Utah Made My Boyfriend Gay?!

Summary

DaBaddest Radio – Episode 43: "Utah Made My Boyfriend Gay?!"

Podcast Host: Bretman Rock (with Kat and producer Ozzy)
Release Date: June 11, 2026
Theme: Reddit Reads: “Am I the Asshole?”, Streaming Culture, Self-Love, and Hilarious Life Talk

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Bretman Rock dives into their first-ever "Reddit Reads" themed show, unpacking wild and thought-provoking “Am I the Asshole?” posts with co-host Kat and producer Ozzy. The crew serves up signature banter, discusses social standards, personal boundaries, Love Island drama, and the infamous "altitude turned my boyfriend gay" Reddit tale. Along the way, listeners get insights into Bretman’s daily life, the importance of self-worth, and some laugh-out-loud moments.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Growing Pains, Standards, and Self-Acceptance

• House Updates and Expectations

  • Bretman shares recent life updates, including hiring a new garden crew:
    • “I expect perfection and hard work…I want a garden that represents me. If there's anything I believe in this world, your garden or your yard is a representation of you.” (07:04)
    • Kat and Ozzy support Bretman's high standards, arguing it's reasonable to desire hard work from everyone in your circle.

• Sleep, Routines, and Self-Care

  • Journal entry segment where Bretman humorously reflects on trying to get up earlier for productivity:
    • “Operation Morning Shenanigans starts today, and it really did start today.” (19:32)
  • Kat shares insights about sleep and weight loss:
    • “You have to get a lot of sleep if you want to lose weight.” (21:23)

2. Pop Culture Side Quest: Love Island Recap

• Both hosts obsess over new Love Island cast members, their favorite and least favorite couples, and make predictions for the season (08:15–15:14).
  • Bretman:
    • “I just feel like, love-wise, it's too early, but hate-wise, I do know I hate Bryce.” (11:02)
    • Calling out cast:
      • “Gabriel, I need you to just start an OnlyFans at this point. It's giving soft porn.” (11:24)
  • Kat:
    • Diagnoses character attachment styles:
      • “From what I've seen so far, Anaya is emotionally secure; Kenzie and Melanie are emotionally anxious.” (10:36)

3. Reddit Reads: “Am I the Asshole?” Mega Segment

a) Changing the Niece’s "Stripper" Name (24:00–32:33)

• Redditor adopts niece named "Synnamin" and legally changes her name to Simone; family drama ensues.
  • Debate over agency and respect for identity:
    • Bretman: “If the child is old enough…ask her if she wants to change her name…But Cinnamon isn’t that strippery.” (26:35)
    • Kat: “Any name could be construed as whatever you intended…Just call her by a nickname until she’s older.” (27:11)
    • Both ultimately feel the aunt isn’t the “asshole”—unless change is out of spite.

b) Mom Weaponizing Cleaning (33:00–42:33)

• Kids hire pro cleaners to prove to their mom that her critiques are unfair; chaos ensues.
  • Personal connections:
    • Bretman: “I love my mom…but my mom is a spite cleaner as well…She’ll say things like under her breath.” (36:17)
    • Kat: “It’s a control tactic so you always feel bad; goalposts keep moving so you’re always trying hard for praise that doesn’t come.” (40:11)
  • Both agree: the kids are justified, and these patterns are about control more than actual cleanliness.

c) Chair Theft at Work (45:29–49:51)

• A worker brings in his own $1800 chair, a colleague steals it, and he calls the police—loses his job but gets justice.
  • Kat: “Sorry, but the boss should also get in trouble…he said, ‘Well, you should come earlier.’ That’s my chair!” (48:26)
  • Bretman: “If you’re the asshole, I’m an asshole too. I’d do the same.” (48:20)
  • All agree: sometimes being the “correct asshole” is the path to take.

d) The Infamous “Altitude Made My Boyfriend Gay” Story (49:49–61:10)

• Woman’s boyfriend blames cheating with a man on Utah’s altitude.
  • Ozzy checks science: reduced oxygen may impact emotions but not sexual orientation (57:04–57:13).
  • Kat eviscerates the excuse: “That’s like those guys who cheat and say, ‘I fell into her pussy’—like, it wasn’t my fault!” (55:21)
  • Bretman on self-worth:
    • “I spent three years with this man, but I’ve spent 27 years with myself. Who do I honor more?” (59:02)
    • On breaking up: “Leave people the first time they’re gay, the first time they cheat, the first time they show signs…that’s when you get the fuck out.” (59:52, 60:07)

4. Product of the Week Picks (61:59–66:01)

• Kat: Kefir probiotic drink for gut health and debloating
• Bretman: Youth Mall probiotic mints from Japan
• Ozzy: Weatherproof Wrangler pants

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On names and identity:
  “Bretman is such a fucking stripper porn star name. Bremen Rock Hard!” – Bretman (27:47)
• On family standards:
  “Your garden or your yard is a representation of you.” – Bretman (07:09)
• On Love Island:
  “I think a season is coming up where like, two girls are gonna get together…” – Bretman (12:39)
• Reddit logic gold:
  “If altitude could change your sexuality, then everyone on Mount Everest is probably gay.” – Kat (57:13)
• On self-love:
  “Who do I honor more? My relationship with myself or my relationship with this fucking bitch for X, Y, Z years?” – Bretman (59:06)
• Leave, don’t settle:
  “Please love yourself, respect yourself, and move on…You had the rest of your life to get the over it.” – Kat (58:34)
• Signature humor:
  “Leave people the first time they’re gay, the first time they show signs of homosexual…” – Bretman & Kat (59:52, 59:54)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:30 | Opening greetings & team intro | | 01:58 | Brownie & milk moment, playful banter | | 07:04 | Bretman on high standards, garden update | | 08:15–15:14 | Love Island recap, cast discussions | | 19:03 | Journal entry + thoughts on productivity & routines | | 24:00–32:33 | AITA: Niece’s name change (“Synnamin” to “Simone”) | | 33:00–42:33 | AITA: Mom weaponizes cleaning; family dynamics | | 45:29–49:51 | AITA: Arresting a coworker for stealing $1800 chair | | 49:49–61:10 | AITA: Did the Utah air turn my boyfriend gay? | | 61:59–66:01 | Product of the week (“Kefir”, probiotic mints, pants) |

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Closing Thoughts

Bretman, Kat, and Ozzy deliver an episode bursting with comedic wit, lively debate, and plenty of authenticity. Whether recounting dramatic Love Island scenes or tackling wild Reddit confessions, the crew keeps it light but packs real talk about standards, boundaries, and the value of self-respect. The classic DaBaddest Radio blend of humor, honesty, and a little chaos shines throughout.

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Final Takeaway

If you want a confidence boost, relatable laughs, and a reality check on both pop culture and personal drama—this episode delivers.
Favorite quote:
"I spent three years with this man, but I’ve spent 27 years with myself. Who do I honor more?" (59:02)

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Transcript

[Ozzy]

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[Bretman]

The following podcast is a Dear Media

[Kat]

Production the baddest radio episode 43, take one.

[Bretman]

Action. Hello. Hello. Aloha, everybody. It is Thursday yet again. I cannot believe it. I hope you guys enjoyed last week's episode even though the mic was not working. Regardless, it is your host, Bretman, the baddest bitch. And Today we have Ms. Kat.

[Kat]

Oh, not Ms. Kat. Ew. Just Kat. Ms. K's not here.

[Bretman]

And in the producer we have Ozzy. We have a really exciting episod episode for you guys. This week. We're gonna be doing our very first Reddit reads of who's the asshole and just things of our thoughts. I thought Kat would be the best for this because if there's a lot of things that Kat is full of besides boobs, it's opinions. Opinions and titties. She has a lot of those. But yeah, we'll talk to you guys after this intro. Earth to Bratman girl. You already know who it is. And we are back. I feel like I've been spamming all the clothes I got from Korea. So this ad is also from Atisu. I got a lot of questions about where my hat was from. Last episode it was from atisu, but let's really address the elephant in the room because I just made eye contact with it. What is that, cat?

[Kat]

Oh, it's a brownie I made. And you can't have a brownie without milk. So I put some chocolate milk there for you and also have some for Ozzy as well.

[Bretman]

Ozzy, let's get your reaction first because I already had this last night. Thank you.

[Kat]

Yeah, he snuck a piece.

[Bretman]

I know. I was like. Yeah, it was.

