Bad Dates with Jameela Jamil - Suckin’ On A Tamagotchi (w/ Jason Sklar, Nurse Blake, and Randy Sklar)

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

On a new episode of Bad Dates, host Joel Kim Booster welcomes comedians Jason Sklar, Nurse Blake, and Randy Sklar to discuss their most iconic dating fiascos. Jason has a situation straight out of Frasier, but his date would know that reassuring pat anywhere, Nurse Blake talks about a youthful relationship mainly conducted in the big stall, and Randy did do the crime, so must now sit and do the time. If you’ve had a bad date you’d like to tell us about, our number is 984-265-3283, and our email is [e-mail], we can’t wait to hear all about it! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for video clips. Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, Fire Island, Loot Season 2The Sklar Brothers: SuperSklars.com, Dumb People TownNurse Blake: Shocked Advised tour, check out NurseBlake.com for tickets Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes.

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Bad Dates. Hello. Welcome to another episode of Bad Dates. I am your host, Joel Kim Booster. As always, coming to Booster, as always. Coming to you now, this is the first episode we've recorded post-engagement. I did it, you guys. Mm-hmm.

I made it out of the trenches. I am on my way to being married. And that means that from this point forward, everything I say on this podcast, you should take so seriously, because I did it. I did it. No more bad dates for me. Hopefully, I mean, we'll see, I guess. Wow, that's a dark way to start the podcast,

but we're gonna bring ourselves out of the darkness and start off with a text from Tamara. Bad dates. This is what she said. I just tried a dating app for the first time. I told my date we could meet for coffee thinking it was the safest way to meet a stranger. After five minutes of small talk, this guy tells me he needs me to know two things about him. He's been told he can get very clingy and possessive, he's working on it, but it's a process. And two, he currently has some kind of infection.

Not only does it burn when he pees, but he thinks one time he saw smoke come out. I thought it was a joke, but it was very much not. I told him he needed to see a doctor and took my coffee to go. This was the only guy on the app that I was even curious about. Who the fuck shares that shit right away? What happened to where are you from and when did crazy dick infections become icebreakers? Hell of a first impression. Tamara, you didn't ask necessarily for any advice, but I will say I'm kind of on his side. I think where he went wrong is he actually should have said this to you before the date

on the app, whatever messaging platform you were using to communicate. I think these are great things to get out of the way. Do I think you should probably have put off meeting in person for the date until after his antibiotics had kicked in? Probably. Because, I mean, what was the end game there? I mean, there was no going back to his place with his smoking dick. But I do think I don't know how old you are. I don't know why this is your first time sort of

wading into the dating app pool, but the fact that you found a man who was open and honest with you about any possible red flags that could come around the bend before you even got invested is quite frankly more than you could ever hope for at this day and age with the apps. So if this is not something that you look forward to or interested in, I think you should go back to finding a man at a book club, meeting him organically and going from there. Good luck to you. Maybe try a different app too. I don't know. But before we go much further in this, I do want to introduce our guests today and they can weigh in on this. We actually have a medical expert with us today

and that is of course Jason Sklar. Welcome Jason. I'm gonna quickly introduce Randy Sklar as well. We do have both Sklar brothers with us today on the pod. Big git. And then spiritually sort of the third Sklar brother. I think a lot of people say this about him. Nurse Blake, welcome to the pod, all three of you.

Thank you so much for being here with me. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Oh my God, what a treat. I'm gonna start with you, Nurse Blake. Smoking dick. Not seen this on WebMD before, not experienced this myself. You are sort of in the trenches of sexual health.

Have you ever come into contact with a smoking dick? You know what? I've seen a lot of dicks on and off the clock. I've seen hot dicks, I've seen dicks that are really cold, but never a dick with smoke coming out of it. Absolutely not. Bring me your smoking, your huddled. Your cut, your uncut, your to the right,

your to the left, et cetera, et cetera. Never seen a dick with a fog machine. Like, what is that? But I totally agree with you, he was honest. We gotta appreciate that. Yeah. And it is very telling that the bar is set so low in 2024.

