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00:00:56.860 okay so today i'll be delivering some uh sage advice or at least at least reasonably defensible

00:01:04.260 advice to some lost souls the uh the most hopelessly lost souls imaginable who are the

00:01:09.680 ones on reddit so we'll go through a couple of these from these are from various reddit forums

00:01:14.920 am i for not feeling anything when my girlfriend cries i 26 male have been dating my girlfriend 25

00:01:22.340 female for a little over three years now during the last two years she's been going through a

00:01:25.800 rough time mentally, has had quite a few problems regarding her education. Because of this, she's 0.92

00:01:30.240 been very emotionally unstable, which includes her crying about anything and everything. She would

00:01:34.340 cry even if even the smallest thing didn't go according to her plan and act irrationally about

00:01:39.160 a lot of things. In the beginning, I tried to be as supportive as possible, talk over the things

00:01:42.740 with her, try to understand her side of it. I would cuddle her for hours until she felt better

00:01:48.240 and then repeat the same routine day in and day out for many, many months. Dear God. It's been

00:01:54.520 about two years of this now where I've tried to push her into talking about it with psychiatrists

00:01:58.260 which she adamantly agreed to but stopped every single visit which she didn't feel a good connection

00:02:03.020 with that person which I think is totally valid but now I'm having a hard time getting her to

00:02:07.580 find another one since she doesn't believe that she can find someone who would actually try to

00:02:11.960 help her. I'm starting to feel numb when she cries because it's been happening so often about things

00:02:16.100 I have such a hard time relating to. I feel so for this and I wish that this wasn't the case

00:02:20.000 but I'm starting to just feel annoyed whenever she cries over the smallest thing that most people

00:02:24.660 would just shrug their shoulders over. Really love her. And I don't want to end up possibly

00:02:28.280 resenting her for this behavior, but I really don't know what to do. I feel so horrible with,

00:02:32.400 with how my mind thinks about the current situation. Uh, so in my, I mean, you are

00:02:38.480 for, for continuing to date this, uh, this person, I don't mean to spoil the ending here, 0.99

00:02:45.200 but the obvious answer is that you should break up with this crazy broad. You're only dating her. 0.60

00:02:49.440 you have no commitment to her you don't owe her anything your relationship is barely even real

00:02:55.060 so just break up with her like if you're just dating someone it's barely real you're not engaged

00:03:01.260 and you're not married it barely exists it's that's why you're not supposed to date for very

00:03:05.560 long you date for a short amount of time and then you get engaged and then it's more real

00:03:09.700 and then you get married and now it's very real but before that it's hardly even real like it's

00:03:15.800 It's trivial, actually.

00:03:18.760 Dating is a trivial thing.

00:03:20.220 You want to graduate to something that's not trivial.

00:03:22.240 But you're in the trivial stage right now.

00:03:24.020 So the answer to a situation, I'm dating someone and they're behaving horribly and they make me feel terrible to be around them.

00:03:33.620 What should I do?

00:03:35.000 Break up with them?

00:03:36.040 What do you mean, what should you do?

00:03:37.840 Obviously break up with them?

00:03:38.980 What is there to even think about?

00:03:40.220 Now, as to the specifics of the situation, which are academic because you should just break up with her.

00:03:45.800 But people who are having a tough time mentally and let everyone around them know about it

00:03:49.840 by having meltdowns and crying and, you know, making everything about themselves,

00:03:55.800 those people are what is known as narcissistic.

00:03:59.280 And she is doing what narcissistic do, which is making herself the main character 1.00

00:04:04.840 and then using manipulation and emotional blackmail against you if you dare say anything about it, 0.99

00:04:09.720 or even if you simply fail to react exactly as she prefers.

00:04:15.800 So you feel bad for having a very human, normal reaction to all of this.

00:04:21.760 And the human, normal reaction is to be annoyed.

00:04:26.260 Of course you're annoyed.

00:04:27.620 It's annoying to be around someone who's constantly crying and whining and complaining and carrying on.

00:04:33.220 Here's the thing.