[Kat]

Yeah. Like, take a cute bite or you dip it, period. You can dip it.

[Ozzy]

Okay.

[Kat]

And.

[Bretman]

Yeah, but you dip it and take a little sip after tr.

[Ozzy]

It's kind of like a Tim Tam.

[Bretman]

Yes. And the milk is also from Cats.

[Ozzy]

Cheers.

[Kat]

That's crazy.

[Ozzy]

Is it?

[Kat]

No, girl, it's fair life.

[Ozzy]

I'm sorry.

[Bretman]

I'm sorry. Me and her in the kitchen.

[Ozzy]

Yeah. So we're dipping it.

[Bretman]

Yes. Take a bite and then take a sip.

[Kat]

Yeah, take a sip. Nice cold milk.

[Bretman]

Right, Right. Also, you guys, maybe it might not have been my fault that the Audio wasn't working because we recently just started holding our mics again. And maybe I just been pressing this. So today I will make it. I will really be self aware to not touch this part because I feel like when I touch this part is when it disconnects. So we'll just blame me thing. Cat, can you hold my mic while I eat?

[Kat]

Of course.

[Ozzy]

It's a good brownie.

[Kat]

Thank you. Is it nice and fudgy?

[Ozzy]

Yeah. And it's not too, like, heavy, if that makes sense. Like too. What do you call that? Condensed?

[Kat]

Like, yeah, too like, yeah.

[Bretman]

Or too dense or too dense period.

[Kat]

I remember the first time I told you to drink some milk with the brownie. And I don't know if you did that before, but you were very like hesitant. And then you're like, wait, yeah.

[Bretman]

Because I feel like, yeah, you were the first one that made me do brownie with milk.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

But also I'm not a milk girl anyways. I'm never like, this would be good with milk.

[Kat]

Same.

[Bretman]

I feel like Oreos. I was like, yeah. Yes. Well, yeah.

[Kat]

A nice warm cookie.

[Bretman]

It was so sad. I remember when I was in high school, I mean, it's definitely in elementary, and this girl brought Oreo and milk for one of our. We had like a movie night thing. She brought whole milk, of course. And I was dipping mines in water because I wanted to be with the other kids. Like all the other kids were like, oh. And I'm like, I don't think you guys want me to try that. So I asked for a glass of water and I was dipping it in there and I'm like, yep.

[Kat]

So good. You guys hangs on.

[Bretman]

Yeah, I've had it before, obviously with like other milk.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Is there a food combination you've tried? And you're like, I'm never trying this again.

[Kat]

Peaches and cottage cheese. My mom used to eat that growing up.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And she put it to me when I was a child like three, four years old. And I remember just eating it and throwing up.

[Bretman]

Have you ever had. It's a thing. And I feel like we talked about this already, but. Prosciutto and cantaloupe. Cantaloupe.

[Kat]

Yeah. You made me when you got back from Italy.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Yeah. He was with it.

[Bretman]

I don't know why I like that.

[Kat]

Yeah. He had to find the perfect prosciutto.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Like he came he back from Foodland Farms with like so many trays of prosciutto to figure out which one it was.

[Bretman]

And it was the first one I Tried.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Oh, my God. What part of quiet on set do we not understand? Actually, that's why our audio is messed up.

[Ozzy]

It's all my fault.

[Bretman]

Girl actually is actually one tone.

[Ozzy]

No notification. WWE notification popped up for YouTube and it's. It's a live thing. So now it's on.

[Bretman]

Right. So you have other important things to do. Okay. Sorry, Aussie.

[Ozzy]

Yeah, I'm sorry.

[Bretman]

How's your. How's your week this week, Kat?

[Kat]

It's fine. This is the week before my period starts, so I feel really fat and huge and disgusting, so I'm really locking

[Bretman]

the in at the gym.

[Kat]

Yes.

[Bretman]

Well, you did skip yesterday.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Bretman]

Right.

[Kat]

How'd you know that?

[Bretman]

Because you came over my house at 8:30. I still could have got with no smoothie. Like, that's the crazy part.

[Kat]

I skipped because I was being a friend. My friend needed me.

[Bretman]

Yeah. Right.

[Kat]

And I was.

[Bretman]

You were clocked in. You were clocked in.

[Kat]

Right, Right.

[Bretman]

Well, the House of Rock has a lot of new updates this week. I. We have new people in our team, which we love. And by new people for our team, I mean we have new gardeners. We. We did have a gardener in between my brother and this one. But you know what? I. I asked Kat this. I was like, kat, is it mean that I expect perfection and hard work from even just my gardeners or anyone that works with me? And the answer is no, because I have that standard with me. I expect perfection. I expect hard work. I expect full throttle every time. I have the expectation with Ozzy, I have the expectation with Kat down to like, even just my managers, agents, if they're not perfect, if they're not me, you gotta go. And we really did give it a best. A good shot. But we found uncle. He does like the. A lot of the neighborhood. And I was like, uncle, come over and let's see. And girl, just in their first two days. It's day two, y', all. And I swear I feel like I fell in love with my garden again, which is really all just. I want. I'm like, I just want a garden that represents me. Because if there's anything I believe in this world, your garden or your yard is a representation of you.

[Kat]

Yeah. I feel like you're. You expect transparency and you expect people to like. You don't ask for a lot.

[Bretman]

I really don't.

[Kat]

Girl. It's a big job in general, but if you have the right people, the right, like, productivity, then you can accomplish it for sure. So it's like if you. If you're coming into this, you need to come prepared and ready to go. Yeah.

[Bretman]

And that's what his uncle is giving. This week has also been a great week for us here at Costa Amor. I'm kidding. Because Kat and I have been watching Love Island. We should do a little recap. Today's day three. We haven't watched it yet. So for the first two episodes, what are your thoughts so far?

[Kat]

It's still so early, so it's hard to, like, judge people off the first two days.

[Bretman]

Who's your main clients?

[Kat]

My main ones I like. Oh, what's their names? Casey and what's her name? Anaya.

[Bretman]

Anaya.

[Kat]

Yeah. I really like them. They seem very genuine. Me and Brit have different opinions on Melanie and Sincere. Sincere. I think it's Hood and Jeremiah again to Electric Boogaloo. Yeah.

[Bretman]

And Brett and I think I'm obsessed with them. Well, okay, you know how in the first episode, they were both wearing blue and they chose each other and Serena and Cordell was wearing lime green? I think they might be. Or maybe it could be like, a collab of both, like, Serena and Cordell and Jeremiah and Huda. But I think they're going to have a really strong start. Kind of just like how Serena and Cordell did got a little rough in the mid section because they wanted to explore, and obviously Cordell wanted to test their relationship. And then they got back together in the end, and, you know. You know, love is worth fighting for. That's what really is. And I think that's going to be them.

[Kat]

Okay. But the first look, Melanie's already crying, and it's day three, so I'm just

[Bretman]

like, girl, it is a lot of tears.

[Kat]

You need to calm down. Like, even. Even everybody on day two is, like, upset about stuff, and I'm just like, we're on day two.

[Bretman]

I will say sincere is a little diabolical for going to pull someone. I think the new Kadiah.

[Kat]

Yeah, I think he pulls her.

[Bretman]

Kadiah. He pulls her. And I think what's diabolical about it is him telling Melanie, oh, y' all look alike. I didn't even look at her that much.

[Kat]

He didn't even tell Melanie they looked alike. I thought. I thought he only she did. No, she thought he was someone else. They looked alike.

[Bretman]

He did.

[Kat]

Oh, he did.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Oh, he was telling her. He's like, I don't know what she was wearing. Like, I don't. I wasn't.

[Bretman]

No, he did. He was telling her prop before that.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah, Yeah. I don't I don't know.

[Bretman]

I just.

[Guest Speaker]

I just.

[Bretman]

Well, my main client is not sincere. It's Melanie. Because I live for anybody cute. And Melanie is very much me as surprisingly, I'm live. Not surprisingly because I knew I would live for her. But Kenzie is so meme as to me. Like, she's just the meme of me personality. She is. And she really is kind of like killer in a way where she really wears her heart in her sleeve. Because if you want to talk about crying.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

She been crying.

[Kat]

I feel like from what I've seen so far, I feel like Anaya is very emotionally secured.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Versus Kenzie and Melanie so far are emotionally anxious.

