DDs Episode 14: Reddit Confessions
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SPEAKER_00: Hello, welcome to Distracted Divas.
SPEAKER_00: I'm Diva Pearl.
SPEAKER_00: We have Diva Mona, Diva Pamela, and D.Va Becky.
SPEAKER_00: Please join us for our podcast and see what's going on today.
SPEAKER_02: On Distracted Divas.
SPEAKER_03: Hello, everyone.
SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Distracted Divas Podcast.
SPEAKER_03: Today we have Diva Becky.
SPEAKER_03: Diva Mona.
SPEAKER_03: Diva Pam.
SPEAKER_03: Our other diva is very distracted at the moment.
SPEAKER_02: Diva Pearl.
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
SPEAKER_03: Today's um podcast will be from a Reddit, and we're gonna read some confessions.
unknown: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: We have three different ones.
SPEAKER_03: One is gonna be a confession, the confessions.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, we like confessions.
SPEAKER_03: If everybody's ready, we'll go ahead.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, let's get at it.
SPEAKER_02: Let's get to the point today.
SPEAKER_03: This one says sometimes I don't reply to messages even when I'm free.
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I don't reply to messages when I'm free.
SPEAKER_03: It's not because I dislike the person.
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I read a message, think about replying later, and then keep putting it off for hours or even days.
SPEAKER_03: The longer I wait, the more awkward it feels to respond, which makes me avoid it even more.
SPEAKER_03: I know it's a bad habit, but I still catch myself doing it.
SPEAKER_03: Who else does that?
SPEAKER_03: Not me.
SPEAKER_03: Just kidding.
SPEAKER_03: Well, I feel like I don't sometimes I'll read it and I'm getting ready to go somewhere, and I'm like, oh, because it could be I it could be a message from one of you guys, and I'm getting ready, I'm in the car getting ready to go somewhere, and I'll read it real quick and I'm like, oh, I'll respond when I get there.
SPEAKER_03: And then of course it'll be 12 hours later.
SPEAKER_03: And then it's too late because I'm the only one who's up to two and three o'clock in the morning because they work and I don't.
SPEAKER_03: So I it's like, and then I forget until one goes, Did you get my message?
unknown: Right.
SPEAKER_03: But there's no facetiousness behind that.
SPEAKER_03: But with other people, sometimes I'm like, Why are you sending me a message?
SPEAKER_03: Like in my in my brain, I'm like, I don't even talk to you.
SPEAKER_03: Why are you sending me a message?
SPEAKER_01: I'll start writing the message, and then I think I sent it, and then I never sent it, and then I'll look at it hours later and or the next day, and then be like, Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: I think um for me, sometimes I respond in my head.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, that's but I don't type it out.
SPEAKER_01: That's some new stuff right there, girl.
SPEAKER_02: And then later, like I'll see the message, I'll be like, Oh shit, I never answered, like I only answered in my head.
SPEAKER_03: I promise you that that is me in a nutshell.
SPEAKER_03: Sometimes I'm looking at it and I'm already talking about it, like da da da da da, and I never send it.
SPEAKER_03: And then when I look at it, I'm like, oh man, now it doesn't make sense to send it because they probably needed that answer right then and there.
SPEAKER_01: As the red uh said, it'll be awkward the more time goes by, it's more of yes.
SPEAKER_02: Talk about that, but meanwhile, they see you posting on Facebook and doing all this shit, and they're like, but but you couldn't take two seconds to answer me.
SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean, I feel like with us, we'll just call you and be like, Did you get my fucking message?
SPEAKER_03: I sent it two hours ago, damn it.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, some things just need a little emoji react that way.
SPEAKER_02: You you know I got it, right?
SPEAKER_02: And it's just a quick little poop.
SPEAKER_03: But um, but I feel like I feel like our friendship, we I feel like our friendship, if we don't answer something, we kind of know why.
SPEAKER_03: Or we you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_03: I feel like it it depends on who it is, because with us, it's like, oh, she, I know she's doing blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_03: And if it was like super duper important, yes, you would answer right then and there.
SPEAKER_03: But otherwise, it's like, oh, they're busy, they'll answer, they'll let me know later.
SPEAKER_03: Or if I say, if I'm saying, hey, I'm about to buy some shirts, because I might say, I try to give as much information as possible so you know what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_03: I'm about to buy five shirts.
SPEAKER_03: What size do you want?
SPEAKER_03: And if you don't answer me back, I already know you, so I'm gonna buy you this size anyway.
SPEAKER_03: Like, you might get back to me after I've already placed the order, and then I'm like, I already know what size you wear, but you might have wanted a different size, but I already bought this size for you.
SPEAKER_03: True, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Um, well, and I think like in our messenger stuff, and I try to do it sometimes even more on my text too, like the voice memos, you know?
SPEAKER_02: Kind of like kind of like a phone call, but not really, because it's one-sided, right?
SPEAKER_02: So but it's easier than especially when you gotta say a lot.
SPEAKER_02: It's like I'm not typing all this shit out.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, and I know I can't call you right now because you're you know doing XYZ.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'm just gonna do a voice memo, you know, like that seems to work.
SPEAKER_03: You know what I like?
SPEAKER_03: I like when I'm in my car and I get them because my car reads the messages to me and it says to me, Do you want to reply?
