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This Escalated Quickly
A wildly unfiltered comedy podcast where everyday chaos becomes entertainment. From ridiculous life stories and internet drama to awkward moments, bad decisions, and laugh-out-loud debates, nothing is off limits. Grab your headphones and prepare to laugh harder than you should. Nothing explicit
Episodes
This Escalated QuicklyI Made a Roast Slideshow for My Situationship
Liv confesses she built an over-the-top PowerPoint to roast a situationship—complete with slide titles like Red Flag Bingo, receipts screenshots, and a…
This Escalated QuicklyPlus-One, Minus Chill: How I Accidentally Brought My Ex to a Wedding
I thought RSVP meant 'bring whoever you want,' not 'bring the person who ruined your last two months.' In this solo episode Liv recounts the glorious chaos of…
This Escalated QuicklyReal Drama
I made up an ex. Not a little white lie — a fully produced backstory, Instagram cameo, and a LinkedIn job title I definitely didn't fact-check. This episode is…
This Escalated QuicklyOut-of-Office: I Faked an Away Message to Test a Situationship
Ridiculous statement: I programmed a fake "out-of-office" reply to trick a situationship into revealing itself. In this episode Liv confesses the petty…
This Escalated QuicklyThe Worst Date Tasting Menu
Liv turns her most catastrophic dating moments into a ridiculous multi-course tasting menu: an amuse-bouche of awkward openers, an appetizer of breadcrumbing…
This Escalated QuicklyDear Future Ex: Preemptive Breakup Letters I Wrote Before the First Date
Liv turns catastrophic dating energy into a ridiculous solo performance: she’s been drafting preemptive breakup letters for the most common bad-date…
This Escalated QuicklyCourt of Exes: I Put My Worst Date on Trial
Liv turns a disastrously funny date into a full-blown courtroom comedy: think opening statement, Exhibit A (the text thread that started it all)…
This Escalated QuicklyEmoji Blind Date Roulette
I told my loudest friends to plan a blind date for me using nothing but emojis. No bios, no filters, no context — just a chaotic string of tiny pictures and my…
This Escalated QuicklyTexting Rehab: Confessions of a Read-Receipt Addict
Liv stages a one-woman "texting rehab" after realizing her love life is ruled by typing dots, last-seen timestamps, and ghosting etiquette. In this monologue…
This Escalated QuicklyPetty Olympics: Medal-Worthy Breakup Moves I Actually Did (and Admit To)
Liv admits she secretly trained for the ‘Petty Olympics’ after a breakup and hands out medals to her most ridiculous post-relationship moves. This ten-minute…
This Escalated QuicklyShared Playlist, Shared Problems
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This Escalated QuicklyMy Mom Wrote My Dating Profile (And Now My Life Is a Reality Show)
Liv recounts the afternoon she handed her dating app over to her mom 'for a second' and came back to a bio that read like a PTA newsletter, a headshot…
This Escalated QuicklySituationship: A One-Woman Telenovela of My Worst 'Almost' Relationship
Liv performs her most bewildering situationship as an overdramatized telenovela: she introduces ludicrous characters (The Late Texter, The Ghost with Charm…
This Escalated QuicklyThe Red Flag Museum Tour
Liv Carter becomes your chaotic museum curator in this ten-minute monologue where dating disasters are displayed like cursed relics. She walks listeners…
This Escalated QuicklyBedtime for Bad Dates: I Read My Dating Disasters Like Children's Stories
Liv takes her worst first dates and reads them like saccharine children's bedtime stories, turning awkward silence, terrible astrology talk, and accidental…
This Escalated QuicklySigned, Sealed, Situationship: I Wrote a Terms & Conditions for My Messy Relationship
When 'we'll see where this goes' becomes its own genre of emotional whiplash, Liv does what any chaotic, dramatic best friend would do: she drafts a Terms &…
This Escalated QuicklyI Ghosted a Date and Accidentally Adopted Their Plant
Liv turns a facepalm-level dating disaster into a full-blown soap opera about plants, passive-aggression, and modern ghosting etiquette. She opens with a…
This Escalated QuicklyGroup Chat Archaeology: Excavating a Friendship from Old Threads
Liv plays digital archaeologist in this monologue: she scrolls through old group chat screenshots, reconstructs how a tiny dumb message cascaded into a…
