A: Do you want to introduce yourself?
R: is it on?
A: Oh yeah it's happening
R: Oh my god,okay
R: I'm Renee Ariel and you can follow me everywhere @ReneeAriel
R: And on YouTube because now I have a channel
A: That's why you're here because you're becoming a YouTuber now
R: I'm a Youtuber... now
A: That's what you should say at parties
G: Yeah, that's a really popular response to what do you do
G: people love to hear that
R: That way like, I don't have to say I'm unemployed
A: Oh that's true, yeah G: Yes
R: I just don't make money on YouTube
A: Right, who does these days
G: So you were saying you wanted Renee to be here because
G: She's your prettiest friend
A: Well not, that's not WHY I wanted her to be here
A: But I'm also just like really proud of myself that this is my friend
G: Okay yeah, so we just..
A: Cause I wonder if the audience saw her and was like, oh that must be Gaby's friend
G: Wow
R: This is the nicest thing that's ever happened to me
G: Yeah, well you were saying that you were happy that you have a friend that's so pretty
G: and then I said she's a "trophy friend"
A: Yes, she's my "trophy friend"
A: and a true friend
A: Tell them how old you are
R: I'm 24
~Intro music~
A: Sorry about that sound there's a man on my balcony
G: Yeah, so here's ..you wanna give a rundown of what's going on
A: They're painting the building pretty much the exact same colour
A: I like to call it construction theatre
A: I wanted to have Renee on the show because
A: One, she's pretty and I wanted to show her off
A: and two, we've really bonded over how.. Insane we are
R: Yeah
A: and I used to think that I behaved badly in relationships
A: and then I met Renee
G: Oh interesting
R: Wow what an, what an introduction
R: I'm also single
A: Okay, so we call me a detective right, like I can figure stuff out
G: You are; Alibi Raskin
A: Mhhm Renee is next level
G: As a detective?
R: oh, yeah
G: How?
R: I will find anyone
R: Give me their first name, give me a job they had 8 years ago I'll find them
A: She'll find then and then let's say it's someone she's dating
A: She can just find out everything
R: everything
G: What's everything, like what do you need to know?
R: ~sigh~
R: ahh who were their exes?
G: You can find all of their exes
R: Probably
R: I mean like if they're on social media A: I can do that
G: Well what we should've done is given her a name and then
G: had her come in and see what she found about them
R: I mean I could do that easily
R: Do you know what I did once
G: What?
R: I met a guy on the train
R: I didn't get his first name, I didn't get his last name
R: He told me a job he had like, ten years ago
G: Ok
R: It was on a show; but he told me the position
R: I found him
R: I found his email, I found his phone number
R: I emailed him and we remain friends
R: He said he was impressed
G: Has anyone ever been like "hey, this is too much"?
R: No
G: See looking like this buys you a lot of leeway
A: You made fake Instagram accounts?
R: Yes
G: Wait, What!?!
A: Ok so,tell us more about that
R: Ok, they're called "Finsta's"
R: This is a thing
G: Yeah, yeah
R: The kids used "Finsta's" for different reasons
R: I found out not all of them are used for my reasons
R: Which is, to find out information
G: Ohh
R: And like not be seen, you know
R: You're like secretly..
G: Okay
A: So you can like, watch stories and follow people and all this stuff from a fake account
R: Yeah, yep G: Ohhh
R: Oh god, I'm never gonna find a boyfriend
A: You know what I've said on this channel
A: And I date
A: But I would argue that you only do this stuff when
A: the guy makes you feel crazy
R: Oh yeah
R: I mean, I feel like it's I'll be fine, I'll be fine
R: I'll maybe like you know, check their Instagram
R: and then when I see something a little off
R: Like if the same girl keeps commenting
R: You're like, but is he also dating her
R: You know what I mean
A: Yes G: Right
R: Also there's like, so many trash men out there
G: Yes they're all trash R: So it's like ~shrugs~
A: You're doing a public service, I think
R: I am
R: I can give you all the tricks and tips
R: there's a website you guys can use
R: To watch peoples Instagram stories without them knowing
A: What is it? G: What's it called?
