Hot Takes & Weird Reddit Stories w/ Nicole & Hayley

Hot Takes & Weird Reddit Stories - In our second episode, Seán Connolly welcomes Nicole O’Connor and Hayley to The Green Room! They talk about college friendships, milestone birthdays and new beginnings all before things heat up as the gang plays a game of Hot Takes or Hot Fakes, where we submit our own hot takes along with some hot takes found online to see if we can spot if it’s a hot take or a hot fake! Later on, Seán reads out some Am I The A**hole? Reddit Stories and Nicole and Hayley dish out some spicy verdicts on these rather unusual Reddit tales over things like not attending a coworker’s pre-funeral or laughing at a cat.

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Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/nicoleoconor/ 

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Instagram: https://instagram.com/h.ayley.m 
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@h.ayley.m

Transcript

Introduction

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Can we like create like a jingle for you?

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Three of us together. Three, two, one.

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The green room.

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Why was that beautiful? Why do we harmonize?

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Perfect musical talent here on the show. Hello there and welcome to the Green Room, episode two, brought to you by the Tri Channel. My name is John Connolly, and I shall be on hosting duties today. And with me, I'm joined by two wonderful guests, the lovely Nicole and Haley. Hey guys.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Hello.

SPEAKER_04 0:41

Welcome to our lovely set. I know.

SPEAKER_03 0:44

So different. What in the world? I'm like, this is very professional. I know we are professionals, but I'm like, what in the world?

SPEAKER_01 0:51

You guys bought a couch.

SPEAKER_04 0:52

We bought a couch and an armchair. And I think we're all just still getting used to the fact that there's no table here. There's no emotional support table.

SPEAKER_02 1:01

We've no safety net now. I have this arm here. Like that's nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:04

It is nice, yeah. It's nice. Nice and soft and chill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a lot of emotional support furniture we have here today.

SPEAKER_02 1:09

Yeah, and we can grip on like this if I need it. Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:13

So for anyone who's just tuning in and maybe isn't aware of the Tri-Channel, hello, new audience. Um, do you guys want to give yourselves a brief little intro?

SPEAKER_01 1:20

I'm like, who am I? Who are we? I'm spun into an existential crisis now.

SPEAKER_04 1:24

I'm like John, you weren't supposed to ask, who are we?

SPEAKER_01 1:29

That wasn't part of the plan. I'm like, who am I anyway? Am I my resume?

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Oh, that takes us back. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

Okay, well, maybe that's a good place. We're both theater kids. We're both theater kids, yes. Um, myself and Haley, we we went to acting college together. We go back 13 years. Yeah, 2014 is when we met.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Yes. Yeah. So I I'm not in the maths on that. That's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, that's but we go back. We go way back. Yeah, so we're both. I I mean, I wouldn't really call myself an actress anymore, but I am a I don't know, a creative. I mean, I'm so creative.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

We're influencers, we're creatives, we're we make things.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

We are the people, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just idiots with a camera, basically. Yeah, um, and that's how I started doing trying videos on the internet. I literally answered like a casting notice, and then it just evolved into this. You've been we've both been with try from the very beginning.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Yes, and then I took a break, obviously, because I moved to London, and then I took a break because I moved to Berlin. Yeah, there you go. Then I'm back a year now, I think. Yeah, crazy. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 2:35

So, guys,

What's News With You?

SPEAKER_04 2:36

uh what we're gonna do to kick things off, just you know, to have a little bit of a chat or an update. Um, we're just gonna see, you know, has there been anything going on in your lives? Is there anything that's been bugging you recently? Really, we just want to ask, what's news with you?

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Ah, I see what you did there.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

Very clever news.

SPEAKER_04 2:54

You'll you'll see across this podcast that we're uh very proud, very proud of the names that we have for segments. I see. And uh, whatever about the actual segments themselves. Once the names are good puns, and Colin is in the oh, I've just banged on my mic.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

You've just run everything.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

I've ruined everything. Start from scratch. Start from scratch. Uh Colin is in the background here. So if anyone makes a particularly good pun, I think you might hear an applause or like a shout of appreciation. Sounds like live. Yes, yeah. This podcast is filmed in front of a live studio Colin.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Hey, so reassuring. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 3:29

So, Nicole, what's news with you?

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Um, well, I turned 30 recently. One of us. One of us.

SPEAKER_04 3:39

Yeah, I'm also 34.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

Yeah. Though I I will stand by the fact that I'm not yet in my 30s. I am 30. When I'm 31, then I'm in my 30s. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:51

Yeah, no, I can confirm. Yeah. As a 34-year-old, I can confirm that's pretty much when it happens. Yeah. You're technically still in your 20s when you're 30.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 3:59

Yeah, that's how it works.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Yeah. Yeah. Like 30s to new 27. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:03

That's a that's how that's how numbers work.

SPEAKER_01 4:04

That's it's exactly how numbers work.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

It absolutely is. And you know what? Anyone who disagrees is wrong.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Is wrong.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

Haley, what's news with you?

SPEAKER_02 4:11

With me, well, I have completely done a 360 on life and I've turned it upside down, to be quite frank. I had a very stable corporate girly job, and I just walked in one day and I said, you know what? Good luck. So I quit my corporate job.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

Suck it, corporate big corporate. Is that what that would be called?

SPEAKER_02 4:27

Yeah, that's it. They like their way of saying it. Yes. Big business. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. How about no business? Yeah. Yeah, no business. That was awful. I didn't even get a clap from Colin there. But that was okay, good. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_04 4:40

You've branched out into something else.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

So I'm traveling around Ireland now with the lottery, weirdly enough.

SPEAKER_04 4:48

Very cool.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

So very, very different. I've seen all my socials. I was like, is that Haley? Yeah. That absolute melts. That's there going. It could be you. That's me. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

That's funny because I years ago um I used to do a lot of voiceover stuff. And I at one point did a little voiceover thing for a lotto ad. I think it was like the first voiceover thing I ever got. Yeah. Oh. And it was like now you can listen online anywhere with the national lottery. That's that definitely wasn't exactly what it was. Uh but I can't remember what it was. But uh yeah, that's really cool. So we need to go to you for the numbers, is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Everybody is saying this. Listen, if I had the numbers, you would never see me again. But there would be signs of me having those numbers.

SPEAKER_04 5:29

There would be signs, just a very tall hat.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Many, many cats. All the cats. All the cats.

SPEAKER_04 5:33

Cool. Right. Well, I think we'll maybe kick things off with our first segment.

Hot Takes or Hot Fakes - Introduction

SPEAKER_04 5:37

So uh before the show, we asked both Haley and Nicole to send us in a controversial opinion or a hot take, if you will. And uh what we've gotten done is uh I've brought one myself, uh, but we've also gotten three fakes, hot fakes, if you will, from the internet, and we've jumbled them all up together. And uh what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read out each of these, and uh guys, I'm gonna get you to decide whether it's a hot take or a hot fake.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Oh do we get the guess whose is who potentially for each of these?

SPEAKER_04 6:09

Uh you are going to basically just give me your reaction. We can have a little bit of chat about what we think. Okay. And then at the end of it, uh, tell me whether you think it's a hot take or a hot fake. We you won't know whether it's any of the ones we've given, uh, but I will reveal at the end of each one whose it is.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Okay. I'm scared. So scared.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Because I get multiple, so I'm like, you said I was thinking, I was going, who do I hate? What do I hate?

