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Dunkin’ Refreshers: The hosts mention these drinks multiple times as their go-to beverage, especially the ones with B vitamins. The episode is sponsored by Dunkin’, and the hosts directly praise the product for making them feel “energized and refreshed.”
Tattoos: One of the listeners shares a summer story about a day that began with her and her friends getting tattoos. The specific type of tattoo mentioned is a “clip art shape,” which might inspire listeners to look into getting a simple design.
Chipotle Burrito: A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to a listener’s story about a burrito being thrown into her car. The hosts’ humorous and detailed reactions to the burrito—praising its size and describing it as a “literal brick”—would likely make listeners crave a Chipotle burrito.
Episode Description
In this extra special episode, hosts Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo dive into the “Giggly News Network” to answer listener questions and share hilarious stories—all while chugging their favorite Dunkin’ Refreshers. First up, a listener asks for advice on her relationship with a “Zaddy” who claims his mother hates her without ever meeting her. Later, the girls give tips on how to turn your man into a certified gossip king before reacting to a story about a Chipotle burrito disaster from a college listener.
Episode Breakdown
0:00 – 1:04: Hannah and Paige start the show literally sweating and craving their Dunkin’ Refreshers. They introduce the special segment for listener call-ins and thank Dunkin’ for making it possible.
1:05 – 2:22: A listener named Jess, a 32-year-old going through a divorce, asks for advice about her new 46-year-old boyfriend (her “Zaddy”). She’s concerned that after a year and a half, she still hasn’t met his family, and he claims his mother hates her. She also mentions that her ex-husband is dating a woman with her same name, but spelled with a “K.”
2:23 – 5:07: The hosts react to Jess’s call. They love the fact that she can now say “my ex-husband” and joke that it’s a “rich” thing to do. They advise her to break up with her “Zaddy,” pointing out that it’s a major red flag for a 46-year-old to let his mother control his life.
5:08 – 7:44: The next listener asks for advice on how to get her boyfriend to be a better gossip. Hannah and Paige offer humorous “training” tips, like texting him questions to ask and “gamifying” social situations to get him invested in the drama.
7:45 – 9:53: Hannah shares a story she heard from an Uber driver about how couples talk badly about the people they just left. This leads the hosts to muse about how therapists must have a hard time not gossiping with their clients.
9:54 – 10:50: The hosts discuss the importance of having new stories and gossip to keep a relationship interesting. They close the segment with a shout-out to Dunkin’ Refreshers for their B vitamins and energizing qualities.
10:51 – 12:41: A new listener calls in with a summer story from her college days. While driving home in a Dodge Neon after getting tattoos with her friends, they were flirting with a car full of boys who, at a red light, threw a full Chipotle burrito into their window, causing a massive mess.
12:42 – 16:44: Hannah and Paige react to the burrito story, expressing their mock outrage over the disrespect shown to the food. They joke about the boys’ motives and how men in groups often act to impress each other.
16:45 – 18:20: The hosts wrap up the episode by discussing the confusing hairstyles of young boys today, including “backwards mullets” and perms. They joke about how they would react if they had teenage sons and end the episode by thanking their listeners and their sponsor, Dunkin’.
Memorable Quotes
“Say it, don’t spray it.” – Paige
“I’m actually mad I didn’t get married, just to be like, my ex-husband.” – Paige
“It’s impossible to dislike someone you’ve never met.” – Hannah
“Kids with a bike are not to be trusted.” – Hannah
Calls to Action
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Okay, I'm literally sweating. I actually
want to put this refresher like on my
neck.
Paige never sweats. So, this is
incredible that this is happening. Wait,
that looks so good. We've been chugging
our Duncan refreshers. I don't think you
can overdose. I looked into it. I just
love that you can customize it cuz you
know, like we don't like to play by the
rules.
You love customizing.
Oh my god, I go off. But I wasn't that
like insane kid that would go the soda
machine and put all of it in.
And that's why your mom started watering
down your drinks. Yeah, because I would
like be bashing my head against the
wall. So much energy. But yeah, kids who
did that now are um someone check on
them. Someone check on them.