R: It's called storiesig.com
A: ~Enthusiastically~Tell us more tips and tricks
R: You want to find out more about the guy you're dating
R: See his tagged photos
A: Yes G: Yeah
R: Who does he hang out with?
R: You learn a lot about a guy through like, his friends
R: Are his friends awful, he might be awful? A: Does he have friends?
G: I feel like people are saying that
G: Social media makes you like more like
G: Oh you should just go with what you're learning
R: Yeah G: You shouldn't like deep dive into their social media
R: You should G: But I think that you should
G: Because that girl from "The Bachelor"
G: If she had looked at his Instagram, she wouldn't have picked him
A: Oh yes, Becca
G: Becca and Garett
R: Becca and Garett? Oh yeah! G: You know what I mean
R: Yeah and that wouldn't have even been a deep dive
R: Just follow him and check the activity page for like a second
G: That's what I mean!
A: What's the activity page?
R: Oh my God G: Are you serious?!?
A: A big thing I do on Instagram
A: Is I'll see like, when was the last time they were on Instagram
R: Oh yeah, that drives you absolutely crazy
A: Yeah, absolutely
R: Cause if they don't text you back and you're like
R: I'm sure they're not on... A: But you were on Instagram
R: And then you know
G: Honestly, like heterosexuality seems like a prison
R: It is
G: yeah right
A: I'm not happy about it
R: I don't like it
G: In my experience of dating men they're all kind of up to something
R: YEAH, Yes!
G: They're never not up to something
A: They're either up to something or
A: they have nothing going on and you're it
G: I just mean, like when you were talking
G: Like I had like fucking flashbacks when you were like
G: You know there's a girl commenting on his pictures all the time
G: and then he goes, I don't know that's some like friend of a friend
G: I don't even know her R: Ohh
G: and then that's like fully his girlfriend
R: 100 percent
G: do you know what I mean
G: how many times has that happened, I just had like war flashbacks
R: Yup
G: So I'm poly-amorous right, so like I don't even ask for monogamy
G: and I don't care for monogamy and I don't want monogamy
G: and I would say that and then like, they were always
G: Even if it was, I would be like you can literally tell me to my face the other people you're hooking up with
G: would love to know about it, they would STILL lie
G: They would still try to hide stuff, they would still have some secret thing going on
R: This is men
G: It was so bananas, like there were so many instances
G: Where I was like to their face was like
G: "oh are you hooking up with that girl, she's super hot, like tell me more about it"
G: Like completely, being completely genuine because again
G: I've always said I'm poly-amorous, I've never not been poly-amorous
G: And then they'll go
G: "no, I barely even, I don't even know her. Who is she what's her name, I don't know"
A: One of my favourite detective moves that I've ever had was
A: Um I went out of town and my boyfriend at the time
A: When I like found out the next day that he
A: Like basically had gone on a date with this girl
A: but, it wasn't a date because she had a boyfriend
A: and we where together, but they went downtown together
A: and like went out and like whatever
A: And I had never even heard of her before
R: oooh
A: and I though that was like really weird
R: It's weird
A: and I got weirded, I was like weird about it
A: And he made me feel so stupid
A: and he made me feel like I was being so dumb for being jealous
A: and it was just his friend, just his friend like
A: chill out, and I was like ok fine
A: Then like two months later
A: For whatever reason I saw a photo of her
A: And I knew that he had slept with her
G: Just from looking at her picture? A: Just from her photo
A: because I knew that he was exactly her type
A: and I knew that they fucking slept together
G: yeah
A: And I texted him and was like did you sleep with this girl
A: And he was like "well but, just in college"
R: Do you remember, Allison I told you this
R: So I went to the Rockwell theatre and
R: I picked up a hot server, like I gave him my Instagram handle
R: He followed me, he DM'd me and I'm like "Oh yeah"
R: And then I go to his page and it takes 2 seconds to find out
R: HE HAS A GIRLFRIEND
R: Like a serious girlfriend
R: and I'm like what is wrong with men
G: I was always in aw of how easily caught they were
R: Yeah
G: Like I would be like "are you trying to get caught?"
