Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - Split The Wicks (w/ Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Alec Flynn, and Miranda Meadows)

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

On an all-new panel episode of Bad Dates, host Joel Kim Booster welcomes comedians Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Alec Flynn, and Miranda Meadows to discuss their most iconic dating fiascos. Mary Elizabeth’s fairy tale is interrupted by the science of ice, Alec seems to have forgotten a crucial detail, and Miranda describes that rarest phenomenon: a double ghosting.   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for full episodes. Merch available at SiriusXMStore.com/BadDates.Buy Tickets for our live show 2/01/26 at SF Sketchfest  Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 3Mary Elizabeth Ellis: @maryelizabethellis on Insta, Season 2 of A Man On The Inside on Netflix, Season 18 of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia filming soon, short film Last To Leave on VimeoAlec Flynn: @bigalflynn, ASMR/Grilling podcast Big Al’s Grill ASMRMiranda Meadows: @mirandameadowss on Insta, The Players at The Comedy Store, new podcast Dead On Sunset coming soon Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of Bad Dates ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

bad dates hello hello and welcome to another edition of the bad dates podcast i'm your host jol kimbooster and we here at the bad dates podcast well it's right there in the name we cover bad dates and bad dates could mean anything from a hookup to a marriage to a relationship to a situation ship. Really, anything counts here. What is real? What is life? What is time? Not questions we'll be answering on this podcast. No, no, no, no, no. I gather together some of my funniest friends and we sit around and shoot the shit about some of their worst dating nightmare stories. Are you ready for it? I am. Okay. Let's get into it with our panel. Joining me today is a writer and actress from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,

licorice pizza, New Girl, Santa Clarita Diet, and Taylor Swift's anti-hero music video, which you should count as a movie credit. Her show, A Man on the Inside, is streaming now on Netflix. It's Mary Elizabeth Ellis. It's me. Hello, welcome, welcome, welcome.

That's the only thing I've won an award for. I have an MTV music video award. And let's celebrate that. Let's celebrate it. We also have a comedian, actor, and digital creator who has appeared on Grownish and the Netflix's Choke Festival, it's Alec Flynn.

Good to be. Alec, and for the listeners at home who aren't watching the live feed, Alex has made the bold choice to stand. I'm a standing guy. I'm going to get in a good 90-degree position. He's got a very firm stance. Firm stance. I feel really secure, actually.

I am going to look like your stepfather in the back of the T-ball game, just kind of doing one of these. Exactly. Get your head in the game. Thanks, Steve. Yeah, I'm not going to yell, but I am going to, I'm going to intently watch. He wants you to look. Love him, but he's not going to push it.

Nope. Okay. Finally, we welcome a comedian and actress who was named one of the comedians to watch at the New York Comedy Festival. She's in an upcoming Pete Davidson Project and proudly holds the title of Sock Wrestling Champion. It's Miranda Meadows. What up, Dole? Hello, welcome, welcome, welcome.

Everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Yeah, sock wrestling. Yeah, actually, let's start off with Sock Wrestling. What is that? So I go to this comedy festival called Skangfest every year. And last year, I wrestled a tiny, tatted, trained in Jiu-Jitsu woman in sock wrestling. And you take off one sock, and whoever gets the last sock off wins. Went three rounds.

You're trying to take her sock off. Yes. She's trying to take your sock off. Long socks, too. Sports socks. Huh. Okay. And I won. And it was grueling.

And there's not an ounce of this, that's sexual. Uh-uh. No, but it was. But my nips were hard at the end of it. But just from the effort, you know. Just from the effort. Our bodies are incredible. Our bodies are incredible.

Thank you guys all so much for joining me today. I am so pleased to have all of you here with me today because it's going to be a very exciting time. This is, I believe, correct me if I'm wrong in the booth, this is my last episode as a single man. Wow. Congratulations. Well, at least in person. This is the last episode I'll be recording as a single man. I'm getting married in a couple of weeks.

So you guys... You hear that, folks. There's still time. You're still done. You can get in there. You can get in there. So thank you so much for coming together and joining me with me today. Before we get into the meat of your stories, though, we do have our traditional icebreaker question.

These questions have been come up with by relationship experts here at bad dates, as well as crowdsourced from our listeners like you. if you have a question, an icebreaker, a piece of advice, or a comment, or something mean you want to say about me, you can email

bad dates pod at gmail.com. I don't read the emails, and I'm sure they'll filter out the mean ones, hopefully. Anyways, today our icebreaker question comes from Miranda. Wow, is that interesting? Set up roads off.

