65. Giving you gifts, shared bank accounts, and loser husbands
Give It To Me Straight
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What should you get your best friend for their birthday? According to Jon: Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. In today’s episode, we’re talking MONEY, HONEY and the expectations surrounding gift giving. Jon gets pretty heated in this one, so you may want to lower the volume on your speakers. If you take one thing from this episode, it’s this: Do not buy Jon gifts. Ever. Alex will gladly accept though!
0:00 - Intro
28:32 - How Do I Make More Money?
31:21 - I’m Buying a House, Not Your Friendship
33:46 - Do I Need to Bring a Birthday Gift?
40:28 - My Groomsman Ditched My Wedding
43:28 - My Mom Runs My Finances
47:26 - My Presence Is The Wedding Present
58: 23 - My Husband Has Major Debt
01:01:33 - I Want Access to My Husband’s Bank Account
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | I think gifts overall are stupid. |
| 0:04.9 | The parents should get the kid a gift. |
| 0:07.5 | That's it until they're like 18. |
| 0:09.3 | Then no more gifts. |
| 0:10.5 | But this is for a wedding. |
| 0:12.0 | Fuck gifts. |
| 0:13.0 | It's just like because everyone's threshold is different. |
| 0:16.1 | Gifts make people feel like shit. |
| 0:17.6 | I don't think so. |
| 0:18.6 | I think that if like it's coming from the goodness of your |
| 0:21.0 | heart and you want to give so funny. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey, welcome back to Give it to me straight. I'm Alex and I'm John and where you are |
| 0:34.2 | gracious gracious gracious gracious. Gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious. |
| 0:38.1 | Gracious house. |
| 0:41.3 | Yay, how's your day? |
| 0:43.2 | How's your day? |
| 0:45.0 | How's your week been? |
| 0:45.9 | It's been busy. |
| 0:48.7 | We're just busy people. |
| 0:50.5 | I think because we're in crunch time right now. |
| 1:13.9 | And it only hit me, I think, like a week ago where I was like, whoa. We don't have anything. Well, no. A crib. That's, it's really just a bass in that. It's not a crib. No, that's a crib. It says baby Bjorn crib. Right. But that's about all we have. That's like a mobile crib. I guess my dad, he's building a custom, what is that called? Changing table. Changing table. Is he going to put like guards up? Yes, he is. He said that because I was like, no, I should be fine. He's like, I'm going to add some rails. My dad was asking about it. I was like, I have no idea. I don't know what it's going to look like. It's got like legs in a drawer. I mean, I ordered the handles for it, which are pretty. |
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