My friend became financially RELIANT on me… I had to cut him off! - r/BestofRedditorUpdates | Reddit Stories | EP2142
ok storytime
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
🎁 Become a member and get bonus livestreams on Mondays & Fridays!
👉 https://www.youtube.com/@OKOPShow/join
👯♂️ Hang out with us on Discord!
👉 [discord.gg/okstorytime](http://discord.gg/okstorytime)
✍️ Have a story? Join our subreddit and submit your story there for a chance to be featured!
👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/okstorytime/
🏆 Want ad free podcast episodes? Join our Patreon
👉 https://www.patreon.com/okopshow
👀 Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OKOPShow
00:00 r/charlottedobreyoutube - AITA for cutting out my best friend of 20 years and leaving him and his family homeless mid-winter?
24:15 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - AITA for not going on vacation with my friend and her kids?36:18 r/charlottedobreyoutube - AITA for telling my fiancé that I would sooner leave him than move with his family AGAIN?
57:43 r/okstorytime - I don't understand why my BF reached out to a "friend" who really let hem down.
Note: stories are sometimes abbreviated
#reddit #funnyredditposts
okay storytime, okstorytime, okopshow, okop show
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. |
| 0:00.9 | This is Sam. |
| 0:01.5 | Your OG OK Storytime podcast hosts. |
| 0:03.6 | We have some great stories coming up. |
| 0:05.5 | But before that, we have a quick two-minute break from the sponsors that keep the show alive. |
| 0:08.7 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:13.4 | My friend became financially reliant on me and so I cut him off. |
| 0:18.0 | Cut him off. |
| 0:19.4 | So I 30 male met my best friend, 31 male when we were both in a summer care program as kids ages 8 and 9. |
| 0:26.9 | Aw. |
| 0:27.4 | We'll call him Kevin. |
| 0:28.4 | We bonded through mutual interest, cartoons, video games, etc. |
| 0:31.9 | And became thick as thieves over the years. |
| 0:34.6 | When his father passed away a few years later, oh, I made sure to check on him multiple times a day for weeks because I knew he was devastated. I considered him to be like a brother to me. By the way, this comes from Hephaestus 1717 on the R-slash-OK Storytime Sub-R-R-Soddust. So fast forward to the end of high school. And Kevin is struggling to find a career path to pursue while everyone else is preparing to leave for college or finalizing plans for trade school and military service. By the time I'm in college, he finally has a part-time job at a local mechanics and is still living with his mother. I know that living with your parents is nothing to be ashamed of. I lived with mine all through college as a commuter student, but it seemed that Kevin wasn't trying. I'd seen Kevin and his mom fighting over this very issue, like about moving out of the house. |
| 1:14.6 | When I started dating my girlfriend in college, contact between me and Kevin began to dissipate. |
| 1:20.4 | Due in part to a combination of my increased school schedule, work, schedule, and dating life, part of losing touch was also due to his asking multiple questions about my girlfriend |
| 1:29.8 | and our relationship that were pretty intrusive and borderline and appropriates. |
| 1:35.2 | Not cool, Kevin. |
| 1:36.4 | Not cool. |
| 1:37.7 | Kevin's being a little basement dweller. |
| 1:40.2 | Kevin. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.