# S1E007: The Coworker Setup and the Silent Secret

An episode of [Spicy Confessions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6814527625), 16 Jul 2026, 42 min.

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Rick and Miguel tear into today's spiciest confessions from across the internet. Today's episode: The Coworker Setup and the Silent Secret. This is Episode 73014375 of Spicy Confessions — the show where two friends read anonymous internet confessions out loud and react like the chaotic best friends they are. Today's lineup comes from Reddit's r/confessions, r/OffMyChestPH, r/tifu, r/AmITheAsshole, and other corners of the internet. What we cover in this episode: • The confession — full text, unedited, anonymous • The reactions — Rick's hot take, Miguel's reaction • The judgment — who is right, who is wrong, who is just being messy • The fun — the best Reddit comments on the confession Perfect background noise for cooking, cleaning, commuting, or pretending to work. Subscribe, leave a five-star review, share with a friend who needs a laugh. Subscribe, share, and leave us a 5-star review — every share helps us reach the next listener. #thecoworkersetupandthesilentse #ConfessionsPodcast #ReactionPodcast #SpicyConfessions #RedditConfessions #TeaTime #HustleStudios #Podcast DISCLAIMER 📢 Spicy Confessions is an independent production by HustleStudios. The stories, confessions, opinions, and topics discussed in this podcast are presented for entertainment purposes only. The views expressed by the hosts, guests, or individuals featured in the stories do not necessarily reflect the views of HustleStudios or its affiliates. Some stories may be edited for clarity, length, pacing, or privacy. Names, locations, and identifying details may also be changed to protect the people involved. Certain episodes may include mature themes, explicit language, sensitive situations, relationship conflicts, and controversial topics. Listener discretion is advised. The hosts’ reactions and commentary should not be considered professional, legal, medical, financial, or psychological advice. All stories remain the property of their respective authors or submitters. Original podcast commentary, production, branding, and presentation are protected under applicable copyright law. This episode may be supported by advertising. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes, early access, exclusive content, and special promotions. 👉 Check our Patreon 👉 Or subscribe through Apple Podcasts

## Transcript

[0:04] Speaker 1: Us studious.
[0:08] Speaker 2: What would you do if your coworker got fired because
[0:11] Speaker 2: of something you did on purpose, not by accident, not
[0:15] Speaker 2: because they messed up, not because they were bad at
[0:17] Speaker 2: their job, but because you deliberately and intentionally set them
[0:20] Speaker 2: up to fail. You manipulated the situation, you play the game,
[0:23] Speaker 2: You chose violence at the workplace, and now someone else
[0:26] Speaker 2: is paying the price for your choices. That is exactly
[0:29] Speaker 2: what happened to one person on Reddit and Rowan, I
[0:31] Speaker 2: tell you this story is a diabolical I mean it
[0:33] Speaker 2: is genuinely evil. This is not a oop's my bad
[0:36] Speaker 2: kind of mistake. This is a planned, calculated, strategic takedown
[0:40] Speaker 2: of another human being. And the worst part, this person
[0:43] Speaker 2: is not even sorry about it. They are on Reddit
[0:45] Speaker 2: bragging about it like they just want a chess match
[0:47] Speaker 2: against the grand master. So buttle up because this one
[0:50] Speaker 2: is going to make your blood boil. And if you
[0:52] Speaker 2: are listening to this while cooking, cleaning, working out, or
[0:55] Speaker 2: just relaxing, this is the perfect background noise for your day.
[0:58] Speaker 2: Just maybe do not trust anyone want to work while
[1:00] Speaker 2: you just said it, bro the way.
[1:01] Speaker 1: You started this episode already has me stressed. You said,
[1:05] Speaker 1: buckle up, and every time you say buckle up, something
[1:09] Speaker 1: terrible happens. That is your warning signal, that is your
[1:13] Speaker 1: red flag. When Rick says buckle up, you should buckle
[1:16] Speaker 1: up and also maybe pull over to the side of
[1:19] Speaker 1: the road because you were about to lose control of
[1:21] Speaker 1: your vehicle from the sheer force of secondhand outrage. But
[1:25] Speaker 1: I am here for it. Give me the betrayal, give
[1:28] Speaker 1: me the workplace drama. I am ready. Also, I just
[1:32] Speaker 1: want to point out that every time we start an episode,
[1:34] Speaker 1: I get this feeling in my stomach like I am
[1:36] Speaker 1: about to witness something that will ruin my faith in humanity.
[1:40] Speaker 1: And I am never wrong. That feeling is always justified
[1:43] Speaker 1: every single time. So before we get into this, if
[1:47] Speaker 1: you are new here, welcome to spicy Confessions. I am Miguel,
[1:51] Speaker 1: and that is Rick. We break down the speciest confessions
[1:55] Speaker 1: from across the internet. Two guys, two opinions, and a
[1:59] Speaker 1: whole lot of judgment.
[2:01] Speaker 2: All right, So, this person posted on Reddit that they
[2:03] Speaker 2: had just landed their first job, their very first job.
[2:06] Speaker 2: The kind of job where you are excited just to
[2:07] Speaker 2: be there, The kind of job are you show up
[2:08] Speaker 2: earlier and leave let because you want to prove yourself,
[2:10] Speaker 2: the kind of job where you are grateful for the
[2:12] Speaker 2: opportunity and you do not take it for granted. And
[2:14] Speaker 2: this person was in that exact position. They did not
[2:16] Speaker 2: have any experience, zero, none, not a single day of
[2:18] Speaker 2: professional work history. But the company decided to give them
[2:21] Speaker 2: a chance. They took a gamble on this person. They
[2:23] Speaker 2: believed them. They said, you know what, let us hire
[2:25] Speaker 2: this person and see what they can do. And that
[2:27] Speaker 2: should have been the beginning of a beautiful story, a
[2:29] Speaker 2: story about growth, the story about the opportunity, the stuffy
[2:31] Speaker 2: about proving yourself and no one believes in you. But
[2:33] Speaker 2: that is not what happened, because this person was not
[2:35] Speaker 2: the only new hire. The company had also hired another guy.
[2:38] Speaker 2: And this other guy was not a rookie. This other
[2:40] Speaker 2: guy had three years of experience. Three years that is
[2:43] Speaker 2: not just a little more experience. That is a whole
[2:45] Speaker 2: different league. That is a seasoned professional versus a fresh
[2:47] Speaker 2: out of school beginner. And here's the kicker. The company
[2:50] Speaker 2: told both of them that whicheveryone performed worse after three
[2:52] Speaker 2: weeks would get fired. They literally made them compete against
[2:56] Speaker 2: each other for a single position, like some kind of
[2:58] Speaker 2: workplace hunger games like a corporate battle Royal tow wins
[3:01] Speaker 2: into one least.
[3:02] Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, hold on. The company told two new
[3:04] Speaker 1: hires that one of them was going to get fired
[3:06] Speaker 1: after three weeks. That is not a hiring process. That
[3:09] Speaker 1: is a gladido match. That is the Roman colisseum, but
[3:12] Speaker 1: with spreadshoots and office chairs. Who does that? What kind
[3:15] Speaker 1: of company looks at two human beings and says, you
[3:18] Speaker 1: two fight for your survival, May the best one win.
[3:20] Speaker 1: That is not professional, that is not ethical, That is dystopian.
[3:24] Speaker 1: That is the kind of thing you see in a
[3:26] Speaker 1: movie about an evil corporation, not in real life. And
[3:29] Speaker 1: these two people just accepted it. They just said, sure,
[3:31] Speaker 1: I will compete for my job like it is a
[3:33] Speaker 1: reality show. That is insane. But okay, I understand the
[3:37] Speaker 1: person did not have experience. They were desperate they needed
[3:40] Speaker 1: the job, and the other guy had three years of experience,
[3:42] Speaker 1: so the odds were already stacked against the new person.
[3:45] Speaker 1: What did they do? How did they level the playing field?
[3:48] Speaker 1: Because I already know they did not win by being
[3:50] Speaker 1: better at the job. You would not be telling this
[3:52] Speaker 1: story if they just worked harder and outperformed the experience guy.
