Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - Absolutely Chest (w/ Laura Peek, Barry Rothbart, and Will Miles)

Episode Date: September 29, 2025

On an all-new episode of Bad Dates, host Joel Kim Booster welcomes comedians Laura Peek, Barry Rothbart, and Will Miles to discuss their most iconic dating fiascos. Laura has an amuse-bouche about a mouthful and an entrée about a square peg, Barry’s “papa” handles the situation with a bit of effort, and Will is on a 24 hour date but it takes a chance encounter to sober him up. Plus: someone has glimpsed the darkness behind The Great British Bake Off.  Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for video clips. Merch available at SiriusXMStore.com/BadDates. Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 2Laura Peek: @laurapeeklive on Insta, laurapeekcomedy.com for ticketsBarry Rothbart: @barryrothbart on social media, Searching For Alan Rothbart podcastWill Miles: @mrwillmiles and @huskyniggafits on Insta, huskyniggafits.com Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Bad Dates ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bad dates! Hello, hello, hello, welcome to another edition of the Bad Dates podcast. I'm your host, Joel Kim Booster, back, back again in the studio this week with another amazing panel of comedians, storytellers who are about to unload, all of their relationship trauma for your enjoyment. If you're just tuning in for the very first time this episode, which is crazy because it's like truly we're in the hundreds, guys, go back, go back, be a completionist. But this podcast is exactly what it sounds like from the title. I bring in some of my funniest friends. We shoot the shit and talk about their bad dating stories. And bad dates here can mean a number of things.

They can mean actual dates. They can be relationships, terrible marriages, hookups. We run the full spectrum here. Now, without further ado, I'm going to get into our, introducing our comedians. But before I do, I want to pose a question. You know here we have our famous icebreakers panel of relationship experts have come up with a couple hundred questions that you can ask your partner or date to better establish your compatibility. And today's question is, what's the biggest difference of opinion you and a partner have had over a TV show or movie? And to start us off, joining me today is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central,

The Night Show, and after Midnight, and is currently on tour around the country, the very, very funny, Laura Peek. Hello, Laura. Hi, Joel. Thanks for having me. Thank you so much for being here. Next, we have a comedian and actor from the Wolf of Wall Street and the Connors. Wow, that's range. His new Audible series is searching for Alan Rothbart.

It is Barry Rothbart. Hello, Barry. You mean a range of years. And finally, we welcome a comedian and writer from the South, from, well, from Southside, the show, okay, and energetically also from the city of Chicago. And Grownish and his own Comedy Central special, Will Miles, welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you for my oldest friends in comedy. So, it's such a joy to have you here. So, Laura, we'll start with you.

What is the biggest difference of opinion you have had with a partner or date or somebody over media consumption? What's the show? What's the movie? The thing that immediately pops into my head was maybe not my biggest one, but my most salient example happened most recently was we're on a pretty constant, like, nonstop Sex and the City rewatched in my household. And my husband loves Sex and the City. He's grown to love it over time.

But recently, I came back from the bathroom and he had changed the channel. And I got pissed and I was like, what's going on? What happened to your love of Sex and the City? And he goes, Carrie was making it about her and I couldn't stand it. That's such an interesting note to have for the show when it, in fact, it is sort of the premise of the show. I think it was like a season five episode. I was like, are we not used to this by now?

She's obviously making it completely desensitized to it by a couple seasons in. And what did he change it to? Do you remember? I don't remember. He might have flipped it off. He might have like started reading a book. I think she made him that. Wow.

Wow. Wait, but someone's narcissism drives you to read. that is serious he learned how to read that night touch base with the real author have you picked it back up have you returned or is it oh yeah always it's on a loop

and I was kind of making him sit through a lot of in just like that recently I'm more into those I mean the more recent ones yes they're much better they're so much better than the original everybody says that everybody knows that

everything you want everything you need you guys are aware it's the producers right it has to be the producers yeah like you know the Producers, the show? The Mel Brooks musical? Oh, I see what I feel like it. They made it deliberately bad.

Yeah. And people loved it. To kill Nazis? What's happening? Yeah. Is that sort of, is that what the producers is about? I don't think so. It had to do the killing Nazis, right? I don't know that it was.