SPEAKER_04 6:33

You were you were like tackling like the big issues of today, and I was like, what these Raymond is prepared.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

I did have a list, but then I was like, no, just one.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Let's go in like kind of easy. So yeah, no, I went straight for the the gut.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Let's do number one.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 6:49

Take

Hot Take or Hot Fake - Sitcom Laugh Tracks

SPEAKER_04 6:50

one. Sitcom laugh tracks are actually a good thing, and modern comedy shows are worse without them.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Oh. I'm gonna say well, the thing is, is that like do they want this for every sitcom? Like, is it just sitcoms that they want the laugh track?

SPEAKER_04 7:09

Just sitcoms, yeah. So, like, I think when you're thinking of the classic sitcoms like a Seinfeld. Seinfeld Friends, you know, we've all grown up watching all those shows, and a laugh track is like the DNA part of it, and it doesn't seem to be as much anymore. I think you know, modern stuff like well, I say modern, I was gonna say Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle, which are in the region of 30 years old. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. But they I think I think it's like the multi-cam versus single cam. I don't entirely know the exact lingo, but yeah, do you think uh laugh tracks are a good thing? Do you miss them? Do you want to bring them back?

SPEAKER_02 7:43

I think it's a time and a place kind of thing. Yeah, 100%. Because you know yourself, like being in theater, if you hear people laughing, it kind of eggs you on and it kind of gives you that like drive to do better.

SPEAKER_01 7:53

But then there's also the time where like you couldn't be watching Fair City, and then though then again, actually, do you think so? I think Fair City could benefit from a ooze. The chipper got robbed.

SPEAKER_04 8:08

Ooh, then it becomes like a panto crowd. Oh no, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

It changes the tone.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Yeah, Fair City, for those of you who don't know, outside of Ireland, a very popular uh long-running soap drama. Soap opera, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

It's like what East Enders is to England, what like Days of Our Lives is to America.

SPEAKER_04 8:27

Very fairly so uh sitcom laugh tracks were actually a good thing, and modern comedy shows are worse without them. Is this a hot take or a hot fake? So do we, if it's a hot take, no, if it's a hot take, it's come from one of the three of us.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Um if it's a hot fake, it's come from one of three. Oh, it's a hot fake, definitely. Yeah, 100%. We're too crazy to come up with something that's very tame.

SPEAKER_04 8:48

Okay, yeah. Guys, I can tell you, it's a hot fake.

SPEAKER_03 8:52

We know, we know you're gonna smash this.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

Yeah, it's I mean, this maybe maybe we didn't make the the right choices in this, but uh I guess I guess we're just gonna have to find out. Oh, geez, my first time hosting it, and it's all come down to this.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

And it's your last time hosting it. There we go.

SPEAKER_04 9:07

Oh, it's coming back next time, don't worry.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

Uh see that's nice.

SPEAKER_04 9:13

That was good. That was that was that worked on many levels, guys. Take

Hot Take or Hot Fake - Pressure to Hit Milestones

SPEAKER_04 9:16

number two. Okay, the pressure placed on our generation to hit milestones and life goals is ruining our lives. Hot take or hot fake.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Okay, well, I don't think this is like a a new struggle, you know, because like when my nana was like 21, she got married because that's what everyone did. Do you know what I mean? So, like, and you know, not for her, but uh you could argue getting married at 21 and having loads of kids could ruin your life if you're a certain type of person, you know.

SPEAKER_04 9:49

Well, yeah, especially I guess, you know, back in the day. I'm gonna say back in the day a lot in this.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

I'm sorry to say that it's because it's because we're 30.

SPEAKER_04 9:58

Yeah. But yeah, I okay, let's say back in the day, maybe 50, 60, 70 years ago, yeah, it was very much like you know, you had your fun in your teens and your twenties, and then uh you die. Yeah, then die. Yeah. Uh well yeah, back in the day you would have had your fun in your teens and your twenties, and then it was just expected you settle down, you got your person, you had your kids, you bought a house, because that was a thing you used to be able to do quite, you know, easily, easily easily, yeah, can't relate. Uh, and then that was it, that was your life. And obviously it worked out for some people who like fell in love and truly found the person they wanted to be. And a lot of people just kind of were like, Well, this person seems to be, you know, functional. Well, I guess we'll just have a family together or whatever. So uh, yeah, but so do you you think that's more of a uh multi-generational problem?

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Yeah, I I'd say I would argue that actually there's a little less pressure these days. I think we're more lenient. I think there's way more avenues that people can live their lives. I think so.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

I'm the opposite. I do see what you're saying, but I think because we have social media, we're seeing what other people are doing. And maybe it's just like a personal thing. But if I see like a friend has bought a house, a friend got married, I'm like, oh my days, I can't even book an appointment in the doctors myself. Help.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

I get that, but I feel like that's more of a social media issue then because we're all seeing each other.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

It's a suspicious circle.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Yeah, it's a it's a different thing. I feel like with social media, the world is now opened up to us, so you can see how other people are living their lives, but then it also means you can really see how everyone is living their lives. Everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:32

You know, people used to be able to just not see everything, and that was fine. That was, you know, uh you weren't able to compare yourself as much. Maybe maybe that's what it was. Uh, but so guys, the pressure placed in our generation to hit milestones and life goals is ruining our lives. Hot take or hot fake?

SPEAKER_01 11:46

It's a hot take, surely.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

What do we think?

SPEAKER_01 11:49

I think it's a hot fake.

SPEAKER_04 11:50

You're going for hot fake?

SPEAKER_01 11:51

I'm going for hot fake.

SPEAKER_04 11:52

Haley, you're saying hot take?

SPEAKER_01 11:53

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 11:54

I can tell you, it's a hot take.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

Oh, was it yours?

SPEAKER_04 11:58

And it's Hayley's hot take.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

You go more crazy. Oh, I did. No, I did. Yeah, I gave in like multiple. I was going like maybe this low to the high time.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

Hayley was close to sending in a manifesto about the problems of the world. And you know what? Yeah, maybe that's another episode.

SPEAKER_03 12:13

It was this morning. And then you were like, no, no, no, that's fine, that's fine. I see that. You keep steering on, you're like, oh my god. And another thing pineapple does belong on pizza.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

Like I wanted five hours to tell the world what I think. Uh cool, okay. Let's go move let's move on. Our next

Hot Take or Hot Fake - Catching Up

SPEAKER_04 12:28

take saying we should catch up soon when you have no intention of following through should be treated the same as lying.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

I don't agree with this. I don't either.

SPEAKER_04 12:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

Being an adult is hard. Very, very hard. And you could have every intention of meeting up, but life throws a curveball. You know, you know what it's like.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

Sometimes you just gotta do a little white lie just for the sake of politeness. And at least in I it's very common in in Irish culture. We do throw that out a lot. Little pleasantries of like, oh my god, yes, yeah, no, definitely catch up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but go for a walk, you're in the area, kind of thing. And we all know it's bull, but you know, it's just it's just a nice thing to say.

