Chloe & Erin | Podcast

Erin and Chloe read and react to drama-filled Reddit stories on their podcast. They discuss a story about friends intentionally giving wrong times to a consistently late friend. They debate whether the friends are assholes or not. They also discuss a story about a man who burns down his apartment complex after not finding tenants. They question if it was worth committing arson and insurance fraud. They conclude by reflecting on the entertaining and anonymous nature of Reddit. Hey everyone, it's Erin and Chloe here. We are here today to read and react to some of the most drama-filled Reddit stories that we could get our hands on on the internet. And we love giving our input and reactions on hilarious stories that will have us crying and laughing. What better idea than to make an entire podcast out of it? You guys are in for a treat and we are so excited to dive into the episode. Sorry if you hear background noise, we are at the local Starbucks just sipping our coffee. Me and Chloe decided to film here because this is one of our favorite spots to do homework and work, so we decided to be in our element and film our podcast here. Like Erin said, we are here at Starbucks soaking up the evening vibes. We found this jaw-dropping, drama-filled story on Reddit and Erin and I were dying at the story and we knew we had to share it. So here's the plan. We are going to read the story, dissect it, and then give our raw reactions and real-time thoughts on the situation. So we're just going to dive right in. This episode is Am I the Asshole? Our friend Isabel is usually one to two hours late to anything we do because she is unorganized and spends an excessive amount of time getting ready, which she tries to do last minute. We got sick of waiting one to two hours every time we go out, so we'd start telling her to show up at four when we were actually meeting at 530. We did this like three times and she was usually like ten minutes late still. Well, here's the problem. We were meeting up last night, we told her 630, and we were actually meeting at around 745. She showed up 25 minutes early and is pissed that we did this. She found out we gave her wrong times intentionally. She says we're assholes and she felt betrayed. I told her it's her own fault for being hours late consistently and it was the only way to get her on time. Yeah, there's a lot to unpack in this story, but honestly I don't think that they are assholes. However, I might also be on the other side of this. I think I might side with the friend who is always late because as much as I try to be early most of the times, I'm always the one that's running late. But I think I would not be as butthurt as she might sound in this situation. I definitely would be upset, but I understand where the friends are coming from. I honestly kind of agree. I am more on the side of they aren't though. I'm like someone that is definitely on time a lot, so I feel like whenever someone is late due to personal reasons of just getting ready, like three, four times like she said, I feel like doing that isn't completely out of the question. No, I agree, but at the same time, I feel like if you're given a time and you are late because you were just getting ready, I feel like that kind of falls back on you because you should have started getting ready earlier. But if traffic happens, I know often times I'm late because of traffic, but yeah, I kind of agree with that. Okay, well maybe we should look on the flip side of things and what would have made them the assholes? If we don't think they're the assholes, what would have made them the assholes? Maybe if this friend had only done it like one time in the past, that definitely would have made them the assholes. I think whenever they're doing it like three times, it comes like a trend, so I feel like they have to do something. And 25 minutes is not really that long to wait since you probably made others wait a lot longer. Well, no, because they said to get here at 6.30 and she was 25 minutes earlier than 6.30, so that means she was waiting over two hours for you to get here. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah, you're actually right. Okay, then maybe I'm changing my opinion now. I feel like it's almost a situation of the boy who cracked wall kind of deal. Like this girl is constantly being late, constantly being late, so people are going to believe that she's always late and that she's not late, everybody's kind of panicked. Yeah, no, I totally agree. Okay, I think my opinion has changed. I think they personally probably feel like assholes, but taking a step back from the situation being a third party, I really don't know if they are the assholes in the situation. I think maybe the friend should have opened up and understood where they were coming from first rather than attacking them and saying it was a way to get out of hanging out with her. Yeah, I think, honestly, the resolution to this, Y360, Find My Friends, just download it, takes two seconds. I'm pretty sure Find My Friends actually comes on your phone already, so literally no excuse. Yeah, for sure. I have people's Find My Friends that I literally went to high school with and it's been like five years now and I still watch their location, so you're telling them you're best