The Dry Diaries

Labor Day Diaries: Man Overboard, Pizza Class Chaos & Manifestation Spirals

Alex Dry Season 2 Episode 6

In this episode of The Dry Diaries, we’re giving full long–weekend chaos. Our Labor Day in Florida’s 30A included almost losing a man overboard on the boat (yes, really), turning into chefs during a pizza making class, and surviving a weekend that was unhinged start to finish. In between the laughter and chaos, we actually get a little serious (shocking... we know) and spiral into affirmations and manifestations—because speaking your dreams out loud actually works. And of course, we dive into your Dearest submissions and answer the questions you were bold enough to send us. It’s giving chaos, unfiltered laughter, and way too many inside jokes. Watch our YouTube series for your digital diary take into our weekend... 

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But we got a guy the bartender. Picture this, close your eyes and picture this the bartender on a boat Like a yacht Not a yacht, a baby yacht, like a nice boat. Yeah, he had a broken leg and a shattered kneecap and he was supposed to serve us drinks. He goes to anchor the boat and he fucking almost flies off the boat and we're all just standing there like uh, like, how is a guy with a broken leg and a kneecap serving us?

Speaker 1:

This is the dry diaries, with your author, alex Drey. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome back to another entry of the Dry Diaries. It's your author, alex Drey, and your second favorite person, rachel Olson. So I don't even know where we should begin. Today. We have a lot to talk about and we have a lot to discuss. Yeah, a lot.

Speaker 1:

I think the last time we spoke, we were heading to Florida. Well, florida happened. So you guys are about to hear every single detail, all the tea. So buckle up, sit back, have some popcorn, probably a shot of tequila and a glass of wine, because honestly, it was a lot, but but like a lot in the best way possible. I just want to say something before we start. Alex absolutely fucking killed it. I will swear right now because it deserves to be said.

Speaker 1:

She literally had every theme on point. She had every dinner on point. Everything was so sexy and organized. She was literally the best host ever and we couldn't have done it without her. Oh thanks, no, seriously, like getting all of our friends together and like being able to just like spend the weekend and like the best place ever.

Speaker 1:

It was such a vibe, yeah, and I feel like it was a perfect group. So at first you're going to have a lot more people and then just a lot of different things happened. So we had a smaller group and honestly, it was like so much better. I mean, I feel like if we had any more, we would have literally actually been face first in the pool. We were like pretty much almost face first in the pool. We were face first on the beach, in the sand. But I think, yeah, adding more people and more energy and more like our friends If you guys, our friends, are probably listening and if you're not a friend, you probably realize now that we have no self-control and we're kind of unhinged. So adding more people to the megs probably wouldn't have done us good. Yeah, I honestly don't even know where to begin. So on, shout out to the girl who wants everything, the company, because they're the ones that like help me on the dinners. They're so cute.

Speaker 1:

We had little different themes every night. We kind of talked about before we did, like child bella, mykonos, and then a fiesta, and first night it was a fiesta that night. Yeah, so child bella night. Okay, let's just unpack. So, let's unpack, let's take them through each day. Yeah, so day one we get there, we go get like everything we need. And no, no, no, visualize this though.

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We took the Bronco, which is literally two seats and like a trunk with a seat in the back, like there is no room Maybe for like one suitcase. Yeah, that's it, that's all you're packing in that car. Well, we decided to do a full walmart run, and I'm not even kidding because that's the closest grocery store on 38. Let me just specify that we're not avid walmart goers, but that was the closest one, and the closest one that the bronco would make it to as well. So, yeah, we go and get all these groceries. Also, thank God, we had one of our good friends, kev, with us. Kev was daddy all weekend. He videoed the girls Helping the girls, getting all the content, like he absolutely killed it. But he's in the back and filled with groceries like up to the top. And then, just to add on to it, I'm like, guys, I have to stop and get the packages out of the mail room. So the car was literally filled like could not see.

Speaker 1:

And then we go, we unpack it all, and then the chef, chef, peter yeah, this guyine at all, he was made, he was cheffing it up for us and he was so explaining all the meals to us. But every time, by the time we would eat, we were wasted. And this guy put so much effort into it and he's explaining, like, on this course, you're gonna be eating this, this, this, this, this and this. We're all just staring. I'm like, put that on the table, we are ready to eat. So the first day everyone arrives and I had one of my college friends that I hadn't seen in a while. Parker come from New York. He is freaking hilarious. We can get more into that in a bit. And then our friends, ashley, carter, who I met through, rachel they're amazing, they live in Tampa and then me, rachel, a cab, and then a couple of friends came later on, and so the first day we get up.

Speaker 1:

Also, we played this game, musical chairs. If you haven't played it, it's so much fun, it's a drinking game, yeah, and we should you explain how to play. It's literally the best. Like when Ashley brought it up, she said guys, we need to play Musical Chairs. We're all looking at her, like we're all playing Musical Chairs. Like what do you mean? She's like no, no.

Speaker 1:

So basically, picture this you go around the table, you put cups around the table where the chairs are and you play a song. When the song ends, basically you flip cup and you throw it down on the table. Well, I am a cheater. So I, when no one was looking, no, no, you don't flip cup and throw it down on the table. Yeah, you do. You do no, you drink it and then play flip cup and then you take a knee. And whoever takes the knee last after they flip the cup is the loser. Well, I'm clearly the cheater. Don't pay attention to anything.

Speaker 1:

She's the most competitive person in the world. If you're wondering who won, it was not me, it was Alex, every single round that we played. I grew up with all boys and my family is such a sports family, so if I ever lost. I would have to go run the hills or something crazy, and it sounds like child abuse. It wasn't, but they didn't give her water after either. No, so I just I'm just a competitive person, no matter what it is when it comes to games. So, yeah, we played that. And then what did we do after? I think we just got ready. Oh, yeah, we just got ready.

Speaker 1:

It was like tame day, I feel like as each day progressed, we got crazier. Yeah, we were like, ok, yeah, we're going to be chill. That wasn't even chill, though that's the funniest part. We bought so much alcohol and in day two we were questioning if we should get more. So we have dinner. Child bella theme is really cute. We were like swinging around napkins, like dancing, whatever, and so then we go out.