[Bretman]

Spoiler alert, by the way, if you guys haven't started yet.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah. I think they're anxious attachment.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

So I feel like that could definitely be their downfall.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

I feel like love wise. It's like you were saying, it's too early to tell. Hate wise. I do know I hate Bryce.

[Kat]

I call him Doug.

[Bretman]

He needs to.

[Kat]

He literally looks like homeless. He looks gross.

[Bretman]

He needs to get out of my island. I'm sorry, it's boring. No, the mics need to be a little turned down a little bit for me.

[Kat]

It's so much kissing.

[Bretman]

It's a lot of kissing.

[Kat]

I don't remember this much kissing song.

[Bretman]

I know.

[Kat]

And the noise.

[Bretman]

It's a lot of licking. And also, Gabriel, I need you to just start an only fans at this point. Like, babe, it's giving soft porn. I should not be watching soft porn with my assistant.

[Kat]

Me and Brett can't even make eye contact when this.

[Bretman]

I literally have to sit far from cat and we just like, regroup whenever some boy says something corny because I am like. It's to a point where I'm like, is Gabe's tongue in my throat?

[Kat]

Okay, but we have to talk about the lesbian in the room. Ms. Bea.

[Bretman]

I have been seeing some discourse about her being lgbt and I feel like as someone who is a part of the Queer Eye community, I feel like she could be a lesbian.

[Kat]

I mean, nothing wrong with that boy.

[Bretman]

I also feel like Gabriel could be a lesbian too. But also, maybe that's wishful thinking.

[Kat]

Maybe he like, tinkers on both sides.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

I don't know. But be a girl. I just like, if this doesn't work out for you, if you don't find somebody, I think she's just try. She's just trying the other side.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

See how she likes it, you know?

[Bretman]

Period.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

I think. I don't know. I Feel like, I think a season coming up where, like, two girls are gonna get together. I really hope there's one year where, like, two bisexual girls or even two boys end up being, like, recoupling. They're like, I choose Bratman.

[Kat]

Didn't that. Didn't that happen before? Like, two girls pick each other?

[Bretman]

No. Two girls made out.

[Kat]

I could have sworn two girls matched with each other. I think Kiefer told me one time. Oh, But I don't know. I could be wrong.

[Bretman]

I know two girls kissed, obviously, because, I mean, even last season, Sierra them kissed, but, like, I know. I don't know if they ever chose each other during recoupling.

[Kat]

We should have a producer look it up.

[Bretman]

Yeah. Can you look it up?

[Ozzy]

What am I looking up exactly?

[Kat]

I'm not listening.

[Bretman]

I know.

[Ozzy]

I'm sorry. I'm trying to make sure everything's working

[Kat]

because I'm freaking out. Did two girls couple up on Love Island? Have two girls coupled up on Love Island?

[Ozzy]

Love island, yeah. Yes. Multiple pairs of women have coupled up. Oh, I feel like. Well, there is one for the. The USA one Season five.

[Kat]

It happened one time.

[Ozzy]

Oh, that was before Cassie Castillo and Johnny Garcia.

[Bretman]

Yeah. Oh, they coupled up.

[Ozzy]

That's what it says. Shared a romantic connection and kissed in the video.

[Kat]

I hope another bombshell comes in that's giving, like, Leslie vibes.

[Bretman]

Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

[Kat]

I hope Bea, you know, does something.

[Bretman]

Are you genuine saying her name, right? Beatrice. Beatrice.

[Kat]

But they call her Bea.

[Bretman]

I know, I know. But, like, I love how. I swear, I don't know if I'm imagining this, you guys, but I swear, every time Beatrice tells people how to say her name, she says it different every time.

[Kat]

Does she?

[Bretman]

I swear, I'm like, you just said Beatrice. Now it's Beatrice. Now it's Beatrice. Which one is it?

[Kat]

That's why I just said Bea.

[Bretman]

But love her. I gotta love my track girls. Of course. She's beautiful, sincere, and Bea, period love. But Melanie is my main. Thank you so much. I will be voting to keep her in, period. Who's your main again?

[Kat]

Anaya.

[Bretman]

Anaya.

[Kat]

Yeah, I love her.

[Bretman]

Casey too. Casey is the cutest guy.

[Kat]

He really in there. The way there was no one at his door. I know he was embarrassed. That was so.

[Bretman]

I know. But I feel like Anaya and him is gonna stick together. I hope they do.

[Kat]

I really hope they do.

[Bretman]

But also, Anaya was saying something about Sean.

[Kat]

Yes, she was. But then he was saying something about Kenzie. No, no, about Trinity.

[Bretman]

Trinity.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

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[Kat]

Hi y'. All. I'm Kenzie and I'm the host of Houseguests podcast. I am a Gen Z wannabe Martha Stewart meets Dolly Parton trying to live in a Nancy Myers movie. We talk all about life, relationships, and navigating your 20s. I'd like to say I'm multifaceted. I'm either waking up at 4am in the sauna, tending to my garden, or closing out the bars until 2am you just never know what you're gonna get. It's either me at home in my house in Texas that I spend way too much time in, or in the studio with some pretty cool guests. You can follow us at thehouseguest pod and listen or watch all new episodes every Thursday, wherever you get your podcast or on YouTube.

[Bretman]

All right, y', all, before we read some Reddits, I forgot about my own segment. Let's read. Let's read a journal entry. June 2, yesterday. It's June, It's Pride Month. And it's fag month. And I can't believe how fast this year has been flying by. I feel like I haven't done anything, but summer has also been tickling my hole.

[Kat]

What?

[Bretman]

I just be writing things in the

[Kat]

morning, in a mood in the morning,

[Bretman]

but summer has been tickling my hole. A is 27 and A needs to be outside this year. I want this passport stamped and this cookie ate asap. Wow. What was in the air yesterday?

[Ozzy]

You gotta. You gotta time stamp your journal entries.

[Bretman]

What was in the air yesterday? Morning, girl. Period. One thing I will work on this month is my morning schedule. I want to be back on my early bird bullshit again because I've been waking up at 7:30 and even that's too late for my day and I like to start my days early so that I'm slumped by 8.30pm thank you very much. So starting today, I will be getting up at my usual 6:30, which, yes, I woke up at 6:31 this morning. Thank you. So that I can feel like myself again when I wake up at 7:30. I literally have to leave by 8:20 to get in time to get out in time for my workout at 9. Meaning I have 50 minutes to wake, walk, and feed the dogs, water the plants, feed the chickens, change skin care, and also eat breakfast. Yeah, A needs more time than that. And Operation Morning Shenanigans starts today. And it really did start today. Cat, what time do you be waking up? I feel Like I can call you whenever and you be up.

[Kat]

I know I naturally wake up at five, but I don't get out of bed till like seven because I used to do the mornings. Like I used to go to gym at 4:00am yeah.

[Bretman]

And now you never got out of it?

[Kat]

No, like now I go gym at night.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

So if I stay in bed when I wake up at five, I can sometimes fall back asleep. Bless you.

[Ozzy]

Bless you.

[Kat]

You're welcome. But I'm very. I need to sleep more because they said that if you aren't losing weight and you want to lose weight is could because of sleep. Because you have to get a lot

[Bretman]

of sleep if you want to lose weight and you aren't losing weight. Sleep period. Okay, what if I sleep the whole time? Skinny. I will say I loved working out at night, but the only thing is like there really is adrenaline still left in my body and the workouts we be doing is very adrenaline based. So I'm like still like I could still run a Marathon at 11 and I don't like that.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

So I feel like I'm gonna start going up early classes.

[Kat]

I, I wanted to start walking or running in the morning but it's so hard to like get out of bed sometimes, so.

[Bretman]

Oh, I'm okay with that. Girl. I get the out of bed.

[Kat]

Really? Do you have like multiple alarms or is it one alarm?

[Bretman]

It's one alarm and I get up.

[Kat]

Really?

[Bretman]

Like I don't do the negotiating with myself.

[Kat]

I do like five minutes.

[Bretman]

No. When I hear. Cuz I have a hatch. Well, I do have multiple alarms actually, if you count my hatch.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Because I literally. It's like right across my, my bed. So I have to literally get up to turn it off and it's. And I have the most annoying ass fucking ringtone ever. It's like this. Rise and shine something. It's like. I don't know what it's called, but it's a guy like speaking like he's in a podcast. Like. Right. And Rise and shine. While you were up in my sleeve, I already had my. I already went on a nine mile walk. Here's a tip to get up early, blink really, really, really fast and tell yourself I'm awake, I'm awake, I'm awake, I'm awake. Oh yeah. It's like this random guy and he says the same shit every morning and I don't want to fucking listen to a man. So I get up and turn that shit off and I'm like, I'm not gonna get back in bed. Because by the time I get out of bed, my dogs are like. They think it's walking time. So they're like scratching, like Lily and Hottie when they're on the side.

