Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - I Want A Bieber (w/ Anna Akana, Alex Moffat, and Justine Marino)

Episode Date: October 21, 2024

On a new episode of Bad Dates, host Joel Kim Booster welcomes comedians Anna Akana, Alex Moffat, and Justine Marino to discuss their most iconic dating fiascos. Anna sifts through Sasquatches but finds one’s been hunting her, Alex’s Olive Garden hookup goes awry when someone asks to speak to the manager, and Justine has to admit she’s not the one to have around in an emergency.  If you’ve had a bad date you’d like to tell us about, our number is 984-265-3283, and our email is [e-mail], we can’t wait to hear all about it! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for video clips. Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 2Anna Akana: @annaakana on socials, tour dates HEREAlex Moffat: @moffatpics on Insta, Bad Monkey on Apple TV+, Big Gay JamboreeJustine Marino: @justinemachine1 on Insta, Glitter & Garbage podcast Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes.

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Hello hello hello welcome back to another episode of Bad Dates. I am your host Joel Kim Booster, as always, here to bring you more tales of terrible, terrible, terrible, no good dates that my funny friends have been on. We'll get into them in one second. As always though, I want to start the episode off with a little bit of listener mail. This story comes from Sandra. Bad Dates. Hi Bad Dates, I had drinks with a guy from an app, and even though I was really unsure whether I liked him, six Moscow mules later I agreed to go to his place. We pulled up to a house with cars in the driveway, and he said we should go in the door on the side

that goes to his bedroom, which was in the basement. It was cold and damp, and was giving silence to the lambs. He turns on the lights, and on every wall there are sketches and photos and sightings maps of what looked like Bigfoot. He said he runs a Sasquatch investigation department. Department, I asked? How many people work there? And he said right now it's just him. Then I hear an older woman call his name from upstairs and realize he lives in his parents' basement. Obviously I got the fuck out, but my question is, is this all that's left out there? And here's the sad truth, Sandra, is that I think you're looking at this all wrong, okay?

The man has a hobby, which I'm gonna guess you're somewhere around my age, which is mid-30s, 30s, somewhere in there. And if that's the case, then you're very lucky, okay? Because lots of people in our age group, their only hobby is media consumption, all right? And he's out there, he's doing something. All right?

And the fact that he lives in his parents' basement, honey, do you know what's going on in the housing market today? Millennials are living, we be living with our parents, okay? And so unfortunately, my answer is yes, that is kind of all there is out there. The one mistake you made is you weren't sure if you liked him and you drank until you did. And that is unfortunately, I know that life very well. I know it so well. But

everybody just has to stop. Stop wasting your time. Like if you don't feel it, don't wait or don't drink to feel it. Like trust your gut lady. But still, I think, like, you know, again, man with hobbies, and he at least has a place to stay and live. And the basement is pretty separate. At least he's not upstairs with his parents. So that's what I have to say. But let's see what our guests have to say very quickly. If you have a story of your own, or you need some advice,

or you just want to vent, you can email us at baddates at Gmail dot com. But let's get to the guests first up. We have she's an actress, comedian, musician, producer and director that you might have seen an Ant-Man blade of the 47 Ronin and is currently touring her one woman show. It gets darker. Welcome Anna Akana. Hello. Thank you for having me.

I got to admit your advice, I think is all wrong. I don't know. No, please. Well, as soon as I get gotta admit, your advice, I think, is all wrong. I don't. I don't. No, please. Well, as soon as I get everybody in, I want to hear why. Alex Moffat is an actor and comedian you might recognize from Saturday Night Live, Bad Monkey and his new off Broadway show The Big Gay Jamboree at the Orpheum Theater. Interested to hear about that, because I know for a fact, Alex, you have not been gay since I have known

you. And so how dare you? How dare you? Welcome Alex Moffat, everybody. Thank you, JKB. What a treat. It's good to be here. What a treat to have you. And finally, last but certainly goddamn not least, comedian, creator and host of the Funny Dance Show on E and host of the podcast Glitter and Garbage, it is Justine Marino. Hello, Justine. Hi, thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Of course, of course.

