Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer - Pikachu, I Choose You! (w/ Sarah Natochenny)

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

Voice actress Sarah Natochenny (Pokémon) joins Nicole for a chat about how voicing Ash Ketchum inspired her to become the adventurous protagonist of her own life. Sarah shares her method for vetting a first date, why she has absolutely zero tolerance for men who neg her, and why animal companions (like her cat, Pikachu) will always be better than a boyfriend. Plus, the gals discuss Cher's wild 40-year age gap relationship, share tips for traveling solo as a single woman, and Nicole recounts a horrifying road rage incident that still haunts her.Watch this episode on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@WhyWontYouDateMePodcastTake our listener survey and shape the future of the podcast!Support this podcast and get discounts by checking out our sponsors:• Jones Road Beauty: Use code DATEME at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Gift with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad • Cash App: Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/3v6r90n6 #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Discounts and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.• BetterHelp: This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/dateme today to get 10% off your first month.• Quince: Head to quince.com/dateme for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Follow:All Links: linktr.ee/whywontyoudatemeTour Dates: linktr.ee/nicolebyerwastakenYouTube: @WhyWontYouDateMePodcastTikTok: @whywontyoudatemepod Instagram: @nicolebyerX: @nicolebyerThis is a Headgum podcast. Advertise on Why Won't You Date Me? via Gumball.fm.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Am I maternal or something? I don't think I give that vibe. Am I maternal or something? I'm not thinking I'd give that vibe. I'm just a little guy. I play a 10-year-old on TV. I'm just a little guy. I'm just a little guy.

I don't plan on having a child in my home. Maybe because you play a little guy on television. It's because I feel understand them, yeah. They're like, obviously you want kids, so you're a little guy. I can watch you be a little guy. No, no, I have little guys who are watching me be a little guy. And that's perfectly good. I'm very, very satisfied with that.

Don't you date me, baby, welcome to, I scared you. Sorry about it. I love it. Welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me a Podcaster. Me, Nicole Byer, was trying to figure out why I was so single, even though you could on a table and tell me that it is thread. What? I'm not here.

You are here. The person who's not here has literally been the voice of our childhoods as the English voice actor for Ash Ketchamon Pokemon, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. You can hear her starring on the new animated show, Jesus 2, streaming right now on Animation Plus. And later this year, she's stepping into live action in the upcoming movie Raccoon. Raccoon opposite Tim Hiddecker. Hydecker. Hi Decker.

Tim Hydecker. Hi Decker. Is it Highdecker? It's High Decker. Okay, great. And Buy Nothing with Jay Duplas. And I'm so excited. It's Sarah Naticheney.

Did I say it right? You did it great. It's so good. We can go home. High Decker, Naticheni. It was very hard for me. No more Tyler's. No.

No more. No more. No more buyers. No. Too easy. Such a good name. Really? You're very lucky.

Unforgettable. When I was in high school, I wanted a stage name so bad. I believe the stage name I picked was Nicole Vincent. Oh, I had a Vincent moment. Really? Yes. Oh, Vincent's such a good name. It's a great name.

Sarah Vincent. Sarah Vincent is nice. But I like your last name. I think it's interesting. It's interesting if you like to like, you know, say tough words. If you like to have a mouth full of a word. Yes. Then it's fabulous.

Beautiful. Beautiful. We met in St. Louis because you were doing a con with my, our dear friend, Harvey Gehan. One of the best, one of the brightest. And he introduced you. And I think I was like, oh, what was your part of the con?

You were like, I voice Ash Ketchum. And I was like, well, I'd love to hear it, please. We have a video. Would you mind? Doing it for you? Yes. Nicole, I choose you! It was a better reaction when I first did it.

But Mars, you got a good reaction from Mars. It's because I knew it was coming and I loved it. Is that a request you get often? Yes. Is it tiresome, bothersome? No, I love it. I love that. It's my joy.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine being able to just say three words and suddenly someone's like on the floor? Yes, you were. You were on the couch. You fell over. I did fall over. I was so excited. I used to get like,

Not annoyed, but people be like, nailed it. And I'd be like, I know, I know. But now I'm just like, yep, nailed it. You like it. I love it. It's nice that it brings happiness to people. Yes, exactly. Can I ask, are you dating? Are you single? Do you not care to say? I've never spoken about this before. You don't even know what I'm going to say. We never like pre. We never pre this. No. So I'm single. Are you looking or? Not really. No? No, not really. I try, like I'll go, my eyes are open. Sure. But they're not very hungry.