Speaker 1:

And so we go out and you want to picture this like you're not going out in LA, you're not like going out and you're like, wow, like you're going out and every man in the bar is wearing a golf shirt and khaki shorts and they're all wearing Sperry's, which is so funny, because I was talking so much trash about it and that was like the replica of the guy that I was I was thinking to stay away from. That's the standard southern like outfit. If you're from the south, every guy you know polo khakis. Well, if you're listening and you're from the South, I got you. Yeah, stylist, you're a servant.

Speaker 1:

But we literally go to this bar called AJ's and it's such a vibe. There's like a band, there's a DJ. Well, we decided to take over the full club. We walk in, there's all these bridal parties. Everyone is so not in tune with the way we're looking or dressed. We are just completely out of the picture at this point.

Speaker 1:

So the band finishes uh, me, of course. I'm like well, actually, no, kevin, whispers in my ear and goes the old rachel would go up on the dj booth. And I go what do you mean the old rachel? I look at him, I'm like challenge accepted, I run over the to the DJ booth. I'm demanding no broke boys disco lines, just because that's classic of me. The guy goes get down, you're not going on the DJ booth, yeah. So then we were like oh, no. So then I was having to like pull her down. I'm like Rachel, no, no, and she's there's literally a belt and she's trying to like make her way under it. And so yeah, yeah.

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So then after that we were like, okay, if you don't let me on the dj booth, we're going on the stage. So kevin, who thinks he's justin bieber at this point, goes up and the bridal parties are just literally jaws on the floor looking at him. We take over, we dance on the stage and then parker on the stage thinking that they're a magic mic about to perform a whole strip club tease in Vegas, and all these girls are going to be like, yeah, and they are just like looking at him. And then later on in the night girls are coming up with like were you the guy on the stage? He's like Alex, I felt so cool, magic mic, baby, magic, like baby should have handed him a card. Yeah, you can see me in vega, literally. So we do that. Then we come back home.

Speaker 1:

Okay, next day happens, we wake up and we got. The next day happened yeah, we were actually asleep by like two. Yeah, like pretty early the first. All the nights seem the same, but it's not the last. One said the last.

Speaker 1:

Next day we wake up and we do like a whole pizza making class. Okay, guys, the only person actually listening, I'm making the pizzas. Of course it's me. I was the. I was making sure everyone's glass is filled with wine. Yeah, I needed to make sure, while they were making pizzas, that they were in they're having their wine with them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we vlogged the entire thing so you can see it. We were going back and looking at footage. Also, to the guy that took my freaking vlog camera out of my car and stole it f you, someone stole my camera out of my car. Granted, I did leave my car unlocked. So if you see any of these videos online um, that's us or maybe it's not us we might be getting canceled, we're not sure, but the content was backed up. Yeah, we had the content, so we're good. But we are re-watching the content and rachel and I were dying laughing the whole time.

Speaker 1:

She's sitting. She's sitting there on her phone because, like adhd was like full capacity and I was just like put the pizza in the oven. I'm hungry, I don't care the chef's like telling me how to do it. I'm like just put the cheese on it and put it in the oven. So she's just on her phone because she's trying to get out of making the pizza. So then I'm over there like making the pizzas, like making sure it's perfect. Meanwhile we have five hours.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we have one guy who god knows doing what, probably taking shots, dancing around, who knows. Then we have carter and ashley. They were just also. Carter was trying to make the pizzas, but instead he's slapping the dough in rachel's face, trying to throw it up in the air, like, yeah, and if you guys, you guys also need to check out the video, because I put a hat on. That didn't fit my head that I fully had to cut with knife a knife in the back to wear the pizza hat and and I literally look like Lord Farquhar. Yeah, she looks like Lord Farquhar to a T. We took a video of it and we're going to post the vlog. So it'll be funny.

Speaker 1:

But we do pizza making and then we do like a Greek night dinner. We're on the table, oh yeah, we got the dog around the back end. It was fun. And then we went out that night same sort of vibe as the night before. There's only a couple places to go out over there. And then the next day we have another friend join us. So we had a friend come. And then we, what did we do? We had the boat day. Oh, so then we had the boat day and this is fun. We go to party bus. We went to crab island.

Speaker 1:

We get on this boat and there's the captain and then they're supposed to be, like the co-captain, a bartender, but we got a guy, the bartender. Picture this, close your eyes and picture this the bartender on a boat, like a yacht not a yacht, a baby yacht like a nice boat. Yeah, he had a broken leg and a shattered kneecap and he was supposed to serve us drinks. He goes to anchor the boat and he fucking almost flies off the boat and we're all just standing there like, uh, like, how is a guy with a broken leg and a kneecap serving us? Yeah, it was interesting, to say the least anyway. So basically, he thinks it's safe to be thrown off the boat and swim to the boat after with his broken leg and knee, and we're all like no, that is not a good idea and that's coming from us. Like we took a party bus, there, we were drinking, we were having a fantastic time.

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Also, we brought the chef with us on the boat and the chef doesn't own a phone, he owns an ipad. So picture all of these unhinged. No, I think he owns a phone, but he just loves his ipad. Well, picture, I guess, don't really you don't have to picture a chef, but picture a man, full adult man with an ipad, like adult man. What else is he? He's trying to make the story sound normal. They're crying. So we have the iPad man. Ipad chef man. He's just getting all of his footage on the iPad. Then he disappears for a bit and we find him way off on a jet ski with two girls just riding around. I'm like, okay, well, I guess we're not eating dinner tonight. See you later, chef. As he's on the jet ski with the two girls, he has his iPad up and he's filming. So that's the only thing he really thought he was. Dj Khaled on the jet ski. Yes, so then we have that guy.

Speaker 1:

Then we have the broken leg guy that's supposed to be helping us get drinks. So those drinks didn't happen. We didn't self-serve at this point. So those drinks didn't happen. Self-serve at this point, it was just from the bottle. At that point we weren't going to make his day harder. The guy could already not walk.

Speaker 1:

Then we have a guy that's literally just in the corner doing fantasy football most of the time, just so into it. Then we have me and Rachel doing God knows what. I'm just so stressed at this point because there's so many different characters. Oh, literally, I thought I was on a Disneyland cruise at one point. I was so overstimulated I just ripped my clothes off and jumped in the water. I was like I, I cannot like.