But I'm excited because now we're doing
extra episodes and the girls have
written in and called in and ask their
advice questions. So
we love love hearing from the gigglers
because we forget that people listen.
We just yap yap yap yap. And now we
realize like oh my god there's there is
so much more to the conversation. Thank
you for coming to our news network.
Let's have some call-ins. Grace, you can
begin.
And thank you to Duncan for keeping us
not only hydrated, refreshed, but making
these episodes possible.
Hey Hannah and Paige. My name's Jess.
I'm 32 years old and I'm currently going
through a divorce. The divorce has been
going on for about 2 years. And within
that time, I've met myself a Zaddy. And
he's 46 years old. We've been dating a
year and a half. But the problem is I
haven't met any of his family. He comes
from a Portuguese family. He's also
going through a divorce. He tells me his
mother hates me and doesn't want to meet
me. Won't accept that he's dating me.
And I sometimes even wonder if that's
true or maybe they just don't know about
me at all. And I'm slightly getting the
ick because he's 46 and allowing his
mother to kind of tell him how to live
his life.
So, I'm wondering if I should stick it
out and continue on with the
relationship or if after a year and a
half, it's too long to have not met the
family, even his kids, anyone in the
family as a matter of fact. So, any
advice is greatly appreciated. Oh, and
also my ex-husband is dating a girl with
my same exact name, but she spells it
with a K, which basically tells you all
you need to know about her.
Thanks.
I'm obsessed with her. I'm obsessed with
her.
She's like, "He literally can't get over
me." Um,
wait, now I'm thinking what the name is.
Wait, it's so chic to be like 32 and be
like, "My ex-husband."
Like, I just It's so rich. It's so like
I love it. I'm actually mad I didn't get
married is to be like my ex-husband.
My ex-husband. Also, it's like you
already did the married thing. No one's
like, when are you going to get married?
You're like, I've been married.
Yeah. When are you going to get
divorced?
She's like, I love being single.
Marriage was fine.
She's got to scram.
Yes. I support Zadies. Like, I love you
girls, especially because a lot of you
are so socially aware and smart and
mature. I love you with an older man. M
so this pains me to say
at first I thought maybe you're not
meeting the parents cuz it's a situation
like Dez where both of his parents are
dead
which we love.
One could only hope.
One could only hope. It's so peaceful.
The holidays no fights.
I'm like maybe we should go to my
parents. I don't know. Um but his
parents sound like they're alive. Yeah.
The fact that he could ever say even if
his mom said I [ __ ] hate her. Yeah.
Don't ever ever add that poison to the
relationship.
It's it's giving some type of
manipulation and I don't know what he
was getting at by even letting you in on
that information.
I'm also lying saying, "Yeah, I'm the
one that will lie and be like, "No, my
mom really loves you." And she'll be
like, "If you don't break up with him
tomorrow, I'm going to blow my brains
out."
So,
we don't like him. It sounds like you
both needed a rebound
and you both have great chemistry and
it's fun, but like I feel like the right
guy wants to introduce you to his family
pretty early.
It's also impossible to dislike someone
you've never met.
No, that's
it's actually literally impossible.
That's crazy.
Um I think that's crazy. And I get that
like divorce is very nuanced. It's very
unique. So maybe it was like he was from
a religious family. They didn't love
that he got divorced. They didn't love
that he was already dating, but
it's too long now. A year and a half is
too long.
I do have to say though, one of my
friends who got divorced, she started
dating a guy and want it was very early
on and wanted to introduce him to the
parents and her parents were like, "We
just recovered from the divorce. Like,
let's not." But it also was only a
couple months in,
six months. Fine.
Fine. This is a year and a half. And
I think this is a nice guy to you're
dating. There's also so much pressure on
the first meeting already. Like, cut
your losses. He's not for you. And if
you break up with him and he's like, I
can't live without you. And like somehow
does this 180. Okay, maybe. But I I
don't think I think he's giving you a
lot of excuses.
Yeah. I just don't want you to be in any
relationship where you feel like you're
not enough because you are.