Okay. So I'm like, you gotta be like everything I'm looking for. Otherwise, my life is pretty good without you. I mean, not a, bad. No. Think fine. I think that's nice. You have a nice, fulfilling life.

Yeah, I do. Your eyes are open, but they're, what is that song? Hungry eyes. That's not you. That's not my song. Mm-mm. But, yeah, I agree. No, not hungry eyes.

Yeah, like, it's fine. Mm-hmm. It'd be great. I know, I know, I know, like, two happy couples. I do think it's interesting because I feel like I spent a long time being like, I want it, I want it, I want it. Yeah. And then I got to a point where I was like, actually, I think I have a nice life. It's very nice.

I like my friends. Peaceful. If love comes, it comes. Fabulous. If it doesn't, I'll just keep having this really nice life. Right. Yeah. There's this threat of someone walking in and messing it up.

There's a threat of me just like falling in love with somebody and it's like, oh, the best thing in the world. And then I realized like, oh, that was just an addiction or something. It wasn't even real. Yeah. Yeah. And I have some friends who are in relationships where from the outside, I'm like, it doesn't seem like you're having a nice time. No. It seems like you were having a better time

before you got into this. Yeah. So maybe you get out of it. But you can't say that to people. You just got to go, hey, if you're having fun, I'm having fun. Good for you. Me too. Yeah. That's awesome. Hey, the stories are interesting. Yeah? Yeah. Are you on the apps at all? I'm on the apps at all. Yeah. I'm on the apps at all. Yeah. Hinge beasts. Raya beasts. No, a lot of them are great.

I'm just joking. I'm on there. It's so boring. It's very boring. The texting is boring. Like, what am I going to get to know you over? I don't know you. You're a stranger. Sarah, that's how I felt. You're a stranger. You're a stranger. I don't know you. Why would I continuously text you? Let's hang out. How's your day? What are you talking? What day? You don't know me. I don't know you. Day. Day. What day? You've never known me for a day. You've never known me for a day. You're not. You know me for a day. You've never known me for a day. You've never known me for a day. day. You have no frame of reference for my day. Also, like, they asked me, like, how many autographs did you sign? And I'm just like, that's not a, that's not a question. Is that going to lead to some, like, amazing conversation? Imagine if it did, though. Imagine if you're, like, a hundred and 16 and they're like, that's my lucky number. I feel maybe. I can't believe it. Maybe that's what they think is going to happen. No, not at all. I think the art form of flirting is gone. It's bad.

It's really hard. Yeah. And then it's also super hard to flirt via a text message. Oh, awful. If I've never met you, I don't know what you sound like. I don't know what your vibe is. Yes. Your energy.

Yes. I don't know what you mean by that, what you just said. Ah, that seems aggressive. And then I meet them and I'm like, oh, you're okay. Okay, I see what you meant. Okay, that's kind of cute, but you googled me too much. I got to go. Yeah.

I hate when I was on the apps when people would go, so what are you doing this weekend? And I'd be like, I don't know, living my life. Why do you fucking care? Yeah. I know you're trying to like start a conversation, but I don't want to talk to you about how I'm going to go to a flea market and hunt down the watchman.

Yeah. Like why? Why discuss this before I meet you and why? I just don't get why. I don't get the point. That's what, that's how I feel. I told my agent this recently and he's like, Sarah, he's trying to get to know you. And I'm like, but he doesn't know.

But I know I sound crazy. He doesn't know me. You don't know me. So why are you trying to get to know me? It doesn't make any sense, but it does if you know what I mean. I absolutely know what you mean. Because I very much, the nice man in my life, we did not really text in between dates. Yeah, good.