[Kat]

Oh, oh, they're on the side.

[Bretman]

Yeah, yeah. They're like, literally scratching the thing. So I'm like, oh, my God, girl, I gotta walk you on. So that's how I get up. But I've been getting up at 8 and I don't like that. Like, I need to back. Be back on my 6:30, because I woke up at 6:30 today. I even had time to journal. Like, it was a great day. It was a grad day.

[Kat]

I love that.

[Bretman]

All right, Ozzy, you said you would read us these Reddits.

[Ozzy]

Yes, that's.

[Bretman]

Is it. Is it like a. Who's the asshole?

[Ozzy]

Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the. The subreddit I was looking through.

[Bretman]

Okay.

[Ozzy]

These are. I think these are pretty much like. Oh, actually, I won't spoil it, but it'll be interesting to see your guys's take on this subreddit.

[Bretman]

Do you think we would be on the same page?

[Ozzy]

I think so. I think you guys would also be. I think Cat's really good with, like, exploring things too. So, like, even if there is one answer.

[Bretman]

True.

[Ozzy]

You can just.

[Bretman]

Right, right, right, right.

[Ozzy]

Tickle the brain a little bit.

[Kat]

Right.

[Bretman]

Explore.

[Kat]

Yeah, I'm excited.

[Ozzy]

So this one's a funny one. So am I the. For changing my niece's stripper name when I got custody?

[Bretman]

For changing your niece's stripper name when you got custody of your niece?

[Ozzy]

Yep.

[Bretman]

Okay.

[Ozzy]

All right, good start. Here we go.

[Bretman]

That's a lot to unpack here.

[Kat]

Right?

[Bretman]

Is that all the information you know about this?

[Ozzy]

That's just the title.

[Bretman]

Oh, I thought we were already. I already had questions. Okay. I'm like, I already had an answer.

[Ozzy]

I think it will become obvious that my sister and I have taken very different paths in life. I love her very much, but she is not well. I have had custody of my niece since she was six months old. My sister is going to jail for at least the next seven years. She is ineligible for parole for that long, so that's a minimum. My niece's name is a perfect example of my sister's thought process. Honest to God. She named her Cinnamon. Spelled S, Y, N, N A M I, N. Okay. Pronounced Cinnamon.

[Bretman]

Okay. And by thought process, she means thought process. Exactly.

[Ozzy]

I have had my sister's parental rights severed. My parents and her fought me on it. Don't care My parents have never contributed to her upbringing, but they have given lots of unwanted advice. I adopted my daughter and changed her name to Simone. My parents think I'm being cruel to my sister. What my sister thinks is not allowed here. The filters told me that particular obscenity wasn't part of post here. It starts with a C. Try it yourself if you don't believe me. So I feel completely justified in changing her name. I do not think I'm wrong. I am not looking for validation. I want to know if I'm missing something that my parents and sister can't communicate coherently. Is she the.

[Kat]

Wait, how old is niece? It says she's still a baby.

[Ozzy]

I think so. Her niece is six. She said I have custody of my niece since she was 6 months old.

[Kat]

Doesn't say how old she is now.

[Ozzy]

Doesn't say how old she is now. But her. Her. The niece's mom. She's going to jail for the next seven years.

[Bretman]

Ooh.

[Ozzy]

So well into her childhood.

[Bretman]

I would say this is a little rough because I would. My first instinct is if the baby or if the child is of age of like, you know, I would say seven years old, maybe even eight. Like, I would ask her.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

If she wants to change her name. Because maybe we can argue about this, but, like, I really don't think Cinnamon is that strippery.

[Kat]

No, I mean, like, I.

[Bretman]

Because I know someone, and this is not to say they. That their kid has stripper name, but like, I know someone named Cash. He's a boy. And our friend literally has a daughter named Paid.

[Kat]

Oh, yeah.

[Bretman]

And Paid as in like, she got paid. Like, and I'm not saying these are stripper names, but, like, they could be.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

And I don't think Cinnamon.

[Kat]

I mean, I. I think any name could be construed of whatever you intended it to be. Yeah, exactly. So. And I feel like you could all. For me, if my sister named her child something that I didn't appreciate or I didn't like, I would just start calling a nickname. I would just call her that.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And I'd be like, hey, when you get older, we can talk about if you want not tell her. Cause you have the baby. But I would have a plan. Like, if we get older and you talk about, do you want to change your name legally? We could change your name legally.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

And then she, you know, so that way it's more like transparent.

[Bretman]

I would even say Bretman is such a fucking stripper porn star name.

[Ozzy]

Bremen Rock.

[Kat]

Yeah, Rock.

[Bretman]

Bremen Rock Hard. Like, I Mean, that's appeal.

[Kat]

Yeah. And I mean, it's not like anything happened that can't be undone either.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

So, like, she could grow up and be like, actually, I really like the name my mom picked for me. Yeah. So do you think the.

[Ozzy]

Do you guys think the age matters?

[Kat]

Yeah. Like, if.

[Ozzy]

If the niece was like. Like, she just adopted her. She's six months old.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Compared to, like, eight years old. I feel where the child has more, like, agency and.

[Bretman]

Yeah. And the daughter's like, I hate my name. I really hate my name. The kids bully me because of my name.

[Ozzy]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Then I would understand. But, like, I love my name.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Like. And it's okay. I guess the only way I could really defend what I'm trying to say is let's say I am Denise. In this case, my uncle or my auntie adopted me, and they think Bretman is an ugly name or a stripper name. And they changed it. And then I grow up. Let's say they changed it to Anthony. And I learned that my name was supposed to be Bretman. And I'm like, oh, my God, Bretman is so unique. Like, I want that fucking name. Why the fuck am I gonna be named Anthony like everybody else? That's just me being a Leo and wanting to be fucking unique, of course. And not. And I already know y' all gonna be like, stop making a fucking excuse about, like, your sign. Shut the fuck up. Start a podcast and talk about your own sign, bitch. I don't give a fuck. But yeah. No, I would literally be like, what if I wanted Bretman?

[Kat]

Right? I mean, when I was younger, I wanted to change my name to Britney because Brittany scares, obviously.

[Bretman]

So then I guess it. I guess because the auntie's intention was great, it seems like. I wouldn't say she's an asshole.

[Kat]

No, I don't think she's an asshole. I mean, everything that she did can be undone. So it's not like anything crazy.

[Bretman]

But I do think that.

[Kat]

Sorry.

[Bretman]

The daughter being adopted should have some say to that.

[Kat]

Yeah. I feel like she just was doing what she thought was best. And she could. She felt like she could foresee what would happen. And she was like, I want you to come up with a good name that's strong and suits you. Not in her eyes. That name didn't suit her.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

You know, so I get it. I don't think she was an asshole.

[Bretman]

I don't think she was an asshole. I don't think there's anybody in this case an asshole. Because again, I would Love to ask the original mom, the mom, period. Like, why Cinnamon? Like, does that name signify anything to you? Or did you really genuinely meet a stripper named Cinnamon and you're like, I want to name my daughter.

[Kat]

Right.

[Bretman]

With an S. Like, or.

[Kat]

And also, did the aunt change it because she genuinely thought it would be better, or did she change it to spite the mother?

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

You know, like, those are questions.

[Ozzy]

Like, she has strong opinions about her sister.

[Kat]

Yeah. And she's like, I don't want you to have anything to do with this daughter. Like, not name her. Not anything. You know what I mean?

[Bretman]

Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, no, I don't think the auntie's an asshole.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Yeah. I think it's just. She just has really strong opinions about her sister.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

I think the only way it's like, really her being an. Is if. Just like, really doing it out of spite. Out of her sister. Yeah, her sister's been. I mean, she started the post by saying her and her sister have taken very different paths. So I feel like there's a lot of judgment already.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

But, like, if the. If the mom was to send a care package for her daughter, would she hide it from her daughter? Would she give it to her?

[Ozzy]

That kind of stuff is.

[Kat]

I think those are things we should know.