So very quickly, you know, obviously a lot of my advice was tongue in cheek there, but Anna, what do you think this person should be doing differently? And is that all there is out there for women who are of the millennial age? No, I think you just need to Google search the fuck out of people and find out what the situation is before you even go on a date. Yeah, listen, there's so everyone has such a digital footprint

these days, like the NSA, why do we even need it? Okay, we have young women with access to Instagram. That's all it takes. That's all it takes. That is all it takes. Bad dates. Bad dates. I wanna jump right into stories today because we have some really good ones and I'm really excited to hear. First off, we're gonna start with Anna Akana, your story.

Set us up, give us just like a second of context. Are you currently in a relationship? Are you dating? What was, are you a serial monogamist? Have you dated a lot? What's your story? Give it to us quickly. Yeah, I was a serial monogamist from 15 to 27,

and then I was like, I wanna see what I'm like when I'm not orbiting around another person. So I was single for four years, gotten a couple of relationships, but now I'm single and also, you know, sifting through Sasquatches. Perfect. I love that. I love that. And, you know, for you, obviously, they're all options available to you. So that's very nice. Bisexual. That was my, you know, I wanted you to say the word because I wasn't sure, you know, you identify. So, you know, you don't have to necessarily sift through the same level of Sasquatch as some other people

in your situation. I think there's a mask shortage in LA, though, which is hard. Like, I'm attracted to women who look like boys that skateboard and like, they won't take it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh no, I, Bieber, you want a Bieber. I want a Bieber. You want a Bieber.

Yes. But a woman, yes. I get it, I totally get it. So Anna, where in your history is this story taking place? This takes place about like five or six years ago. So it was pre-pandemic. I was doing a movie actually overseas in China. And there was, it's a little brag, Communist China, you may have heard about it.

Really fascist over there, love TikTok. But there was this guy who was one of the crew, and I remember the first time I saw him, he had a hat on and I didn't think he was hot. This is an important detail. The next day he came, he took off the hat and I was like, oh, what hat on, and I didn't think he was hot. This is an important detail. The next day he came, he took off the hat, and I was like, ooh, what a cutie, love the hair, oh my God. So we started talking.

I gotta say, I always ask people when I meet them if they're wearing sunglasses or a hat. I say, please, can I see what you look like without both? Because, and everyone with hats always assumes, they're like, I'm not bald, I'm not bald. Or they say, I am bald, you're right, you got me. But it's like, no, it's because I remember, like, I don't feel like I know what you actually look like. And I remember people much better without their hat and sunglasses. So I agree.

It's kind of like the mask situation, right? Like you kind of thought someone was hot and they took off the mask and you were like, the facial harmony is not there. Right. Where's the chin? Where's the chin? Is the question that we were all asking ourselves for two years, but keep going. He took off his hat and you were into it. I was into it, we started talking, we shared our entire life stories.

I have a sister that committed suicide, so I like went deep into my, you know, the trauma sharing. And we started an online, or not online, on-set romance, and we were hooking up. And one night he goes, I have to tell you something, but it's really creepy. And I was like, what does that mean? And he goes, nevermind, I don't, nevermind.

And I was like, you can't just say that. No, no! Yeah, and I had told him I was kind of emotionally unavailable, so I was like, it's only hooking up, it's only physical. And he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he basically says he saw me in the movie, Ant-Man,

and thought I was cute. So then he watched every single one of my YouTube videos online, found out through a deadline article, I was doing this movie, DM'd the producer on Instagram, offering to work for free, and then flew himself out to do the movie.

And he was like, the first day I was there, you saw me with a hat, and I think you didn't find me attractive. So the next day I took off the hat, and it really seemed like it worked. And I wanted to tell you, but I had to make sure we fell in love first. So that's why I'm being honest, because that's what people do when they're in love. This is, um, this is what.