Yeah, he's just honest. Yeah. What if he, Joel, what if he would have said right after I was smoking, I've seen it smoke before, and then he said, but I really believe in a woman's right to choose. See now she's in a tough spot, right? Cause she's like, ah.

Your move, Tamara. Yeah, she's like, God, what are my principles worth having him, you know, smokes in one hole of mine? I don't know. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I don't know if you go down on that. Are you going to have lung issues? Are you going to have respiratory distress?

COPD, yeah. COPD. What if you realize that you become addicted to that? Do you have to get a dick patch on your arm to sort of lean yourself off it? I actually think, Jay, I actually think this is the only way you can get mesothelioma, but that's, again, I don't know how that works.

Let's introduce our guests. I mentioned them up top. I said how famous they are, but that's again, I don't know how that works. Let's introduce our guests. I mentioned them up top. I said how famous they are, but Jason and Randy Sklar, comedians, podcasters, and actors from shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Better Call Saul, huge in the straight community. Two of the biggest boy shows. Oh yeah, those two.

In the history of boy shows. We were in Entourage. Wait, really? Yeah. Oh yeah, that two. In the history of boy shows. We were in Entourage. Wait, really? Yeah. Oh yeah, that's like even taking it to the next level of straight. But then we just did What We Do in the Shadows. Oh, okay. Cool, nice.

Nurse Blake, comedian currently touring the nation with shock-advised tour and has extensive medical experience to answer any medical advice that may or may not come up on this pod sanctioned We cannot be sued because you are a nurse. No, they I just say see your doctor. Yeah. Nope Doctor you have to get you take responsibility for what is currently growing on my lower back. Let's get into it. Jason Sklar, you're up first. Give us a little context. Where are you at? Are you in a relationship? Are you, you know, out of the trenches, as we say?

How long has that been? Etc, etc. So way out of the trenches, as we say, how long has that been, et cetera, et cetera? So way out of the trenches, just celebrated my 20 year wedding anniversary. Whoa. Congrats. Two kids, I got a thank you, I got a 15 year old son and a 10 year old daughter. I'm kind of married to everybody. I mean, the whole family becomes your life. And so, you know, you're just,

you got a lot of people you're in a relationship with. That's what they don't tell you when you have kids. They grow up and now you're in a relationship with those people too. So it's a lot. Be very hard to have other relationships. Yeah, it's tough for me because as a gay man right now in this climate, I could not say I was in a relationship

with my kids. That- No, you cannot. That would end up on Fox News tomorrow. Yeah. You gotta be very careful. Yeah, yeah, not in this climate not anymore, but you can get away with not in this Not with this inflation See hey Joel you seen these gas prices Absolutely

Interest rates, all right. So no, so it's been a long time since I was in the day. So this story comes from many, many moons ago when I was single. I was living on my own here in Los Angeles, down kind of near on Genesee between, just north of Beverly. So in those streets sort of behind the Fairfax area, like right by CBS, television. Yeah, West Hollywood.

People living in Los Angeles right now are jerking it right now. They love the neighborhood streets. Oh, when you get like the, you're right by the old bagel broker. Like just, oh, would anyone in Janicey, oh, it's on, it's on. Two dollar movie theater.

Oh. Oh. So I decide to, and this is where like straight brain and pre-dating and like having not dated, but I was interested in like three women kind of at once. And I was like, I'm gonna invite them all to a giant party. What a dumb, like a stupid idea. Why?

I mean, that is, that's a sitcom. That's a Frasier move. It's a totally. You're doing a Frasier. I'm 100% doing a Frasier and of that time. Okay, before we get to that, what is the title of that Frasier episode? I think it's called, the name of that episode

is called Hot Pockets, because he's got hot pockets of women all around. He's serving hot, but why are you serving hot pockets? You know how to cook. I don't know how to cook, but I gotta get these things out of the thing because I got this woman over here and the hot pockets. It sounds like a perfect farce.

You got smoke coming out of the hot pockets. Perfect. Smoke coming out of his penis. You know. Everywhere. Yes. Yes. So I invite them all over and among, it's not just three people, it's a whole party. You're not a complete psycho. This is how completely out of it I was when it came to knowing what to do. I wanted to make mojitos,

and so I made a little mojito, make your own mojito bar. I spelled the word mojito wrong. That's how you know I'm young and don't know what I'm doing. It's the M-O-H-I-T-O. What am I? The whitest, dumbest, so I, whatever. I make a mojito bar, someone pointed it out to me, I immediately took the sign down.