[3:55] Speaker 1: Something shady happened.
[3:56] Speaker 2: Tell me, picking very shady happen because this person realized
[3:59] Speaker 2: very very quickly that they could not compete with someone
[4:01] Speaker 2: who had three years of experience. It was not possible.
[4:04] Speaker 2: The other guy knew the systems, the other guy knew
[4:06] Speaker 2: the workflows, the other guy knew how to navigate office politics.
[4:09] Speaker 2: The other guy had skills that this person simply did
[4:10] Speaker 2: not have, and that for just a few days, the
[4:12] Speaker 2: writing was on the wall. The experienced guy was out
[4:15] Speaker 2: performing that in every metric, every single one. Faster, more accurate,
[4:19] Speaker 2: more efficient, better at everything. And the person knew deep
[4:22] Speaker 2: down that they were going to be the one fired.
[4:24] Speaker 2: They were going to be the one packing their desk.
[4:26] Speaker 2: There were to be the one walking out the door
[4:28] Speaker 2: with a box of their stuff and a story about
[4:30] Speaker 2: how they stated a career, and that prospect terrified them
[4:33] Speaker 2: because this was their first job, their very first opportunity,
[4:36] Speaker 2: and they were about to lose it, not because they
[4:37] Speaker 2: were lazy, not because they could not care, but because
[4:40] Speaker 2: they were up against someone who is simply better. And
[4:43] Speaker 2: being up against someone who is better is the most
[4:45] Speaker 2: helpless feeling in the world.
[4:47] Speaker 1: Okay, I feel for the person, I really do being
[4:51] Speaker 1: told you were going to compete for your job against
[4:53] Speaker 1: someone with three years of experience is brutal. That is
[4:56] Speaker 1: not a fair fight. That is like putting a toddler
[4:59] Speaker 1: in a boxing with Mike Tyson. The outcome is predetermined.
[5:03] Speaker 1: The toddler is going to lose every time, no matter
[5:06] Speaker 1: how hard the toddler tries. So I understand the desperation,
[5:10] Speaker 1: I understand the fear, but that does not excuse what
[5:13] Speaker 1: comes next, because I already know this person did not
[5:16] Speaker 1: just accept their fate. They did not just say well,
[5:19] Speaker 1: I tried. Time to move on. They did something, something
[5:23] Speaker 1: that changed the course of the other guy's career forever.
[5:26] Speaker 1: And I need to know what it is because whatever
[5:28] Speaker 1: they did, it must have been bad enough to post
[5:31] Speaker 1: about it on Reddit. It must have been bad enough
[5:33] Speaker 1: to make them feel guilty enough to confess. Or maybe
[5:36] Speaker 1: they are not guilty at all. Maybe they are proud
[5:39] Speaker 1: of it. Maybe they think they are a genius. Maybe
[5:42] Speaker 1: they think they pulled off the heist of the century.
[5:44] Speaker 1: Tell me what they did.
[5:45] Speaker 2: He is where the story gets truly evil. The person
[5:48] Speaker 2: came up with a plan, a strategy, a scheme, and
[5:50] Speaker 2: a scheme was simple, but devastating. They realized the experienced
[5:53] Speaker 2: guy was going to leave the office early one day,
[5:55] Speaker 2: not to go home, not to skip work, but to
[5:57] Speaker 2: handle something personal, a personal errand a point, something that
[6:00] Speaker 2: required him to step away from the office for a
[6:02] Speaker 2: few hours. And the person knew about this because the
[6:04] Speaker 2: experienced guy had mentioned it casually, off handily, in passing,
[6:08] Speaker 2: like you would mention anything to a co worker you
[6:10] Speaker 2: were building a rapport with. And the person saw this
[6:12] Speaker 2: information not as a bonding moment, not as a sign
[6:14] Speaker 2: of trust, but as ammunition, as leverage, as the key
[6:17] Speaker 2: to their survival. So the person did something absolutely calculated.
[6:20] Speaker 2: They created a situation, a fake emergency, a manufactured crisis.
[6:24] Speaker 2: They made it seem like there was a critical work
[6:26] Speaker 2: issue that required the experienced guy's immediate attention. They sent messages,
[6:29] Speaker 2: they made calls, they staged the whole production. And the
[6:32] Speaker 2: experienced guy, trusting his coworker, believing that this was a
[6:35] Speaker 2: real emergency, responded accordingly. He went home, ready to handle
[6:37] Speaker 2: what he thought was a personal matter, trusting that the
[6:39] Speaker 2: work situation was under control.
[6:41] Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, Please tell me this
[6:44] Speaker 1: is not happening. Please tell me this person did not
[6:47] Speaker 1: actually sabotage their coworker. Please tell me there's a twist
[6:50] Speaker 1: where the experienced guy figured it out and got revenge.
[6:54] Speaker 1: Because if this person deliberately tricked their coworker into leaving
[6:57] Speaker 1: early so they would get fired, that is not just
[6:59] Speaker 1: a bad thing to do. That is sociocathic. That is
[7:03] Speaker 1: the kind of behavior that makes you question whether this
[7:05] Speaker 1: person has a soul. You do not sabotage someone's career
[7:09] Speaker 1: because you are scared of losing your own. You do
[7:12] Speaker 1: not destroy another person's livelihood because you are desperate. You
[7:15] Speaker 1: do not weaponize someone's trust against them. That is not competition.
[7:20] Speaker 1: That is cruelty. That is malice. That is the kind
[7:23] Speaker 1: of thing that follows you for the rest of your career.
[7:25] Speaker 1: Because here is the thing. Karma is real, and karma
[7:29] Speaker 1: does not forget. What happened next, Did the experienced guy
[7:32] Speaker 1: get fired? Did the plan actually work?
[7:35] Speaker 2: The plan worked perfectly, And I say perfectly because that
[7:37] Speaker 2: is exactly what the person wanted. The experienced guy left early,
[7:40] Speaker 2: he trusted the situation, he handled his personal errand, and
[7:43] Speaker 2: when he came back or when the end of the
[7:44] Speaker 2: three week evaluation period arright, the company looked at the numbers,
[7:47] Speaker 2: They looked at the performance metrics. They looked at who
[7:49] Speaker 2: was present, who was productive, who was reliable, And the
[7:52] Speaker 2: experienced guy had a gap, the gap cust by leaving
[7:54] Speaker 2: early that one day, a gap that the person had
[7:55] Speaker 2: deliberately created, and that gap was enough. The company made
[7:58] Speaker 2: their decision. They fired the experience the person with three
[8:01] Speaker 2: years of experienced, the person who was better at the job,
[8:02] Speaker 2: the person who deserved the position. Con just like that,
[8:05] Speaker 2: fire because of a scheme, fired because of a life,
[8:06] Speaker 2: fire because their co worker chose to destroy them rather
[8:08] Speaker 2: than compete fairly. And the person got the job. They
[8:11] Speaker 2: kept it. They are still there, and they are on
[8:12] Speaker 2: Reddit asking if they are the bad guy.
[8:14] Speaker 1: Of course you were the bad guy. What kind of
[8:16] Speaker 1: question is that you sabotaged a coworker, You manipulated a situation,
[8:21] Speaker 1: You weaponize someone's trust, You cost a person their job,
[8:25] Speaker 1: a job they earned, a job, they were qualified for
[8:28] Speaker 1: a job they were good at and you did it
[8:30] Speaker 1: because you were scared. You did it because you could
[8:33] Speaker 1: not handle the idea of losing. You did it because
[8:35] Speaker 1: you would rather destroy someone else than face your own inadequacy.
[8:39] Speaker 1: That is not survival that is not doing what you
[8:41] Speaker 1: have to do. That is being a terrible person. And
[8:45] Speaker 1: the fact that you were on Reddit asking if you
[8:46] Speaker 1: were the bad guy tells me you already know the answer.