Give a New Year's resolution to a romantic partner, current or former, for how they should be trying to improve their lives. Bad dates. Miranda, we'll start with you. Well, Miranda.

Okay, so my girlfriend right now, I think she could better her life in this new year if she stops playing these horizontal, full-screen iPhone games. She is locked in while she should be at work, but she is locked in on brawl stars, this weird Tetris game, this other game

that the kids play where they kill each other Oh, the kids are playing a game where they kill each other? Oh, yeah. I don't like that at all. I'm fascinated by people who play these games actually.

Yeah, because these games are like, you know, they're like the grocery store magazines of like games, you know what I mean? Where you're like, why would this make any sense to like a regular person looking for a game? Sure, but it sucks you right in. Yeah, right in. It's like all I do is match four cookies together.

Do you guys get the ads for the mobile games, too, where it's like, you're a wife and the baby's crying. And then you have to choose between an axe and a bottle to feed your baby. And, like, in the ad, you like, they choose the axe. And then she cuts the, it's like these weird life simulators that are on mobile that they constantly advertise to you. And it's crazy. But you also think to yourself, like, I would definitely pick the right one. I would pick the right one. I would pick the axe. I'm a smart guy.

the choice, if I had to feed my baby, a choice between a bottle and an axe, I'm pretty confident. I would get it right. Thank you very much. If you do click them, though, it takes you to like a weird website and then you have to be like, wait, I didn't want this. I wanted the game where I had to pick the axe or the baby. I'm pretty sure that's how my Twitter got hacked by the Russians, RIP, my Twitter account. Oh, no. No, honestly, I'm going way better off. Thank you, Russia. Thank you so much. Take it. Take it, Russia. You can have it. Famous forgiving freedom Exactly

Mary, what is I'm so sorry Oh you know what My partner's name is John Michael And he understands your pain Is he from the South He is very Catholic Very Catholic

It's either very Catholic or from the South I'm like it's Mary Elizabeth Yeah so I'm so sorry Mary Elizabeth What would be the New Year's resolution You would ask someone to take Oh my gosh it's so much pressure There was a lot of, like, writing Dave Matthews' lyrics and cards to me.

Okay, so moratorium on Dave Matthews band lyrics. Like, just know me. That's not me. It's not going to go well that way. New Year's resolution, know your partner. No me. But I love a big thought. That was you.

Yeah, no. Mary Elizabeth, that was. Okay. Finally, Alec Flynn, my friend. Yes. Are we giving a resolution to a past or current lover? I'm going to give one to my current love. You guys are both brave.

Yeah, you know what? I want her to keep watching more ghost reaction videos on YouTube. I just like, I get such a kick out of watching her just sit there and just like when they go like, oh my God, we're going to check out the basement now. And she's like, and she's into that. Oh, my gosh. She's into the little smudges on the photos that could be something. It's like when they have like a fake like iPhone reader and they go, this is mold. Multiple key runs or whatever, and I'm like, she just, she goes, what the heck?

And this gets me so. And this is all happening on the history channel? No, it just really makes me happy, just knowing that someone can, like, truly find joy out of something. Something that is so dark. Does she believe in ghosts? Yeah, oh, yeah. She's big into the ghosts, but she loves these two YouTubers called Sam and Colby. Have you heard of these?

I have not, but it is. Sam and Colby, fighting ghosts. You heard of these people? No, but what name? I didn't hear about it. Well, she's just in bed on YouTube. And then I'm just looking at her and be like, oh, my God. And I'm like, I can't believe someone's fired up about stuff.

We've touched upon actually the real problem with, we are now living in sort of the YouTube generation of like, now the celebrities are YouTubers. And unfortunately, the number of times I've heard a sentence where it's like, well, you know Josh and Colby, right? And it's like, those are just two guys' names. And I get that they are more famous than I will ever be. They have 100 million followers on YouTube. But it's like, you can't just be, your entity can't just be, hi. I'm Kelly and this is Ashley. And we are the biggest thing on YouTube.

It's just, it's crazy to be. Like, you have to come up with another name. It's in there are such basic names. It's like, it could be anybody. No, I don't know, man. You throw out some, like, YouTube names during a stand-up set. People get fired up. People do.

