Ash vs. Stomach Acid

This week on Dopamine and Detours, we share a pregnancy update including a rough 3AM wake-up choking on stomach acid. Recap a golf trip with the boys, and talk peptides and the hype around them. We wrap it up with a wild Reddit story about a sister scamming her own family and the bigger conversation it sparked about trust and boundaries.

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Hello.

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Are you ready now? Yes.

SPEAKER_05 0:04

Yeah, I'm ready now.

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Good, because I pushed record.

SPEAKER_05 0:07

Oh, what's up? What's up, big dogs?

SPEAKER_03 0:11

Small dogs.

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Little kitty cats. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 0:17

How's your day?

SPEAKER_05 0:19

My day was good. The sun was shining. I was busy.

SPEAKER_03 0:23

Nice.

SPEAKER_05 0:24

It's kind of cold. It's like warm but cold.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

It's Idaho out there.

SPEAKER_05 0:29

Yeah, it's sunny, but the wind be cold, dog. How was your day?

SPEAKER_03 0:33

My day was good. I only had two clients. My feet be hurtin'. My feet be hurtin'.

SPEAKER_05 0:40

Cankles be canklin'.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Cankles be canklin. Pregnancy update. I actually have a lot to say.

SPEAKER_05 0:47

Say with your chest, little man.

SPEAKER_03 0:51

First I want to acknowledge I am grateful. Because all the things I'm gonna say are gonna come off that I'm not. Just pregnancy is you can't expect it is not what I expected, but I didn't expect anything, so I don't even know. It's well, the other night I I was sleeping peacefully, and I woke up choking on my stomach acid. I thought I was fucking dying.

SPEAKER_05 1:27

Yeah, I thought you were dying too. Except the problem was I was asleep and I thought you were dying in my dream.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Oh no, dying in real life.

SPEAKER_05 1:37

Yeah, so then by the by the time I figured out what the hell was going on, you already had all the lights on.

unknown 1:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

I panicked and turned every light on in the house.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

Yeah, it was it was like two in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

I was just walking around going.

SPEAKER_05 1:53

I think I told you to drink some milk or something.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

You said drink water, and I was like, hell no. Hell no, H2O.

SPEAKER_05 2:01

Also, I was sleeping, like halfway asleep, so I didn't know what to do.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

I panicked and took some Tums, and then I got online and was like, help! SOS dying.

SPEAKER_05 2:14

What did they say to do?

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Well, the thing I did was um hot or warm water with honey, and that actually worked, and then I was able to fall asleep. I haven't had heartburn yet during this pregnancy. That was my first time. And I haven't had it since. It's because this damn chocolate mousse.

SPEAKER_05 2:36

Yeah, bro. You eat you probably eat a pound of that a week.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Drama. No, I don't.

SPEAKER_05 2:44

I definitely eat you eat two whole containers of it a week.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Yeah, but each container is a serving and it takes me four days to work. It is. In the video that I use to make them, those two containers are like a dessert you would have after dinner, like a piece of cake. And I eat one container for four days.

SPEAKER_05 3:06

Who eats that?

SPEAKER_03 3:08

Lots of people.

SPEAKER_05 3:09

Jared, before he went on the subway diet.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

You are being rude.

SPEAKER_05 3:15

I'm just saying that's a lot of chocolate.

SPEAKER_03 3:18

It is not that much chocolate, it's mostly whipped cream. But the combination of the fat from the whipped cream and the chocolate on top of my quesadilla with hot sauce when I went to bed was just hot lava stirring in my stomach.

SPEAKER_05 3:35

That was Yeah, that doesn't not not a good combo.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

I've got the plantar's fasciitis because of this pregnancy. And now I've got the carpal tunnel. And I got the anything else. I got the pregnancy uglies. Didn't know that was a thing. And everyone's like, oh my gosh, you look so pretty. Look, I'm not trying to ask for compliments. You know, that's not what that is.

SPEAKER_05 4:05

That's where you'd be asking me for compliments.

SPEAKER_03 4:07

I do. Don't mean I look pretty. No, I did not even say big old whale. I just don't, my body just feels so foreign to me. I don't like my hair is not my hair, and my skin is not my skin, and my body is not my body. I just feel like I miss feeling hot. I think I took for granted that I took a long time to love myself and the way I looked, and I was comfortable with it, and now I'm here, and it's like, whoa. This is crazy. Overall, it's going fine.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

Yeah. Sounds great.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

It's just my body hurts. It's just like it wasn't ready for all the weight it has to bear and be a hairdresser at the same time.

SPEAKER_05 5:06

Yeah, and you do have to stand on your feet all day.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

And the the carpal tunnel.

SPEAKER_05 5:12

Still know if I'm convinced on this one yet, but I hear you. I hear you.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

Okay, if not, it's still weird that my arm goes fully numb.

SPEAKER_05 5:21

The carpal tunnel.

SPEAKER_03 5:32

Oh's pregnancy going for you.

SPEAKER_05 5:42

That's great.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Is it?

SPEAKER_05 5:46

Yeah. Got my hot grill summer body going.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Yeah, you do. We are living in two separate worlds right now.

