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Season 1, Episode 21 · The Rage Pod

Rage Against the Ice Machine

28 Jan 2026 · 33 min

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This week we get into the rage that everyone’s feeling around the undeniable murder of Alex Pretti and our new home of gas light city (courtesy of the US government). Also, we breakdown the pros and cons of dating AI and unleash our new Rage Hotline segment “Would You Be Mad?” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Speaker 1:Guys. I mean we're the rage Pod.

Speaker 2:I think we all there's a fucking rage is having a moment. Yeah, right, So there's the brutal, fucking heartless, brutal, unnecessary murder, and then there's obviously how it was handled, and both of those things are complete atrocities. Like what are your thoughts right now, Tea?

Speaker 1:I cannot stand right now how they are lying to people about a thirty seven year old I see you nurse who took care of veterans, and they're lying saying that he came at them with a freaking a handgun and all he's holding is a phone. There is video after video after video after video evidence, and they're trying to spin it saying he inserted himself into a crime scene. He was helping a woman off the ground meanwhile being pepper sprayed then taken down by eight motherfucking agents. He yelled, I have a god. Another person takes the gun out of his waistband and shoots him six times in the back.

Speaker 1:Fuck you and all of your eyes. That's how I feel about it.

Speaker 2:Literally, America right now is a fucking leg and the government is peeing on it and telling us that it's raining, but not to call it a fucking ice storm. Like it's like we are we're literally getting fucking peede on and being told that it's raining. It's it's so insane. I don't know if you guys heard this, but they're getting like so many affidavits about what happened. And there was a guy that was near the scene who was a doctor, who did have you heard this story?

Speaker 1:No?

Speaker 2:Okay, So this doctor came down. He was like, let me give this man medical attention, right, sounds familiar, We're no good. And it took a minute. They finally did let him in. There he's assessing this poor man's like riddled body as a doctor would, and meanwhile he notices the ice officers are counting the bullet holes. They are counting the fucking bullet holes to make sure they know what their story is, what they're gonna say. And it's like, you know what, you fuckers, there are fewer people that in your life that actually like you than there are fucking bullet holes. I fucking agree with that, but it's important to note that they're count they're counting because it shows how fucked heartless they are that they want to know what the fucking pr spin's gonna be. They want to know, let's get our story straight, because they're already thinking about saving face, then fucking taking in for a moment that they emptied a goddamn clip into a person that was being held down by seven other fucking people with no weapon on hand.

Speaker 1:And like by a man who was being protective over a woman I shoved to the ground.

Speaker 2:Duh, violently, violently shoved to the ground.

Speaker 1:Up slipping on motherfucking ice. And by ice, I mean ice that comes from freezing motherfucking rain.

Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what, Ice is kind of a cool word, and I don't think they should get to have that word.

Speaker 1:I agree, I fucking want to take it away.

Speaker 2:What the fuck fu Yeah, No, we call them losers like I don't know, like Nazi losers I'm sick of.

Speaker 3:I'm referring to them as federal agents. There's nothing federal about.

Speaker 1:These They're the dragoons.

Speaker 3:They are thugs. They are c plus students that couldn't make it into the police academy with small dicks that need to feel powerful, gunning people down in the streets of America. That's what it fucking is.

Speaker 2:They're not fucking law enforcement. And frankly, that's offensive to the military. It's offensive to law enform. And stop calling it operations because that is offensive to a military. You think these people are that competent, you think they're that organized. No, they are just whiny little bitches that finally have been given carte blanche to do whatever they want. They don't know what they're doing. They clearly are heartless. And I also too think you stated a fact when I think they have small wieners.

Speaker 1:Yeah, too small, you gotta and and that just that'll do something to you, you know. And then and that's why they're all fruit loops, like cuckadoo wild fruit loops up here, and they're like, and you know what's all so wild? Isn't the journalist the woman I forget her name, uh that she goes I applied for ICE and if they just yes on my platform, they'd see I'm not on their side. But she was hired and good to go without a background check in a week one interview, not multiple like they say, here you go, here's all the money, have at it. They're fucking freezy, snowy little gremlin goblins. Is what day the fuck? Yeah?