Oh, yeah. Easy mistake. Easy mistake. Barry, while we're on you, what is the biggest media difference you've had with a partner? So, a slight backstory. I recently tried weed juice. My friend gave me juice that has weed in it. Oh, yeah.

And hugely innovative. I didn't know how much to take because, you know, edibles, I'm just like, I don't, I, you could either not be high at all or ruin your whole day. And I took a little too much and we started watching the great British bake-off. Sure. And it ruined the show for me. Why? Because I saw the sadness behind it. I like, I started to see how, like, dark it was.

And it's my wife's favorite show. and now I cannot watch it. So can you expand on that a little bit? Can you explain the sadness that you see in that delightful show? So I was having a full on panic attack, first of all. Okay. And it's such a calm show. There's like barely any tension.

That's what scares me about it. That's definitely related to the drugs. And I saw the like that this is the biggest thing these people are ever going to do in their lives. And they're so stressed about it. And it never quite goes the way that they want. And they have to stay cheery. because it's such a cheery, like, calm show. And you could just see these people just going insane.

And then I just closed my eyes for a while. Yeah. Doesn't it feel like a nice reprieve from a lot of other reality shows, though, where it's really not about the drama. There's no drama at all. There is no drama. Yeah. And in fact, early seasons of that show,

the hosts, if a contestant was crying or having an emotional breakdown, would go near her and start using the F word over and over and over again so they couldn't use the footage of the contestant crying. Wow. Wow, that's good. That's good.

Which effort, by the way. No. Oh, your cake collapsed. Do it. Do it. No. I don't want to lose any sponsors. I don't want to lose any sponsors.

That's a really great answer, Barry. You know what I started to see, though, that they were the whole time, they're going to, they're like, this is the one thing I'm going to talk about for the rest of my life. Yeah. They're never going to top that. No. it is true. I mean, but like, what's the thing that you're talking about for the rest of your life? So fucking Wolf of Wall Street?

Like, Jesus, man. Oh my God. You invited me on here. What do you want for me? I'm like opening my heart here about, wait, this is here about a huge panic attack. The new audible series. Finally, Will Miles, we had your wife, Julia Rossell,

on the show a couple weeks ago. It could be about her. It could be about a different partner from the past. Like, what is a media dispute you've had? By the way, you're an integral part of our relationship. I know. We covered it. We covered it.

We covered it. He's like the, almost the Cyrano, not really, but like, you were going back and forth. I really was going back and forth. You were going back and forth. You needed to be juiced up a little bit. You needed to be gas stuff. I did. I really did.

I was like, okay, for real, I should actually hollered or whatever. Yeah, that happened. That's true. He helped me pursue her. Oh, that's beautiful. All right. He didn't, like, write what I said to her, like, the movie serenot. Couldn't have play.

but could never It would be great if you could never write in your voice That would be funny though I kind of want to do that now It's way off You know we have a lot of differences She likes documentaries about missing women

Like the Amy Bradley story Which I never watched And I was like I'm not interested But I like you So I like serial killer stuff You don't like it when there's a chance They could come home Yeah I want them dead

But I want to know the science behind what led that guy to do that. So I like you. She never wants to watch you. And she watches like Amy Bradley, so I never want to watch that. But the thing that brought us together is probably, and I know this isn't exactly the problem.

But like that one about the mom who was texting her daughter. Oh my God. A unknown number. Oh, I just watched that. That was great because I knew ahead of time that it was the mom. Oh, I'm watching it. And I'm like,

that's the motherfucker right there. Like, what is she doing? She's crazy. Why did you do this? Yeah. So she's like a psychopath in a way. So I was like watching it from that perspective. And she was like, I'm with you.

I actually, well, except I don't like it when they're murdered or go missing, really. Yeah, yeah, not real life. But I do love, like, there was the one about the cremation guy who was just cremating a bunch of bodies and punishing all the ashes, which, to be quite frank, like, who gives a shit? Like, I was watching the whole time and I was like, yeah, like, you shouldn't have done that. But ultimately, like, an ashes, an ashes. He's like, oh, he's like waving with their dead arms. Yeah. Who cares?

Yeah, they're dead. But no, I love that. I love, like, Mommy Dead Endearist. I guess if someone did die. I didn't watch that one, yeah, yeah. Or the one about the girl who, like, was like, anything with, like, teens being mean over text. Yeah. Oh, the, like, suicide thing?