[Bretman]

Yes. And if she does hide it, then you're like. Then you are the.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

And that's weird behavior.

[Ozzy]

So a lot of the comments here are saying that she's not the. They're saying, your child's gonna. Thank you later.

[Kat]

Your child's gonna do what?

[Bretman]

Thank you.

[Ozzy]

Thank you later.

[Kat]

Thank you later.

[Bretman]

I hope.

[Kat]

I mean, maybe never gonna know until.

[Ozzy]

Well, I also think it's. It's funny because everyone's commenting on the title and how, like, how, like, confused people were.

[Kat]

I was.

[Bretman]

I thought so, too. I was like, what do you mean? Changes?

[Ozzy]

So even with that being said, like, for. For the auntie to say that, oh, that's a stripper name. That's kind of, like, weird. That's your opinion.

[Kat]

Yeah, yeah. It's opinions based.

[Ozzy]

Yeah. So I don't know.

[Bretman]

And our opinion is based on our opinion.

[Kat]

Right? It's all.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

And their opinion is based on.

[Kat]

Yeah, right.

[Bretman]

And all my opinions are alleged. Just say. Let's just. Let's just say that right now.

[Kat]

All my While we do, like, say she's an asshole down below, like, on the comments for us, the people.

[Bretman]

Yeah, yeah, you guys. Join the conversation. Do you guys think auntie is an asshole for changing her niece's name? Her niece's name, who she has rights to.

[Ozzy]

Do you guys think Simone was a nice name?

[Kat]

I think Simone's a nice name.

[Bretman]

It was a cute name.

[Ozzy]

You like Cinnamon more?

[Bretman]

I. Not that I like cinnamon more, but I really had no problem with this.

[Kat]

If someone told me Cinnamon, I would think a cat's name. I wouldn't think of stripper's name.

[Bretman]

I really wouldn't think.

[Kat]

I think cats named Cinnamon.

[Bretman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ozzy]

All right, let's go with the next story. That was good.

[Kat]

Period.

[Ozzy]

Okay, now we can definitely do more Reddit stories because there's a lot. I don't know if you've ever explored Reddit.

[Bretman]

I know there's, like, a podcast that's, like, on their part 47 already. I'm like, damn.

[Ozzy]

Yes. All right. Am I the asshole for hiring professional cleaners to prove my mom was a spike cleaner? I don't know if you guys know what a spike cleaner.

[Bretman]

What is a spike clean?

[Ozzy]

Like, they just. They clean out a spite. Or they'll say, like, oh, you guys didn't even clean. But, like, it's.

[Kat]

They only complaining while they cleaning they fucking filthy asses.

[Ozzy]

Which, if you. If you've grown up, particularly in a Filipino family, or probably even in an Asian.

[Bretman]

I might have to shut the fuck up about this because my mom does watch the pod.

[Ozzy]

We'll see.

[Bretman]

This might hit home, right?

[Ozzy]

I think I should. I'll say the poster's name. Technicolor reindeer 26 days ago. So it's pretty recent. Or. Wow, the post was recent. This is from a few years ago, but it's come up in arguments lately, so I figured I'd get some outside opinions. My mom is what you might call a spike cleaner. She uses cleaning as a tool to control and nag and whine and whatnot. My siblings and I bore the brunt of it.

[Bretman]

I just know. This is a Filipino girl. I just know.

[Ozzy]

Often she delegated cleanings to a Saturday or Sunday, which we called Hell Day. She would usually go out to buy food for the week or run errands and leave it to us. And it seemed no matter how much cleaning we did, she was never happy with the result. And the day would end with all of us arguing and being upset. Sometimes we would barely do any cleaning since the end result was the same. Her complaining, venting to each other outside the house. One day, my siblings and I decided to prove she was just complaining for the sake of complaining. We set up a GoFundMe to raise funds to pay a local house Cleaning company, posing it as something along the lines of help us get a professional house cleaning to surprise our mom. And we were able to raise a few hundred dollars, mostly from family and friends who knew our situation, which covered the cost and a nice big tip for the cleaners from what was left. So for one cleaning weekend, when our mom had shopping plus getting the car looked at, we scheduled a local cleaner to arrive. They were two very nice women who proceeded to clean the house till it was sparkling. We chatted a bit with them while they were working. One of the ladies had almost 20 years of experience cleaning homes. The other eight, with their consent. We filmed some clips of them cleaning, saying it was to surprise our mom. So mom gets home with our uncle, who was coming to dinner, and she's barely in the door. She's already started complaining about our usual subpar cleaning. That either I, my brother, didn't clean the surfaces well enough or that my sister didn't sweep one spot. These were repetitive complaints she often said. Long story short, we show her the footage, her face gets red, and she proceeds to scream at us from embarrassing her in front of her brother. How dare we hire cleaners and have strangers in the house. Blah, blah, blah.

[Bretman]

Right?

[Ozzy]

We argue back that this proves she just weaponizes cleaning. It's been a few years since then. After the big blow up, she just did most cleaning herself, and she's never admitted to weaponizing it. It came up again recently as us tricking her, and I don't think we did anything wrong. Am I the asshole? Nope.

[Bretman]

Not at all. I do. Oh, my God.

[Ozzy]

Triggered.

[Bretman]

No. I'm so triggered, y'. All. Like, this is funny.

[Ozzy]

I think this is so funny.

[Bretman]

I love my mom, and I know she's gonna watch this episode, but my mom is a spike cleaner as well. Sometimes my mom will be like, I don't hang out with you enough. Like, I'm. Oh. So she'll come over and she'll start, you know, doing things around the house. And sometimes she'll say things under her breath like, at least these dogs have a room and ac. And I literally am like, mom, you have a room and AC as well, but your room. You literally have your own unit of AC in your room, but you also feel like you don't have a room because I love you, but you are a hoarderer. Like, your room does not feel like a room because it's stacked on top of stacked and stacked and. And you. So I tell her these things. Or sometimes she'll. She'll sweep the floor. And she'd be like, oh, I'm so dizzy. It's so hard to clean such a big house. And I'm like, but, mom, you came. You came over to hang out with me. Like, I didn't have you over to clean. And then also on top of this, like, this was like a long. By the way, you guys, this is long ago conversation. This is not like a recent thing. This was like, in my Eva beach house, I used to have cleaners in there. And my mom would be like, I can't believe you would pay other people to clean your place instead of just like paying your own family and stuff like that. And I'm like, that's not even the reason why. But like, also, I'm just like, one. I'm uncomfortable if. Even if it was my family, I would be so uncomfortable seeing my cousin touch my under. Like, this is what I always tell Ms. K as my assistant. Like, it's awkward for me to ask Ms. K to like, oh, Ms. K, can you go put away or fold my underwear? You just don't. I just. That's just like an uncomfortable thing for me to ask a family member to do.

[Ozzy]

I think it's worse too, when family members have an opinion about you too.

[Bretman]

That. Yeah. And. And so, yeah, like, I don't think you're the asshole at all. I really do think you clearly proved your point. And I think. What do you think, girl?

[Kat]

I think it's a tactic that some mothers use so they can control you and they can make you always feel bad for everything you do, even though you're not doing anything bad, but that's a way they can control you.

[Bretman]

Yes.

[Kat]

You're always the one saying sorry.

[Bretman]

And I want to assume that you are living with your parents still, so they want to dangle that carrot in your head of like, you are still living with me. You can't even fucking clean this house. I think it's. It's. It's a constant. They're using that as a tactic, like you said, to constantly remind you that, like, bitch, you're in my roof. You're under my roof. The least you could do is clean. And no matter how you clean, it's still not going to be enough because you're in my roof, you're under my roof, you're under my. And I'm like, oof, girl, that's why so many brown kids literally, like. And I say this without, like, not even with my mom. Like, I grew up with so much family members under one house. Like, girl, I Was literally praying to move the fuck out of there.

[Ozzy]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Because, like, not just like I said again, I don't want just blame my mom, but, like, even my uncles and aunties would constantly remind me, like, this is not your house. Or, like, find ways to remind us this is not your house. Like them cutting off the Internet mid. Mid, like midday. Or them turning off the. The lights at the house. Like, the power, like, you know, the power switch. Like, we used to live with my aunties and uncles, and they would used to do that as kind of just like a big dick contest. Like, yeah, you're under our roof. And let me remind you every day that you don't own this house type.

