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

Episode Date: May 11, 2026

The Bad Dates feed is under construction! While we are beavering away for the next few weeks (calm down), please enjoy a few of our favorite recent episodes. In this installment, 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 2 Laura Peek: @laurapeeklive on Insta, laurapeekcomedy.com for tickets Barry Rothbart: @barryrothbart on social media, Searching For Alan Rothbart podcast Will 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.

Heart less me Hey everybody, producer Devon here As Joel mentioned at the end of the last episode, we are under construction here on the Bad Dates feed. We are recording a ton of new things, almost literally as I say these words to you, which is why

I'm saying them to you, and not Joel. So stay tuned to this feed for when we return in just a few weeks. In the meantime, this is one of our favorite episodes from this last season. The panel featured comedians Laura Peek, Barry Rothbart, and Will Miles, all of whom had fantastic stories.

I found Barry's particularly funny and harrowing. Someone has glimpsed the darkness behind the Great British Bake Off. This is 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, uh, introducing our comedians, but before I do, I want to pose a question. We, you know here we have our famous icebreakers of, uh, panel of relationship experts have come up with a couple hundred questions that you can ask your partner or date, um, 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? Bad Dates And to start us off

Joining me today is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central This Night Show and after midnight and is currently on tour around the country the very, very funny Laura Pee

Hello Laura Hi, hi Dol, 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, 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 having me. One of my oldest friends in comedy. 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 in 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 in the City rewatched in my household. And my husband loves Sex in 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 in 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 did what did he change it to you? 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 out of that. Wow. Wow. Wait, but someone's narcissism drives you to read. That is serious. He learned how to read that night. He touched base with the real author. Have you picked it back up?

Have you returned or has it sort of put it off? Always. It's on a loop. And I was kind of making him sit through a lot of in just like that recently. Tough. Yeah. And I can't. 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. The show? The show? The Mel Brooks. Oh, oh, I see what I think. They made it deliberately bad.

Yeah. And people loved it. To kill Nazis? What's happening? Yeah. Is that sort of what? Is that what the producers is about? I don't think.

It had to do the killing Nazis, right? I don't know that it was. No. It was, 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 back story. I recently tried weed juice. Wee 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 I, you know, edibles, I'm just like, I don't, I, you could either not be high at all or ruin your whole day.

Yeah. And I took a little too much and we started watching the great British, 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've, the darkness 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. 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. Yeah. 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? 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 and over again. So they couldn't use the footage of the contestant crying. Wow. That's good. That's good. That's good. Which F word, 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.

You're never going to top that. No, it is true. I mean, but, like, what's the thing that you're talking about? 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 Rosalie on the show a couple weeks ago. It could be about her. It could be about a different partner from the past. But like, what is the media dispute you've had?

By the way, you're an integral part of our relationship. I know, we covered it. We covered it. He's like the, almost the serenone. 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.

I did. 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 serenone. Couldn't ever. Could never. It would be great if you did. 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 I never want to watch that but the thing that brought us together is probably I know this isn't exactly the problem

but like that one about the mom who was texting her daughter. Oh my god. No number. Oh yeah. That was great because I knew ahead of time that it was the mom so I'm watching it and I'm like that's the motherfucker right there like what is she doing? She's crazy. 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 pushing off all the ashes, which, to be quite frank, like, who gives a shit? 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. Like, who cares? Yeah, they're dead. But no, I love that. I love, like, Like Mommy Dead End Dearest. I guess if someone did die.

I didn't watch that one. 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. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Those are the ones. Bass word. But also I did have a girl. I was having sex and I had Chris Rocks never scared in the background like 15 years ago. And the girl 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. 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 mostly sourced. 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 housewives are also at work at the drama factory. Okay. Bad dates. 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 monogamous? Were you a big old time slut? What's the, what was, give me some of the context. I'm glad you put it. I was going to use those exact words. A big slut 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. And we have been together, we will have been together for 11 years on our anniversary. 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 deeply 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 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? 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 permission. I'm asking, 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 ever 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 large detail. And the moose, boosh. 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 but he was bad really he was so pretty he was so so beautiful he was 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 seventh 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. Love. 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 ex is standing there just soaking wet, just watching essentially watching me. It was like, it was like, it was like, it was like, Dick and my face is like

what he could. Wow. It's like the worst version of say anything. Please say nothing. Yeah. Say nothing. Say nothing.