00:04:33.680 Even if on paper you're with someone who has a valid reason to cry and whine and complain, it still gets annoying after a while. 0.99

00:04:44.420 But your girlfriend doesn't have any valid reason. So it's doubly annoying. I mean, think of it this

00:04:50.060 way. What if your girlfriend got into a car accident and lost her leg? Well, that's a very

00:04:57.860 valid, very good reason to be upset. Anyone would be. I'd be upset if I lost my leg. You would be

00:05:03.120 upset. Anybody would be upset. But even then, if for months or even years, every time you were

00:05:10.500 around her. Every day she complained about having one leg. If every occasion had the joy sucked out

00:05:19.240 of it because she's constantly reminding you about her missing leg, if she was constantly using it

00:05:27.120 to gain pity, then even then, after a while and not that long, to be honest, it would get to be

00:05:33.840 too much. You would be frustrated, even though it's a serious complaint. It's an understandable

00:05:39.120 complaint. But even then, after a while, you would say, okay, I get it. Like, no, I get that you lost

00:05:45.020 a leg. It does suck. I understand. But we have to live our lives now. I mean, not every single 0.99

00:05:50.860 second of the day can be about that. I'm sorry. You're not the only person who exists in the

00:05:55.600 world. You're not. So then what do you say about people who take burdens that are incredibly light

00:06:03.360 by comparison, which is what so many people do these days? Of course, take these burdens that

00:06:07.960 are like almost non-existent and exaggerate them and then make those exaggerated burdens

00:06:15.140 into everybody else's real burden, right?

00:06:20.160 What do you say about those people?

00:06:22.900 Well, what we say is that, or what we should say is not even that, oh, you should see a

00:06:29.220 therapist, you should see a psychiatrist.

00:06:31.040 That's the other problem.

00:06:31.800 You see all these relationship problems people have, they always say this, that, well, I've

00:06:37.800 recommended they go see a therapist. I got news for you. That's probably not going to do anything.

00:06:42.980 Okay. Therapists and psychiatrists are not these like magical witch doctors who can sprinkle fairy

00:06:48.820 dust over a person and make them not narcissistic anymore. In fact, it works the opposite way.

00:06:53.880 Most of the time, your girlfriend's problem is that she only thinks about herself.

00:06:58.620 She only talks about her problems. That's all she cares about. She's not alone in this. There's like 0.74

00:07:03.240 millions of people in the world who are like this well going to a place where you're paying someone 1.00

00:07:09.160 to just listen to you drone on about your bullshit problems for an hour every week 0.99

00:07:13.720 that is just feeding the beast that's you doing more of the thing you should not be doing anymore 1.00

00:07:19.680 so that's not gonna that's not gonna solve the problem uh she has a character defect

00:07:26.100 she is morally defective people like this are bad people it's not just oh she's struggling 1.00

00:07:33.680 with mental health no she's actually a bad person she's a selfish narcissistic bad person 1.00

00:07:38.940 and uh and so you should just break up with her okay and leave her to sort her own problems out 0.97

00:07:46.280 people like that like eventually you just have to be people who are aggressively selfish and

00:07:52.480 alienate everybody around them. If there's any hope for them, the only hope is that they end up

00:07:59.280 alone and nobody wants anything to do with them. And maybe that's their wake up call. If you act

00:08:05.360 that way, you don't deserve to have a boyfriend or a husband or a friend. You don't deserve to

00:08:09.600 have anybody in your life. You're a horrible person. Nobody wants to be around you. So you 1.00

00:08:13.980 should just end up alone and miserable. And maybe then it'll be a wake up call. You'll improve. And 0.99

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00:09:32.860 Am I the a**hole for telling a kid at the sleepover to stop acting like a brat? 0.73

00:09:37.960 My son had a sleepover on Sunday. 0.94

00:09:39.780 It was him and three of his friends.

00:09:41.120 My wife's out of town, so breakfast Monday morning was me, the four of them, and my daughter.

00:09:45.600 your wife's out of town and you need to sleep over that that's why would you do that to yourself

00:09:51.640 why would you do it your wife's out of town and you're having all these kids over that you have 0.80

00:09:56.100 to why would you why would you do your wife's out of town and you're adding more kids into the mix 0.99

00:10:00.880 for you to take care of why would you do that why would you ever do that uh i did not want to make

00:10:07.480 breakfast for six people so i ordered a catering box from a breakfast place the night before it

00:10:12.000 It came with 12 bagels, three types of cream cheese, butter and sliced onions, cucumbers and

00:10:17.460 tomatoes. I figured that was plenty of food for six people. Monday morning, I picked up the box.