Speaker 2:Yeah, I know they were like, you have a name and I and you are you have a pulse, come on board? Exactly did you did you hear about a Vello Airlines? A Vellow Airlines is like looking too. So I learned this at my salon that one of this lovely girl that works there. Apparently she was like maybe interested in becoming a flight attendant, and a Vellow Airlines is hiring and they are fucking working with Ice, like they are flying deported people home, and so she was like, oh fuck no, right obviously, but like there's like there's all of these like Aiders and a Betters like like fucking ring And then obviously we know all the big ones like Target, I mean Target and yeah, Hilton and Enterprise that are not doing basically anything, They're helping ICE carry out their operations. But like, what the fuck there's all these like insidious parts to this process. But another thing specifically on the murder, And I know you guys, I'm guessing you feel the same way. It hits me in my gut for his family and the people that knew him that like his fucking like his life, his biography, his legacy immediately got lied about, got like was attempted

Speaker 2:to be rewritten, was fucking tarnished, Like his body's not even cold, and all these people are coming out and like trying to tarnish the history of who this man was.

Speaker 3:Like, fuck off, and we're frustrating in the coming days, and it's already happening. You know. Dana Bash had Bovino on today and she really held.

Speaker 2:Such a fucking little leaner. I fucking hate him so much.

Speaker 3:And it's so infuriating and rageful how they are spinning this, how they think that they can blatantly lie to our fucking faces.

Speaker 4:We can see it, we can see the video literally fucking saying to us, and that just fills me with so much rage that I'm really curious to see how they're going to continue to spin this.

Speaker 2:There was a Trump appointed judge who bought that that past of tro to make sure war that the fucking federal government doesn't tamper with evidence, and that does not often happen. I mean, this is obviously he was like from Trump's side, and state legislators like that don't typically like fuck with the federal government, especially that quickly.

Speaker 3:The NR came out and said we need to you need to investigate this the end.

Speaker 2:Okay, you know what fucking fuck you, NRA, Really, how about you go back and investigate Sandy Hooky pieces of shit? Let me know, let me want know when you take some responsibility for that, like get out of the conversation because you know how bad this is and you want to try to like have some pr moment and be on the right side of history, Like, no, NR, go the fuck aways?

Speaker 1:How I feel about that? But yeah, I mean, but how fucked it is is that they they uh is that they get together, they show a warrant to get to the evidence, right and then but the warrant is through federal and then it's denied through the federal government, and then that jud steps in and he's like, no, we have to preserve the evidence. And how they're preserving it as of last night, which is not really preserving it because if you look, so many fucking ice officers are there. Everyone's scared because now someone was shot ten times and everyone's like, what the fuck do we do?

Speaker 1:And then the guy goes up turning over the body and he's like, where's the gun? Where's the gun? You go again again? Yeah? Where? Literally it's video after video after evidence evidence evidence, and I'm just like, how the like, really the only redeeming thing from keeping me from fucking scream crying about it and not going catatonic state because it's just like, what the fuck is going on? Is like that I saw tanks moving through when Tim Wats was like, we're gonna install the National Guard, and I was like, fucking run them off. And that's what I have to put in my head to be okay. And I know they're not going to, but honestly, they escalate situations, they they destroy families, and they claim self defense as their fucking pr strategy and nobody it's they're so it's zero accountability. It's they're not law enforcement. They're a fucking threat.

Speaker 1:They're little fucking bucks that don't deserve to be here. The fact that they're so fruit loops up here that they think what they're doing is a good thing makes me feel like it's fucking hopeless out here.

Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I think you have to just barrage your reps with calls like that's what I Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of faith and like local law enforcement and the National Guard because I've already seen enough coverage of them assisting icens situations like, look, they're not They're not going to come in and just fall on be the savior for the American people. Even if that's what they're supposed to do. It's obviously sends a message. It's important to have them there, like Tim Walls absolutely needed to do that, but we do need to basically just wake up to the fact that like they're not going to help us, they're not gonna save us.

Speaker 1:We have to we have to make it.

Speaker 2:Are the lives of our elected officials so fucking miserable. It has to be so abundantly clear at the midterms. It has to be such a fucking landslide that when Trump brings out his fucking little wien or goblin gremlin people at the polling places to scare people from voting, when he you know, doctors up whatever you know, shit show with the Postmaster General, there needs to just be so much volume of votes for the other side that it is undeniable. It is like un you know, you can't it's irreversible. So, and you talked about accountability, I just want to say one thing to the people that voted for Trump that don't want to take accountability and being complicit for this because they're hiding behind I am a fiscal Republican or I'm a one issue voter. I don't like vaccines. You know what, I would fucking love for unicorns to exist. Right. They're cool and they make you feel good, but they fucking don't. So stop trying to swallow your own fucking pr spin and take accountability that this is also on you, because that's not the way voting works. Okay, you vote for the whole fucking thing, and you voted for this, and I just I think

Speaker 2:that's really important. Because we are in the most important election year of our lifetime period.