[Kat]

It's like a scare tactic. And like, the thing with, like, parents who don't.

[Bretman]

Oh, I wish Ms. K was in this fucking episode.

[Kat]

Yeah, she would have a lot to say.

[Ozzy]

Well, we'll do more.

[Kat]

But the thing with parents who don't praise their children for doing things that they ask them to do is they want them to think. They just want to keep moving the goalposts. So you're continuously reaching for it, continuously trying your hardest to get there, but the parents don't want you to get there because that's how they control you.

[Bretman]

Yeah. And then that. And that just shows here that when you do get there, they still not even.

[Kat]

And that's what shows you, like, the whole time it was good enough. Your parents are just.

[Bretman]

I want to know, though, like, what would have happened. I just wish they didn't tell the mom that they got a cleaner.

[Kat]

Right.

[Bretman]

I wanted them to be like, yeah, we cleaned the house, Everything's spotless. I want you to find something wrong. And I swear to you, the mom would find something wrong still.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Yep.

[Ozzy]

There's some comments about that for sure. I think, too, it's a. I think it's also a dependency thing. Like, not even just like a control thing. I think some parents just, you know, they've. They've raised you since Lickson's birth, and they're so accustomed to you depending on them that any sense of independence is like, oh, no. But I need them to, like, still control.

[Bretman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kat]

And that the. The. The whole thing is. Stemmed from control, I feel like. And girl, because I've been out of my house since 18, so I was like, that. You're not. No one's going to control me. I was like, no, girl, as soon as I turned 18, I got off of all my mom's things. She didn't pay for a lick of my things. I was like, my sisters, they still were on, like, my older sister still under. My mom, she was still paying for their things. And I saw it and I saw how she would control them and like, hold it over their heads like, well, I do all these things for you and yeah, you need to do this for me. And I was like, hell no.

[Bretman]

The last time I asked my mom for any type of money or financial Support was probably 15 years old.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Nice.

[Kat]

We, yeah, absolutely.

[Ozzy]

There's one comment here that says I am extremely curious what they would have done if mom did see a difference and did approve of the professional work.

[Bretman]

Right.

[Ozzy]

But obviously that was never going to happen based off what happened because I

[Bretman]

think, like, like they were saying already, like, the mom was already talking shit before she even got in the house. So regardless, like, they were fucked. Like, they, the mom was not going to be impressed. Girl, you could fucking turn the house upside down. The mom was still going to find something wrong.

[Kat]

Literally.

[Bretman]

Seems like she just has a problem with her kids. I don't think you're the asshole. I think you guys are great kids. And I'm not going to speak on your mom.

[Kat]

I think if you want something to change in that house, you're going to have to do the changing, like move or do something because your mom, she's not going to want to change.

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[Bretman]

Let's get back to the podcast.

[Ozzy]

I got two more stories if you guys are welcome to it.

[Bretman]

Oh girl. Period. As long as they're not that triggering. That kid a little close to home.

[Ozzy]

I think these other two are kind of like funny.

[Kat]

Okay. Period.

[Ozzy]

Someone at work stole my chair so I had them arrested.

[Bretman]

Why is Ms. K writing Reddit stories?

[Ozzy]

Did she have her chair?

[Bretman]

No. Some she would do though.

[Kat]

You know. Someone stole Chia's aloha collection hello Kitty bag I got her from her work at the hospital.

[Bretman]

And why was it me?

[Kat]

That's so it.

[Ozzy]

Oh, this is post.

[Bretman]

Wait, hold on. Sorry. That's the if you know, you know type of bag. So it has to be someone around her vicinity that might be close to Hawaii. Because like to steal an aloha bag you have to know what an aloha bag is like.

[Kat]

You have to know in the hello

[Bretman]

Kitty one is rare.

[Kat]

It wasn't even the tan one, it was the regular one.

[Bretman]

Okay, so let's investigate who is around her that would know Aloha bag. Let's ask the questions.

[Kat]

Right.

[Ozzy]

This was posted 6 months ago from left Jeff. Okay, I got a new job in sales working for a company that sells access control Systems, CCTV systems, etc. Okay, the chair in my cubicle was uncomfortable af. So on day three I bought. I brought in my own Herman Miller Aeron chair. It's like a pretty Herman Miller is like inexpensive. Well, he does put he does say how much it is, so we'll get there.

[Kat]

Okay.

[Ozzy]

On day four it was missing. So on day three he brought it in. On day four it went missing. I looked around and another sales rep was sitting in it. I asked for it back but he basically told me to F off.

[Kat]

Oh hell no.

[Ozzy]

I went and spoke to the owner of the company. He told me that the chairs aren't reserved.

[Bretman]

But that's his chair.

[Ozzy]

They are first come first serve. I explained that I own the chair. And it cost me eighteen hundred dollars. He told me that I need to come in earlier if I want that chair.

[Kat]

Oh, hell.

[Ozzy]

The next day, the same guy was sitting in it. When I got to the office, I told him to give it back or I was going to call the cops. He refused, so I called the cops. It was quite the scene. But in the end, he admitted that he took my $1,800 chair. I was prepared. I had the receipt which showed the serial number. Yes, Aeron chairs have serial numbers.

[Bretman]

As they should. $1,800. It fucking should.

[Ozzy]

Yes. They asked me if I wanted to press charges. My new boss said I would be terminated if I had him arrested. So I said, absolutely, I want to press charges.

[Bretman]

Thank you.

[Ozzy]

My new boss fired me on the spot. So I carried my chair out with me as I was leaving. And yes, the cops arrested the dude who took my chair. He admitted to it where? Yes, the dude who took my chair has been in the industry for about 15 years. But he's going to lose his security license, which means he won't be able to work in the industry. He's going to lose his job. I don't give a shit. He shouldn't have stolen my chair. Am I the asshole for making this dude lose his job?

[Bretman]

No, no. And if you are the asshole, then I am an asshole too, because I would do the exact same play.

[Kat]

I'm sorry, but the boss should also get in trouble or something because he was okay with it. He said, well, you should come earlier, bitch. That's my chair. I pay for that, you know? So the guy should get arrested, but also the boss should something shopping to him because.

[Bretman]

So at the end of the day, two bitches lost their job, but one has her chair, right? And honestly, that's good point. That's the level of pettiness that I am in as well. Like, I'm so fucking sorry. I would. Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Now, do you think he did it too quickly? Like when he told him, I want to call the police and he said no. Then he just fucking called. Or would you have like, no, I'm dead.

[Bretman]

I'm so scared of the police. And if I knew I actually stole someone's chair, I would have been like, take it. Yeah, take it. You know? So if the bitch was going to stand ten toes with being like, I didn't fucking take your chair. What are you talking about? Call the police then. Then let's call the police.

[Kat]

I would have called them the first day. Like, I wouldn't even come back. The Next day to come early. When we come early for my chair,

[Ozzy]

I don't think that's very. Just, like. That's not. You're not a great manager.

[Bretman]

That doesn't solve anything.

[Kat]

Yeah, literally, he. His manager did absolutely nothing. He said he's gonna be fired. Well, you created this. You said for him to not give me my chair back, so.

[Bretman]

No, I don't think he's an asshole. And if he is, and in the comments say he is, then we are an together.

[Kat]

Right.

[Ozzy]

I think a lot of people are in agreement that he. That person is not the.

[Bretman]

No.

[Kat]

Right.

[Bretman]

So are you trying to say we should get you a new chair, though?

[Ozzy]

No, I'm okay with this chair. My chair's really small, though.

[Bretman]

Watch. Cat.

[Kat]

It's poor nail text. It's supposed to be.

[Bretman]

It's for the nail tags.

[Ozzy]

Oh, it's.

[Bretman]

Yeah. We'll get you a new chair. I feel like Ozzy wants that.

[Kat]

I think he wants 1800 chair that.

[Bretman]

I was still not.

[Ozzy]

Well, Herman Miller, someone said sometimes being an is the correct response. So technically, you were the. But you're not.

[Bretman]

I'm a correct asshole. Thank you.

[Kat]

I mean, only person.

[Bretman]

I'm a valid asshole.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

I'll take it.

[Kat]

I think the only person who thinks you're an is the guy who got arrested. Like, I don't think that's qualified to be an.

[Ozzy]

Just a tip. Don't bring your own to work.

[Kat]

Like, I'm gonna still bring it. And then if they do some, I'm gonna sue them. Okay. And arrest them.