SPEAKER_05 6:00

You're like, I'm gonna be pregnant, but you should just like get in super good shape. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

You know, now you're like, this was a bad idea. Big picture. I should have thought that one through. I just didn't realize I thought I wouldn't I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know that like my body dysmorphia would be acting up the way that it is. I mean, I'm aware of what's happening with my body. I know I'm creating a person and this isn't forever, but it feels a little forever. Nine months is a long time. It's a technically 10. I mean it well, and my body hasn't been my body in a long time.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

It's gone by fast for me.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

We started IBF in February, so it's been over a year of my body not feeling like it's my own.

SPEAKER_05 6:56

It was February? I actually don't even remember. That feels like a lifetime ago.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Aware. Totally aware of that. Yeah. I've just been being pumped full of hormones for as long as I can remember.

SPEAKER_05 7:12

That's worked out great for the both of us, really.

SPEAKER_03 7:15

Primarily you, but yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:19

I was being sarcastic.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

I can feel her moving around. Her favorite times to move are 3 a.m. And at 3 a.m. when I'm driving, she loves being in the car. Really? I don't know what that's about, but she's getting in there in the car.

SPEAKER_05 7:37

Are you jamming?

SPEAKER_03 7:39

No, because I'm a podcaster right now. Sometimes it's music. Primarily it's podcasts. I don't. I think I like music when I'm in my hot girl body. Right now I'm not, so I'm just listening to people talk at me. Occasionally Billy Eilish and Mac Miller make their appearances, but no. When is her other favorite time? I was thinking about it today. When I'm shampooing people. I think because she's because you're like moving around or because she gets pressed up against the shampoo bowl. I'm starting to get too big for the shampoo bowl.

SPEAKER_05 8:17

Not quite sure what I'm gonna do. That's probably an issue, isn't it? That's people's favorite part.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

I know. I'm gonna have to go to the side. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

Yeah, can you do it from the side?

SPEAKER_03 8:29

Yes, but then we're going back into Yeah, I don't know. We're gonna just one day at a time here. That's really how I'm living my life in this moment.

SPEAKER_05 8:45

Say here, you're gonna have to wash your own hair.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Tara, come wash my client's hair for me.

SPEAKER_05 8:52

This is wand.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Um what have you what have we been watching?

SPEAKER_05 9:00

Uh we watched The Pit is Over. The Pit. Shout out the Pit, yo.

SPEAKER_03 9:07

Shout out the Pit.

SPEAKER_05 9:09

That was a really good series.

SPEAKER_03 9:11

I love that show. I heard people complaining about I heard a couple things today. People complained about this season.

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Why?

SPEAKER_03 9:20

I don't know. I mean, it's not as good as last season.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Really?

SPEAKER_03 9:26

I mean, to me, I love it either way, but just yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:31

I'm trying to remember.

SPEAKER_03 9:35

Last season was when we were meeting everything. It was like, you know, when you first start dating, it was first exciting.

SPEAKER_05 9:41

Everything was new, yeah.

unknown 9:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

Now we're in our second year, and it's still great, but less new and exciting. And I'm not quite sure how I feel about this journey with Robbie's mental health.

SPEAKER_05 9:54

Like I didn't like the new guy, the new people as much.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

Which new people?

SPEAKER_05 10:01

Oh, the new uh the girl. I like the Asian girl. I didn't like the Noble V.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Oh, I feel bad for him in the end.

SPEAKER_05 10:14

Yeah, you do kind of feel bad for him in the end.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

Um, how do you feel about the doctor who Alashimi? Yeah, wow, good job.

SPEAKER_05 10:26

Uh it sounds like if you're a doctor in that the ER in the pit it seems like you're pretty fucked up. It comes with trauma. Lots of trauma. So I think those people they need a good therapist.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

What hers we can't really talk about spoiler are alert.

SPEAKER_05 10:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Hers is not mental health.

SPEAKER_05 10:56

Yeah, but she's struggling mentally because of it.

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Yeah, true. I think it's just a lot. I heard a crazy thing today that people are shipping Mel, Dr. King, and Langdon. Like they're flirting. I don't feel like they're flirting.

SPEAKER_05 11:18

She flirts with him all the time. But isn't he married? Yeah, with a kid. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

Yeah, and people are like, ooh, sexual tension. For me, it's a little bit more than a little bit. Well, she's like autistic a little more mentee.

SPEAKER_05 11:29

She's a little bit autistic or like something, right?

SPEAKER_03 11:32

And her sister is. So are we just deciding she also?

SPEAKER_05 11:37

Well, she's just like really socially awkward.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

Yeah. I'm not shipping them. I don't like that.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Uh I had that vibe that they were gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

If he were single, I'd be like, oh, is this chemistry? But since he's not, I'm deciding it's mentor.

SPEAKER_05 11:57

I mean he's an addict.

SPEAKER_03 11:59

What does that have to do?

SPEAKER_05 12:00

He has poor judgment. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

You aren't incorrect. But I want the best for him. I like Langdon. Do you I don't like him? You know how I feel about addicts. I love them.

SPEAKER_05 12:16

I'm more so I liked uh the girl that doesn't like him.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

You liked the girl who Oh, really? Yeah. I have a love hate with her because she doesn't like him, and then I'm like, mmm, I don't like you. You're being mean to my friend.

