Hey, the bird show.

Do you remember when Jeff came on the air with us?

It was maybe, what, a week ago?

I think we talked about this fairly early.

But he said he was struggling with how to handle a situation.

I'm friends, you know, in my circle, there's one person who I've kind of cut loose because they tend to gossip quite a bit.

And it just got fatiguing because every conversation you would have with this person,

it would become story.

And it's not like the fun type of gossip, like fun, light, heart of gossip.

It's like hardcore, you know, like I mean serious heavy stuff you know how

sometimes there's gossip like around the office like who's dating who but then there's gossip around

the office it's like heavier and deeper and and all this other stuff and who's about to get

fired and all that type of thing that was this is really heavy stuff things you don't want to know. Yeah. And then it got to the point where I knew that the gossip per, the person telling the gossip, was just making stuff up. And I knew, because I knew other people in the group intimately. And I'm like. Now this is somebody within the group, spreading rumors about others in the group or someone on the outside looking at it. If it's a big, I mean, make a big group. It's not like the tight knit, not like, you know, how you probably have a couple different circles of groups. It's one of the bigger groups in my world. And it's just like, you know what? Like, I know you like to gossip and stuff, but you're making up things now. Just for attention. And you're taking stuff that could possibly be true and you're just making them hard.

It just got nasty.

So I was asking y'all for advice on whether I confront the gossiper or I go to the person

who's being lied about and give them a heads up about the gossiper.

And I can't remember what advice y'all gave me or what I decided to do at the end of that. But obviously it didn't work for a hobby, so I'm glad I waited. I think the advice was go to the person spreading the gossip, but we both realize that it backfire. Yeah. Or that's not you. Like you having that kind of confrontational conversation is just not in your nature.

But I think we did talk about the fact that you would tell, or at least somebody in here

said you would tell the person that was being gossiped about.

Hey, I just want to give you a heads up.

Which is know who you're dealing with here.

Like, you might think this person is a good friend of yours, but they're not.

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