Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - ReRelease - Don’t Settle For Dusty (w/ Ron Funches, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Nat Faxon)

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

In celebration of Loot Season 3 out now on Apple TV+, enjoy this ReRelease Loot edition of Bad Dates. Host Joel Kim Booster welcomes his Loot co-stars Run Funches, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, and Nat Fax...on to discuss their most iconic dating fiascos. Ron’s date cannot respect the call time, Michaela Jaé's Tinder guys cannot or will not read, and Nat performs impromptu cosmetic surgery at the Phish show.  If you’ve had a bad date you’d like to tell us about, our number is 984-265-3283, and our email is baddatespod@gmail.com, 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 3Ron Funches: @ronfunch on Insta, @ronfunches on other social media, Loot Season 3Michaela Jaé Rodriguez: @michaela.jae on TikTok, @mjrodriguez7 on other social media, Loot Season 3Nat Faxon: @nat_faxon on Insta, @NatFaxon on other social media, Loot Season 3 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Smart Plus Media Hey folks, Joel here. I am out on the road doing press for a new season of Lute that comes out on October 15th on Apple TV Plus. So I was not there to record a new episode this week, but in honor of the release of Lute Season 3, we are re-releasing my episode with my co-stars from Lute, Nat Faxon, Ron Funches,
Starting point is 00:00:30 Michaela J. Rodriguez for your listening enjoyment. Check out the new season of Lute coming to Apple TV Plus on October 15th. Bad dates. Just watching my son get older, watching him become a big brother. It's really allowed me to see how independent and how lucky I am to have him and that we don't really need someone else. And that in turn allows me to just be open and find someone that I enjoy for me. You're hanging out with some real sluts with no maternal instinct now.
Starting point is 00:01:00 Bad Dates. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Bad Dates here on the Smartless Media Network. I am Joel Kim Booster, your host. Listen, this is a podcast about bad dates. It's a very straightforward name, okay? The idea is right there. the title. And it's a podcast where I bring some of my funny friends on and we discussed some of their horrific dating stories. And we try to help you too, which is what I'm about to do right now
Starting point is 00:01:42 with some listener mail from Ashley. Bad dates. And she writes, check this shit out. Against my better judgment, I agreed to meet a guy for brunch at an outdoor cafe. This guy was a tryhard. He would feel like he's on a funny run and keeps going with little to no response for me. It was so cringe, but I was polite and thanked him for the date. He texted me a bit afterward, but I did the path of least resistance and ghosted him. About a week later, I started getting these notifications on Instagram, and when I look, he's got an entire fucking photo spread of our brunch titled Dream Date with Ashley. This fucker had someone secretly taking pictures of us and managed to find a few shots where I didn't look like I was stuck in a bear trap. I intact myself,
Starting point is 00:02:21 but they're still on his account for all 16 of his followers to enjoy. So, listen, you're not asking for advice it sounds like you handled the situation as best you could but i want to just like for everyone listening putting someone on main is like a lateral move away from asking them to marry you okay it is so important to pick that timing right i have seen so many just like like sort of like early stage relationships killed because someone decided to post to main grid on instagram too soon You can't do that. You have to wait. It's a moment.
Starting point is 00:02:59 It's an unveiling. You, like, even the most nonchalant post, okay? It has, you have to know. Even if you're not doing an official boyfriend, girlfriend, they friend reveal, everybody knows that's what it is. Everybody feels the weight of that post. So you have to be careful. And, you know, I think a general, a second rule of thumb is don't have the Papps photograph you on a first state.
Starting point is 00:03:26 It's bad. It's really bad And just like for a future reference to You're only being funny if people are laughing Keep that in mind as you are telling jokes and stories with your date It's only funny If they are involuntarily sort of laughing
Starting point is 00:03:42 In response And speaking of involuntary laughing at responses I am so excited for our guests today I cannot believe this is happening to me It is a homecoming It is today it's just family all right let's say that every single person
Starting point is 00:03:59 that I'm about to introduce has the same main credit currently and we're so grateful for it listen this first guest dear friend colleague writer comedian actor he's been an inside out too trolls he's a prolific voice actor
Starting point is 00:04:17 on the Harley Quinn show as well King Shark that's not even in my notes I just know that because we're friends and I'm a fan please give it up for my co-star Ron Funches Thank you so much, Joel. It's so exciting to have you. So good to see your face.