Really? It's really shocking how much YouTube this country is watching. I talk about my, my, my, um, my, my, um, my gym. Renzi roommates sometimes, and I talk about like, yeah, I let them, I throw on the YouTube, let them watch Outdoor Boys and people like in my sets are like, oh, let's go. I know that guy. Outdoor boys. It is one of stand-up has really, so much of stand-up these days is audiences being like,

I recognize that. That's celebrity, though, right? And it's getting harder, though, because there's no monoculture. There's very few things that everybody in the country knows about now. It's true. It's all so divided. I watched Alien Earth, which, by the way, is so fucking good. but I was like it's so sweet how they cast all these like nobody knows these people and then I started looking them up and I was like they're all so much more famous than I will ever yeah yeah because they're on shows that like sex lives of college girls I didn't watch that one or like yeah there's too much there's so much content there's so many people working that there are no famous people actually anymore it's just successful people who are working and paying their marriages that's how we you know we have Danny DeVian on our show where like they'll never be

be like another that you know exactly yeah they're not they're not making julia roberts anymore they just aren't it's just a lot of people who can like barely afford it two-bedroom yes that's really like we're all working but are we yeah not really hobbling together something is this happy for you listening at home is this something that you enjoy listening to okay we'll start complaining a lot so um i'm going to go ahead and give my current lover a new year's resolution as well and uh the new year's resolution i would like him to adhere to is that he will make a concerted effort not to fall asleep on the couch every single night and then only to wake up at 3 a.m. and then move into the bed. I always tell him when I see him falling asleep on the

couch, hey, do you just want to go down? We could just go down now. It's fine. And he refuses. He refuses. He wants to fall asleep in the bean bag. And I get so mad because it's so hard to get him up and then move him downstairs into our bedroom. So for my New Year's resolution, I would like him to act like an adult and go to bed. Okay? And that is that. If you have any icebreaker questions you'd like me to ask my panel, please email us at baddatespot at gmail.com. Someone is checking. I promise. Bad dates. We're going to start with Mary Elizabeth. Oh, great.

Mary Elizabeth, before you began, though, set the scene for us. What is your style? I know you've been with your partner for a long time, but previous to him, were you dating around? Were you monogamous, non-monogamous? Were you a slut? What was your vibe? I mean, yeah, like, I was in college. I was having fun.

I mean, I literally was like in college the last time that I was single because and right after college. So I was collegeing it, you know? Like, a lot of alcohol involved. Like, yeah, you know, you might like. like just be like my house is so far away so sure like let's just do whatever so I can sleep here you know what I mean that is so real when someone offers to pay for the Uber ride there was no Uber I know I know but the equivalent of that today is I will go home with someone if they

were paying for the user that's all they need because it's just so otherwise far you know and I've been drinking so yeah I had a I had a lot of I had a lot of I had a lot of boys friends before um i think it was very like artisty and you know is the current one an artist as well he is he is the guy that i'm with now what medium his name is charlie day oh did you know that i'm familiar with charlie day he's an actor and a writer and a musician and uh he's a multi-media artist he really is he's a one of those people that's like what's this and then you're like someone's like it's a musical instrument from ancient greece and he's like ooh Oh, fuck that guy.

Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy to hell. Yeah. Okay. So where does your story take place then? Is this a story about Charlie or someone pre-Charlie? Oh, boy. We are in 2000 and, I don't know, five, I think.

Lovely. And we're going to go to Mexico. And I don't, we haven't left the country yet together at this point. So like, getting ready to leave the country together. And he's like, he's like. like he gets a little anxious. So he's like anxious. He's like so nervous and we're packing and I'm like, he's like freaking out. Is it a flying thing or is it a life thing? It's like packing and like how are we going to get there and what's it going to be like and we're leaving the country together. And he

grew up with, I think he went to Germany once when he was like eight and then he wasn't on a plane again until he was 25 flying to LA to test for like a pilot. Wow. So not a lot of like practice, you know. But he's like getting more and more anxious until I'm finally like, like, motherfucker, you need to calm down. Like, I don't, we're just going to Mexico. We're going to be okay. So whatever's happening, chill out, right? So we have booked one of the nicest rooms at an all-inclusive resort in Cabo. Oh, the nicest room in Cabo is sort of like the hottest guy in prison, you know? Yeah. And maybe not even. Like the hottest guy in like eighth grade or something. You know what I mean?

We're like still a lot of acne. We're grading on a curve. We're grading. Yeah. Like awkward. So we get to this hotel and they're like, oh, your room's not ready yet. But here stay in this really small room while we get your room ready, which I'm sure is a move. But we're like, whatever, fine. So we're in that room for a while. They don't get our room ready. We go and we keep checking with the guy at the front desk. Like maybe you're still. flipping like a five or ten here, like, you know, hey, we'd really like our room. So the next night they're like, okay, the room you asked for is ready. So then they check us into a bigger room with a hot tub, which is just a bath tub that you can fill up. Oh, I hate that. That is the biggest scam. That's not a hot tub. When they list a hot tub and it's just a slightly bigger tub.