SPEAKER_05 12:33

Yeah, but he was doing drugs on the clock, stealing from patients. Spoiler if you haven't seen the first season. There you go.

SPEAKER_03 12:43

Watch the pit. Because we're gonna talk about it a lot. We have to wait all the way until January.

SPEAKER_05 12:50

It's crazy that a whole season is just one day.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:56

I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_03 12:57

I couldn't do that job.

SPEAKER_05 12:59

I couldn't do that job either. Shout out to the people that do.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

I saw the House of Dragons is coming back soon. I think this is.

SPEAKER_05 13:09

Did we? Did we try and re-watch that?

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Yeah, and we quit. But we should continue before the new season. But because I think the new season is gonna be good.

SPEAKER_05 13:24

I mean, I'm down to see some dragons.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:28

Dragons are good. Dragons are great.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

Dragons are good. That sounds like a song.

SPEAKER_05 13:36

Could be our song. The new podcast theme song. Dragons are good.

SPEAKER_03 13:41

Dragons are great.

SPEAKER_05 13:42

Yeah. That's all we got. Um what? I don't know. I don't know where I was going.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

You look dead.

SPEAKER_05 13:53

Um, dude, for some reason I'm so tired today.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

Maybe it's because our dog slept with us and it was horrible.

SPEAKER_05 14:00

Yeah. You know, that's my fault a little bit because he slept with us like a couple nights ago, and he was just so cute and cuddly, and I was like, oh, we should do this more often. Look at you. No, last night he was the devil. And he's so stubborn, he won't move. So, like, I have to like kick him, and he'll just take it. He doesn't leave. So finally, I just like shoved my big toe into like his ribs and kept it there until he left. And it took a couple minutes.

SPEAKER_03 14:35

That is not why he left. I got up out of bed.

SPEAKER_05 14:39

Oh, well, he moved. Well, on to me. Oh, yeah. He was out of my way, so I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:46

I accidentally punched him in the face and I felt bad about it all day. Because I woke up and couldn't move my blankets, I couldn't roll over, he was just in the entire way. And I was like, you know, you're cute and I love you, but I don't have to do this.

SPEAKER_05 15:02

I was thinking that.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

So I got up and when I pet his head, cute, like, come on, Ziki, let's go. And then he, you know, he doesn't move. So then I went to pet him again, but he had actually gotten up and I clocked him right in the face. I heard his jaw like. I felt so bad.

SPEAKER_05 15:20

And then you made him leave.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Well, and then this morning when I got up, I always will let them in. Only Lila came in. He never came in.

SPEAKER_05 15:29

Oh, he was mad at you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

So that's how I knew. He was either tired from sleeping with us because he also doesn't sleep very well.

SPEAKER_05 15:39

Yeah, he moves a lot.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Or he was mad at me.

SPEAKER_05 15:42

But the other last time, he slept great. At least I thought he did, and maybe he didn't.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 15:50

Anyways, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

I'm torn because I love sleeping with him because he's so cute. But it's also it's better when we go when we leave you and we go sleep in the other room and we have mommy zeke time.

SPEAKER_05 16:03

Well, yeah, dude, because he just he cuddles so hard into my back. And then this will like extend his legs and push you. And I'm like, bro, no.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

Even when we sleep in the other bed together, I wake up on the edge and he's fully sprawled out over the entire bed.

SPEAKER_05 16:25

Not doing that.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Ziki's in timeout.

SPEAKER_05 16:27

Not doing that, bro.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

You went golfing with your friends somewhere cool. Tell us about it.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

Yeah, we went to uh it's called Terrace Lakes in Garden Valley. That was cool. I would go there again. 1010 recommend.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

How far away is it?

SPEAKER_05 16:45

Mm-hmm, like an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

That's far.

SPEAKER_05 16:48

Hour and 15 minutes. Not really. It almost takes me an hour to drive to warm springs.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

Yeah, but look at it from my P.O.V. You when you go golfing and you do it's all day. So then when you add the fact that it's an hour and a half there and an hour and a half back home.

SPEAKER_05 17:09

Yeah, but like unless we go play Red Hawk or Timberstone, like it's an hour to drive to one of the golf courses. Well, I guess not Ridgecrest.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Your drama. No, it is not. You're comparing our local golf courses to the one an hour and a half away.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

Well, yeah. If I have to drive across the town, that's like 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 17:34

Anyway.

SPEAKER_05 17:35

So it's not really that big of a deal, like that big of a difference. And it's a better scenery drive.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Are you gonna take me?

SPEAKER_05 17:42

Take you golfing there?

SPEAKER_03 17:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:44

And by golfing, I mean are you gonna I'm gonna take you there and drop you off at the pool.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

I don't want to go in the pool. I want to sit in the cart.

SPEAKER_05 17:53

And then I'm gonna go golfing. No, you can go.

SPEAKER_03 17:57

You haven't taken me golfing with you all season.

SPEAKER_05 17:59

That's because it's been too cold for you and you're a kind of a princess when it comes to the fair weather, gal.

SPEAKER_03 18:07

I go for the the scenery and the vibes, so I don't want to go in the cold. Good call. Good call. Don't take me to the city.

