Podcrushed - Sophie & Nava React To Your Worst Dates

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

We asked, you answered. Sophie and Nava read YOUR worst date stories, submitted by Crushies all over the world. From car fires and peanut allergies to mystery billionaires and embarrassing mishaps, they share a mix of hilarious and cringe-worthy experiences. Plus, Sophie and Nava share their own dating disasters (which, unfortunately, are on par with yours). Laugh along with their live reactions to these unforgettable tales. And preorder our new book, Crushmore, here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Penn-Badgley/9781668077993    Look for the blue box at retailers everywhere or shop jlab.com and use code PODCRUSHED for 15% off your order today.   Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at skims.com/podcrushed. #skimspartner    Head to squarespace.com/PODCRUSHED to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code PODCRUSHED.   Take the online quiz and introduce Ollie to your pet. Visit https://www.ollie.com/podcrushed for 60% off your first box of meals! #ToKnowThemIsToLoveThem  Cymbiotika is hosting their biggest giveaway ever this summer. Head to Cymbiotika.com/summersweepstakes to learn more. 00:00 Intro 01:22 Worst Date Stories Begin02:55 Embarrassing Romantic Moments  07:29 Listener's Cringe-Worthy Dates  10:17 Unexpected Date Disasters  17:45 Awkward Public Displays  19:00 Embarrassing Moments Caught in the Act  19:25 High School Romance Mishaps  21:28 Awkward Funeral Date  22:50 Middle School Crush Gone Wrong  23:50 Tinder Date Disaster  26:47 Gym Date with a Narcissist  27:51 Homecoming Date Cringe  32:52 First Date Failures  36:06 Concluding Thoughts  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It'll be out October 14. We do tell some of our cringiest stories, some of our most luminous stories. And we wanted to invite you to tell your stories, your best or worst date stories, to be exact, For us to read live on the pod today, Sophie and I have actually not seen these yet. So we're really excited. We will be discovering these live with you. Yes. David compiled this list for us from the submissions that you sent in.

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I think probably my worst date story is a date with David. But we had like a date, you know, there's so much like anticipation for this date. I wanted it to be really, or I wanted it to be really romantic and we were just like fighting the whole time. We were spending money that we shouldn't have been spending. We were to like broke kids and we went to a fancy restaurant and it just, I think it says something about how like when you when there's so much hype around something, the like calm down is harder. So yeah, I think that's my worst date. What about you, Neva? I haven't been in a date in so long because the last three guys that I was like talking to or did end up on a date with all people that I met organically

ended up being polyamorous. And if that's your thing, you know, more power to you, but that's not my thing. And I don't know. There was just something about that that I found so unsettling that I was like, I think I need to take a break because I'm clearly like not attracting the kind of like monogamous man that I want to attract into my life. So those weren't bad dates. Those were just like surprising when at some point in the date the guy was like, so, you know. And three times in a row, two of them were in the same week. And I was like, why does this come happening to me? Oh my gosh. Okay, well, I can't wait to get into these stories from our listeners. Okay, here's story. Fourth of July, I went to the guy who I was seeing's house for the first time. About 10 minutes

in and he kissed me. I immediately knew he had had peanut something that day. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. I'm definitely allergic. Oh my God. So I sit for a minute before I say something and I text my mom, even though I was like 25, I would do the same, and tell her I'm coming over for my EpiPen and for her to monitor me. I asked the guy if he had peanut butter that day and he said, yeah, for lunch. I tell him I need to go because I'm breaking out real bad.

He got mad at me and told me if I just wanted to leave, I should have just gone and not made up a story. I ended up using the EpiPen and then going to the ER for about eight hours. per EpiPen rules. And he didn't check on me until about a week later. I called him out and he said, sorry, I thought you were faking.

Yeah, that was the end of that. P.S. love of the podcast. Wow. A near death experience on a first date or on a date. Near death. That is crazy.

Like literally almost died on that date, but almost died to prevent her from ending up with that bozo. True. True. A silver lining and everything. Have you ever had to use an EpiPen on anyone? No. No.

That seems really scary. I had to, to stick an EpiPen in someone's thigh, like a teenager. She was having an alert reaction. It is the scariest thing. You have to like whack it in. Poor girl. Oh my gosh.

That's so scary. Yeah. That would really freak me out. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you for submitting. I'm so sorry if you all wanted your names read. We forgot to ask you. So we're going to air on the side of not saying your names.