Or like, but outside, you're like an outside bath tub. Forget about it. It's crazy. Well, no, it's got the jets in it, you know. I don't even know if it did. Oh, then it's definitely not a hot. No, I'm picturing sort of an old west like tub out on the... That's more of a jug.

With well water. Yeah. Oh, with horses drinking out of it. Yes. But we're on the back of the hotel. There's mosquitoes. Like, we're like, this is definitely not the room that we booked. So that Charlie keeps slipping in this guy money.

And finally we're like, how are we going to get the room? And then we realize that like there's only four of the room that we booked in this massive hotel. That's the size of a cruise ship. So many people. are getting married there this weekend. We're definitely not the only people who booked that room, you know? So we come up with a plan, and Charlie goes and slips the guy some more money. And the guy's finally like, my friend, like, you keep giving me money.

Like, what is it that you do? And Charlie's like, I'm the writer, the travel writer for the Los Angeles time. And the guy's like, oh my God, it's so crazy that your room is ready. Like, it's ready right now. That is brilliant. That is, and this is 2005, so this, he was someone, like, he could have used a separate car. 2004, 2000, yeah, yeah, but he chose the smart car. We're like, let's go travel writer for the L.A. Times.

So immediately in our room, he takes me down to the beach. He finds the shell. He's like, oh, look, we're looking for shells. We used to always look for shells. He's like, oh, look, I found this shell, but there's something in it. And I'm like, gross. And he's like, look at it. And I'm like, no, get away from me.

And it's a ring. Oh, my. And then he gets on. I thought this was supposed to be a bad day. Wait, wait. Yeah, your bad date story is your engagement story. It's my engagement. We haven't been on our room for two days.

Like, you know, so he proposes to me. It's very sweet. We go down the beach to the local, like, restaurant to have some margaritas, get back to the room, and I immediately get Montezuma's revenge. So I'm just, like, out of both sides. Both sides. In the, like, big, beautiful, like, foam marble, like, bathroom. so it's just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, like, you know, echoing.

And it's a, and how big is the room? Because my worry is always the proximity. The bathroom to the bed is often quite close. Yes, it was too close. It was too close for someone that you've just got in. There's no amount of volume. Then you can check. You can check on you, right?

The exhaust fan in the bathroom is not enough. Go to go to that side and just be like, you're all right, babe. Oh, so sorry, babe. I'm definitely one of those people who, I don't know how you guys are, but, like, when I'm throwing, like, when I'm throw-up sick, like, no one around me. Yes. No one around.

But, hey, at least you got that ring to look at all. I got a ring while I was puking and shitting. And so it's a very sweet and lovely date, but also. I have a technical question about the pissing and shitting. Great. Or throwing up and shit. I think we all do. Okay.

So it's coming out north and south. Yeah. Okay. What do you do, if you're taking care of South. Yeah. And the river's still flowing north. Has this never happened to you? I guess not.

That's simultaneously. It's been sort of an, it's sort of a trade-off. It tag in, tag-out. I think it's more of a that, but you have the trash can there just in case. I see. You're not trying to do one of these where you're like. No. Between the legs. Between the legs.

Split the wick out. Split the wicks. It's also, you know, that thing. where, like, you're like, I don't even like touching hands as we established. I'm not like a handshake or like gross germs. And then like when you're sick, you're just like, oh, my face on this cold toilet is the best thing that's like ever happened. It hits every time.

The bathroom floor, honestly, I've woken up worse places than the bathroom tile floor. Like the beanbag. Yeah, the beanbag, for instance. Your pan attention, Miranda. So, Mary Elizabeth, what do you think you learn? from this experience that you took on with you into your very now, very successful marriage. Never again

an all-inclusive resort in Cabo, I think. And don't drink a drink full of ice. True. In Cabo. You can't even trust the ice? No, it's made of the water. I guess you know what? I'm learning.

I'm learning slowly. Yeah. You're Bill Nigh to me right now. I am. Does turn into ice. It does. And ice can turn into The water. Famously. And therein lies the rub.

Yeah. Yeah. Bad dates. Bad dates. Turning now to Alec Flynn. Alec, you're a new friend. Hey. So give me a little bit about your background in dating and love and life.

Are you a ladies man? Are you a single guy? What's your deal? What is your style? I'm just, you know, I'm pretty good, all-around good guy I like to think, anyway. Okay, well, actually speak louder, so

I mean, the vest isn't really helping much. Yeah, not at all. It is covered in dog air. It's my girlfriend's dog. Oh, okay, there we go. So, yeah, I do have a girlfriend right now. I love her dearly. She's got this dog, this, like, French bulldog

named Tugboat. This thing can't breathe at all. Well, genetically speaking, they're not supposed to exist. So that's our best. Crazy, man. Heck, I have them in the room sometimes when we hook up. But before you're a girlfriend.