Yes, yes, yes, yes. You knew exactly what I was being. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are the ones. The ass word. But also, I did have a girl. I was having sex, and I had Chris Rock's never scared in the background, like 15 years ago. and the girls didn't like that I had that on in the background.

Well, yeah. I can see where she's coming from. She was a wreck, but that was like a dispute over and a thing I had on. This is a good bad day, sir, but I accidentally, I had, remember when iTunes, you would just load all your stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was having sex, and a set I recorded the day before where I bombed. Oh, that's. No. We were just, I was like performing for like four people in some bar in the East Village.

It came on while we were having sex, and I left it. Perfect. Oh, perfect. I love it. And she was the most, Mostly so slick. It was hot.

I mean, my answer to this question is kind of boring, because I feel like it's a pretty common one in a lot of relationships. But it is Bravo. Like, he is not interested in it at all, except he will watch, like, the ones where they have jobs. He likes watching the ones where they have, like, something to do. Like, below deck, for instance. He loves below deck because he's like, I enjoy watching them work.

And I'm like, well, the housewiser also at work at the drama factory, okay? We are going to turn now to our very first storyteller, the very, very funny, Laura Peek. Laura, before you dive into your story that you have prepared for us today, why don't you give us a little bit of background on where you're at right now, love-wise, what was your style leading up to that? Were you a serial monogamist? Were you a big old time slut? what's the what was give me some of the context I'm glad you put it that I was going to use those exact words for so many years but I have been married my husband last year almost actually to the day a year ago almost to the day um and we have been together we will have been together for 11 years

that's crazy so monogamous for 11 years with my husband since we were 23 okay did you get it in before that I got it so in and we both got it so deep and horribly in the entire time. I'm proud of both of us. I really sewed my wild oath. I went to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I mean, what are we talking about? So, yeah, it was very free, very slutty, very fun,

and then locked in, and I'm now happy and married. You can't argue with that tone of voice. I'm so I'm very happy. Well, no, I haven't, he would never be mad about me saying this, but I do have a joke that I'm working on right now about how I used to have sex with women, and I do miss that a lot. I am, like, gayer than I thought I was, I think.

And so I said to him, like, can I just, like, do that occasionally? And he was like, are you asking me if you can just, like, have affairs with women? And I was like... Well, it's not an affair if you're asking for me. If I'm asking. But he famously said the fact that you don't think that's cheating is homophobic, which I think is the funniest thing I've never heard. That is funny.

And he's right. Anyway, no, very happily married, but I've been together a long time. Was a big old slut before then. Yeah. And these, both of these... I'm going to tell one little tail and then one larger tail. And the moose. Yeah, that's right.

Both of a little tasty taste. Both of them from my college years. Love. I just think this is a beautiful portrait that I want to paint for you. So I dated this guy before I got with my husband. And he was gorgeous, but we hated each other so much. It was like a two-year relationship. Fucking despise, you know, just really despised each other.

He thought I was gross. I thought he was a dick. Just every, just a bad relation. He was so pretty. He was so, so beautiful. He's most gorgeous eyes you've ever seen. beautiful eyelashes. I hope he's listening. He doesn't talk to me anymore. But one time after he broke up with me for like the six or seven time, just one of those relationships. It was just like you were constantly out the door. He broke up with me like the six or seven time and I started hooking up with my now husband. And we kind of realized we were, it was, you know, we had kind of been in love for a minute. We had been around each other for a long time, known each other since we were like 15. But he, I'm hooking up with my husband for one of the first times and I was blowing him in my room. in my college home and it was raining outside and there's a knock at the window and I pull back

the curtain and my my ex is standing there just soaking wet just watching essentially watching me blow it was like it was like it was like dick and my face is like what he wow it's like the worst version of say anything please say nothing yeah say nothing say nothing and you had a you had broken up with him by this point oh yeah he had broken up with him me. This was one of the many instances. So what was he doing on him? He was, it was that same thing where it was like somebody who was totally disinterested in you, like really did not like me at all.

They don't want it. They also don't want anyone else to have it. That was the biggest thing is that he realized it was happening with somebody else. He was like, oh, I've made mistake. That is like textbook narcissists behavior for sure. How long was he out there? I really, that's a very good question before he decided to knock. Because I'm sure he saw like the shadows playing

on the wall for quite sometime. Him knocking. That's the crazy part. I know. I know. And he hadn't been trying to get in touch with me, this was just like, I'm like, no miss calls, nothing like that. He was just wrapping on my window. He literally like sat straight up in bed and said, she's floating. I know it. I was wondering.