And I liked that. I love that. At first I was like, is he not interested? But then we would have a really nice time on these dates. And I'm like, oh, no, I think he's really trying to get to know Mimi. Yes. And not the way I text and this, that, and the other. Right.

And then at one point, I was like, are you, do you not like texting? Sure. Is that something you don't like? Fine. And he's like, oh, I'm not good at it. I'm very good at like, wow. Ha, ha, ha. That's crazy.

And guess what? That's right. Sounds great, actually. That's right. That's what he does. And that's fine. because when I get home, I'll be like, oh, I can tell you about my day because we haven't been talking about it throughout the day via text. Right.

I hate when a conversation like fully happens via text and I'm like, oh, no, oh, no. What are we going to talk about? Yeah. What are we going to talk about? What are we going to talk about? What are we going to talk about? What are we going to? I don't know either.

Makes me nervous. Well, if it's the right person, you find someone. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I was on Raya for a little bit. It took me a long time to get on it. I think I was waitlisted for two years. Get out.

And then when I finally got on it, I was like, Like there's nothing in here. It's like when you wait online for a club, then when you get in, you're like, we were all waiting for this? For this? Yeah. This is garbage. It's pretty bad. I hate it.

You have a cat named Pikachu? I do have a cat named Pikachu. That's the love of my life. He's a good boy. How'd you find Pikachu? On the streets of New Jersey. Really? Yeah.

He's gorgeous. I don't know what he was doing there. Yeah, he's a beautiful, beautiful man. He was rescued through a rescue. And I found him. Oh, okay. So you got him through a rescue. Yeah, through a rescue.

I didn't find it myself. I really thought you found, because I have a friend who found cats on the street and was like, mine. And I'm always like, how? How do you capture a cat? When my, when my, you can capture a cat with a cage, with a trap. Oh. Yeah.

And then you, you know, fix them and prepare them for life in the home. Teach them the things they need to know about sitting. Yes, lavish life. No, so in 2017, my cat that I'd had for my whole life passed away. My grandma passed away. Dark times. I fostered with my mom over 100 cats and kittens that year. Oh, my God. And I know there are going to be people in the comments like, of course. She's a cat lady. And you know what? Yes, I am. And I'm not ashamed of it. Own it. I love my boy. So after that, we've, I fostered. It was beautiful. It was such a, it was such a fun time. It was such a peaceful time. These kittens were so cute. They gave me so much love. And I gave them so much love back. And I adopted them out to people. It was so sweet. I love that. And then we found Pikachu. We found Pikachu after that.

And do you have an animal rescue? No. Voices for Foster is an advocacy group. It was just telling people to foster. Please foster. It's really, if you're a homebody especially, please. Just get a couple of cats, dogs, whatever. Get them in your house and raise them.

Save them. Save them animals. Yeah. And then you get them adopted out. The rescue helps you. They pay for everything. Oh, really? Yeah.

Yeah. They give you food. They give you litter. Oh. It's awesome. You're about to do it. Here's the thing about fostering. I feel like if I got an animal and this animal was in my house, I would then go, I love you.

You have to stay with me. And then I become the animal queen of my street. No. So you just got to be strong. You guys stay strong. You say goodbye, animal. You send them on their way. You can see who adopts.

This is how I helped myself. I like sat at the shelter and watched them get adopted. And I saw the family that they would go to and I was like, okay, this is fine. I'm happy with this. And there was one that I almost failed. There were a couple that I almost fail. Foster fail. It's called one a couple times.

Foster fail? Yes, when you adopt the foster. There were a couple times, but I stayed strong and I got them adopted. And then I found my animal. And I never fostered Pikachu. He was actually just. You just went in, you were like, Pikachu, I choose you. Yeah, he's my boy.

I love that. Thank you. My dog's name is Clyde, and he's so cute. Me and my roommate at the time, John, we had a dog named Charlie. Charlie chose him. Okay. And Charlie was fine with me. This is why you stay single.

Animal loves you. Well, the animal didn't love me, so I went out and found an animal to love me. And that's how I ended up with Clyde. And I lied. I told John, I said, we're fostering Clyde. And then after the dogs got along And he was like, Clyde is such a sweetheart I was like, great, I adopted him.