Starting point is 00:04:29 I didn't know everyone else was going to be here either. Isn't it such a great surprise? It's amazing. I love it. Again, with the surprises. Although my main credit now is inside out too. I mean, as it should say, it's like the highest person right of all time. Speaking of high-grossing, incredible people, wonderful surprises, this person, I know her from playing Pogima next to me in the
Starting point is 00:04:55 shares every day every damn day getting snacks going for it you might know her from pose or tick to boom if you're sort of a loser and don't know her personally like i do um she is the incredible macaela j rodriguez what's up y'all oh my god so excited to have you here and then finally um you know publicly we hate this person um we have dragged him through the mud we roast him um with to no end and it's sort of the bit of the show but in fact I think he is the one that we all like the best in some ways
Starting point is 00:05:31 he is so funny I didn't know it was a bit listen you can continue the bit onto this podcast but I'm saying for me it's a bit I listen he's an actor or comedian and a fucking Academy Award winning writer
Starting point is 00:05:45 of the descendants and he started a show called Ben and Kate which I was one of the people who watched it I adore this man please give it up for NatFact Jackson, everybody. What an introduction.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Thank you for introducing me last and most importantly as the anchor of this entire operation. This is what happens when you give him praise. Yeah, no. I mean, listen, I, again, Ben and Kate, not in the notes, just something I know about you. And I couldn't end it on Academy Award-winning writer for the descendants. It just seemed wrong at that point. Guys, what do you think in terms of posting people to Maine on
Starting point is 00:06:29 Instagram? Nat, you don't have an Instagram. I don't have Instagram. He doesn't. I literally have no idea what you're talking about. I don't know what Maine means. It's not important for you to know. I famously showed Nat about 16 fake Nat Vaxon profiles
Starting point is 00:06:45 on Instagram that people have started because he refuses to start his own Instagram profile. So he's not in the know. He's useless to us. But Michaela and Ron, what do you think? Like, how long have you generally waited to post someone to Maine? Oh, it took me forever to even put. It took me until I was 26 years old to post the person that I really like on Maine. I mean, it's like a long time. How long were you dating before you did that?
Starting point is 00:07:09 We were dating for a while almost a year. Actually, a year and some change. And I was just like, y'all don't deserve this just yet. You know, so. You know, I'll hold back. Yeah, I agree with you. I think it is similar to marriage. in a way where you have to really make sure that you're committed because nothing's more embarrassing than when you have to go back and delete them off the main. And then people go far back to find out when your pictures restart, you know? And that's terrible.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Oftentimes I will go to a city and be like, hey, I'm in Pittsburgh. Who do I fucking know in Pittsburgh? And then all these gay guys will come out of the woodwork and suddenly I have friends in Pittsburgh, you know? And like, how else do you send out that clarion call then through Instagram. And I guess you don't have any pictures of your boyfriend on there,
Starting point is 00:07:58 so you can really have a good time with them. Well, and you know that's famously true. Bad dates. Let's get started here. I'll start, I guess, with Ron. What is your worst dating experiences, and how have they been like? Sure. When I think about my worst dating experiences, they all kind of just relate to me not having enough self-esteem for myself and not sticking to what I enjoy and what I like. I, you know, I'm not a big drinker by any means. And so, but I would often end up at dates with bars with people and who did like to drink because I thought, oh, that's what people do. So that's what I'll go and do. And I remember in particular, I went on one date with a lady and we went to a bar and we were just hanging out. And I just noticed, and then we went to a concert, and I noticed any time a phone came out in anywhere near her vicinity, she would just start eavesdropping and looking at that person's phone, and not in a subtle way.