Yeah, I mean, well, the thing is, is we haven't gotten to the, we haven't gotten to the end of the story yet, but this is like the turning point in every rom-com. When like, he can, you know, like, or, or horror movie. Because the turning point in most rom-coms could very easily, if you turn the dial in either direction, become very romantic or very scary, very pit-a-pat. And like, this is, this is so,

what was that movie, Passengers, was it? With Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, where he, like, wakes her up and, like, basically dooms her to die with just him. That's what this man vibe is giving me right now. It really was. But it's weird how just like the line between creepy and romantic is how hot you think they are. You know, but I think for for me it was the lying.

I was like, oh, so you knew every detail of my life before I vulnerably told you. It'd be fine if you just was like, I've seen your work and I'm a fan. But the pretending you have no idea about every single thing. No, I think I've said this before on the podcast, but if you know who I am, you have to tell me.

It's like the cops. It really is. You have to disclose before we have sex because oftentimes they'll leave and they'll be like, I'm such a huge fan by the way. And I'm like, if I had known before we had sex that you knew who I was, I wouldn't have been such a fucking freak back there.

Okay? So, and now I'm your little story. It's the same with ghosts. With ghosts. If you're a ghost, you gotta let me know. I gotta know who I'm talking to. Very fair, very fair, very fair indeed. So what did you do?

Did you run immediately? Did you kick him out immediately? How early in the filming process did this come out? We were like a week in. So we had three more weeks in it. And so I just was like, oh, we have an early day tomorrow. You should leave my room. And then after that, I kind of broke it off.

But he moved to L.A. And I'm vegetarian. So he was like frequenting vegetarian restaurants to try to bump into me. Yeah, it was like a whole time. Whoa. And could someone be hot enough and then reveal that? Like, if you were Chris Evans and you told me that, I would be like, oh, my God, I'm so flattered, Chris. Thank you. You know what I mean?

Like, yeah. It is that difficult thing of like, there is no objective standard for this kind of thing because it is really, like hot people can get away with a lot more, which is just a fact of life. It's just sad, but we have to accept it. And that's just the way the world works. And I'm just gonna pretend

that I don't understand how the world works. And I'm just gonna pretend that I don't understand how the world works. It's just, it's different for people. I mean, not after that article about your teeth came out. I know, no, truly. It's like, now I literally, it's just the bottom row of teeth that are fucked up and I have to sheath my teeth like I'm giving head at all times.

I think it's cute. I think you have a great smile. Thank you. Thank you. I was fishing, so you all fell for it. For the rest of the time that you were on set with this man, did you avoid him completely? Was he still trying? Was there more attempts on his part?

Did you get a restraining order? Did you contact HR? I told the director about it, which is how I found out that he was working for free and flew himself out. She was like, Oh no, he told me straight up. That's why he was here. And I was like, that's a very bizarre thing for you to do. He was, yeah, he was trying to continue to hit on me and was like, I've only dated Asian girls before. So like, and I just feel like, like this is destined. It's meant to be. And I was like, you're done well. And I take it he is a white man.

Yeah. OK. And also the director was a woman. Yes. I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and say without knowing the full, you know, without knowing the playbook. But I'm going to say that her knowing that and still allowing it is breaking girl code. I think he might have buttered her up too. I think he was like complimenting her previous films and maybe like was disingenuous in some regard of like, I just want to support Asian women.

Oh, in a way he did. Leave it to Alex. What a weird move to tell you like a week after though. That's something you wait years, like you lock it down before revealing that, right? Like that's very cocky. Tell me like after we've had two kids, you know, like when I'm on my death bed. And then it's like, oh, ha ha, cute.

It all worked out. Not a week in when you could murder me still. No, it is truly like you change the soundtrack and it goes from rom-com to horror movie immediately. I think what the thing is is that because you shared so much trauma, I think it emboldened him, I think. He felt like you were connected to him in a deeper way, which is his mistake, not yours.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Anna, I'm dying to know from this experience, what is the big lesson that you took away from this? Like the red flag, the rule that you put in place for your future dating life so that you would avoid situations like this in the future? I think trust no one.