SPEAKER_05 18:17

I am aware. I'm aware. I know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

Then I'm gonna complain that I'm cold the whole time.

SPEAKER_05 18:24

Yeah, and then it's not gonna be fun for anybody.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

Whatever.

SPEAKER_05 18:30

Like Saturday was freaking cold. We got delayed an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Oh, I had a lovely time. I was at brunch with the ladies.

SPEAKER_05 18:39

Well, I had a lovely time. It was just cold. Frost delay, hour and a half.

SPEAKER_03 18:44

I went to brunch, Max and Louie's. Shout out, Max and Louie's.

SPEAKER_05 18:48

Did you get one of the coffees that's in the can that's like see-through?

SPEAKER_03 18:51

Okay, no. This is what happened.

SPEAKER_05 18:52

Did you see those things?

SPEAKER_03 18:53

Yes. And I was super excited to get one. I was thinking about it all week. Oh my gosh, how exciting. But we get there and they're like, it's an hour wait. And there's it's so tiny in there that you have no other option but to be outside.

SPEAKER_05 19:09

Wait, time out. I thought the girl got you guys a reservation. That's why you went so early on a Saturday.

SPEAKER_03 19:16

We did. But people kept bailing at the last minute. So then there was only what dude, five of us, and they don't let you have a reservation for that many people.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

For like not that many people?

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Basically, they dropped our reservation and said, just come. So we just went, and it was an hour. It wasn't though. They said it could be an hour, but so we walked around the corner to push and pour and got a coffee while we waited.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Uh so you didn't need a coffee after that.

SPEAKER_03 19:49

No. But because it's not like I'm crazy about my caffeine intake while I'm pregnant. I don't drink near what you're allowed. So, but the problem is I can feel caffeine now because I don't drink very much caffeine. So I was like, shit, I just had a coffee.

SPEAKER_05 20:06

I can't have Does it make you have to poop?

SPEAKER_03 20:08

No. It I can just feel like a rot, like jittery. Yeah. So I didn't get to have one.

SPEAKER_05 20:17

You would die on my pre-workout right now.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

My I'm living off of one cup of black coffee a day. Or black tea.

SPEAKER_05 20:27

If you drink coffee, you drink like a quarter of a coffee.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

I drink an Earl Grey every day. That's it. So but I want to go together.

SPEAKER_05 20:35

To Max and Louise?

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Yeah, and have one of the it's a matcha. Strawberry cheesecake matcha.

SPEAKER_05 20:42

I don't know if I like matcha. It's a little earthy to me. You know? Oh yeah. When we went there, we all got when we went golfing, we all had a bloody merry. Me, Mike, and Ross.

SPEAKER_03 20:56

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 20:57

And then I was like, you guys like olives? And they were like, oh, I love olives.

SPEAKER_03 21:01

Black or green?

SPEAKER_05 21:02

These were green olives. And I was like, oh, I hate olives. They're disgusting. They're like, no, you should try it. Just eat it. And I'm like, no, I know I don't like them. I tried it.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

Wait, aren't they stuffed with blue cheese?

SPEAKER_05 21:17

These ones weren't, but they were what's red? Pimento? Oh, yeah. Is that what it's? I think so, yeah. Yeah. It was, yeah. Um, and I ate it. And dude, those suckers were big. Still not a fan.

SPEAKER_03 21:33

Yeah. I'm kind of surprised you had a bloody Mary.

SPEAKER_05 21:37

Oh, I know. I me too, but they did, so I was like, I'll do it. I'm not a big bloody Mary guy. I do like a red beer though. It's weird. I think it's the vodka.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

I know, that's what's strange. You don't drink liquor. Like, what's that? When's the last time you had liquor?

SPEAKER_05 21:53

Then?

SPEAKER_03 21:54

I mean before then.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Uh Carly's birthday?

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Oh yeah. The infamous shot.

SPEAKER_05 22:04

When I had a shot with Phil that you got mad about.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Still mad.

SPEAKER_05 22:08

When Phil bought a shot for me. I had nothing to do with that.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

Speaking of Phil, Sam texted me today and said, Did you watch the Are you watching Euphoria? And that's when I realized we missed the new episode. Oh yeah. We can't even talk about the new episode right now.

SPEAKER_05 22:23

We'll have to watch that right now. When we leave this. When we leave this establishment. Should I tell the people my secret I've been keeping? Oh, I have to know.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

What?

SPEAKER_05 22:39

People, I've been keeping a secret from you guys. And I am on sauce. But take a steroids. I'm just kidding. But I am on peptides.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Yeah, you are.

SPEAKER_05 22:55

Yeah, I am.

SPEAKER_03 22:56

He has plucking abs basically right now, you guys. And I'm a whale.

SPEAKER_05 23:00

Yeah. Shout out the peptides. I wasn't gonna I was gonna not say anything until I was done.

SPEAKER_03 23:07

I know I told you you need the point of our podcast is we talk about our current events in our lives.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

I know, but I just wanted to like show up to people and then then be like, oh, you look different, but Oh nobody.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

But how'd you lose 40 pounds?

