Welcome to 'Just Between Us'
This week I have a very special
gift for Gaby Dunn.
Oh no.
It's a giant calendar with everything
that we're doing together on it.
Okay.
When you marry someone, you propose
and get a ring.
When you're business partners,
you get a joint calendar.
First of all, it's huge.
Yes.
You think I don't know our schedule?
You never know our schedule.
You've missed many meetings.
Wow, do we really have all this stuff coming up?
Yes!
This week we have a domestic question.
Ooh, you learned a new word.
I've always known the word domestic.
You just didn't want to do like its
own song and dance for domestic question?
This week we have a domestic deliberation.
Lindsey from Florida.
Why did you get a nose job?
Gaby?
I've never had a nose job.
I got offered a nose job from my mom
when I was in high school.
But I saw a picture of Gilda Radner and
decided not to get one.
Well that's a heart-warming story.
My story has a bit of a darker turn.
I'll take you back to a day in 2011?
2011.
Let me set the scene.
I'm driving in a parking lot with my mom,
and I make a joke because I like the way
the word rhinoplasty sounds.
I say: 'Should I get a rhinoplasty?'
So basically my mom didn't tell me
'No Allison, you're beautiful.'
Instead she said:
'I'm not going to tell you not to.'
By the time we left the parking lot,
my mom had admitted that it would soften
my features if I got a nose job.
Sure.
That's hard to hear.
I know people think you don't look
different.
I think you look incredibly different.
Incredibly different!
Yes.
Thank you.
I think you look very different.
Nothing is more upsetting to me than when
people say 'Oh you were offered a nose
job, why didn't you get one?'
So then I came home and I said 'Dad,
mom thinks I should get a nose job.'
And my dad, a very cheap man, immediately
said 'I'll pay for it.'
You had to get the nose job.
I had to get a nose job.
It's like if you have something stuck in
your teeth and someone points it out to
you, you can't go 'Oh, I'll keep this
here.'
Did your parents offer this because they
thought maybe it would help you be a
happier person, since you're so unhappy?
Yeah, of course. They've tried everything.
Didn't help, right?
I think it helped.
Really?
I'm glad I got a nose job, yeah.
It made you happier?
I think I'm more attractive.
That's not the question.
Well, I think the question is always 'Are
you more attractive?'
So what's the moral of the story?
The moral of this story is make sure they
don't make your nasal passageways too
small, because then you can't breathe.
It was 2010.
It was 2010? The whole time?
Yes.
Now that I'm thinking about it,
it was most definitely 2010.
Are we bad role models?
I think so.
Ok, good.
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