But we're so thankful that you submitted these stories. And in the future, we'll make sure to know what your preference is. In middle school, my best friend was, dating the sky for around six months, which was monumental to us at the time. Naturally, we thought it would be great if I started dating his best friend so we could all go out together. The four of us spent a full day at Nottsbury Farm and my date did not say a single word to me the entire time. I asked him many questions and gave him as many opportunities as I could think of, but the most he would give me was a small smile. Looking back, I'm sure he was very shy, but that day was

painfully awkward. That sucks. There's nothing worse than like a a double date working for two people, but not for the other two. I actually had that on steroids where I was dating someone and I wanted this dream so badly. This is like the dream for everyone, like two best friends, you know, date or marry two best friends. So I set my best friend up with his brother and they succeeded. They married, they have children. And we do not. But yeah, no, I feel for this girl. That happens sometimes. If my mother were alive, she would tell me that. I absolutely cannot tell this story.

And I also think that listeners are going to think that I'm a liar, but this is 100% a true story. When I was 22 years old, a billionaire from a Middle Eastern country, found out about me somehow. I wasn't, like, famous or anything, but he, like, heard about me, I think his sister or something, sent him a picture of me, he became very interested.

He flew to Texas. I was getting my master's degree at Trinity University in San Antonio. He flew to Texas to meet me. He sent my parents like a really expensive crystal vase, like a really famous brand with a letter asking their permission to take me out on a date so I was like oh my God

I'm in the princess diaries I'm gonna become like a Middle Eastern princess he anyway I don't want to say anything about him because I don't know I feel like he might sue me so I'm not gonna say what his business is but it was like a cool business that I would have been a part of

so I was like of course like planning out my life as like a billionaire's wife back before everyone was like you know no ethical billionaires I know a cool business that I would have been a part of I was like, if you were to have married, if the dates were to have succeeded and you were to have married him and you were. Totally. Totally. But he was like full, he was looking for a wife. That was like very clear. He was looking for like a, and he was much older. He was looking for a young wife. Anyway, he like sent a limo to pick me up at my dorm room. No, no, I didn't live in a dorm room. I was 20 too. I lived in an apartment, but like off campus. So he sent a limo to pick me off at my apartment off campus. Took me to the only five star restaurant in San Antonio at the time and didn't talk to me the whole night. Like the whole. night would just, I would ask him questions and he would just stare at me. And I think he said one thing about asking me if I liked the meal. And then he said one thing about how he'd had a dream that

we were going to get married, which I found so weird and bizarre to be like the only thing you would say to me. And then I never went out with him again. And my mom was really mad at me, I have to say. She wanted that billionaire money. She wanted the dowry. She was just like, he was obviously so nervous and shy why can't you just go on a second date with him and see if he opens up I think that's why she was mad at me she's like you're so rigid I was like mom that was the most uncomfortable experience of my life I'm not going to do it again yeah but yeah so that's my relating to this story oh my gosh yeah I think this is a this is like a epidemic where men just don't ask questions that's like a wider issue I think yeah okay it's crazy

next story this is a short and sweet in eighth grade I had a maddened crush on a boy named Brian. He finally asked me out and took me to the movies. I got all dolled up in my finest 1986 fit. We went to see Stand By Me. I was dying for him to hold my hand. Instead, I got a lap full of vomit. The pie eating scene where Lardass starts projectile vomiting set Brian off. It was our first and last day. It's got to be one of the worst things. That's horrible. No, that's horrible. I wonder, I have so many. I have so many. follow-up questions. Like, did she stay? Did she immediately go to the bathroom to clean up the vomit? Did she gag? Like, what did she do in the immediate aftermath of that? I know that you have to send us a follow-up note. We want to know what happened. That is... Sophie, what would you do if someone threw up on you? Because you're very gentle. So I'm just curious how you would react. If someone threw up on me, all my gentle nature would go out the window. I cannot. I think I have

like just like one step below a phobia of vomit. I think a lot of most people hate it, but I will do anything I can to avoid it. Yeah, I cry every time I throw up. And I do have a really, if I like sniff that, if I get like a whiff of vomit or I like see it, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I would have been thrown up right back at that guy. Horrible. Thanks for submitting. Okay. Next story. My mom angrily crashed my first date. Oh, wow. In middle school, I had my very first date. It was at the mall and I was so nervous. Back in these days, I had a shared house key with my mom because we lived with other family. Because I was so nervous about my first date, I forgot to give my mom the house key after she dropped me off at the mall. So I got on my first

day and all is going well. We're holding hands, walking around hot topic. Then my mom comes into the store yelling for me. I was so embarrassed and she was pissed. She had driven all the way home and realized I took the key with me. She had to drive all the way back to the mall and take the key and me back home. It was humiliating that my mom crashed my date. and that it only lasted about the 30 minutes it took for her to drive there and back. My boyfriend broke up with me via text the next day, L.O.L. Wait, why did he break up with you?