G: Like I don't understand, like it would be so
G: Oh my god so I still have one of the best
G: Text exchanges ever, where it was like
G: When "He who shall not be named" met up with a friend of mine in New York
G: And then texted me and was like
G: "Oh I actually just got drinks with a friend of yours"
G: To try to cover his tracks like
G: oh fuck she knows this girl
G: So he was like " Oh I just got drinks with friend of yours like,small world"
G: And I was like "oh cool"
G: And like months later or something
G: She was like, she said something to me about
G: Like oh how we're both hooking up with him
G: And I was like what?
G: And then, that night oh that night
G: He like jokingly, LIKE JOKINGLY but whatever
G: He was like " Oh yeah I just saw your friend, like we just got drinks, small world"
G: And I was like "Did you guys make out?"
G: and he was like "haha no come on that's crazy"
G: And I was like did you guys oh no I said
A: I know this story and I'm still like riveted
G: Here's the technicality I said did ya'll fuck
G: And he went " haha no my god you're being crazy"
G: Then when I confronted him about it a couple of months later
G: I was like that night in New York like did you
G: I asked if you fucked her and I was like
G: Completely fine, if you had said yes it would've been completely fine
G: And he was like "You" He said
G: "You said did I sleep with her and I didn't"
G: "We did other things"
G: So he was like
G: "You asked is we had sex you didn't ask if anything else happened"
G: And I was like...
G: And then there were like oh and then there was another time
G: With that same dude where I said
G: "Were you after we had slept together and you left, I went to sleep in your bed you left"
G: "And were texting with this other girl in New Zealand"
G: "For like, after I.. when I was in your bed"
G: And he was like
G: "We were just talking, we're friends"
G: "Like she lives in New Zealand I have to talk to her late at night"
G: And I was like ok
G: And then I said well, and she had sent me the texts
G: So she sent me the texts were he was like
G: "When are you ever going to come to the US?"
G: And then I said
G: "I have the texts, you're asking her to come to the US when I'm in your bed"
G: And he was like "That's just like friends"
G: And then he was like "oh you take that as flirting"
G: and I was like
G: WHAT IS HAPPENING
A: So my question is, that's gas lighting right?
R: Yes G: It's completely gas lighting
A: Ok, cause like I've never totally understood that term
G: No A: Until like right now
G:This one particular person all you had to do
G: was go through who he followed on Instagram
G: And you could be like that's a girl he's sleeping with, that's a girl he's sleeping with, that's a girl he's sleeping with
G: You could literally pick them out
A: Well I don't even need technology, I just have my gut
A: Like I saw that girl and was like oh he had sex with her
A: And then with another ex I was like really worried about this one girl
A: And like he was like "nothing whatever"
A: And then the moment we broke up he dated her for two years
G: Right
G:Not to speak up again for polyamory
G: But I don't understand the lying
G: Like I don't understand,like do you know what I mean
G: Why lie
R: They all lie
A: I guess ok, so in the first instance
A: I don't get the lie
G: Right, just say the truth
A: But it is tricky if it like, I mean I've come to your side
A: Where like if you do develop feelings for someone else
A: While you're in a relationship
A: Like I think maybe you can discuss it with your partner
G: Yeah
A: And you probably should
A: But I think that there is this
A: Big fear that you can't
A: And like you have to pretend that you're not attracted to other people
A: I think the healthiest is when like
A: You can be like with your partner like
A: Oh that person's so hot right?
G: Right
A: That's the most fun
G: But I...