SPEAKER_03: So that's how I always when I'm in my car, I can always listen to your messages because I just press the button and it tells me what you says and it goes, do you want to reply or send an emoji or blah blah blah?
SPEAKER_03: And whatever it is, I will send it or say whatever it is back and forth.
SPEAKER_03: When I stop answering you, that means I'm not in the car anymore.
SPEAKER_03: That's what that means.
SPEAKER_02: What about um like sometimes you just know like whoever you're gonna text back is gonna like text you back a bunch, and you're like, I just don't have time for this right now.
SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah, so you want to start because you know right.
SPEAKER_02: It's like I'll I can't talk right now, so I'll text you back when I can actually talk.
SPEAKER_02: Or sometimes I'll try to call them so I can get it all like I can get it out real quick, you know, and then they won't answer.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, bitch, you just texted me.
SPEAKER_01: I hate but you know what?
SPEAKER_01: Hey.
SPEAKER_03: Wait, that's my daughter.
SPEAKER_03: Like she when she's off, like calls and texts and calls.
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, and I just send her a message, I'm busy.
SPEAKER_03: I just say I'm busy, and she'd be like, You're too busy for me, and I and I go, Yes.
SPEAKER_03: I just say yes, and then she knows, like, I she lives five seconds away.
SPEAKER_03: I could just go over her house, right?
SPEAKER_03: Like, come on, like you I what do you want to tell me?
SPEAKER_03: Vanette, what did Vanessa do now?
SPEAKER_03: Okay, what she acted like you did when she went when you were her age?
SPEAKER_03: Oh, poor baby.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Bita.
SPEAKER_03: No, just kidding.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, and there's sometimes there's just people you don't want to talk to, and maybe they maybe you're actually trying to kind of distance yourself from them and they're not getting the message.
SPEAKER_02: You know, I'm not saying that I personally have anything like that going on in my life right now, but I have been in situations where I'm trying to distance myself, and it's like, you know, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Can't hear you, Becky.
SPEAKER_01: No, yeah, we've all been there one way or another.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_01: You know, those people that don't get it or or don't think of the other person being busy or doing whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody wants you to be available at their time.
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
SPEAKER_03: But I'm okay if you don't answer me back.
SPEAKER_03: Like I really know that if somebody doesn't answer me back, I I don't take I don't take it personal.
SPEAKER_03: I don't either.
SPEAKER_03: I know that I'm the only person, I'm not the only person, but I know that out of most of our friends, I'm the one that's retired, and I'm the one who's always might be sending a text.
SPEAKER_03: But if you don't answer me back, I promise I don't take it personally.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, not at all.
SPEAKER_03: There's some people who do call me and text me and say things, not of our circle, but guys in particular, and I don't answer them back on purpose.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I'm like, how the hell did you get through?
SPEAKER_03: I already blocked you.
SPEAKER_03: How do you get through?
SPEAKER_03: Like, I'm pissed now because how did you get through?
SPEAKER_02: They're making extra numbers.
SPEAKER_03: True.
SPEAKER_03: True.
SPEAKER_03: So here's some of the answers that from that question.
SPEAKER_03: One of them says Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_03: They're confession.
SPEAKER_01: So I mean number, that's another that's a whole nother podcast right now.
SPEAKER_03: No, I'm saying some of the answers.
SPEAKER_03: It says most ghosting isn't people being rude, it's people accidentally, accidentally procrastinate, procrastinating a text until it becomes emotionally expensive.
SPEAKER_03: I don't know what NGL means.
SPEAKER_03: I'm older.
SPEAKER_02: Not gonna lie.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, not gonna lie, the guilt is what is what makes it worse.
SPEAKER_03: Wow.
SPEAKER_03: Somebody put maybe you're an introvert and having social having social anxiety.
SPEAKER_03: Because it could be that's that's definitely a thing.
SPEAKER_02: That's why some people text, because they don't.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's why like back to when I said like you know that they're on the phone, sometimes they don't answer because so okay, so a funny little story.
SPEAKER_02: It's kind of like this, kinda, but uh James mentioned something the other day about ordering Disney Channel.
SPEAKER_02: We haven't had it in a long time, but he's like he was gonna do it like in a couple weeks or something, and um he just mentioned it.
SPEAKER_02: Well, the next morning Dakota wanted to watch uh Finding Nemo, and so I ordered Disney Channel.
SPEAKER_02: So he comes in and he had fallen asleep on the couch that night, and me and Dakota had slept in the bedroom, and so he comes in and he sees that I'm trying to log into Disney Channel, and he's like, What are you doing?
SPEAKER_02: I just ordered that last night.
SPEAKER_02: So we hadn't communicated from the night to the morning that I was like, You said you were gonna do it in a couple weeks.
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, he's like, Well, just cancel it.
SPEAKER_02: Well, you can't really.
SPEAKER_02: You have to because you're like saying basically like you're signing up for six months, and and so it's like thirteen dollars, it's like thirteen dollars a month, right?
SPEAKER_02: And so he goes, I he goes, Well, call him and cancel it.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, uh uh, I'm not calling them.
SPEAKER_02: He's like, I'll call him, and so he gets on the phone with them.
SPEAKER_02: Long story short, they won't cancel it.
