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Just a little bit.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: I get like, you know, being disappointed.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Like, oh, dang it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Or like.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: But he was like, let's go, boys.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: You got it. I'm sorry, but I couldn't.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Ann brings up a great question. What if you're pregnant
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and you go into labor while his team is playing?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Will he be there for OP or the team? As
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I said that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: We got to get down to the stadium as soon
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: as possible. You need to deliver that baby within the
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: property boundaries of Gillette Stadium. Okay? And if we do that,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: our child will for sure be a New England football champion.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: He needs a wake-up call.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Update, I read all the posts and a few
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: days after I decided to talk to him again. It
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: didn't go well at first and that should have been
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: a sign. There was a Red Sox game on when
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: we were both home from work and they lost. So
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: he was upset with me for talking to him and
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: not letting him focus on the game. Oh my God, dude.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: That's, yeah, that's insane. This isn't, yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: He was convinced they lost because of that. And we
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: had a huge fight.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, someone said OCD is the type of person, like,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: he'll think the entire day of, what did I do today?
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to repeat that, deja vu, because it
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: means they won. Or, what did I do today? To
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the last little bitty detail of, what did I do?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Because they lost. I didn't tie my shoe right. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: didn't go to the bathroom right, you know?
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: It is OCD because, like, that's what she, like, I.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: used to have really bad OCD.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I like manage it now, but like it was that
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: it was always like, Oh, like I couldn't step on cracks.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Cause if I step on cracks, something bad's going to happen.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: You know, it's, yeah, it's, it's superstitious. So like you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: touch one thing.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. I have to touch it with the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: other one because then you're uneven or something bad's going
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: to happen.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: If I don't, you know, get this score on a test. Like, that's,
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: it's OCD.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: And this is year-round, because it's any sport. It's any sport. Year-round?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I'd be exhausted. If I dated someone like this, I'd
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: be exhausted.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Just a sport every season. Every single sport. Every game.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my, yeah, think about it. That's literally the full year,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: for the most part. Oh, man.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: It's just too much.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: It is too much. And in your life, you can
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: enjoy sports.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Sports are great.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: People like to watch, people like to do them, whatever,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: but you don't have to be obsessed to the point
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: where it affects your entire life.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I should have ended things there, but I didn't. The
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: next day we were both off work and he got
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: me roses and cooked me lunch and there was candlelight
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: and music and he asked me to dance with him
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: there in the living room.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: My ICU or conspiracy theory. Team's going to lose. His
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: team's going to lose.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: No, you know there's no game today. There's no game today.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: There's no game today. There's no game today. That's why
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I can do a dance with you. He apologized and
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: promised he would do better. He acknowledged it wasn't fair
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: to me and said he wanted to get help and
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: see another therapist. He talked about the future and us
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: having a life. I stupidly listened. He did make an
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: appointment with the therapist. He talked with me about his
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: feelings and how I was feeling. He said he agreed
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: that we would get new furniture for our new place.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I tried to give him some space regarding his habits
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: because he was committed to seeing the therapist and changing.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: He was much more attentive. I thought he changed, but
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I was wrong. A week or so after we had
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: fought and made up, something else happened that turned my
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: life upside down. I had a mole on one of
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: my arms, but I never thought anything of it. I
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: had a new coworker and she pulled me aside one
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: day and said she didn't want to scare me. but
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: she is a two-time skin cancer survivor and the mole
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: did not look good. She stressed I needed to see
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: a doctor. I was noncommittal and she bugged me to go.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: It turns out she was right and she saved my life.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Dang.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Shout out to that person. Imagine they're just like not
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: gracious about it at all. You're just like, hey, remember
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: how I saved your life? You got 50 bucks? You
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: got 50 bucks for me today?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: How much is your life worth?
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, sorry. I thought maybe just saving your life
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: would be worthy of a little, like, maybe just a
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: little $ 50.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Like, some compensation.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I know it's not.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Now it's $ 60. Thank you.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: $ 70?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: $ 75?
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I made the appointment thinking the doctor would look and
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: it would be no big deal, but it was melanoma.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: I had to have surgery to remove the mole as
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: well as check my lymph nodes to see if they
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: had spread. The surgery was scheduled for a day. My
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: idiot ex had tickets to a Bruins preseason game. A
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: preseason game.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: It's not even a postseason. It doesn't matter what it is.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: The most irrelevant thing you could ever go to.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: It's preseason. Season hasn't started.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Wow. Unless your kid is playing in that preseason game,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: there's no reason for you to be there.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: No, no. I don't care. No.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: He asked me to postpone the surgery because he couldn't
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: skip the game as it would affect the team. There
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: There it is. There is a gap. I called it.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: There it is.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: He was actually being serious. He went so far as
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: to call my doctor and tell him I wanted to
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: postpone the surgery and that he was calling on my behalf.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I would love to hear that phone conversation. Hey, Doc,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I know it's serious, but it's not as serious as
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the Bruins preseason game.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Just do it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Do it a month later.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Like, this is your wife's life. And it's life-threatening, this.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It's not like it's just like, oh, you know, I
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: just have to get it removed.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: It's all good.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Like, this could spread. This could be a thing. This
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: is a terminal illness that we're talking about. And he's like, bah!
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Babe, it's preseason.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: I would like this man to go to jail.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: No hands.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Take his hands away.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Take his hands, go to prison.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I tell him.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, you know what?
