74. Giving you distant friends, affairs, and seasons of life

Give It To Me Straight

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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Relationship break-ups are tough but friendships break-ups? Those might be worse. In this week’s episode, Alex and Jon tackle friendships head on from being distant with each other to hiding pregnancies. Can’t we all just get along? I guess not anymore. Also, if Jon and Alex seem all over the place today…it’s because they are. Don’t blame them!! It’s Lucy’s fault! That sweet angel baby.

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0:00 - Intro

30:46 - I Didn’t Know My Friend Was Pregnant

33:40 - Self-Obsessed Friend

36:22 - I’m Having An Affair…With My Girlfriend

38:49 - You Can’t Be Slur-ious!

44:45 - Husband’s Best Friend Has A Crush On Me

54:38 - Flirty Coworker

56:53 - Mourning My Friendships

01:01:37 - Why Is My Friend Distant?

01:04:32 - My Friend Wasn’t There After My Still Birth

01:08:17 - Reading Your Secrets

01:10:19 - Recs of the Week

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:03.0	When you have a second or third baby and you have a newborn,
0:07.0	does your toddler annoy the fuck out of you?
0:09.0	Just how a dog does, you know?
0:11.0	Like you've already hung out with that one.
0:13.4	You're old enough to know that this isn't about you.
0:17.4	They're not old enough to know.
0:18.7	Like we have a newborn that we have to it's about them now
0:22.3	and welcome back to give it to me straight
0:30.0	give it to you give it to me straight John are you for real my bad what did I say
0:36.4	give it to you straight is that what you said it's give it to me did I say? Give it to you straight.
0:38.0	Is that what you said? It's give it to me straight. Welcome back to give it to me straight. Oh my God, guys. I'm going to have to put them in home. Are you okay? Welcome back to give it to me straight. Are you having like a moment? Like an out of like, are you having a moment? It's okay. giving it to you straight.
0:54.5	We are.
0:55.2	Why didn't we just give it to you straight?
0:57.3	Does that sound as good? Why would I be saying, give it to me straight? So now you're questioning the whole title of our show that we've had for years. I sound like an asshole saying give it to me straight even though I'm giving it to you straight because people want you to give
1:10.9	a metaphor are you come on now whatever I'm just saying we should change the name so now you're
1:18.1	annoyed at the fact that we chose the title of the show years ago kind of yeah anyway whatever you know
1:26.1	John's deflecting because he doesn't want me to put him in a nursing home. Not too soon. Not yet. Not yet. How are you, John? Well, clearly unwell, but. Oh, yeah. No what I like about this podcast. Tell me. What I like about this podcast is just like. Me. This is, you know, I like this podcast because there's no strings. Like, it does well, it does not do well, like, whatever. We do whatever the fuck we want. But it's just like, it's freeing. Because like, if this doesn't work out, whatever, I'll do something else. That's what I say what I like about this podcast. Like, you know, like your main job, you have your main job. You're like, I can't lose this job. If I lose this job, I'm fucked. The podcast, I'll just do something else. And that's why it does so well because we're just so genuine and not. It's great. So basically what you're saying is like to all of our listeners is that you can take them or leave them. No, no. No, that's not what I'm saying. I love them. It's great. I think what's great about this podcast is like there's no agenda, you know, we're just saying where the fuck we want to say. I don't have like people. Are you just backtracking to try to save face for doing the intro wrong?
2:39.9	No.
2:41.3	Okay.
2:42.2	Moving on.
2:43.0	How is your week?
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