Fun party though. And all three of the women came at different times and finally the party starts to thin out and one of the women stays of three. And I'm like, okay, all right. That's the one. Sort of, you know, nature's way of telling. And I'm like, okay, all right. That's the one. Sort of, you know, nature's way of telling you which one to go for, yeah.

Yeah, it is. Process of elimination. That's right. Process of elimination, by default, no one chose this, but here we are. The most romantic way to find someone. Yeah, it's a stamina game with you. It is a game, it's right, it's right.

Game of, it's a game of attrition. Yeah. It's, which the other title of that show would be Game of Bones. So I'm sitting, so we're, you know, everyone leaves and we're hanging and it's, you know, fun and I'm like, oh my God, we'll see where this goes. Let's have a good time. We're young, you know, and obviously I'm not going to push it because I want to make sure she's comfortable.

So, you know, we're hanging out on the couch making out just sitting there and it's as far as I can say It's not great. Like it's there's no spark. No passion. No nothing. I'm sort of like Like almost petting her the back of her that like head like it's almost like I don't know what to do There isn't much passion. I'm sort of- Clearly, clearly. Patting her on the back, like good job, good for you. You know when you see someone who shouldn't be doing something but then they achieve something,

you're like good for them. So it was bad, like really not good. And so much so that about 40 minutes later, I'm like why don't I take you home or make sure, you know, I don't know, whatever. It just kind of wasn't- You were petting this woman for 40 minutes later, I'm like, why don't I take you home or make sure, you know, I don't know, whatever. It just kinda wasn't advancing. You were petting this woman for 40 minutes? I mean, it was, maybe it was 30 minutes.

Like a petting zoo. It was like a petting zoo. It was like 10 minutes and it felt like 40 minutes. So I didn't call her, I didn't call her, you know? I'm like, we all know where that went. That went straight down into the toilet. We don't need to like. I think most reasonable adults would say,

you owe this woman nothing. Nothing. You owed her a ride home, adults would say, you owe this woman nothing. Nothing. You owed her a ride home, I would say. And that didn't work. I gave her a ride home and pre-Uber, post-Semmas. Little drunk still. I very gentlemanly drove her drunk home. I drunkly drove her home.

Took her life in my hands. All right, so then a couple weeks later. You took her life in your hands and you petted it just So this is gonna turn into the straightest story that's ever been told on the socket so or the gazed You started it with mojitos and I don't know any straight man that drinks mojitos Thank you Brazil, thank. That's actually Cuba. All right, so I don't know. So I'm going to a comedian's softball game.

So we're throwing the ball around as you're warming up before the game on the infield. And I'm throwing to this extremely talented lesbian first baseman, fair space woman. She's amazing. And she's catching everything. I'm like, she's incredible. This is so fun.

I can throw it anywhere and she's catching it. She's like, I throw it low, she kicks it on the short hop, I throw it high, she jumps up and catches it. I'm like, this is better than a frisbee, like this is the greatest thing I've ever, I've never had more fun playing catch with somebody in my life. Then I spot out the corner of my eye

coming down the first base line, who's coming down the first baseline? No. This woman and her friend. And I'm like- And her friend. And a friend, and I'm like, okay, she's with her friend. I'm not gonna step out of the throwing line

and make a big deal. It is what it is. She's coming down, I'm sure at some point this afternoon, I'll talk to her, right? How did she know about this game? She was kind of maybe a comedian, hanger on her-ish, person-y. Comedy adjacent.

Chuckle fucker. Right. Thank you. So I keep throwing ball with Lesbian Amazing, and I go to make a throw, and as I'm releasing it from my hand, I know that it's bad. I know that whatever I'm throwing,

I lost track of where this one was because I'm throwing, but I released the ball from my hand. As it's leaving my hand, I'm like, oh, this is not good. Still have confidence that this woman's gonna catch it. This is what Michael Richards felt as soon as he dropped the end ball. Like he's like, well, it's out.