I paid the fee. He's not going back. He's staying with us. He's ours. And we've been together ever since. And sometimes I broke up with somebody and I remember looking at Clyde going, you're the only thing that matters.

You are my only support. You're the only man who loves me. And the dog was like, uh, I don't think so. All right, whatever. That's great. Yeah. I love an animal. Me too.

They love you no matter what. Well, Pikachu sometimes doesn't. Well, cats are hard. Cats are hard. Yeah. Cats, you have to like really earn it. And like you have to like play the long game and like be chill. I had two cats living with me because I was dating somebody with cats.

And he failed to tell me that you have to scoop their litter box every day. What? What are you talking about? He failed to tell me. He did not tell me. I guess this isn't common sense. Okay, if you didn't grow up with cats. I didn't grow up with cats. Yeah, fine. I didn't know. Yes, well, they poop smells. It does. Yes. But it was... What do you do with it? It was away. It was away. It was away. Okay. And with a door that closed in a bathroom, with the door closed. Okay. And then they started peeing on the carpet. Well, sure. You didn't clean their litter box.

Well, I didn't know. You had to clean a litter box. And I was like, why are they peeing everywhere? Because I don't like you. They were like, this bitch doesn't clean up. Yeah. And then I like, Google it. I was like, why do cats pee on the carpet? It was like, do they have a clean litter box? And I was like, I don't know.

And then I went and looked and I was like, it certainly isn't. Okay. It was, that was my first foray into cats. And I think it scarred me a little bit. Don't let it scar you. That's not what cats are. Listen, Pikachu loved me so much in the very beginning. It was just me and him.

And now I travel all the time. And I'm gone. And when I come home, he's like, who are you? I don't know you. Someone else is taking care of me. So, yeah, that's the difficulty with Pikachu right now. It's okay, though. When I'm home for like two weeks in a row, he's like, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. This is the lady that I like. This is the lady I live with. Sarah, will you tell me, have you dated a lot in your life or no? Mm-mm. No. I've been through all of my 20s, I always had one. relationships. I think there was maybe a year where I was single then. And maybe I went on like a

couple of dates and was like, uh, strangers, stranger, weird. Why would I let you anywhere near me if I don't know who you are and there's no one to vouch for you? There's no, you know, I need a resume. I need to know who you are. I guess that. Yeah. I don't like a, I don't like when someone doesn't have any social media. It is tough. Unless you're a very well-known person and then I understand, but then you're a a very well-known person and you're very well-known and we have friends, I'm sure, in common and whatever I can verify. So before I date, are you creeping on the Instagram, creeping on the Twitter trying to find things? So I actually have very strong opinions on this. Okay. I check with friends. If it's someone we know, I check with friends. That's the first thing

I do. I'll creep a little bit, but not too much. Because I don't want to be on the date and already know too much about the person because that reads, that reads heavy. Yes. Like when someone has Googled me, I know almost instantly. Really? There's an energy to it. There's a vibe to it.

There's a, there's a fan quality to it. There's a like, oh my God, I'm excited. I'm nervous because of like what I do. And I'm really uncomfortable with that. Don't Google me. Don't Google. Don't Google me. Like you all right.

You know enough. Just have faith that I will tell you the things that you're curious about. And like, don't be afraid to ask me things. That's another thing that's been happening is, like, I'm sure you get this question all the time. And they're like, they're just not themselves. They're not like their normal selves. They're, like, extra nervous. Have you ever gone on a date with, like, a super fan?

No. No. Never, no. I couldn't. I don't think I could handle that. So you've never picked anyone up at, like, a convention? No. No.

No. No? No. No? No. You've never picked up anyone cosplaying Ash Ketchum? No. No. But they're great to get along with in that setting. That was a very diplomatic answer and I really liked it.