Good, good place to start. Bad Dates So Alex, give us a little breakdown right now. Where are you at relationship wise? Where were you at dating wise? What's the, what's the, what's the sitch? I am not dating much these days because I got married in 2017. I remember. And I haven't been out, I haven't been on any dates with anybody else since then.

And in fact, for four years going into that, five years. Again, I've been with my wife for 12 years. In fact, is it going to be 13? It's, it's a while. You should know. I don't know why you're asking us, bitch. Well, one of you tell me and please, please with the name calling. I'm just kidding, JKB. But in any event, I've not run into the, you know, being a public figure, quote, unquote, and then like realize, I mean, I've had whole conversations with people

and then they go, by the way, you know, I've like chatted with someone at a party for an hour and then they pretend like they don't really know who I am. And then they're like, by the way, I've seen, you know, that kind of thing. But it's not like after we've enjoyed the commonra together. And you know now their story, that's the thing.

That's the thing that's upsetting. But speaking of stories, place us in your story. Where are we starting? When does this take place? I imagine 13 years ago or so. I worked at the Olive Garden during college. Wait, same. Bottomless breadstick. Did you really? I did for two and a half years. Holy moly. Did you also gain a shit ton of

weight because you ate so many breadsticks? Because those breadsticks are 350 calories per stick and you'd eat like 11 of them per shift and then a shift meal on top of that? I mean, I never fully did all that math, but yes, I did. Did you also take Moscato and mix it with Sprite and a to-go cup at the end of your shift and head out straight out the door? No, but I would give free wine to friends who came in. Of course.

Yeah. Wow. Do you know the, do you remember the happy birthday song? If you started I've done oh Right a fester what a joyous day life's good fortune sure to come your way come on sit back and just relax No, I was I was cheating a little bit I was pretending to remember I don't remember that at all I remember that we weren't allowed to sing happy birthday yet Yeah, because it was wayna Festa. What a joyous day. Yeah. Well, because Happy Birthday wasn't public domain, we could get sued. I don't know. But now

waiters are so lucky. They get to just sing the song. God, they're lucky. Yeah. So you're at the Olive Garden. So I dated a girl from the Olive Garden. We worked together, we were fellow servers. She came over to my, I was again, in college, lived with four other guys in a big suite with like a one common room and then a couple of bedrooms. She brought dessert over and then I cooked dinner

because that was sort of my trick back in the day. I'd cook a tuna steak on the George Foreman grill along with some sauteed mushrooms and a little vino, hello. Another example of the bar being on the ground. Pretty low. But. Pretty low. And would use like, I can't believe it's not butter spray

on like the George Foreman grill. No. Mwah. Oh my god. Muy brilliant, perfect. Bon appetito. So I make dinner, she brought dessert, and then really sexily, in a very performative way,

was feeding me the dessert. And like, like, if I recall correctly, it was some sort of like fruit tort kind of thing. Okay, sounds good. Kind of classy, you know, and like a white box that she opened and then was like, but it was almost somewhere between like the airplane you do with like a kid and...

Like a chocolate covered strawberry moment. Yeah, it was just so, she was just trying to be so sexy and thinking like, oh, he's gonna cream his jeans when I do this. And meanwhile, I was just like, this is so off putting. I was just like, we don't have to do this. Anyway, I'm sitting there kind of being like, uh-huh. Like opening my mouth while she just crams fruit tort in it. I don't like it when other people control the size of the bite.

No, no. I'll be honest about that. I appreciate your honesty. And then we, you know, sort of got down and enjoyed each other's company as adults do. And then, and then got a phone call and took it in my bedroom. And it was her boyfriend who she hadn't mentioned before. I did not think she was dating anybody. And then they proceeded to like, she was standing there

again, like two feet away from me, just like yelling and like, I'm not with anybody. And he was like, I know you put him on the phone and And he she was like, okay fine I'm wet and then like immediately crumbled and said like yeah, and then she was like Oh, he wants to talk to you and I was like, uh No No, thank you. But world exactly. So I got on the phone with her boy. What you still did it? Sure, why what you know, what am I gonna do? So I got on the phone with her boyfriend. What, you still did it? What? Sure, what am I gonna do?