Speaker 1:

But speaking of jumping in the water, so the guy with the broken legs. This is where it gets serious. The guy with the broken legs decides to be thrown off the boat by the chef. Okay, I was trying to figure out who threw him the iPad chef. So the chef threw him off the boat Because he wanted to. He wanted him to. Anyways, this guy starts drowning in the water. Yeah, totally drowning. And all of us are drinking, we're not even paying attention. And alex looks up and goes guys, this guy is literally flailing his arms in the air. He can't swim. Thank god, and the jet ski people went and got him. But yeah, so I guess I saved a life this weekend. I mean, at least you can leave florida saying you saved the life, at least I did something productive.

Speaker 1:

And then, yeah, so then we get back on the party bus and we're all. It's like an hour drive. And we look over at our chef, who's supposed to be cooking dinner, literally the second we get home, is passed out on the bus. He had a day. Congrats to him. He deserved it. He shucked it up all weekend. He deserved to have a day like that. Yeah, it was pretty iconic, yeah, it was funny, and I mean honestly, chef Peter's the best. So he did all of our meals and so I was like you want to come on the boat with us? Come, bring yourself and your plus one, aka your iPad. So yeah, so that was it. We get back. And then we had the fiesta night, which was just by the time we got home. Like you'll see it on the video, rachel's on the ground.

Speaker 1:

I was swimming butterfly for alex in the pool because I used to be a swimmer. Can we just take a second? No, no, no. Rachel almost went to the Olympics for swimming and she just casually forgets to mention that to me as I'm over here talking about dance. That shows when. To the Olympics for swimming. So yeah, before high school, like I've done a lot more since, probably not. I used to swim. Yes, so she's showing me. I'm like calling out, like I'm the swim coach, making her do laps back and forth. I'm like butterfly brush stroke and then take it. At one point I was done. I was like I'm done swimming Like no one's even watching me.

Speaker 1:

At this point I put a dress shirt on and then Alex convinces me to get back in the water and start doing butterfly in a dress shirt. Like wait, hold up. I did not convince you to do butterfly in a dress shirt. You said I've been drinking all day, I don't want to take off my shirt, and so you kept it on, which god knows where this shirt came from. I think it's my grandpa's that he left at the house when he visited last time. It's like a Kirkland's white button-down which I don't know. That's the only person I can think of that would like wear that because he's 95. Like the vodka brand? No, kirkland. Like Costco? Okay, yeah, but Kirkland's also a vodka brand. Yeah, I'm sure Costco has their own vodka, so you can get a dress shirt and a bottle of vodka.

Speaker 1:

Have you ever been to Costco? I have, but I haven't like done Costco properly. I go for the samples and I get the hot dog on the way out. I've never actually like explored Costco though. Oh, I've done the opposite. I've had to go there to get like actual, like bolt groceries for events. But I've never gotten the hot dog and that's why don't freak me out, we're not talking about it it tastes good, I know, it's all. It's literally terrifying of what goes in a hot dog, but when that shit goes in your mouth it's great.

Speaker 1:

Basically, that was florida. We had the fiesta night. We went out that night. Our friend parker was freaking hilarious. He was so helpful.

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Monday I was dead to the world. Um, we decided to stay up until really late, which I'm not good at doing, and then I had a full panic attack, thought I was gonna chuck myself into the hospital. On monday because I'm a hypochondriac, everything's fine. Then we went swimming and then we went swimming and then tuesday we went to the pickle, which if you guys like pickles and you're in Florida, get your ass to the pickle bar. Also, the guy said that's such a hydrating drink. I got soda water, pickle juice, tequila, really yeah. He was like that's really hydrating for you. Those pickles he gave us were like massive Two hands. So, yeah, that was a wrap on florida. Sexy time, great people, yeah. So we'll post the vlogs about it. And then yesterday, post florida, we get back.

Speaker 1:

I literally can't turn my neck past a certain point, so we had to call it dr cracks. We saw our boys. He put us back in place. Yeah, no, he actually cracked my head so hard I think it fully. I could feel the cracks in my brain. So he was doing his job. Dr Cogs yeah, for all the girls and guys out there that take our fashion advice considering Rachel is a stylist, so she has some skin in the game I get paid to give advice, but unfortunately on the show, on the podcast, this is free tips for you and a lot of the boys have been loving it, but anyway, so the fall colors are caramel brown, olive green, marshmallow pink, warm brown, pistachio green, off-white, burgundy and that's it.

Speaker 1:

But I feel like those are all like my favorite colors. Yeah, besides black, I also feel like those colors have kind of just been repeating themselves. Yeah, none of those colors are the same color as last year with, like, the chocolate brown, but I'm kind of into the marshmallow pink. Yeah, I don't know why, it just reminds me of swag. Justin bieber oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, justin bieber's new album, that's amazing. Yeah, he does it all honestly.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the song hallelujah. It really gets me, really gets me going. I feel like I'm having a little church service. Oh, I'm feeling blessed. The sun is up again. I'm singing yeah, and I don't know why I'm singing on this. I do this every episode and it's not okay, whatever. Am I like having a flashback? Or can you sing like actually say no, I can't.

Speaker 1:

Also, I was speaking of singing alex's last night, of a dance who's looking at? Uh, in florida, she was getting down with it. She was literally like you can't see me, but I'm doing the dancing. It's like once you reach that certain point of drinks in your system and you're just around people that you really don't care how they perceive you, then I'm like okay, now I'm going to show that I can kind of dance, but then to people that are randoms, I'm like step, tap, step, tap, tap. So, yeah, she was salsa dancing.