And also so true. 46 years old and he's
like, "Let me ask my mom. Get a grip."
No. No. No. No. We're like, we tell
everyone to break up.
Break up. Light him on fire.
We didn't even hear the story. We're
like, break up.
Question about getting gossipy. How do
you get your man to be better at
retrieving gossip? He has such great
access to info, but does not ask the
questions. Is this even possible? I love
him because he's unbothered, but I
remain bothered. I must know. All things
are possible if you just practice.
You have to train them like the Olympics
before they go to set event in which
they could get gossip. You have to
structure it like a three-year-old. You
have to text them the questions you want
them to ask. So like, and when did they
break up? And and is he seeing anyone
new? And you have to send that into them
so they have something to look at. They
need notes.
Yes. Also, if you're going to a social
situation,
it's like a game to them. Like they love
the drama of ESPN. This is the drama of
this dinner. This girl said this about
my friend. Once he knows about it, he's
in. It's like reality TV where guys
like, I don't like reality TV. And then
they're like, "Why did she say that to
that girl?" And then they're like, "What
happens next?" So, you just got to get
them engaged. I do have to say gossip is
important for bonding.
It It's connective tissue.
Connective tissue. And you have to be in
a room and look over to him and him know
exactly what you're dealing with.
Also, like, you know, when you were
little and before you would go
somewhere, your mom would be like, "Now,
when we get there, you say, "Hi, Mr. and
Mrs." and whatever their last name is,
you look them in the like they would
give you pointers and you'd be like, "Oh
yeah, I forgot that." Like, okay. You
have to do that also with your boyfriend
or husband before you go somewhere like,
"Okay, now remember, we don't like her
and we like her and like they're
fighting. So, if you have an
opportunity, get in there, you know?"
You know what's funny? Dez is the one I
think it's cuz he's a Scorpio. He has
such good character awareness where like
we'll leave something and I'm like,
"They were great." And he's like,
"Really?
Really?" And then so he's the one who
gets me. But what men are good at too,
which sounds like your guy is good at,
is if I'm ruminating on something,
I call you
or my mom
or a friend to just like rehash a
situation
where he'll be like, "And we're done
here."
Yeah. He'll be like, "And it's not that
serious.
Wait, we're done. I've heard enough.
Move on. Let's get to another thing."
You're like, "But I have seven more
scenarios I came up with. Let's just run
those really quick."
Sorry. I have a hobby. Yeah,
like what do you want me to do with my
time? Scroll Tik Tok. I'm figuring [ __ ]
out right now.
So, it's really just a matter of
training.
Yeah, a matter of training.
Practice makes perfect.
Oh, I also did was doing some recon
with um an Uber driver
and we were chatting and I was asking
about the job and he said all the time
when couples get into the car or
friends, they always just talk [ __ ]
about whoever they were with.
Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
It's humanity. It's crazy. They talk
[ __ ] about the couple. Like, but it
makes me want to be an Uber driver. So,
like an undercover. Yeah.
It also made me think about therapists.
Like, I know there's like serious
intense work and it's you're a doctor a
lot of time, but
sometimes.
But you get to hear the tea.
Yeah.
But I guess that's how
like how as a therapist do you have the
restraint to not be like, "Let me just
see what they look like really. Let me
just hop on Instagram and see a picture
of this man.
How do you not start asking follow-up
questions that don't have to do with
like mental health?
Because I feel like in my earlier 20s,
there would have been so many therapists
that would have seen a picture and been
like, "Okay, let me rework this. What
are we doing?" I
was going to say they're like, "Is he
like hot?" Like, how would you describe
him? Like, how hot is he? Because it
depends on the advice I'll give you.
The visuals are important.
Yeah. So, anyway, talking [ __ ] And
also, shout out Caroline Banowitz is one
of my friends.
Okay. who is a hilarious comedian and
she posted about Love Island about
talking [ __ ] and she was like, "I'm
totally fine with people talking [ __ ]
but whatever happened to like Cindy in
the group chat? Why are we all posting
online like hatred for like an episode
of a character?
Bring back journaling. Bring back
gossiping oneon-one. Like bring back
getting a coffee.