00:10:21.980 I had selected to get six plain, three onion, three everything bagels. Okay, who cares what

00:10:25.900 breakfast order. When the boys came down, one of my son's friends asked why there weren't any more

00:10:31.060 sesame bagels. I said there was only one that had gone to the daughter, apparently. He asked why she

00:10:37.100 got it. I said because she came downstairs first. He said that wasn't fair. I said there are plenty

00:10:41.240 bagels, just take one. He asked why I only ordered one sesame bagel. I said, I didn't.

00:10:45.140 It was extra. He asked why I didn't order any. And I said, I didn't realize they were

00:10:50.020 so popular. This kid kept going on and on about how he wanted a sesame bagel. And it

00:10:53.320 wasn't fair that my daughter got one and he didn't since he's a guest. At this point,

00:10:56.740 my daughter is already eating the bagel. So it's a theoretical conversation now. I said

00:11:00.920 to the kid, just pick a bagel. He said he didn't want a plain onion or everything bagel.

00:11:04.500 I said a plain bagel is just a sesame bagel. Oh my gosh, this goes on forever. I told the

00:11:09.900 kid to stop acting like a brat and eat a bagel or go to school without breakfast. He said I had to

00:11:14.480 feed him and I can't call him a brat. I said I have fed him. I can't make him eat. And so then

00:11:20.540 fast forward after pickup that day, his mom called to get my side of the story. I told her what

00:11:24.580 happened and she said she couldn't believe I called her kid a brat and let him go to school

00:11:28.080 hungry. She said I should have ordered enough food for everybody. There's plenty of food. There

00:11:32.380 were four bagels left over after breakfast. Okay. All right. So you get the point. Am I the

00:11:37.500 or is this kid a brat?

00:11:40.280 So this is one of those stories that's so outrageous

00:11:41.880 that you'd like to think it's fake.

00:11:45.020 I mean, this is Reddit after all.

00:11:46.860 But if you know anything about parents these days

00:11:48.880 and kids these days,

00:11:49.820 there's nothing implausible about it.

00:11:51.900 I mean, it's totally,

00:11:53.300 I mean, this kind of scenario plays out

00:11:55.460 millions of times a day all across the country.

00:11:57.120 So let's assume for the sake of discussion,

00:11:59.680 this is real.

00:12:00.760 So you have a kid,

00:12:02.940 your son's friend sleeping over to your house.

00:12:05.360 You go out and get breakfast for everybody. The kid complains, demands better options, complains that your daughter ate the only bagel that he wanted.

00:12:14.820 And then later the brat's mother takes her brat's side and lectures you for being so rude to her brat.

00:12:23.060 And this is kind of interesting, actually, because it shows the other side of the coin that people don't think about.

00:12:30.100 Like parents today get very worried about letting their kid hang out at someone at another kid's house or especially sleep over at another kid's house.

00:12:39.000 And many of those concerns are legitimate.

00:12:41.180 And I share them.

00:12:42.920 Parents today are much more reluctant, much more to drop their kid off at another kid's house, especially overnight, but really for any length of time.

00:12:54.560 And like I said, many of those concerns are legitimate.

00:12:58.100 At the same time, your kid needs to have friends, and he also needs to develop some independence. At a certain point, you need to be able to drop your child off somewhere, unless you plan to be his on-the-scene chaperone 24 hours a day until he's 18, which would be insane. So there has to be a balance.

00:13:19.180 But as we see here, there's also a hazard to having other people's kids over at your house.

00:13:25.980 You might think, well, the safer thing, I don't want to bring my kid to someone else's house.

00:13:30.340 I don't know what's going on in that house. I don't know the parents well enough. Okay.

00:13:33.920 I'll just have the kids over here. And so that's safer. At least I can keep an eye on things.

00:13:39.040 And yeah, but the problem is that now you've been put in the role of guardian,

00:13:44.980 the authority figure for these kids, these other kids, these, you know, strangers, kids

00:13:54.020 who might not have parents who raised them to respect authority figures. And if you have to

00:14:00.620 speak a little sternly to someone else's precious little snowflake, then you're going to have to

00:14:05.960 deal with that snowflake's snowflake parents. And of course, teachers deal with this every single 0.97

00:14:12.320 day. Now, of course, if the kid has good parents, then there's nothing to worry about because the

00:14:18.200 instinct of a good parent is to take the side of the other adult in a situation like this.