SPEAKER_02: But I was like, I personally would rather pay$13 a month than call somebody and try to cancel this right now because I know what a pain in the ass it's gonna be.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_02: But he'll sit on the phone all day and like make phone calls, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: But I'm like, no, I'll pay$13 a month, and then I just gave the account to Savannah for six months.
SPEAKER_03: So like I feel like that's that's like you said, that's called communication, dude.
SPEAKER_03: You said I'm listening to what you say because I know you, and I know you probably will take uh a week or two to do it.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm already gonna just know I probably should know better.
SPEAKER_02: He does everything right now.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you say two weeks and then all of a sudden you do it in a day, that's crazy.
SPEAKER_02: I guess he whatever he wanted to watch, he must have decided that night when you know, because Dakota and I like got I think we had played in the little kiddie pool that day, and so we were tired and we fell asleep early, and so you know, him and I didn't communicate from the morning to the from the evening to the morning, you know.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean I I on a whim decided to order it.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was just it was a crazy coincidence that we both ordered it, you know.
SPEAKER_02: So whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Savannah's got a free Disney Hulu account for six months.
SPEAKER_03: But I feel like I feel like I don't have those problems, but I feel like um I feel like that happens more often than not, because a lot of times my kids will come over here and I don't have all of those channels because I don't need them because half the time I'm listening to music anyway.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and they'll put it on my TV, and then I'll go.
SPEAKER_03: My daughter will go, Mommy, do you have such and such?
SPEAKER_03: And I'm like, No, she goes, I put it on your TV last week.
SPEAKER_03: And I'm thinking, like, if anybody shouldn't know me, you should that I don't really watch TV.
SPEAKER_03: I watch more TV when you guys come over because you turn it on.
SPEAKER_03: I we had Netflix and all kinds of stuff for like months and months, and I was like, Where did that come from?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, whose freaking account is that?
SPEAKER_01: Like, what and then is overthinking, I think, because the guilt and all that, man.
SPEAKER_01: This like it ain't that serious, right?
SPEAKER_03: I feel like it ain't that serious, too.
SPEAKER_03: I do too.
SPEAKER_02: Well, the thing is too, like, um, we have Verizon, so he gets like a better deal ordering it through Verizon.
SPEAKER_02: So he had ordered it through Verizon, and I had ordered it through Disney Plus.
SPEAKER_02: So he probably could have canceled it, but it's like, like I said, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not for$13 a month.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I'm not gonna no, I'm not getting on the phone and sitting and waiting and talking to somebody in another country who doesn't care what they're just following a script, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02: Like it's just it's it's whatever.
SPEAKER_03: So here's another one that somebody said it says the dangerous part is that in a minute feels completely reasonable when you say it.
SPEAKER_03: Then somehow you blink and it's Thursday, and now replying feels like you're submitting a late assignment.
SPEAKER_03: That's perfectly that's a perfect answer to that.
SPEAKER_01: Well, just say that person is a master procrastinator, not in a minute, it's Thursday.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03: No, she says it.
SPEAKER_03: She said it the dangerous part is that in a minute completely feels reasonable.
SPEAKER_03: It does feel reasonable.
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna reply to them in a minute, but then somehow you blink like that.
SPEAKER_03: She's saying you it that minute gets away from you, and you blink, and it's a it's three days later.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so that's that's kind of a lot of times, like you said, you get ready to go somewhere, we might text you something, you're in the car, you get ready to go somewhere, and you look at it.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, in your brain, you're like, I'm gonna reply to them, and then you're completely enthralled into whatever you're doing, and you forget until oh shit, I gotta tell them.
SPEAKER_03: I forgot to tell them.
SPEAKER_03: I want lime chips instead of regular chips, you know.
SPEAKER_02: I think the only time it really probably is offensive is if it's your like significant other.
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: And like sometimes back to James, but like sometimes I'm trying to get in touch with him for something, and I know you've got your phone on you all the time.
SPEAKER_02: You're listening to pot, he's always listening to podcasts and stuff like that, and I'm like trying to get in touch with him for something, and then he's like, I didn't see it, or I didn't hear it.
SPEAKER_02: Like, he's like, Bullshit.
SPEAKER_03: But you know, you're you're completely right about that because I like when I used to call my sons or text them or whatever, and they don't answer them.
SPEAKER_03: I'm like, every freaking time you're in my damn face, you're on your phone laughing and doing whatever, and I freaking call you, I could be dead, because you know how parents are.
SPEAKER_03: We're like, we're like drama playing.
SPEAKER_03: I could be dead, even on the side of the road in my tire flat, and I'm calling you, and you're not answering your phone.
SPEAKER_03: But let somebody who doesn't do shit for you, that's how we start going off.
SPEAKER_03: That you hello, how are you?
SPEAKER_03: We're talking jokes, but and that's the only time that I feel like that's the only time that I really get mad because I don't really bother my kids at all unless I want them to do something, or I need them to do something, and that's hardly ever.
SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03: That's hardly ever.
SPEAKER_03: Um, or I might have cooked something and they had one of my dishes and I'm having something, and I need you to bring my shit back.
SPEAKER_03: I mean, I have a kitchen in the house, but I'm in the middle of doing something, and I'm looking all out and tore my kitchen up looking for it, and I'm like, oh, it's over Tyler's house or it's over Shelby's house.
SPEAKER_03: Let me let me call them, and then they don't answer the phone until after the fact.