Did you leave? She's a deck in her mouth right now. Did you leave it in your mouth as you open the window? I did. I said, huh? Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Incredible. This does, you're right. This really did paint a picture. So now. Yeah, this is a situation in which I started my

relationship. I wanted you to know that. But this before that... We met. My dick was already in his mouth. I said, hello. I love you. But this other story was in college, I was really, I got very infatuated with this young man. I can't remember his name, which I think is good. Yeah, we wouldn't have used it anyways. Oh, we can't use names. We probably would have bleeped it. I can't remember his name. But he was so, he was so pretty. He was like such a pretty boy and he was really sort of like straight edge and I was like a big partier and we we just from the moment I saw this guy was like we have absolutely nothing in common you're blonde he was very tall very put together very like ripped just just so good looking and

so different from me but I was obsessed with him I was like you're sexy we would talk all the time at parties we would like kind of flirt he was dumb as a rock I think I was just thinking I was funny and he was maybe putting up with it but we would always talk we would always like chitch and I was like clearly this guy wants to fight wait is that time in your life where you're like, I'm 20, I have huge cans and I'm fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no man alive. There's not a straight man alive that doesn't want to have sex with me.

That was truly the tenor of like so much of my, it's a really bad way to think about your life. But also not wrong. Yeah, it is like that thing of like, yeah, every person wants to have sex with you at that time, whether you like it or not. Exactly. So I, so at least I'm going to own that. I think you're right. I think you're right. And there's enough time when it's disqual to.

disturbing that I'm going to make it fun when it benefits me. So I would just, I just kind of would throw myself at him all the time. I was like always around him and just being like, clearly he wants to like hook up or whatever. And there was one night where I flirted really hard with him. I had just gone through a breakup. I was like, this is it. We're going to fuck. This will be great.

Been waiting for it, whatever. I follow him around just ceaselessly for an entire like party evening, just assuming that he's like into it. I'm paying attention to no cues. I'm really being kind of a straight guy about this. Absolutely not. taking in his utter disinterest in me. And then he's like, I got, literally I think he was like, I guess do you like want to go back to my place?

Like, like, it seems like you're going to anyway. Yeah. It was not like, I can't wait to fuck you thing. And we get to his house and I'm still so deluded about it. And we're like, in his bed, my butt is on his dick for like, you know where you kind of. And then you open the curtain. Like in a spoon situation?

In a spoon situation. I was begging for it. Um, in heat, my, I mean, just like throwing it at him. And I remember like kind of sobering up as we're sitting there. I think we probably did some drugs. Yeah. And, um, sobering up and just being like, you fucking idiot. This guy like does not want to have. Like this would have happened in any context before now. Yeah. It's like, like, why did he take you home? I guess like, you had no idea you were on the bench that night. And then you got called up from the minors. I know. I know. Yeah. I can answer this. There's a weird fantasy that every man has is that you just will be asked to have sex and it'll just be like, let's go do this right now. Yeah. And you're just like, I can't pass up.

That could happen never again. And you're just like, someone just goes, that's happened to me once. And it worked, I had sex. Sure. But it was like the coolest thing. They were just like, you want to have sex? And I was like, oh my God, yes.

Yeah. It's really so easy. Just ask, yeah. I guess I did everything but say, hey, will you please fuck me? Yeah. But the situation was so clear. We're like a fucking dog, like rubbing your ass on the carpet, just like scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scuding, scooting, right?

He was very stupid. He was very stupid. He was very stupid. Yeah. So that could be. Very studious, but very stupid. Yeah. It's like, yeah.

Gotcha. And so we sat there for an hour and I was like, this is the most humiliating thing in the world. And then I did fall asleep with my, with my crotch. Wow. And he would get your head out of that book and get your head into this pus. Get out of that book. And into my bush. No, okay.

