This Is Important - The Pleasure Is Ours: "There Are Plenty of Fish In The Sea"

Episode Date: October 28, 2021

It's Ep. 2 of The Pleasure Is Ours, the This Is Important-hosted BONUS podcast all about blowing up stupid pieces of advice!IN THIS EP: Are there "plenty of fish in the sea" -- or is the age old saying meant to convey that we have no shot with humans and should stick our dicks in the ocean? The fellas dissect that piece of advice meant to mend a broken heart, and see if they can amend the outdated adage for 2021. Along the way, Kyle recalls getting his amphibian-fuck on downloading the Plenty of Fish app, and Adam tells us how he sexually tongue-sliced his way into his new wife's fish-heart while playing Fruit Ninja on an airplane. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions like, can we create new senses for humans? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception, and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Pleasure Is Ours is brought to you by Trojan, America's number one condom brand. Feel your best, get yours on. What's the show called? The Pleasure Is Ours.

I think I know how we're kicking it off. You already know. The Pleasure. The Pleasure Is Ours. And we're hit it like horny. Guys, there's no sound board on the The Pleasure Is Ours. We have to make our own sound board. It's a different animal. It's not the same. I feel naked. And it's because you forgot or because you just, we've decided that. What's the deal? We weren't going to do that for this, no? Yeah, I just felt like, yeah, we could kind of make our own sound board. Which is the perfect segue to this week's,

they're called pieces of advice, but really, their old wives tale would be a thing we wouldn't call them. Now, I'm going to stop you there, because is it wives tale or why? I always thought it was a wives tale. I always thought it was a wise tale, like an old man who told an old tale, and you must listen to him because he's so old and you're like, okay, this grandfather has wisdom. I thought it was the gals were getting together, chit-chatting, you know, you spin in some stories and they came away with this. I think it is that Blake, but it's also like kind of a shot where it's like, it's an old wives tale. Like they don't know what the fuck they're talking about, because they're usually based like, they're usually wrong. Yeah. Oh, dang. Okay. So let's

change it to wise tale. We're changing it to wise tale. And why this week is, should we, should that be the thing we changed this week then? No, I don't know if we're going to talk. I think we got to talk about the saying. The saying. Let's drop it. Let's drop it. It's hot this week. It's hot this week. We've already fucking hyped it up so much. It's so hot. I don't know if the community can even handle this hot, hot, hot. The same wise tale. It's a classic too. Which one is it? I literally forgot. Guys, are you ready for the hot drop? It's that there, you've heard it before. You've heard it several times. Everybody, you've heard it three to four times. Your creepy uncle has whispered this to you many, many times. I'm at the edge of my seat,

boys. Yeah, hit him with it. Yeah, go for it. There's plenty of fish in the sea. What does it mean? So I just got married and I got married this past weekend. You guys were there. Beautiful fish. Thank you. And I caught a nice one, dude. Reald her in. So this is a weird one for me to kind of wrap my head around because I just got a keeper and I really like that fish. But we're going to talk hypothetically, of course. No, no, no. This is specific about my life. Sure. Okay. Well, in that case, specificity is what's important here, guys. Absolutely. And I feel like this is what we got to dissect. There's plenty of fish in the sea until you find one that fits in your tank perfectly. You're cooler that you bring home and you just fill it up.

And that's until you look overboard and you see a couple more fish and you're like, wait a minute. See, that's the thing. You got to quit looking overboard, man. That's the thing. The context of this saying is usually when you've been dumped, correct? Like, and you're like, oh, man, like she or he just dumped me. And it's like, yo, relax. There's other fish in the sea. It's a way of making a person feel better about loss of a relationship. Right. It's like, look, humans don't want, humans don't like you. You just go stick your dick in the ocean and see what nibbles are. Check out the Koi pond. Is that what it is? Is that the new version? Yeah. Hey, humans don't like you. Go stick your dick in the ocean and

wait for a nibble. Bro. And if you're not even near an ocean, just go to go find the nearest Koi pond. Go to a P.F. Changs. Yeah. They will eat anything. You could spit in the water, they'll eat it. You could throw a tic-tac, chew gum, your balls. You could throw your rope in there. Yeah. They will come up and nibble. So is the new saying, life's a P.F. Changs, go stick your dick in the Koi pond? Absolutely. We can work towards that. I don't know. That's on the board. That's on the board. I like that. Reeling that one back, reeling it back. I mean, I do feel like the saying there's plenty of fish in the sea is a little deceiving because I guess if you put it in human terms, yeah, there's billions of people on the planet.