SPEAKER_04 13:17

I think as well, some my point of view in this is probably a bit skewed by the whole ADHD-ness of my being. Yes. Um, and I think that plays a lot into this as well. So you could very well mean it when you're saying it. Must catch you again. I think I think a good example is maybe um like Christmas Eve points.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:38

When you go home and a lot of people you haven't seen probably since the last Christmas Eve points that you grew up with, and you're like, God, we must catch up. And I do, and every time it happens, I do mean it, and we always say it, and I think it happens to a lot of people as well. Yeah, and then yeah, life just happens and it's it can be really hard to it's the follow-through, I think is the hard thing to do. Um, so yeah, I I look, I understand the anger behind this, but I think there's always two people in the scenario, you know. Now, if you're chasing someone up to catch up and they're not really replying, well then yeah, then you're you're very entitled to be like, well, feck off basically.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I think you need to read the room, you need to read that because like what I've found from people that I know that have moved to to Ireland, I just I I have Ireland as an example. I've had a lot of people that have moved here that go, oh, it's so hard to make friends with Irish people because we have the best night ever, we have loads of drinks, chatting with them, had the crack. I thought I'd made proper friends, and it's like, oh yeah, no, definitely catch you again. You never hear from them again. Yeah, it's very, very common.

SPEAKER_04 14:49

Disappear is the wind.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Yeah, exactly. And it's like, I don't understand what happened. We had a great time.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

It's like, well, you know, we're just fun.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

So, guys, saying we should catch up soon when you have no intention of following through, should be treated the same as lying, hot take or hot fake.

SPEAKER_03 15:04

It's a hot fake, hot fake.

SPEAKER_04 15:06

You're both correct. Uh as the internet's finest, and that was a hot fake. You're both pretty on the ball, apart from that time when you got it wrong, Nicole. Oh, yeah. I don't see.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

I just thought she'd go a little more out there. Oh, girl, you just wait.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

Uh so next take. Movie score

Hot Take or Hot Fake - Movie Composers

SPEAKER_04 15:25

composers deserve the same credit as directors for classic all-timer films, maybe even more of a credit. Yes. So the likes of John Williams or Han Zimmer. Yes. Or, you know, many other film composers.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 15:37

Yes?

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Yes, yes, 100%. I'm gonna be sorry about it now. I zoned out while you were reading that out.

SPEAKER_04 15:44

Well, Nicole, for your for your benefit, I will read it again.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Thank you. Uh I have ADHD. Good luck.

SPEAKER_04 15:49

ADHD. ADHD. This podcast is sponsored by ADHD. Uh, movie score composers deserve the same credit as directors for classic all-terror films or any film really. Uh maybe even more of the credit. So like John Williams, Hans Aimer, whoever else. So, yeah, this is the thing. Uh, I mean, I'm definitely on board with this. Yeah. Um, but I guess this point is saying that, like, you know, as much as we'd say Steven Spielberg or, you know, John Carpenter or whoever else, uh this is saying that the credit should be like shared equally, or maybe even the composer is due more credit than the director.

SPEAKER_02 16:26

I think so, because when you think of Jaws, what do you think of? You don't go Spielberg, Spielberg, or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 16:32

You go dun dun dun or home alone. You think of all the examining.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

Yes, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Uh well, this is this is yeah, that's kind of and you know, we're using John Williams there, like one of probably the greatest film composer of all time.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:51

Um, Nicole, what do you think?

SPEAKER_01 16:53

I don't agree. I don't think they should get more credit. I think they deserve a lot, maybe a little bit more credit for sure. And it definitely can make or break. Like on the the latest season of Euphoria, they have a different composer. They actually have Han Zimmer. And yeah, which is like you think that's great. But the previous two seasons, like the music is so deeply tied into the identity of that show that for me it feels incredibly jarring now that that very, like, very specific music is gone and it feels like a different show. So I totally get it. Yeah, but you could say the same for cinematographers, you know, like you know, there is the director obviously directing how things should go and everything, but then it's actually the cinematographer that's literally filming the movie. So one could argue that they deserve more credit.

SPEAKER_04 17:47

Yes, and then I guess the conversation is that, you know, uh, maybe it's more that you know the collaborative process of making films or TV should be pushed more, you know. It's not just Steven Spielberg's jaws, it's Steven Spielberg and John Williams and whoever, you know, all those names should should be have equal weight. Um okay, so movie score composers deserve the same credit as directors for classic Alzheimer films, maybe even more of a credit. Hot take or hot fake?

SPEAKER_02 18:18

I think it's a hot take. I think that came from Colin.

SPEAKER_04 18:21

Oh, okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

Oh I think okay, I'm gonna say hot take.

SPEAKER_04 18:28

Okay. Guys, I can tell you, it's a hot take, and it's from me! Oh I yeah, no, I uh just um uh I think it's criminally under appreciated. Yes, yes. Um I think I was listening to a podcast one time about the making of Star Wars, and uh I think a lot of it was talking about how George Lucas's first cut was like almost unwatchable, but it didn't have the a lot of the effects, and it didn't have the John Williams score. And then, you know, when it came to I think there's a whole thing about his wife was was like instrumental in in her edit was like what brought a lot of it together. Uh you know, there's lots of different stories about this, but then also the John Williams score is like unbelievable. Just magic for that, you know. And I I don't think Star Wars, the original one, becomes the global phenomenon that it is without the John Williams music.

SPEAKER_02 19:19

Yeah, it's the same with pirates of the Caribbean, yeah. Yeah, pirates would be nothing without the joke. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

Well, this thing, all those like hummable, whistlable tunes. That was that was tough to say. Uh hummable and whistleable. Uh but I got there. Okay, next take. All

Hot Take or Hot Fake - Phones on Nights Out

SPEAKER_04 19:37

phones should be put into the cloakroom when you enter any bar or club.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

I would disagree.

SPEAKER_04 19:42

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Yeah. Why? Like, why do you need to put your phones away?

SPEAKER_04 19:47

Well, I guess is it I mean, I understand sometimes when they do it for like concerts or comedy games and stuff like that. Um, club is an interesting one, uh, because you know, there's an element in my head that's like, well, surely you need to be able to contact people and if people pay for things and all that kind of stuff. But then also, you know, are people filming too much when they're out and about? Should they be enjoying themselves, enjoying uh just the world that we have and all that kind of stuff? So yeah, I'm in two minds about this. What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Well, this is where I like I I hop in because I'm like, okay, I think people are filming way too much when they're out. Yeah. And um, as a person who's lived in Berlin, Berlin Czech, oh, she's mentioned.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

Um Nicole has lived in Berlin, count one.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

There we go. Um, actually, it's my second count. It is fix the counter, fix the counter on TV. Um so in in Berlin, in in different clubs, it's very common for them to at the very least put a sticker on your front and your back camera on your phone so that you're not filming. And if you're caught like on your if you're if you're caught taking pictures or you remove that, you're kicked out because it protects the environment and the space.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

That is fair, and I think that makes more sense because then you have the phone for you know paying for things, contacting people and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but the privacy is kept in in like however many ways. Yeah. Yeah, the sticker thing I think would makes makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

Yeah, stuff like that I get. Because if you go to like say Amsterdam or something like that, you're gonna need your phone. Yeah, but you're obviously not gonna be taking pictures of the peep shows, you know? Yeah. So stuff like that I understand.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Like when I went to uh the kick at club in Berlin, which is like a spicy club.