This Escalated QuicklyGenerated Episode Idea
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This Escalated QuicklyThe Worst-Text Roast: Dramatic Readings from the Digital Dumpster
Ever sent a message you immediately wanted to bury? In this monologue episode Liv adopts full best-friend energy to perform dramatic readings of the absolute…
This Escalated QuicklyI Made a Fake Dating Persona to Avoid My Ex and Now I'm Running a Romance Side Hustle
I thought creating a fake dating persona was a harmless dodge tactic to avoid bumping into my ex. Two swipes, one white lie, and zero boundaries later, I was…
This Escalated QuicklyCalling Dating Support: My Complaint Line for Terrible Matches
Liv turns her dating chaos into customer service hell in this ten-minute solo episode. Framed as a fake 'Dating Support' hotline, she catalogs the most…
This Escalated QuicklyShark Tanking My Dating Disasters
Liv turns her most catastrophic first-dates into pitch-perfect (and pitch-terrible) startup proposals in a ten-minute monologue that feels like your group chat…
This Escalated QuicklyCrisis Test: I Invented Ridiculous Emergencies to See Who'd Show Up
Liv admits she started staging tiny, ridiculous emergencies to find out who actually cared — from a fake lost kitten meltdown to a sob session about a dead…
This Escalated QuicklyAutocorrected Emotions: I Let Predictive Text Live My Dating Life for a Week
Liv lets her phone play matchmaker — or arsonist — for a week by replying to every dating app message, DM, and text using only her phone's predictive text. The…
This Escalated QuicklyExcel, Emojis & Exes: I Spreadsheeted My Dating Life and It Got Messy
Liv confesses she got so fed up with ghosting, mixed signals, and endless 'what are we?' texts that she did the only logical thing: organized her romantic…
This Escalated QuicklyRadical Honesty Roulette: I Told the Truth on Seven First Dates
Liv turns a terrible idea into a social experiment: for seven first dates she practices ‘radical honesty’—no white lies, no softening, just brutal-but-funny…
This Escalated QuicklyOutfit Roulette: I Let My Contacts Dress Me for a Date and It Got Wild
Liv makes a ridiculous bet: for one week, her phone contacts pick her date outfit, the opening texts, and one on-the-spot decision during a date. What starts…
This Escalated QuicklySwipe Right for Dad: How I Turned My Dad's Dating Profile Into a Neighborhood Soap Opera
Liv narrates the week she promised to manage her dad’s dating profile 'just to help him out' and somehow created a perfect storm of terrible bios…
This Escalated QuicklyThe Ex's New Girlfriend Group Chat: How I Became Their Unofficial Therapist
Liv tells the ridiculous, cringe-filled story of how a single wrong tap put her inside her ex's new girlfriend's group chat — and why she stayed. What starts…
This Escalated QuicklyGenerated Episode Idea
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This Escalated QuicklyOperation: Seen — How I Sabotaged a Ghoster with Ridiculous Passive-Aggression
Liv kicks off a chaotic, laugh-out-loud solo episode where a disappearing dater inspires a full-scale passive-aggressive campaign she later regrets… kind of…
This Escalated QuicklyI Catfished My Own Crush (And Regretted It Immediately)
Liv confesses to an experiment that started as petty curiosity and turned into full-blown chaos: she made a fake dating profile to slide into her own crush's…
This Escalated QuicklyThe Jacket That Outsourced My Love Life
Liv tells a true-ish 10-minute monologue about a tiny decision that detonates into full-on romantic chaos: swapping jackets after a crowded night out…
This Escalated QuicklyGenerated Episode Idea
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This Escalated QuicklyThe Dog Walk That Came With a Ring
Liv tells the full, chaotic monologue of the time she agreed to take a neighbor’s dog out for five minutes and returned to discover a shiny ring in the dog’s…
This Escalated QuicklyPlus-One, Minus Boundaries: I Pretended to Be Someone's Date and Chaos Ensued
Liv takes the mic and reels off a ridiculous, totally avoidable series of events that started with a text (“Can you be my plus-one?”) and ended with three…
This Escalated QuicklyThe Accidental 'I Love You' — A Texting Disaster That Deserves Its Own Sitcom
Liv opens with a ridiculous, totally believable texting catastrophe: an autocorrected 'I love you' sent to the wrong person, and the ensuing cascade of bad…