Speaker 1:Should we get into the old rage report? Let's do it.

Speaker 2:We want to start doing this thing called the rage Report, where one of us on the team finds something, whether it's an article or a podcast, episode, a book, a movie, a TV show, a short, that we want the rest of the team to ingest and then come back and say what made them and raged about it, because there's going to be something that probably even if it's like on the rage scale, like maybe it's a four, it still gave you that sort of rage response.

Speaker 1:Evar sent me this story well, you sent it to the Rage pod about how a woman fell in love with Ai, and I was like, oh my god. I was like, well, I couldn't get to the story quick enough. Yeah, I clicked it. Wow, I know my demo. Yeah. And even when I went to work, I was like, did you guys know that a woman fell in love with Ai? I know the whole story.

Speaker 2:It was like full on, like having a sexual relationship with otally.

Speaker 1:Here's what makes me mad about it, and then you can tell me because it might be different. Is that she was married. Yeah, married, She's supposed to have somebody there that helps her. She felt so alone and isolated, which I believe a lot of people and couples or marriage are. That she had to train Ai to speak to her in a boyfriend loving manner to make her feel good about herself because her fucking partner that she dedicated her life and all of her time to ain't doing shit well.

Speaker 2:I think also, though there was the geographical distance too, right, like that was part of it because she was in London.

Speaker 1:I don't give a fuck fucking Facetimer and send her fucking I'm with you, dude, I'm with you, Okay.

Speaker 2:So she was like multiple time zones away from not only her husband but her fam I.

Speaker 1:Do know he could have been trying. We don't know he could have been trying.

Speaker 2:I mean he did absolutely like didn't seem to have a problem with you know, his wife forming a relationship with chat GPT who she called Leo and in some cases like sexting with Leo. So you're like if that doesn't like hit you in a way where you're like, oh, well, yeah, it's not traditional, but my wife is absolutely having an affair on me, and that makes me feel a certain way that I maybe need to work on step marriage more.

Speaker 1:For sure.

Speaker 3:The best the best part about it was though it it's to the point where she has to re update AI.

Speaker 1:And he has to reach you.

Speaker 3:Yeah, And I was just like, oh my god, what do ae man in a robot have in common? Still have to repeat yourself?

Speaker 2:Yeah, they still need to evolve.

Speaker 1:You do You have to go remember what I told you last week and update your memory. That's what I tell chat your memory. I tell it update your man. Then it goes click and it goes saving memory. Thanks for that. I've updated that now, And I'm like, good, don't fuck.

Speaker 2:Forget I think for me, my like sort of rage reaction to it was like, oh my god, we're fucking here.

Speaker 1:Why the fuck are we here?

Speaker 2:Like we are so bad at human ing, Like we don't human well anymore. Right, I'm surprised that we didn't hear in the story that there was never a moment of like clarity from her that she was she had some sort of reaction to having this relationship, like this is not a judgment on her. I would I would need so much fucking therapy, Like I would have felt like, oh I was in some sort of like weird state and I I was in a relationship with a robot, Like that would freak me.

Speaker 1:The fuck out. Yeah, Like if if that, like I.

Speaker 2:Would want like people to be like, hey, like we need to.

Speaker 1:Talk to you.

Speaker 3:There was a part of me that was like, oh, well, at least it gives people an opportunity to have some sort of relationship and yeah, and it's scary to think that you could have a relationship like that with a robot. But at the same time, I'm like, well, maybe it's kind of a good thing for those people that are agoraphobic or you know, afraid to have social anxiety and they don't want to go out into the world. At least that they can have some sort of emotional communication with something, even though it's all manufactured.

Speaker 1:Like a nice pick me up, it makes them feel like somehow, you know, chat can make them probably maybe feel better about them just sitting there. And it goes even me, you know, when we're when I'm sick or whatever, because you know, I'll ask it and they're like, that's totally okay. If you want to order Roman right now, wouldn't be the worst idea. Here's what I'll tell you. Comes with broth. You need to electrolyze, and you know how it talks you up, and I kind of like it guesses you up. Yeah, and I'm actually okay. There are some times where I tell it, don't be nice to meet, tell me the cold hard truth, and then it will and that's fine. And I don't tell it to update this memory to cold hard truth all the time I'm not in the mood, but like, sometimes when you really need it, that's fine. But I do agree with you. There may be some people out there they just need some connect something to talk to.