00:14:26.320 It is not to take your own child's side. This should be something that shouldn't need to be

00:14:31.320 said, but it does. It should be obvious. But as a good parent, you do not take your child's side

00:14:39.680 all the time. In fact, very often you don't take their side at all, especially with something like

00:14:44.660 this. Like when I was a kid, if I had, you know, come home from a sleepover and told my parents

00:14:51.180 that my friend's dad called me a brat, my parents would not have said, well, how could he say that

00:14:59.600 about you? He said that about you. You're a perfect little child. How could, no, the first

00:15:05.360 thing they would say is, what the hell did you do? What did you do that to be called a brat? 0.97

00:15:13.500 What were you doing over there that warranted, that provoked that, that comment?

00:15:21.000 And I'd be the same way with my kids. If my kids came home and they were at, you know,

00:15:26.540 they were at someone's house and they had some, some, a guardian and they had an interaction like

00:15:31.600 that my first reaction would be, what did you do? What did you do? Now, of course, my kids

00:15:37.620 wouldn't be called brats by other adults because they know very well that when they are guests in

00:15:42.820 someone else's house or when some other adult is temporarily in charge of them in some capacity,

00:15:48.440 they damn well better behave themselves and be nothing but polite and respectful. They better

00:15:53.360 be better for that other adult than they are for us. If I found out that my son complained,

00:15:59.600 complained about a meal that someone served him when he was a guest in their house,

00:16:08.120 complained about it, it would be the worst mistake of his life. I cannot imagine that.

00:16:15.140 Having a child who would complain, you're being served a meal in someone's house and you complain

00:16:20.160 about it. I don't care what the meal is. This is one of the golden rules of childhood, at least

00:16:27.000 it's supposed to be.

00:16:27.760 This is one of the basic litmus tests.

00:16:31.660 Were you raised well?

00:16:34.800 Basic litmus test.

00:16:36.000 How do you behave

00:16:37.100 when you're at a table

00:16:38.320 in someone else's house

00:16:39.860 as a guest

00:16:41.160 and they serve you food?

00:16:44.920 I remember I was a kid

00:16:46.400 and I was staying at someone's house.

00:16:49.520 I don't remember who.

00:16:52.120 And I'll never forget

00:16:53.580 breakfast

00:16:55.180 and they served

00:16:56.520 scrambled eggs that I swear to you, it tasted like dog meat. To this day, I think they may

00:17:05.240 have served dog. I don't know what dogs taste like. I ate these scrambled eggs. I don't know

00:17:10.460 if the eggs were rotten. I don't know if they were trying to poison me. I didn't know scrambled

00:17:14.920 eggs could taste like that. I mean, scrambled eggs are kind of like, there's not a lot of

00:17:20.420 variation in how they taste. These were rancid. They were rancid, rancid scrambled eggs.

00:17:26.520 it really did taste, it tastes like a wet dog. Like, did they kill a dog and put them in the

00:17:30.840 eggs? I could barely stomach it, but you know what? I ate the whole damn plate because I knew

00:17:37.440 well, I knew if I didn't eat it, if I refused it, if I threw it away and that got back to my 0.99

00:17:43.500 parents, I was in trouble. So I ate the whole damn thing. And that's the attitude that your 0.98

00:17:49.880 kids should have. So anyway, no, you aren't the kid was acting like a brat and that's what you

00:17:57.240 called him. You know, I, some kids need to be called brats. Like there are kids that are brats 0.86

00:18:01.240 and somebody just tell them you're a brat. You're a brat. You need to shut up. Shut up. You little 1.00

00:18:05.700 brat. Somebody needs to say it. If you've, if your kid has gotten to a point where other adults 1.00

00:18:13.480 need to tell him to be, that he's a brat, then you have failed. You have failed as a parent.

00:18:18.360 You should be ashamed.

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00:21:05.360 All right. Finally, my girlfriend slept with her celebrity crush. 1.00

00:21:11.140 I'm still in shock. I'm heartbroken. My girlfriend and I have been dating for four years. We lived

00:21:15.380 together. During that time, she's been obsessed with a very minor YouTube musician. He has a few

00:21:21.220 videos with a couple million views and a small following. During our entire relationship, she

00:21:25.780 has always claimed that he was her exception. I always assumed it was a joke. I'd fire right back

00:21:30.620 with my celebrity crush we went on tour and played in the city near us at a small venue she went with

00:21:36.120 a co-worker to see him after the concert she didn't come home that night or answer my texts