Starting point is 00:09:09 She's iconic. I love this. I know. I literally love that woman. No, I truly, like, we are spiritual sisters because I'm always interested. Like, you better have that privacy protector on your screen if you don't want me to see who you're texting. Oh, I didn't know you guys were, oh, everyone's a psychopath. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, so get to the weird part, Ron. Yeah. Right now she says story normal. Well, I mean, I would understand a curious glance, but it would stop our conversations. Like, if she saw a phone come out, it would just, she would just stare at it and try to read whatever was on someone's phone until they put it away.
Starting point is 00:09:53 And I was just like, Wait, was this everyone for one? Everyone. Anyone, anyone in the area. And did she share with you any of the intel that she was receiving in this? No, this was personal for her. That would have been great, you know. Perhaps she was just a spy now that I think about it.
Starting point is 00:10:11 We love a spy that has tea. It's important. It's crucial. I just thought she was pretty crazy. So I asked if she wanted to go out again and she said, no, she didn't. So then I felt horrible. Wait, so. you thought she was crazy
Starting point is 00:10:25 and yet you still you sense you thought this is the woman that can help me raise my child possibly I mean you do have a kid
Starting point is 00:10:34 so you kind of have a built in excuse to have your phone out at all times if I see something I'm like okay I'm just going to check on my nanny and I will
Starting point is 00:10:43 that does depending on their reaction it tells me a lot right away I had one lady be upset about that and she was like you should just she's like
Starting point is 00:10:51 she wanted me to put my phone in her purse. And so then I was, oh, actually, that was a terrible day. Yeah, that was a terrible day. This is where it's juicy. I mean, that is mommy vibes. Let's be real. Like, put your phone in my purse. Yeah. I met. She was a comedian as well. And it was the first time I, and I normally do not date comedians at all. But I was like, she had like a special that came out. And so I was like, okay, maybe she's actually out who this is after the time. Or right now. And so we plan to go to this date.
Starting point is 00:11:27 I took her as one of my go-toes, which is Petit-Tois in the Valley. One of my favorite restaurants. And I know the managers and people there. So sometimes they'll treat me a little nicer and make me look at. Petit-Twa. But yeah, but either way, whatever you want. Yeah, I mean, is it a . . No, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:11:46 Guys, cut that, cut that, cut that, cut that, cut that. Don't. I cannot know. No, that's not how I'm going down. That is just for you. That is for you. Actually, just bleep it out. I want people to be furious that they don't know what it is.
Starting point is 00:12:04 The whole thing was that we were in the middle of shooting loot at the time. And we were just excited to meet each other. And I was like, well, I'll be happy to meet you. We can do an early dinner. But I have to be on set at 5 in the morning tomorrow. So I'm going to need to call it a day. And so we went and had this early dinner. we were hitting it off pretty well
Starting point is 00:12:23 We were having a lot of fun together And she was getting really flirty And she I was like okay I'll drop you I drove her I picked her up because we live close to each other And I was like oh yeah I'll just drop you back off at home And she was like are we can just go hang out at your place for a bit And I was like that's fine
Starting point is 00:12:38 But again I have to get up at 5 in the morning So I'm just letting you know And we made out We had a lot of fun time I went down on her and in a very great fashion that she enjoyed and came real hard. And then I was like, okay, it's getting towards bedtime now.
Starting point is 00:12:58 So that's enough for me. If you want, you can go to bed. I'll take you home and then I'll go to bed. And then she was like, no, well, now we're here. Let's have sex. So we had sex. She kept me up until like midnight. And then I was like, okay, now I need to go to bed.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I got to work at five in the morning. And she was like, oh, I didn't know you were just a one time type of person. And I'm like, lady, first of. ball. You already came twice. Yeah. You told her three times at this point. And I told her before the date. It was one of my things, which I think
Starting point is 00:13:30 is important. And so I was like, I'm going to bed. Maybe we can have sex in the morning before I go to work. Wow. Wait, this is I cannot believe you even offered that after this person has been come twice.