Yeah, let's force the metaphor back. I guess let's do work it in human forms. I could talk about fucking fish all day. So you mean like if you put it in human terms, it's like there's plenty of humans on earth. Yes, thank you. That's human terms. What we don't realize is that, yeah, that's thinking of the ocean, but sometimes you're stuck in a little pond and there aren't as many fish as you'd think. And the pond is what, your town? Is it your town? The pond is your local saloon. This is like a food desert. You're in like a kuchi desert. Yes, thank you very much. Limited supply. There may be lots of fish out there, lots of people and mates, potential mates, but you're going to, in your local town, you're

going to be running into the same group of people. You're usually partying with the same crew. Right. Yeah. Well, it doesn't also be like you can meet someone not partying with them. You know, you can meet them. Sure. I met my fiance on a flight, for instance. Okay. See? Right away, I'm just going to have to flag that one. Okay. Be very careful talking to strangers on planes. I don't think. All right, chat them up. No, that's where love happens. I'm not saying don't chat. I'm not saying don't chat. I'm just, I'm warning people, if you're looking for love on a plane, just because someone's literally strapped down next to you and legally can't move seats, that's not an invitation for you to marry. Well, I didn't, I didn't fuck her in the chair, man.

Yeah, just met her there. Adam, I know how your brain works. You're like, she's trapped next to me for several hours. I'm going to work this slowly. That is not how it worked. In fact, I had a girlfriend one we met and I, and Chloe is so beautiful. And I like was like, oh God, this is the worst. And I, we were already on the ounce of our relationship, my girlfriend at that time. No one to catch and release. Yeah, but I was like, you know what, I'm not going to, I was still trying to save it. And I was like, you know what, I'm going to ignore this girl and play five hours of Fruit Ninja. Right. And so, and in fact, she was like, this guy's a dork, look at him go, he's just slicing bananas and pears and other fruits, although getting mad combos. We all know

that that's a chapter straight out of the book, The Game. Oh yeah. Sitting next to a babe, play a video game, don't have to show her any interest. Were you starting to slice the fruits like sexually with your fingers on your iPad? Like he's showing her the dexterity. She's like, look at those digits go. You were flicking the fruit with your tongue? Obviously. She's like, I never seen a dude play Fruit Ninja like that. Another high score, I guess. Uh-oh, another high score. Sorry. Quit looking at me. I have a girlfriend. Quit looking at me. As you're looking, licking the screen of your phone.

It was an iPad. It was a larger base. If I saw so many working their iPad with their tongue, I would fucking record it. You'd be fully erect. I'd marry them. I would be pumped. I'd be pumped. Yeah, you'd be like, oh, this guy gets it. Look, they're going to get married. Those two over there, they're going to get married. So is the news saying life's an iPad licking with your tongue? Lick it up. Slurp it up. Here's the other thing about having plenty of fish in the sea. And then speaking about your local pond, it's possible to overfish it as well, right? Well, that's when you become like that big fish in the small pond. Yeah, but then people I think start, you've got to be a real cool customer to be the big fish because if you're shagging everyone in your radius,

words going to kind of get around town, like this guy lives by the motto pretty hard and he's, I don't know, are they going to let shame you a little bit, dude? Yeah, that's true. Hey, so you've got to move around. I think you're saying there's plenty of fish in the sea and then, but then you're fishing in a pond. Right. We're fishing in the sea here, my man. Yeah. You can't just hang out in the bay. You know, you can't just, you have to go out amongst the currents. Evolve, grow legs, crawl out of the pond. So we're now a mudskipper. You're in a river suddenly and you get spit out to sea. Yeah, all sorts of new people. Right, exactly. Get your amphibian fuck on. Go land to sea to air, man. Nothing like sex underwater.

Hey, there's plenty of birds in the sky. Fly somewhere else and don't just fuck the bird next to you. Well, maybe that's the thing. Do you think that's the same? Birds are much more mobile. Rolls off the tongue. Especially if the bird next to you doesn't want to fuck you and has broken up with you. Then right. Yeah. If the bird is like, Hey, get away from me. And you're like, and your wings work and your wings work, then you guess what? Flippity flap, soar somewhere else and have sex with the bird. You know, a few times. Now, and now you mentioned something very, I think important there because if your wings don't work, if your wings don't work, you are stuck in the pond and now you are, you're in trouble. Now, is that analogy like your wings? So I said it. And

a lot of times you doubled on it and I picked up on it and a lot of times I say things and I don't know what I mean. And I think that was one of the times. So does that mean to you? Because I don't know what it means to me. Does that mean there, his dick doesn't work or his like game doesn't work? Oh, yeah. And why did you have the bird going back to a pond? Is this a duck or? I'm not going to a pond. No, no, I'm sorry. Kyle said, oh, what did I do? Kyle said you do, he's like, you fly back to your pond. Oh, right. Well, we started as a fish, turned into a mud skipper. And then I thought that evolved into the bird. No, it didn't evolve. I went, I went, I took the bird left. And that's why I thought that if your wings aren't working, you just haven't