SPEAKER_03: And then I'm already saying, forget it.
SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
SPEAKER_03: I don't need it.
SPEAKER_03: And they're like, what, Ma?
SPEAKER_03: What?
SPEAKER_03: No, you should have answered the phone.
SPEAKER_02: Kaylee used to send me memes and stuff because it'd be like, If I'm calling, then it's one thing, but if they need to get in touch with me, I better answer the phone.
SPEAKER_02: She'd always send me like memes about like, you know, how come mom's not answering me?
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you know, or they'll send me a text, monk, monk, monk, monk.
SPEAKER_03: Now me, Tyler would say, um, Tyler would send me that meme.
SPEAKER_03: I use it all the time now.
SPEAKER_03: I he said, I he said, I guess those airplanes flying outside of my house is you is is for me because I didn't answer your text or your phone call.
SPEAKER_03: That's what you said.
SPEAKER_03: I guess the airplanes that's flying up there.
SPEAKER_03: What is it?
SPEAKER_01: What you guys gotta elaborate with it, huh?
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, do your kids answer the phone?
SPEAKER_01: Mines don't.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we be in the same house.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what?
SPEAKER_02: I used to like really like poo-poo on the idea of like texting from another room, especially when we first started.
SPEAKER_02: I don't like it at all.
SPEAKER_02: Especially when we first started texting, but like it doesn't bother me now.
SPEAKER_03: I don't like it at all.
SPEAKER_03: If you're it doesn't bother me at all, walk your ass out of here and tell me.
SPEAKER_03: Don't freaking text me because I'm not gonna answer you.
SPEAKER_03: I'm not gonna answer you at all.
SPEAKER_03: No, see, the only time, the only time I don't it doesn't bother me is if I'm watching the kids and that and you know the other kids are bigger, but my grandson is younger, and I need something from somewhere, and I text you and say, Hey, can you bring you?
SPEAKER_03: I know you're in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_03: When you come out, can you bring a wet rag or something, a wet washcloth or whatever the case it is, so that I can wipe it, wash his hands, and then you walk out the bathroom and you don't have the rag on me.
SPEAKER_03: I know your ass has the phone.
SPEAKER_03: That's like a newspaper now when you go in the bathroom.
SPEAKER_02: Well, the funny thing to me is like we're a big I love you family.
SPEAKER_02: Like, you could be like walking out front to water the garden or something, and then I'll be like, I love you, you know.
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
SPEAKER_02: So, like, even when we're texting back and forth when we were in the same house, it'd be like, Okay, um, I'm whatever we're talking about, and then it'd be like I love you.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I love you too.
SPEAKER_02: Like, we just we just always, you know, we just but you know what, mom that you say that?
SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry, Becky.
SPEAKER_03: When we when you say that, um Tyler is huge on that.
SPEAKER_03: So when I'm mad at him, and he when he's talking to me on the phone, because somehow he'll answer the phone when he knows I'm mad at him.
SPEAKER_03: Um, I'm talking to him funny, and he's like, Okay, bye, I love you.
SPEAKER_03: And I hang up, and then he'll call me back.
SPEAKER_03: What is wrong with you?
SPEAKER_03: And I go, Okay, I love you, Tyler.
SPEAKER_03: He's like, That's all you had to do.
SPEAKER_03: But and uh, because one time I was trying to I was talking to him and I was rushing to go do what I had to do, and he was just going on and on and on.
SPEAKER_03: And I was like, Tyler, I gotta go.
SPEAKER_03: And he goes, Okay, mom, bye, I love you.
SPEAKER_03: And I hung up, and then he called back.
SPEAKER_03: I was like, I love you too, Tyler.
SPEAKER_02: Because yeah, he will with the mana you're not allowed to just say love you, you have to say I.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, with you have to use the I with him, he will not let you hang up the phone or walk away from him.
SPEAKER_03: He's not letting that ever happen without saying I love you.
SPEAKER_03: And now Shelby does it.
SPEAKER_03: Love you, mom.
SPEAKER_03: Or she says, Love you, Pam.
SPEAKER_03: That's how I know she's mad at me when she calls me Pam.
SPEAKER_03: Oh love you, mom.
SPEAKER_02: Oh Savannah's done that to me a couple times.
SPEAKER_02: Like, don't you don't you call me by my name?
SPEAKER_02: I am your mama.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, you know, well, we all know Shelby because remember, I I still go back on that podcast when she was on it, and when she walked away, she said, Next time I'm gonna cut up.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, she did.
SPEAKER_03: He said it.
SPEAKER_03: Next time I'm gonna cut up.
SPEAKER_02: All right, you want to move on to the next one?
SPEAKER_02: Um, or is there any other good comments?
SPEAKER_03: They're actually all good.
SPEAKER_03: There's one more, I'll do one more.
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
SPEAKER_03: Um, let me see.
SPEAKER_03: Well, this one is a short, sweet one.
SPEAKER_03: It says sometimes the message only needs a 30-second reply, but mentally it feels like a one-hour comment.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes it's like, okay, like I don't have time to talk right now, and I know if I do this, you're gonna be like right back at me.
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: All right, well, there's the next one is uh you want to do that one, the confidently gave someone directions, and I can do the last one completely the wrong.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay, I can do that, sure.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_03: So this one.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, the redd confession number two.