Speaker 1:

Last night, though, we had a little going away party for our bestie cab we mentioned earlier. He's actually moving away, which we're really sad about, but we had a little fiesta and alex decided to put the reggaeton. Oh, is it the reggaeton? Yeah, yeah, alex is getting the reggaeton, and salsa music is a little bit different. Okay, I'm white, oh my, but yeah. So we had a little salsa lesson, um, which was funny, okay, guys, yeah. So, anyways, actually it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1:

I've been, I'm really into like manifestation and affirmations, and rachel's like yeah, well, you know, but it's crazy because, like, I am into manifest, like I am into that kind of stuff, but you have gotten me more into it lately and so many amazing things have been happening. Yeah, that's what it is, but it's things we say and then, like hours later it happens. I don't know if it's just a coincidence or it literally happens, but it's so crazy to me. Yeah, like there's been certain situations where things have happened and I'm like, okay, rachel, like you have to say this, say it three times, and it literally happens. But I'm really into like obviously I believe in God, but I think that you have to speak things out to make them happen, and there's also like frequency and energy and different things that go into it as well, but anyways. So I'm really big into that and I'm trying to get Rachel into it. Like tonight I really want to do like a vision board or like affirmations, because there's a crazy eclipse thing going on this month and anyway. So a lot of the things we've been saying on the podcast have been happening weirdly, or just before it even happens like taylor swiss proposal yeah, that was so random there's, I guess, like also this is kind of random, but we were manifesting like we're just talking and I was talking about work, talking about all these things, and I got this crazy job opportunity last week and it kind of moved on to the second week they brought me on.

Speaker 1:

I was kind of doing one on one stuff with them. Um, they're like pretty much an A-list celebrity, I would say early in that world of things. And I'm going through this guy's closet, I'm going through everything, I'm packing it up, I'm sending him on tour, he's doing his thing. And I look and I open the closet and there's this T-shirt and I was like wait, that's so crazy. It's a Kith T-shirt and I guess they did like a.

Speaker 1:

They opened a Kith up in Toronto where I'm from, and I look at the t-shirt and the shirt literally has my very first apartment ever that I lived in Toronto with my best friend Ainsley and it's just a random. It's the most random building. It's not even like this like five-star building that everyone talks about. It's literally this random apartment building and I'm in this guy's closet and I'm holding this T-shirt and I'm like wait, I like I started here and now I'm doing this and I just thought it was like the craziest 360. Is so crazy. And I sent it to my best friend and she was like that's our apartment and I know it's weird, like it's oh, it's just a t-shirt, it doesn't matter. But I was like no, like I started from literally nothing in Toronto and now I'm in LA and I'm doing my thing and I'm like okay, like sometimes you just need that reminder or that reassurance that like that you're in the right spot, yeah, but that's also a sign doing the right thing. So that's a whole other thing. There's books on it, either on the right path or maybe you have a future working with that person. Like there's so many different things and even like with myself. My grandmother passed away. We were really close and I had seen a medium, a couple Shout out to Jonathan.

Speaker 1:

He was one of them. He's amazing. He actually solves crimes with like the earth, sorry, he solves unsolved cases with the fbi in new york and he like did the gabby petito case. He did so many, but he's how did you find out about him? Randomly followed me during covid on instagram so random it was before he even popped off before. He's like did the Gabby Petito case? Like just random, really, yeah, and we just randomly started talking on Instagram. Oh, totally Literally went to be totally. I feel like he was brought into my life for a reason. Now he's like a good friend of mine and we like talk here and there and anytime like I needed him and like reached out, he's always like been there to help me and he's literally like changing lives because he's helping these people find peace and like their loved ones that have passed and it's kind of gone unresolved, like he's done cases from 50 years ago and he's literally like leading them into the direction to either like find the person that did it or where they're at. Yeah, it's insane. He also has a podcast. You guys should go listen to it. I love jonathan, he's the best.

Speaker 1:

But so one of my signs is from my grandmother and it's a butterfly. So anytime I'm trying to look for like a little bit more direction or reassurance of what I'm supposed to do, I always ask for like god, my spiritual angels, whatever it is to show me a butterfly. And it's so crazy because we were listening to the Justin Bieber album and I think it was from his last album. I had never heard it but, like that day before I had asked and you have to speak it out loud. So I just want to tell people that there's so much more power in speaking things out loud than just thinking it in your head. So speak it out loud or write it down a couple times, or do both. But on my phone popped up the song of his called Butterflies and I was like what the heck? So that was one confirmation of a sign. And then the other was like rachel and I were on the walk and we saw these like crazy monarch butterflies which I've never seen in la before. No, and there's been so many lately.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and even when I was starting this podcast, um, I may have told this before on one of my, I can't remember, but anyways, whenever I was starting this, I was in Texas, I was on a walk and I just read this book and it was kind of like teaching and it's when I was like trying to get into more, of like asking for signs, and so I was literally just like on a walk. I was like, if I'm supposed to start a podcast and do this and like change the direction of what I'm doing. Can you show me a butterfly not kidding you, did you say out loud. Can you show me? Yeah, yeah, you have to like speak it, okay, and maybe like five minutes later, I'm like on my head, I like feel a tickle and I like take my phone and go like this with my camera. There's literally a butterfly that landed on top of my head. That's crazy. I sent the photo to my mom and I was like holy crap. So I just think that I mean our world.

Speaker 1:

I can get into conspiracy theories too. I'm going. It's so woo. Yeah, you want to turn me on Talk conspiracy. Don't even talk dirty Talk conspiracy, but I just love getting deep and so like, yeah, anyways, like there's just like such power in that and I really think that, like going back to your thing with us talking, it was just like the universe or like your spiritual angels or god, whatever it is showing you a sign. Yeah, and I think sometimes it's so nice because it's like it's just like reassuring and it like makes you not second guess it or doubt it. You're like okay, like maybe this is, this is where I'm supposed to be right now.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and honestly, like for the people that are like, oh, alex, you're so woo or whatever, I'm like okay, number one, like I do have faith, so that's one side of it. I'm not like doing some crazy, like witchcraft or whatever. But for the people that think that it might be in that realm, like what I say is you have nothing to lose with doing it. You're literally just like saying out loud like I am this, I want this, like yeah, I will be here, and you always start with yeah, and having like a positive mindset will literally change your day, if not your week, your month, your year. Yeah, like some days I'm like I don't want to do that, but like sometimes you just got to do it. And if you have a positive mind and mindset, like you'll do it and you'll have a better day, or like you will feel better doing it after you're finished doing it. Yeah, and you're so good about that.