Literally, bring back can't wait to tell
you this. When I get home,
yes,
like we're in the comfort of our home.
Bring back no paper trail.
Like say it, don't spray it.
Sorry, Paige just saying say it, don't
spray it.
That was a call back from off camera,
but if you guys were here, you'd get it.
Literally, say it, don't spray it. Like,
I don't
Okay, what's next?
Oh, one more thing. If you're dating
someone, you will run out of stories.
You have to get new gossip. Yeah,
cuz like you'll only last like two
months with your classics.
You know, you can tell when I run out of
the classics.
Then sometimes you're like, "Wow, we've
been hating on this person for two hours
now." Like, got anyone else?
Sometimes I get sick of myself. I'm
like, "Okay, how much can we go on?"
I was recently talking about someone and
my friend was like, "They're the kind of
person that's really fun in the
beginning and then they start to run out
of stories and you're kind of like, we
get the stick." Yeah.
So, anyway, you got to get creative out
there. Did you know that this one has B
vitamins in it?
Wait, no.
That's why I've been answering the
questions like so quickly
because you're so much smarter.
I'm so much smarter. I'm feeling just
like energized and refreshed. So, just
get on my level
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Let me tell you a quick story about a
summertime day, early 20s,
college days. So, here I was. Um, we
lived in this apartment complex, me and
like six of my girlfriends. Uh, three of
us lived in one apartment, three of us
lived in the other, right next door to
each other. We're at the pool like most
of the day. We get this idea. We're
like, "Let's get tattoos. Great idea."
We're like, don't really know what to
do. We decided uh that just to get like
shapes that we liked, like clip art
shapes, perfect. I get a star. We're
driving back to our apartment in my
Dodge Neon. I wasn't driving at the
time. Someone else had the privilege of
driving the Dodge Neon. Uh and so we're
driving back and we're like on this main
drag in our hometown. Anyway, um we're
like, we see this car of boys and we're
like kind of flirting with them, like
going back and forth and we're like, you
know, at a stoplight. like, "Hey, like
whatever." Um, and then, you know, we're
we're going back and forth and at each
stoplight. So, like every stoplight, it
was like a red light and we're like, "Oh
my gosh, this is crazy." Like every
single stoplight. So, at the last
stoplight before we're about to turn,
we're like, "Okay, should we like
exchange numbers with them or something?
Should we?" So, we like stop and we're
like, "Hey." And like everybody rolls
down their windows and we're like, "Do
you want to like exchange numbers or
whatever?" They throw a fullon freaking
Chipotle burrito into our windows like
and it exploded. I kid you not. This
thing explodes in the car. So, we have
like freaking cilantro lime rice like
all up in our hair like sour cream,
fresco salsa, corn salsa everywhere. You
cannot imagine the mess this made.
Anyway, uh worst day ever. Summer
memories. Love them. College. Woo. Bye.
I literally need a burrito now.
Well, I was going to say,
how dare you disrespect the burrito
in that fashion?
Like, it's it's so mind
while simultaneously
committing a crime.
Also, I would have ate it. I would have
been like, "Oh, um, what's
also the salt?"
Also, burritos are like four pounds.
Have you finished? You're like, "Yeah,
put an extra rice." God forbid they got
a double wrap. I mean, that's a literal
brick.
If you got extra ground beef,
I mean, you're done for.
Um, what's it called when you get like a
a fancy thing that's taken apart that
they call in a fancy restaurant? Like a
deconstructed.
It's a deconstructed burrito and you can
eat it. Side note, I had actually had a
burrito yesterday and I was looking at
it and I was like I feel like I finally
know how men feel when they see a girl
with like a nice ass
cuz I was like that [ __ ]
like it was like it was like I'm going
to just squeeze it.
Yeah. Like I was like I just want to I
want to smell it. I want to touch it.
Touch it. And I was like it looks
sick.
You're literally sick.
I felt like a creep. I was like get that
burrito away from me. I'm I'm acting a
fool.
What did the tattoo have to do with it?