[8:49] Speaker 1: You already know what you did was wrong. You already
[8:52] Speaker 1: know that what you did was evil. But you were
[8:54] Speaker 1: hoping that someone on the internet will validate you. You
[8:57] Speaker 1: are hoping that someone will say, hey, you did what
[8:59] Speaker 1: you had to do. You were hoping that the hive
[9:02] Speaker 1: mind will give you permission to sleep at night. But
[9:04] Speaker 1: the hive mind is not going to do that. The
[9:07] Speaker 1: hive mind is going to tell you the truth. And
[9:09] Speaker 1: the truth is you are the villain of this story.
[9:12] Speaker 1: You are the bad guy and there is no coming
[9:14] Speaker 1: back from that.
[9:15] Speaker 2: And the comments on Reddit were absolutely brutal. Someone said, Bro,
[9:19] Speaker 2: you did not just get a job, You stole one.
[9:21] Speaker 2: You literally stole a job from someone who deserved it
[9:23] Speaker 2: more than you. That is not winning. That is steffed.
[9:26] Speaker 2: Another person said, this is the kind of person who
[9:28] Speaker 2: will sabotage their coworkers for the rest of their career.
[9:31] Speaker 2: This is not a one time thing, This is a pattern.
[9:33] Speaker 2: This is who they are, This is their character. Someone
[9:35] Speaker 2: else said, the experienced guy is going to be fine.
[9:38] Speaker 2: He has three years of experience. He will find another job,
[9:41] Speaker 2: he will land on his feet. But the person who
[9:43] Speaker 2: posted this, they are stuck. They are stuck at a
[9:46] Speaker 2: company that does not know what they did. They are
[9:48] Speaker 2: stuck with a secret that is going to eat them alive.
[9:51] Speaker 2: They are stuck being the person who had to cheat
[9:53] Speaker 2: to win. And my favorite comment was someone who said,
[9:56] Speaker 2: imagine being so bad at your job that your only
[9:58] Speaker 2: option is to get your coworker f That is not
[10:01] Speaker 2: a flex. That is a confession of incompetence. You did
[10:04] Speaker 2: not win because you were good. You won because you cheated,
[10:07] Speaker 2: and everyone knows it, including you.
[10:10] Speaker 1: The comments are death today because they are all too
[10:14] Speaker 1: Reviving means you weren't you. Reviving means you were the best.
[10:19] Speaker 1: Reviving means you deserved it. Surviving means you deserved it.
[10:25] Speaker 1: Surviving means you just not standing. But you're standing on
[10:28] Speaker 1: someone else's ashes, and that is not something to be
[10:32] Speaker 1: proud of. That is something to be ashamed of. The
[10:36] Speaker 1: experienced guy is going to be fine. He has skills,
[10:40] Speaker 1: he has experience, he has references. He will bounce back.
[10:45] Speaker 1: But the person who posted this, they are going to
[10:48] Speaker 1: carry this with them forever. Spicy confessions where we read
[10:52] Speaker 1: confessions that make you lose faith in humanity. And we
[10:56] Speaker 1: are just getting started. Before we dive into the next one,
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[11:09] Speaker 1: the ones who work in offices. They need to hear this.
[11:13] Speaker 1: They need to know that their coworkers might be plotting
[11:15] Speaker 1: against them right now. And that is a prison, a
[11:19] Speaker 1: prison of their own making, a prison with no escape.
[11:22] Speaker 2: All right, So this next confession is from someone who's
[11:25] Speaker 2: about to blow up their entire relationship. When I say
[11:27] Speaker 2: blow up, I do not mean a small argument. I
[11:30] Speaker 2: do not mean a disagreement. I mean a full scale,
[11:32] Speaker 2: scorched earth, burn everything to the ground kind of explosion.
[11:35] Speaker 2: This person is in a relationship, a long term relationship,
[11:37] Speaker 2: the kind of relationship where you share bills, share a home,
[11:39] Speaker 2: share a life, the kind of relationship where you have
[11:41] Speaker 2: built something together, a foundation, a routine, a partnership. And
[11:45] Speaker 2: for the past however long they have been together, this
[11:47] Speaker 2: person has been the one paying for everything everything, rent, utilities, groceries, dates, travel,
[11:53] Speaker 2: all of it, every single dollar that keeps their shared
[11:55] Speaker 2: life running comes from this person's bank account and the boyfriend.
[11:58] Speaker 2: The boyfriend does not really have any money, not outside
[12:01] Speaker 2: of what this person provides. He's financially dependent, completely, entirely,
[12:05] Speaker 2: one hundred percent reliant on this person for his livelihood.
[12:07] Speaker 2: And for a while that was fine because relationships are
[12:09] Speaker 2: about sacrifice. Relationships are about support. Relationships are about being
[12:13] Speaker 2: there for each other when one person is down. And
[12:14] Speaker 2: this person was willing to carry the financial burdening. They
[12:17] Speaker 2: were willing to be the provider. They were willing to
[12:19] Speaker 2: support their partner until things got better. That is love,
[12:21] Speaker 2: That is commitment. That is what you do when you
[12:23] Speaker 2: care about someone.
[12:25] Speaker 1: Okay, I already do not trust this because you said
[12:28] Speaker 1: this person is about to blow up their relationship and
[12:32] Speaker 1: you said the boyfriend has no money outside of what
[12:36] Speaker 1: this person provides. So either the boyfriend did something terrible
[12:41] Speaker 1: or this person is about to do something terrible or both.
[12:46] Speaker 1: Because nobody posts a confession on Reddit about how they
[12:49] Speaker 1: pay for everything unless something went wrong. Something went very wrong,
[12:55] Speaker 1: and I need to know what it is because if
[12:57] Speaker 1: the boyfriend has been cheating, I want to hear about it.
[13:01] Speaker 1: If the boyfriend has been lying, I want to hear
[13:04] Speaker 1: about it. If the boyfriend has been lying, I want
[13:07] Speaker 1: to hear about it. If the boyfriend has been taking
[13:10] Speaker 1: advantage of this person, I want to hear about it.
[13:14] Speaker 1: Tell me the story. I need the details. I need
[13:18] Speaker 1: the evidence. I need the full picture before I can
[13:22] Speaker 1: form my judgment, because right now I know that's that
[13:25] Speaker 1: one person pays for everything and the other person does not,
[13:30] Speaker 1: And that dynamic on its own is not necessarily bad.
[13:35] Speaker 1: People fall on hard times, people lose jobs, people struggle.
[13:42] Speaker 1: What matters is what happens next. What matters is how
[13:46] Speaker 1: the other person responds. And I already know the boyfriend
[13:49] Speaker 1: did not respond. Well, tell me what happened.
[13:52] Speaker 2: I think that we think it sketched. The boyfriend was
[13:55] Speaker 2: cheating for weeks, not a long time mistake. Don't get an accident,
[14:00] Speaker 2: a moment of weakness. Weeks plural, multiple instances, multiple opportunities
[14:05] Speaker 2: where the boyfriend chose to be with someone else. And
[14:08] Speaker 2: this person found out the way most people find out
[14:10] Speaker 2: in the modern age. They checked the phone, they saw
[14:13] Speaker 2: the messages, they saw the footos, they saw the evidence,
[14:15] Speaker 2: and it was undeniable. There was no explaining it the way.
[14:18] Speaker 2: There was no justification. There was no, oh, it is
[14:21] Speaker 2: not what it looks like. It was exactly what it
[14:23] Speaker 2: looked like. The boyfriend was cheating while this person paid
[14:26] Speaker 2: for his rent, while this person paid for his food,
[14:28] Speaker 2: while this person paid for his lifestyle, while this person
[14:30] Speaker 2: worked hard to keep their shared life afloat. The boyfriend
[14:33] Speaker 2: was out there betraying their trust, and the person knew.
[14:36] Speaker 2: They knew for about ten days. Ten days of knowing,
[14:40] Speaker 2: ten days of looking at their boyfriend across the dinner
[14:42] Speaker 2: table and wondering if he was thinking about the other person.
[14:45] Speaker 2: Ten days of pretending everything was normal while their entire
[14:49] Speaker 2: world was crumbling. Ten days of silence.