00:21:39.640 i assume she slept over the co-workers co-workers since she lives closer to the venue she came home 0.70

00:21:44.600 the next morning and didn't talk about the concert much i asked questions got vague answers

00:21:48.200 later that day she broke the news she said it with a smile on her face as though i was going

00:21:54.280 to be happy and excited for her. I'm heartbroken. I was yelling. We were both crying. She said she

00:22:00.460 didn't know how I'd react, but she didn't think it would be this extreme. She said, I always knew

00:22:05.520 he was her exception. I didn't think she was serious. I'm currently staying in a motel and

00:22:10.860 I don't know what to do. I love her so much, but I can't think about her without thinking about what

00:22:14.520 she did. She has tainted my memory of her. I cannot help but think that she clearly does not

00:22:19.400 love me unconditionally. Oh, you think? My girlfriend went out and had sex with this guy.

00:22:23.940 I can't help but think she might not love. I can't. I know it's a crazy thought, but she might 0.90

00:22:28.460 not love me unconditionally. I can't help. I have this sneaking suspicion. Okay, well, you know what

00:22:34.560 my answer is. We already covered it, but break up. Time to break up. Do not pass go. Do not collect

00:22:39.780 $200. Go straight to breaking up. Easy call. Nothing to think about. Nothing to weigh. The

00:22:46.160 only complicating factor is that you live together, which is a retarded decision. This is why you 1.00

00:22:52.380 shouldn't be playing house. Like people think it's old fashioned when I say, or someone says,

00:22:58.960 you know, you shouldn't live together before marriage. You shouldn't cohabitate before marriage

00:23:02.820 and you can go out old fashioned all you want. I mean, I don't take that as an insult, but

00:23:07.340 and it is in a sense, and I'll happily admit that it's also just even taking the morality out of it

00:23:16.160 which we really can't do. It's just, it's a, it's a, practically speaking, it's a bad strategy.

00:23:23.140 Okay. You guys have made no commitment to each other at all. You aren't married. You've exchanged

00:23:29.700 no vows. You're not actually tied to each other in any way. And yet you live together. You have

00:23:38.820 a place that you share, that you call home. I mean, why? If you didn't live together and this

00:23:45.180 happened then breaking up would be a lot easier like you wouldn't have to ever see her again you

00:23:50.520 could just break up over the you could send her a text message and that'd be it but now you share

00:23:56.740 a place you have to move out you're at a motel you're at no that's what should happen when you're

00:24:02.340 45 years old and there's an affair like there's an affair and you're married and now you're at a motel

00:24:08.200 but you are well we didn't get the age but you're not even married and you're at a motel now

00:24:17.620 and the worst part is even though the woman you're with uh who you live with was all was

00:24:26.920 out all night having sex with some other guy she did not actually have an affair i mean it feels

00:24:33.680 like she did, but she didn't because you aren't married. She actually has not made any binding

00:24:40.660 promises to you at all. There is no vow being broken. There's no family being betrayed. It was

00:24:47.060 still wrong what she did, obviously, but she didn't violate an oath or break a vow because

00:24:54.020 there wasn't one to break, which is why you shouldn't be living together, which is why you

00:25:00.380 shouldn't be with someone and dating them for four years to begin with, and you certainly shouldn't

00:25:05.200 be moving in with, that is classic putting the cart before the horse scenario. And also for the

00:25:11.780 record, this is why I've never been on board with the whole celebrity crush thing. You know, even

00:25:16.180 married people, you hear married people sometimes talk about, oh, it's my celebrity crush. And I

00:25:22.480 guess you're supposed to be like jealous and possessive if you have a problem with that. But

00:25:27.800 even though in the context of a marriage

00:25:31.160 there's actually nothing wrong with

00:25:33.000 you should

00:25:34.140 in a sense

00:25:37.160 possessiveness, you both belong

00:25:39.400 to each other in a very real sense

00:25:41.540 so there is a possessiveness that should

00:25:43.420 be part of that

00:25:44.760 and yeah, I mean you shouldn't

00:25:47.480 have crushes on other people when you're married

00:25:49.340 like it doesn't matter

00:25:51.460 if they're famous or not

00:25:52.540 and they weren't married in this case but the point

00:25:55.460 still stands

00:25:56.100 because the idea that a crush is okay, as long as the person is famous, it's like,

00:26:01.400 I've never understood that. So if your wife comes to you and says, oh, I have a crush on,

00:26:06.800 my celebrity crush is, I don't know, who's a typical male celebrity that women would find

00:26:12.780 attractive these days? I don't, I don't even know. Brad, I was going to say Brad Pitt,

00:26:18.120 but is it still Brad Pitt? Brad Pitt was 30 years ago. Is there not like a new Brad Pitt?