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Go to your preseason game. You can date those teams.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Have your teams. You love your teams more than me?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: We're done. Yeah, I went ahead and called the stadium
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: of all your favorite home teams and I told them
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that there was a guy named so-and-so blah blah blah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: which is OP's ex-boyfriend's name. Yeah, he said he was
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: going to take matters into his own hands to fix
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the team. And I found a list of names that
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I guess are all the owners of the teams. I
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know what this means. But I
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: thought maybe I should let you guys know. Oops, you've
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: been banned from every arena in the Boston area. That's crazy.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: He said if I went through with the surgery, he
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: couldn't be there for me. And I needed to understand
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: because the team needs him.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: The team doesn't even know who you are.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Then he actually effing told me that I could not
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: sit in his recliner the day I was scheduled to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: come home from the hospital because the Patriots were playing
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and he needed to sit there for game day. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: would have to take the broken couch. I am completely serious.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I broke up with him. I called a friend who
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: had a truck. We packed all my stuff. She agreed
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: that I could crash in her spare room for as
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: long as I needed. It was the last month on
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: his lease and I paid the landlord the last month
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: of rent because even though I wasn't on his lease...
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Thank the Patriots. Thank the Patriots. Yeah, I think, you
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: know what? Think Boston sports. Throw this man. Throw him.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: In the Boston T. Throw him in the Boston Harbor.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Just throw him around. Play catch with this guy.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Take his khakis and put him in his khakis and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: throw him around.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, make him the ball.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I had the surgery. I got so lucky. It was
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: stage two and it had not hit the lymph nodes yet.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I had to stay in the hospital for a couple
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: of days, but the wound was looking okay, not infected.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: So I was discharged to go home. W.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: Nice.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Huge W.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: That's what we thought. Hey, you know what? Maybe marry
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: that person who told you about that mole.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Marry the mole girl.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mole girl, I need you.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Marry the mulberry bush.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: The waiting was agony and the worst thing. I cried
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: when I found out it wasn't in my lymph nodes yet. Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: as one should. The doctor said it would have hit
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: them and spread in under a year and I would
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: have been much worse off.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Dang.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So now I am hyper-aware of the sun. I go
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: for skin checks every few months, and I have a
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: nasty scar. That co-worker saved my life, and we are
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: friends now.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I would hope so. That person saved your life.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what else could you be with him? Yesterday was
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: the one-year anniversary of my surgery. I had so much
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: support from my friends, family, and co-workers. Once I recovered
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: and went back to work, I got a small promotion.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I've taken up rock climbing.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Oh!
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: And last month I started night school for college while
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I work full time during the day. Day and night.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: Uh-uh.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: OP goes to college and also night.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Uh-uh.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: College. She works a day and goes to school at night. Uh-uh.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: We've got just a little bit left here. Yeah, like
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: maybe just immediately take them seriously when they show you
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: some of the most unhinged behavior a person could have.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You know, regardless of whether it's caused by OCD, his
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: complete refusal to see that it was an issue in
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: any way is a complete deal breaker from the jump. Insane.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I want to hear how logical he sounds when he
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: tells his friends and family, yeah, OP broke up with
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: me because she had this thing. Like, she made it
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: really serious, but I was going to go see the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Bruins preseason game, and she wanted me to be there
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: for her? She's insane, right? And then I wouldn't let
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: her lay on the nice, comfy furniture.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: I let her.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Lay on the beat up stuff because superstitions. Guys, am
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I in the wrong here?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I am single.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Since I broke up with my ex, but on Monday
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I had an impromptu date at the juice bar with
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: a guy I bumped into at the gym.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Your first question was, do you like sports?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Do you like sports and you don't care? Who knows?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: It felt good just to be social again and he
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: seemed nice. And that's my update. I haven't seen or
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: talked to my ex since I broke up with him
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: and left. I did hear through the grapevine. That he
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: stayed in his place when the power went out and
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: there was no heat for more than one day when
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: the temps were below freezing and there was a blizzard.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Because he wanted to sleep in his bed and sit
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: in his chair to help his teams. He apparently had
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: to be taken to the hospital for exposure because it
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: was so cold.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Delusions!
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: If he doesn't want to change, that's his problem and
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: not mine now. Thanks, everyone.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: TLDR. Don't date a Boston fan. Just kidding. I'm just kidding.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. Can we expand Boston Harbor to just
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: be the entire state of Massachusetts just to make sure
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: that this can never happen again?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You know, this is crazy because West Coast, I feel
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like this is like a very East Coast thing. Like
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: you live, you breathe, you pass away.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: Where?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: It's bi-coastal. Raiders. I mean, now they're in Vegas, but Raiders, A's, Dodgers.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Well, the A's and Raiders are no longer on the coast.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I know, but it's that West Coast mentality. They will
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: always be a West Coast team. Don't you say that!
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Because of the craziness.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Of the fans. Honestly, you're right. It could be anywhere.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: This is anywhere.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Do they get in the middle? I feel like it's
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: both the coasts, right?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: This could be anywhere, honestly. You could have said Chicago.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: You could have said any sports town.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: It's any sports. You can say any sports team, not
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: even in the U.S.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: This is just a thing of like, your mind is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: like this is your religion and i get it it's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: fun to have camaraderie and be like part of like
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: your team this is my team but at the end
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of the day this is a giant sports team you
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: are a fan that is it your superstitions do not
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: make us win the world series the world cup the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: pennant the the whatever, championship. We love their support, but
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: it's not like, can you imagine? New York, New Yorkers,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you, same people, same thing. When the Knicks won,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: it's just ridiculous.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Glad you're out of that, Opie. Yeah.