SPEAKER_05 23:21

Nobody's said that to me yet, though.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

Really? No one has said anything to you? You look so different.

SPEAKER_05 23:28

No, people have said things to me, but um yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Do you want to tell them all about it?

SPEAKER_05 23:37

I mean I don't even really know. I'm on I'm on like three different peptides. Well, actually more than that, but I take three injections.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Damn, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_05 23:51

But one of them is like a mixture of a couple things. I'm on uh redotrutide, tesamorin, and clo. It's pretty cool, but it's pretty crazy how much different my body feels.

SPEAKER_03 24:08

Yeah, how are you feeling? Tell tell the class.

SPEAKER_05 24:10

Well, I feel sleepy right now, but this is kind of the first time. Uh I just moved up to three milligrams of my Retta for the week, and that is is it's hitting me.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Like what?

SPEAKER_05 24:28

So it suppresses your appetite, and dude, I'm having a hard time eating. Like it it's nice because like the food noise goes away, so you don't really have like the hunger cues, or like, you know, when you're like, oh I'm so I just know like okay, I leave the gym, drink my per my protein shake, and then like between like 9 and 10, I try and eat my overnight oats, and that's so hard because I'm so full, and I'm just like I just like eat on a schedule, and it's hard because like I said, my appetite has been cut, but I'm still trying to get like 200 grams of protein a day, which is hard just to begin with. So trying to do that with like my appetite being non-existent is challenging, and then the problem is if if you overeat, you get like nauseous.

SPEAKER_03 25:28

You're like in your first trimester of pregnancy.

SPEAKER_05 25:30

Yeah, basically. Except for I'm growing muscles instead of a baby.

SPEAKER_03 25:36

Yeah.

unknown 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:38

I was pretty skeptical at first, but yeah. It's going well.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

What's crazy is I haven't lost as much weight as I thought I would. Like, I've lost a pretty significant amount of weight.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

Visually, you have. Like yesterday when we were cooking, I would like looked over at you and you're where your belly used to poke out with your shirt. It's gone.

SPEAKER_05 26:01

Yeah, my clothes fit different. And I noticed that like weeks ago, like everything's getting tighter in like my arms and my chest.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Well, and yeah, you've been consistent with what you're eating. You eat really clean, minus when I make us get tacos.

SPEAKER_05 26:18

I mean, tacos are healthy, right?

SPEAKER_03 26:21

And you work out every day.

SPEAKER_05 26:23

Yeah. Well, five days a week.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

Which I've been really impressed with your consistency.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

Yeah, it's been I've been working out every day for 10 weeks now.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

We're in such different lives, it's like we flip-flopped. Because now I'm the one that it's hard. Yeah. The gym is so hard right now.

SPEAKER_05 26:41

Yep. I've been pretty consistent in the gym. I've been a ri I'm a regular. I'm an old guy that showers, showers in the the gym before I go to work. But yeah, eight weeks.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

This is my-do, and then what, you just stop?

SPEAKER_05 26:58

This is my eighth week. I think I I got another vial of Retta. I think I might just like hit 12 weeks and stay at three milligrams because that's a lot for me. Some people take dude, some people are like six milligrams. Uh I think the clinical trial was 12 milligrams a week, which seems insane to me because I felt it as soon as I did my first week at point five, I had a hard time eating. And then remember, I got sick and I thought that it was the peptides, but I really just had like the flu. Crazy timing.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

I had the flu and thought it was just pregnancy.

SPEAKER_05 27:41

Yeah, but uh, yeah, so eight weeks, uh 12 weeks cycle is what I'm doing. So I think I have mo uh enough to go over the 12 weeks. I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna continue at the dose I'm at for the next four weeks, and then I'm gonna wean myself back down, and then whatever.

SPEAKER_03 28:07

And then you just like completely don't take it anymore at all?

SPEAKER_05 28:11

Not not the red. I don't have to, I guess. I guess we'll see what happens. A lot of people say that, or a lot of people like will gain all their weight back as soon as they get off it because they're hungry against it. The food noise comes back, and they don't know how to control that. But I think I think I'm all I'll be alright because I've already I've already created this like lifestyle basically of like what I'm eating, what I'm meal prepping. Like I'm already doing it, so what's the difference? I might as well just continue to keep doing it. Yeah, I can't I can't eat like I used to eat.

SPEAKER_03 28:48

No, it used to drive me crazy when we go to a restaurant and you get a like a giant meal that for me would be like three meals. You would eat the whole thing in one sitting and then be like I'm like a dumb I don't feel good.

SPEAKER_05 29:00

Don't leave any food on the plate kind of guy.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

No. You have leftovers. Dude, and like what is that like?

SPEAKER_05 29:08

Well, we don't really eat out that much. I know. Boring. But alcohol. But alcohol has definitely changed my drinking. Like, not that I was drinking a lot, but like I have a couple beers and it just does not sit good. And like I don't crave it. Like sometimes I'd be like, man, I just want to long day, I just want to go home and have a beer. It's like not even really sounding good. I had I had I don't know, probably five or so beers when we went golfing, when I went golfing with the boys. Uh and that was cool, but that was like all day. But I've noticed that so with the Retta, it slows down your digestion, your digestive tract. And so like the carbonation will sit in your stomach longer.

