43. Giving you mother-in-laws, affairs, and crowd surfing
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Mother-in-laws are like your husband’s ex-girlfriend who won’t leave him alone. This week, Alex and Jon discuss MIL relationships, workplace affairs, and husbands being TOO helpful? Is that possible? Jon even recounts a story from his music festivals days and crowd surfing. Let’s just say if Jon could go back and relive his glory days…he wouldn’t.
0:00 – Intro
7:37 – Do You Clean Together?
10:23 – How To De-escalate An Argument
13:03 – Is My Friend “Mothering” Me?
16:02 – Leaving Your Dog Behind
18:55 – My Husband Is Almost Too Helpful
24:05 – What Does My MIL Really Need?
29:22 – Yeah, You ARE The Asshole
38:29 – Your BF Needs AA
42:44 – My Boss Is Having An Affair
48:39 – Monster In Law
55:17 – What Are You Over?
57:47 – Listener Review
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| 0:00.0 | I actually saw a Tik-Toc the other day where this couple was like when we get into heated arguments like we have to wear party hats and so it's hard |
| 0:10.4 | That's actually a great idea so they put on like their argument party hats |
| 0:14.5 | and try to have a conversation with each other, |
| 0:17.1 | but it's like so hard to stay angry |
| 0:19.5 | when you're both wearing party hats. And welcome back to you to be straight. |
| 0:27.0 | And I am John and we're your gracious gracious host. I don't know why I'm looking in |
| 0:35.9 | your mic when I say it because it's not like it's not my mic. That's all my mic. |
| 0:38.4 | All right sorry your camera because it doesn't see me anyways. Oh that's true I forgot that it doesn't see me anyways. Oh, that's true. I forgot that it doesn't see you at all. |
| 0:44.4 | Okay. |
| 0:45.4 | What's up? |
| 0:46.4 | How you doing? |
| 0:47.4 | I'm so great. |
| 0:48.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:49.4 | Are you having a party by yourself? |
| 0:51.0 | I am. I'm having a beer party and I'm having a seltzer party. |
| 0:53.4 | Okay, good for you, I'm happy for you. |
| 0:55.7 | Whatever is gonna get me through this podcast, you know what I'm saying? |
| 0:58.0 | Anyways, I feel like last episode we didn't talk at all about our updates like what we were going through in life. |
| 1:07.4 | I don't remember. |
| 1:08.8 | I know. |
| 1:09.8 | It's like as weeks go by you just kind of forget what you do? |
| 1:13.3 | I mean most of the time we're literally just in our house. |
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