• 29:54
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• 29:59
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• 30:02
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• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I told my boyfriend I have zero attraction to him
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the day he planned to propose.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: The worst she can say is no.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: My boyfriend, 28, and I, 26, female, have a very
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: healthy relationship, for the most part. We are each other's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: best friends. We live together with roommates, and we have
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a great dog.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Is it a dame?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I need to know. Before we met, I was never
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: really a spicy-related person. I could just go a year
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: without it, and then when I craved it, I would
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: have spicy sleep. When I started dating my current boyfriend,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the spicy sleep wasn't great because he's not very experienced.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure I'm not that great at it either.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But everything else, everything else was perfect, and I didn't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: mind so much. As time went on, we did less
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and less spicy-related stuff. We both gained weight, and I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: got very depressed. And I thought that might be why
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: I have virtually no libido. I decided to get in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: shape and I lost over 40 pounds and I'm still
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: not spicy attracted to my boyfriend.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, just because you lost 40 pounds doesn't mean
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden like attraction.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: And losing weight, I guess.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: But if but you're the one losing weight, though, like
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: it's not like he's changing his appearance.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: If that's the attraction you're talking about, like physical.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I don't even like making out with him. I think
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: mostly because I'm afraid that he'll try to initiate spicy sleep.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I feel so bad. And I've mentioned why he wants
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to be with someone who he doesn't have spicy sleep with.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And he says relationships are more than just about spicy
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: sleep and that he loves me no matter what. Fast
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: forward to yesterday. I tell him how I feel. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: tell him I think of him as a best friend
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and I don't have any spicy related attraction to him.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Not sure if I ever really did. It was the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: hardest thing I think I've ever had to do in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a relationship, but it's been slowly starting to bother me
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: more and more. By the way, this comes from user throwaway88,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and if you want to submit your own stories, go
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to the r slash ok story time subreddit. So, he
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: cried and said that he was going to ask me
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to marry him and was going to check out rings
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: for me with his mom tomorrow, which is today, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: told everyone at his work, who I'm also friends with,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and his family about the rings. He also told me
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: he has a small brain tumor, which he's known about
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: for over a month, that he needs to get checked
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: out on Monday. So this is just a domino effect
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of bad to worse, to really bad to really worse.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think at the end of that, I'd be
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: right back at zero of like, how do I feel?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I feel completely neutral, actually. And like, I was like,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I, at first I was guilty,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: then I was sad. Now I'm like scared. And I'm like, okay,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: what's for dinner?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And Opie goes, F. I don't even know what to
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: say to him at this point. He isn't lying about
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: either thing. We've talked about marriage before, and if it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: wasn't for the no passion situation, I'd want that too.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: During our conversation, he told me that it's normal for
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: two people to grow apart with spicy sleep, but still
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: stay together and be happy. He and I haven't had
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: spicy sleep in over eight months. I don't find that normal.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Didn't you know?
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: But didn't you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Say you can go on for a year without it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and be like, okay.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: She said that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: She said that loud and clear.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's just when she's one of the single ladies.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know how he could be okay with it,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but he just says he really doesn't care about spicy sleep.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: The worst part is that lately I've thought about other
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: guys spicy sleepily, but I would never cheat on my boyfriend.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: During our conversation, we mentioned going on a break, which
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I don't think would work. Having an open relationship, which
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: probably He does not want breaking up or staying together
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: until the lease is up in July and seeing where
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: we are then. He also mentioned couples counseling. I just
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: don't see how counseling is going to light a spark
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: with him that I'm not even sure was ever there.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: My boyfriend is the best guy I've ever dated. We
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: share our life together. His family is my family. And
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: this is the hardest decision I've ever had to make.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I just can't help but feel that I can have
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: both passion and dedication in a relationship. I also feel
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that he needs someone who wants to satisfy him with
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: spicy sleep. Reddit. Should I ignore my desire for passion,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: which I may never find, to stay with someone where
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: everything else is perfect? Or let him go and start again?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And we have an update, and it's a doozy of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: an update.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: You say you love him, but I feel like the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: spicy sleep thing, it's okay for you not to have it.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: But then when it comes to him, you're like very
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: worried that he's gonna resent you for not doing spicy sleep?
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: The root problem is she's like, I kind of find
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: him gross and I'm not attracted to him at all, period.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: And he's just like, well, I mean, like, I don't
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: even care if that's the case. Like, we can just
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: not do that and everything's fine. She's like, but I
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: don't find that fine. But it doesn't feel like you.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: You need spicy sleep. It doesn't feel like she really
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: wants it. But then when he is saying like, oh, well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: he doesn't want to eat it.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Then she's like, well, maybe I do. It's like, huh?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: OP, I think you need to figure out what you want.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Because if you want to continue, say, if you don't
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: continue this relationship and you move on to another person,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: what happens if it's the same thing? Or if anything,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: they want more spicy sleep. And you can't do that.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's something more looking inward of like, what
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: do you want? But that comment that OP said about,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I am thinking about other guys.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what was the red flag to me.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Was it like she said, I never think about it,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: doing it with my boyfriend of however many years. But
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: for some reason, I find other men attractive and can
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: think of doing stuff with them, but not my boyfriend.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: That's alarming.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: So you obviously want it, but you don't want it
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: with this guy. So I think you need to just
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: let him go. You need to break up then.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: And people are saying that she may be ace. She
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: could be. That's what came to mind. She's like, I
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: don't need it. Yeah, I mean, she could be. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: can do it, but I'm like, I don't need it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then she goes on to say, well, I
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: would want it from another person, but I wouldn't want
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: to cheat. And then you're like, okay, so then you
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: do want it, just not with your current partner, which
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: is alarming.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting. We have an update, and it's a year
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and five months later. My ex and I did break
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: it off for good.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I moved out three months after we broke up and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: moved in with another guy. Like an idiot. Oh, come on, Ovi!