evolved enough because you're not, you haven't waited enough time. That's what I thought was going on. Did I overthink this? Yeah, I was just, I was just like, maybe the analogy doesn't work because guess what? We're humans, you know, we're on land. We're not swimming all over the place. The evolution thing is huge, right? Look, there's other fish in the sea and, and 65 billion years in the making, you're going to find the right. Look, don't worry about the breakup. There's plenty of fish in the sea and you just got to wait around for 65 bill. Yeah, wait 65 million years until you evolve some kind of lungs that can allow you on the ground. And then you can start messing around with the mammals, baby. Shag. What was the song? You and me, baby. Nothing

but mammals. Oh yeah. Alien ant form. Nothing but mammals. We're going to do it like we do. No, it's bloodhound game. Thank you. The roof is on fire. Pretty good. Yeah. Pretty good song. When that would come on during junior high dances, the teachers would look. No, let's go. Turn it off. What are they saying? Turn it off. And then the DJ, who's a bad boy, immediately plays, I want to fuck you like an animal. Man. Oh, dude, that is a bad boy. Fuck you from the inside. And they're like, we're shutting it down. We're shutting it down. Okay, lights on. No hands on phones. What's the, what's the one song? I know Adam knows this one, where the guy, the opening song is a guy who's like, he's like, you make me. Oh, that's lit. I know that one. I love that you

were like, Adam knows this one. And I knew it immediately. That is a terrific opening. And also, dude, and you make me come. Whoa. And then everyone's like, Whoa. I'm listening. Turn it off. He's a bad boy. Shut it down. He's a bad boy. And then guess what? Guess what's on that principal's face? Egg. Because then the next line is you make me completely. Wait, you're skipping beats. He goes, you made me come. You made me complete. So bad boy. Good boy. And then bad boy again. So it was really, it was a roller coaster ride. So the principal in this case, he's got egg on his face. And he's like, okay. And he's like, shut it off, shut it off. And then it's like, you made me complete. And he's like, okay, and he's wiping the egg off. He's sweating

around. He's like, I am sorry. Everyone goes, okay. I made me completely miserable. And he's like, none of that negativity. Shut it down. Shut it down. Well, anyways, after he's saying that, after we found out that he's completely miserable, he's got to realize that there's plenty of fish in the sea. Exactly. Thank you. Hi, I'm David Eagleman. I have a new podcast called Inner Cosmos on iHeart. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford University. And I've spent my career exploring the three pound universe in our heads. On my new podcast, I'm going to explore the relationship between our brains and our experiences by tackling unusual questions so we can better understand our lives and our realities. Like, does time really run in slow

motion when you're in a car accident? Or can we create new senses for humans? Or what does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet? So join me weekly to uncover how your brain steers your behavior, your perception and your reality. Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The pleasure is ours. So the pleasure is ours is obviously brought to you by Trojan, America's number one condom brand. We all know that. Yeah. We all rock with with Trojan. Yes. And specifically, this episode we're talking tandem couples vibrating ring. Wait a second. What is it called? Yeah, it's tandem

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the only dating app I ever, it wasn't an app, it was a website back like pre-workaholics, was called plentyoffish.com. You got on that? You got on that? I didn't know this about you. Oh yeah, I got on that. You didn't know a lot about me back then, bro. You guys had girlfriends, and he was cruising. Do tell. I didn't know this. I was on it. I never did a date or anything like that. I just kind of like poked around and was like, oh, you got a match. And I was like, oh, what's the match? And then I'm like, bro. Were you like, I doubt it. You would never get along with me. You don't match me. You don't understand me. My pond is so small. I don't even have a pond. I fish in my toilet. I am in my own toilet. Was plenty of fish specifically defined like a

life mate? Because I feel like, and I don't know about you guys, maybe I'm just like building it up in my head, but I still have these dating apps or just fuck this around. The swipes. Yeah. I think that's been well documented. Yeah. Well, some of them, I feel like it depends on what's dating app. I feel like match.com costs like a couple G's or something like that, right? So yeah, so you're looking for love. Yeah. Have you guys ever been dumped before? No, never. Why? Yeah, right, dude. Yeah, you have. What? No, I've never been dumped. Yeah. Can you be dumped? He still butt hurt about it. No, I've been dumped. Of course I've been dumped. I've been kicked to the curb, man. Yeah, did it hurt? Was it a heartbreaker or was it mutual? Like, what happened?