Speaker 1:

Like Rachel's the most positive person and that's why no, it's true, and that's why I like love living together and like being with her, because there's I wouldn't say I'm like a Debbie Downer, but I just like get in my head at some point in time and so having her like positive energy around. It's such. There's such thing as like high vibration and low vibration people and like when you're around like low vibration people, like you're gonna go down to that frequency and it like can wear you down. Yeah, it's all about energy. Yeah, yeah, like I can hang it with you all day and I'm like so happy and we're just, even if we're just sitting on the couch, guys, the whole Florida trip I'm not kidding you all we did was laugh, like I was crying, laughing the whole time, like couldn't breathe. It was so fun. But I mean, that's just like us going out together and that's how you know when you're around, like high vibe people versus low is like the way that you feel inside.

Speaker 1:

And one thing I like want to say too, is always trust your gut and how you're feeling, because, like, your intuition is never going to steer you the wrong way. Oh, true, and so, like, if you have like kind of like an unsettling feeling about something or someone like that is your like internal, like well, I don't know how to say it, but like basically, that's you and your brain telling you and your gut telling you, even though your heart is thinking something different. That's your brain and your gut telling you that you know what's wrong, but your heart is feeling a different emotion, yeah, and sometimes it's hard to kind of override that because you're stuck in between both of them. But I think at this point, go with your gut. Yeah, go with your gut, yeah, but it's hard because obviously, like, depending on the situation, it's obviously different. But your gut is always right, yeah, and it will steer you in the right direction.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and honestly, I feel like we've had friends or just people that I mean for me personally that have been talking to me about this, and you shouldn't feel bad if you have to separate yourself from, like, a situation or a group of people or, you know, a work, job or whatever it is, because if that is giving you that feeling of uncertainty or like unsettling, like that isn't a bad thing against them, it's not a bad thing for you. But you just have to like, listen to that because that's where you're going to elevate higher and to like your next like place of where you're supposed to be and also save your energy for the people that need it. Yeah, like matter the most. Yeah, yeah, because if you're even like with work or anything else, if you're doing something and you're just not happy. At the end of the day, as corny as this sounds, life is so short. Yeah, so, like, be positive, put a hundred percent into it and put all of your energy into people that matter the most. Like, yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 1:

So we have a few questions that were submitted and I actually showed it to everybody that's been submitting. Yeah, like, so that's crazy. Yeah, all right. So here we go. Oh god, what's scarier the florida, the florida stories or these questions? I haven't read these yet, I just read them wrong.

Speaker 1:

And also, rachel and I, we don't plan, we don't do like a podcast outline or anything. We just kind of like banter off one another when we're doing these entries. If you couldn't tell, we're like talking about all these things mixed at once, but I think that's what makes it. Being raw is what makes it. Yeah, I'm not gonna sit here on a script and talk about things that are boring. I want to tell you what's up. Yeah, unless we're doing or like in the past when I was doing interviews with people, of course I would do it, but no one's winning. Yeah, yeah, um.

Speaker 1:

And so we also had an idea for october, because we love, like conspiracies and like I guess is it true crime in a way? Yeah, yeah, like true crime, like murder mysteries, yeah, or like yeah, maybe, like something like that. We want to do something for October and so we're trying to brainstorm ideas. So if you guys have any ideas, please send them in, because we kind of want to like take the holiday effect like throughout as we continue. Oh my God, it's October next month. Yeah, crazy, we have to find a place.

Speaker 1:

Guys, you might be homeless Type B, literally. You might be homeless literally. You might be my opposite. Oh yeah, no, it's so true, like opposite friends are such a thing. Yesterday I was setting up for our friend Cav's thing and she's like how about you just put it on the deck, alex? Like, and I'm like Rachel, just trust the process. She's like you don't have to do all this and like it's it's not even for everyone else, it's just for my own personal like, for it's for me. Honestly, I just love doing it. No, that was. We had like I don't know if we met, we did. We mentioned the taste it, yeah, yeah, we did like a little going away like Tulum Boho type of situation lots of tacos, a lot of tequila and yeah, it was a great time. Yeah, I'm finally like feeling alive, same, yeah, where it is after this. Don't tip me at the good time. I mean it's nice.

Speaker 1:

So, speaking of affirmations like and shit coming real on the podcast, uh, I just want to say like I will meet my husband soon. I will meet my husband soon. I will meet my husband soon. I will be rich soon. I will be rich soon. I will get paid for my job soon. No broke boys, no new friends. No broke boys. No, what did we say? No broke boys, no new friends. No, what did we say? No broke boys need new friends, just a couple. The rest could stay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just kidding. We love you guys. Our friends are probably like what the actual fuck? Okay, anyways, dear Dry Diaries, oh shit, let's go.

Speaker 1:

If you meet a good guy, let's say overall 8.7 on looks and personality. If it looks crass, crass. If you can't expose names they're anonymous okay, I don't, I don't know. If it's him, oh, I don't know, I have no idea, it's all anonymous. So I can't say dear dry diaries.

Speaker 1:

If you meet a good guy, let's say overall 8.7 on looks and personality. 8.7? 8.7 is very specific. Yeah, who's an 8.7? Wait, I have a question Do guys rank girls like on a point system, like 8.4? I thought it was just under 10. Wait, who would be an 8.4 type of guy in your, in your mind? Oh, that's so hard. I have to like say who a 10 is. 8.4 would be like a shia labeouf back in the day, when he was hot. No way, I just think of holes. Yeah, fair, figure it out, I don't know anyways, and let's, yeah, okay question yeah, do you mean a good guy? Let's say overall 8.7 on looks and personality. If he pulls up in a prius to pick you up, does that drop him down to a seven? It's, it keeps going.

Speaker 1:

But we just need to answer this first. Yeah, that's supposed to be my man. He's supposed to support us, he's supposed to be like he doesn't have to be in like a bm, like he doesn't have to be in anything crazy. Okay, I have a few questions. How old is he fair? How like, at what stage is this day going on?