Not do it? I guess, so I chat with this fella. When I say chat, I mean proceed to get yelled at and threatened with my life. And he also goes, hey, I know who you are and I know where you work, which is fair because I worked with his girlfriend at the Olive Garden. Whoa.

And then we proceeded, if memory serves, to get back in bed and do it again. So that was the whole... That's the date. Oh, my God. After talking to... Like, literally, he asked to speak to the manager, the manager of the hookup being you, and you still went back for seconds. Again, the seal had been broken. No, and like, let's remember, you were, how old you were like 20? 21.

21? Yeah. Maybe even 22 at the time. Otherwise, but yeah. To go again that soon, I know you weren't in your 30s. Let me tell you, okay. So yeah. Well, to be fair, hormones raging, but also to be fair, I think I'm going to guess this discussion with this angry gentleman lasted at least 45 minutes. So I had plenty of what, you know,

the refractory period was actually probably on the normal scale. Okay, that's fair. That's fair. Do you remember, did she come? Oh, I'm sure she at least performed that she did. Oh, God. I mean, after that dessert thing, I think you would know, right? Yeah. Well, again, but if she's this whole, again, I'm, I don't want to be told that, like, that this is gonna be the sexiest thing you've ever done.

And like, she certainly acted like she enjoyed our time in the hay, but who knows. Is it sexy to you, Anna, food in that way? Like, have you ever used food sensually? No, I think eating food is orgasmic, but I don't wanna introduce food to the bedroom. Yeah! Crumbs! Crumbs in the bed! Ants.

Ants. Oh my god, are we having an ant problem right now in my house? You know the motherfuckers, they don't like the smell of peppermint, and that's how you know that ants are fucking dumb as shit. Just how it rocks. You just being there, the boobs in face is enough. I, you know, I'm assuming. 100 percent. Yes. Justine.

Yeah, yeah. Let's move on to Justine. Justine, give us the context. Speaking of boobs in face. Justine, yeah, yeah, let's move on to Justine. Justine, give us the context. Speaking of boobs and face. Speaking of boobs and face. Justine, listeners at home, you can't tell, but it's literally, she's tits out on cam. It's so distracting because they are gorgeous. Thank you. Gorgeous, gorgeous. But Justine, give us a little context. Are you currently in a relationship? Are you dating? Are you serial monogamous? What was your past? Give it to us straight.

I am currently living with someone, my boyfriend. We've been together for a long time, and he actually connects to one of my stories. But in my 20s, I was so focused on stand up. I didn't really have any serious boyfriends. I hooked up with some improv guys, you know, as you do when you're in improv class. I tried to avoid fucking standups, but a couple slipped in

because after a few years, it's all year around. So, but yeah, so I'm living with someone and he's great. We've been together for 10 years and I'm very grateful. I do not want to go back out there. I will say that. Not, not now. The market is plummeting as we speak. I've heard, I've heard.

So my story, it was hard to decide because from my twenties, I do have so many, like I had one date where I went out with a guy who I found out on the date, he lived in his van. So like he had picked me up, I had already gone home with him and I didn't even know until we were at the restaurant. Then there was another guy who there was a nightmare

hand job I attempted to give with aloe vera and I don't recommend that it evaporates so fast. So that one, in that one, you're the villain of the story. I'm the villain of the story, yes. And that was from Improv. That was an Improv guy. It was an Improv dirt bag. Okay, so it sort of evens out at the end.

We were trying to yes and, you know what I mean? But I don't yes and Aloe Vera for a hand job. First, don't give a hand job. That's just, it's not, it's, that was, I was in the wrong a lot on that one. But I think the one that is the biggest and brightest of all my dating stories is with a guy who I had, so I'm from Denver and I would always go back to do shows and I had this one friend who all of his friends were hot.