Starting point is 00:13:46 No, no, I get it. Listen, I was actually about to be like, I'm so proud of you for sacrificing sex for work. It really makes me respect you as a fellow actor on set. But now to find out that you were like, oh, at 4.30 or whenever, we could have sex again after she's already come twice. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:14:06 And so we did. You were ready to vote for a female president. Let's just say that. Of course, I am. Yes. So I do wake up early. We have sex. But then it's like, you know, time is running short.
Starting point is 00:14:19 So I, as soon as we're done, I. hop in the shower and get dressed and I'm like okay coming out and I'm like I assume she's getting dressed getting ready to go I come back out she's sitting on the edge of the bed pouting and she was like well I'm just not the type of girl that you should just sleep with and you can't give me any type of cuddling or aftercare and I was like I go lady you know I go I thought you worked in the business that I work in you know what call times are it's not like I can just be like oh I'm I'm going to be an hour or too late. It's just, you know, I have to be there.
Starting point is 00:14:51 They said be there at 5.30. I got to be there at 5.30. And so she just, I drove her to her home, which was five minutes from me. She didn't say a word to me the whole time, just pouted it. And then like, like, texted me when I got to work and was like, we need to have a talk about this. And then I was just like, oh, no, I think you're confused. Like, there is.
Starting point is 00:15:12 It's really intense. There's nothing. This is a first day. This is a first day. And when she also told me about other communities. that she had dated and told me things that she should not have told me. I'm glad I know them, but I don't think that that person would want me to know them. You don't have to be specific, but it is it in a like...
Starting point is 00:15:28 She told me about a comedian who penis don't work. Oh, that's sad. Well, blessings to them. Should we get into it? Like, who was... We'll be right back. Bad dates. up is my favorite tech quiz in the biz. Truly, the things I've learned about you over the last
Starting point is 00:15:55 three years of shooting loot, you are so unlike, I think, what I think people expect you to be. Just the biggest nerd that could ever exist in a body of a gorgeous woman like yourself. And so I'm really excited to learn even more because I don't, we don't talk, you've been in a relationship. I think you've been, you've been wiped up since we started shooting. Yes, we have. So I know a lot about him, but I haven't really dived into the rocky past of when you were in the trenches. Yeah, she was in trenches. But back in the day, you know, the story starts out, and this was one of the worst dates ever.
Starting point is 00:16:34 And you might actually think it's kind of fabulous, too, after you hear what happened. But, you know, I had just started, I think, well, we had gone on a hiatus. We had just finished second season of Pose. And I was feeling lonely, and I wanted, you know, I just wanted someone to be there. I wanted there to be someone who liked to show up for me and just like, you know, hold my hand a little bit. Warm body in the bed, yes. Period. You know, because, yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:16:58 All puns and send it. And I literally was like, okay, well, let me just go on Tinder and let me see what's out there. And I hadn't done that, like, at all while I was on pose because I was just focused. I was independent bitch focused on her work. She is not trying to get distracted whatsoever. But in the time and space that I had, I was willing to be distracted. We set up a date that day at a wonderful place. It was so, it was so luxurious.
Starting point is 00:17:24 Like, I mean, I wish it could meet the standards of yours, Ron, but it was so luxurious. He invited me to Starbucks, and I was so happy because I've never been invited to Starbucks before. You know, 7-Eleven's Q? Starbucks is not a place you were invited to. Let's be real. here. Like, it is a place you show up to. Was it at least one of the fancy ones? Was it one of the ones that serves wine at the very least, a Starbucks reserve? No, it was, you know, it was right in the middle of everything by Fused and 34th Street and Madison Square Garden. And so everybody was up in there.
Starting point is 00:17:57 Oh, my God. It's like people who have just stepped off the train. He took it at Starbucks. So you understand. You understand. And oh my God. So mind you, I'm over in Jersey at this point. So on, you know, on Tinder, you know, texting him. We're having great conversation, you know, nothing too racy, nothing too pushy, you know, which she's a very demure girl. She's demure. She's demure. She's demure.