SPEAKER_02 30:08

Give you the bubbleguts.

SPEAKER_05 30:09

Yeah. You gotta be careful. Gots to be careful. But if any of you are interested or have questions about the peptide world, uh feel free to reach out to me.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Yeah, he knows everything. I got I should know everything because he tells me everything, but I just black out.

SPEAKER_05 30:30

And there's a lot of like it's really cool because I mean RFK and the administration right now are really pushing hard to get a bunch of the peptides, I think it's 12 or 16 of them, uh, FDA approved. Because right now they're not FDA approved, which doesn't really mean a whole lot, right? You know how the FDA is, but um but that way compounding pharmacies can make it again, and it it'll be a lot easier for people to get because right now you have to get it through like a gray market or the black market. But uh as long as you can find a trusted source and you know it's uh it's getting tested where I get my stuff from, um it's third-party tested, so it's all good. So you just gotta be careful with what you're putting into your body, people. Do some research.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Yeah, you do a lot of research.

SPEAKER_05 31:31

Dude, and the injections I thought were gonna suck. I'm kind of getting over I'm kind of getting tired of them. I had to stop injecting myself in the stomach.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

I tried to compare his experience to IVF and I almost divorced him.

SPEAKER_05 31:44

I mean, I have taken more injections than you had.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

Oh, there's no way. We're not getting into this again. We're moving on. I have I didn't pick a story, so I was just gonna read some to you and tell me which one pops out to you.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

That's fair.

SPEAKER_03 32:03

Um I think this one has an update. Am I an asshole if I demand my boyfriend to stop talking with his ex?

SPEAKER_05 32:15

Seems just like a reasonable thing to ask somebody you're serious with. Ooh, I took that fit the what is that? The fish pill?

SPEAKER_02 32:30

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 32:32

Omega 3, is that what it's called? And I just burped and that was disgusting. I almost just threw up. It tasted like fish.

SPEAKER_03 32:41

What the heck? Am I the asshole for not wanting to help with house bills after my boyfriend's mother claimed ownership of my dog?

SPEAKER_05 32:49

What read that, that sounds weird.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

See how long it is. Oof, nope. Wait, it's so long. No, we're not doing that. Sorry, Marty people.

SPEAKER_05 33:08

Well, just go to the first one then. Let's just let's just do our thing so we can go watch Euphoria.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

Sorry, people Okay, let's see. Well, let's see how long this one is. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

I don't even remember what you said. Oh no, it's just the update.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Oh okay. Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 33:39

I think maybe you should have prepared a little better.

SPEAKER_03 33:44

Well, I was in here trying to prepare, and then you came in and were like, okay, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_05 33:49

And so we're in your Well, technically I tried to do the podcast yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

When? When would you have liked to do that? I had you doing so many chores.

SPEAKER_05 33:58

I don't know, maybe somewhere between where you were trying to get me to hang up 5,000 different shelves in this house. Ashley thinks everything we do needs a shelf.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Not even getting into it.

SPEAKER_05 34:14

We need a shelf. We need a picture. If there's a wall, it needs holes put in it. That's what the deal is. And I was already frustrated because I was trying to build CeC's freaking toy box.

SPEAKER_03 34:30

I wish I should have recorded you.

SPEAKER_05 34:32

Oh, dude, I was about to break. Well, I did break it.

SPEAKER_03 34:35

Oh, I won okay. I wanted this story and I lost it and I found it again. Here we go.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

Yeah, shout out Aunt Ellie for the toy box that Jord made. Toy box slash bookshelf that Jord made yesterday, and I thought he was going to throw it out a window at one point.

SPEAKER_05 34:54

It only took me three freaking hours to build only to find out I put two shelves in upside down, which were very important shelves, because there's doors on those shelves, and huh, if they're not in the right way, guess what? The freaking doors don't fit.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

Yeah, you had to take it apart.

SPEAKER_05 35:13

I had to take it all the way apart. Why would you make me do that the last step?

SPEAKER_03 35:20

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 35:21

I and I got angry and I opened it too fast.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

You broke it.

SPEAKER_05 35:26

I broke it a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 35:27

It's fine though. It's working.

SPEAKER_05 35:29

It's still sturdy.

SPEAKER_03 35:30

Yeah, it's fine. Okay, Renny. My sister has been saying she and her husband are broke to seemingly take advantage of everyone, myself included. And I just found out they're not broke at all.