Speaker 2:All of that makes sense. I think my reaction and maybe this is just kind.

Speaker 5:Of where I go. It just scares me from a bigger picture. Sure, individually, we want people to find support, we want people to feel loved, we want people to feel like, you know, that they have less anxiety or they're less hard on themselves. But I'm like, what does this fucking mean for our community, for our world? Like, how are we not just Wally in five years from now?

Speaker 1:If you guys read this story eventually, I mean you can probably just google it.

Speaker 3:You know.

Speaker 1:She did go to an I an AI meeting, a big group of people who are doing the same.

Speaker 3:That was the other thing that cracked me up. I was like, oh my god, not only are they having relationships with AI, they're going full on Polly exactly. She started dating a guy who was also dating a robot, and then she yeah, it's like a Polly relationship.

Speaker 1:And then she got a divorce with her she's in that in that relationship, and I thought, well, that got her out of the house. Yeah, well and now she's with a human. That's what I mean. Should we get to the rage hotline and they can tell us if they'd be mad about Oh yeah, this is fun? Oh boy, oh boy.

Speaker 2:This has gotten like, this has turned into a life of its own. This is so fun, really has now?

Speaker 1:Guys, this happened a while ago, and I will say that I had went on a couple of dates of this guy. But we're friends now. It's not even like that. But we were like kind of texting, and you guys can look up this on my answer story. I told the whole story and we got responses. But to make a long story short, there I've lived in La twenty two years. I'm not running around town parking in red zones. There is a red zone out front of my house where everyone parks because where I live exactly, we don't have parking enforcement. Okay, we don't have signs, we don't have any of that. So every morning when I come out, there's somebody park there. Have I ever gotten a ticket?

Speaker 1:I got one ticket in the ten years I've lived there. I thought, well, I'll pay it because you know what, sometimes I got to park here because it gets wild around here and there's no park batting average.

Speaker 2:If you think about that over the course of like but also like what you have to pay for that, you know, it's not.

Speaker 1:Over ten years. If we put it, how many times. A park there, that's fine, I'll pay it. I get it. I'm not like totally in the right, but like, I walk out one morning and I'm like, where the fuck is my car? Holy shit? Do we really think? Oh god, the neighbors parked and where my car was? So I get on the fucking horn. I gotta look up one one. Where are all the toad places? Anyway, I find out that my car has been towed, and you know, I got paid three hundred and sixty dollars to get it out and on top of a parking ticket. And I'm like, I'm not money bags over here. So it's a bit tragic.

Speaker 1:It's a bad day. I have to also cancel all the work. They have to find somebody else to shoot or cancel all the shoot day. So boss isn't happy, schedulers not happy, the other host is fuck. Like I'm telling you, you know, it's a domino effect. I text the guy right and I'm like, hey, I don't know about you know, today sucks because he asked me. I was like, I'm just gonna tell you blah blah blah blah blah, partially resident out my car is got towed.

Speaker 1:And I tell him the whole story. Listen, everybody parks here, it's not and he goes. The first thing he says is, well, you shouldn't park in a red zone.

Speaker 2:Well I'd be like, well, you obviously shouldn't expect to get laid, thank.

Speaker 1:You, and like and I don't even remember what the follow up text was, but it wasn't even anything sweet after that. It was just like, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 4:Now.

Speaker 1:Listen, I posted this instant thing and I had you guys respond. Okay, So he called me out, and I just thought it made me really mad because listen, when I came here and I told these ladies, I told the Rage pod, and they went, oh my god, which is a normal spot. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Like that fucking sucks. Thank you. That's all I need to hear. I've lived here so long. Do I have a fucking prior convictions of me parking in red zones? Yes?

Speaker 2:She is one and ten years one one in twenty two years i've lived here, okay, and one in the ten years that I've sometimes parked in that spot.

Speaker 1:Now, let's read out some comments here.

Speaker 3:You've reached the rage hotline. Please leave us a message.

Speaker 1:So we are asking the question, would you be mad at the story that I just told you if you were in my POV.

Speaker 2:Like, would you be mad if someone's add this to you?

Speaker 1:Yes? So we asked the people, and the people responded. So the first one we got from P T T No mad, said, would be mad, but it is also something I might say on the other end, immediately followed by a bunch of de escalation support and understanding. But sometimes my mouth moves faster than the jabs and jokes rather than a soft landing support. Okay, no mad, I got you. Let's maybe set it up with the support and then if we know that my that me twenty two years and I haven't gotten It's not like I'm running around parking red zones. Okay, sorry, I just had to get it out. I will say that no longer.

