58. Giving you grief, loss, and expensive mistakes
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
GOOD GRIEF! It’s the grief episode. Oh, you wanted laughs this season? Well, you’ll still get that, but with a side of tears. In this week’s episode, Alex and Jon answer your questions on grief and all its different phases. They also discuss expensive pool mistakes and Jon using too many condiments, so see! It’s not all sad! They say the only way to get through grief, is to move with it, so hit play and join Alex and Jon on this journey.
0:00 - Intro
15:24 - How to Support Someone Grieving
35:32 - Comparing Losses
43:53 - How Did You Stay Together?
49:32 - Getting Married Without My Mom
51:55 - I’m Starting to Resent My Friends
58:05 - Different Grieving Processes
01:02:49 - Healing from PTSD
01:06:22 - Being an Influencer and Grief
01:12:02 - Poem Reading
01:12:50 - Recs of the Week
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | You're not supposed to swim in a green pool. |
| 0:05.8 | You're not supposed to drink water out of a hose. |
| 0:07.7 | Like, come on. |
| 0:08.2 | You're going to get a brain-eating amoeba, and I'm going to be a single mom. |
| 0:11.7 | Nothing's getting through this body. |
| 0:13.0 | No, you're either going to turn. |
| 0:14.9 | My body, my temple, my fortress. |
| 0:16.5 | It will be the next season of The Last of Us. |
| 0:23.5 | And welcome back to Give It to Me Straight. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm John. |
| 0:27.9 | And we're your gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious host. |
| 0:33.9 | Happy Tuesday, John. |
| 0:36.8 | Happy Tuesday, my lady. How are you feeling great actually I'm |
| 0:41.2 | might have to take a shit at some point they're not to stop this podcast you knew it that's why you |
| 0:45.4 | were like I feel it's bubbling up I shouldn't have ate right before you didn't eat that much though |
| 0:50.0 | it doesn't matter even stopped yourself a little a lot out. Is that not IBS? |
| 0:55.1 | Like the second that you sniff food, your bowels are like, it's time to take shit. |
| 0:59.7 | I mean, we're eating Indian food. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm like all over the place. |
| 1:01.7 | Did you see what I put together in there? |
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