SPEAKER_05 35:40

Oh, sons of bitches.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

All right, just want to preface this by saying my sister is my write or die, and I love her so much. I always thought we were so close, and this really just feels like a betrayal of my trust, and I don't know what to do. So, like the title says, my 35 female sister, 25 female, has been saying basically since she graduated college that she and her husband, 28 male, are broke. Like they've always complained about not being able to go shopping like they want or whatever. And they always say, We're just so broke, you know. My husband, 36 male and and I accepted that as fact, and so did everyone else in our lives. My parents pay for her stuff all the time, like taxes, car repairs, etc. And whenever we meet up for family dinner, they always take Sashar Gibbon basically all the leftovers because oh, they're just so broke. Like basically all the furniture in their rental house came from my parents. My parents paid for their wedding and his parents paid for their honeymoon. My sister's always been kind of stingy with gifting for others, complaining to have complained about having to buy a $20 Lego set for a nephew, but asked for a $500 perfume for Christmas. Personally, I have always gotten them generous gifts because A, she's my sister, and B, I kind of felt bad for her. Always gift giving. Also, gift giving is my love language, but I digress. She recently told me that she and her husband are not in fact broke at all. They have no debt. And no, they weren't paying off student loans or a house or a wedding. They never had any debt to begin with. My sister's been saving half of her paycheck, and they now have a nice chunk of money in savings and in retirement. Like six figures. Damn. And she continues to go on about how they have all this money and that she knows that my parents think they're broke, and when they just offer to pay for her stuff, she accepts it. And when I asked her why she does this and says she's always broke, she said because her and her husband are on a strict budget. So when she spends all of the money for food or fun or whatever category, there's no money to save. So they just say they're broke because they're out of money to spend that month. I thought they were literally living paycheck to paycheck. I was absolutely stunned and didn't know what to say, so I just kind of nodded along and let her carry the conversation elsewhere. I feel like she and her husband have been taking advantage of everyone's goodwill, especially my parents and probably his parents, for years. This has just been left a really bad taste in my mouth. Do I say something to her? Do I say something to my mom? I don't know what to do, and I feel sad and lied to. Is this a thing people do? I get not wanting to flaunt your wealth, but I feel like constantly saying you're broke and accepting money from others is different. Maybe I'm off base here and have maybe I'm off base base here and this behavior is normal.

SPEAKER_05 38:38

Okay. Two things. Shout out her for sticking to a budget, though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

Like save six figures.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

Like, okay. On the other hand, bad. Naughty, naughty, naughty. That's so fucked up. Just taking advantage of your friends, your family like that. Like, come on. But I do commend you for being able to be like, oh, I spent my allowance. Like, there's no more. I don't have any more money.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

I'm broke.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

So I mean, technically, she was broke.

SPEAKER_03 39:11

Technically, she was broke.

SPEAKER_05 39:13

She doesn't have any money to spend. She's living within her means. But also taking advantage of her family is really fucked up. She, I feel like they should have been like, look, we have these goals. We're trying to save money. We're trying to do these things. Well, I guess they wouldn't have been able to because they would have had to pay for their wedding and all this other thing.

SPEAKER_03 39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

So. Did they say they bought them a house too or an apartment? Um all the furniture in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_03 39:48

My parents pay for her stuff all the time. Like taxes, car repairs. Whenever they meet up for dinner, they're basically giving it all the leftovers. All the furniture in their house is from their parents. That's what it was. My parents paid for their wedding and his parents paid for their honeymoon.

SPEAKER_05 40:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:05

And who knows, maybe if you were like just I can't decide if this is like this is she's smart.

SPEAKER_05 40:11

Yeah, but also that's kind of fucked up.

SPEAKER_03 40:14

She is piggybacking off of her parents.

SPEAKER_05 40:18

I don't know how But honestly, maybe if she was just open with her parents to begin with, because it sounds like they have no problem paying for her stuff. So maybe if she was just like, hey, look, it's not that we can't afford to pay for these things, but like we're trying to save money, we're trying to have better retirement. I mean, I'm We're trying to buy a house in this economy, you know.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Like gassing them up for being able to pay six figures, but like we would be able to save that much money too if we didn't have any bills?

SPEAKER_05 40:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

We just were like taking everything from the people closest to us all the time.

SPEAKER_05 40:56

Yeah, pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

Would you tell your mom? Would you tell your parents?

SPEAKER_05 41:00

If I was a sister.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

It sucks because how do you have this conversation without seeming like jealous or I would I think I would be like, bro, you need to tell you to tell mom and dad that you actually have.

SPEAKER_05 41:15

That you guys are doing good. Because honestly, like maybe her parents are sad that they sh they think that she's not doing good and like she's working hard, she went to college, like I don't know. I'd be like, bro. Or I'd be like hey, tell mom and dad how you have six figures in your savings account.

SPEAKER_03 41:38

That is smart because if you if you do it on the back end without her, now you're just a bitch.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

Top comment. I would tell both sets of parents. For all you know, they have changed their wills and will leave everything to them since they are quote so broke. For all you know, your parents are draining their savings faster than they thought to help her out. I would stop helping out. If your sister and husband have a sizable nest egg, retirement accounts, it is on them to decide if they want to increase the amount they spend on monthly things or not. She is like scamming her family.

SPEAKER_05 42:24

Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm like, that's fucked up.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

She's scamming her family and also like living within a budget. And like, because in my head I'm like, you're living within a budget and you don't have the money to go to lunch, but your family's going.

SPEAKER_05 42:43

Why wouldn't you be like Yeah, that's one that's one thing. Whatever. That's one thing.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Oh, I'm out of my budget, mom, pay for my lunch.

SPEAKER_05 42:53

Yeah, because like think about when we go to dinner or go out with either one of like go out with our parents. Like, they don't let us pay, anyways. Like, my mom equent, don't let us pay. Like, every time we go out with your dad, he doesn't let us pay.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

I want to know how much money they had in their account in their savings when they let their parents pay for their wedding and their money.