Thank you. Okay. I have a question. In Pokemon, Ash constantly says goodbye to his Pokemon so they can grow. Fostering animals means constantly saying goodbye to these kittens that get adopted. Did playing Ash make it easier for you to handle the emotional toll of giving up your fosters? I think so. I think Ashes inspired me to be a lot of the person that I am today, actually. Wait, I really love that. Yeah. He's very, very adventurous. He's always out. He's such a protagonist. He's like a really classic protagonist. And for a very long time, I was kind of in my hole and in these relationships and they were happy to be in my hole with me. And just like, I didn't really access the outside world too much, especially in my 20s when you're supposed to be doing that. And I didn't do any of that. So I kept booking these protagonist roles and wondering, like, why? I don't want to talk to anybody. I don't want to be around anybody. And then I realized like,

oh, wait, I'm actually very outgoing and adventurous and I want to travel the world and have fun. Where's your favorite place you've been? Barcelona. I do like Barcelona. I was robbed there, though. Oh, oh, good Lord. I hate that. It's my fault. I'm sorry. It's your fault. Victim of shame. Blame yourself. No, it's my fault. What'd you do? I screamed, I have Mucho De Niro. Oh, don't do that. While my bag was like on the back of the chair hanging.

And then someone was like, Bet, let's see. Let's see. And then somebody came with roses, and then there was like a gaggle of children. No. And then when I went to go pay, I was like, I don't have a purse. And my friend was like, what do you mean? And I was like, I think that whole thing that just happened with the roses and the children, I think my purse is now gone. It was a robbery.

And they were like, oh, no. And then my passport was in the Airbnb. So my friend left me, like, just like went to the ATM, got some euros the next day I bought a purse and... Okay. And just kept living. Okay. Ouch.

Yeah. Don't scream. I have much de Niro. Yeah, no. Anywhere. Anywhere. No. It doesn't matter where.

And it was like a big square with a couple of different restaurants where, like, we were all outside. So it was like being in Times Square and being like, I have a last summer. I yeah, aye. Garamba. Don't do that. But I loved it. That's a beautiful city.

And Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia and the South Island of New Zealand. I did the Transalbine train. By myself. I'm so happy I was single and by myself and didn't bring a friend. I spent a month going from Australia, New Zealand. Australia, New Zealand, it was four cons in a row. The best time did it completely by myself.

You know, there were other actors there. So we would team up a little bit. But for the most part, it was just like me and like little small man tours and the most beautiful and peaceful and exciting. I cried on the train. I adopted a little stuffed animal. His name is Quaka. He was a wombat. And I thought that Wombat and Quaka were the same thing. They're not. And the Australians looked at me like I was like, you have to learn. And sometimes you have to say things out loud for people to go, no girl, no. Yeah. I stand by my quaka. What is your advice for traveling alone?

because I feel like some people would love to travel, but they're like I just don't have a person in my life right now that I would feel comfortable traveling with. Do not wait. Don't wait, ever, ever. The only thing that's, you know, I'm a slight woman and I don't lift heavy. So I would not go on like some massive hike by myself

where I might encounter bears or men. The two of the scariest things, Men and bears. Yeah. I wouldn't be alone and those kinds. Don't be stupid. You know, don't do things that you can't get yourself out of. The van tours were fantastic.

I generally stuck to like we would do little hikes with the van tours. And I like, you know, I didn't like bother anybody. What do you mean by van tour? Like a 12 passenger van. Like you can go on like TripAdvisor and find these tours. Oh, okay. Yeah. And they take you to all the fun spots.

And yeah, you're like, you're on their schedule. But I also don't drive a car. So it's kind of the best I can do. You don't drive? Uh-uh. That's limiting. In L.A. You don't drive?

Yes. Yes, ma'am. May I ask why? Because I learned in New York like eight years ago, and I haven't driven since the test because I didn't own a car. I live in Manhattan. And there was nowhere to go because it's a train. You have trains. We ride trains.

So I moved here. We ride trains. You see, like normal people. And then I moved here, and it's like Grand Theft Auto. I'm not going to learn how to drive in a level 10 place. I can't do that. I understand that. Driving here is insane. Scary. I was driving. Maybe I told the story. I don't remember. But I was driving and I was turning on a road that has three lanes. Sometimes that third lane is parking. But there was no parking. So I pulled out and then this man pulled up next to me and was screaming at me. And I was like, in no way did I impede you moving forward. I am not in your way. And then we arrived at the light together. and then he was still screaming at me and pointing at me. So I just like waved at him.