00:26:23.400 I guess there isn't. I mean, it's a whole other topic, but Timothy Chalamet, is it him?

00:26:28.740 I don't think so. Who's the new Brad Pitt? Like 30 years ago, it was like, oh, you know,

00:26:34.280 like the stereotypical attractive male celebrity would have been just Brad Pitt. And now 30 years

00:26:38.760 later, it's still Brad Pitt. That's kind of tells you something about Hollywood. Anyway. Okay. So

00:26:43.720 your wife comes up to you and says, my celebrity crush is Brad Pitt. And you're supposed to be

00:26:48.400 okay with that? No, that's emasculating. That's like a betrayal. It really is. And if you think

00:27:00.060 that I'm being ridiculous, well, what if she came to you and said, you know, my crush is my fitness 0.99

00:27:04.920 instructor, which your first problem was allowing your wife to have a male fitness instructor.

00:27:12.880 I think affairs happen in that scenario, like 97% of the time, I think statistically. I don't

00:27:18.340 have the stats in front of me. I think not, I think when a, when a married woman has a male 0.92

00:27:23.100 fitness instructor, 97% of the time they're having an affair and the other 3% there, the affair just

00:27:29.920 hasn't started yet. But anyway, so if she said that you would be understandably upset, even if

00:27:37.480 she said, Oh no, I would never do anything. I just mean it in like a silly way. No, that would

00:27:43.440 be a crisis in your marriage, right? It would be a crisis. But if she says some famous person,

00:27:49.500 it's supposed to be okay. I don't get it. Um, having a crush is, um, you know, what does that

00:27:57.380 mean? I mean, it's not just like objectively observing the fact that somebody is physically

00:28:01.700 attractive. It's not just that crush means that there's a certain kind of, um, you're pining,

00:28:08.240 You're pining after this person. There's a certain kind of emotional attachment to this

00:28:15.220 person. That's what a crush is. And as a married person, you should not be pining after anyone

00:28:21.700 who's not your spouse. And actually it is in your control. It's actually very easy to not develop

00:28:29.020 crushes. Like what are you, 15 anyway? What are you, a grown person with a crush? What even is

00:28:36.000 that. You're a grown married person with a crush, especially it's like, even if anything,

00:28:40.440 it's even worse that it's a celebrity because it's so ridiculous. Anyway. Um, so that shouldn't 0.99

00:28:47.960 happen. But, uh, in this case, um, you guys aren't even married. So, you know, in this case,

00:28:54.580 like you're not even married. So for her to have a romantic attraction to other people is, 0.54

00:29:01.320 you know, it's like, it kind of comes with the territory. Like when you're, when you're just

00:29:06.940 dating, you haven't made the commitment yet. So you're, you're by the very fact that you're only

00:29:11.540 dating means that you're still keeping your options open. It means you're not making the

00:29:16.000 commitment. You're still sort of in the job interview process. The dating process is supposed

00:29:20.440 to be a job interview, but, but the job interview should not last for 15 years. The job interview

00:29:27.960 should be a short period of time

00:29:29.500 and then you both say to each other,

00:29:31.520 hey, you got the job

00:29:32.380 and then you go get married.

00:29:34.140 But while you're in the job interview process,

00:29:37.220 yeah, you know,

00:29:38.160 you're kind of keeping your eye around

00:29:40.040 for other jobs that might be better.

00:29:42.800 And you can't really be that mad

00:29:44.560 at someone for doing that

00:29:45.760 until the commitment has been made,

00:29:49.120 which it hasn't been made here.

00:29:51.880 So just break up.

00:29:54.400 There you go.

00:29:56.200 That's the happy ending.

00:29:57.960 And we'll leave it there.

00:30:02.700 I don't know, man.

00:30:03.880 It just seems like you've been off lately.

00:30:07.220 Everything all right?

00:30:10.080 I'm fine.

00:30:18.200 That awkward silence?

00:30:19.840 That's the sound of a missed opportunity. 0.92

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 08, 2026

She Slept With Her Celebrity Crush？! Uncovering Reddit's Worst Horror Stories

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