And you had, you had broken up with him by this point. Oh yeah. He had broken up with me. Oh, great. So what was he doing on? He was low.

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. That is like, that is like textbook narcissistic 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. Yeah.

He was like, 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's just wrapping on my wedding.

He literally like sat straight up in bed and said, she's flying. I was wondering. Did you leave? Just a deck of it. her mouth right now. Did you leave it in your mouth as you open the window? I did.

I said, huh? Uh-oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Incredible. This does, you're right. This really did paint a picture. I just did.

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 just, from the moment I saw this guy, I 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. 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 chit chat. And I was like, clearly this guy wants to fight with. It was 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's your 20. 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 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 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 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. In heat. I mean, just like throwing it at him. And I remember like kind of sobering up as we're sitting there. And that'll do it. Yeah. And sobering up and just being like, you fucking idiot this guy like does not want to have sex like this would have happened in any context before now yeah it's like I guess like why did he take you home I guess like you had no idea you were on the bench that

night I and then you got called up from the minors I guess so yeah yeah I can answer this what very 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 clearly. You were like a fucking dog, like rubbing your ass on the carpet. Just like scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scooting, scuding. You said he was dumb as a rock, though, right? He was very stupid. Yeah. Very stupid. Very studious.

but very stupid. Yeah, yeah. Gotcha. So we sat there for an hour I was like, this is the most humiliating thing in the world. And then I did fall asleep

with my ass and his crotch. Wow. You were like, get your head out of that book and get your head into this bus. 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 eight in the morning on a Saturday. We had partied until like four in the morning.

He is sitting in his desk studying. Oh, wow. And I hear him drop a pencil. He drops a pencil as he's writing something. He goes, oh, my goodness. And I was like, I got to get the fuck. Yeah. The oh, my goodness, threw me so far over the edge.

I was like, what are you trying to do to this horror 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.

that like that is probably the worst thing that happened to him that day. Just dropping that pencil. Oh my goodness. It really is. 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's on podcast talking about his pencil falling one time. I think vibe is definitely more important and like don't. Square peg round hole sort of situation. Yes. He was a very square peg. Yeah. Who ignored my round hole.

I was like, cheer 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 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 crazy? Yeah. We've been together for 16 years. Jesus. Never cheated. Came close. Kind of weird you brought that up. Never cheated.

Not a standard question we ask on the pod. If Grace is listening. 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. No, no. This is a sticker. Very rough for it. 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, being 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. 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. Yeah. Just by default. I mean, if you were in the back of Pine Box rock shop on a Wednesday night, you were a scornback to me. I had sex after Pine Box. Yeah, I know. We all did. Yeah.

Everybody. Yeah, it was like Carma Lounge and then you go across the seat 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. 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 about a sex worker, but it has nothing to do with my wife. And they said, it all counts.

A little bit of background, which, you know, you should have promoted earlier on. I have this podcast about my dad. 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 back. Wolframed Wall Street, that's a good move. Wow. So, uh, this was 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 Codible. Yeah. So, yeah, this is a lot of, about it's about me like investigating who he was and stuff but he um 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 two hundred dollars 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

he's a cool dad very cool dad and he was like son dude it and I said, yes, Papa. I said anything for you, Papa. And I was like, $200. What am I going to do with the other hundred? 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 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 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. 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 down. stairs to look to see if we could find a hooker near the casino man. People don't realize that everyone in Atlantic City looks like a hooker.

So we were just like, we can't just approach random people. So we looked 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 excurs or something. Whatever was alphabetically the first one. and we were like,

we would love... I prefer a double deal. Yeah. Yeah, it was like Jimmy's hookers or whatever. Jimmy's escorts. And we, so yeah, we called and they were like,

hi, would you, what do you need? And we were like, oh, we'd love a hooker. And they were like, and they were like,

oh, you mean an escort? And we were like, yeah, sure, an escort. And they were like, what kind and we were like a woman 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 they they ask for our room number and we said it and then we decide to

light up a joint we brought a joint and we start to completely freak out. We're just like, holy shit, there's a fucking human being on the way. What was the plan here with you and your friend? Were you going to have a threesome? Were you going to turn? 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? Yeah. And, um,

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. And this was like 2002, 2003.