[14:52] Speaker 1: Ten days, ten days of knowing and saying nothing. I
[14:57] Speaker 1: do not know if I could do that. I do
[15:00] Speaker 1: not know. If I could sit across from someone who
[15:02] Speaker 1: betrayed me and pretend everything is fine, I would explode immediately.
[15:08] Speaker 1: I would confront them the second I saw the evidence.
[15:12] Speaker 1: I would want answers, I would want explanations. I would
[15:16] Speaker 1: want to hear them try to justify the unjustifiable. But
[15:21] Speaker 1: this person did not do that. They waited, they observed,
[15:26] Speaker 1: they collected their thoughts, They planned, and that, honestly is terrifying,
[15:34] Speaker 1: because a person who can hold that kind of knowledge
[15:36] Speaker 1: for ten days without reacting is a person who is
[15:40] Speaker 1: planning something, a person who is calculating, a person who
[15:44] Speaker 1: is setting up the perfect moment for maximum impact. And
[15:48] Speaker 1: I already know what they are planning because you said them.
[15:52] Speaker 2: Think like the plan is simple, devastating, but simple. The
[15:55] Speaker 2: person is leaving tomorrow, not next week, not next month,
[15:58] Speaker 2: not when the lease is up to They've already made arrangements,
[16:01] Speaker 2: they've already packed, they've already found a new place, they
[16:03] Speaker 2: have already set up their finances to exclude the boyfriend
[16:06] Speaker 2: from everything. The bank accounts are separated, the bills are transferred,
[16:09] Speaker 2: the shared subscriptions are canceled. Everything that was shared is
[16:12] Speaker 2: now exclusively the person's. And when they lead tomorrow, the
[16:14] Speaker 2: boyfriend is going to wake up to a world where
[16:16] Speaker 2: the financial support he has been relying on simply disappears.
[16:19] Speaker 2: No rent money, no grocery money, no utility money, no
[16:22] Speaker 2: lifestyle nothing. The person is taking everything with them, and
[16:25] Speaker 2: the boyfriend, who has no one's outside of this person,
[16:27] Speaker 2: is going to be left with absolutely nothing. The apartment
[16:30] Speaker 2: he has been living in for free gone, the food
[16:32] Speaker 2: he has been eating for free, gone, the life he's
[16:34] Speaker 2: been living on someone else's dime, gone all of it
[16:36] Speaker 2: in an instant, because the person is done being generous,
[16:39] Speaker 2: done being supportive, done being the provider, done being the
[16:42] Speaker 2: one who carries the weight, while the boyfriend goes out
[16:44] Speaker 2: and cheats, done being taken for granted, done being the fool.
[16:47] Speaker 1: That is poetic justice. That is the ultimate consequence. You
[16:52] Speaker 1: cheat on the person who pays for your entire life,
[16:54] Speaker 1: and that person leaves you with nothing. That is not
[16:57] Speaker 1: just a breakup. That is an extinction event, is financial apocalypse.
[17:01] Speaker 1: That is the kind of breakup that changes your credit score.
[17:04] Speaker 1: That is the kind of breakup that makes you reevaluate
[17:06] Speaker 1: every choice you have ever made. Because here is the thing.
[17:10] Speaker 1: The boyfriend knew. He knew who was paying for everything.
[17:13] Speaker 1: He knew that his lifestyle depended on this person's generosity.
[17:16] Speaker 1: He knew that was out this person, he had nothing,
[17:19] Speaker 1: and he cheated anyway. He cheated on the person who
[17:22] Speaker 1: is keeping him afloat. He cheated on the person who
[17:24] Speaker 1: was working hard so he could have a comfortable life.
[17:27] Speaker 1: He cheated on the person who chose to sacrifice their
[17:29] Speaker 1: own financial security for his. And that is not just betrayal,
[17:33] Speaker 1: that is ingratitude, that is taking someone's kindness and throwing
[17:36] Speaker 1: it in their face. That is using someone and then
[17:39] Speaker 1: disrespecting them. And the person is done. Done being used,
[17:44] Speaker 1: done being disrespected, done being the provider for someone who
[17:47] Speaker 1: does not deserve it. And tomorrow the boyfriend is going
[17:50] Speaker 1: to learn the hardest lesson of his life. Actions have consequences,
[17:54] Speaker 1: and consequences have no mercy.
[17:56] Speaker 2: The comments on Riddick were divided. Some people were fully
[17:59] Speaker 2: supportive of this person. They said, good, leave, take everything.
[18:01] Speaker 2: He does not deserve your money. He does not deserve
[18:03] Speaker 2: your support. He does not deserve you. Someone said, this
[18:05] Speaker 2: is what happens when you take someone for granted. You
[18:07] Speaker 2: think the money will always be there, You think the
[18:09] Speaker 2: support will never end. You think you can do whatever
[18:11] Speaker 2: you want because the person who provides for you will
[18:13] Speaker 2: always be there. But they will not. They will reach
[18:15] Speaker 2: a breaking point, and when they do, you will have nothing.
[18:17] Speaker 2: Another person said, the boyfriend is about to find out
[18:19] Speaker 2: what it means to be an adult without a safety net.
[18:21] Speaker 2: He is about to learn what rant costs. He's about
[18:23] Speaker 2: to mon what groceries cost. He's about to learn what
[18:25] Speaker 2: life cost when no one is paying for it, and
[18:27] Speaker 2: that lesson is going to be painful, but it is
[18:29] Speaker 2: necessary because apparently this person needed to be taught a
[18:31] Speaker 2: lesson about gratitude, and the only way to teach it
[18:33] Speaker 2: is to take away everything they have been given. But
[18:35] Speaker 2: some people on redict were not supportive. They said this
[18:38] Speaker 2: person should have communicated, They should have said something sooner,
[18:40] Speaker 2: They should have confronted the boyfriend instead of planning a
[18:43] Speaker 2: dramatic exit. They said, revenge is not the answer. Walking
[18:46] Speaker 2: away with dignity is the answer. Leaving quietly is the answer.
[18:49] Speaker 2: You do not need to destroy someone to end a relationship.
[18:51] Speaker 2: You just need to walk away.
[18:52] Speaker 1: I see both sides, I really do. The person was wronged,
[18:56] Speaker 1: deeply wronged. Cheating on someone who pays for your intentife
[19:00] Speaker 1: is a special kind of evil. It is a betrayal
[19:03] Speaker 1: within a betrayal. It is disrespect on top of disrespect.
[19:07] Speaker 1: And the desire for revenge is natural. It is human.
[19:11] Speaker 1: When someone hurts you, you want to hurt them back.
[19:13] Speaker 1: You want them to feel what you felt. You want
[19:16] Speaker 1: them to experience the pain they caused you. But here
[19:19] Speaker 1: is the thing. Revenge feels good in the moment and
[19:22] Speaker 1: terrible in the aftermath. Because when the dust settles, when
[19:25] Speaker 1: the anger fades, when the adrenaline wears off, you are
[19:29] Speaker 1: left with the reality of what you did. You destroyed someone,
[19:33] Speaker 1: You took everything from them, and even if they deserved it,
[19:36] Speaker 1: even if they brought it on themselves, it still weighs
[19:39] Speaker 1: on you. It still changes you. You are not the
[19:42] Speaker 1: same person you were before. You are someone who chose
[19:45] Speaker 1: destruction over communication. You are someone who chose revenge overclosure.
[19:50] Speaker 1: And that is a burden, a burden that does not
[19:52] Speaker 1: go away. So, yes, the boyfriend deserved consequences, but did
[19:57] Speaker 1: he deserve total annihilation? That is the question, and I
[20:01] Speaker 1: do not know the answer. I really do not.
[20:04] Speaker 2: And that, my friends, is the reality of relationships. Sometimes
[20:08] Speaker 2: the person you trust the most is the person who
[20:10] Speaker 2: hurts you the worst. Sometimes the person you support the
[20:12] Speaker 2: most is the person who takes you for granted. And
[20:15] Speaker 2: sometimes the only way to protect yourself is to walk
[20:17] Speaker 2: away from everything you have built, because staying in a
[20:19] Speaker 2: situation where you're being used is not loyalty, It is
[20:22] Speaker 2: not love, it is not commitment. It is self destruction.