We do not have sex I end up falling asleep I wake up the following morning There's no one He is It's 8 in the morning on a Saturday We had partied until like 4 in the morning He is sitting in his desk

Studying Wow And I hear him drop a pencil He drops to pencil as he's writing something He goes oh my goodness And I was like I gotta get the fuck The oh my goodness threw me so far over the

I was like, what are you trying to do to this poor man? He's definitely from full house. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't fuck anybody. Oh, shucks. Oh, golly gee. That is so funny. Wait, I just love that, like, that is probably the worst thing that happened to him that day.

Just dropping that pencil. Oh, my goodness. And then he had a 45-minute conversation with his mom that patched it all right up. He was just such a good boy. No, no, no. Oh, God. He's a kindergarten teacher. He probably is.

He's on podcast talking about his pencil falling. I think vibe is definitely more important and, like, don't, is square peg round hole sort of situation. Yes, he was a very square peg. Yeah. Who ignored my round hole. I was like, cheating it up. I was like, where is it? There we go.

There we go. He had a square dick. That's what we're saying. Bad dates. Turning now next to our next comedian, storyteller, Barry Rothbard. Same question as Laura. You alluded to your wife earlier. How long have you been together?

Our nine-year marriage anniversary is tomorrow. Whoa. Oh, that's great? Yeah, we've been together for 16 years. Jesus. Never cheated. Came close. It's kind of weird you brought that up.

Never cheated. Not a standard question we ask on the pod. I have to tell you. Did you say gotten close? Is that what you said? Yeah. I'm just saying that's, you know, it's more of an achievement if you've gotten close. Oh.

Right? It's really funny. No, I haven't gotten close to cheating, but I've been offered, you know. Oh. We can move on from that. This is a super. Very Rockford, everybody. Thanks for joining us.

Yeah, so it's been 16 years. Before that, I had a good period of time where I was like in New York. be in the like comic having a bunch of sex and that's when i knew you in new york that's what i assumed you were doing really that's the vibe you gave off um i don't know because i just thought every fucking scumbag i was doing open mics with was doing that wow a lot of more scumptu yeah just by default um i mean if you were in the back of pine box rock shop on a wednesday night you were a scumbag to me i had sex after pine box yeah i know we all did yeah everybody yeah it was like caramel out and then you go across the street to lit.

That was like the big. That was like how you do it. Just reeking of hookah. So good. Yeah. So those were the days. Anyways, so you've been together for 16 years. 16 years, yeah.

Married for nine. Okay. Tomorrow. And how did you meet her? She came to a show. And she approached me afterwards. She's a chuckle fucker. She is.

Where does your story take place in your timeline? So my story is actually way before this. I, a little bit of background, this is sort of dating. It's, it's about a sex worker, but it has nothing to do with my wife. And they said, a little bit of background, which, you know, you should have promoted earlier on. I have this podcast about my dad and my dad was, I literally said it. I said his new audible series is searching for Alan Rothbar. What else am I supposed to fucking say about it?

Oh, I didn't know you said that. I just heard Wolf of Wall Street in the Conner, sorry. You got caught up in your own credit. I got distracted right. That's a good move. Wow. So, this is pre-Wolfo Wall Street. And I was, I was turning 19.

It was my 19th birthday. My dad, so my dad, long story short, I found out he was in the mob when I was a teenager. He was like a criminal. To an end of Coddle. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a lot about, it's about me, like, investigating who he was and stuff. But he was, like, this gregarious mom guy. And I was not, but I was, like, in that world.

a lot. And on my 19th birthday, I was going to Atlantic City with my friend Danny. And my dad gives me $200. And he says, son, you should get a hooker tonight. And had you lost your virginity at this point? No. Whoa. Yeah. Cool. Cool dad. Yeah. He was a cool dad. And he was like, son, do it. And I said, yes, Papa. I said anything from you, Papa. And I was like, $200. What am I going to do with the other? hundred like I had no idea I had no idea about any of this why would you and I was like is this for both of us like what is this yeah so I assumed it was so we go into this room and he he would get big rooms because he was a degenerate gambler I thought he was like you know just rich but it turns out if you suck at gambling they give you free rooms in the Atlantic City yeah so we had this big room and we were like let's do it and we opened the cabinets and we started drinking vermouth straight yeah yeah We didn't know what it was. We were just like, this is, this was cool.

So we just drank vermouth. And we look in the yellow pages for hooker. And we didn't know how to do it. That was like, I mean, this was going to be my first question. Is like pre, I'm assuming like pre the internet the way we know it now. Yeah. Like, were they in the yellow pages? Well, I didn't know.