I was like, I'm pretty. And then that made him angrier. Sure. And then at the next light, we arrived together. And then he's like still screaming at me. And then I was like, just being cute. And then he started laughing. And then he went, I was like, wait.

I was like, are you going to kill me? What's next, buddy? That's terrifying. And then he had to make a left and I went straight. and then I've thought about it almost every day since it happened. This is your special man. This is the lovely man in my life. He finally caught up to me and said,

I'm going to kill you if you don't date me. And I said, and now we're really happy. That's really sweet. Maybe that'll happen for me. Real quick, we got to take a break. Look, when I do this show, I am painted for the video podcast. I am contoured to the head.

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Go ahead. Lindsay and Mars. that you use a voice inspired by Pikachu when you talk to Pikachu. Can we hear what that sounds like? You want me to talk to you like you're my cat? Yeah, okay. Is that what you want?

Okay. Wow. Yeah, yeah, that's what I want. Okay. I just go like, yeah. Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu, Pikachu. Pikachu?

Pikachu. That's not an impression of Pikachu. That is how I talk to my cat. I like that. Thank you. Okay, here's something fun. Okay. At the age of 12, you won a bronze medal.

Yes. In rhythmic gymnastics. Yes. At the Junior Olympics. Yes. How did you get into rhythmic gymnastics? I had no choice. Oh.

Yes. I'm Russian. We all did it. We either did that or ballet or piano. I did all three. Do you still play piano? Yeah, but badly. Like, I can play the same thing.

I played, like, my whole lot. life. Yeah, but that's pretty much it. It's nice to just sit down and like. It's nice to see a piano and be like, I can play a song. I can worry about me. Yeah. Yeah, sure.

I can only play the beginning of my heart will go on. That's special. At least it's something people can sing. No chords. No, okay. Just de, de, de, de, de, your face. Oh, my God. The judgment.

I'm not. Wow. I felt that. Hi. So rhythmic gymnastics. You can dance with a ball. You can dance with a ball, yeah. Or there's a ribbon.

Or clubs or rope, which was my best thing. That's where I went in bronze medal in. Or hoop. Or just floor. No apparatus at all. Really? Interesting. And then are they all, I don't know anything about rhythmic gymnastics.

That's fine. Are they all competing together or is it segmented? Like the balls dance together, the ribbons dance together. So there's individual. And then there are groups. And it will be all, everyone has a ball. ball. Everyone has their own ball. Everyone has their own ribbon, et cetera. Yeah. Yeah. It's an Olympic sport. Actually, I was just quoted in the Times of London because of how difficult it was to get tickets or not

tickets. I still don't have tickets to my favorite sport, rhythmic gymnastics. I'm sorry. I know. Tickets to the Olympics. To the Olympics, 28, L.A. Yeah. How does one get tickets to the Olympics? You don't even know. I don't. How did Word not get to it? Are you not that interested? So I was kind of interested. And then I was like, well, it's an interesting. 2028, correct? Yeah, you got to start now. And it's 2026. It's going.

I just don't see myself planning for something two years in the future. You can sell them. Oh. How much are tickets to the Olympics? Like $5 million. It can't be that much. Okay, fine. $5,000 for the opening ceremony.

I'm not joking. 5,000 dolers? $5,000. Do we even know who's performing at the opening ceremony? No. It better be La Gagga. I hope it's the lady to go. Did you see her?

I did not see her. Where? Is she here? She was here. Is it a head gum? She was at headgum. No? No.

She did a concert at Sofi Stateam. Ah, yes, I've heard of it. And, or Arena? Wait, it wasn't Sofi. It was the Kia Forum? They renamed his things all the time. They're like right next door to each other, which is crazy. Whatever.

But the mayhem for them. Did you see it? No. Sarah. I know. It was lovely. Yeah. I saw Alton John recently.

That was fun. He still performs? No, it was recently like two years ago. Oh. Yeah. I mean two years ago, that's kind of wild. I don't think he still performed. He said it was his farewell tour.