[20:25] Speaker 2: And you deserve better than that. Everyone deserves better than that.
[20:28] Speaker 2: So if you are in a situation where someone is
[20:30] Speaker 2: taking advantage of your generosity. Take notes, set boundaries, protect yourself,
[20:34] Speaker 2: and if the boundaries are crossed, walk away. You do
[20:37] Speaker 2: not need to destroy them, You just need to save yourself.
[20:39] Speaker 2: And we will be right back with more confessions after this.
[20:43] Speaker 1: Welcome back to Spicy Confessions. I am Miguel and that
[20:47] Speaker 1: is Rick. If you were just joining us, you miss
[20:51] Speaker 1: two devastating stories. The first was about a person who
[20:54] Speaker 1: sabotaged their coworker to keep their job. The second was
[20:58] Speaker 1: about a person who is leaving their cheating boyfriend with
[21:00] Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. Both stories were wild, both stories were cautionary tales,
[21:06] Speaker 1: and we have more. This next one might be the
[21:09] Speaker 1: most heartbreaking of all because this one involves family. This
[21:12] Speaker 1: one involves trust. This one involves a mom, a neighbor,
[21:17] Speaker 1: and a betrayal that no child should ever have to witness.
[21:20] Speaker 1: If you are listening to this while eating, put your
[21:22] Speaker 1: food down. You are going to need both hands for
[21:25] Speaker 1: this one. You are going to need to cover your face.
[21:28] Speaker 1: You are going to need to process what you are
[21:30] Speaker 1: about to hear. And remember, this episode is perfect background
[21:33] Speaker 1: noise for your day. Put it on while you cook, clean, work,
[21:37] Speaker 1: or relax just do not hand your phone to anyone
[21:39] Speaker 1: while you listen for your own safety.
[21:42] Speaker 2: Ah ja. So this person posted on riddit that the
[21:44] Speaker 2: dead dead had just passed away after a long illness,
[21:46] Speaker 2: the kind of illness that takes everything from you slowly,
[21:49] Speaker 2: the kind of illness that makes you watch someone you
[21:50] Speaker 2: love disappear peace by piece, the kind of illness that
[21:53] Speaker 2: drains the family emotionally, physically, financially. The dad fought, the
[21:56] Speaker 2: family fought. They were all in it together, supporting each other,
[21:59] Speaker 2: holding each other up, trying to stay strong for the
[22:01] Speaker 2: person who was suffering, and when the dad finally passed,
[22:03] Speaker 2: the family was devastated, absolutely destroyed. The grief was overwhelming,
[22:07] Speaker 2: the loss was immeasurable, and the person who had been
[22:09] Speaker 2: away at school came home to be with their family,
[22:12] Speaker 2: to be together, to support each other, to be there
[22:14] Speaker 2: for their mom and their sister. It was supposed to
[22:16] Speaker 2: be a time of healing, a time of coming together,
[22:18] Speaker 2: a time of remembering the good times and finding comfort
[22:20] Speaker 2: and family. That was the plan, that was the intention,
[22:22] Speaker 2: that was what was supposed to happen, But what actually
[22:25] Speaker 2: happened was something no one could have prepared for.
[22:27] Speaker 1: The way you are telling this story already has me
[22:30] Speaker 1: on edge because you said it was supposed to be
[22:33] Speaker 1: a time of healing. And whenever you say something was
[22:36] Speaker 1: supposed to be a certain way, it means it was
[22:39] Speaker 1: not that way. It means something went wrong, something went
[22:43] Speaker 1: terribly wrong. And given that this involves a mom and
[22:46] Speaker 1: a neighbor, I can already guess where this is going,
[22:50] Speaker 1: and I do not want to guess, because if my
[22:52] Speaker 1: guess is right, this is going to be one of
[22:54] Speaker 1: the worst stories we have ever read. Tell me what happened.
[22:58] Speaker 1: Tell me the person walked in on something they should
[23:00] Speaker 1: not have seen. Tell me the mom did something that
[23:03] Speaker 1: no grieving wife should ever do. Tell me everything I
[23:07] Speaker 1: need to hear it, even though I already know it
[23:09] Speaker 1: is going to be devastating.
[23:11] Speaker 2: The person came home after the funeral, after the burial,
[23:13] Speaker 2: after the formalities, they came home to be with their family,
[23:15] Speaker 2: and their sister was there and their mom was there,
[23:17] Speaker 2: and everything singed normal. Grief stricken, but normal, the kind
[23:20] Speaker 2: of normal where everyone is going through the motions, eating
[23:23] Speaker 2: when they should be eating, sleeping when they should be sleeping,
[23:25] Speaker 2: existing when they should be existing. And the person decided
[23:27] Speaker 2: to go next door to the neighbor's house, maybe to
[23:29] Speaker 2: say hello, maybe to pick something up, maybe just to
[23:31] Speaker 2: get out of the house for a minute, because grief
[23:33] Speaker 2: is suffocating and sometimes you just need air. Sometimes you
[23:36] Speaker 2: just need to move. So they went next door and
[23:38] Speaker 2: the neighbor, a man in his mid fifties, was a
[23:40] Speaker 2: family friend, the kind of family friend who had been
[23:42] Speaker 2: around for years, the kind of family friend who had
[23:44] Speaker 2: been to barbecues, in birthday parties and holidays, the kind
[23:47] Speaker 2: of family friend who had shared meals with the family,
[23:49] Speaker 2: who had laughed with the dad, who had been part
[23:51] Speaker 2: of the community. And this person knocked on the door,
[23:53] Speaker 2: no answer. They tried the handle, unlocked, they went inside,
[23:56] Speaker 2: and that is when they saw it. That is when
[23:59] Speaker 2: their entire war world collapsed.
[24:01] Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. I already know what they saw.
[24:04] Speaker 1: I already know what was happening behind that door. I
[24:07] Speaker 1: already know who is in that house, and I already
[24:10] Speaker 1: know that this person is never going to be the
[24:12] Speaker 1: same because what they saw was their mom, their grieving mom,
[24:18] Speaker 1: their mom who had just buried her husband, their mom
[24:21] Speaker 1: who had just lost the love of her life, their
[24:25] Speaker 1: mom who was supposed to be at home grieving their
[24:28] Speaker 1: mom was in that neighbor's house, and based on the
[24:31] Speaker 1: way you were telling this story, based on the horror
[24:34] Speaker 1: in your voice, based on the way you were building
[24:37] Speaker 1: to this moment, I already know what was happening. The
[24:41] Speaker 1: mom was with the neighbor romantically, physically, in a way
[24:47] Speaker 1: that no child should ever witness their parents, especially not
[24:51] Speaker 1: weeks after their father's funeral. Tell me I am wrong.
[24:55] Speaker 1: Tell me this is not what happened. Tell me there
[24:58] Speaker 1: is a different ending to this story, because I do
[25:01] Speaker 1: not want this to be the ending. I really do not.
[25:05] Speaker 2: You are not wrong. The person walked in on their
[25:08] Speaker 2: mom with the neighbor in the neighbor's house, physically together,
[25:11] Speaker 2: and the timing was devastating. This was not months after
[25:15] Speaker 2: the funeral. This was not a year after the funeral.
[25:17] Speaker 2: This was weeks. A few weeks. Their dad's body was
[25:21] Speaker 2: barely cold, the grief was still fresh, the wounds was
[25:23] Speaker 2: still open, the family was still in survival mode, and
[25:25] Speaker 2: the mom was already with someone else, with a neighbor,
[25:28] Speaker 2: a family friend, a man who had known the dad.
[25:31] Speaker 2: A man had been to their house, a man had
[25:32] Speaker 2: eaten at their table, a man who had shaken the
[25:34] Speaker 2: dad's hand and called him friend. And the person stood
[25:38] Speaker 2: there in the doorway, watching their entire understanding of their
[25:41] Speaker 2: mother collapse. Because the mom they knew was grieving, the
[25:44] Speaker 2: mom they knew was devastated, the mom they knew was
[25:47] Speaker 2: holding the family together through sheer force of will, and now,
[25:50] Speaker 2: in an instant, all of that was gone. The grief
[25:53] Speaker 2: was gone, the devotion was gone, The image of the faithful,
[25:56] Speaker 2: grieving wife was gone, replaced by something else. Entire.