SPEAKER_04 21:38

There we go.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

There we go. Um when I went to the Kick At Club, that is a like a spicy club. I mentioned it on the channel before. Um we actually had to check in our phones like you would your bag and like your coat and stuff. And I actually found it such an amazing experience because it made me way more like immersed in what was happening. Um and not just because there was like spicy things happening around. It was like I actually didn't know what time it was. It made me like be like immersed in the music. And I spent way more time there because I actually just surrendered myself to the environment and the party. So yeah, we were in the moment. I was in the moment and we were too much on our phones. And I am the first to say, I'm so addicted to my phone. Same. It's bad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

And you know, when you're having a spicy time, you don't want all the can or the habanero getting on your phone. Speak for yourself.

SPEAKER_01 22:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

It's just it's it's messy, there's lots of powder, you know. I just you know, cinnamon, whatever else.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

You don't want that.

SPEAKER_04 22:39

You don't want that.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

You're not a fan of the rim reaper then, no?

SPEAKER_04 22:41

What'd you say? The rim reaper. The rim reaper. Is that a hot sauce that we've tried on the channel? I don't know. It could be. If not, it should be. It should be.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Stay tuned.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

Still laughing at the rim reaper. Incredible work. Okay, our final take. Oh, wait. Wait, no, wait, wait. Oh, I messed it up. I messed up the format. That was a that guys, all phones should be put into the cloakroom when you enter any barber club. Hot take or hot fake.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

Nicole is done. It's a hot take. It's a hot take. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 23:07

It's very funny to have the angle that I have because I could just see Nicole being like, I don't know. Your eyes are just um yes, it's a hot take and it's Nicole's take.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

It's mine, obviously. I was like, I actually really want to go into detail and talk about this. And I was like, man, I'm giving myself away. Yeah. No, and I'll elaborate a little bit more. Um, I do think okay, that the the hottest of that take is the putting the phone in the cloakroom. But I do, I do think like the stickers on the phone is 100% so good.

SPEAKER_04 23:35

That one makes sense to me. Yeah, I th I I think the stickers one like just from practicality and forgetting you know what you want, which is the privacy part of things. Yeah, yeah, that makes total sense.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Yeah, and also you can always go back to the cloakroom as well if there's an emergency or something, you know what I mean? Like it's okay, people survive. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

Ready for our final take?

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Yes, I will.

SPEAKER_04 23:58

Final take.

Hot Take or Hot Fake - College

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Going to college or university straight from school is terrible advice for most people, and we should stop pretending otherwise.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

I would also agree with that. Yeah, definitely. And that's from my own experience. Obviously, like we grew up as theater kids, and you kind of go through the I'm just gonna go straight into theater school, it's gonna be great, we're gonna make it. But my parents were very against that. I went to UCD and I ended up dropping out because it wasn't what I wanted to do. I was very, very young. I literally said kind of eeny meanie, I don't know what I want to do. So I picked a course that I absolutely hated, wasn't interested whatsoever. And it just was a waste. So I definitely think that like 17, 18 is so young.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

It's so young. Like the fact that like in Ireland you have to like apply and create like a list of college courses that you're like you get entered into based on your grades, basically, when you finish school, which is so wild. And you're just like throwing stuff on there. You're like, okay, if I don't get a dentist. Yeah, exactly. And I know some people that ended up in like very random courses just because you're like, okay, this is what my grades say that I could do, and where else am I gonna go? Jam making on the Aaron Islands.

SPEAKER_04 25:09

Jam making was always a funny one. Yeah, it was always the best way. Like, is it is it jam? Is it fruit jam? Is it a door jam? This is these were these were the conversations we had.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

You only needed 30 points as well.

SPEAKER_04 25:18

I think so. But all but also, yeah, so I agree on this as well because um there isn't enough support or classes when you're in school. At least there wasn't when when I was there, and probably when you guys are there as well, um, to give you proper, like no, what would you actually like to do with your life? Like properly think about, you know, and throw away, you know, going to college where all your friends are, or all this kind of stuff. What actually do you think? And you might not know, and you might need to try a bunch of things before you know. Yeah. Um, and yeah, I mean, so on my side of things, I went to the University of Limerick, um, which was near, you know, relatively near to where I lived down uh down home. Um, and I did four years of a course called Digital Media Design, which was lovely. Um, and but there was one or two video or audio modules which I really enjoyed. Um, and the rest of the course I was like, yep, that was that was that was great, that was lovely. But then when I came to Dublin and just got to do far more video stuff, I was like, oh, that's what I wanted.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:12

And you know, going back, I would probably be like, oh, Sean, you probably should have just maybe gone from school and tip to Dublin and maybe done something more to do with film or something like that, you know. Um, but you know, other people, you know, whether it's dropping out or whether it's um just doing something and then figuring out however many years later, oh god, I don't want to do this at all. Um, I I think maybe maybe there's like a middle ground, right? Maybe it's not terrible advice for most people, um, but there should be far more supports for people A, who maybe don't do as well in like exams and can't get options, and B want like another path to do something like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Absolutely. I think definitely there should be less pressure around it to have that be the sole focus of what are you gonna do in college now next year?

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Yeah, yeah, or even have guidance counselors that don't laugh at you almost. Like I would have a guidance counselor where like one of my best friends was like, I want to be a doctor. She straight out was like, You don't have a brain cell, like you're not gonna be a doctor. I mean, you know, I'm not gonna say she was right or wrong, but you know, like but um It's that kind of honesty that we need in scenarios. But I think even for myself, like I was very talkative in school, like I was always kind of interested in like selling or negotiating, or I was always kind of that like bargaining almost with like teachers. If a teacher would say something, I'd be like, but no, but that's not right. That's like I was questioning everything, but I also loved performing. There was never anybody that sat down and said, you know, you should go into sales. And it was only when I did actually go into sales, I was like, That's actually great. Yeah, like I found my calling, do you know? So, yeah, I think definitely more.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

This is the very serious part of the podcast where we uh really are tackling the issues of the day.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Normally we're talking about like taints and stuff like that. Yeah, and now we're talking about like foreign affairs, that's not bad.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

We contain multitudes here, we contain multitudes here on the green room. Okay, guys, so going to college, university straight from school is terrible advice for most people, and we should stop pretending otherwise hot take or hot fake.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

Maybe I think a hot fake. I think it's a hot fake, unless we're counting Colin. Yeah, because Colin didn't give one. Did Colin give one?

SPEAKER_04 28:19

This is the thing, this is the question. Oh, these are the cards.

SPEAKER_02 28:21

I'm just gonna say a hot fake.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I'm gonna say a hot fake curves ball, but a good take.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

But a good one, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

It's a hot fake.

SPEAKER_03 28:27

Hey! We literally got one for one there. We did it.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

You guys have one hot takes or hot fakes, I believe.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

I didn't. Oh no, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:36

I think you've we absolutely did. I mean, technically. Come on. No, yeah, yeah, because you all guessed the hot fakes and then you guessed each other's.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

We got at least an A.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

Well, you guys win hot takes or hot fakes. So uh you're a winner, baby. You're a winner. Well, that was uh a lovely fun time. We're really diving into the uh you know real serious issues tackling everyone here at the green room. Uh, but now we're gonna have a brief pause for some messages. We'll be right back. Welcome back

Reddit Stories Introduction

SPEAKER_04 29:10

to the green room, presented by myself, Sean Connolly, uh, with our two lovely guests, Nicole and Haley. Hey guys. Hello. Uh did you have fun there on the the break that we had, you know, when we all went outside and ran around.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

It was a little crazy. I didn't expect it to be that like hectic. It was mad.

