85. Giving you mama’s boys, manifesting, and ultimatums
Give It To Me Straight
Dear Media
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
It’s the first episode of 2026! It may be a new year but it seems like all of our problems are still the same. The same clingy mother-in-laws, marriage ultimatums, and fake instagram accounts. But no worries, Alex and Jon are here for all of them. However, for the new year, let’s make a resolution to have new problems! That means more exciting episodes! We’re going into “manifestation mode” for this one.
0:00 - Intro
32:03 - How Do I Put Myself Out There?
35:28 - Moving In with the In-Laws
37:37 - Let’s Manifest!
41:34 - I Have a Low Social Battery
43:33 - I Want To Get Married…Or Else
47:54 - MIL is Obsessed with Her Son
51:59 - Her Ring is Cheap!
59:45 - My BF’s Parent’s Don’t Like Me
01:03:42 - MIL Woes
01:08:03 - To Finsta or Not to Finsta?
01:13:46 - Recs of the Week
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:03.0 | I did have a girl asked to be my girlfriend in college. |
| 0:06.4 | That was almost like a turnoff, which is not fair. |
| 0:09.1 | Really? |
| 0:09.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.6 | I guess because I like the chase. |
| 0:12.1 | I don't like you, John. |
| 0:15.6 | He's so into me now. |
| 0:24.4 | And. me now. And welcome back to Give It to Me Straight. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Alex. |
| 0:27.7 | And I'm John. |
| 0:28.4 | And where you are gracious, gracious, gracious, gracious. |
| 0:34.0 | Get to it, John. |
| 0:35.2 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:36.2 | Happy New Year. Look at your shirt. Is it new? It is no. No, actually, I've had it for a year, but it's been in my closet. I haven't worn it. I'm like, I gotta just. Isn't it crazy that like you can have something in your closet for, and never wear it for years and months? Because you have your comfy clothes. You know, we don't really go anywhere. |
| 0:56.2 | So it's like I'm in the same pair of sweatpants all day, every day. |
| 0:59.5 | I know. |
| 0:59.9 | Paint crocs and sweatpants. |
| 1:02.2 | I think that's like one of the saddest parts when you do work from home is that you don't |
| 1:09.2 | like get to wear any of your wardrobe like if I went to an office |
| 1:12.8 | to work like the fun part would be putting on a new outfit but maybe that would get tired |
| 1:17.9 | I didn't have that either because I wore scrubs so I wore the same thing every fucking day yeah but |
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