So it wasn't like they were just going to, like, text them and make them come back. Oh, yeah. So they were like, no, sorry. And then we're like, okay, fine, fine. 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, and, and he opens the door, and she's just standing there. And he's like, and she's like, oh, hey, how are you doing? 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, I went out there. And 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 brilliant. 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 out 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 like 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 listened to him have sex for like an hour. And it was an hour? Like an hour. Your dad is. The 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. Do you put on your dad in that situation? It's a real Michael Imperioly, 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 times. Fantastic. She was really nice. And then you sent her to her name. Yeah. Going in. She was like, oh, no.

I don't want to have sex with the prostitute. Oh, fuck. I'm doing myself. Was your dad still married to your mom at this point? No. Oh, okay. So, thank God. They were divorced.

Real strange. Yeah. I got divorced a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, um. But listen to the podcast.

There's a lot. There's a lot more to that story. Um, well, I hope you, you find him. Um, Barry. He's dead now. Did you learn something from this situation that you have carried on with you to now your very successful 16-year-long relationship? That might add grunts a lot?

Bad dates. Will Miles, final storyteller of the day. Will, as we learned on Julia Rossi's episode, You're very happily married. Yes. Father, husband. 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 want to be like serious. And you were like, oh, no, 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 there were a lot. And there were plenty. And I think you were always, like, pretty discreet and fun. But not, like, cancelable level. No. Yeah, no, no. It was a lot of like, we still talk today kind of situation. Great. Yeah.

I'm sure a lot of them were at your wedding. Yeah. Exactly. I love that. We went into their wedding. Exactly. 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. It seems pretty normal. It's pretty normal. I will say in Chicago Public High Schools, that was not considered. Yeah.

Yeah, no, that's fair. I was considered late. Wait. And are we talking like, full-on virginity had you done anything before it had made out i got a handjob but before that nothing else okay and so that 19 was the first time i had sex at a party uh 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 like you want to do the full thing yeah yeah but like we've brought

back hand jobs yeah sometimes you don't want to go through all the whole lisey lohan and pan jobs are back Mm-hmm. There, it's 2002 all over again. Okay, so this is all well and good, but what's the bad date story? Yay. Right, right, right, right, the show. So the bad date story was in Chicago, of course, and a lot of Chicago date stories began 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 who's name I probably shouldn't say but I don't know but Okay yeah Who's out here I think? You might as 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 that's cool we were at some random show And then I was like okay like But she likes me I'm gonna 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 herself 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 Zanis or something. And maybe my show was a Zanis or something, but she, we went home to her place, hung out 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, 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 bump here in there Like everybody would do She's like boofing it because she has a hole in her nostril

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah She's putting it in a spoon and yeah It's like that's weird That's too much like comedy Sometimes you'll see it out and you might be like Yeah sure why not But I'm like you love it Now where 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 from me You're hiding it secretly 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. Whoa. And I hadn't seen him since. And obviously. And so I was like, oh, man, is that like my teacher, my old teacher who just got, he was in there drinking at 3 p.m.

Wow. As you do when you've been accused of credible that affiliate charges. And 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. Missed opportunity.

It looks like he's game for anything. right now. That's the one that's going to end me. 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, 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.

Your 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 whenever we're kids, I guess. But I did the shot and then like continue making out with her. 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 for the course

for this rest of this night she puts you in a situation where like only at a old town pub during the day at 3 p.m. at 3 p.m. Yeah.

Would you run into a former like teacher who is also a pedophon. You know, like, had you knock on on this date, you never would have been in a situation. Exactly. 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 his. 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. You want to talk about music again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like parents are so mad at him. And rightfully so, I mean.

Yeah, that 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 taught you the flu. Just like, get over it. Oh, my God. 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 petfying. 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, New York, in Denver, and Chattanooga. That's a weird collection of cities.

Yeah, but I love it. I highly recommend. Find all of that at Laura, L-A-R-A-P-E-E-K-C-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. And yeah. Sounds like something I would like to watch and Julia would not. Listen to it. And Wolfo Wall Street is still streaming. Everywhere you get Wolf Wall Street. I highly recommend if you have to see it.

Very breakdance with Leonardo. It's never too late. That meme, yeah. That meme, yeah. 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 Husky Niga-Fits on Instagram? And you chose the name.

We will not. And Huskynignaugifitz.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 you. The right people will get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard about Wilson's.

It's basically, you know. You know, as a big guy for a lot of my life, styles, choices that I make in, like, general studies of style. Yeah. For big dudes 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 or judge. So, you guys, that has been another episode of Bad Dates.

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