[26:00] Speaker 1: That is one of the most devastating things I have
[26:03] Speaker 1: ever heard, because it is not just about the cheating,
[26:07] Speaker 1: It is not just about the timing. It is about
[26:10] Speaker 1: the betrayal of the entire family's grief. The family was
[26:14] Speaker 1: grieving together, they were supporting each other, They were trying
[26:18] Speaker 1: to survive the worst thing that had ever happened to them.
[26:21] Speaker 1: And the mom was already moving on. The mom was
[26:24] Speaker 1: already with someone else. The mom was already in someone else.
[26:29] Speaker 1: The mom was already in someone else's arms. While the
[26:33] Speaker 1: family was at home crying, while the kids were at
[26:36] Speaker 1: home mourning their father, while the memory of the dad
[26:39] Speaker 1: was still so fresh it hurt to breathe, the mom
[26:43] Speaker 1: chose that moment to be with someone else, and the
[26:46] Speaker 1: person had to witness it, had to see it with
[26:49] Speaker 1: their own eyes, had to process it in real time,
[26:53] Speaker 1: had to stand there and watch their mother betray their
[26:55] Speaker 1: father's memory. That is not just painful, That is traumatizing.
[27:01] Speaker 1: That is the kind of image that burns into your
[27:03] Speaker 1: brain and never leaves. That is the kind of thing
[27:07] Speaker 1: you see once and never forget. Never is there when
[27:12] Speaker 1: you close your eyes. It is there when you try
[27:15] Speaker 1: to sleep, It is there when you look at your mom.
[27:18] Speaker 2: The person said, They did not say anything, not a word.
[27:20] Speaker 2: They just turned around and walked out. No confrontation, no screaming,
[27:23] Speaker 2: no crying, just silence, the kind of silence that says
[27:26] Speaker 2: everything without saying anything, the kind of silence that is
[27:28] Speaker 2: louder than any scream. They went home. They sat in
[27:31] Speaker 2: their room. They stared at the wall, and they tried
[27:33] Speaker 2: to make sense of what they had just seen. They
[27:35] Speaker 2: tried to reconcile the mom they loved with the person
[27:37] Speaker 2: they had just witnessed. They tried to understand how someone
[27:39] Speaker 2: who had just buried their husband could be in someone
[27:41] Speaker 2: else's arms. They tried to find a reason, an explanation,
[27:44] Speaker 2: a justification, but there was none. There was no explanation
[27:47] Speaker 2: that could make it okay. That There's no reason that
[27:49] Speaker 2: could justify the timing. There was no justification that could
[27:51] Speaker 2: erase the image. It was done, The damage was done,
[27:53] Speaker 2: the image was burned into their memory, and now they
[27:55] Speaker 2: had to decide what to do with it. Tell their sister,
[27:57] Speaker 2: tell their family, confront their mom, or just carry the
[28:00] Speaker 2: secret forever. And that is the real punishment, not the seeing,
[28:02] Speaker 2: not the knowing, but the carrying, the weight of knowing
[28:04] Speaker 2: something that would destroy your family if it came out,
[28:06] Speaker 2: the burden of a secret that you did not ask
[28:08] Speaker 2: for and do not want.
[28:09] Speaker 1: And that is the cruelest part of the whole thing,
[28:11] Speaker 1: because the person did not ask for this, They did
[28:13] Speaker 1: not go looking for this information. They did not pry,
[28:16] Speaker 1: they did not snoop. They just happened to walk through
[28:19] Speaker 1: a door at the wrong time, and now they are
[28:20] Speaker 1: carrying a secret that could destroy their family. That is
[28:23] Speaker 1: not fair, that is not just. That is the universe
[28:26] Speaker 1: playing a sick joke on someone who is already grieving,
[28:28] Speaker 1: because now the person has to grieve twice. They have
[28:31] Speaker 1: to grieve their father and they have to grieve the
[28:32] Speaker 1: image of their mother. They had in their head. The
[28:34] Speaker 1: mother they thought was faithful, the mother they thought was devoted,
[28:37] Speaker 1: the mother they thought was holding the family together. That
[28:40] Speaker 1: mother is gone, replaced by someone they do not recognize,
[28:43] Speaker 1: someone who could do this, someone who could be with
[28:45] Speaker 1: a family friend weeks after their husband's funeral, and the
[28:48] Speaker 1: person has to live with that every day, every time
[28:50] Speaker 1: they see their mom, every time they have a family dinner,
[28:53] Speaker 1: every time there is a holiday, or a birthday or
[28:55] Speaker 1: a gathering. The image is there, the secret is there,
[28:58] Speaker 1: the knowledge is there, and there is no escaping it,
[29:00] Speaker 1: no matter how hard they tried.
[29:02] Speaker 2: The comments on Reddit were a mix of anger and sympathy.
[29:05] Speaker 2: Someone said, your mom grieved in private and healed in public.
[29:08] Speaker 2: Some people process grief differently. Some people need connection to
[29:11] Speaker 2: survive loss. That does not make it right, but it
[29:13] Speaker 2: makes it human. Another person said, this is not about
[29:16] Speaker 2: grieving differently. This is about respect. This is about timing.
[29:19] Speaker 2: This is about basic human decency. You do not get
[29:22] Speaker 2: with a family friend weeks after your husband dies. That
[29:24] Speaker 2: is not healing. That is betrayal. Someone else says, the
[29:27] Speaker 2: person needs to talk to their mom, not to accuse,
[29:30] Speaker 2: not to judge, but to understand, because the way that
[29:32] Speaker 2: this secret is going to crush them if they carry
[29:34] Speaker 2: it alone. They need to share it, they need to
[29:35] Speaker 2: process it, they need to find a way to move forward.
[29:37] Speaker 2: And my favorite comment was someone who said, the neighbor
[29:40] Speaker 2: is the real villain here. He was the dad's friend,
[29:42] Speaker 2: He shook the dad's hand, he ate at the dad's table,
[29:44] Speaker 2: he attended the dad's funeral, and then he got with
[29:46] Speaker 2: the dad's wife. That is not just betrayal. That is
[29:48] Speaker 2: a special kind of evil. That is the kind of
[29:50] Speaker 2: thing that gets you permanently removed from someone's life. That
[29:53] Speaker 2: is the kind of thing that makes you persona non
[29:55] Speaker 2: grata in every social circle you have ever been part of.
[29:57] Speaker 2: That neighbor should be ashamed, the mom should be a shame,
[30:00] Speaker 2: and the person who witnessed it should not have to
[30:02] Speaker 2: carry this so little.
[30:02] Speaker 1: I agree with all of those comments, but the one
[30:06] Speaker 1: that resonates with me the most is the one about
[30:08] Speaker 1: carrying it alone, because that is the real tragedy here.
[30:14] Speaker 1: The person did not ask for the secret, they did
[30:18] Speaker 1: not want it, but now they have it. And secrets
[30:22] Speaker 1: are heavy. Secrets weigh you down. Secrets change the way
[30:28] Speaker 1: you see the world. Secrets change the way you see
[30:32] Speaker 1: your world. Secrets change the way you see your family.
[30:37] Speaker 1: And the longer you carry a secret, the heavier it gets,
[30:41] Speaker 1: the more it affects you, the more it changes you.
[30:46] Speaker 1: So if you were listening to this and you are
[30:47] Speaker 1: carrying a secret that is weighing you down, talk to someone,
[30:52] Speaker 1: Talk to a friend, talk to a therapist, talk to anyone,
[30:58] Speaker 1: because carrying it alone is not strength. It is self
[31:02] Speaker 1: destruction and you do not deserve that. Nobody does. We
[31:08] Speaker 1: will be right back with more confessions after this.