Speaker 1:

Because if it was back when I was like I sound shallow, no, no, no, I sound shallow, no, you don't. Okay. So if it was like back when I was like in high school, or like parents car, no, or like his first car, maybe, like yeah, oh, yeah, I don't know, okay, so if it was back then, like, probably not, because people are young, they know now. Yes, okay, I'm not shallow and you're shallow too, no, but but also there's guys that are seven point, if we want to do the point system, 7.5 that pull up and I like a sexy bronco or likea ford, like old pickup truck that's like hot, like the redone ones, yeah, like the guys that have like not like mullets, but like brown, like oh, yeah, and they're like and like speaking my language, like an old, big, big truck. Holy shit, yeah, it was so hot, yeah, okay. So they go from 7.4s to 10s. So if you're ugly and you have a nice truck, pull up to my house, I'll give you an 8. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1:

So I would say I think honestly, okay, it depends, depends, because if he like moved here from australia and was like starting his career and like trying to get into, like starting his life over and that was all he could afford, yeah, then he has the cards getting him around, he'll figure it out, yeah, yeah. Also, if he's like a 10, and I just think he's the hottest thing and like, has the best personality and we just vibe so well. If he drove a prius, honestly I'll just pull up in the g-wagon. Anyways, be like here, baby, here's my teeth, you can drive like you can drive us, and that's where I go wrong in relationships. Yeah, so I mean, I think it just like depends on the situation. But if he's already like, I'm already iffy about him and then he pulls up in a Prius, I'm already iffy about him. So, like, if you like him, you like him.

Speaker 1:

The next question to this question is if you walk in his house and his room is a disaster he's got dishes all over does that bring down his score or is that not a factor in liking him? If the dude is nice and you two are vibing oh well, you kind of answered what we said um, I think that the house disaster dishes that brings it down way more than a Prius does. Yeah, 100%, because that shows how you live your day to day life like as a person, like your cleanliness, like everything. Like that Prius, okay, we can let go. Yeah, if I'm walking into a stunning, clean, immaculate, you can eat off the floor kind of vibe house. A hundred percent would rather take that. If your house is decorated well, that's where I'm like also, you go on, yes, literally, when they know how to decorate, even when a guy has a really nice room, yeah, I'm like, okay, you're doing something right here. There's nothing worse, especially at our age, when you walk into a guy's room or like an apartment, and it just literally looks like a frat house. Yeah, yeah, no, I think. But I mean that, again, it depends on the age as well. Yeah, it depends on the age. But like the dirty dishes and stuff that just shows that he's lazy, that he's dirty and that he doesn't care about appearance. Yeah, think about how me I am kind of when it comes to like clean, yeah, I clean all this. No, but like that, I don't know. I think cleanliness is like a major, major thing. Yeah, for sure. I think it's not a thing where. So the with some of these situations, I think it's more so, like if you're dirty, yes, that brings you down, of course, 100, but it's more so the opposite. Like if you have nice interior and you have like you're seven, okay, you're a nine, yeah, right, yeah, but the dirtiness, no, I honestly you would go off the list. Yeah, I wouldn't see you again. Yeah, no, dear Dry Diaries. Should I stay or should I go?

Speaker 1:

If you like a guy or girl and you've been dating for a couple months and things are starting to heat up but your friends think they are socially awkward and weird, they aren't mean or disrespectful, just shuts down socially, and friends you respect and care about are saying this. But you're really starting to like them. How big of a factor is the opinions of others or your friends? Or are you just saying I don't care what they think, as long as they make me happy, that's all that really matters. I fully respect my friend's opinions, but would you break things off with someone you like because your friends think they're a bummer to hang out with? So basically, if you're seeing a girl or guy and your friends think that they're kind of a downer, they don't really vibe with this person, you're asking us would you break things off with whoever you're seeing or dating because your friends don't approve?

Speaker 1:

I think it like yeah, I would say, if they just think that this person's a downer and they don't have specific reasons why it's not. If this person was treating you poorly or doing certain things that are red flags in some sorts and your friends kind of had your back and were kind of like, ok, open your eyes, this isn't your person. Like this, this and this isn't happening and you're not seeing it because you like the person. But I think also it's a conversation you have to have with your friends and be like well, what is it that you don't like about her or him? Or like what is it? Yeah, and like because, if it's a vibe thing, like I'm sorry, not everyone vibes with each other and you may vibe with this person and that vibe is between y'all two.

Speaker 1:

Like this, whoever you're seeing or dating isn't dating your friends, so they don't need to necessarily vibe with them. But again, not, and especially like, in a group setting. Not everyone is going to be best friends yeah, and not everyone is going to be the way other people want them to be either. Yeah, and that's fine. So I think that I would.

Speaker 1:

The only reason I would break it off if your friends don't approve is because they're showing you specific reasons, signs, situations, instances that are actual red flags. Yeah, that they're just like looking out for you for being like a best friend, yeah, like, hey, I don't like the way that this person is treating you like I saw them doing x, y and z or saying this to you and it's kind of like not cool and I just wanted to point it out. Like yeah, you know, like know your worth, type, yeah, but at the end of the day, the relationships between y'all like I've had friends and their relationships and I don't necessarily like think that that is the end, all be all for them, but at the end of the day, like I don't have that say to say anything like and I don't know the ins and outs of their relationship. So it's really not my business to insert myself. I only give advice to my friends about their relationships if they come to me and ask hey, alex, what do you think about the situation? And I'll be honest with them. But I'm never gonna sit there and say you don't, you need to break up with this person. Your friends aren't dating the girl. Yeah, they don't need to like her the way you like her. Like yeah, do your thing. But again, like alex said, if the girl is disrespecting you or treating you awful and you're just like avoiding the red flags because you want to have a girlfriend or be with this person and your friends are just looking out for you, then that's a conversation you kind of have to just have with your friends and say, like, what is it? And if they don't give you a valid answer, then I don't think it's worth breaking up with her. It's just a conversation you have to have with your friends, yeah, and also, like, don't stay in a relationship or with someone just for the company or the comfort of just having someone.

Speaker 1:

Because I feel like, especially like around our age, a lot of people settle or they just find someone and because they think, oh, I'm 30 and I need to start settling down and figuring it out. And it's so common, yeah, it's so common. And it's like you don't have to just settle, you also don't have to have it figured out by tomorrow either. Yeah, like things happen, we can leave today and meet someone like you don't know. Yeah, I mean, it was manifested, manifest. Meet somebody at the while we get a margarita. Meet somebody while we get a margarita. You have to be specific, okay. A sexy, tall man that looks like jacob alorti while we get drinks in brentwood? Me, no mess. But yes, yeah, yeah, but you, you just want to meet him. Or do you want to like, go on a date with him. I just want to meet him. I just want to make sure you don't lie, little man of manifest from there.