Red flag. Yeah, I think that's such an overreaction. Yeah, I'm like, did he have, like, a plan for what was supposed to happen at the end of that day? Right. That just seems like such an overreaction. Totally. But I loved that she said they were walking around Hot Topic.

So nostalgic. I didn't grow up in the U.S. Are there still hot topics? I don't know, actually. I don't know if they're, I feel like I never see it around. So it's a thing of the past maybe. It was definitely like iconic, iconic in my childhood. Yeah.

Yeah, parents getting involved. I mean, that's a case for no dating before like some level of independence, you know? Because when you're still dependent on your parents for, rides and picking up and dropping off and keys and yeah there's bound to be some interjection from them makes sense yeah were you allowed to date never no I blame my parents for my current issues for making me wait too long to date it was like such delayed development yeah I wasn't allowed to date till I was 16 okay and did you when you turned 16 were you like fiending um no I think I by then I was like

like I started dating a lot of long distance people, which like is almost not real. Yeah. Yeah, it's a different experience for sure. Yeah, I had started going to this like American summer camp and then I just kept falling in love with boys at that camp. Yeah, I feel you. So yes, I was like dating, but it was like, it was like AIM messages. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's tricky figuring out the timing. Okay, I'm going to read the next one. Summer of freshman year of college, I was on a date when his car caught on fire while on the highway in Connecticut. it got out unharmed but after he knew I was safe he turned to me and said wish I was still with my ex-girlfriend what do you think he's like lap his life flashed before his eyes and he was like you're not she's not the one she's like a moment of clarity in my mind I was saying so do I

because then I wouldn't have been the one running for my life from the car when it caught on fire That is so crazy That really does sound like He just like He had a near-death experience And he was like, okay And now I know what I need to do I need to go back to my ex

Yeah Veronica's not the one It's Chelsea You know That was his like I'm sorry that that That you were the recipients That is

That's so funny That's great Well sometimes you need a little fire True To know what to do Okay. This is anonymous, I hope. Yes, it is. Anyway, we brought some food after school once and walked a mile to a park and sat on a bench for like four hours. And the park was connected to a gate that like went into a preschool. People kept talking to us and just wouldn't leave us alone. Dog walkers, runners, sweet old people and we talked for ages and then we were left to ourselves and we talked and started making out, then turned to see 30 preschool kids just staring. So awkward. Then 10 minutes. is later, an old friend we hadn't seen for a while, showed up bald. And we found out he had, oh my, what? Keep going. We found out he had cancer. Such a strange five hours of my life.

Wow. Do you think I should read that line again? Is it bad that I was laughing? No, no. I think it was clear what you were feeling. It was like, oh, I didn't know where it was going. Okay. Oh my gosh. Yeah. This was a strange one minute of my life. It was just a very strange comedy of Like rollercoaster. The preschoolers. The friend. Oh, my gosh. Why are you making out?

In broad daylight when the preschoolers are out. I was like, when you first started reading this story, I was imagining like a dark, you know, like nighttime in the park. Yeah, that's on you. Sorry. That does seem like it's on him. And we'll be right back. All right. So let's just, let's just real talk, as they say for a second.

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Like as an adult. Yeah. They're like, ah. Yeah, yeah. You still love me. Yeah. Yeah, no. I can't think.

I know there's more. There's more salacious stuff, but, oh, no, actually one time, sorry. This actually does have to do with dates and love and romance. My high school boyfriend and I were at my house. This is like to me a sign that teenagers have no inhibition. They just have no concept of consequences. I was at my house and we knew that my mom was home. And my mom, my parents were very strict about,

They had told me the same thing as you, Nava, even more. They said, no dating until you're married. But I, like, forced my will, and I had a high school boyfriend. Fine. They accepted it eventually. He and I were making out on my bed. Nothing, like, clothes were on, you know, but we were kissing. And my mom walked in.