[31:11] Speaker 2: All right, So this next confession is lighter one, because
[31:13] Speaker 2: we need a palate cleanser. We need something that does
[31:15] Speaker 2: not make us want to throw our phones into the ocean.
[31:18] Speaker 2: And this one is genuinely funny. So this person posted
[31:21] Speaker 2: on Reddit that they have been drinking Nesquick their entire life,
[31:24] Speaker 2: their entire life, and they have been doing it wrong, completely, totally,
[31:27] Speaker 2: one hundred percent wrong. And when they found out the truth,
[31:29] Speaker 2: they were devastated, not because the nest Quick tasted bad,
[31:32] Speaker 2: not because something was wrong with the product, but because
[31:34] Speaker 2: they realized they had been living a lie, a chocolate
[31:37] Speaker 2: milk lie, a nest Quick lie, the kind of lie
[31:39] Speaker 2: that makes you question every decision you have ever made,
[31:41] Speaker 2: the kind of lie that makes you wonder what else
[31:43] Speaker 2: you have been doing wrong? The kind of lie that
[31:44] Speaker 2: makes you look at your entire life and think, what
[31:46] Speaker 2: else is fake? What else is wrong? What else have
[31:49] Speaker 2: I been doing incorrectly without even knowing it?
[31:52] Speaker 1: Okay, now I am intrigued because I drink Nesquick two
[31:55] Speaker 1: and if I have been doing it wrong my entire life,
[31:58] Speaker 1: I need to know. I need to know right now.
[32:01] Speaker 1: Tell me what this person has been doing wrong, because
[32:04] Speaker 1: if I am also doing it wrong, I need to
[32:06] Speaker 1: fix it immediately. I do not want to be living
[32:09] Speaker 1: the same nest Quick lie. I want the truth. Give
[32:12] Speaker 1: me the truth. How do you drink nest quick correctly?
[32:15] Speaker 1: What is the right way? What has this person been
[32:18] Speaker 1: doing wrong? Tell me? I need to know. This is urgent,
[32:21] Speaker 1: This is a nest Quick emergency.
[32:23] Speaker 2: So here's what this person has been doing their entire life.
[32:26] Speaker 2: Since they were a kid, since they were old enough
[32:28] Speaker 2: to make their own drinks. They have been mixing nest
[32:30] Speaker 2: Quick powder with boiled water, boiled water, hot water like
[32:35] Speaker 2: it is tea, like it is coffee, like it is
[32:37] Speaker 2: some kind of warm chocolate beverage. They would boil the
[32:39] Speaker 2: water pour it into a mug, add the nest Quick powder,
[32:42] Speaker 2: stir it up. Add some sugar because apparently boiled water
[32:45] Speaker 2: Nextquik needs extra sugar to taste good, and drink it
[32:48] Speaker 2: like it was normal, Like everyone drinks Nestquick that way,
[32:50] Speaker 2: Like that is the standard, universal accepted way to prepare
[32:53] Speaker 2: chocolate milk. And they did this for years, maybe decades,
[32:56] Speaker 2: every single day, every single morning, a nice warm cup
[32:59] Speaker 2: of boil called water nest quick. And they thought it
[33:02] Speaker 2: was fine. They thought it was normal. They thought everyone
[33:05] Speaker 2: drank nest Quick this way. They thought they were doing it.
[33:07] Speaker 1: Drich. Wait, wait, hold on. They mixed nest Quick with
[33:13] Speaker 1: boiled water like hot water, as in water that has
[33:18] Speaker 1: been heated to a boiling point, and then added sugar.
[33:23] Speaker 1: That is not nest Quick. That is hot chocolate with
[33:26] Speaker 1: extra steps. That is a war crime against chocolate milk.
[33:31] Speaker 1: Next Quid is supposed to be mixed with cold milk.
[33:34] Speaker 1: That is the whole point. That is the entire purpose
[33:37] Speaker 1: of the product. It is called chocolate milk, not chocolate water,
[33:43] Speaker 1: not hot chocolate milk. Chocolate milk. The milk part is essential,
[33:48] Speaker 1: The cold part is essential. You do not mix Nestquick
[33:52] Speaker 1: with boiled water, you mix it with milk, cold milk
[33:57] Speaker 1: from the refrigerator. That is how it works works, that
[34:00] Speaker 1: is how it has always worked. That is how it
[34:03] Speaker 1: was designed to work. How did this person not know?
[34:07] Speaker 1: How did no one tell them? Did they not read
[34:10] Speaker 1: the instructions on the container. Did they not see the
[34:13] Speaker 1: picture on the front of the box that shows a
[34:15] Speaker 1: glass of cold chocolate milk? Did they not have a
[34:18] Speaker 1: single person in their life who said, hey, that is
[34:21] Speaker 1: not how you make ness quick.
[34:23] Speaker 2: What happened, Tomi, is exactly what happened. This person grew
[34:27] Speaker 2: up in a household where nestquick was always mixed with
[34:29] Speaker 2: boiled water. Always. It was a family tradition, a family recipe,
[34:32] Speaker 2: a family way of doing things. Their parents did it,
[34:34] Speaker 2: their grandparents did it, Everyone in the family did it.
[34:36] Speaker 2: So this person never questioned it, never thought twice about it,
[34:39] Speaker 2: never considered that there might be a different way to
[34:40] Speaker 2: prepare chocolate milk. Because when you grow up doing something
[34:43] Speaker 2: a certain way, you assume it is the right way.
[34:45] Speaker 2: You assume everyone does it that way. You assume there
[34:47] Speaker 2: is no other option. And this person lived their entire
[34:49] Speaker 2: life believing that boiled water nestquick was normal. Until one
[34:52] Speaker 2: day they went to a friend's house and the friend
[34:54] Speaker 2: made did a net quick and the friend used cold
[34:56] Speaker 2: milk straight from the refrigerator, no boiling, no heating, no sugar,
[34:59] Speaker 2: just cold milk and nest quick powder. And this person
[35:02] Speaker 2: watched an absolute horror as their friend prepared what they
[35:05] Speaker 2: considered to be the correct version of nest quick, and
[35:08] Speaker 2: they tried it, they tasted it, and their entire world changed.
[35:12] Speaker 1: That is the moment. That is the moment where your
[35:15] Speaker 1: reality shifts. That is the moment where you realize that
[35:18] Speaker 1: everything you knew was wrong. That is the moment where
[35:21] Speaker 1: you look at your life and think, what have I
[35:23] Speaker 1: been doing? What have I been missing? What other lies
[35:26] Speaker 1: have I been living? Because if nesquick can be mixed
[35:29] Speaker 1: with cold milk this whole time, what else is wrong?
[35:32] Speaker 1: What else have you been doing incorrectly? What other basic
[35:35] Speaker 1: human activities have you been messing up without even knowing it?
[35:38] Speaker 1: That is the existential crisis of nesquick. That is the
[35:41] Speaker 1: moment where chocolate milk becomes a philosophical question. And I
[35:45] Speaker 1: love it. I absolutely love it, because this is the
[35:48] Speaker 1: kind of confession that makes you laugh and then think
[35:50] Speaker 1: and then laugh again. This is the kind of confession
[35:53] Speaker 1: that is relatable and absurd and funny all the same time.
[35:57] Speaker 1: This person did not do anything wrong. They just not know,
[36:01] Speaker 1: and now they know, and their life is forever changed
[36:04] Speaker 1: for the better. Because cold milk nestwik is objectively superior,
[36:08] Speaker 1: there is no debate, there is no argument cold milk nestwik.
[36:13] Speaker 2: The comments on Reddit were absolutely hilarious. Someone said, bro
[36:15] Speaker 2: just invented hot chopplate that thought it was nesquick. Another
[36:18] Speaker 2: person said, this is like finding out you have been
[36:20] Speaker 2: eating cereal with water this whole time. You were so
[36:22] Speaker 2: close to being normal, but you missed the mark by
[36:23] Speaker 2: an entire food tool. Someone else said, boiled water netquick
[36:26] Speaker 2: is a crime against childhood. You deserve compensation, You deserve therapy,
[36:29] Speaker 2: You deserve a lifetime supply of cold milk nestwick as reparations.