Starting point is 00:18:21 She's very cut myself together. Let me get dolled up because she's really great. So I go out. I get on, you know, because I would always travel back and forth to New York City on the path train because, you know, a girl was, you know, she had no coin at that time. So she was getting on a train. On my way, I'm getting off the train from the path train. We're at Port Authority.
Starting point is 00:18:41 I'm looking real cute. You know, a nice little black miniskirt with some high, thigh, high boots. You know, nice, I'm looking good. I'm walking, you know, walk up 31st, 32nd, 31st. I get to the Starbucks. Now, mind you, we had had conversations on Tinder, and I was just like, just, you know, as a disclaimer, you read my profile, right?
Starting point is 00:19:01 I just want to let you know that, right? And to all my dollies out there, by the way, like my dolls, please, as a disclaimer, make sure you let these men know. Because they don't be reading. They just don't be reading. So I went into the Starbucks and I sit down and I see him. And before I can speak to him, I'm like, I just want to let you know. He said to me, why didn't you tell me?
Starting point is 00:19:23 Wait. So you had it in your profile. You disclosed immediately. Yes. Wow. And it is crazy how people do not read that information. At all. The number of guys who hit me up and are like, wait, you have a boyfriend already.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Like, what are we? And it's like, it's there. It's there, and we knew what this was. Thank you very much. So, you know, I just, and this was in the time where we didn't have, like, you know, the titles on Tinder. So we had to actually write it in the, you know, the bio in Tinder. So I wrote it in the bio. Nervous is all held because, you know, sometimes the girls don't really have dates.
Starting point is 00:19:58 So I go, I sit down with him and he says, why didn't you tell me? And initially in my head, I thought I said, well, you know, I did let you know in the conversation. that we had on Tinder, and, you know, I was just trying to be as communicative as possible, but no, that didn't come out of my mouth because I'm a girl from Jersey. So the first thing I said to- You had just stepped off the path. It was over for this man. I was walking through people, people bumping through me. I'm already upset, you know, that I had to get out of my bed to get dressed up for this man
Starting point is 00:20:30 that I don't know. So I was just like, okay, but he still was fine. So I was like, okay, I'll go and see you. So I go, and he says that, and I thought what came out of my mouth was what I said. you know, I just wanted to, and in reality, what I said was, well, I didn't expect you to come either. I mean, you looking crazy, you looking crazy in front of my face, too. I didn't expect this either. Shoot, I got my ass out of this, out of my house to come to look at you with some dusty pants and a shirt on, sir.
Starting point is 00:20:57 And then I caught myself. I didn't expect to be in a Starbucks. Okay, thank you very much. But, you know, I, you know, I didn't, this was back in my day. So, you know, I didn't really have that much morals. The bar was set pretty low at this point. The bar was kind of low, and I was young, so we'll give grace to my young self. But yeah, I just, I thought I said something nice to him afterwards, but the spicy Michaela Jay came out.
Starting point is 00:21:21 And the poor thing got hurt. He got up and he walked out. And initially, I wanted to get up and trail after him and, you know, talk a little bit more-ish to him. But I knew I probably would get knocked out. So I was just like, you know what? We're going to save my life today. That is one of those difficult decisions that we are all forced to make when you're crazy, which is how far can I push this before physical violence will be enacted on me?
Starting point is 00:21:44 This is true. And that is something. I mean, I test that at work a lot with you guys. You do. That's true. What is the lesson that you sort of implemented, you took away and the rule that you implemented or anything like that from this date? I'll say the uplifting part about it was to just know my worth.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Absolutely fucking movie. And know that there's much more. out there for me and that there's someone else that is able to live up to my standards and now I have someone in my life who lives up to the standards, my standards and I live up to his. The second thing that I was learned
Starting point is 00:22:21 is just don't settle for Dusty because Dusty's not cute. You know, and when you show up to a date actually this is not for me, this is for any man. When you show up to a date, make sure you show to a girl out. Like show her a time, like show her a good time. Don't be coming in a no dusty pants and no dusty shirt in your hair not cut, you know, and everything.
