77. Giving you sleep deprivation, wedding drama, and confessions
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
How do you confront your MIL? How do you back out of a wedding? How do you sleep with a newborn? These are questions that Jon and Alex try to answer on this week’s episode. With little to no sleep, our new parents tackle wedding woes, passive-aggressive mother-in-laws, and a cake story that will might make you never trust a bakery again. But on a brighter note, Koby is in physical therapy! So the gang is doing alright…they could just use more sleep.
0:00 - Intro
34:36 - Do I Get Them A Gift?
39:28 - We Caught Her Stealing!
42:47 - GBF Wedding
44:25 - My Friend Confessed His Love For Me
47:47 - I Need To Back Out of a Wedding
50:31 - How Do I Uninvite a Bridesmaid?
55:09 - My Best Friend’s Third Wedding
01:02:18 - My MIL Wore White To My Wedding
01:08:11 - Reading Your Secrets
01:09:17 - Recs of the Week
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| 0:38.5 | A lope, shut up. |
| 0:39.7 | You're on your third wedding. |
| 0:40.9 | Don't be asking fucking people to come be part of your party and do this and do that. |
| 0:46.3 | Go to the courthouse, get married. |
| 0:48.2 | Best of fucking luck and fuck off. |
| 0:51.6 | Why do you need to have some wedding for your third wedding? |
| 0:55.3 | This is it. |
| 0:56.4 | This is the one. |
| 0:57.6 | This is the one that's going to really change my life. |
| 1:05.5 | And welcome back to give it to me straight. |
| 1:08.6 | We have to hold hands so that we remember. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Alex and she's John and we're your gracious, gracious host. |
| 1:16.7 | You know how I know how we're so sleep deprived? |
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