Oh. He said. Probably like Cher. Share keeps saying farewell. Yeah. She also, oh wait, does she have a man now? Share is dating, I believe, a backup dancer. Love it.

Who is maybe 30 years younger than her? Fantastic. Do you mind looking that up, Mars? Yeah, you're right. He's 39 years old. and she's 79. Awesome. Get that boy toy.

Whatever. Who's own John dating? It's a 40-year age gap. Wow. It's a 40-year. That's tough. That's a lot. 40-year age gap.

Like, what do you think their conversations are like? I have no idea. Would you ever date someone? No, I couldn't. I couldn't. When I was very young, I dated older, and that was a mistake. No, now I'm interested in very, very much around my who, like, grew up with my music, I grew up with my shows, like we have everything in common.

That's what I'm looking for. Good luck. Good luck. I mean, that's how I feel. Me and the Nice Man, we have a four-year gap. It's perfect. And that's fine. That's fine.

But I can't imagine talking to someone who's like 40 years younger than me. I know. That's wild. What do you truly? Different folks. Different strokes. God bless and joy. But you know what?

Yeah. When you're someone like Cher in a relationship with someone who's 40 years younger than you. Yeah. You perform and then you vacation. Yeah. So like that's what you talk about. Like you don't have to have anything in common. I don't know.

What do you talk about on the vacation? The mangoes were really good. Did you like the mangoes? Yes. And then you wince of boredom. Been there. Been there. Yeah.

Have you? Yeah. Yeah. I've been... I'm fun. I'm fun. But I don't know. People are nervous.

I don't know, man. Tell me, what's one of the worst dates that you've been on that you wish to talk about? Oh, sure. I can tell you, okay, so the worst date. I'll give you the worst date. Oh, Jesus. I couldn't believe it was happening as it was happening. This is unbelievable.

He invited me to a sporting club. I don't want to get too specific. Sure. I don't want to out this person. He's a man of means. I met him on the apps. He invited me to come to his sporting club. And I come to the sporting club.

It's very lovely. It's in the mountains. Very nice. Good job. And he waves me over to come sit at some tables that are like on a lead. They're not in the, there is a restaurant, but that restaurant is currently closed. Okay. And he says, you know, I think they serve coffee, but I'm not sure, but, you know, the coffee's just not very good.

And I'm like, well, I was so glad I came all the way out here. Truly. That's so nice. Thank you. Let's, let's find out. Because I'm just like trying to collect myself after a comment, like, hey, I brought you to a place that sucks. Yeah, that's wild. Cool.

And I can't play the sporting event because I'm in a date outfit. can't do anything here. There's literally no reason for me to be here. We could have gone to a bar. This is a lunch hour. There's no food. The coffee indeed does suck. And the conversation was literally him just interviewing me as if for a job. And it was boring and it was rude. And I couldn't believe that this was happening. And then I bid him farewell. Thank you so much. Goodbye. Oh, he doesn't know this. If he ever listens to this, it'd be really funny. I don't drive, right? And this is kind of a far place.

My mom was available to take me here. So my mom drove me to the date. I said never again after this. She drove me to the date. And she said, I'm going to wait for you. I'm like, why can't you go somewhere? Go enjoy something somewhere. She's not having it.

She's like, I'm going to call my friend. I'm like, okay, call your friend. She's in the car, in the parking lot. And he escorts me out of the sporting place. And I see her. I see her right there. I can't go to her car. I'm like, okay, he's going to walk me.

My mom, my mom came to get me. Oh, there she is literally right now. I'm not even kidding. That's literally her. What's happening? That's so funny. Okay, anyway, what does she do? If she comes in here, I swear to God.

I hope she does. She won't. She knows better. This is wild. It is, like, the Batman signal happened. She heard the name mom, and she's like, I'm needed. Are you talking? about me.

That's not what she sounds like. So I start ordering an Uber on my phone. And he's like, I'll wait with you. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nocesario. Please, please, go back and play your game. Have fun. Hi, Mom. And she, he's like, what are you about to do?