I was really waiting for something at
the tattoo place to happen and then she
was like and now we're in the car. I'm
like so what was that even part? She
could have just been like we're in the
car. We're flirting with these guys like
with the whole back story. Also the fact
that six of them lived in one apartment
complex three and three. I love the
gigglers cuz it's like what was that
detail?
This thing she loved giving details and
she was consistent with them. Like she
didn't leave us guessing on anything.
She needs to tutor the other girl's
boyfriend in gossip because she's like
these are the details we need. Yes, she
needs to meet that boyfriend. Do a
literal master class with him about how
to give the gossip. Yeah, that was
really good. I thought maybe something
was going to happen where like the
burrito hit the tattoo and it like got
like
what what was the conversation in the
boy's car?
Like, oh my god. You know what would be
so funny? Like what?
That is so funny. I
also Whose burrito? There's definitely
there was definitely like a Jeremy in
there being like I was going to eat
that.
That was literally $20.
You got one burrito, bro. I literally
told you I didn't have breakfast this
morning.
I I love that one car the girls are like
I think my husband could be in this.
She's like imagine telling my
grandchildren that at a stop sign.
I met my husband like
wait we both like cilantro. Do you know
how rare that is?
But then the guys are literally like
what if?
I'm I'm impressed that they got the
burrito through the window.
Yeah. But Chris, why would a guy do
that? I think for the exact reason that
you just said, it's just dumb idiot
guys. They're trying to show up for each
other. That's the problem. When men are
in a group, they
they want to [ __ ] each other more than
they want to [ __ ] girls.
So, they're like, I'd rather think
Jeremy thinks I'm cool than that girl.
You ever seen a group of guys around one
really rich guy?
It's one of the craziest things I've
ever experienced.
It's literally like piranhas.
I'm like, why don't you guys just take
your pants off?
Like, wait, I really like that tie.
Where'd you get that tie? And then he's
like telling bad jokes and they're all
like,
but once, no, this last week I saw like
a group of teenage boys
and they were like all these cute girls
on the corner.
Yeah.
And I was like, "Go to the corner.
There's all these girls there." But they
were too busy. Like
what generation is that even?
Gen alpha.
Like maybe it was like 18year-olds,
which honestly I was terrified.
iPad kids are scared. I could take one
of them, but like when they're in a crew
coming in, they they're swift.
They're going through puberty. They're
Yeah, they're shifty.
Yeah.
They looked like they were gonna bully
me.
Yeah.
They were gonna call me ma'am.
I cross the street. If I see a group of
kids or a group of men crossing the
street,
if they have a if they have a vehicle
with them,
kids with a bike are not to be trusted.
They can't be if hooligans going so
fast.
Little punks.
Punks.
I'll trip them.
I'll trip them. And then they can't even
see with like that hairstyle they have.
Thank you for bringing this up. What is
the hairstyle that the tween teen boys
are doing?
It's a thing like they go in they're
like let me get the sides.
It doesn't look good.
For some reason our back in the day the
guys had like a little flip in the
front. Do you remember that?
It was tasteful. It was graceful.
Yes.
And then we went full Jersey Short and I
was still loving it.
I was still loving it cuz it was clean
cut.
Clean cut. And now today it's like this
is a mullet that you've refurbished.
It's a backwards mullet.
It's a backwards mullet.
It's not making any sense. Like what
shape is your head?
You're going to die. They're getting
perms.
No,
they're getting perms in the front so
that it gets like voluous so they don't
just have like a Justin Bieber cut.
Which, by the way, again, still classy.
It was still nice. Jesse McCartney still
nice and refined.
If I had a teenage son right now, I
would gouge my eyes out. So my my nephew
I've been asking him a lot of questions
because he asked me questions all the
time and I like where's the
I would just be that mom in bridesmaids
where she's like I picked up a blanket
and I cracked a nap.
Wait, we're going to be boy moms.
No, I actually don't think I will be.
I think I will be cuz Dez's whole
family's boys and apparently genetically
that's a thing.
We need to talk to St. Anthony. That's
what we we
I don't have enough feminine energy to
push a girl out. I don't think I can do
it.
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