Well, first of all, we went downstairs to look to see if we could find a hooker near the casino, man. Yeah. People don't realize that everyone in Atlantic City looks like a hooker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were just like, we could. can't just approach random people. So we, we looked in the, uh, in the yellow pages under hooker, there was nothing. And then we looked under prostitute. There was nothing. And then escort, we found a place and we basically called like the first one on the list, like triple A excords or

something, whatever was alphabetically the first one. And we were like, uh, we would love. I prefer a double deal. Yeah. Yeah, it was like Jimmy's hookers. Yeah. Jimmy's escorts. And we, um so yeah we called and they were like hi would you uh what do you what do you need and we were like oh we'd love a hooker and they were like and uh and they were like oh you mean an escort and we were like yeah sure an escort and and they were like um what kind and we were like uh woman would be great um and we were like okay and you know they were like well what do you want her to look like like how about chest and we were like yes absolutely

we eventually they say yes and um they you know they ask for our room number and we said it and then we decide to uh light up a joint we brought a joint and we start to completely freak out we're just like I had to say holy shit there's a fucking human being on the way plan here with you and your friend were you gonna have a threesome Were you going to return? What I thought in my head was one of us would do it, and then the other one would come in, and we never chose who would go first.

Thank God women can have multiple orgasms. Am I right? Well, I'm going to need someone else to finish me off. It was all about her. We were like, how are we going to make her have fun? And so we just start freaking out. We're like, oh, fuck. And then after a little while, we're like, we can't do this.

Like, this is too scary. There's a woman coming, and we call it back, and they were like, no, no, it's too. late they're on the way you know and this was like 2002 2003 so it wasn't like they were just going to like text them and make them come back like there so so uh they were like sorry and then we're like okay fine fine and uh and we just get more scared and more scared and i remember we hear the knock at the door and my friend opens the door I was like I can't get near the door and I was like just tell her to go home and um and and he opens the door and she's just standing there and he's like and she's like oh hey how you doing and and he goes he goes uh uh uh and he just freaks out

and he doesn't know what to say and he closes the door on her and i was just like oh no what do we do and i meanwhile she's spiraling because she's like what the fuck did i look like and i was like come in come in and i was just like let's just hang out for a little bit and she was like okay and she was like what do you guys do and for some reason we said we're writers for the daily show i don't know why we were just like this is a cool job no yeah that's actually a writers for the Daily Show. Sort of lie to tell in that era. It's if she fucking gave this shit what we did.

She's like, I thought John Stewart came up with that on the fly. She's like, I actually have a lot of friends in the writers. I know everyone there. And we just didn't know what to say and not offend her to send her home. So I was like, all right, I know what to do. And I went next door to my dad and I knocked on the door and I was like, uh, Papa, there's a prostitute in our room and we don't know what to do. and we just don't want to have sex with her

and he goes send her to my room amazing I'll take care of it and we did and then we just listen to him have sex for like an hour and it was an hour like an hour your dad is stamina on this man

and it made me actually like kind of respect him a little bit but like he got me out of that situation yeah I mean what a what a burden that do you put on your dad in that situation.

It's a real Michael Imperiole, like, Lotus situation. I kind of wonder, from her perspective, if, like, she got there and she was like, this is why they call it work, you know? Oh, I think this was like, before I sent her into my dad's, she was like, this ideal. We're just going to talk for, you know, a bunch of time. But she was really nice. And then you sent her to her name. Yeah.

Going in, Papa, I don't want to have sex with the bros to do. Oh fuck I'm doing myself Was your dad still married to your mom at this point? No Oh okay No

Thank God They were divorced A long time ago Yeah Yeah okay Well But listen to the podcast There's a lot more

To that story Well I hope you You find him Barry He's dead now Yeah Did you learn something From this situation

That you have carried on with you to now you're very successful 16-year-long relationship. That my dad grunts a lot? What is that exactly? Bad dates. Bad dates.

Will Miles, final storyteller of the day. Will, as we learned on Julia Rossi's episode, you're very happily married, father, husband. And I, And I know I know your M.O. To this marriage.

But give the listeners a little peek into what the Will Miles' experience was before you met your wife. What's funny about that is that you saying that to her actually helped quite a great deal. She was like, I don't know. He's going to be like serious.