We would wing man for each other. He would hook up with my girlfriends. I would hook up with his guy friends when I was in town. And so I had already hooked up with one of his friends. And then the next trip, I wanted to hook up with this other guy who I saw and was cute. So I was like-

You are, you and I, we are on the same page, spiritually, energetically. I love it. You saw a buffet and you said, I'm gonna try a little bit of everything. Exactly. I don't care how long it's been sitting under that heat lamp. Give it to me. Give it to me now. And I wish I had thought twice about this how long it had been sitting under the heat lamp because So I go out with this guy we grab food whatever we like uber back to his place we get there

He's like it's everything's dark. We're like not turning on any place. We get there, he's like, it's, everything's dark. We're like not turning on any lights. And I'm like, this is weird. He's like, my roommate's sleeping. And I'm like, okay, it's a fairly large house, but we can't turn on any lights, which is very odd to me. I think there was like maybe an aquarium, which reptile people are just odd to me as well.

Like I have questions, but I continued because he was very hot. So we go into his bedroom and it was the worst smell that I have ever had my nostrils suffer through. Like it was the worst foot smell. It was like so awful. Are we talking ferret level? Like ferret level foot, like just the whole, like I was in there, I was like, how is he acting normal in here and not reacting to the smell?

It like hit me in the face. It was like, you know those laundry commercials where they're like, phantom smells and like you've been in it so long, you don't know the smell. Like I think he was just used to the smell. It was so bad. But back then, this was like 10, 12 years ago,

so it was like Uber was kind of just starting. Like it wasn't like just grab an Uber. This was also probably when Lyft had like the mustaches on front of the car still. And you had to ride up front and talk to them. Yes, exactly. And I was like, it's like- And give a fist bump.

Yeah, and I was like, it's two in the morning, it's either a Lyft fist bump or this. And so I went with this and you know, we hooked up. Also his room was just a mess. There were clothes fucking everywhere. I'm just like, did you not play? Also I've been to guys houses where they go in and they're like, let me just tidy up for a second.

This motherfucker did not do that. He just invites me into his disgusting room that reeks. And again, he was very hot. So I did hook up with him. I tried to break through my mouth. The hot people getting away with it again. They get away with everything. So this is what's crazy is we hook up.

We're like falling asleep. He has a seizure, you guys. What? Full on has a seizure. And I'm like, I don't know what to do. So I text my friend, which just proves to me, never invite me into an emergency situation. I will not reach out to the right person.

You know, it was like when Heath Ledger passed away, RIP, and the masseuse called Mary Kate Olsen before 9-1-1. I did not know that. and like the masseuse called Mary-Kate Olsen before 9-1-1. I did not know that. I was like, where is this possibly going? And I had no idea. That was me. Thankfully he came too and everything was fine.

I was feeling like great about my performance cause I was like, wow, still got it, like caused a seizure. You know what I mean? Like. It came so hard. He caught, he had a seizure. He had a seizure, you know what I mean? Like. But. Came so hard, he had a seizure. He had a seizure. And so then we're like falling asleep

and I'm like, okay, hopefully that doesn't happen again. And we're falling asleep and his phone starts blowing up and it's his girlfriend that he had. So it's kind of like Alex's and I just, I'm next to his phone and it starts ringing. He's passed out. And I just, I'm next to his phone and it starts ringing. He's passed out. And I just see all the texts are like, you motherfucker, what are you doing?

Blah, blah, blah. So I got out of there real quick and moved on to another friend of this friend. And that is now my boyfriend who I'm living with. So, other times the charm, you guys. Yeah, she ain't eating at the buffet no more. She's at a la carte, one order of him. She's at Olive Garden.