SPEAKER_03: Action.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, I confidently gave someone directions and sent him completely the wrong way.
SPEAKER_03: This happened like three years ago, and I still cringe at 2 a.m.
SPEAKER_03: sometimes.
SPEAKER_03: An elderly man asked me for directions.
SPEAKER_03: I had no idea where it was, but instead of just saying that, my brain went full autopilot, and I just started confidently explaining a route, gestures, and everything.
SPEAKER_03: He thanked me and walked away.
SPEAKER_03: It was only later I realized I sent them in literally the opposite direction.
SPEAKER_03: I've never felt more like a villain in someone's someone else's story.
SPEAKER_03: I still feel bad for this old guy.
SPEAKER_03: Have you guys also done something like this unknowingly or knowingly?
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: Me too.
SPEAKER_02: I actually have done this exact same thing.
SPEAKER_02: I um I've done this, but I feel like it's diabolical if you do it on purpose.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I do too.
SPEAKER_02: I do too.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, if you're doing it on purpose, like you kind of deserve some like diarrhea karma or something.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: Somebody on one of you says never ask a man for the directions when the answer is I have no idea.
SPEAKER_03: But his ego says otherwise.
SPEAKER_03: And I feel like you shouldn't ask a man for directions because they will go past something 12 times when you go, Do you want me to tell you where it is?
SPEAKER_03: Because I don't understand why men don't think women know where we're going.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes they actually explain really bad.
SPEAKER_01: So my stepdad, God bless his soul, um, he would tell me directly.
SPEAKER_01: As if he's in the country of Puerto Rico.
SPEAKER_01: Like, oh Rebecca, Rebecca, because he used to call me little Rebecca.
SPEAKER_01: Rebecca, Rebecca.
SPEAKER_01: So you go down, and then you know when you see the tree with the white line on it?
SPEAKER_01: You don't turn there.
SPEAKER_01: You pass it.
SPEAKER_01: And then you go down there.
SPEAKER_01: Now when you get to the three trees, then you turn like no.
SPEAKER_02: You see a cow on the side of the road, and you I love his directions.
SPEAKER_03: Those are I'm his people.
SPEAKER_03: I'm right there.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: I need a I need a street name.
SPEAKER_03: I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03: I need a street name.
SPEAKER_01: He grew up on the farm, and that's how he used to do it.
SPEAKER_01: And now I'm just dude, no, what if that tree is no longer there?
SPEAKER_02: Because you remember very likely it's not nowadays.
SPEAKER_01: So he's like, ah yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: My mom's always like, you gotta go east, west, you gotta take this road, that road.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, and she gets so mad at me because I am a landmark person and she is a numbers directions.
SPEAKER_02: Now Florida, east, west, north, south, piece of cake.
SPEAKER_02: But in Tennessee, I get turned around all the time, you know.
SPEAKER_03: I'm an I'm I'm like your mom.
SPEAKER_03: I'm a numbers, east, west, south.
SPEAKER_03: I'm that person.
SPEAKER_02: She'll be like, which way are you going when you go wherever, you know, whenever I'm driving, wherever?
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, whichever way the freaking Google tells me.
SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: Right.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I need the address and put it in.
SPEAKER_03: That's right.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: Yep.
SPEAKER_03: And sometimes that's exactly what I do.
SPEAKER_03: Just give me the address.
SPEAKER_03: Or somebody will say, Well, you when you go past that store, you bravo that you go to all the time, it's on the left.
SPEAKER_03: No, damn it.
SPEAKER_03: There's a Bravo on every corner, okay?
SPEAKER_01: Bravo is adios.
SPEAKER_01: Right.
SPEAKER_03: Right.
SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
SPEAKER_03: I go like this.
SPEAKER_03: Never mind.
SPEAKER_03: I'll look it up.
SPEAKER_03: But I know where I'm going.
SPEAKER_03: That's Tyler's favorite thing.
SPEAKER_03: I know where I'm going.
SPEAKER_03: Okay.
SPEAKER_03: Then you go.
SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna put it in my GPS, and my car is gonna take me there.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, we were in Florida and and we were all down at the beach watching the sunset, and we got drunk, and then Walter had to drive us home in mom's truck, and mom's trying to tell him the directions, and I she's sitting behind them, right?
SPEAKER_02: No, I'm sitting behind Walter.
SPEAKER_02: Mom's sitting in the passenger seat.
SPEAKER_02: Me and Pam are in the back seat, and Hannah, right?
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
SPEAKER_02: Mom's trying to tell him how to go, and I was like, Don't listen to her.
SPEAKER_02: She's not right.
SPEAKER_02: It's like, and I'm like, you go to the second light, take a left, go to the third light, take a right, go to the four-way stop.
SPEAKER_02: Like, no, man, don't listen to her.
SPEAKER_02: She don't know what she's talking about right now.
SPEAKER_02: Wait, and he's probably over there going, Pam, oh my god.
SPEAKER_02: She's got it coming from both sides.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, she ain't in both ears.
SPEAKER_01: What about you guys uh in an audience?
SPEAKER_01: What do you guys have any stories, or have you guys done this on purpose?
SPEAKER_01: Or unknowingly?
SPEAKER_01: Let us know.
SPEAKER_01: That would be really, really nice to read.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03: Let us know.