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Hey, like an idiot, Ovi! Come on, I'm moving in
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: with my boyfriend in three months, Ovi! Come on, Ovi!
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I did like the other guy at the time
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: enough to do it. Unlike with my ex, the spicy
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: sleep was amazing. My spicy sleep drive had come back,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: which is great because I was starting to think that
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: there was something wrong with me. My ex of three
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: months dated a girl for a few months and I
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: was so, so happy for him. But as time went
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: on and I realized how wrong my next choice really was,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: he was the opposite of what I was used to.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: But he also had a temper and was just an a-hole.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I wasn't perfect myself and he really brought the worst
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: out of me as a person. I got an IUD
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: during our relationship and having never been on birth control, Yeah.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: It does that.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Obvious why they were avoiding me.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: There's no way that you can be upset about this.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: There's no way.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: You're like, I can't date this guy. He's the.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: I'm not attracted to him.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I'm not attracted to him.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: He's just a lump of goo. And I don't want him.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: He treats me right. He's very nice to me. He's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: very sweet. He makes me feel great. Just not in bed.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And I left him. And I left him for another
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: guy real quick. And that's okay. But you cannot be
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: upset that he moved on.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, girl, you moved in with someone in three months.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: That's insane. You were in the wrong for that. Between
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: the two of you, I would look at that as
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: like a, oh, like, okay, like she just gave me
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: the middle finger essentially.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you didn't tell him, hey, I slept
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: with that guy. And you know what? I found my
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: spicy drive.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just wanted to let you know, it wasn't anything
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: medical with me. I just find you abhorrent.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Well, she did say, like, they just didn't have a
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: lot of experience, which is fine, but, like, why don't you.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: Explore that then instead of just.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It just isn't good.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: I don't want to explore it because you repulse me. Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Opie continues saying they got engaged on his 30th birthday
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in February. Their relationship did upset me for a few reasons.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're allowed to be. but mostly because
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I was so unhappy with my own life.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: That's really the only reason. Let's be clear. That's it.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Last August, I found my ticket out.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Literally.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I bought a ticket to Amsterdam for this past April
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and have been solo traveling around Europe for over a
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: month now.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Left everything back home. My ex, who's engaged, was nice
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: enough to hold on to our dog that we got
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: together during my time here. And I'll be traveling until August.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I've met so many great people here, including a wonderful
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Belgian guy who joined me here in Florence. And I'll
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: be seeing again before I head to India next month.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: You're expanding your horizons. That's nice.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I think I'll be just figuring out who they are.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with that.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: And I'm glad that you.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: realized that you did not see a future with this
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: guy and got out of it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: A little bit left here, guys. As for the ex
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I just recently left, so the newest person, he still
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: wants to be with me when I get home. I
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: told him I can't let myself ever get that miserable
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: ever again. So as my ex of three years picks
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: out his wedding cake with his fiance, I'm here in Florence, Italy,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: having the time of my life.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Rent free.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Brent, you're still thinking it. You're in Florence having the
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: time of your life, but you're contextualizing it within this
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: thing that's happening with your ex.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Opie continued saying, I honestly believe in the end we
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: both got what we wanted. He got a fiance and
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't have to settle down with someone I wasn't 100% about.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: And that is the end of that story. Opie, I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: hope you find your person. Truly, I hope you find
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: your person and that you also get the happiness you deserve.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think sometimes you just Even though it
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: seems perfect on paper, it's not your person. Mary Jane
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: in Spider-Man. Spider-Man 2, remember? She's about to marry that doctor.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Leaves him at the altar.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: The astronaut.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I saw the astronaut!
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's perfect.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: He's Mr. Perfect.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: And she's like, I don't want Mr.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I want Spider-Man.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: I want pictures of Spider-Man!
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the perfect picture is not perfect for somebody else.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they want the little imperfections.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Some people just want a little goblin. Some people want
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: a little goblin that they can keep in a hole.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: And I say, please let me out.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, guys, we have another story.
• 41:23
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• 41:27
  Speaker 6: And we're going to get back to the stories.