Speaker 1:

It's so funny, dear dry diaries ladies. My boyfriend has started growing out his pubes and he's shaving new designs every week and asking if I like it during sex. I laugh and say I love it, but deep down I wonder if I should be concerned. Or is this just what boys do? Every time I see I become drier than spongebob at sandy's house in the bikini bottom. He looks so proud so I want to be supportive. What, but when do I say enough is enough? This week he did a rainbow. You guys are. You guys are playing with us now. This is a joke. This is one of our guy friends fucking with us. Jordan or cross, stand up, wait. Sorry, we're obviously not gonna get into detail on that, but what it said was the boyfriend shaves his pubes and he colors. And we can't even talk about this.

Speaker 1:

Dear diaries, my good friend just got back from a six-month rehab program about a week ago and showed up to my apartment blocked out in the back of my head. I wanted to call him out, but his best friend was with him the whole night before, just feeding him drinks before he came over. 12 am rolls around and this guy's cousin barges in and starts accusing me and my roommates for enabling the situation. I care deeply for my friend and probably should have said something, but at the same time I don't feel like it's my job to play cop when he's already past the point of no return. Should I be upset at myself for not stepping in or blame his best friend for letting him even get to that point a week after getting back from rehab? Honestly, no, you should not be upset with yourself because he showed up to your place already blacked out at that point.

Speaker 1:

I think the only been able to get him like he's already wasted at that point, yeah, I think the only thing you could do is if he has a sponsor or some sort of person that's like following up with them after rehab, maybe you could step in and give that person a call and or a heads up of what's going on. But I think I mean, obviously this person is an addict and so it's. Yeah, it takes one little sip of alcohol to get that person on a bender, so I'm. It seems like that's what he's on now, yeah, and also like it's with people like that it's not gonna just be one sip of alcohol or one drink of alcohol like the second. They have that in their system. They thrive off of that. Yeah, like he probably, even though he should not be even near alcohol or even in any situation to be in, like in bars or oh, like you should be on like a strict schedule, he should.

Speaker 1:

It's also hard because it's also not up to the guy that like whose house that the guy walked into. It's not up to him to make sure that he's okay when he's already wasted walking into the house, like what was he gonna really do? Yeah, I mean, if he walked into your house, it's not. I mean it didn't seem like you were, but you weren't feeding him alcohol once he came to your house. I think that maybe you could be an enabler if you were giving him more and more alcohol if he came over, but it seems like you weren't, and so I don't think you should blame yourself at all if you guys are actually best, best friends, like just sit down and have a conversation with them, like hey, man, I'm worried about you. You know, you just got out of this program and it seems like you're falling back into old patterns and I don't want you to make all this progress just to fall back. I'm here for you if you need me to talk, but at the end of the day, like you can only be there for someone so much until each person is their own individual person that makes their own decisions. It's also hard too, because with addicts, um, it's kind of up to them like you could say what you want and do what you want, and like you can have like 10 hour conversations with them a day, but at the end of the day, it's what they want and what they're gonna do. Yeah, it's hard and that's why people are addicts, because they can't pass that point.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and I think also, whenever you reach out to him, you know whoever enabled him to begin with was probably the launching point for it. But again, everyone's their own person, so that's kind of like a sticky situation. But I think that when you talk to him like you're his friend, so you're just there to support him. So in supporting him, that means that you're not asking him to do things that are going to be triggering to him, so like maybe you guys go for a walk or hang on a hike, go for lunch, do things that don't, or walk, or hang out on a hike, go for lunch, do things that don't involve alcohol, or yeah. But it's also sad because it's like, clearly he's just drinking, clearly he's like going, he's bringing himself to these places and he's having drinks and everything else, oh yeah. So it's like, yeah, but I feel like with someone like that, they need to be like on a tight schedule, like yeah, I mean, there's been friends before that I've known where they've I wouldn't say like it was like and they were addicts, but they definitely got to a point where they didn't like the way that they were when they were drunk at certain points. So I'm like, okay, like let's go sober for four weeks. Like let's not drink for six weeks, like I'll do it with you, like as accountability partner, because, like, if that helps my friend who needs it, like okay, what is it to me? Like I don't need to do that, you know. So I mean, yeah, again, I don't. I don't think you should be hard on yourself, like just have a conversation with him, but it doesn't seem like you're the enabler in this situation at all.

Speaker 1:

Dear Drew Diaries, I'm 25 and I met a guy on Hinge who's 29. He wants to go on a date but I told him that we should meet up this weekend and do a group hangout before grabbing dinner one-on-one. His response was I would love to take you on a date. All my best friends are married or in serious relationships. They don't want to go to a bar to meet random hinge girls. He is seeming like this is such a weird request and one-on-one dates with random people can be so awkward. Am I in the wrong? I feel like he's making it more of a big deal than it is. Why doesn't he go alone and meet her with the friend? He's a man and he was gonna hang out with her and take her on a date. Anyways, it's gonna be one-on-one. Yeah, he can meet up with her. It's probably better for him. He meets up with her.

Speaker 1:

There's a distraction of like your girlfriends being around. Maybe your guy friends. He could start broing out with your guy friend, he could buy you drinks, you guys could vibe and then, if he's not fun and he's not your person, then you just go on with your night. Yeah, I feel like people have like so many different like ideas of this because, like some of my friends have pointed this out to me. Like I prefer to have a guy come in a group, hangout, vibe, feel it out, see if I'm even interested, yeah, and then from there he can take me to dinner, yeah, but some people think that they don't want to introduce someone to their friends too soon, so they would rather do the one-on-one date and then, if they vibe, then introduce them to their friends. So I think it's just like a preference. It also depends, like, if it's if you're out with a few of your girlfriends, your girlfriends are gonna see his text threads anyway, they're gonna know him. They already know him by this point. But I guess, like I wouldn't like bring him to like a party, yeah, I would just say like, hey, me and my girls are going out if you want to come join us. If he doesn't, and he's very adamant about doing a one-on-one date and you're comfortable with it, because I know you said it can be awkward, which, yes, some can I mean, it just really depends. Yeah, it's also that's just dating. Like you don't know what you're getting when you show up to the restaurant. Yeah, that's why I don't. Yeah, I don't do hench dates like random people. Dear joy diaries.