SPEAKER_02: I want to know who our diabolical listeners are.
SPEAKER_02: That's true.
SPEAKER_02: That's very true.
SPEAKER_02: Who's out there giving uh directions that are wrong intentionally?
SPEAKER_01: Are you sending somebody three hours the wrong way?
SPEAKER_01: You do that because that's time wasted in a person's life.
SPEAKER_03: Then somebody probably will say, Well, then they need to put it in their GPS then.
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, maybe their phone's dead, or they are in a bad service zone.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that could be true.
SPEAKER_01: Or actually wasting that person's life.
SPEAKER_03: That's funny.
SPEAKER_01: That poor old man from the original poster.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, did he make it home in time?
SPEAKER_01: Did he make it?
SPEAKER_01: He had to go.
SPEAKER_03: Well, she won't know, but I know he won't ask another damn person for directions.
SPEAKER_03: I know that.
SPEAKER_02: Right.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: He probably said, Hell no.
SPEAKER_02: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_02: There's actually a country song called Good Directions.
SPEAKER_02: I can't think of the singer right now, but I'm sure, I'm sure some listeners know.
SPEAKER_02: But anyway, he talks about how he's selling like um turnips on the side of the road, and this girl stops uh you know to ask him for directions, and she's in like a convertible, and you know, she's beautiful and this and that, whatever.
SPEAKER_02: It's a country song, so he sends his he sends her to um instead of giving her directions where she wants to go, he sends her to uh his mom's place down around the corner where she sells uh sweet tea or whatever.
SPEAKER_02: And so she basically um sends um sends them back to you know the guy or whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, it's a cute song, but it kind of reminds me of that.
SPEAKER_02: Any good comments?
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
SPEAKER_02: You Pam, any good comments?
SPEAKER_03: I forgot it went out of that and went into something else.
SPEAKER_03: Hold on.
SPEAKER_03: Oh yes, there are um it says, let's see.
SPEAKER_02: Um thank God for good directions and sweet tea or something like that.
SPEAKER_02: I gotta find the song now.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, we might have to go to the next one because I think I went out of that and listened to the side.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's move on.
SPEAKER_02: Let's move on.
SPEAKER_02: All right, let's go on one more confession.
SPEAKER_02: So um this one is I had a fight with a man in Denmark, or actually, Pam says confession number three.
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: I had a fight with a man in Denmark when I was a tourist there.
SPEAKER_02: Maybe it's the stereo stereotype of the English abroad.
SPEAKER_02: I was over in Denmark drinking and met some amazing local lads over there who showed me the good places to go.
SPEAKER_02: Had a great night and was heading back to the hotel alone when I stupidly crossed a cycle path.
SPEAKER_02: I was drunk and unfamiliar with the road, path, layout, etc.
SPEAKER_02: Someone rode their bike into me and we both fell over.
SPEAKER_02: Uh he was initially calm and then suddenly super angry.
SPEAKER_02: I offered to pay for the damage to his bike and his jacket, and it seemed to make him angrier.
SPEAKER_02: I apologized profusely.
SPEAKER_02: I tried to walk away.
SPEAKER_02: He was off his bike, and at this time, at this time, and then started following me, shouting at me in a mixture of Danish and English.
SPEAKER_02: After some time, I finally had to do something about this as he wasn't go giving up and he was increasing his aggressiveness.
SPEAKER_02: So we started to fight.
SPEAKER_02: As the fight went on, we kind of tumbled into a side courtyard area where I got the best of him and overwhelmed him with some, I must say, absolutely superb body shots.
SPEAKER_02: I would love to see this.
SPEAKER_02: I left him there on the floor, went to my hotel, and haven't told anyone since.
SPEAKER_02: This was about 10 years ago.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my the thought of him having the thought of him having such a shitty night because of me haunts me a bit.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, he was a bit of a dick, but I understand why he would be angry.
SPEAKER_02: If he disliked tourists before, he must have spent the last 10 years hating them.
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
SPEAKER_01: If he remembers all of that in a fight, that's like let them down in the floor.
SPEAKER_02: And that person was angry as hell to fight over directions.
SPEAKER_02: Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER_02: In Denmark, don't they have a lot of weed there?
SPEAKER_02: Like, calm down.
SPEAKER_02: That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_01: I can't relate to this at all.
SPEAKER_03: No, I can't either, because that sounds a bit excessive that you're gonna fight over something like that.
SPEAKER_03: That's crazy.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, it doesn't say who the original poster is, so it's just I'm assuming it's two dudes, you know.
SPEAKER_02: Kind of sounds like two dudes, but or I mean, or some brute ass chick having a fight with a dude.
SPEAKER_01: And left them and left the person there and all that yeah.
SPEAKER_02: Well, hey, we learned in um what our like uh information about the divas that people wouldn't know that used to box.
SPEAKER_02: So this could have been you, you were boxing.
SPEAKER_02: That's funny as hell, right?
SPEAKER_04: Little tidbit of information.
SPEAKER_02: If you're just finding our podcast, you have to go back and listen to some of the old ones to figure out what that comment's about.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02: Well, somebody said, Don't worry about it.
SPEAKER_02: As a Swede, I kind of assume that Danes get into drunken fights with other Danes andor foreigners every week or so.
SPEAKER_02: They do.
SPEAKER_03: I believe it, I believe that.