And I told her, we're tickling each other. And she still talks about that. She's like, how dare you? Like, it's insulting. That's so funny. Sophie. What did she say in the moment? Actually, in the moment, she just left.

Like, I think I didn't even notice that she came. And then she talked to me about it afterwards, like, scolded me. Yeah. And I said, oh, no, you're mistaken. We were tickled each other. You're mistaken, Helen. Yeah, that's probably. Oh, Helen.

of you. That's so funny. Yeah, I can't think of, I think just like being caught dancing in like a supermarket or something. That's cute. Like someone like, yeah, I feel like there's probably something more embarrassing. But I can't think of anything. When I was like six, I was like playing doctor with another little kid in the community and my mom like opened the bathroom door and our parents talked to both of us. But that was a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a good one. But I feel like, and I feel like that's a common experience, honestly. There's so much curiosity at that age. So much, you know. I just got to know what's going on. Okay. I'm next, I guess.

Okay. It was my best friend's funeral who died from cancer. Oh, I went in my little black dress. What are these stories such a mix of like, I don't even know the tone of this yet. Okay. I'm going to keep going. I went in my little. black dress in sixth grade and some dude in my math class asked if he could be my date the funeral

be my date to the funeral and i said i don't feel comfortable with that okay that's good and then he showed up to the funeral with flowers for me sweet i guess and then sat next to me and tried to touch my thigh and i said no w tf so yeah that's a story love you guys so excited to see you live in october in l a Oh, we're excited to see you too. Aw. Yeah. Like, time and a place, buddy. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I think the first, the first red flag was date to the funeral. Yeah. I think that, you know. And I'm proud of our listener who had her what's about her. She's like, no, that's weird. Yeah. And I'm sorry about your friend. And to have a best friend who passes away at any point is really tragic.

but in sixth grade, that's really hard. So yeah, I'm sorry and I'll be thinking about your friend. Okay. I went out of a date with a guy in the eighth grade. We had been talking for a while and I really liked him. I thought he liked me too, but it turns out he was just pretending to like me because he wanted to get closer to my friend group. Come to find out he has a crush on one of my guy friends.

I don't know how I didn't see it sooner because he would often subtly throw in questions about my guy friend, but none of the other friends from my circle. A lot of the kids at the school found out about it because it was a small town and I was super embarrassed and hurt. Aw. I'm sorry.

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like middle school is a time when a lot, there's a lot of that happening, maybe less and less now, but I feel like so often anyone who is gay or queer is trying to, like, figure it out and maybe it doesn't feel comfortable to, like, explore that. And so there is a lot of this that happens.

I had that experience too, so I'm sorry. Okay. I became single for the first time since I was 15 when I was 23. Wow. Okay. In relationships from 15 to 23. Tinder was the new thing. This guy seemed nice.

We met at a local bar when I got off from work because I knew the bartender there and I knew he would look out for me. That's a good idea. She has her wits about her. Anyway, we got a beer and he continued to talk about how much money he had. And by he, I mean his parents, who he didn't even live with or get anything. from and wouldn't stop talking so I just kept drinking to drown him out uh-oh he begged to go across the street to this tapas place for food I agreed because I was also hungry and was waiting for

a friend for a friend to come pick me up with a fake emergency we walk into a gated courtyard and he asked if he can kiss me I said no thanks and he put his lip out like a pouty baby oh my goodness and said I guess I'm not good enough for you oh And I said, you're right. He grabbed my face and mauled it with his mouth. Oh, my God, that's horrible. No, that's assault. Yeah.

I kicked him in the ankle and thank God there was a cop standing on the sidewalk who saw and heard it all. Guy got detained. I told them I didn't want to press charges because I didn't want him to actually know my real name. I have a fake one for the date because I worked law enforcement at the time and was worried about going on these app dates anyway. And then four years later, he found me somehow on Facebook and message me to

apologize, then asked if I could send him, oh my God, I don't know if I can read the rest. He asked her to send some salacious things. Moral of the story is always press charges. Whoa.