• 41:29
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• 41:33
  Speaker 3: My boyfriend demanded I get a real job to make
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: things fair for him.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not fair.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: My boyfriend, 29 male, and I, 27 female, have been
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: together for three years now. And we decided that it
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: was time to live together.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Why do you make it sound like it was just like, ah,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: we hate each other. And we decided it's time.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: It's time. The time has come. Some background information. He
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: is an engineer working for a big company in my country.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: And I'm a writer. I also own two apartments in
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: a very popular and nice area in the city where
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: we live that I rent for extra income. They belong
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: to my grandparents, and as the only grandchild, I inherited
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: them when they passed away.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Gotcha. I was about to ask the big question. As
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: a writer, how do you have two places? Unless you're
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: making the big bucks.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Even though the pandemic hit my country hard, I did
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: not experience any difficulties because my tenants have kept paying
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: me rent. Therefore, my income hasn't changed at all. I'm
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: not a millionaire by any means, but I can live
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: comfortably just by renting my properties. On to the main issue.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: We decided that I would move to boyfriend's flat as
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: it is bigger than the one I currently live in.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: And we agreed that we would go 50-50 on everything. Rent, utilities, groceries, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I would do more household chores than him since I
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: work from home, but I had no problem with this,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: of course. By the way, this comes from a deleted
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: user and if you want to submit your own stories
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: go to r slash okay story time subreddit why don't
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: ya anyway however my boyfriend is now saying that i
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: should look for a real job because it would be
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: unfair that you stay home all day doing nothing while
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: i work.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: What about us doing a stay-at-home job.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Just imagine him like just emailing like any like billionaire
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: being like.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: I find it exceptionally unfair that I have to go
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: to work while you probably get to stay home on
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: your yacht. And I would appreciate it if you went
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: and got a real job. Thank you, Warren Buffett.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: And you go, we should just look at how much
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: money we're pulling in here. You really want to do that?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Let's check.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: I am currently working with my editor to finish the
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: first novel in my series, which will consist of three books. Sick.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: So it's not like I do nothing all day. I
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: refused to do so because one, I do have a
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: real job and an extra source of income. And two,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I can pay my share of the living costs without
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: any problem. He insists that I'm being unreasonable. What?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Finish that.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Am I the a-hole?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: This guy is just like, she's paying it 50-50. She's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: bringing in income. Things are working well, but I'm still pissed.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: This is just like the boomer parent logic of like, well,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I had it worse, so I'm going to make sure
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: it's the same for you. You shouldn't have it easier
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: than me. I didn't have it that easy, so why
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: should you? Yeah. He's like, well, I got to go
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: to work, do a job I hate. You should have
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: to do that, too, instead of writing all day and
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: managing properties.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I hate when people hate their jobs. I was just
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: talking about this the other day. When people hate their
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: jobs so much that they just project onto someone else
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: and be like, your job sucks and blah, blah, blah.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: And it's like, you just hate yours.
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you want from me.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I know, I've talked to some people, they're like, what's
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: your job? Is that really a job?
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yes.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: I get it every single time. Some people are like, whoa,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: that's really cool, and other people are like, hmm.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Is that really a job?
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's a job, and I enjoy it, and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: it's fun. I'm sorry that you do not enjoy your job.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: They're like, how's it a job if you're blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, would you rather me go be miserable somewhere
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: else that I don't want to do something?
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yes. It would make me feel better about myself.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: Sorry I'm not like a freaking engineer.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: Imagine me being an engineer.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I didn't choose that path.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Yep. Sorry. We do have an update. So I posted
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: this some days ago and a lot of things have
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: happened since then. Of course, I sat down with my
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: boyfriend to talk about his sudden change of attitude towards
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: my job as a writer. And I told him that
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: it was very disrespectful to tell me that I have
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: to get a real job when I already have one.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: I told him that I was considering ending the relationship
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: too because of that. However, I also asked him if
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: there was something that he wasn't telling me because this
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: behavior was not normal at all. At first, he doubled
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: down on saying that there was nothing that he wasn't
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: telling me. But after insisting a bit more, he admitted
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: that he was jealous of me. There it is. Mmm. Yummy. Projection. What?
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: He's so jelly. He's so jelly.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Add some peanut butter to it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Yum.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: He said that he hates his job. This was quite
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: a surprise, not going to lie. And he resents seeing
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: me so happy and fulfilled with mine. The fact that
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: I have another source of income only makes his jealousy
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: worse because I'm pretty independent and can stop working whenever
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I want. His words, not mine. However, he said that
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: he was willing to let me continue writing if I
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: also work somewhere else that makes things fair. Was flabbergasted,
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: which I love that word. To say the least. So, yeah.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: I broke up with him. It hurts, but I'll live.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Maybe this will give me ideas for another novel. And folks,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: that is the end of that story. Dang. Wow.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, you're jealous of me? Well, you can't
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: be jealous of me anymore. Because we're broken up.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's like a... That's an absurd thing. To just...
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: sit in that and feel that and not immediately go, oh,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I'm the one with the problem. I should actually probably
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: be like, I don't think I'm mature enough to handle
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: a relationship like this and I should leave. Instead, it's like, no, no,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: it's not me. It's her. She needs to work at
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the local grocery store.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: It's not fair. I want her to be miserable like me.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: It's not fair. It's not fair. She should be miserable
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: like me. It's not fair. She shouldn't be happy with
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: her job. She should be mean and angry about it
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: like me.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize you could just talk through your teeth
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: as a British person. I didn't open my teeth one time.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: It's not fair.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: Really? It's not fair that they don't have to open
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: their mouths to talk in it.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: It's not fair.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but this is weird. It's simply
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: not fair. I don't like this.
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: It's not fair.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I have to tell a stupid lie. I'm not an owl.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: I'm not an owl.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: My boyfriend never introduced me to his friends in all
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: the years we've been together.
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: He might be embarrassed by you.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: I've been with my boyfriend for six years.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: We have lived together for four years. We have a child.
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: And we have often talked about marriage since this is
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: where we are headed. Just we're saving for more important
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: things like a house. We have a pretty great relationship.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: He's my best friend. We are very open with each other.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: And I trust him 100% that he's not cheating or
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: lying to me or anything.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: The thing is.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: He has never introduced me to his friends. Is that weird?