Starting point is 00:22:39 like that. Like, just really show up. There, I mean, there is something to be said for like, I usually at first date, I like to be at like a seven, like visually. No, because I don't want to, I'm, I am the king of under promise over deliver. Okay. Oh, okay. I want you to know what you're getting generally. And then like, you know, I can show, you know, give you an idea that there's room in both directions. The people that I love and care for, they'll never really ever get that, ever. You know, I just, in my heart and spirit, it's just, you know, you've got to pull that kind of bitch out. And I just, it's too much. I'm healing. I'm healing.
Starting point is 00:23:15 We'll be right back after this. Bad dates. Bad dates. Last but certainly, certainly not least. Um, Nat Faxon. No. Yeah. So different, you know, relationships. kind of came and went. But, you know, this is sadly sort of showing my age, but there was no social media or
Starting point is 00:23:46 dating apps really at all. I don't want you to be mad, but is this landline era? Maybe. Maybe for a pardon. Okay, you still, I likely had a cell phone, but also a landline. Did you have a beeper? This date story that I'm about to tell, there was no cell phones in existence. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Oh, my God. So you were really, like, wow. Yeah, you're really, like, left out there. I mean, this is, like, old times, like, where you were really, you were really, you know, left to your own. Waiting by the phone. Check in those. Yeah. Your left to your own devices. My date story sort of starts when I was, like, in high school. This is a high school story. So this was before all that, before I rocked a pager in L.A. for several years. That was also the most embarrassing thing was having a page. pager and being on the 405 stuck in traffic and like I had just gotten a commercial agent and I was so excited and your pager would go off and it would just be like a number to like call your voicemail to see what your message was it like didn't have nobody had phones so it was just like a voicemail you know from something and so I would get off you know the 405 and be like holy shit I got an audition oh my god okay here we go I'm going to get a call back okay And then I would go to a gas station, get to the pay phone, call my voicemail. And it would be like, hey, Matt, it's mom.
Starting point is 00:25:11 Wondering if you got the underwear I sent in the package and then, you know, being irate and hanging up and then getting back on the 405 and driving mad to your next audition. I mean, it was a sad. It was a sad time. I had no idea the life you had to live before. I know. I know. There was a new up-and-coming band called Fish at the time that was like playing in small venues. like in on the east coast and so we would go and see them at least these like tiny little places
Starting point is 00:25:40 and i like met this like other sort of like hippie young high school chick and we're like yeah let's go to we'll go to a show together like that'll be awesome and you're fully 12 at this point i'm i think i'm like maybe i'm like 14 15 at this point oh okay okay okay yeah yeah yeah so your body have gotten through changes you were ready yes yes yes so i go to this fish concert with this girl and she is not necessarily my type. She's kind of got like a lot of piercings and is a little more like rocker edgy than I, you know, like I was like more into like the kind of sundress, kind of like long blonde hair. You wanted, you wanted Cheryl Hines. You didn't want Avril Levine.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Right. Okay. Yeah, exactly. So we're hanging out at the concert. And then after a while, she turned. to me and says, you know, at every fish show, because I've been to a lot, I like to get something pierced. And I was like, I don't know what you mean. And she said, I want you to pierce my lip. And this is like mid-concert. And I was like, you know, in the back of my mind,
Starting point is 00:26:58 like, this don't do that. And then in the front of my mind, I was like, do it. I was like, do it. Again, like, as we all, like, in the comedic world, like, this could be a fucking great story. Right. And you have that instinct even at 15. Yeah. Yes. And so I was like, okay. Yeah, I'll do it.
Starting point is 00:27:16 And so she pulls out one of those, like, staple removers. Oh, my gosh. You know? And hands it to me and is like, okay. And she's like, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Okay. And then, like, pulls out her lip.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And she's like, okay, I'm ready. I'm ready. And I. And you're standing in, like, the pit at this point. Yeah, I'm like, and it's like, the music is like, you know, like, people like fully like doing this around you, you know. And I was like, whoa, this is so trippy.