Yeah. What were you doing? Were you fucking around? Were you a good boy? Yeah, a little bit here and there. I mean, I was in a, I came to L.A. like, about three years ago or so. And I've just. From where?

From Denver. And then before that, I grew up in Boston. Boston, well, congrats on getting out. Yeah, dude. And you're not a cop. No, I know I have resting cop face for sure. Well, it's, you know, you. You can't help where you grew up, you know.

Step out of the car for me. Damn, that's good. They really bought it. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. So you're in L.A. You're sewing your wild oats. You're a young, you're a handsome guy. Of course.

Just standard stuff. So take me to where your story takes place. So this is actually back in college in Manchester, New Hampshire. A little small Catholic university called St. Anselm. ground zero for guilt yeah pretty much shout out my former classmate Caroline Levitt

what up yes straight up I'll show you a picture later whoa but anyway it's the two it's the night before

graduation I had been hooking up with this girl that I had never met before until senior week you're familiar with senior week where it's just like you know very raw raw

we're all just going to get black out for an entire week before we did this thing our tradition during senior year week was keg races where you would put together a team of four buy a keg and whoever finished the keg first one A team of four? Yeah.

Did you ever win? I don't think I ever did but I think it's because I would get blackout before the end of the keg. I'm like no one remembers who one. It was a sort of who's line situation where it's like, you know, the points don't matter. It's just for the love of the game

kind of thing. But yes, very familiar with you. Yeah, I should go to school in the north No, I went to school in the Midwest. Ah, both similar types of, like, you know, dark drinking. Yes, yes, yes. Like, the sun does not come out for most of the year, so you are just, like, kind of in a basement somewhere, just drowning your sorrows. Drowns.

And cheap beer. What was your cheap college beer? Ooh, Keystone Light. Miller High Life. Milwaukee's Best. Ooh, the Beast. The Beast. I actually, I could go for a Milwaukee's best right now.

So you are sleeping with this young lady. that you had heretofore not known. Not known. And by the way, mind you, senior year I messed up in the housing lottery because I did a semester abroad before. I'm sleeping in a bunk bed the entire year. Top bunk.

22 year old in a top bunk. That is a tough image. Tough image, trust me. Not, hasn't gone well most of the year. I get why you choose to stand. Yeah, exactly. He needs two feet on the ground. It's fun to feel that there's something, you know,

between me and the ceiling. But, yeah, it's, I don't know. Were you friends with the person in the bottom bunk? No. No. No. Were you, did you become friends with the person in the bottom bunk? Wow.

Yeah, it was kind of dark. A long year. That is a long year. But, yeah, pretty much had like met her, like the dance, whatever that we were doing. Like, there was a thing. We'd hooked up that the night before. Then that night, you know, we're laying in the top bunk. We're buck naked.

Wait, wait, wait. This woman went home with you to the. The top bunk twice. Nice, dude. Did you not make love in a top bunk? I have, listen, I have had sex with plenty of RAs in a twin-sized bed, but I don't know that I've ever done it in a top bunk before. And I think this is a real testament to you, my friend, that you managed to lure a woman back to a top bunk not once but twice. I have a bit of a silver tongue, I won't mind you, you know.

I think the cop face in New England definitely helps me. Crushes. Yeah, those credits transfer for sure. Ma'am. Ma'am. So you're lying in the top bunk. What happens next? Yeah, just a little bit of pillow talk.

It's like, you know, your usual, like, hey, you know, I want to. He's like, I want to travel to Europe. Like, after I graduate. And I'm like, I'm out of paper towels, use this T-shirt, you know. Oh, God. Yeah, this sounds like AI written college dialogue. Yeah, this is pretty much what I was like, like, oh, yeah, whatever. the door swings open

and this guy in like a CrossFit T-shirt and a full tattoo sleeve comes in grabs me by the ankle from the top bunk just rips me off and starts like beating the fuck out of

I'm like ass naked with a rock hard erection that and I'm just thinking and I'm not picturing this in a lascivious way but just imagining getting pulled out of bed with a rock hard dick the mechanics of that as you're flying through the air

it's so much more dangerous for you brother I could have had a broken dick I could have went full Rodman oh yeah yeah but yeah just literally like this just getting like my face out of it yeah so the Kool-Aid man has busted through the wall oh yeah beating the shit out of me beating the crap out of me that's awful she yeah he was just like a met he's yelling at me he's like did you know she had a boyfriend I'm like what the fuck is going on

Was she like... She was screaming... Michael! Michael! Well, I remember this specifically because she started screaming. She started screaming, she goes like, Don't hit him, don't him! Hit me! Hit me!