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: We can all answer that very quickly. Yes. Yes.
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: The first episode of Adults season one.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: Oh man, I haven't seen it. I introduced him to mine.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: I am scared that he's ashamed of me. He used
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: to go out with them every weekend. And while his
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: friends often invited their partners, he never invited me to
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: go out with them all. Even before our baby.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, you have a kid? Yeah.
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: You missed that?
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: They've been together for six years and have a kid.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Not married.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's fine. We all need time to ourselves,
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: but to never, ever invite me out with them all? Now,
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: we live 200 plus miles away from his friends, but
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: he still goes away to see them for one weekend
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: every month. And he never asks if I want to
• 49:51
  Speaker 6: go with them. My family and his still live there,
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: so I would be taking our child to see grandparents
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: while he's out partying.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: This is insane.
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: He wants me to stay at home.
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: Oh, dude.
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: By the way, this comes from Invisible Girlfriend, and if
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: you want to submit your own stories, go to the
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: r slash okay story time.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Subbered it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: Friends are good to check up on your partner.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's cheating on you.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay. From both sides, if I'm her, I'm like,
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: why are we waiting so long? Why do you want
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: me to meet the friends? If I'm the friends, I'm like,
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: that relationship's not going to last. We haven't even met her.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you the friends are like, You're in a relationship?
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if I don't meet my close friend's partners, I
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: just don't, I'm like, is it that serious?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: You have a girlfriend?
• 50:38
  Speaker 9: Every guy friend has that one quiet dude in the
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: friend group. Imagine you find out that that quiet friend
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: in the friend group has a kid and a wife
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: of six years or.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: A girlfriend of six years. Oh, yeah, okay. That's him?
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: You have a girlfriend?
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: You have a girlfriend?
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Wait, you have a kid?
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: And they haven't met them?
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, you guys never asked.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that's why he has to say it.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys never asked.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: Now, a few of his friends are getting married, and
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: the invites to the ceremonies and the receptions are all
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: addressed to him.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: And only him.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Because they don't know about you.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: They don't know about you.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: They don't know about you. They never asked.
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: I nor our child are invited, while other people's partners
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: and children are. He says his friends haven't got the
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: money to invite us, which is fine if that's the case,
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: but I just feel like the baby and I are
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: invisible and don't exist to his friends.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I go, hold up. I go, hold up. There's multiple weddings.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Let's go at least two or three.
• 51:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd be like, oh, okay.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: Are we ever going to get invited?
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: And he uses that excuse for all two to three weddings?
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: This excuse would hold for four or five months of dating,
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: of official dating, before I'm like, I'm fed up. Why
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: haven't I met any.
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: Of your friends?
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Max eight. Yeah.
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: I'm feeling really torn up about this, and on one hand,
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: I think I'm being a bit sensitive about it, and
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: on the other, I feel a bit miffed. I'd love
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: some advice.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: Am I being stupid?
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: Six years!
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: Six years.
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: Six years.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: I've been yelling six years.
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: I have met almost all of my partner's very close
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: friends and vice versa. There are some friends, like maybe
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: three close friends who I haven't met who are on
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: the opposite side of the country. But I've met most
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: of his friends. How have you met none of them?
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: It's a presidential term and a half.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: And you haven't met any of his friends.
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: Any of them.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, you know, uh, Some of my friends
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: are getting married and obviously Obi's like, who? I don't
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: know any of them.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: I don't know them.
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: This podcast has been around for almost five years.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: Coming up September 19th. Imagine this, the length of the
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: podcast plus one.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: You've even met some of our friends.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: At least.
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: Comment one.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: You know, I find this situation really strange. I have
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: a hard time thinking that he's ashamed of you because
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: he wouldn't be in a six-year relationship with you and
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: have a child with you if he was.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: You'd be surprised.
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: But there is something that seems off about the situation.
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: It may have to do with his friends. Maybe he
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: doesn't think you'd approve. Or maybe he's trying to protect
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: you from something. OP says, yeah, I'm definitely going to
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: talk to him about it soon. It's been playing on
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: my mind a lot lately. And the comments here agreeing
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: that it is odd are just the little nudge I needed.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: How has it not been playing with you with the
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: first five months of dating this guy?
• 53:23
  Speaker 6: Should have been immediate red flag. It is possible that
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: he thinks I won't approve of them. but they would
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: all have to be doing something awful. I'm definitely the
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: one with the wild past and wild friends. Comment two says,
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: as a dude in a committed, loving marriage who knows
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: many other dudes in committed, loving relationships, yeah, that's odd.
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: OP says, yes, I'm gonna talk to him. I don't
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: resent or even wanna join in his alone time guy
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: friend stuff. I just wanna know his friends a little
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: bit and be included in the couple-y events like his
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: friend's SOs are, you know? Reply, how do you know
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: the other SOs? OP says Facebook. There's always pictures, statuses,
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: event pages, etc. The stories my SO tells.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: But you haven't reached out to them at all? Yeah.
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know if I would reach out to
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: people I didn't know if I was never introduced.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: But she knows the SOs. And be like, oh my gosh,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: can we hang out? Like, the guys... She doesn't know anybody.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: This is so crazy.
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: She doesn't know anybody.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Edit.
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: Also, when he's out with his friends, he completely ignores me.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: I try not to bother him, but sometimes I'll text
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: him because I'm bored, lonely, the baby did something cute
• 54:27
  Speaker 6: or funny, but he never responds, even when he's gone
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: for the entire weekend.