SPEAKER_05 43:14

That's the part that I was gonna get at. Like going out to eat with your family is one thing if they want to pay for that, whatever. But the pay my taxes and my car. Yeah. That's not okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

Next comment. No quote, ride or die would be so thoroughly comfortable scamming money from her sister and parents. She told you her secret with pride. Tell your folks they deserve to know all the facts, the full context before they give her another penny. Tell them, tell them how she defines broke. How can you and your family not see how selfish and manipulative she has likely been all her life? I'm betting she's never never hidden. Who or what she is. OP responds, she was really proud and excited to be telling me. How did you know? Well, yeah, she's like, Hell yeah, bitch, I got six figures in the bank, right?

SPEAKER_05 44:12

Yeah, it's kind of crazy she came out and told it.

SPEAKER_03 44:16

Well, it's I bet it was like an ego thing where she's been playing this poor little girl. And in reality, she's not. And her ego eventually came out and was like, bitch, I'm rich as fuck. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:32

That's why I want that $500 perfume.

SPEAKER_03 44:36

Yeah. Yeah. Let me see if we have any more comments from. Oh, that's the only one she can do.

SPEAKER_05 44:47

Also, what would make perfume $500 a bottle? Is that that Sex Panther or what?

SPEAKER_03 44:54

The hell is Sex Panther.

SPEAKER_05 44:57

Good, good.

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Now someone asks, why did she tell you? Why now? Why not carry on the long con? Someone says she's possibly forgotten that it's a con. She feels entitled and proud of the savings, even though she hasn't really earned it. For having a quote, strict budget. She isn't actually budgeting because she has no pressure to stay within it or adjust it. She just whines to her parents and gets money. We know someone like that. Somebody that I used to know anyway. Somebody that used to know. Hmm. Crazy. I wish we could know what happens. I'm gonna go to her page and see.

SPEAKER_05 45:40

Update. My sister is no longer in the wheel.

SPEAKER_03 45:45

Oh, we do have an update. Ooh. Thanks for all the comments with advice. This update is probably gonna be a letdown. In case I wasn't clear, I'm shocked my sister would act like this, and I felt so guilty that my parents would be in the dark. I was really overwhelmed, but I decided to listen to the comments and I talked to my mom today. She was initially shocked and said she had no idea that she had money like that. She then claimed she has only paid for her car insurance in the past year. She didn't know what she wanted to do with that information. I told her how I felt taken advantage of and she agreed with how I felt. She wasn't mad herself though. Then said, Well, now you know how they are and you don't have to give them anything. So I don't know where that leaves me. My sister made it sound like she was getting more from my parents, but I don't want to pry more and piss people off. So I guess this is where the story ends for now. I'll update if anything else happens.

SPEAKER_05 46:39

So is the sister jealous?

SPEAKER_03 46:42

That's what I was trying to say. Like it sucks because it almost seems like she's coming off jealous, but in reality, she's like, A, she could be jealous, and B, I've been supplementing your ass, and you have more money than me.

SPEAKER_05 46:56

Yeah, I mean, that's annoying. I would be pissed too. But also when she she just sounded let down that her mom was like, Oh, I only paid for a car entrance, like. So maybe her sister was ignorant.

SPEAKER_03 47:11

Well, no, because now she's confused. Because she's like, We only paid for a car entrance. Are you lying to me, or is she lying to me because she's been she makes it seem like you pay for a lot of things for her?

SPEAKER_05 47:24

Or maybe she was trying to make her sister jealous.

SPEAKER_03 47:27

So I don't understand why the mom isn't more mad.

SPEAKER_05 47:31

I mean, she obviously she can't be that dumb. Like let's think about it. I don't know what she does, but she has a degree. It sounds like they must have like pretty decent jobs if they're able to save put that kind of money away. They don't have a house, they don't have bills. So, like obviously that they have to be doing something with their money.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05 48:01

They're not going out to eat all the time. Like you'd have to imagine, like, they're not poor.

SPEAKER_03 48:07

Yeah, so the sister was just kind of blindsided where the mom's known all along.

SPEAKER_01 48:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

That makes sense. That pissed me off. I would have a hard time not bringing it up over and over again. Like when we'd go out to eat, I'd be like, oh, you want to pay for all of us since we've been paying for you this whole time? I think it's time you pay it forward. I want a I want a $500 perfume for Christmas. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:36

Gift wrapped in a Louis bag.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

I would have a hard time not being petty moving forward. I'm sad that this for me would probably be like, she said they're super tight, and I would have a hard time with this relationship after that. Like, you've been lying to me this whole time. I thought we were best friends.

SPEAKER_04 48:52

Oh, money, money ruins.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

It's always money.

SPEAKER_04 48:56

Money, money, money.

SPEAKER_03 48:58

Oh, well, that's all we have for you guys.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

Yeah, dogs.

SPEAKER_03 49:02

Thanks for coming. You didn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_05 49:07

Yeah. Thanks for coming on the journey this week. Anyways, thank you guys. We'll see y'all on the next one. Like it, subscribe to it, share with a friend, and give somebody a hug.

SPEAKER_01 49:24

Peace.