Ep 67 - I Texted My Best Friend This Morning and Said Don't Call Me, Don't Text Back, Just Listen | The Radke Show

SHOW NOTES

Real friendship, tipping culture, germaphobes, and the TikTok lady who puts adhesive pads on her shoes before she walks through her own front door. EP 67 goes from funny to deep to funny again — which is exactly what the best episodes do.

Melissa and David are back from 30A, where a week with their closest friends turned into long beach conversations about the questions you never ask but should: what would you do with a month left, how would you actually live if money wasn’t the ceiling, and why do we keep the hard things in the dark when bringing them out is exactly what makes them lose their power. Melissa opens up about sending a long-scared text to her best friend before her mom’s surgery at MD Anderson — no call, no Edible Arrangement, just someone to receive it. The episode also gets into the tipping debate at drive-through coffee stands, the shoes-in-the-house lady who took it further than anyone thought possible, and the sketch segment where David answers three personal questions about Melissa — including what he would ban her from doing if he could.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“You tip because of who you are, not because of the service.”

A comment that came in during the tipping conversation, and Melissa loved it

“Candy Crush was able to get a racquetball court built in their offices because of me. And you are still driving that truck.”

David, closing out the sketch segment

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