And you were like, oh, no, no, he's a whore. Which I was. Were you? I don't see that. Yeah, I mean, I was. But I was like a nice, gentle. Yeah, no. You weren't leaving.

a like destruction in your way right yeah yeah which is why i don't think a lot of people knew that yeah because you really especially like in our circles i think only were really aware of the people who were leaving devastation in their wake yes and like and there were a lot and there were plenty and i think you were always like pretty discreet and fun so it like but not like cancelable level no yeah it was a lot of like we're we still talk today kind of great yeah i'm sure a lot of them more of your wedding. We went to their wedding. No, but I was

I mean, I was out there. The thing is, I was a late bloomer. I didn't lose my virginity to like 19. I guess that's late. You just said this exact same age. I don't know if that's late for most people. It seems pretty normal. It's pretty normal.

I will say in Chicago Public High Schools, that was not considered. Yeah, no, that's fair. Wait, and are we talking like full-on virginity? Had you done anything before it? I had made out, I got a hand job, but before that nothing else. Okay. And so the 19 was the first time I had sex at a party.

And then I circled right back around on hand jobs, I have to say. I don't know how it is for you guys, but like being in a long-term relationship, sometimes like sex is like you want to do the full thing. Yeah, yeah. But like we've brought back handjoys. Yeah, sometimes you don't want to go through all the whole thing. Lindsay Lohan and Panjobs are back. There, it's 2002 all over.

Okay. So this is all well and good, but what's the bad date story? Yeah. Right, right, right, right, the show. So the bad date story was in Chicago, of course, and a lot of Chicago date stories begin with alcoholism. So we were all drinking a lot. And I remember this one girl who was just around comedy.

Again, I don't know what her relationship to comedy was, but she was at a few shows. And she had dated one other comedian, whose name I probably shouldn't say, but I don't know, but... Okay, yeah. Who's out here, I think? You might. I don't know. Okay. Yeah, but he was like, don't date that girl. I dated her for like a few weeks. And I was like, oh, I think Maddie may have mentioned that. That's cool. We were at some random show. And then I was like, okay, like, but she likes me. I'm going to probably hang out with her. And so I did. And then he was like, I saw him again after I like sort of exchanged numbers with a girl. And he was like, that girl, we went on a date one time. And she locked herself in the bathroom, kept threatening to kill her. and until I came in and like consoled her and then that's when I knew we were done and then I was like I kind of already made a date

where did you take her maybe you had a bad date so I went out with her and it was one of those all-night things like I think she came to a show and then we hung out afterwards at some one of those shitty bars that everyone goes to and then I forget where she lived but it must have been near zanies or something and maybe my show was Zane or something, but she, we went home to her place, hung up for a while, she was cool, she drank a lot. She may have done like another drug that was one of those things that you think about where you're like, like, maybe cocaine. Either way, I wasn't really into it,

but you're like, that might be her journey. I got to figure that out. You know, like problematic cocaine. Not like just like a bumpier in there, like everybody would do. No, she's like boofing it because she has a hole in her nostril. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's putting it in a spoon and he got. It's like, that's weird.

That's too much. Comedy, sometimes you'll see it out, and you might be like, yeah, sure, why not? But I'm like, you love it. Nowhere that's, like, way different. And so I remember that. Bitch, it's a Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like a Tuesday or Wednesday.

It was summertime, but it was still like a week day. And you're hiding it for me. And you're hiding it. And you're hiding out. That's the thing, like, it's weird. So then like, we woke up, whatever. She started drinking right away. So I just game plan with her, you know, I'll drink right away too.

And then we like get up, we walk around. I think we eat breakfast somewhere. but again most of the night I'm still drunk so it's like kind of a blur but I know we ended up at old town pub walking in it in daylight it was definitely daylight outside and we're going into a bar as part of this like 24 hour date and like making out hard like in a crazy drunk way at like 3 p.m and I was a teacher in the neighborhood so it probably looked horrible but we were like making out in the bar making out to the point where they had to be like stop when we need to get your drinks and then I look over and there's my seventh grade music teacher

oh my god and it's a note because like two weeks before this he was on the cover of the tribune for pedophilia oh my god wow and I hadn't seen him since and obviously and so I was like oh man uh is that like my teacher my old teacher who just got he was in there drinking at 3 p.m as you do when you've been accused of credible pedophiliate charges and so So then he, like, starts crying. Oh, no. He looks across the bar, whisper something to his friend. I think he said, like, that's one of my old students or something.