No, it doesn't seem mutual. There was so many. Is that what you got on plentyofish.com? You just were at a dark place where it's like, nobody wants me? Yeah. Well, yes, dude. That's my life, bro. Come on, man. Everybody wants you. I want you. Everybody wants you. So then when you heard, I want you to dump you. Because I've been dumped before, too. And I'm really trying to get into the why. I think remember, I bet Kyle remembers because he went out with me and we got really drunk. Then I think you said, basically, more or less, there's plenty of fish in the sea. Like, hey, you'll find someone else. And at that moment, I was like, no, she's the one. Is this at David Buster's by any chance? No, this was like over by our house in Van Nuys. What was that barbie together?

Yeah, the Irish place. We shot in it for workaholics a few times. Yeah, but I remember it hurt. It didn't feel good to hear that. But then after a few days, I was like, yeah, that is right. There are other people. Because admittedly, there's a million. I think a million people in the whole world. I think so. Like, at least. It goes up and down. Upwards of one million. Yeah, there's like a million people out there. So you're going to find another fish, you know, just keep fishing, man. And then like, and now also, like being on that side of all of those dumps and everything, like, you know, and being happily married with my wife and my lovely, my everloving, it's like, yeah, there was plenty of fish in the sea. And I found one that I like. You know what

I mean? Yeah, it's good. It's good to like the fish you're with. Yeah, and I don't remember that exactly in your vows, but was that was that more or less your vows? It was more or less. Like, hey, there's plenty of fish in the sea. I do know that, but I found one that I like. Sweetheart, I've been with catfish. I've been with puffer fish. I love the idea that we didn't mention catfish in this. Oh, damn. Yeah, you gotta be plenty fish in the sea. Watch out for the catfish. With all the apps, do be careful because catfish are in the water. Dude. Do you guys have any friends who are like deep in the dating app game where you just like

bend their ear about like juicy stories or like meetups and stuff? I'm like so curious. No, I've had a few buddies that were like Raya guys, which is like each one. Yeah, you have to be like invited, accepted. You have to have like a certain amount of followers or whatever and they're like social currency. Is that what it is? So I guess so. Yeah, it's like more like if you're like maybe a celebrity and you might be recognized on the dating app, like it feels safer because it's not just, but I feel like they're just letting in. I feel like there's also a ton of people on there, but yeah. So and he showed me like photos of people on there and you're like, oh, this is the way to go if you

could get on that one. Yeah, there's a good looking fish on there. Yeah, that's a nice spot. If you're not a celebrity and you're just rocking the Tinder fast, like yeah, still pretty good, right? I mean, that's still, I don't think Raya is all celebrities. I don't think it's like that. I think you can like have unboxing. What is it? And just, you know, you have a ton of followers because you like unbox some cool videos and you're like, oh, look, or you're just super hot. I think they'll, if you're like hot enough, you can make it on there. Oh, you have to have a certain score or not? Yes. Do you think? I was just going to say like, what kind of app would you make? Like, do you think there are hella

specific? Like, you know, like farmers only or whatever? Like, sure. Is there an app for just like red heads? Because you know, red heads are going to be like ginger. The populations are like going to be gone in 30 years or something like that. That's what they say. Well, you and Blake need to start kissing. I guess you have to start kissing. Ders, are you saying like an app that's for rare breeds? Yes. Thank you. Yes. Breeds. Like albinos. Yeah. Breeds, Hitler. It's like dog breeding. I've always dreamt of having albino twin gingers. Right. But like, I don't know if there's a site for like little people or red heads or how specific are we getting here? Yeah. Like, can you just, even simply, can you dive into the kinks? You know what I mean?

The kink diving app. I mean, I'm sure there's like furry dating apps, like where you can. There has to be. There has to be. People are so specific in their kinks. So is it that there's plenty of apps on the web? Hey, relax, pal. There's plenty of apps on the web. That's a very good modern twist. Hey, that is the modern twist. But yeah, because a lot of people, I mean, I don't know, I like to fish and I grew up fishing. A lot of people didn't grow up fishing. So there are plenty of fishing to see what the f**k does that even mean, man? I've never even caught a fish. But everybody uses the internet. So you're saying, Hey, there's plenty of apps on the internet. Right. And that's exactly what I feel is the better. Right. I think web. Ending on web or on your phone,

I think a nice one syllable word at the end is clean. There's plenty of app developers out there. There's plenty of applications on the internet. There's lots of ideas on the internet and apps ideas. There's plenty of apps on your phone. And then also, you know, stop wasting plastics because those go in the sea. Save the ocean and let's save the ocean. So hey, if you're out there and you just got dumped, if you got dumped by your significant other, your kind of heart, your butt hurt and you want to get them back hurt because you got your ass dumped. Yeah, because it's sad. It is. It does feel bad. Go ahead. It's not a big deal. There's plenty of apps on the web internet. Yeah, landing it on that one syllable, baby.

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