[Bretman]

Okay.

[Kat]

Because I'm gonna be comfortable at work.

[Ozzy]

That's the playbook right there.

[Bretman]

Then I will call the cops.

[Kat]

Right.

[Ozzy]

All right, I think we have time for one more before we do product. Okay, so this was posted 2 years ago by can it be true or not? Am I the for not believing my boyfriend that suddenly became gay due to the altitude difference when he was on a work trip in Utah? Yeah. There's a lot to unpack on that title, but it's gonna make sense when you guys.

[Bretman]

We have time for this.

[Ozzy]

We do have time for this.

[Kat]

This is a lot.

[Bretman]

Wait, I have a lot to unpack already. Like, that's the title.

[Kat]

Utah.

[Bretman]

Okay, girl. He hit me.

[Ozzy]

I can hardly believe that I am writing this or that it happened, but

[Bretman]

I can't believe I heard it either.

[Ozzy]

I am, and it did. So Here we go. I, 28, female, have been with my boyfriend, 29 male, for three years. Every now and then, he has. He has to go to Utah for a Few days because his team has a customer service branch that operates out there. I got a text from one of his co workers who has become a friend of ours and it said that on the trip my boyfriend cheated on me with some guy on the customer care team. I did not believe it at first because first of all, my boyfriend has always identified as straight. And second of all, I just couldn't believe it. When he got home, I asked him about it, basically expecting him to confirm it was nonsense. Instead, he got real quiet and had us sit down and said he had to tell me something. He said it was true, he did have a one night stand. I'm going to be doing this a lot too, by the way. He had a one night stand with a guy. I couldn't believe it. I asked him if he was telling me he was gay or bisexual. And regardless, cheating is cheating. He insisted he was not gay at all. But the strangest thing happened. He said that when he was at dinner with his Utah co workers, he suddenly became gay. I was like, what? What the. He said he thinks it was due

[Bretman]

to the altitude or drinks maybe.

[Ozzy]

I was like, you're fucking with me, right? But he said after he had done it with this guy, he got really confused as to how all of the sudden he was gay. He said that higher altitudes can have an impact on how people think and on their emotions. And he thinks that the high altitude made him gay temporarily. He said that as soon as he landed back home, he was back to being straight. I was like, did he get drugged or something? But he said that that was not possible. They were always in a group at dinner, which is when he became gay and was only alone with the guy afterwards. He said he had done a lot of thinking on the drive back from the airport and he confirmed with himself that he is straight and that his only conclusion could be that he was temporarily turned gay due to the high altitude. A lot of this shit. I was like, whatever, I guess we are breaking up. He looked at me confused. I was like, gay or not, you did cheat on me. He said it wasn't his fault and that human actions are just a byproduct of accidental brain chemistry and that his chemistry had been altered through no fault of his own due to the higher altitudes of Utah. He said he couldn't believe it. I would blame him for something medical and scientific that was out of his control. He really looked bewildered that I was angry about this. I don't know, maybe he's convincing and I'm a rube, but I am starting to wonder if I am overreacting.

[Bretman]

No.

[Ozzy]

Like, I know it sounds insane, but is it possible to accidentally change your sexual orientation due to emotional changes brought on by altitude? Is that possible? And if it is, am I overreacting? Should I throw away a three year relationship for this? He's acting like I'm being rude and weird. I'm confused.

[Bretman]

Effy, while I gather my thoughts, will you please google this? Does the latitude, the altitude, the altitude affect your brain chemistry at all in any which way, regardless if it's gay or straight? Kat, what are your first initial thoughts? Happy pride, by the way. Everyone.

[Ozzy]

Happy pride.

[Kat]

My first.

[Ozzy]

I should have said that first.

[Bretman]

I'm so sorry. Happy pride, by the way, Guys, pride. I know the altitude's been really high lately.

[Kat]

My first initial thoughts are the way he was explaining. Sounds like those guys that cheat on their girlfriends and they're like, I fell into her pussy. Like I fell and my dick was inside her.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Like, it wasn't my fault, you know?

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

I don't know how that. I don't know how that got there.

[Bretman]

It's never. It's never a cheater's fault.

[Kat]

Yes. It's never their fault.

[Bretman]

Yes. Because I will say, even if Ozzy's Google search says yes, it's still very much cheating. You still. Even if your brain chemistry did switch to gay, in the altitude that which you were at, you're still yourself. Like, you still know you have a girlfriend. Like, did the. Did the fact that you have a girlfriend leave your system as well? No. I still think regardless if it's true, the altitude changes your fucking gender, which I don't think it does, you still cheated.

[Kat]

You still cheated. And you still.

[Bretman]

And girl, your feelings are still very much valid, regardless.

[Kat]

Yeah. And him trying to talk you otherwise is just him getting caught. Because worst of all, would he have told you, no, you heard it from somebody else. Second of all, he goes on this trip a lot. Yeah. Like, it's not the first time he's gone on his trip. How many other times has he done it? You know, this is. This is just the time he got caught. This is not saying this is the only time.

[Ozzy]

Damn.

[Bretman]

So also in. I don't know how long they've been together. Was it a year?

[Ozzy]

Three years?

[Bretman]

Three? In the three years you guys were together, did you guys take any trips in any high altitudes perhaps? And did he turned gay during those trips or did you turn lesbian during those trips? Ozzy, what did it say?

[Ozzy]

It says altitude significantly affects emotions due to reduced oxygen, which is called hypoxia, I think.

[Bretman]

Okay.

[Ozzy]

But it does not affect sexual orientation.

[Kat]

I would like to know if people on Mount Everest become gay.

[Ozzy]

Well, someone made a joke like, so does that mean every time I take a flight I'm suddenly gay?

[Kat]

Right?

[Bretman]

Yeah, because I'm really like, okay, I live up in the mountains. I'm like, okay, I'm gay as fuck. But when I go down to the beach in my. I don't think so.

[Kat]

Right?

[Ozzy]

Like, I just think this whole story is so stupid.

[Bretman]

It's so stupid. Like, I just thought it was funny because I think there's a city. I'm sure there's a city somewhere that's in a mountain. Is the whole fucking city gay? Right?

[Kat]

In Utah, I mean, Mormons. But I think a really big thing that needs to be addressed is when she said, should I throw three year relationship down the drainage? Girl, people who had that, that mind, that mindset that, oh, he did this terrible, awful thing of cheating on me, but we've been together for three years. Like, should I just throw it? Girl, you want to be with him for 50 years and find out 50 years later that he did some other dumb. Yeah, no, cut it off. Move the on. You had the rest of your life to get the over it, girl. Like, that's no, please love yourself, respect yourself and move on. You don't need him. There's a thousand million other men that would love to be with you and wouldn't cheat on you first of all and wouldn't give you some dumb ass excuse.

[Bretman]

So just go exactly. And to big to piggyback about that. I will always say that I've like, even with my two past relationships, like I would, I don't think like being one year with someone or any year with someone, someone would ever be more significant than the years that I've spent with myself. Like, Bitch, I spent three years with this man, but I spent 27 years with my fucking self. Who do I honor more? Who do I.

[Kat]

That's good.

[Bretman]

I hate that.

[Kat]

Wait, who do I honor more? Let me timestamp that real quick.

[Bretman]

Who should I honor more? My relationship with myself or my relationship with this fucking bitch for X, Y and Z years just because you've been

[Kat]

with them for how long?

[Bretman]

Girl, that told me that told me shit.

[Ozzy]

You know yourself better.

[Kat]

I saw one that it was like, okay, if you bought a really expensive ticket to go to Europe, but you found out like you found out beforehand that the flight might crash, would you still go on that trip? Like, damn, I'm out fifteen hundred dollars.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

So I'm gonna still go on that trip, girl. You wouldn't.

[Bretman]

Wait, you ate the analogy up. I'm afraid that was 8. Or reboot.

[Kat]

Thank you. But yeah, I'm just like, girl, don't ever. Please don't ever say, well, I spent so much time with him, like, I don't want my relationship go girl. Is down the drain. When he cheated on you, that's when it went down the motherfucking drain.

[Bretman]

Leave people the first time they're gay,

[Kat]

the first time they show signs of homosexual. Yeah, but the girl, the first time he ever raises his voice at you is when you should get the fuck out. That's the first time.

[Bretman]

Because since till then, the saxophones are just going to get louder.