SPEAKER_04 29:27

Well, like we want to keep the fitness levels up here at you know at Tri HQ because we're sitting down in front of tables, we're eating, we're drinking, and uh, you know, we're we're it's a world about balance here, you know.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Yeah, we just got our legs back as well.

SPEAKER_04 29:37

We did, yeah. This might be a surprise to many people, but uh we all have legs.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

We all have legs. Yeah, I'm working on getting mine to like touch the floor maybe the next time I'm on. I think we have a few years to go before that happens. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:49

Sorry, yeah, just realizing we're literally like swinging for the audio listeners. Um both Hailey and Nicole's legs are just swinging away on the couches.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

We can't touch the ground.

SPEAKER_04 29:58

And my weight my big long legs and feet are just you're like bent in like a I have to squeeze in.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:05

Um yeah, also uh I I realize, you know, for maybe any new audience we have uh who maybe haven't seen the Tri channel on YouTube where we try different things. Um I was talking about having legs, Michael McFray. Wait, what? These Irish people are strange. What we're gonna do next is uh a lovely segment that we simply will call Reddit stories. Uh so any of you listening or any of you watching, um you may be aware that uh all over the internet people like to get uh a wide variety of stories from Reddit, whether it's Am I the Ass Howl Howl? Howl am I the asshole?

SPEAKER_03 30:43

Asshowl.

SPEAKER_04 30:44

We're keeping that, we're using that take. Am I the asshole or uh relationship advice or countless others? And uh, you know, getting some of the most upvoted ones, some of the maddest ones, and just judging them, judging the people, judging uh or or maybe just passing comments and uh letting you know letting the world know whether we think these people are assholes or overreacting or if they need help or anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

So it's like a big sister segment.

SPEAKER_04 31:10

Exactly. There we go. Yes, we are the helpful aunties. Is that is that what it does?

SPEAKER_02 31:16

I've always wanted to be an auntie. Agony aunt is like specifically the drunk auntie that ruins Christmas. Yeah, and we're like, you're an asshole. Yeah, I used to be a dancer, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:26

So what I have here today is I have four stories uh from Reddit that I've scoured from the internet, and uh I'm gonna read each of these out and let's just have a chat and see what we think.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Oh, we have a chat, sure.

SPEAKER_04 31:37

That sounds good to you?

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Yeah, sounds good.

SPEAKER_04 31:39

Number one.

AITA - TV Show Baby Names

SPEAKER_04 31:42

Am I the asshole for not just dropping it, in quotes, and putting a blanket veto on all TV show names for our son?

unknown 31:50

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

Me and my wife are having our first kid soon, and no, it is going to be a boy. Thank you. It's been hard to come to an agreement on names. She is very firm on picking a name that we both agree on, but we pretty much have opposite taste. I have a very, very basic and common first name, which I like, so I gravitate towards simple and classic names like James, William, and Daniel. She likes dot dot dot not that. She suggested the name Dean the other day, and I was considering it until I found out she picked it because it was the name of her teen TV crush. She dug in her heels and insisted that she just liked the name and wasn't gonna name her kid after the character, and watching an old episode of the show just reminded her of the name. I'm like, that is exactly what naming your kid after a TV character means. So I said, How about this? I'm gonna give you a preemptive blanket video on TV show names. I don't want to hear suggestions for a little Zuko or Sherlock or anything like that, and literally any other name is on the table. Is that fair? And she said, No, that is not fair, and I'm being a dick and putting the words in her mouth. My position is that if you're gonna try to pick a TV name for your own kid, at least own up to it and admit it's a TV name. I'm more annoyed at the transparent denial at this point and the fact that she suggested it in the first place. Am I the asshole?

SPEAKER_02 33:07

I can see both sides. Yeah. Like she's obvious she's going through a lot, you know. She's obviously the hormones are flying, she's probably contemplating life and goes, you know what?

SPEAKER_04 33:15

I could have ended up with this gorgeous Dean, and I ended up with I I I'm also just gonna suggest that this is more than likely Dean from Supernatural.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:24

Have you ever seen that show?

SPEAKER_02 33:25

I have. Okay, yeah, I get that.

SPEAKER_04 33:28

And sorry, I love how that completely changed. Oh, okay, well then.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

But like actually the context of the show, like that does help because the fandom of supernatural is insane. And if she was like that far in, is this the thing? We don't know the wife. Yeah, I I agree. I think the name Dean is really nice. Actually, my cousin Dean is named after you do you remember the Lois and Clark TV show from the 90s? Oh, Dean Kane. Dean Kane. Yeah, and my auntie actually, she was like, I like that name Dean. She didn't, you know, name him Superman or you know what I mean? Like real fantastic. Hell, thank you. Could not think of Superman's real name. Oh, don't worry.

SPEAKER_04 34:10

If there's anything nerdy or comic booky, I will have the knowledge. Yeah, yeah, I am in two minds about this. Yeah, I think Dean is a very fine name, and also even if it's from Supernatural or a TV show like that, normal names that come from TV shows, I think are fine because they also are normal names everywhere else.

SPEAKER_03 34:32

Right.

SPEAKER_04 34:32

I saw a TikTok the other day, and it was very cute. It was a it was a guy um in some kind of place like tossing his kid around and doing somersaults and that kind of stuff. His son was called Zuko. And I think names that are maybe a bit more specific, like Khaleesi or something like that. I'm like, maybe not the best idea.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Yeah, they're just not gonna age well.

SPEAKER_04 34:56

Yeah, that's what I would think. And look, no judgment to anyone named Zuko or Khaleesi.

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Absolute judgment. Okay, well, maybe judgment, but I personally wouldn't do it.

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Uh I'm not gonna bully you if you have those names, is what I'm saying. Yeah, so what do we think about this?

SPEAKER_01 35:10

See, I feel like he's also just kind of jealous of this teenage crush. Yeah, and I don't think that's healthy either.

SPEAKER_04 35:17

I am reading a bit of that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

Yeah, I'm also gonna play devil's advocate here though, because could you imagine if he turned around though, and if he was like, Yeah, I'm gonna call our daughter Margot after Margot Robbie and Wolf of Wall Street, there would be uproar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:31

So it's also weird as well. It's like you named your child after so many fancies. You know what I mean? Yeah, you don't do that.

SPEAKER_04 35:38

I think there's a version of this where he is maybe in the right, but the way he's written it and a lot of the way he's phrased things makes me think he's he's a bit of an asshole.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

Yeah, I just need to just cop on. Yeah, like they've both obviously like you know, takes two to tango. I was gonna initially I was gonna go her vagina, her world, but you know, it takes two to tango in that kind of situation. So sit down, cop on, and just talk it out. Yeah, don't take your problems to Reddit.

SPEAKER_04 36:09

So, guys, uh verdict for this one, uh an asshole or not the asshole.

SPEAKER_02 36:13

No, but childish. I won't I won't call him an asshole, I won't call her an asshole. Their parents, their new parents, it's a it's a tough situation. Yeah, you're not picking a side. I don't think I can. Oh. See, he's slightly more of an asshole than she is, though.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

This is the thing. I think it's the the tone of which he's written this and me imagining how the scenario plays out. I'm like, asshole.

SPEAKER_04 36:36

Yeah, I would think asshole. Oh, sorry, I I say think asshole. I can actually give you the verdict. Oh, what Reddit decided. Um, and the verdict is asshole.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

Okay. Nice. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:44

But no, I I think I would agree with that. Um, I think there's definitely a version of his argument that is, you know, totally fair. Yeah. The whole Dean thing, a very normal, lovely name, that's silly.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

It is silly.