Yeah, I'm at Olive Garden. I'm getting the birthday song now. She was doing the tour of Italy, but now she is unlimited soup and salad, just the one menu item. Exactly. Or the mixed grill. That is incredible. Did you ever discover where the smell was coming from? Why the smell? Any of that?

There is a follow up to this. I'm so glad you asked. So he later lived with my boyfriend now and this other friend who was my mutual friend, who was hooking me up with all these hot guys in Denver, which Denver, if you don't know. This is the plot of The New Girl, by the way. It is. Like you are Zooey Deschanel. And I have the bangs and the glasses. And all of it New Girl, by the way. It is. It really is. You are Zooey Deschanel. And I have the bangs and the glasses. And all of it.

Yeah, all of it. But they do call Denver Menver in my defense, because there are so many hot guys there. I agree with that. This one guy who I had hooked up with the stinky feet took a nap on my boyfriend and their couch, and his feet stunk the couch. Like it seeped into the leather couch. And like this is a medical condition at this point.

He needs to have this looked at immediately. Has anyone told him? I think after that, they were like, dude, your fucking feet, you gotta get this checked out. That's the thing, like, hot people are so often not getting notes because they're hot. So true. You know? And that is the problem.

I mean, I've said it on this podcast a million times, LA is a monkey's paw situation because you will have sex with some of the hottest people you've ever seen and it will be terrible because they've never been given a note. And it is just, it is what you get with hot people sometimes. And I'm sure it's the same for him. Thank God he had male friends to tell him his feet stunk.

Question, what does that mean? It's a monkey's paw situation. It's like a situation where like you get everything you want but then there's also a twist curse. There's a catch. A catch. It's like be careful what you wish for. Yeah, it's a Twilight Zone episode.

Gotcha. Yeah, basically. Anyways, Justine, what would your takeaway be from this little experience? How did you change your ways? I mean, you moved on quite quickly and then settled down. So, what did you learn from Stinky Feet Man that really led you to your love now?

Well, I think number one, if someone is having a seizure, call 911. Like that's a good one. Don't text your friend, what should I do? Good takeaway. That's the biggest takeaway. And also just to have higher standards always.

Like you don't deserve a stinky feet room and a dirty room. I should have left immediately. I should have suffered through the fist bump and front seat chatter of the Lyft driver. So yeah, that would be, if you have a feeling, trust your instincts. That's my biggest takeaway. Bad dates.

What an episode it has been of bad dates. Oh my goodness. I have had so much fun. You guys, these were good ones. Anna, tell people where they can find you and what you're doing these days. Yeah, you can find me at Anna Akana on any social media platform

and I'm touring my hour around the country and then also going to Manila, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand in February of 2025. Love that, love that, love that. Justine, what about you? So I have my podcast, Glittering Garbage. It's a pop culture comedy podcast. And that drops weekly.

I also am on tour. So you can check my link in my bio for all tour dates. My Instagram is atjustiemachine1. And it's some version of atjustiemachine on all the platforms. Cool, cool, cool. And Alex, what is up, my friend? Hi, yeah.

If, well, if we're friends out there and you're listening to this, you can text me or email me. Oh my god, I'm going to kill you. And if we're, oh, I didn't hear the whole question. And then I'm also, I do have an Instagram plate called at Moffat Picks, where I post all my Moffat Picks. And I'm on a TV program called Bad Monkey on Apple Plus and Minus.

And then, why are you shaking your head, Joel? I don't even like a good monkey. This is a big thing with me and this podcast. I'm terrified, I'm terrified. I'm terrified of monkeys. So the thought of a bad one is really sending me. This isn't even meant to be a horror show, but I'd love to hear your take of it.

No, no, nothing. And then actually, I'm doing a musical. Isn't that fun? It's an off-Broadway jam. It's called Big Gay Jamboree. And it's at the Orpheum Theater. So get your sweet buns down to the East Village

and check it out. Lovely, lovely, lovely. And you can follow me at I Hate Joel Kim on Instagram. I am probably, by the time this comes out, on tour as well. And you can check out all my dates and my bio on my Instagram.

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