Wow. That is intense. That's really intense. I also am curious if you should I mean, she was law enforcement, so we should probably listen to her. And I'm basing this on like SVU and Brett Kavanaugh. I guess but it feels like very often if you press charges nothing actually happened so yeah I'm so

curious if that like she might have been wise it looks like he found her name anyway but he found it four years later where he had like obviously cooled down considerably whereas if he had like known it that same week who knows right like maybe he would have retaliated or something somehow yeah this is so crazy and I mean unfortunately it's not actually that crazy I think this is you know most women have some kind of story, maybe not this bad, but some story of like unwanted touch or sexual advances and, oh my God, just to, I feel like I need to give like some section of men, like, just like a preschool lesson on like, do not, like, it's not going to end well for you if you force anything.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. anyway. Okay. This guy took me to the gym for our first date and the whole time he wouldn't stop looking at himself in the mirrors. Like he was on a date with his own reflection. L.O.L. I finally told him, you have mirrors at home. And he went furious. He said, but look at these muscles. They're much better than yours. Then he had the nerve to invite me to the gym again for a second date. I told him I'd be there, but I didn't even show up. Let him romance the mirrors instead. I blocked him

afterwards. Oh, my God. That's, that's wild. And I feel like some kind of sympathy for this guy, because there's something wrong. Like, that's just such abnormal behavior that there's got to be like an underlying issue there. Yeah. I could never date a, fine, a gym bro. I couldn't.

A gym bro. So David's not a gym bro. No. No, and I love him for it. Okay. I'll read the next one. Oh, I think you read that. Chelsea Joe. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. My sophomore year, homecoming date, we were dating for maybe two weeks and I think already decided I was going

to break up with him. And I think I already decided I was going to break up with him. It was not serious and very cringe. At dinner before the dance, we were with a group of friends and he said in front of everyone that my best friend who was sitting right there was a step up from me. I spent the whole night not wanting to be there asking my friend to switch for at least one song and danced with my friend, her date, once. Best part of the night, this happened two days after my 16th birthday. I gave him a $20 limit for my gift because we weren't together long, and he gave me a $40 necklace.

I was so mad that I was so mad that I used that as leverage to break up with him, but then kept the necklace. This all still makes me laugh almost 12 years later. bonus more recently I was on a blind date that lasted six hours because I was too nice to say I wanted to leave and it just kept going hey friend I think there's a pattern here you're not breaking up when you should you're letting it go too long that's true that's true ending a bad day is really hard there's got to be like an there's probably tons of advice online so we could just find out what it is but there's got to be an art to it like how to do it firmly and it be very hard yeah Yeah, it is hard. And also, like, I mean... But six hours is crazy. At that point, you just say you're having a medical emergency.

You just say, I'm bleeding. I have to go. Have you ever had someone, like, do the, you know, the classic, like, fake emergency call for you? No, I don't think I've ever done that. I think one time at a club I, like, faked a cell phone call because this guy was, like, dancing with me too aggressively to just, like, walk away. But I've never, like, had a friend stage a call. But I usually, if I'm going on a date with someone from an app, I'll set it to just

be an hour for the first one because I don't want to, I'll say like, I'm available from this time to this time and then I have something after so that I'm not stuck in like, there you go. That's good advice. Yeah. Yeah. Set a time limit before. Yeah. Okay.

This next one is good. Eleven is good. It's very short. I saw the Revenant on a first date. We sat in silence. When we left, he looked at me, said, deuces flashed a peace sign and walked away. That's a perfect story. I have nothing to add.

That's just amazing. The Revenant? Such an intent. for a state movie. Deuce. Deuces. That's amazing. Yeah.

I guess my only follow-up is like, I wonder how old these people were. Because the Revenant, I'm thinking not that young, but the deuce is I'm thinking 14. So I really don't know. It's almost, this is almost like a poem, the experience. We sat in silence. True. Deuces. He left.

That's great. I don't know if this counts as a date or not because it was middle school, but my boyfriend, Anthony, invited me to go to a dance together. At one point in the night, I couldn't. find him. And then I looked on the dance floor and he was dancing with a blonde girl named Amy. Oh, Amy. Just as I saw that friend of Anthony's, just as I saw that, a friend of Anthony's I didn't know came over to me and said, are you Isabella? I said, yes. He said, Anthony doesn't want to go out with you anymore and to grow some tits. I actually cried. A year later, I did grow some

tits. And he came back begging and asking for me to forgive him. If you react to it on the show, I'll let you guys know if I did or not. Kidding. Just wanted to share. That's so funny. Oh my gosh. That's wild. And it also is like, it really was about the tits. You know, sometimes it's like, was it really? But no, I guess it really was. Wow. Oh, my goodness. Crazy. I, yeah. Isabella, I would have given you some tits. I hated having. That was crazy. I would gladly take some. Gladly. Just the other day, I, like, bought a, I bought a little corset top for the book tour.