Oh, hit me! Hit me! And then I started screaming, hit her! No! I got the fuck off me! Oh, my God. Alex. He's like, I will later.

Yeah, I'm sure. I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Oh, my God. And he finally leaves. And I'm like, just like, what the fuck was that? She's just like, oh my God, that was my boyfriend. You didn't tell me you about a boyfriend? She goes like, yeah, I did.

I go, oh, shit, I must have forgot. So he left without her? Yeah, I'm so confused by that. This man came in, Incredible Hulk to you, down to the ground, boots, etc. and then left without his girlfriend. He went downstairs because I was like, don't me fucking get my shit together. Oh, oh, wow, wow.

So he's waiting downstairs. Yeah, he's waiting downstairs. Meanwhile, like, eventually, like, leaves, and all of her friends are like, all my fucking, what is it, stairway. And I'm like, what, I'm like, I'm like, yeah, I'm literally like, did you fucking, I'm like,

I think they just ratted me out to, like, and then I got my shit kicked in. not to mention then like my buddy is downstairs asleep on the couch when I finally get downstairs I'm like bro what the fuck was that he's like what I'm like I just got my shit kicked in like from fucking what's her face and you were in a goddamn beanbag yeah I'm like you were asleep and he was just I mean asleep is probably generous and you never figured out the mystery of who ratted I don't really I was graduating in six hours did he was did he wait for you

or he just left after that he got what he needed Yeah, God, what do you need it? Did you have a black eye for graduation? I had a huge lump on my forehead. Oh, I thought you were on your dick. I mean, a concussion and a hangover is certainly not fun. That's tough. Yeah.

That's tough. We've lost a lot of great people that way. Concussions, CTE. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, thank God we still have Alec Flynn. Thank you. Yeah. So not, yeah, I wish it was a good ending.

Yeah, I do too. I wish that you hadn't screamed hit her. hit her, you know, but you were young and we all grew. I would yell it again. I would do it again.

I'm trying to help. I think it's his catchphrase. Isn't that your catchphrase? Hit her. Hit her. Bad dates. We've reached the end of the road and at that end of the road is

Miranda Meadows and her story Miranda, same question that I have peppered the other two with. What's your date and style? Give me a little background on you. Okay, so I didn't go to college. So you guys talking all this college talk, sucks for me

because every shitty relationship I experienced was real life. Oh, no. And that shit sucked. Oh, no. You were raw-dogging it. Yeah, a little bit here. Sometimes, you know, with my fingers. I meant metaphorically, but thank you.

But yes. So, yeah, dude, I moved to L.A. when I was 18, didn't go to college, just... From where? From Detroit. Thank you. Okay. Love that you asked, just like you have to... Yeah, you're doing my job. Yeah, I got to know these things.

But yeah, from Michigan, Detroit, and... Great airport. Fabulous airport. Detroit, Ross. I'm being real. I'm being real. I'm being real. I'm being real.

and I will fly through, I will make sure to fly through Detroit during Christmas time because you know, you know Miranda what they do to that airport during Christmas time. Oh, they make it look nice. Nice. Beautiful Christmas lights. I'll see you at the airport, dude. See you there. I'll see you there.

Get some skyline chili. Okay. Okay, so I, when I first moved out here, I didn't have any friends. I was a loser. No. No, my Jolken Boosters podcast, man. I mean, they're in their faces. Yeah, right?

I didn't really date anyone in high school, super prude, still was really prude when I moved out here, but I started like, you know. Where did the prude, where was the prude rooted in? Was it religious or was it just? Am I allowed to, am I? Yeah. I feel like, let's get good for views, but I was molested. Oh, then that'll do it. That'll do it. That'll do it. That's definitely going to be a clip for Instagram now. I think that's the only reason I'm even a little bit straight. Because I was molested by a man. Like if I was molested by a woman, I'd be a super dead dude. Well, I can't say, listen, we're not a science podcast here, okay? We can't say for certain if that's true or not. We have one test case, and we're going to go with it, and we're going to say that that's true. Yeah, so that's why I was, like, really prude, and I moved out here, and I was like,

ah, there's so many people and men and women and people. And then, I don't know, I moved out here, got more like, learned myself more, was dating men. all bad. And then, like, in, like, 2021 is when I started, uh, realized I was a little, like, more gay than I thought. And how many years had you spent in L.A. before you realized that? I moved here in 2017. So it took you about four years. So you, you did actually have the standard college experience. Yeah. You went to a place with a lot of new people, fucked a lot of terrible men. And at the end of it, you came out. Realizing you preferred women. Yes. So you went to Oberlin, baby.