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh.
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: He also seems to be gone a lot.
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: He's cheating on you.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: There's got to be a secret.
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: A secret family or something.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be a secret.
• 54:40
  Speaker 6: One time he was gone, I was super scared because
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: someone tried to break into the house on Saturday night,
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: and I left him a ton of voicemails and texts,
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: and he didn't even acknowledge them until he came home
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: on the Sunday evening.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: What?
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: Genuinely, if you have a child with someone... You cannot
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: not be always available, always reachable. You cannot have your
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: phone on do not disturb.
• 55:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, hey babe, I've told you this. Saturday's for the boys.
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: She's like, wait, but our child is in the ER.
• 55:09
  Speaker 6: Saturday's for the boys.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, it still looks like it's Saturday.
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: Call me on Sunday. Thank you. How do I bring
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: it up with him without turning it into a fight?
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: Should I even bring it up?
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 55:21
  Speaker 6: I'm happy for him to go out and all that.
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: I'm glad he's maintaining his friendships. I guess I just
• 55:26
  Speaker 6: want to be acknowledged. Oh, we have an update, but yikes.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: This is insane.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: How do you go six years?
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: Six years.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Six years.
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: Bro is cheating.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: It's not like, oh, I don't talk to my guys anymore.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen them in years. No, he sees them
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: once a month. He goes once a month.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Once a month.
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: Fresno went back.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Six years.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: But then OP goes back to the town that they're
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: both from.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: This is getting insane.
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: I don't know what's going on, but we have an update.
• 55:52
  Speaker 8: OP, you are boyfriend's dirty little secret. OP is the secret.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: Cheater, cheater, that's us. Yep, keep them coming, guys.
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: Update. I came away from that post feeling so insecure.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: Paranoid and full of doubts about my relationship.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: How do you get from the post six years you
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: haven't met anyone?
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: Another six years of not being introduced to anyone in
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: his friend group.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: You never went.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Huh, that is weird.
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: That's really strange. Have you met? Presumably you've met his family. Right.
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: People were so insistent that I was being manipulated or mistreated.
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: And since I was already feeling upset, I began to
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: think that maybe they were right. How could I have
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: been so stupid as to not realize that my SO
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: is cheating on me and leading a double life? I mean,
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: it was so obvious to the people in that post,
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: why couldn't I see it too? I couldn't see it
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: because he wasn't doing any of those things.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: We talked about this a lot, about three hours actually.
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: We've always been open about any problems either of us
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: are having, and he was genuinely surprised that I was
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: so upset about this issue. and he was incredibly apologetic
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: that he had brushed it off the times I had
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: brought it up previously. He thought that because I was
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: independent and never really seemed interested in going out drinking
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: and to clubs, that is mainly what the routings consist of,
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: that I was only asking to meet his friends to
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: be polite.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: No.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: That's stupid.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: That's a lame excuse.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: He's being a dum-dum.
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: He's flipping this dude.
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: After that, it just became normal for him to keep
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: us separate. He said that when he does go away
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: for the weekend, he really just lets go and blows
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: off steam. gets wasted, and is stupid with his friends,
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: and that he'd be a bit embarrassed if I saw
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: him like that, since it's not something we've ever really
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: done together. He was hurt that I'd been thinking that
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: he was cheating, but he understood why I might think
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: that after we discussed how weird it actually is that
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: I haven't met his friends.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: There's no shot. There's just no shot.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Six years.
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: Six years and he was just like, I don't know,
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: I just didn't think you wanted to, even though you
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: brought it up multiple times. He had no qualms about
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: showing me his phone, email, Facebook, bank statements, etc.
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: No, I just want to see your second phone.
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and he has never hidden them from me. He
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: also showed me a few text messages and emails where
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: he had talked about me and the baby, the photos
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: he had sent to his best friend, and even the
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: concerned emails from his best friend about my health when
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: I had been sick. Are there any text messages from
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: his friends that say, like, can we meet her? Can
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: we meet your baby?
• 58:18
  Speaker 7: Like, what?
• 58:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they ask about you. They just never ask to
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: meet you.
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: They just don't want to meet you.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: My SO has just never bothered to tell me that
• 58:26
  Speaker 6: their best friend was asking after me because he didn't
• 58:29
  Speaker 6: really see a point to. When I pointed out that
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: I was upset that I hadn't been included in wedding invitations,
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: not even as a plus one, and that it seemed
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: like complete BS that other girlfriends were invited when I wasn't,
• 58:41
  Speaker 6: he agreed that it was a little bit rude, and
• 58:43
  Speaker 6: after speaking to a few of his friends, realized that
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: it was 100% his fault.
• 58:47
  Speaker 7: Shocker.
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: And they never invited me because they assumed that I
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: would not want to come since I'd never bothered to
• 58:54
  Speaker 6: meet them before. So to be clear, OP, your boyfriend
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: has completely ruined your reputation in his friend's eyes because
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: they probably are assuming that you just don't want to
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: meet them.
• 59:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you're no fun. You don't want to meet blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: The money excuse was just him BSing a lie in
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: some strange, misguided attempt to explain and make me feel
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: better without him actually thinking about why they weren't inviting me.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: Ugh, yikes.
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: Like, all of these are just so bad.
• 59:24
  Speaker 8: They really are.
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: They're just so bad.