[36:32] Speaker 2: And my favorite comment was someone who said, I love
[36:35] Speaker 2: how the person said they added extra sugar to the
[36:37] Speaker 2: boiled water version, like, of course you did, because boiled
[36:39] Speaker 2: water nestwik tastes like disappointment mixed with the regrets. Of
[36:42] Speaker 2: course you needed sugar. Cold milk nesquik does not need sugar.
[36:45] Speaker 2: Cold milk nestquick is already perfect. That is why they
[36:47] Speaker 2: invented it that way. That is why the instructions say
[36:49] Speaker 2: mixed with cold milk, because cold milk makes it good.
[36:51] Speaker 2: Boiled water makes it sad. And this person was drinking
[36:53] Speaker 2: sad chocolate milk their entire life, without knowing, without questioning,
[36:56] Speaker 2: without ever wondering why their nestquick tasted different from everyone else.
[37:00] Speaker 1: The boiled water nesquick tasting like disappointment mixed with regret
[37:04] Speaker 1: is sending me because that is exactly what it is.
[37:08] Speaker 1: That is the most accurate description of boiled water nesquick
[37:11] Speaker 1: I have ever heard. It is sad nesquick, It is
[37:14] Speaker 1: depressed nesquick. It is nesquick that is given up on life.
[37:18] Speaker 1: And this person was drinking that every single morning, starting
[37:21] Speaker 1: their day with a cup of sadness, starting their day
[37:24] Speaker 1: with a mug of regret, starting their day with the
[37:26] Speaker 1: worst version of chocolate milk possible. And they thought it
[37:29] Speaker 1: was normal. They thought everyone started their day that way.
[37:32] Speaker 1: They thought boiled water nesquick was just how life worked.
[37:36] Speaker 1: And now they know better. Now they know that cold
[37:38] Speaker 1: milk exists. Now they know that nestwick can be delicious.
[37:42] Speaker 1: Now they know that their entire childhood was a lie.
[37:45] Speaker 1: And that is both tragic and hilarious, because sometimes the
[37:48] Speaker 1: funniest confessions are the ones where the person did nothing wrong,
[37:51] Speaker 1: they just did not know, and now they do and
[37:54] Speaker 1: their life is better for it. And the maral of this.
[37:56] Speaker 2: Story is simple. Read the instructions, especially on food products,
[37:59] Speaker 2: specially things you consume every day, because you might be
[38:02] Speaker 2: doing it wrong. You might be living a lie. You
[38:04] Speaker 2: might be mixing your nest quick with boiled water and
[38:06] Speaker 2: adding extra sugar and thinking it is normal when it
[38:08] Speaker 2: is absolutely not. So check the box, check the label,
[38:11] Speaker 2: check the instructions, because the answer to your problems might
[38:13] Speaker 2: be right there on the package. It's written in plain
[38:15] Speaker 2: English with a picture, a picture of a cold glass
[38:17] Speaker 2: of chocolate milk, a picture that tells you everything you
[38:20] Speaker 2: need to know. Cold milk, not boiled water, cold and milk.
[38:24] Speaker 2: Remember that. Write it down top tooth on your arm,
[38:27] Speaker 2: because you do not want to be the person who
[38:29] Speaker 2: discovers in thirty years that you have been eating cereal
[38:32] Speaker 2: with water, or that you have been brushing your teeth
[38:34] Speaker 2: with hand soap, or that you have been doing something
[38:36] Speaker 2: else completely wrong without even knowing it. Read the instructions,
[38:39] Speaker 2: save yourself the embarrassment, save yourself, the existential crisis, and
[38:43] Speaker 2: for the love of God, mix your nest quick with
[38:45] Speaker 2: cold milk.
[38:46] Speaker 1: All right, before we wrap up, I want to do
[38:48] Speaker 1: a quick verdict on all the confessions we heard today,
[38:51] Speaker 1: because we heard some wild ones. The coworker sabotage, the
[38:56] Speaker 1: financial revenge, the mom betrayal, and the Nestwick disaster, and
[39:02] Speaker 1: I want to give my final thoughts on each one.
[39:06] Speaker 1: The coworker absolutely the bad guy, no question. You do
[39:11] Speaker 1: not sabotage someone's career because you're scared of losing your own.
[39:15] Speaker 1: The financial revenge understandable but messy. The boyfriend deserved consequences,
[39:20] Speaker 1: but total annihilation is a lot. The mom betrayal heartbreaking.
[39:27] Speaker 1: That person needs to talk to someone about what they saw.
[39:30] Speaker 1: And the Nestwick bless their heart. They did not know
[39:33] Speaker 1: and now they do and their life is better for it.
[39:37] Speaker 2: I view with all of those verdicts, but I want
[39:39] Speaker 2: to add one more thing. Every single confession we read
[39:41] Speaker 2: today has one thing in common.
[39:42] Speaker 1: Trust.
[39:43] Speaker 2: The coworker trusted the person sabotaged them. The person who
[39:46] Speaker 2: paid for everything trusted their boyfriend. The family trusted the neighbor,
[39:49] Speaker 2: and this person trusted their family's nestquick recipe. Trust is
[39:53] Speaker 2: a powerful thing. It is the foundation of every relationship,
[39:56] Speaker 2: every friendship, every partnership, every human connection. And when when
[40:00] Speaker 2: that trust is broken, it changes everything. It changes the
[40:03] Speaker 2: way you see people, It changes the way you see
[40:05] Speaker 2: the world, It changes the way you see yourself. So
[40:07] Speaker 2: protect your trust, guard it carefully, give it to people
[40:10] Speaker 2: who deserve it, and when someone breaks it, decide whether
[40:13] Speaker 2: it is worth repairing. Because not all trusts can be rebuilt,
[40:15] Speaker 2: and not all betrayals can be forgiven. Something's change you forever,
[40:19] Speaker 2: and that is okay, because sometimes the change is what
[40:22] Speaker 2: you need to grow, to learn, to become stronger, to
[40:25] Speaker 2: become wiser, to become the person you were always meant
[40:27] Speaker 2: to be.
[40:28] Speaker 1: And that, my friends, is spicy Confessions for Today. Four confessions,
[40:33] Speaker 1: four cautionary tales, four reminders that trust is fragile and
[40:37] Speaker 1: people are unpredictable. If you enjoyed today's episode, make sure
[40:41] Speaker 1: you are following the show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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[40:52] Speaker 1: ones who might be sabotaging you behind your back. And
[40:55] Speaker 1: if you have a confession of your own, send it
[40:57] Speaker 1: to us. We might read it on the show anonymously.
[41:00] Speaker 1: Of course, we will keep your secrets probably no promises.
[41:06] Speaker 1: And remember this episode is perfect background noise for your day.
[41:10] Speaker 1: Play it again while you cook, clean, work, or relax.
[41:14] Speaker 1: Just do not hand your phone to anyone while you listen.
[41:17] Speaker 1: For your own safety.
[41:18] Speaker 2: We ron sutup can cost someone their job, one wrong
[41:21] Speaker 2: choice can destroy relationship, one wrong woman can break a family,
[41:24] Speaker 2: and one wrong recipe can ruin your childhood. Stay safe
[41:26] Speaker 2: out there, stay spicy, and for the love of everything holy,
[41:29] Speaker 2: mix your nestquip with cold milk. It is not that hard.
[41:31] Speaker 2: It is right there on the box, cold milk. Right,
[41:33] Speaker 2: get down, debt to it on your arm. Do whatever
[41:34] Speaker 2: you have to do. Just do not drink boiled water nestquick.
[41:37] Speaker 2: That is not alife. That is a cry for help.
[41:39] Speaker 2: If you have a confession of your own, send it
[41:40] Speaker 2: to us for here every day and we will read
[41:42] Speaker 2: the wildest, the spiciest, the most unbelievable confessions the internet
[41:46] Speaker 2: has to offer. Stay safe, stay spicy. We will see
[41:49] Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
[41:50] Speaker 1: Good night everyone, Stay spicy.

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