SPEAKER_04 36:57

I think it's silly.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Like Kim, there are people that are dying.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah. Ready for our next story?

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 37:03

Okay, here we go. Am I the

AITA - Co-Worker's Funeral

SPEAKER_04 37:05

asshole for telling my co-worker I can't attend her funeral, in quotes, because I'm busy that day. What?

SPEAKER_02 37:11

What does she use in a Ouija board?

SPEAKER_04 37:13

Here's the situation. I have this co-worker, let's call her Karen. Karen is dot dot dot a character. A character, a mad character.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

Here we go. What a character. Mad Karen from finance. I know where this is going.

SPEAKER_04 37:26

She's always talking about these elaborate plans for every possible scenario. Last week she told us she had pre-planned her entire funeral, complete with a guest list, catering, and even a DJ. Apparently, she wants her final send-off to be a lit celebration of life. Anyway, out of the blue yesterday, Karen walks up to me during lunch and says, Hey, just so you know, I've penciled you in for my funeral next Saturday at 2 p.m. It's going to be fabulous, and I'd really appreciate your attendance. Now, here's the thing. I'm alive and kicking. So the idea of attending a funeral for someone who's very much alive just felt weird. Plus, I already have plans next Saturday to binge watch an entire season of Stranger Things and eat my weight and pizza. So, without really thinking, I just blurted out, sorry, Karen, I can't make it. I'm busy that day. She looked at me like I'd just slapped her with a cold fish. Busy? she asked, her voice dripping with disbelief. You can't be too busy for a friend's funeral. Karen has been giving me the cold shoulder ever since, and our other co-workers are split. Some think I'm a heartless jerk for not going along with her bizarre funeral dress rehearsal, while others think she's completely off her rocker for expecting people to actually attend the thing. So, Reddit, am I the asshole for telling my very much alive coworker I can't attend her self-planned preemptive funeral because I'm busy watching Netflix?

SPEAKER_02 38:36

No, absolutely not. Karen, you're off your rocker. No, not the asshole. Absolutely not.

unknown 38:42

What?

SPEAKER_03 38:47

Yeah, it's gonna wild.

SPEAKER_04 38:49

It's wild. And there's a little edit here at the end. Uh edit for those asking about her well-being, she's fine. I've overheard somebody asking her, and she replied that it's just a celebration of life. So yes, it seems to be a narcissistic event.

SPEAKER_02 38:59

Oh, okay. No, it's just a celebration of her. Yeah. She just wants to hear all the good stuff people have said about her. You know, which you should say when people are alive. They say that you earn more flowers when you're dead than you are alive. It shouldn't be the case.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

Yeah, but also very fair. I think something happened um, you know, a few months back. I don't know if you guys saw this. Was it Quentin Tarantino was in the news and he was talking about he just there was a few actors.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

Matthew Lillard.

SPEAKER_04 39:23

Matthew Lillard, yeah, he just hated it. Uh and everyone just online just started just being really sound and sending lots of nice things out into the ether about Matthew Lillard. Uh, and he he spoke of it. He was like, it was like, you know, my funeral that happened, and it was just that weird moment of like everyone be like, You're great, and you got to be alive and be like, Oh, thank you. Yeah, so this is a wild thing. How entitled do you have to be to think, hey, you gotta come to my fake funeral? Yeah, and you can't have any other plans ever.

SPEAKER_01 39:52

This is such an office thing to happen, though. Stuff like this happens all the time.

SPEAKER_02 39:57

Yes. Have you worked in corporate? I can tell you that that's a very, very normal kind of scenario. Yeah. But still wild.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

It's crazy. I know, girl, not where I work, that organized um a Tinder swiping event in the in the office, in the communal office during lunch, put it into the Slack, been like, hey guys, we're doing this. We're gonna use my Tinder and we're gonna put it up on the projector, ask one of the mandars, can I use this room for a game during lunch? And then um didn't say what it was. And then was like, yeah, we're gonna swipe on Tinder and we're gonna go like, you know, left or right, and we can all vote. She printed out little like place mats for people to like vote and stuff, made a poster and everything. And then when people were like, Well, this is horrendous, this is like a HR violation to the max.

SPEAKER_04 40:45

But that's also that's something you I don't know, do with a group of friends that know you well at home. It's the most unwork life thing ever. Yeah, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

It's crazy, and it's one of those like narcissistic like work things that just happens. And she got told off, and she was like, But this person, the office manager, approved it. And the office manager was like, I did not approve this.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

Uh I just want to pause there and say you guys had a wonderful 13 years of friendship um uh psychic moment there where you both just went, happens. We just said it at the exact same time. Really?

SPEAKER_03 41:23

So funny. It was incredible thing.

SPEAKER_04 41:25

Yeah, so I presume we're all in the same verdict here of not the asshole.

SPEAKER_03 41:28

Absolutely not, not the asshole.

SPEAKER_04 41:30

Now, there is one thing I will say with this, and this is you know, I've I've watched many Reddit story uh things online, and I sometimes uh my little cynical brain uh thinks that maybe some people are having you know some creative writing exercises, right? And maybe coming up with stories to get because all of these come from you know quite high voted posts and with a lot of comments. Um but when I read things like, and it was when I was reading it there, um she looked at me like I just slapped her with a cold fish. Busy, she asked, her voice dripping with disbelief.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

It's very creative right now.

SPEAKER_04 42:05

It feels very like like very written. You know, like that's a that's a like now. I could be entirely wrong because this isn't it's not so far out of the realm of believability, like as we were just talking about there, absolutely could be a thing. But uh, you know, uh take these with a pinch of salt.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

I mean, I hope it's fake.

SPEAKER_04 42:21

Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

I always go through the post history. I'm like, are you a real person? Exactly. If they're posting them every week, I'm like, okay, you're fake. Yeah, we're just a literature story.

SPEAKER_04 42:29

So just looking for prompts, basically. Yeah. We're just gonna take a little break from the world of Reddit, and uh, we'll be back after this with more stories. Welcome back and thanks for sticking with us. And uh, hey, let's dive back into more Reddit stories.

SPEAKER_03 42:51

Wow, wow, God, God, rash berries, rash berries.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

I was I was wondering how long we were gonna make it before we got we got there.

SPEAKER_03 43:03

We always get there. Seriously.

SPEAKER_04 43:05

Jennifer Coolidge is here with us today. Guys, ready

AITA - Birthday Cake

SPEAKER_04 43:07

for our third story?

SPEAKER_03 43:07

Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 43:08

Okay. Am I the asshole for ruining my friend's birthday party by taking back the cake I baked for her?

SPEAKER_00 43:15

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 43:16

Okay. My friend is quirky. She was never diagnosed with anything, but she is very clueless sometimes. Wow. I have had to spell things out for her a lot. A few months back, she borrowed a dress of mine. I really love that dress. There isn't any sentimental value, but I got it when we were on vacation a few years ago. She also loved the dress and one day just transferred the money to my account and told me that she was keeping the dress. I spoke to her, but she just told me that doesn't matter as she has paid me. Her birthday was a week ago, and her mom asked me to bake a big cake for her. I usually sell cakes cheap, little more than ingredients cost. On her birthday, I went over to her house with the cake 15 minutes before the party was due to start, and then decided to talk to her mother. Like I said, sometimes my friend is really clueless sometimes. Uh And I was hoping her mom would speak to her and get my dress back. I was very shocked when she also said that as long as I was paid, what does it matter? She told me to just move on, as it was just a dress and that my friend really liked it. She told me as long as the dress is paid for, what am I complaining about? I got really pissed off and pulled out the amount she paid me, just paid me, put it on the table, picked up the cake, and left. She got mad and started yelling at me that I was ruining the party. I kept walking back to my house. She kept telling me to give back the cake and that I couldn't take it back just because I want to be petty. I just asked what she was complaining about as I had paid back the money. My friend ended up having a cakeless 16th birthday party because of this. Am I the asshole here?