It's out. It's out. I can't do anything to get it back. So I released the ball. It takes off. She can't get it. It goes over her head. And I don't even see it, but I hear the smack

of a softball with human skin. I hear a smack and then I hear a scream and then I hear crying. and then I hear crying and then I see everyone in a huddle gather around this person in the dugout and in my heart I'm like, please don't let it be her. Please don't let it be her. I rush over, this is my fault, and as I wean through the crowd, I look down and it's her. She's crying, crying, crying, screaming, crying. It hit her in the face. Crying. And of course, she should be. And everyone's, are you okay? Are you okay? I'm behind her. I'm patting her on the back, which felt very comfortable, but it is exactly what it was.

Yeah. I mean, that's what was happening in the initial time. It was go-to. She looks up, realizes that it's me, maybe from the pet. I don't know. I don't know how she knew it was me. Looks up, realizes. I recognize that pet everywhere. I know that.

I know that pet. I know that cold feeling of someone just tapping my back. I know that platonic pet from my. Patting, patting, patting. She looks at me, tears in her eyes, in front of like 40 other comics. And she's like, why didn't you call me back? I'm like, no! I gotta say, you sort of were like, oh, this is like the straightest story in the world. But there's a lot of like...

It is also on the same token, like a very gay story, like not being able to understand how to physically interact with a woman. Correct. Softball is so gay. Being bad at throwing. Right, yes. Interacting with a lesbian, a lesbian letting you down. I really relate to this story in so many ways.

You went through the seven steps of gait-em right there. Right. Right. Bad dates. Bad dates. We're gonna talk to nurse Blake now. Listen, I, my parents, I'm from Florida. They put me through gay conversion therapy. It didn't work.

From when I was 15 to 18. So right when they like kicked me out of the house, I was like through gay conversion therapy. It didn't work from when I was 15 to 18. So right when they like kicked me out of the house, I was like, I need somebody. And I just married the first guy. He was six, seven. He was really tall. I wish him all the best TDs. And yeah.

This is the first time I've ever heard of gay conversion therapy not working. I just want to put that out there. I just want to say successful practice. Sorry, just want to, it's such a successful practice. I'm sorry, I'm sorry you had to go through that. No, it's okay. Actually, it's like sending me to gay conversion therapy like through puberty, like with a thousand other gay men.

It was great. It was kind of fun. You probably hooked up a lot. You hooked up a lot, number one. Number two, it's like going to a Catholic school. I learned my best tricks there, so thank you, mom and dad. It is like a finishing school for gay teens

in a lot of ways. It's a happy ending school for gay teens. There's no refunds. So is this story, is this story taking place in the post divorce era, is this pre divorce era, where we're at? We are pre divorce, we are going through through when I was in gay conversion therapy. I love it.

I was like 15 years old. There was a guy I liked. So my parents, they, I started out in public school, then they pulled me out. They put me in another school, a private school for a little bit until they found out I was gay then they moved me to a Christian school. And I really like this guy from my first public school. He was so hot. But after my parents like split me up, they moved me to a new school, took away my cell

phone. They were like following me around. Like, it was fucking crazy. Well, we had a friend, a mutual friend that would connect us and our dates, he would leave the public school, come into the private school. We would meet and have dates in the big stall in the bathroom. Oh my God. Not the big stall.

The handicapped stall. Otherwise known as the handicapped stall. The big stall. Let's not sugarcoat things. You were taking away access from a person whom I needed. Yeah. Listen, I needed it. He was handicappable.

Right. Listen, I needed a date. He was handy capable. Right, I needed a date, and we would honestly have dates in the big stall in the bathroom. Incredible. And that was, I mean, that was- When we say dates. Like what are we talking about here? Flowers, dinner, dinner by candlelight.

We would literally eat together. He wouldn't pet me, because that's not, that was not the vibe. That's not how it goes. But we would hook up in the bathroom and stuff. It was fun, you know what I mean? I'll never forget it. So thank you so much, Daniel, for the times in the bathroom after private school. I have a question, just from being a straight dude from growing up that way. In high school, dude from growing up that way.