That's liberal arts education right there. No degree, but hey. It's all good. Yeah, so then, I don't know, I was just dating around in the pandemic. This story takes place in the pandemic. It was one of my last dates I went on with a guy. And it was one of the apps, classic. Well, do you mind which one?

Dude, it was pretty sure Hinge. Hinge. Okay. depending on the timeline Hinge was the one Hinge was popping off dude Hinge was popping And they created so many of them that it is now Like you've completely missed this

I missed it I met my husband and a barred But you have to understand that like it's different For different communities like Tinder for gay people is exclusively for love and relationships Tinder for straight people is only for hooking up So I'm told My sister's been with her boyfriend for like nine years And they met on Tinder

Well the sex must have been great To that first night when they met Shout out my sister. So, yeah, Hinge, which, by the way, just need to let you guys know, I did meet my girlfriend, current girlfriend in real life, off apps, and I just need to congratulations. Let you guys know so you don't think I'm fucking losing. I invited her to my birthday cookout.

But how did you know her to invite you? I just saw her on Instagram. She was a sign girl that was like, I have a boyfriend and he was like, you and me. Instagram's the best dating app there is. Oh, no, no, no. Instagram. We've been saying Instagram is a new grinder for a while now. Oh, amazing.

Mary, Elizabeth, where did you meet Charlie? In a bar. In a bar. Nice. Look at that. And I met mine on vacation. We did it, you guys. We did it.

We've covered it. Go us. Yeah. Fuck Hinge, except. True. Unless they want to sponsor us. Yeah. Right, right.

Yeah. But anyway, so I met this guy of a dating app. And we were like, oh, we should hang out. But, like, nothing to do. Pandemic. Riot's in the streets, you know? Yeah. And he was like, let's go to a.

a protest. And I was like protest is the first day. And I was like, okay. It does it does a little bit seem like he might have missed the point of the process. Sure, sure, sure. No, but that's very American though. Yeah. Miranda, like, to your point though, I mean, like, for him seeing

it as like an activity to do is like, that's a very American thing. Whereas we're like, even like the most, like, you know, the process we had in June and the one in October, I just like, people are like, yeah, I'm going to get coffee with friends. And then like, We'll see what time brunch gets out, and then I'll go.

And then I have a birthday party later. So, like, I think we'll do, like, three hours of it. Like, real protest if you want something. We should talk to the French about how they protest, okay? Those motherfuckers know how to protest. They do. I agree with meeting somebody at a protest if it's not off an app first. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Going there and being like, where? Did you? Oh, sure. Everyone's wearing a mask. Everyone's wearing a mask. Did you feel pressure to make a sign? Um, yes, but I didn't because I was like, what if he wants to hold my hand? Aw.

That's cute. And did he make a sign? No, nobody made a sign, but he was screaming another woman's name the whole time. But it's just a bad joke. Okay, okay. Somebody's testing material. All right. So, Miranda, already the stage is set for not a great date, I have to say.

A somber date at best is what you're in for. That's the best case scenario What happens next? So, you know, we do the whole protest We're in Pasadena We're making it loud in the quiet neighborhoods You know, we're out there And then we like

Hug each other goodbye And we never speak to each other again What if you were like And I got COVID? Yeah, yeah, right? Right, that honestly would have been a better ending Tazed by the police He was not in that protest

But yes So was it a, was it one of those magical things, though, where no one ghosted each other? I love, I love it when nobody reaches out. You ghost each other. Double homicide. Double homicide. That's beautiful. Double homicide.

It's art, if you ask me. It's like, you intuited none of these people, neither of us need to speak ever again, and that's okay. What for you, what was it for you, though? Was it the vibe? Was it the choice of location for the date? I kind of don't really like people that can't. keep a conversation going or people that aren't just, they're lame.

Like, they're fucking lame. I'm like, I want someone I can talk to. I mean, everyone does, but like matches my like vibe and flow of either relationship talk about anything. It's a very good example of your flow. Yeah, yeah. Someone who does that with you. You can get in through the cracks. I'm not doing it by yourself.

Yeah. And I will say my girlfriend matches me. So. I would say mine too. Yeah. Yours? My girlfriend. Yes. And how about Charlie? My girlfriend as well. Yay! Bad dates!