SPEAKER_02: Over it?
SPEAKER_02: What's the stereotype of Danes in Sweden?
SPEAKER_02: I briefly visited both countries and enjoyed my time there, but not long enough to grasp the nuances.
SPEAKER_02: It says Swedes see Danes as Slavs and alcoholics who are enjoying life far too much.
SPEAKER_02: Hilarious.
SPEAKER_02: I think Danes have a reciprocal view of the Swedes as cringy, lifeless, normy bureaucrats.
SPEAKER_03: Well, um I know some um Swedes because my ex-husband used to work for Swiss Air.
SPEAKER_03: So there are alcoholics.
SPEAKER_03: They wake up in the morning drinking.
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, really?
SPEAKER_03: They have they have wine for breakfast, they have wine for uh after breakfast.
SPEAKER_03: They have they use wine to brush their teeth with.
SPEAKER_03: I mean, for real.
SPEAKER_03: Like they drink, I mean, um that's a bit excessive, but still they drink all the time, and I'm like looking at them like we're gonna have some.
SPEAKER_03: Can't even hold I know I can't even hold my head up, and you're on your like fifth bottle of mine, and I only have three glasses.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, but they drink a lot.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know about fighting, but they drink a lot of things.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have some hate mail.
SPEAKER_02: Well, maybe not.
SPEAKER_02: They I mean, maybe we'll we'll gain some, you know, listeners from other sides of the of the world.
SPEAKER_02: So yes.
SPEAKER_03: Um, I mean, I said I I said that they were my friends, and they were my friends, and I was thinking, y'all all the time.
SPEAKER_01: On that note, some sweets, uh, give us your comments about this topic.
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
SPEAKER_02: This person says the most drunk people we see in Denmark are Swedes, not even.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my uh I've never been to Denmark.
SPEAKER_02: I would love to go sometimes.
SPEAKER_02: So and I've never I've never been to Sweden either.
SPEAKER_02: I'd like to go there too.
SPEAKER_02: So um, and Dansea, Swedes, a stuck up, boring political, correct people who's drinking home brew and can't behave themselves when getting hilarious.
SPEAKER_02: That kind of goes along with what Pam was saying.
SPEAKER_02: Yep.
SPEAKER_02: Crazy.
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_02: This is like this is actually turned into like a lot of back and forth on this confession.
SPEAKER_02: That's funny because a lot of Danes used to look at Swedes as the biggest drunk drunks because they'd witness them coming to Copenhagen to get shit faced.
SPEAKER_02: We used to call it Swedish drunk whenever anyone was drunk out of their mind.
SPEAKER_03: Well, they do drink a lot.
SPEAKER_03: I I can attest for that.
SPEAKER_03: They do drink a lot.
SPEAKER_02: And it says, I mean, if you're in Copenhagen and you see Swedes as drunk as well, they go over here when system Bolligat, I don't know what that means, closes down.
SPEAKER_02: I guess it's an area of maybe a bar or area, closes down and get drunk off their tits.
SPEAKER_02: Partially kidding.
SPEAKER_02: Lots of Sweden work here or come to experience whatever we have they want to experience and are perfectly fine.
SPEAKER_02: But Swedes and Danes teasing each other is a tradition, right?
SPEAKER_03: But the thing about it too is like when you say bike, that's pretty much how their mode of transportation.
SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying they don't have cars, but their mode of transportation in Sweden is a bike.
SPEAKER_01: I noticed that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: I to um go online in Earth Cam and I I go to there and and yeah, everybody's under bike.
SPEAKER_03: Everybody has a bike.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, really?
SPEAKER_02: That's cool.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: This person says, is it cultural?
SPEAKER_02: I do ask myself why he got so aggressive.
SPEAKER_02: It seemed disproportionate.
SPEAKER_02: Initially, he seemed okay as we checked at it initially seemed okay as we checked that we weren't badly injured.
SPEAKER_02: Then as we spoke and I tried to apologize.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, this is from the original poster.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, okay, what?
SPEAKER_02: Sorry.
SPEAKER_02: Original poster, is it cultural?
SPEAKER_02: I do ask myself why he got so aggressive.
SPEAKER_02: It seemed disproportionate.
SPEAKER_02: Initially seemed okay as we checked that we weren't badly injured.
SPEAKER_02: Then as we spoke and I tried to apologize and fix things, his aggression increased to the point where I had to back off and leave him be.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, and I should probably add that this was in Copenhagen.
SPEAKER_02: Hilarious.
SPEAKER_02: Anyway, there's lots more comments on this, but this sounds like a very funny situation.
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, very much.
SPEAKER_02: This person says, This sounds like a messy, drunk misunderstanding that escalated way too far.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, you already did the key part in the moment.
SPEAKER_02: Apologize, offered to pay, and tried to walk away.
SPEAKER_02: Once someone starts following you aggressively, it shifts into self-protection territory, even if the original accident wasn't malicious.
SPEAKER_02: It's pretty normal to replay it years later and feel guilty, but you're also looking at it with a full hindsight and none of the adrenaline context you had then.
SPEAKER_02: He was injured, you were being pursued, and it turned into a fight.
SPEAKER_02: Bad outcome, but not some intentional you ruined his life moment.
SPEAKER_02: Right.