In high school, and this is a question to both of you guys, how did you, was it just obvious who was gay, or do you like, how did you know, okay, I like this person, he's hot, but I don't know if he's gay or not. Like, at what point did you know, okay, it's on? Is the thing that the senators did, like in Minnesota, like tapping underneath a bathroom stall, is that really where there's signals and stuff given. You get the vibe. Yeah, there's a little like, you see.

I don't know exactly how old you are, but for me, it was my space. And like, I met all of my high school. It was your space. Do you remember AIM chat rooms? Oh, yeah, I would date guys in the chat space. It was your space. Do you remember AIM chat rooms? Oh yeah. I would date guys in the chat rooms. I was like surfer boy. I mean. 789.

The way I was a 33 year old woman named Sonia in a lot of those chat rooms too. I mean. I knew I recognized you. What? Yeah. Yeah. So you were having these dates in the big bathroom stall.

Yeah. Your parents find out they send you conversion therapy. Didn't work. And then they pulled me from that school. Once that school found out I was gay, they put me in another school and then they found out I was gay, but then they let me finish

in the first public school that I started. I got to graduate. It's nice that they let you finish first. So it was actually very nice. They'd let me. And what's so funny is they're swingers, you guys. Like they're not even nice. Your parents were swingers?

Yeah. What? So why are they hung up about anything? And they're judging me. Yeah, a lot of rules for thee, but not rules for me. That's interesting. What is the biblical basis for swinging, I wonder. Very interesting.

So how long were these dates happening? They were happening like every week for like a month or two until I moved out from that school. So this is like a long relationship. Yeah, totally. Really, I remember just sneaking out of the house all the time and I'd set off the alarms, you know. I would actually, I would tell my parents I would go to church. Oh yeah. And I'm from Orlando, so there's a church I would go to, but then I would get dropped

off at the Parliament House, which was like the gay club Mecca in Orlando. So I'd hang out there instead of go to church. So yeah, I had fun. I mean, even though I was going through gay conversion therapy, you know, I still was finding myself, I guess. Interesting. And what would you say you took with you moving forward after these bathroom stall dates? I would say don't use the big stall,

don't use a handicapped stall. No, it's probably the biggest lesson I learned. You know what I mean? Well, I mean, wait, wait. It's pretty funny. At any point was somebody in a wheelchair being like, I really have to go and you guys were like, five more minutes, I'm on a date?

No, thank goodness. So then I think you're okay. You're okay. I was okay, right? I would have to go and you guys were like five more minutes I'm on a date. No, thank goodness. So then I think you're okay. You're okay. I was okay. I would have left for sure. I would have finished. Of course. I would have left. It's respectable. And you know, listen, I think you needed it in a way that, you know, the small style just wouldn't have sufficed. You need the space.

You do your business and don't touch the clams casino. Whatever food you guys are eating in there. Hands off the tablecloth. I will say Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2016 in the Charlotte airport, I was shitting in a regular sized stall. And this man next to me in the Charlotte airport, I was shitting in a regular size stall. This man next to me in the big stall, I saw his hands first on the ground.

And then I saw him fully golem, poke his head underneath the stall and proposition me. I had been a comedian long enough at this point that my instinct, my first instinct, wasn't to yell, scream, or recoil. It was to grab my phone and take a picture. And unfortunately, I didn't get his face in the picture. I did get his hands on the ground though where a wedding ring fully featured. Oh, of course.

Oh, shit. You guys put your hands up to the camera. Let's see. No, mine is not on. Do they have, oh, shit. You guys put your hands up to the camera. Let's see. Oh, mine is not. Oh, yeah. This man was like, oh, I'm, I'm almost positive he was a state senator, but, um, probably that makes sense. Yeah. On Mother's Day. Yeah. That makes sense. That's, um, that's bold to hear the sounds of someone shitting and then stick your face. I know it's like what, in what world? At the airport. Good word.

In what world? No. I don't get it. It's not an aphrodisiac for me, but everybody's got their own kinks. The name of that Frasier episode is The Layover. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Bad Dates. Bad Dates.