Speaker 1:

I've been hooking up with this guy for over six months. We see each other pretty often, at least once a week. We have had a few conversations about our past relationships and dating. He seemed pretty interested. We always have a good time. I invited him out with my friends and the whole time he was hitting on my friends then asked for one of their numbers. What? She isn't my best friend, but we still hang out and they have been texting.

Speaker 1:

Who should I approach about the situation first, or what should I do? Do I just let it go and move on? Call his ass out? Yeah, you're bringing him around. You've been seeing him for six months and then he gets your friend's number. Yeah, honestly, if that was me, I would just cut it. I would just cut it. Yeah, the same. I don't even think he's even worth having the conversation if he's like doing that with you and your friends, what is he doing when you're not there? Yeah, I would just.

Speaker 1:

I would probably just give him like, like the decency to be like, hey, I don't think that this is gonna work out, like I think you're really cool and then move on and then with that girl, I would know that's not your friend, that's not your friend and it depends how. Like you said, she's not your best friend, but like you guys hang out a lot, so I don't know if I, I would probably, like I would probably not be her friend yeah, I would probably not be. Or just say, like you know, I'm talking to so-and-so right. Yeah, if you guys are like in the same friend group girl, the girl talk, whatever I would just be like, hey, you know, I'm talking to him, right, but like, at that point I wonder if it was like obvious that the girl was talking to the guy. Yeah, maybe, like you guys benefited the doubt in this situation. Maybe the friend, the girlfriend, didn't know that they had been dating for six months because they're not that close, like they're just hangout friends. Yeah, so I would just maybe have a conversation with her.

Speaker 1:

But as far as a guy concerns, like that's his character and if he can do that, like he's clearly I hate to say this not that interested in you and like he's a, that's also just so rude and disrespectful. Yeah, bringing him out to meet your friends and then you're becoming insecure in a place that you should never feel insecure, yeah, also, that's not a you problem or like a you thing that's on him, like he has issues, so like don't doubt yourself, don't what you are. Yeah, move on, so much better. Yeah, he wants to text your friend, then he can go ahead and text you, yeah, and she can deal with his baggage or whatever red flags he has. And I know it probably sucks.

Speaker 1:

To think about six months is a long time. Yeah, I know, I thought I was just thinking, but I'm like, if he's doing shady stuff like this to you now, with you there, what is he doing when you're not there? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, also, it says that they've just been hooking up for six months, oh God, and they like see each other pretty often, at least once a week. So I mean, maybe he thinks that they're just friends with benefits, which is still like he still shouldn't.

Speaker 1:

I'm not telling that he should be doing that, but honestly, if you're doing this with a guy, like just hooking up with a guy for six months, and you have the intentions of dating him, like you like have already been clear about that, because, yeah, honestly, I think in general, like nobody should just like hook up with someone for six months because like feelings are going to get involved and like eventually you're going to want to date that person who's going to become messy. So, like you're just really, I'm just like so blunt about my intentions from the beginning with guys. So, yeah, I'm not like, oh my god, we have to get married asap. But like he's ever yeah, no, I'm yeah, yeah. Also, like, when it comes to dating advice, like I don't really know if I should listen to rachel and I, because everything we're telling you guys isn't working for us. Yeah, no, I'm kidding. All my relationships have been like healthy in like two years ish. So like I mean it's fine, but I've just been single for a while and haven't been proactively dating.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, dear jai diaries, my best friend has been dating this guy for three years and honestly, I think he isn't the one for her. Since they have been dating, she does act differently. She is obsessed and in love with him. I can't hang out with them together. That is how much he bothers me. What do I do? Honestly? Honestly, she's not going to leave her man. Yeah, so you're going to have to figure out a way to become somehow cordial or like yeah, yeah, because she's not three years she's been dating this guy. Yeah, she's not going to leave this man for her best friend to be happy. Is the best friend jealous? Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1:

Honestly, I feel like you just have to suck it up there's really nothing and hang out with them, or just hang out one-on-one like with her without the guy. There doesn't sound like the girl does anything. That I'm am I making up a story? No, I, I think that's true, but I mean, in that case you could always have a conversation with your friend like hey, I would love to just get lunch with you and catch up. Yeah, also, that is like a red flag if a girl can't do anything without her boyfriend. Like that's strange. Like you should be able to go to lunch with your girlfriends. You should be able to like walk, do different things without.

Speaker 1:

That's what makes a healthy relationship is like two people that have their own shit going for them, that come together and like it's also like I don't know. Sometimes I like being on my own and doing my own thing and then coming home after and like telling about my, like talking about my day. Yeah, it just like creates a healthier relationship and it creates more excitement in your life. Yeah, like I want my man to be happy. I want him to go with his friends, I want him to be able to do things like obviously I want to be with him and I want to hang out with him, but I'm also sick of your ass sometimes and I want to be with my girl. Yeah, sorry, just like I wouldn't say I want to have one-on-one time with you because I hate your like boyfriend, I would say, hey, I would love to catch up with you. Like let's go to lunch, let's go to dinner, like me and you girl time you. And from there, yeah, if she goes, great.

Speaker 1:

If she doesn't, then if this is really your best friend, you just have to suck it up because she's you say she's so in love and she's really happy like you should be there too. You should be happy for her as well. That's the guy's like crazy, abusive, something insane. But it doesn't seem like she would be obsessed in a three-year relationship with a guy who's like that. Yeah, I mean, you don't know though, yeah, I don't really know the dynamic of it, but yeah, I just took that question to a whole new level.

Speaker 1:

He actually went to jail three times. He has a wife. Guys, just, yeah, jail three times he has a wife. Like guys, just, yeah, I think, like, honestly, you're not gonna win the situation. You also, like, don't want to put that on your best friend. Your best friend is gonna be very uncomfortable that you're even talking about this to her. I think you just have to, like, work on your relationship with him. Yeah, you don't have to be best friends with him. You also don't have to hang out with him every single day either. If you have to see him every once in a while, suck it up and just have a good time with him. Yeah, and just like that, guys, your time is over with us. Chug that glass of wine we told you to drink before we started this podcast. We didn't even get into the crazy stuff. I feel like, like we should, but trying not to get canceled, okay. Well, there's my entry of the dry diaries. We will see you next week. See you next week. Bye, bye, bye-bye.

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