The one that got away. Mistopportunity. It looks like he's game for anything right now. That's the one that's going to end. That's the end of the podcast, everybody. But he definitely cried. And then, like, I think he might have even bought me a shot. I don't know.

Yeah. Yeah, like, it was a strange move, but it was like, you know, at this point, I'm 25 or something. There's no rulebook for that situation, I got to say. I know, right? I'm like, I don't know. I guess I got to take it. He's sad and crying. He is also a problem to young boys and when we were kids, I guess.

When I did the shot and then like continue making out with her, but after that, after that, I like, I know something clicked in my head. I'm like, a lot about this is not right. Where you're just like every part of this situation, like, he was right. I should not have gone on this date with this woman. She's obviously, she didn't bring this part of the insanity, but it feels part of the course for this night. But she puts you in a situation where, like, only at a Old Town pub during the day. At 3 p.m.

Yeah. Would you run into a former, like, teacher who is also a pet of class? You know, like, had you knock on this day, you never would have been in a situation. Exactly. So true. But yeah, it was a weird moment. And, like, that music teacher was a really good music teacher. So it's like, wow.

I think about it. What happened to the music teacher? Is he okay? I have not been able to track whether or not he's in jail. Oh. But it's something that all of our parents are checking all the time. All the time? All the time.

They get so mad whenever I bring him up. Yeah. I want to talk about music again? Yeah. It's like parents are so mad at him. And rightfully so, I mean. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like an understatement, actually.

It feels like the entire culture writ large is kind of mad at him. I'm a little mad at him, honestly. The guy touched you the flu. Just like, get over it. That was an incredibly gripping story from start to finish. And it really makes me grateful to know that you are not doing that anymore. Julia's never going to put you in a situation where you're going to run into a former pedophile in your life. Current pedophile, former.

Oh, right, right, right. That's the name of his new album. Probably current pedophile. I don't know, allegedly current pedophile. Bad dates. Really, really a wonderful crop of stories this week. I can't believe we're already at the end. Laura Peek, where can the people find you?

What are you doing these days? Yeah, I'm on the road through the end of the year. Come see me. I got dates in Toronto and Florida, in New York, in Denver, in Chattanooga. That's a weird collection of cities. Yeah, but I love it. Highly recommend. Find all of that at Laura.

L-A-U-R-A-P-E-E-K-K-com, and at LauraPeek Live on Instagram. Amazing. Barry Rothbart. What are you doing these days? Where can the people find you? You can find me at Barry Rothbart, R-O-T-B-A-R-T, everywhere. I don't know why I'm so bad plugging anything. I feel really silly.

Yeah, and then searching for Alan Rothbart is an audible original docu-series where I investigate my dad's crimes, and it's wild, and that's out now. Um, and, uh, yeah, sounds like something I would like to watch and Julia would not, you know, listen to it's document. Yeah, listen to. And Wolf of Wall Street is still streaming. Yeah. Yeah. Everywhere you get Wolf Wall Street. Yeah. Yeah. Highly recommend if you have to see it. It's never too late. It's never too late. Yeah. That meme. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and finally, Will Miles, what are you doing these days? Where can the people find you? You can catch me at, I don't know if you believe it, but a husky nigger fits on Instagram.

You chose the name. We will not. And husky nigger fits.com. I mean, if I said it, then, yeah, we probably have to bleep it. But you are like, you're making it hard to have word of mouth after that. The right people will get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard about Wilson.

It's basically, you know, as a big guy for a lot of my life, styles, choices that I make in, like, general studies of style. Yeah, no. For big dudes. The fits are always on fire. I love it. I wouldn't describe them the way you do. You know, that's not for me to say, uh, or judge. So, um, you guys, that has been another episode of bad dates.

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that is not the point of this podcast. May I suggest to you, perhaps the moth. It's just an uninterrupted story from start to finish. And so I'd like to cut in and just say I really agree with that point of view. So God bless you. I understand if that's not your vibe, but we'll never change. We will never change. In fact, I have been instructed to interrupt people here.

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