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: This is not fun. Let's see if they're real. Let's
• 59:29
  Speaker 8: just go make sure that there is actually friends.
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: Can I meet them now?
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: And not a side chick.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: In regards to not answering his phone and being out
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  Speaker 6: of contact while he's away, he agreed he is an
• 59:40
  Speaker 6: absolute idiot and becomes an even bigger idiot when he's wasted.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: You don't get to use that as an excuse when
• 59:46
  Speaker 6: you have a child. You just don't. Like, don't drink then.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 59:50
  Speaker 8: Ease up on the drinks.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: Like, come on, dude.
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: If you can't respond when your wife's getting broken into,
• 59:56
  Speaker 9: oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 6: He said he never really checks his phone when he's out,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 6: but he is going to always keep the ringer on loud,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: check his messages throughout the night, and respond as soon
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 6: as he reads the text. So I'm very happy with
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 6: how our talk went. I'm satisfied with the answers and explanations.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: I'm sure lots of people will still call me an idiot, naive, stupid,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: a troll, etc. or tell me my SO is a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: liar or manipulating, but I trust and believe him 100%.
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  Speaker 8: All right, that's your relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I didn't see? And we're going to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 8: see his friends next month.
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  Speaker 3: I did not see that.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 6: We still don't know if you're going to meet his friends.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: I'm checking if there's an update of, yeah, I met
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: his friends finally, and they are idiots, but you know what?
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. They're just having fun.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: I don't know, man. Also, another thing.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 3: Is this the first time she's ever brought it up?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: That's, well, no. No. It's not the first time she's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: ever brought it up, but it is the first time
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 6: seemingly she's ever been so upset by it.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, I found a comment from OP.
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  Speaker 3: Very weird.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: So someone asked, update us when you meet his friends.
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  Speaker 1: And OP responds, very weird, saying, why? Why? So y'all
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: can get another chance to tell me what an idiot
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: I am and how he's lying or that I'm trolling.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: And a lot of people downvoted it. They're like, no,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: just so you actually met his friends.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 6: Sounds like she hasn't met his friends. But that's the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 6: end of that story. And we've got another one coming
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: right up.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: We got comments, actually.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, I like the comments. But we've got comments from
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: the video. I beat my father-in-law at a contest yesterday.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 6: Now I'm the villain. And this was posted August 29th, 2026.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 6: TLDR comes from Story 1. OP is a casual competitive
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 6: eater who tagged along to his girlfriend's hometown food festival,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 6: where he spotted a hot dog eating contest with a
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: $ 100 gift card at the line. He signed up for fun,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 6: not realizing that his girlfriend's dad had won that exact
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 6: contest four years running and fully expected to win again.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 6: OP gave it his all and demolished the competition. It
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 6: seemed like harmless fun until six months later, his girlfriend
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 6: suddenly threw it in his face during an argument, claiming
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: her dad had been secretly wounded the whole time. And
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: if you're curious to know the full story, you can
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: go watch the full video, but we've got comments.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I remember this one. Yeah, wasn't he like the glizzy
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: king or something?
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a glizzy gobbler. What was that t-shirt
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: that he got?
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: It was from like this son. This like the, he's
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: like girlfriend's son.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: We won't talk about it because we want people to
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: go listen to that.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: We want people to go listen.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 8: He got a t-shirt for winning too. And you have
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 8: to see the picture of it in the episode.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: It was crazy.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Go check that story.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: Go check it out.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: Go check out that story. We have some comments from
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: that story. It's a great one. It's a fun one.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: First comment here is from Lizzy Lou saying, I've been
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: giggling this whole episode. Love this trio of Riley, Savannah,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: and Keon.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: Aww.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Everyone bounces off each other amazingly.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: How sweet.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 8: I bounce off Keon so much.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I love when I bounce off my friends.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: You never want to bounce off us.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: That's not true.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: We have another comment here from Bob Smash saying, you
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: hurt my daddy's feelings because you beat him in a
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: hot dog eating contest. It's not a valid argument.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: You hurt my daddy's feelings.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: I'd get the ick so fast if I heard that.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: My daddy doesn't like that you beat him in a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: hot dog contest.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: You hurt my daddy's feelings because you beat him in
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: a hot dog eating contest is not a valid argument.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Eventually a winner loses.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: So true.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Another comment from Ollie Sean 92 saying expecting OP to
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: know all of his background info without anyone ever telling
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: him all of this background info is a reason enough
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: to dump girlfriend if she doesn't flip 180 post haste.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Her current position shows she is not capable of rational thought.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 6: No, she's not, unfortunately.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: That one got deep.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: That one got deep. After all the funny ones, we
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: got a deep comment.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: She's not capable of a rational thought.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it was like, that's her dad. If
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: you see your dad.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 6: That's my papa.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you hurt my papa's feelings.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: That's his pride.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And one last comment here from Francesca Award, 7293 says,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: pride comments brute the fall.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 6: Ooh, deep.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and actually poetic. Tell your girlfriend and her dad
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: to learn some humility and accept defeat because their petty
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: resentment is really pathetic.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 6: And they're just losers.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: They're losers. Literally.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 6: You're a loser, baby.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Continuing saying, grow up, you oversized children.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: Damn.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, and break up with a girlfriend as saying children
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: is a crime.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 6: But that's the end of those comments, folks, and the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 6: end of this episode. So if you love us, make
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: sure to subscribe.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: We love you.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: And see you tomorrow.