[Kat]

A man will test you in the beginning. He will test your patience. He would test your self worth. And that's when you get the out. Because he's gonna see, oh, she doesn't respect herself. Yeah, I'm gonna keep pushing it and see how much I can push it until she finally leaves. And she's not gonna leave because she thinks, oh, no. Three years down the drain, girl.

[Bretman]

So, like, a man testing you, babes. I graduated 10 years ago. Like, I didn't go to college for that reason. Like, I don't. I'm not here to be fucking tested, babes. No. At all.

[Kat]

Ever. You should never be tested.

[Bretman]

I hate when Amanda's like, oh, I was just testing you. Oh, what am I back in school?

[Kat]

Like, tell him to go back to school. Go be a teacher and give people tests. The hell no.

[Bretman]

Do I look like a multiplication? Am I trying to find X? Because you better be. You bout to be X.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

Well, that was our Reddit stories for the day.

[Bretman]

These were very triggering ones.

[Kat]

They were.

[Guest Speaker]

I apologize.

[Bretman]

Yeah, I love. We should do more episodes like you guys want us to do more who's the asshole? Episodes, which I feel like I'm gonna do regardless. Yeah, let us know down below because

[Ozzy]

this was fun or if there's other subreddits that you guys want us to read.

[Bretman]

If you guys want us to do more episodes like this, please let us know. And we are. We should do a fan sent in one. So if you guys want. In the meantime, please DM us some of your am I the asshole? Stories and we'll try to read them before season two ends. Because if you guys didn't know, we have about a month left before we work on season three and we will be taking a longer Break this time. I already told you guys that last week, but, yeah. Should we do a product of the day day? Kat, you should go first, because you got me. You got me trying that.

[Kat]

I did. So mine is kefir. So she looks like she is a probiotic dream.

[Bretman]

It's not kefir. It's Kefir. It's Ms. K. Literally.

[Kat]

But it's a great probiotic drink. I like to drink it right before bed, and I wake up very not bloated. I poop right away. I just feel so skinny.

[Bretman]

A shark week's best friend, right?

[Kat]

Honestly. And, yeah, sorry, I'm out of breath because I just ran upstairs. But I saw it on TikTok. A lot of people are drinking it. This is my favorite flavor, the peach, and I love it. I've been doing for, like, a month, and it's great results.

[Bretman]

I told Kat once, oh, I tried it last night. I woke up skinny girl the next day, five bottles of that in my fridge. I'm like, girl, I just said I tried it. I didn't say I'm gonna need it. But now I have four bottles of these to go through, and it actually tastes really good, and it does not make me run. You guys know a bitch is lactose. And I will say, before Kat even told me about this, a fan was actually telling me about it because I'm always talking about how I'm lactose and talented, and one of my fans was like, girl, you should do a cup of this every night. Because she was also lactose and talented, and now she still is, but she could get away with more things. Like, she's less explosive.

[Kat]

We should test that theory.

[Bretman]

Maybe not right now, but we should test that theory after a month.

[Kat]

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna be good.

[Bretman]

I've been using it for a week now, and I do be waking up less bloated.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

Like, I feel like I used to wake up very, like, feeling puffy and, like, gross.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Kat]

When I drink this, like, like, dead ass. Like, I just feel so, like, real skinny, and it's like. It's pretty sour. So at first, I did not like it, but now I really like the flavor. You get used to it.

[Bretman]

I just drink it really fast. I don't even taste the flavor, you know, I. I literally chug that.

[Kat]

Arian, I love that.

[Bretman]

Do you, like, sip on it? And I go, oh, very demure, girl.

[Kat]

Like, that. I'm not that demeanor or with a straw sometimes, but literally right before bed.

[Bretman]

My product of the week are youth mall Mints. I got these in Japan. This one's a new one. I just finished my last one. But they're like just regular mints. This one is actually a probiotic mint. So it's. You wanna try it?

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

So you chew it.

[Kat]

Oh, I'm just gonna suck on it.

[Bretman]

Cause I'm feeling. And it's good for your mouth, of course, but it's also good for your tummy because a lot of stank breath actually starts at the tummy.

[Kat]

You know, I heard it's called I am eight. That brand is David Beckham. That's also a probiotic drink. And I heard it's really, really good. But it's low key, expensive.

[Bretman]

I'm eight.

[Kat]

It's like the letter I letter M and then the number eight.

[Bretman]

I am eight. Yeah, I am eight.

[Kat]

But I heard. Really, I want to try it. But.

[Bretman]

And this one's also really good. Just like, meant to have.

[Ozzy]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

I just keep these in my bag and. I don't know. I have a fear of stinking. Even though I really do be stinking sometimes. I just don't want to be. I just want. I don't want people to be like, ugh, Bremen's such a fucking bitch. And he stinks. Like, it needs to just stop at bitch. Like, Bremen is such a fucking bitch, full stop.

[Kat]

Right. I think that's my biggest fear, too.

[Bretman]

And he thinks that would. And he stinks is. Would be my 13th reason, actually.

[Kat]

Really?

[Bretman]

Yes.

[Kat]

Yeah. Honestly, Same.

[Bretman]

Like, if someone was like, cat's cooking is amazing, but she stinks, I would have been like, I would evaporate.

[Kat]

No. It was so validating. The other day when we were at the gym and we're running, the girl behind me was like, girl, I can smell you a mile away. You smell so good.

[Bretman]

What were you wearing?

[Kat]

It was Victoria's Secret bombshell in bronze. It's like Coconutty island vibes.

[Bretman]

Ooh. Okay.

[Kat]

I really like their perfume lately.

[Bretman]

I mean, Victoria Seafood is always that girl.

[Kat]

It's the OG for sure, but for sure. Yeah.

[Bretman]

Aussielicious. Do you have any product of the week? Not you thinking about it. Whenever you get caught, you should know this by now.

[Ozzy]

True. I don't know if I would always have to do it. I bought new pants, if that counts.

[Bretman]

Yeah, I always count them. Are you wearing. I can't see.

[Ozzy]

My. My friend made the same joke, so

[Bretman]

that laugh was just. It was already.

[Ozzy]

Yes.

[Bretman]

Okay, well, stop coming to work naked. That would be nice.

[Ozzy]

They are camel pants.

[Bretman]

Pakistan from Target. Oh, they do. They Always do.

[Ozzy]

Wrangler pants.

[Kat]

Oh, they're wrangler brands.

[Ozzy]

Yeah. I needed something that's more like weatherproof because it'd be raining out there. So, like, if I'm shooting, I need something more tactical.

[Bretman]

Yeah.

[Ozzy]

And I've never worn camo, so I figured might as well like, just try and up the wardrobe.

[Kat]

So period.

[Bretman]

Period. Well, Ms. Caddy, I know you have a garage sale coming up where can find you so they can try your cookie. Ookie.

[Kat]

Yes. So I'm gonna have a garage sale plus a cute little bake sale.

[Bretman]

Come for the bake sale, though.

[Kat]

Yeah. Come for Busty Bakes. Follow my Instagram. Busty Christy Bakeshi. I'll be posting there. I'm actually posting there. I don't say a lot more like I post on there.

[Bretman]

Yeah, I've been seeing you. Every time you do an episode here, you're active for like two days and

[Kat]

then you forget about it again because I'm just so.

[Bretman]

Just keep bullying. Catch you guys. She does read the comments. She's very that girl.

[Kat]

I'd be in those comments, liking all the ones about me.

[Bretman]

Yeah. But she'd be like, cat lost weight,

[Kat]

like,

[Bretman]

well, of course, you guys. Everything is at Bremen Rock. The baddest radio is here and you might as well subscribe and give us the best rating that ever is or was. We will see you guys next Thursday. Ozzy, sing us out, girl.

[Ozzy]

Shout out to the last red story. You say I'm crazy?

[Bretman]

It's the latitude.

[Ozzy]

Cause you don't think I know what you done.

[Bretman]

I was just gay.

[Kat]

You call me gay? I know I'm not the only one.

[Bretman]

Exactly. Especially up in these altitudes.

[Kat]

In Utah.

[Bretman]

In Utah.

[Ozzy]

Nice.

[Bretman]

Bye, Peach. I'll see you next Thursday.

[Kat]

Yeah.

[Bretman]

Don't forget to follow rate and like, you can follow me at bretmanrock on everything and follow the podcast at thebaddestradio on all social media. Bye, Beach.

[Kat]

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