Speaker 1:Now we've got the next one. Horse Lover nine four two seven said with a U by the wei, yeah, way do we wait? We l u v e R. You need support in that moment, not shaming. Thank you, horse lever. Next up, we've got John uh John Nunn, John, Let's go ahead.

Speaker 2:When John O'Neill heard got it, he said, would be furious.

Speaker 1:But he's also very concerned about you making videos in your car. Everybody says that, and I will tell you right now that the videos in my car, it is on a thing stuck to the window. I've never gotten into crash, but I do appreciate that you are worried about my little soul, so I send you lots of love. Johnny.

Speaker 2:Would you stop recording videos if you've gotten a car crash from recording a video? I want you to be honest. I don't think you would stop recording videos.

Speaker 1:Because it wouldn't be because of me recording videos. I never look I will honestly glance at the camera. I'm looking at the road the entire time and just talking. It's as if you're talking to yourself and being recorded, right.

Speaker 2:But I'm just saying if you did, if you glanced at the camera and then you hit, and you.

Speaker 1:Know, I would still record, I'd get a new car. And here we go, Yep, there's park in the reds exactly go ahead, Oh okay, then eighty nine, she said, I would be absolutely raging mad if that holy happened to me and no one else in the time the red zone had been there. I would go around my neighborhood asking maybe who for oh, for a ring cam? No one gets towed, and then suddenly me, you can, and she says, I would write it don for this, which I appreciate you. Oh okay, then you you looped it in. Nobody had a cam and nobody came forward of like, obviously they're not gonna be like hey, also when they cald it in, So whatever, where's gira? He said, Just because it never happens doesn't make it right that it gets done on a regular basis. So your friend is valid? Okay, I'm with hey, I'm with you. If that's how you guys feel, We're gonna add this up at the percentages. There's a lot of you guys who are like this is valid and others are like, hey, maybe just lend support.

Speaker 2:So tell them underscore X that if your friend isn't allowed to be honest with you, then that's not your friend. This is a weird relation reationship that should probably end and stop parking in.

Speaker 1:The red fallowing it up with another note, I don't need tell them.

Speaker 2:Wants to make sure that you know that should you be in a friendship, that they are going to brutally honest.

Speaker 1:So I guess with that, do we think tell them and I are not friends? Because they again told me don't park in the red zone?

Speaker 2:I feel like, okay, so I get the sentiment of it, but I also think like there needs to be some nuance, like just in the name of like like righteousness, Like that's like you also have to think about what's helpful. Do I think that Tara Erickson doesn't understand that you can't park in a red zone? Absolutely not, to be honest, if you don't understand that, I'm a lot more frustrated for you for not like for not.

Speaker 1:Yes, we know that you know that a nice callback. They're unreading the room. They're unreading the room. You know I we know that you know this.

Speaker 2:So it's also about like what does this person need in this moment. It's kind of like I feel like it's a reverse thing of like the chat GPT. I feel like, in this moment, you do need to be comfort. If it's something else where, I'm like, oh, I don't think you're seeing all of the picture, then fine, But in this moment, like you've gotten the punishment. It's like a you know, whatever the atrocious bill from getting Toad is.

Speaker 1:Right, and like I'm out five hundred bucks. That's enough of a lesson.

Speaker 2:And like nanis underscore. Marie says, like being out at yourself and you not think that I was, Yeah, I think what it is too, and like I know, Frendy Wendy like sort of noted. Let's be honest, there's a male female thing going on here too, because I think that men tend to be more literal and they're like, oh, you did this thing, you got in trouble.

Speaker 1:You need to know what happened. And it's like, oh no, no.

Speaker 2:She already she's already three steps ahead, Like she knows what happened. She is frustrated that the chances of this happening were very low, and why did it fucking happen to her on top of all of these other shitty things happening to her car? So what's gonna help her like move forward and her life and like get things done. But like I that's you know, not maybe like what a lot of men are reacted to. You know.

Speaker 3:My favorite comment was, yes, I'd be mad when your friend does entitled things, you call her out, then you park in the red with her next time, because you're also entitled.

Speaker 1:I love that they wanted to like be on both sides. That is so funny. I love that. I love that comment. Who commented that what's their name?

Speaker 3:I didn't write it.

Speaker 1:Oh that's all right, Well we'll find you. You can comment if you if you just heard that and you commented that, just comment on h on the rage pot, Spotify or Apple let it, let us know who you are, because I do love that comment. You're you're playing, you're playing both fields, and I'm with you.