SPEAKER_02 44:39

Sixteen. Sixteen.

SPEAKER_04 44:40

I will say that little detail at the end kind of contextualizes everything.

SPEAKER_02 44:45

When everything is so big and the smallest little things are the biggest life-changing events. Oh dear. So bless them.

SPEAKER_04 44:54

Definitely, you know, someone taking something and then just transferring you the money for it. So that's that's wild. That's insane behavior. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_02 45:01

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_04 45:01

Uh regardless of your age, whether you're 15 or 35 or whatever. Um, but yeah, what do we think?

SPEAKER_02 45:06

I think they're both assholes in some respects. I was thinking that. Yeah. I was thinking that. Yeah, because you don't kind of do a tit for tat just because someone wrongs you. Yeah. You know, the right thing to do would be give her the cake, you know, deal with things at a later date. Don't ruin the girl's birthday.

SPEAKER_03 45:20

Of course.

SPEAKER_02 45:21

But yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:23

Also, did she say it was like last summer my friend borrowed a dress or something like that? A few months back. A few months back. Oh, okay. So this is going on then. Ample time to address this issue. She didn't need to do it on her 16th birthday and hold a cake for ransom.

SPEAKER_04 45:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

You could have held way worse for ransom.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

That's the thing when you have an issue with someone as well, you know, whether it's relationships or anything, where like if you have like a valid criticism, uh just always address it and try and tackle it at the time. Yeah, yeah. Because if you hold on to it and then, you know, months down the line, do something else, and they're like, you're like, haha, that's because you did this to me back then. And even if you're entirely right in that, it still feels a bit like, oh, that maybe wasn't the way to handle it. Yeah. But yes, that's wild. The verdict apparently is not the asshole.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

Okay, okay. But Reddit loves like an own. It's like, oh yeah, got payback. Yes. Like it is a fabulous revenge story.

SPEAKER_04 46:20

Yeah, it is. Again, very like story being the element here. Yes. How do we think that one compares to the previous two?

SPEAKER_02 46:27

It's a completely different lane altogether. Yeah. Totally. Like you've got the the wife and husband talking about their baby, and then now you've got your one's cake.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

I'm living for the drama though. I love being like injected into this like 16-year-old drama. I'm like, what's happening with the gals? They're scrapping over cakes and dresses. Love that for them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:48

I think that's the thing about Reddit stories as well. And I suppose the internet in general is you can have people, you know, coming up or or giving problems and asking the world for help. And you could be hearing it from a 14-year-old or someone who's 54. And you you you would know. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:05

The internet is great.

SPEAKER_04 47:06

So do we agree not the asshole for that one?

SPEAKER_02 47:08

No.

SPEAKER_04 47:08

No.

SPEAKER_02 47:08

I have an asshole. I think they're both assholes. Yeah. Okay, both the assholes. We all were at 16. Jeez, like even our college, like we have mad, mad stories. The drama. We should probably do like a Reddit kind of yeah, streaming. Discoveries all of our stories as Reddit.

SPEAKER_00 47:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 47:25

Uh coming soon, the Haley and Nicole College Stories uh podcast. That's uh in all good podcast stores nationwide. Uh ready for our final Reddit story?

AITA - Laughing at Cat

SPEAKER_00 47:36

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 47:36

Okay. Am I the asshole for laughing at my cat?

SPEAKER_02 47:40

Okay. I love cats, so yes.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

About five months ago, my partner and I got a cat. We love him to the moon and back, and honestly, it's been the best decision we ever made. We have our little family of us and cat, and it's great. Now our cat is a rascal and gets himself into all sorts of funny but harmless situations. He tries to make jumps and stacks it, he races around and skids on the floor, he makes lots of crazy noises, tries to steal food, falls off the bed, etc. etc. So a cat.

SPEAKER_02 48:07

Legend, that's a ginger cat. Fun little guy.

SPEAKER_04 48:09

Uh these things are hilarious to watch, and he is never hurt or anything. He is just being silly and playing. However, for the last month or so, whenever I've been playing with the cat, or he does something funny and I laugh at him, my partner will quite seriously say not to laugh at him because he can tell and will feel bad.

SPEAKER_03 48:24

Oh, I love her.

SPEAKER_04 48:26

Case in point, this evening I was playing with him under a blanket and he kept peeping out, but his face was all smooshed under it, and he looked like he had a very pudgy face, so I was laughing. I can picture this in my head. Yeah, I'm a cat lover as well. So my partner noticed and immediately said, Stop laughing at him. It's mean. He can understand that you are laughing at him and it's not nice.

unknown 48:45

What?

SPEAKER_04 48:46

Whenever he does this, it pulls me out of whatever funny thing I'm laughing at and kind of kills the mood. Anyway, tonight this led to us having an argument about whether it's an asshole move to laugh at the cat when he does something silly, and my partner will not budge about it. I honestly don't think it harms the cat at all to laugh at him, and that he can't understand. But if there is anybody else here that agrees with my boyfriend or knows stuff about cat psychology and says not to, then I will never laugh at the little beast again. Am I the asshole for laughing?

SPEAKER_02 49:13

Not at all. No. No, I think cats have like a don't they have like a brain function of like a toddler or a two-year-old or something? They don't even know what day it is. They don't even know who you are.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

They don't know what laughter is, they can't laugh.

SPEAKER_04 49:25

No, they have no concept of what after it is. Yeah, like it's it's I'm sorry. This is very also. This kind of feels like to be fair to to the person who wrote this, she has the same reaction that we all do, but she's very much in a situation in the relationship where she's like, I mean, I'm I'm pretty sure I'm right, but maybe, maybe I'm like, can it internet? Can you tell me? And then everyone I'd say is like, yeah, no, you're you're the normal one here.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. I want to hear from the cat psychologist, though. I want to hear from the cat. I was gonna say I want to hear from the cat.

SPEAKER_04 49:59

Um, yeah, that's that's absolutely wild.

SPEAKER_02 50:02

Being a cat owner, I can tell you now my cat just knows me as the the weirdo that like feeds it and squeezes the life out of it and kisses it and tells it my deepest, darkest secrets and cries to it. But it doesn't know if I'm laughing or crying or licking it. Like I doesn't know. Furthermore, they don't care.

SPEAKER_03 50:21

Yeah, no, it just wants to be fed and sleep. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 50:24

And like, don't we all just want to be fed and sleep?

SPEAKER_03 50:28

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 50:28

But also, cats, especially out of all animals, can be themselves like judgy or mischievous, or like I feel cats are laughing at us internally.

SPEAKER_00 50:38

They actually are.

SPEAKER_04 50:40

Uh, and you know what? They're right, they're correct, and they should do it and let them do it. Also, isn't there a whole thing where like cats don't meow in the wild? Like they meow to us because they think we're kittens or something like that. Yeah, like they almost cats condescend to us. Right.

