78. Giving you holiday swaps, daddies, and intrusive thoughts
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
There’s nothing better than relaxing into the holiday season…unless you’re around family, of course. In this week’s episode, Alex and Jon deal with holiday drama from petty in-laws to boyfriends that will never become husbands. It would be a holiday miracle if everyone got along during this season but you can’t make everyone happy. Once you accept that the holidays come with drama, you can actually relax into the experience because you can’t have joy without a little bit of sadness.
0:00 - Intro
51:08 - Holiday Swap
52: 17 - I’m Not Going To Thanksgiving
54:45 - Your Boyfriend Isn’t Welcome
56:38 - My Husband’s Family Isn’t Fun
01:00:57 - Do I Need To Get Him A Gift?
01:02:50 - My Sister’s Boyfriend Sucks
01:08:39 - Angry In-Laws
01:11:01 - Reading Your Secrets
01:12:05 - Recs of the Week
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.1 | If your track record's trash, are you surprised that nobody likes the person you're with? |
| 0:10.2 | I think. |
| 0:10.8 | Who's the problem here? |
| 0:12.8 | It's you. |
| 0:18.9 | Hey, welcome back to Give It to Me Straight. |
| 0:22.1 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:22.7 | And I'm John. |
| 0:23.6 | And we're your gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious host. |
| 0:28.5 | Look at us, John. |
| 0:29.9 | Look at us. |
| 0:30.8 | Matching. |
| 0:31.6 | Matching. |
| 0:32.5 | Look at your hair. |
| 0:33.3 | Coffee clothes. |
| 0:34.2 | Your hair. |
| 0:34.8 | You didn't style it today. |
| 0:35.8 | Or put a hat on. |
| 0:36.6 | Your hair is poofy. Do I look like young? Like that young style? Um, I don't know fashion. So this was just like towel dry. Oh, you mean like, does your hair look young? No. I don't think so. I think you'd have to have that like, like, mullet look. |
| 0:55.4 | Oh, honestly, I wish it was young enough to do that. |
| 0:58.9 | Like the mullet, I wish I could rock that. |
| 1:01.0 | I think it's your hair. |
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