Starting point is 00:27:48 And I, so I get the thing and she is like, okay, on the count of three. And I do it and she screams out and it doesn't, like I didn't do it hard enough because I was too freaked out. And so it only went like halfway through. She's like, oh, oh, oh, oh, stop. Oh, my God. And I was like, oh, no, oh, no. And then there was bleeding.
Starting point is 00:28:14 And I was like, oh, God. And she was like, no, it's not working. It's not working. Stop, stop. And so I was like traumatized. And then how do you like then reenter the concert and be like, well, that didn't work? Like, but this is a great song. No.
Starting point is 00:28:29 So we started dancing more. And she's like, you know, like in pain. And then a couple songs later She's like, okay, I want to try again But I really want you to do it this time Wow Because I got to say normally a wound Ends the date
Starting point is 00:28:45 Like that is like an open festering wound Usually in my experience is a date ender But no she's going back for more She was determined She was determined And so again hands me the thing And this time I was like
Starting point is 00:29:01 I am not, like, going to, you know, like, I'm not going to be a wuss here. I'm going to, like, fucking go for it. And so I, like, jammed with two hands that thing. And it went right through. Oh, my God. And it worked. And she was like, oh, my God. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:29:20 And there's just blood everywhere. Can I ask, what are the people around you doing? Like, the fact that they ignored this girl crying out in pain. I know. I mean, it was like the benefit, I guess, of being at like a sort of like psychedelic type show is that people were like really in their own world and they didn't, you know, care. And we were like pretty, you know, it was so loud and nobody knew what was going on. So there were definitely people that were turning and kind of looking and then quickly looking back to the concert for fear of like getting blood on them. And some of those people never did ass it again. I know. I know. And so. for the rest of the concert, like, she was, like, holding it and being, like, super psyched. And, like, yeah, needless to say, the...
Starting point is 00:30:09 She passed away from tetanus two weeks later. Like, like, what? Yeah, and I still, I still can't get the blood off of my face and the rest of my body from the concert. It was so intense. It was so intense. We totally still, like, hooked up, obviously. And the, the shitty thing is, is I bet you can't remember her first and last name, because I do want to see her.
Starting point is 00:30:37 No, I want to see her today. Just, like, fully covered in metal. Yes, and there's just piercings around her entire thing. Yeah. Bad dates. Thank you all so much for being here. Michaela, I love your music. It makes me so happy.
Starting point is 00:30:56 Everybody check out her music. But anyways, where can people find you? Y'all can find me on the corner of the street wherever you need me. Outside the Starbucks near Fort Authority. You know, and it'll be working and I'm kidding. No, you can find me on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, all of the handle jobs. She's M.J. Rock, you guys, Michaela Jay. Check me out.
Starting point is 00:31:14 Love it. Ron? You can find me Ron Funch on Instagram. Ron Funch is everywhere else. Incredible. I would love to know the story of how you didn't get Ron Funches. On Instagram? I know. I know, because they just like people were always call me funch and stuff
Starting point is 00:31:32 so I started with that one and then when I went to go to try to change it, someone grabbed it. Wow, crazy. Nat Faxson, not on social media, so people cannot find you anywhere. No, there is not, I don't, yeah. Don't follow one of the fakes. Yeah, if you look up just
Starting point is 00:31:50 you'll probably find, you'll know it's a fake if it just starts with Nat Faxon's teeth. That will know, that will tip you off That it's a fake. Oh, my God. But DM me. I'll text you as a dress. It is crazy the number of people who have written comments or sent me DMs asking,
Starting point is 00:32:06 when you get famous, will you fix your teeth? And I love, I love those comments. I never noticed you. You're so pretty that I'd never noticed that you have anything with your teeth at all. Well, that's because I'm in the same room. Yeah, that's true. I've got all of my pictures now. We'll have Nat in the background.
Starting point is 00:32:29 Listen, watch the descendants, one of the greatest George Clooney movies of all time, I would say. And listen, if you guys, again, want to write in. If you have questions, comments, concerns, or stories you want to share with us. Please email us at bad dates pod at gmail.com. I think that's it, you guys. I cannot wait to see you all again. Sit in those chairs. Best kept secret in Hollywood.
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