SPEAKER_02 50:54

That's why their sleep position means how much they uh something to do with like how much they love you or look at you. Yeah, so if they sleep next to your head, they know that you're competent, but if they sleep next to your feet, they think they're gonna have to protect you. Yeah. So it's really sweet.

SPEAKER_04 51:11

I like the idea that they sleep at different points on your body. It's like a meter of how of how competent they think you are. It's like at your shoulder, they're like, you're almost there. Like at your ass, they're like, you're like 50-50. You know, I don't really believe you can do much, but maybe you can.

SPEAKER_01 51:24

Also, I'm kind of like sus about the partner. Maybe maybe she the way she's laughing is like irritating him.

SPEAKER_04 51:32

Like that could be yeah, maybe the partner, maybe the boyfriend is using this as an excuse.

unknown 51:37

I like that.

SPEAKER_04 51:38

Stop laughing at the cat. The cat's annoyed about it.

SPEAKER_01 51:41

Stop laughing. What if she has a terrible laugh? Yeah, or like a Janice laugh, yeah. What if she does like sneer?

SPEAKER_04 51:47

What if she's like, if she is like to the cat, like, ha, you fucking idiot. You moron. You you're a you're a disgraced your species.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

Then like stupid whiskers.

SPEAKER_04 51:59

Then yeah, I I would maybe understand. But I, you know, I I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt, don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 52:04

She has a normal laugh. Now that you've said that though, Austin does this awful laugh sometimes. So he goes, heh. But it's like the most generic kind of American nerdy laugh you can imagine. So if we had a cat and he was doing that to the cat, I'd probably do the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 52:17

Ah, this could be you.

SPEAKER_02 52:18

It's all coming out. Shh.

SPEAKER_04 52:19

This could be you.

SPEAKER_02 52:20

I see what you did there. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 52:22

Uh, yes, overall thoughts. I'm gonna go with not the asshole at all.

SPEAKER_03 52:27

No.

SPEAKER_04 52:27

No.

SPEAKER_03 52:28

Not at all.

SPEAKER_04 52:29

Lighten up. Light lighten up. Just laugh at the pussy. That's what we say here at the green room. Just laugh at the pussy. Cat.

unknown 52:36

Meow.

SPEAKER_04 52:37

Cool. Well, guys, that brings us to the end of our Reddit story section. And also, I guess we're drawing to the close of this episode of the Green

Wrapping-Up Chat

SPEAKER_04 52:46

Room.

unknown 52:46

Womp.

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Womp womp womp. Did you guys have fun?

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Oh, I had so much fun. We were so scared before coming here. Because we're used to like, I feel like the try channel is like we're kind of characters, we come in as like different people. And now that like people are seeing us in like our everyday kind of conversation, it's probably not what they're expecting either.

SPEAKER_01 53:06

Yeah, I think it I I switch into a different mode of myself.

SPEAKER_02 53:10

Right.

SPEAKER_01 53:11

Like there's just something about it because like the format is so like ingrained in me that it's nice to kind of break that. Yeah. I I am a bit like I'm like, this is a lot of space. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 53:22

I like having the table to do the yeah, do the thing. I like the words. Yeah, yeah. But also I love a good chat. Don't you love a good channel?

SPEAKER_04 53:32

No, yeah, you guys are entirely right because uh, you know, it's it's definitely uh, you know, we have three cameras as opposed to one. Um, but yeah, there's definitely you know almost an improv kind of uh headspace that you go into when you're uh reacting. It's still entirely you know natural, but uh one of the things you know from the production side of things, whenever I'm editing a video, sometimes someone will have a story that'll be quite long and you're like, oh, this is actually this is really funny. Yeah, but like you never want you know a minute or more of a video to be just one person. You often have to like cut it to kind of keep the pacing. But uh it's great to have this, you know, this setup where we can uh talk and tell stories and just ramble, ramble, ramble.

SPEAKER_03 54:10

Yeah, love it.

SPEAKER_04 54:11

So, guys, before we finish things, um is there anything you guys would like to plug uh yourselves on socials or anywhere else? Uh Nicole, yourself?

SPEAKER_01 54:20

Um I've nothing necessarily to plug, but you can follow me on Instagram, Nicole O'Connor, N-I-C-O-L-E-O-C-O-N-O-O or. I didn't have the username with two N's in O'Connor, so that's what I'm stuck with. And actually, do you know what? Follow me on Letterboxd as well.

SPEAKER_04 54:39

Oh very good.

SPEAKER_01 54:40

Yeah, yeah.

Impromptu Letterboxd Top Fours/Outro

SPEAKER_04 54:41

Uh very quick, what's your letterbox top four?

SPEAKER_01 54:43

Oh, oh my god, amazing. Okay, okay. My letterbox top four. Oh, I've been waiting for someone to ask me.

SPEAKER_04 54:49

It's like you're on the red carpet. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:51

Okay. Uh Showgirls, Hover Hoven, uh, Rosemary's Baby for a bit of horror. Um, uh Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson. And oh my god, what's my last one? Rocky Heart Picture Show.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

Very good.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Oh, that's so good I like a bit of camp. I like romance, I like drama.

SPEAKER_04 55:09

And Haley, how about yourself?

SPEAKER_02 55:10

My socials are at h.a.m. M for my. Um, that's across all of my socials. Yeah, I don't have anything else to say. Just follow me, please.

SPEAKER_04 55:23

That's totally fair. Well, while we're on the topic, what's your top four films of all time?

SPEAKER_02 55:27

Of all time? Do not do that to me.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

The podcast is now 20 minutes longer than planned.

SPEAKER_02 55:32

I'm so one of my favorites has to be Inglorious Bastards. I can quote that down to the German, the Italian, the French Bastards to a T.

SPEAKER_03 55:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

I have to go with Titanic as well. I'm so boring. I just when I want to cry, I throw it on, cry. You know, it just hits everything.

SPEAKER_04 55:51

The music, the water coming in, the old couple on the bed. Oh everything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:55

It's always Jack, it's always Cal. No one fancies Mr. Andrews. Yeah. The man that hits the propeller.

SPEAKER_04 56:02

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh okay, last two, and then I'll do mine.

SPEAKER_02 56:05

I I don't know my last two. No, that's your top two. Yeah, that's my top two.

SPEAKER_04 56:09

Um, I we we've just this is a random uh improvised segment of our top four films, but let's let's end the podcast this week.

SPEAKER_01 56:15

Yeah, I'm overjoyed with this. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:17

Um, mine are, and I've been doing a bit of thinking about this recently, Sam Raimi Spider-Man 2.

SPEAKER_01 56:21

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_04 56:23

Uh Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

SPEAKER_01 56:25

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:26

Um, and then Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

SPEAKER_03 56:29

What? Lollipops.

SPEAKER_04 56:31

And then I'm not entirely sure of my fourth, maybe District 9.

SPEAKER_00 56:35

That's such a mix.

SPEAKER_04 56:37

Bit of a random, random selection. Um, but yes, on that note, thank you for watching us here in the green room. If you enjoyed, be sure to like and subscribe and to rate us wherever you're listening or watching. Uh, we upload videos on the Tri channel Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And you can catch us again next week uh here. And yeah, let us know what you thought in the comments. And thanks, and bye.

SPEAKER_03 56:58

Bye.