All right. You guys, this has been so much fun. Thank you so much for joining me. Now comes my favorite part of the day. Plugs, everybody. Mary Elizabeth Ellis, where are you? And where can the people find you? And what are you doing these days?

I am on Instagram. That's my only real social media situation. But I have season two of my Netflix show, a man on the inside with Ted Dantzolm. So good. Thank you. Is he the best? It's the fucking best.

But you know who's better? Mary. Mary Steen Virgin. I mean, and also like, just to be acting with Mary Steenbergin and then just she's so dreamy. Yeah. It's great. It's a lovely show.

And then we're going to start season 18 of always sunny in Philadelphia. Which is really insane. Are you guys running coming up on the longest running, Sukhum? We are the long. You are the longest running live action. Live action sitcom of all time. Wow. Yeah.

And I wrote and directed a short film that's on Vimeo, so please look that up because I want people to watch that. It's called Last to Leave. Love. And it's spooky. So maybe your girlfriend will cheer for how scary it is. Broaden her horizons. Get her from YouTube to Vimeon the high-deaf ghosts. I think that would be a pretty easy transition.

Professional jump. All right, Alec Flynn. What are you doing these days? Where can the people find you? Just on Instagram, it's Big Al Flynn. I have a podcast called Big Al's Grill ASMR. I just grill outside and chill out with my friends. That sounds lovely.

It's pretty good time. It's pretty relaxed. Good idea. Yeah, and then if you want to come see me do stand-up, people have been calling the show's shocking. You know, I just, in this day and age, all I can think of is that you, like have a second penis or something like that like because it's like what what shock we're going to

cut that he's just in his bunk bed uh but yeah it's it's a good time I mean the hour is really solid and I'm just excited so new tour dates are going to be coming for 2026 and what's the handle again? Big Al Flynn big Al Flynn and it's an hour it's a whole yeah I mean good job more in the poll past year he's been crushing it I'm going to say the number one thing people say to me when I tell them, I have a new hour. That's a lot to remember. Oh, yeah. That's a lot to remember. You remember all that? That's a lot to remember up there. Do you ever like,

I don't know, my friends in Boston when like you just do a long set and like you bomb and they just go, dude, I can't believe you remembered all that. It is sort of the like stand-up equivalent of like in theater when you're like, the costumes were great. Yeah. You remember, you learned all those lines. Yeah. Yeah, your shoes were amazing.

Miranda Meadows, where are you? And what are you doing? these days? Well, you can find me on Instagram at Miranda Meadows with two S's. Whoa. Yeah, whatever. And then I run a show at the comedy store called The Players. It's half stand-up, half-short films. Do you ever want to do it? Hey. I just kind of want to try stand-up. I'm scared. Yeah, if you ever want to do it. All right. I feel like Mary Elizabeth, you have, you are so funny. And you have been on one of the funniest shows for the last two decades. I feel like just

via osmosis, you could have a pretty decent five in your back pocket. Okay, I'll work on my tight five. An hour is, that's too much to remember you guys. Well, our next one's January 17th, 2020. And it sounds like Mary Elizabeth is headlining. And if you want, and then

you can play your short too if you want. Seriously. And then I just started a podcast. We recorded our first episode last week. It's not out yet but maybe by the time this is out. It will be. It will. It's called Dead on Sunset. Let's go. Dead on something. What's it about?

It's me and my friend Effie. We have the same last name. We just found out we are the same great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandpa. Whoa. And she's also a door guy at the comedy store. I'm a dorka at the comedy store. We just honestly talk about her. She's a trans woman.

She detransitioned. Now she's re-transitioning. We talked about me being molested. Wow. A laugh riot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're going to monetize it a lot. Definitely. I can feel the advertisers just like, oh, chomping at the bed.

They're like, release the podcast already. It's going to be fun. All right. Well, everybody, if you liked what you heard today, please go and review us wherever you listen to this podcast. Five stars, please. None of this. Why rate something four stars? You know, like, I actually, I prefer a three star to a four star because it's like, just bump it up to the five. What could possibly, I'm not learning from your review. I'm not changing anything. Three's right in the middle. Just give me five or one. If you have three, then you have to

supplement it with a comment or an actual written out like, here's what I like and here's what I didn't like. No, if I leave a small tip, I must speak to someone about it. I would never just leave a small tip because of bad service. If it's bad enough that it's affecting the tip, I'm talking to somebody. Oh, love that you're like, I will tip you. Oh, I'll tip you.

But you'll know. But you'll know what you did wrong. Happy New Year, everybody. We are in for such a great 2026. I can feel it. It's going to be perfect. The vibes are immaculate and I cannot wait to talk to you next time. I'm Joel Kimbooster.

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