friend, you better be watching their location. Yeah, for sure. Okay, we're going to pull up one last story to wrap up this episode and this one is going to be a good one. Okay, so this one is actually a small town drama story and I know we all love small towns and drama and as someone from a big town, I know nothing about small town drama, but it's always very, very interesting to me. Chloe, are you from a big or small town? I feel like I've never asked you this. I am actually from a small town, so I am very experienced in these stories. Okay, my high school alone had almost 4,000 people in it, so. My graduating class was like 150 people. Okay. All right, so let's get on into it. So this is off a Reddit story of your craziest small town drama. So this guy bought a big building to flip and turn into a nice little apartment complex. The construction guys were out working in it for months and it looked so pretty and nice, but their renting price for each unit was outrageous. In this area, might as well get a mortgage for that. So a week before, he had said to ready to open for people to move in. He only had like two people ask about leasing and they weren't even confirmed tenants yet. I think he saw that this investment was going to fail, so he burned the building to the ground in the middle of the night. Firefighters from neighboring towns had to come over to help put it out. It got that big. They knew it was arson because of the burn patterns and when the local gas station had a video of the guy buying gas for three or four of those little red gas cans. Now he's on the run and being charged with insurance fraud and a lot of other things for endangering that part of town. Thank God no one was hurt. Oh boy. This is giving, um, illegal. Yes. I feel like there was some type of show that I watched where this happened and this is what it's reminding me of, but I can't put my finger on the show right now. I want to say Yellowstone, but I don't think it was Yellowstone. I never watched Yellowstone, so I'm not like, oh. Well, take what I say with a grain of salt then, but this, I feel like I've heard this story too many times. Okay. But is it really that worth it to go through insurance fraud, arson, burn an entire building down just because you aren't buying the units right away? I mean, okay, I'm not trying to support arson and literal insurance fraud, but I don't know. I feel like I could see where he's coming from. Depending on how much money he has invested into it, it could have been worth it to him and I don't know. Maybe I am pro arson and insurance fraud. I guess I don't know. This is literally double's advocate because I actually, like this is, we're going to jail for actually agreeing with this man. What would you do though, if you're in that position, but not going the insurance and arson route, what would you do? I feel like, okay, I feel like the like grown up thing to do would be like just wait it out. I mean, I know nothing about finances. I tried to take an accounting class, didn't go so hot, but I feel like, I mean, the apartment complex hasn't even opened at this point. Like it was going to open in the next coming week. So like, I feel like he should have waited until it at least opened. See what kind of business he's going to attract, maybe lower prices. I mean, if she's saying that one unit is the price of a mortgage, I can't imagine the sales size. I'm like, I don't know how that works, but I'm sure he's making a good profit. At least cut the profit out, man. Like arson, I mean, go on. Arson for a couple extra pennies in your bank account. Yeah. Or maybe even just like, just kind of hit the L on it. And I think it'd be, you live and you learn. Maybe it'd be better to be miserable in jail to him then and miserable in real life. I don't know. We will never know. I know because this man is on the run. So we actually will never know. Well I think on that note, it's time to wrap up our episode. Reddit is such a rabbit hole that you can fall under or into. If I understood how to use the app more efficiently, I would probably spend lots of time on there because the story's on there and the way that people just open up on Reddit is truly so terrifying but so entertaining at the same time. No, I totally agree. I feel like when you do have like an anonymous profile like that though, it is like a pretty good way to open up. So if anyone's looking for therapy, then maybe Reddit is your answer. Free therapy, free self-help from millions of strangers across the world that you have no idea what they look like, but they know your deepest and darkest secrets. We really wish we had time for more stories, but unfortunately we do have to wrap it up. I'll say my final goodbye and then Eric can say hers. I hope everyone really enjoyed listening to these stories and have some opinions for yourself and takeaways from these somehow. But if any takeaway, it's probably to not commit arson and do not lie to your friends or stalk your friends on Find My Friends. But that is right. We don't have any more time today. I'm super sad that our time has come to an end, but thank you guys so much for listening to these stories, hearing our opinions, and maybe even reflecting on these stories and figuring out what side of the spectrum you're on. So have a good day.