And finally, you know, we had a nurse Blake sandwich with scar bread and we're going to get now moved to Randy's scar. You did sort of set us up a little bit. You've been married longer than Jason. Oh yeah, I've been married since 2001. So we're closely coming up on, you know, we're next year will be our 20. We just said we're at our 23rd, but we're coming up on 25 years. And we were together since 97. First moved to New York. Just, you know, like young single dude in New York.

You're like, I want to like go and have fun and enjoy myself. And I wound up hooking up with a comic and because they were funny and because they were fun and fun to hang out with. And so I actually focused so much on that, that I didn't really even pay attention to all the other like crippling and, you know, not anxiety, but issues that the person had. And of course, you know, we're as you can tell, probably for we're J and I are very nice people. He grew up in the Midwest. You're nice to people. You should be nice to people. That's just the way it goes.

And I think that went came forward and I didn't really have my voice to step up and be like, hey, this doesn't feel good for me at all. I getting kind of beat up here. I think the distinction for both of you too, and this is like, this is a rare thing, I think, among straight men, but among men in general, is being nice to people even though you don't want to fuck them.

Yeah. And that is, and I think like, it's so, everyone is so fucked in the head that they, if you encounter someone who's being really nice to you, you are so used to dealing with people who are only nice to you if you want to find them. If they want something, that's right. Yeah, that it's like, it's sort of a short-circuit moment

when you meet somebody from Ohio who is just being nice. Well, so I just, well, I definitely wanted to fuck this person, but like, and we did, and I was nice, but then what I didn't realize is that the relationship was not healthy for me. Like I just took it and took it and took it to the point where I did the one thing where you just take it and take it and take it. And then finally I was like, I'm going to go hook up with someone else. That's what I'm going to do. And you know,

New York City is enormous and there are so many different groups of people and you can do that in a way that the person does not ever see in that way. You're not going to run into them at South Ball. No, it is fully disappearing into the mist. If you do it right, if you did the fog, if you do it right. Of course, as a 23, 24 year old, I was stupid and didn't do it right. And I, as a 20, it was really 23 years old. And I hooked up with this other girl on New Year's Eve.

I was supposed to hang out with the girlfriend. And I was like, I'm I'll I'll meet you somewhere. I was like, you know, I literally what I should have said was several weeks earlier, this is over. I can't handle the way you're treating me. It's over. But instead, I was like, maybe I'll see you later. Maybe I'll see you later on New Year's Eve, a very important night for many people. When the clock struck 12 on that night,

I was at a performance venue at Luna Lounge, which was in New York City. It was like the every Monday night was the big show, the big alternative show that happened every single week was called Eating It. It was like wonderful show and they were having a New Year's Eve thing. So we went there and I'm literally on the stage. Like could I have been a sign at something with people all over the place and I'm not, we're not, people

aren't watching the show but everyone's like hooking up on New Year's Eve and everyone's like the thing goes down and I'm kissing this person and the other person walked in. It was bad, just terrible. I felt bad, but at the same time I was like, I'm a little liberated, because I'm now done from this thing and this is over. So I thought that was- This is a common, I mean, men do this, women do this,

queer people do this, non-binary people do this. It is a, when you do not have the skills or the tool set to get out of it, you just push the self-destruct button. That's right. We don't condone, but we understand. Yeah. So, I mean, I was like, well, that was wrong.

And I felt bad about hurting someone's feelings. I felt good about hooking up with this other person, but I felt bad about that. And I was like, oh, man. Totally. But I'm like, all right, well, that's that. I'm a shitty person in this instance. And that's that. I'm the shitty person in this instance and that's it. However, we then are like, you know, we're new into it.

23 years old in New York, chasing the dream, following the dream, trying to do, gaining some traction, like starting to do shows and some good getting known, got to a point where we got to perform at an industry showcase, in front of some people who could represent us. In fact, in front of a guy who still represents us to this day.