A: Cause the it doesn't feel like they're
A: Then like doing things behind your back
G: Of course
A: Because they're being more upfront to you R: They're being honest
A: Yeah
R: When they're like "I'm not attracted to anyone else besides you"
R: You're like mmmm
A:That's lying R: That doesn't happen
G: I think media, hear me out
G: Has made men think that they have to say these things
G: from like Rom-Coms, do you know what I mean
G: They have to like see, cause with this particular dude
G: I mean he's an asshole, but I also think he
G: thought that he had to be this over the top romantic
G: Like so, but he was doing it to every girl
G: But it was this over the top sort of like
G: You're the one, you're this, you're that
G: And I think they think that they have to act like they've never even though of another girl
G: Because that's how you treat a girlfriend or whatever
A: Sometimes the nicest things people have ever said to me I'm like
A: I don't believe this at all
G: EXACTLY
A: It's too much, I'm like it's not real
A: Or you think this is what you should be saying
R: Like when someone has too much game then in my head they're automatically a player
R: I was told, on a first date if someone isn't nervous you shouldn't trust them
A: Ohh G: Ohh that's interesting
A: But i'm not nervous on first dates
R: Ever? G: No on trusts you
G: It's always, I'm gonna get in so much trouble whatever
G: Because I've dated men and women
A: ~Jokingly~ what?
G: And I think, and the ways that men have contorted themselves to like
G: Do weird shady, cheaty stuff
G: Women have done dumb and shitty things
G: But it's never on the level that men have
R: Oh yeah
G: Like it's always like a women did one thing weird and we're like "wow that's so crazy"
G: But it's never like to the level of like what the guy did
A: OH R: EVER
R: EVER G: EVER EVER
R: What about, can we talk about Tristan Thompson and like
R: How dumb his cheating was
G: Right
R: He was A: Who is that?
R: Khloe's ex possibly G: Khloe Kardashians A: Oh yeah
R: He got caught cheating on her not once but twice G: Right
R: And like it was ON VIDEO G: Right
R: Like, go home
G: I don't know, just in my experience
G: Like, it'll be like wow that girl was really weird she did one really weird thing
A: Yeah like you can't yeah like I G: This like relationship didn't go well
G: Versus like what happened like, my relationship with a women like oh she did a couple like really weird things
G: So the relationship's over versus like
G: Oh how did your relationship with that guy end
G: Well he uh punched a wall over my head Or uh actually he was seeing 11 other women
A: Yeah
G: Or like, do you know what I mean like it's never comparable
A: I think like because we don't ascribe the word crazy to men enough
R: Enough, not nearly enough G: Yes, Yes
A: And they're crazy
R: They're out of their mind G: Yes
R: The last guy I dated, I was made to feel insane
R: You know all about this
R: So we dated for like a year and it was very off and on
R: I was crazy about him he was crazy about me
R: So I like overlooked so much
G: Sure
R: Including the fact that his ex-girlfriend Of like 8 years kept a profile picture of them together up
G: Oh no! ....That's her
R: That's what I thought
G: Ok
R: I was like oh my god she just loves him so much she couldn't let go
R: And he told me that
R: He's like "oh yeah, she just like really you know it's like really hard for her to let go of me"
R: I again with extensive research because you get to a point where you start losing your mind
R: I had found out because I knew he was home
R: Like he's like from the East Coast
R: And I found out, and she was from the East Coast
G: This is a horror movie please go on
R: He was on the East Coast and I stalked her and I found out she went to a wedding
R: And without even seeing a photo of him I knew he wasn't texting a lot during that time
R: I knew he went to the wedding with her
R: It was it as a gut feeling A: And she was right
G: Of course
A: He went to a wedding with his ex-girlfriend and did not tell her
A: That's crazy G: That's so crazy
G: Here's the real lesson, to anyone of all genders, trust your gut
R: YES, yes
G: You're gut is right
A: And check Instagram a lot
R: A lot G: Yeah
G: It is true, your guts always right
A: No, I've been really wrong
A: It's like I'm sorry but if you have had sex with someone you aren't just friends
R: No, NO
G: Unless you're lesbians and then you are best friends
A: Or like
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