I mean, I bought a whole outfit, and the corset top is part of it. And I was like, I knew that the cups were going to be too big for me. But I was like, let me just buy it because it looks so good. Anyway, I got the criss top. The cups were way too big for me. I'm like, I have no shame in my breast size. I think it's funny. I'm an A.

I've been an A my whole life. Even when I gained a ton of weight, I gained 20 pounds when I moved to California, none of it went to my breast. some of it will anyway it's just a crazy phenomenon i can't get past being an a but so i put on this corset top and i was like oh my god the corset looks so amazing with this outfit but the breasts are ridiculous so i like stuffed it with like socks which i haven't done since i was like 10 just to see and i was like oh this is what it would be like if i had breast and i just had this moment of like should i get a breast job and i was like no no i shouldn't but yeah it was just that like one

moment of like what it would be like to have boobs you know a different life if you see naba in a corset top on the book tour know that there are socks in there. Yeah, that's the only way. I'm pulling it off. I think I might get it tailored, actually. We'll see. I haven't decided.

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Learn more at trynom.com slash podcrush, spelled try. N-O-M dot com slash podcrushed. All right, our final bad date story. Let's see. Hello, my beloved crushers. My worst date ever was my first date ever. I had just graduated high school, and my best friend's boyfriend told me that his friend thought I was hot

and wanted to take me out so he planned a double date. I knew nothing really about this guy, except that he was cute and played baseball, and mostly was just so excited and flattered that a popular guy from a different school was interested in me. Over the course of the evening, he asked if I had a dog, to which I replied, yes, a beagle. And he said, that's not a dog. That's the type of car.

And then I had to literally show him a picture of a beagle to get him to believe me because he was adamant. I was wrong. The nerve. That is just, wow. At the end of the date, we were parked in his car looking out at the water and he was changing the radio stations, trying to find a good song. He said, I'd let you play your music, but it probably sucks before abruptly grabbing my face. and plunging his tongue into my mouth. Yeah.

I had only had one previous kiss before this, so I was completely shocked and disgusted. But I was so scared to appear uncool that I played it all off. To make it all worse, I said to my friend, hey, didn't your dad say he wanted us home by nine? Trying to hint that I wanted to leave. And she did not get the memo and just said, nope, he's fine if we stay out late.

No! Friends! Friends! Come on! After the date, he told everyone I was a bad kisser, and then texted me a week later generously offering to take my virginity since he had since heard how inexperienced I was and wanted to quote unquote offer to help. What a jerk, L.O.L. Never saw him again, thankfully. Hope this isn't too long. Love you guys so much and so excited for your book.

We love you too. What a great story. That is a perfect one to end on. It was like, it had everything. Shock, horror. Comedy. Offers to pop. It's just so great. I imagine texting someone to be like, I'll do it. I'll take your virginity. I'll do it.

After telling everyone the person was a bad kisser. Wild. You know that meme. It's like, if men have one thing, it's the audacity. How dare he? It's so crazy. It's so crazy that this was her first date. I hope you're following dates with other people have been smoother.

That's so funny. I'm definitely not trying to man hate. There are all kinds of crazy women out there and all kinds of lovely men out there. 100%. And all kinds of lovely women, blah, blah, blah. But did you see that? There was like a riddle going around on Instagram that was like, boys have this every day of the year, but women, boys wear this every day of the year, but women only wear it

once a year. And people were like audacity. I think the correct answer was birthday. I'm telling you this all wrong. It has to do with the letter Y. And so like women have the letter Y every day in the word boy, but girls only have it in their birthday. I don't know. It didn't even make sense when I found out what the reveal was.

But a very popular answer was audacity. Nava, you're sounding like girls have this once a year. So wait, let me start again. Let me start again. I promise it makes sense. Let's just cut this. This can be the blooper. So everyone knows we love men on this podcast, obviously. Just because Penn is here, we figured we'd take the opportunity to do a little, you know, ribbing.

No. Many, many men are wonderful. It just so happens. we asked for worst date stories. And that's what we got. And mostly women wrote in. Men could have written in, but yeah, that's not what we got. Yeah.

That was really fun. Maybe we'll do another reaction episode one day. Yeah, let us know. Let us know what you guys are always asking us to bring back the listener's story. So let us know what you think. And if we did another one, what you would want the theme to be. Yeah. All right.

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