Oh, cool. So we're performing at this thing, and it's a huge long list of all the great people that we performed with all around, and people that you recognize and know. Well, she's on the show, along with us, and she's on third, and we're on maybe like 12th or 13th and you're sitting in there kind of watching,

getting a vibe for what the whole thing is. This is the chick you kissed or the chick you didn't kiss? It's the chick I dissed, not the chick I kissed. Ah, okay, I like this. So she goes up and instead of doing her set of comedy, which was funny, I mean, she had a lot of funny bits and whatnot, she proceeded to tell the story,

knowing I was in the audience of how I fucked her over that night on New Year's Eve, which was somewhat fresh and literally to no laughs, but talk about torpedoing like an opportunity and whatever and put us in just such a weird place. And like everybody- Did she mention you by name? No, but she was like-

Did not mention me by name. He's a comedian. She danced around it. She was waging psychological warfare specifically just on you. No, no, no, she made it clear that it was us, or him. Oh, yeah, I mean it was clear enough. He's a comedian who has a twin brother

who also is a comedian. Like it was very clearly. And this is pre Lucas Brothers. So really, you're the only one. We were blazing a trail. And so she, I just remember it was super uncomfortable. You're like, why are you doing this in this moment right here?

You gotta give her credit. I mean, she like, she went for the knife right there. I mean, as a gay man, I have to say she is iconic for that. I am right. Same. I'm standing by. And she is very loved by the gays. Not afraid to crash and burn in a fiery rage.

Not afraid. And so Jay and I were like, oh, man, this is very weird. It put us in a very weird space. Thankfully, I had Jay. Thankfully, I had the other relationship that I was in, which is with Jason, but Jay got it together. We wound up having like a really good set and it was really fun.

And we wound up getting representation. It wound up working out for us in the end, but sitting into that moment and just like sweating as this person is just like going off on you and knowing that you fully deserved what was coming because I did what I did, but also understand the factors that led to that happening in the first place. But that was sort of coming out of it. And the thing that I took away,

because listen to you ask, like, what's the thing you take away from this whole thing is that I was like, I will never date another comic again. Makes sense. So in a lot of ways, there's a sliding doors sort of situation here where if you had not cheated on this woman, she would be the first female late night host. Yeah. Network TV.

Probably. Yeah. Bad dates. This was a really, really fun panel. I'm so glad that we were able to do this. Sklar Brothers, where can people find you? We do a podcast called Dumb People Town. Both of you guys should do this, which is just us looking at the world. We believe that the world's getting dumber and the only way to fight back is through comedy. So we do Dumb People Town, we do a sports podcast. If anybody's interested in that,

that's a weekly thing. But we are doing a bunch of stand-up shows and stuff that we have coming out. We're doing a show called Tag It, which I want you to do, where comedians go up and they do their sets. And while they're doing their sets, Jay and I are off to the side writing tags that we then pitch you on stage afterwards. I actually really love it when comics do that. I don't care. I love it too.

I don't mind when I'm in comics. We love it. Oh my God, we've given so much, we've gotten great tags. It's like the universe giveth, and you giveth out to the universe, and it is again, this is the group of comedians that we have, we all gotta help each other out, and we can.

And so I love that this show, it shows how collaborative comedy actually really can be. That sounds so fun, I am so down. Superschoolers.com for everything. If you're in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we're doing a show at the Michigan Theater on the 27th. So come, come and just see us live. It is really fun. I mean, Joel, you've seen us do stuff. It's like hard to... There aren't a lot of comedy teams out there doing what we do. People say,

what's the best part about being a comedy team? We say it's that we get to split the money. Yep. No, that's terrible. I've seen you guys and you guys are great. I love seeing you. Thank you. You guys are awesome. Thanks, Blake. Nurse Blake, I know you're on tour currently right now.

You can also check them out at the softball course. Yeah, you play us. Did you just call it a softball course? Yeah, sure. Softball course. Nurse Blake will not be appearing on the sports podcast anytime soon. You can find me in the big stall at Lake Mary Park School in Orlando, Florida. That's where I'll be. Yes.

No, I'm actually on tour with my shock advice for this fall. Hitting 50 cities, you get tickets at NurseBlake.com. I also do a nursing conference on a cruise ship every year. It's epic. We have the whole ship and you could register at NurseCon at C.com. Love it. Okay. Thank you guys so much. This has been another episode of Bad Dates. at nurseconnc.com. Love it. Okay. Thank you guys so much.

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