Speaker 3:And the best one of someone suggested just go paint it white.

Speaker 1:I know, And I'm like, just go paint it white and ends a pink. I don't know, totally, I don't know. And then that's a whole.

Speaker 2:Hey, that's a whole new level of a legal activity that you're gonna have to pay a lot more money for.

Speaker 1:And there's cameras everywhere. I know this. Who knows what narc is gonna be? Like this woman got her on camera. He's painting the curb gray. I would paint it.

Speaker 2:No, you know she's painting it, guys, you know she's painting it. She's fucking painting it. Cloud dancer is what she's painting it. Okay, that's nice.

Speaker 1:Okay, back to three four episodes ago, you guys, if you know, you know, go back of the year twenty twenty five coming in hot Cloud.

Speaker 2:But yeah, I think this all gets back to, like, you know, the angel question that often happens between men and women of Okay, what do you do? What do you want from me? Do you want me to try to fix it? Or do you want support? I don't need a lesson, you don't need And I think, okay, let's let's try to throw a bone here. I think women could be more forthcoming about what their needs are in the moment, Like maybe we could just telegraph things and say, hey, what I need need from you right now?

Speaker 2:I know I shouldn't have done this, I know exactly, Like I really like, I'm just bummed out right now and I need a hug. I need someone to say it's gonna be okay.

Speaker 1:But we also.

Speaker 2:Don't want to have to say that, yeah, exactly the problem. We don't want to have to like, you know, do the whole preamble. We want them to intrinsically know, and they're like, no, we want you to give us the assignment so we can like deliver.

Speaker 1:Yeah, And I just think, like that's kind of to me, it's such a small It's like I'm not a greeny. It's not like I've only been here six months and you know that. So to me that I think the reason why just got me so mad is I was like, I just remember calling up a friend just being like, I don't know, it's just if you think some just what am I doing? Just willy nilly parking in red zones all around Los Angeles? Like I'm the fucking dumbest person you met.

Speaker 2:Like she does like the color red, yeah, you know she does like the I.

Speaker 1:Love it, and I'm like red, we're parking in it?

Speaker 2:Oh my god?

Speaker 1:Yes, Like come on, you know looks good and red. Let's park it right there. I mean, I think, but I'm with you on on on kind of stating you know, hey, what you need in that moment. And I do feeling that is annoying.

Speaker 2:But maybe but to be fair, maybe they're like, but we don't know, and it's like, well maybe you know, we don't know, just like you think I didn't know that I couldn't work right, But yeah, I'm with you I think it's meeting in the middle a little bit, which is again, it's frustrating.

Speaker 1:Yeah, and I don't think like it's the thing is is like he's still a friend of mine, and I don't think he meant he didn't even assume that it would have hit me the way that it hit me. But it did hit me in a really negative way. Snee jerk response, right, like of course, and I get it, I get it. It's just in that moment, any other woman that I asked just went, I'm so sorry it is you want me to help you? Do you want me to pay for your uber to the towing shop?

Speaker 1:And a friend did pay for it because they were like, you're you're in the shit. Here's thirty bucks that'll pay for your uber to the toe place. That's what I needed.

Speaker 2:Also, like have you have you never you've never done anything where you're like, fuck, I shouldn't have done this, but this really sucks. Isn't that the like opening montage to like many movies where it's like this happens, this happens, this happens, and sometimes like it's their fault, like yeah, we've all we've all been there, right, and that's the thing is like, yeah, we've all made mistakes, and maybe to to sort of roll it back onto when they make a mistake, like sometimes men. He doesn't know this, but he's projecting what he would want to hear, because maybe he would want to get that sort of like a reminder, hardcore criticism of like dude, you fucked up, like you because maybe that's how he responds, well, yeah, but that's not how you respond well to the situation, Like it doesn't do anything for you, but maybe for him it does. Because Ben and I get into this issue all the time, you know, because I think.

Speaker 1:In knowing you already know I am the hard Like you cannot come at me and say anything I have not already told myself as like the debts of the debts coming from hell. You are not going to be able to teach me a lesson. I've already done it a million times over, so I just need the opposite. So it's like it's sort of yeah, read the room, read the people, and we'll get there. Hey there.

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The Rage Pod

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We all have rage, and if you don’t think you have it, don’t worry we’ll help you find it. And once you find it, we’ll also help you deal with it. This podcast is the intersection of all the life things (family, love, politics, sports, driving, loud chewing) and rage. Hosted by comedians Tara Erickso

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