SPEAKER_02: To be honest, the fact that it stuck it with you for 10 years just says you're you've got a conscience, you're not a bad person, and most people would have moved on from something like that a long time ago.
SPEAKER_02: Which is true.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, which is true.
SPEAKER_01: I agree.
SPEAKER_02: And then um the original poster answered again, and uh this is from two days ago, so this is a fresh story.
SPEAKER_02: Honestly, it's not something I think about often.
SPEAKER_02: I actually think about the current World Cup coverage, and it made me remember it when you see fans abroad.
SPEAKER_02: I wonder how he remembers it, and I wonder if he resents the British.
SPEAKER_02: We both acted foolishly that night, I think.
SPEAKER_02: I was drunk, and that's not an excuse, but a partial reason for my behavior.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not sure the other guy was drunk.
SPEAKER_02: Perhaps he was.
SPEAKER_02: I agree that I did try to fix the issue with the resources I had at the time.
SPEAKER_02: I was calm and polite and wanted to pay for anything broken.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, I think at that point where he started to pursue me, this is where things changed into something else.
SPEAKER_02: So I can somewhat justify the action at that point.
SPEAKER_02: I still am left with the feeling that I haven't represented myself very well.
SPEAKER_02: If I saw the guy today, I'd apologize still.
SPEAKER_02: Didn't work last time, but still.
SPEAKER_02: Would you remember what if you were drunk, would you remember what he looked like?
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Like I mean I agree.
SPEAKER_02: Like if somebody's pursuing you and you're you're trying to like deflect the situation, they're still coming at you.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you do have to protect yourself.
SPEAKER_03: So absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02: Anyways, interesting to get some perspective from other countries and other, you know, other um cultural differences of of how they live and stuff and how they perceive things, and so and that was cool to hear hear your story too to confirm the Swedish Yes, the Swedish fun.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_03: I feel like that's one of the reasons why I don't care for wine today.
SPEAKER_03: Like I'll cook with it, but that's one of the reasons because I'm like, are you kidding me?
SPEAKER_03: Another bottle, like there's like there's like six of us sitting at this table here, and it's like 20 bottles.
SPEAKER_03: That's like, come on.
SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
SPEAKER_03: Are you kidding?
SPEAKER_02: I do, I like wine.
SPEAKER_03: Me too.
SPEAKER_03: I don't because of that.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I really don't because I was like this.
SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, my head.
SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02: Well, certain wines will definitely give you a headache, but like when you find wine that you like, like there's a couple like red wines and white wines that I like that like never make me feel bad or whatever.
SPEAKER_02: And I like to have them like while I'm cooking dinner or just as a little unwine when you're hanging out with some friends and stuff.
SPEAKER_03: So I feel like we drank too many, that's why.
SPEAKER_03: And it was the wine a couple of the bottles were the wine that they use for Swiss cheese.
SPEAKER_03: So you know it was a good it was a good bottle because the Swiss cheese didn't curdle or anything, it did, it did its thing and did like a mozzarella type cheese stringy thing.
SPEAKER_03: So weird.
SPEAKER_03: I didn't know they did that.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they they put wine in their cheese with that Swiss cheese.
SPEAKER_03: Like they said, it's like a fondue.
SPEAKER_03: So they use Swiss cheese.
SPEAKER_03: Oh and they put wine in the cheese, and then you have your skewers and your bread, and you dip it, and you're eating your bread while you're drinking wine.
SPEAKER_03: Oh, that kind of sounds good.
SPEAKER_03: 20 bottles of wine.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, wine and cheese is great.
SPEAKER_02: So that kind of sounds very interesting and delicious.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, yeah, but it's 20 bottles of wine.
SPEAKER_03: While you have the wine and the cheese, just over there drinking the wine.
SPEAKER_02: Well, then you don't care because everything tastes good then.
SPEAKER_02: Twenty bottles, yeah.
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
SPEAKER_03: For six people?
SPEAKER_03: Come on.
SPEAKER_03: And everybody's like to me, you don't really know when the Swiss, and I'm not speaking for all Swiss, okay?
SPEAKER_01: This is my friends.
SPEAKER_03: I never really could tell when they were intoxicated while we were all sitting down until they got up.
SPEAKER_03: Until they got up to move, and then you're like, oh shit, what the because everybody's sitting around laughing and joking and talking and da-da-da-da, all across the table.
SPEAKER_03: And we're they sound like a good time to me.
SPEAKER_03: A very good, yes, a very good time.
SPEAKER_03: It was a very good time until you got up to move, and you're like, boom, you're up and then you're back again.
SPEAKER_01: I'll make my spot right there on the couch right where we're sitting.
SPEAKER_01: That'll be right, right there.
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
SPEAKER_03: Funny, hilarious.
SPEAKER_03: Okay, divas.
SPEAKER_03: It looks like it's wrap-up time.
SPEAKER_03: Yes, ma'am.
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SPEAKER_03: You can get a phone call or an email from a distracted diva, and you could it could be for a shirt, a bumper sticker, or something um that Pearl personally makes.
SPEAKER_01: I was just gonna say that because we have a cute keychains.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, very crafty.
SPEAKER_01: Yes, she's a crafty diva.
SPEAKER_02: Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02: And she needs more people to give stuff to.
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SPEAKER_02: Because she makes a lot, and then you know, her friends can only accept so much, so we gotta pass them on.
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