Are you about to, like, go sneak back inside the club? And I'm like, no, just I'm good, man. I got this. The Uber is coming. It's going to take 20 minutes. I don't want to make chit-chat. I don't want to make small talk. Please just leave me alone. Leave me be. And he finally left and I deep sigh of relief. And I go to my mom and I'm like, you're never waiting for me when I'm on a date again. But thank you also for driving me. Thank you for being a mom. Thank you for loving me. Being the best mom ever. But also you cannot do that again. Ever again. Yeah. God, I hope you hears this. Yeah, that was a bad date, dude.

Sorry, really not fun for me. And no reason for me to go all the way out there. There was not even a cup of coffee that I could drink. Ugh. And you interviewed me the entire time. The worst is when you agree to go a couple miles further than you've ever wanted to drive for, like, say, a friendship to meet a stranger. And you're like, so I spent the time. I drove all the way here, got a ride here.

Got ready. Got ready. Put on a nice outfit, looked in the mirror several times. Sent outfits to friends to be like, oh, okay. I'm not doing above and beyond. Wow. Yeah, I'll send an outfit to a friend to be like, is this a cute? Yeah.

And then you get there and you're like, nothing was worth it. For this? This was so bad. Up the game. And this is happening with men who are like, you know, have some status and all of that. This is, yeah. But it's also happening with the men who don't have. have that as well. I'm telling you. It's across the board.

Across the board. There's a problem. These men, they're bad. They're bad. And there's a, bad news. There's a male epidemic of loneliness. And I'm like, yeah, just be more interested. Be more interesting. Be cooler. Yeah. Show up for us. Show up for us. We show up for you. Like, I don't know. Any woman I know who's dating is like getting dressed and, you know, looking beautiful. Yes. Making the effort. And we're making effort. A friend of a friend who said that they stopped dating because they were on a date with a woman and the bill came out to $400.

And they like looked up and they're like, I don't even like this person. And I was like, but there was two, two of you made those choices. Yeah. It wasn't just the other person ordering the most expensive thing. And if they were, you are well within your means to go, hey, let's split this. Yeah. You going all out? We're going to split it.

Yeah. I don't, I think there's like, I don't know, ways to just behave better. Also, I just, I don't think I realize what in-cell meant. I knew what it was, but I didn't know it stood for, oh, shit. Involuntary celibate. Yes. Yeah. But I'm like, why?

Why do you think it's involuntary? Go find yourself a freak. Yeah. We've never had communities like this before. Like when we were young. Ugh. When we were children, we didn't even have Facebook. We didn't.

You couldn't find anything. If it wasn't the chess club at school, you were single forever. Forever and ever. Yeah, if you were a bit nerdy or something. No one to find my rook. There was not even an anime club in my school. Now it's like the biggest club at that school. Really?

Yeah. And guess who's dating in there? All of them. All of them. I don't actually know about that. But I'm sure it's true. You know, you find people with like-minded interests and behaviors and, you know. Yeah. There's someone out there for everyone. I agree.

There's someone for everyone. And I see this like manosphere stuff going on. And that's really, that really, that really bothers me a lot. And I mean, shocker as a woman, it bothers me. But I think there's just these young men who feel hopeless and have been told that they're not enough. But they're not. You're fine. Like just find your people. It is harder for some. Yeah, it is. I get that. Yeah, what you see in the movies and TV is, like, is a certain type. Yes. And maybe you're not that type, but that's fiction. Yeah. And, you know, I'd love to see more, you know, weirdos represented.

I think so. I've been just watching a ton of movies from the 90s. Yeah. There's just a lot of entertainment that I missed out on because my ADHD, I hyperfixate, so I can just watch the same movie over and over. Like, my cousin Vinnie, I've seen. A million times. Probably no less than like a thousand times.

Like I... She's supposed to come through 10 after four. Every time there's a train in a hotel room, I have to say it out loud to myself, even if no one's with me. That's so funny. Mm-hmm. One of my favorite lines is,

you are, you are! You are! You are! It's so funny. It's so funny. And I do think I picked a part of my personality from that movie. Yes. I love that Marissa Tomei knew about cars. Yes.

And I, one of my special, I love cars. Ooh. I love them so much. Making models. That's my bread and butter. 90s to 2,000s. What? What?

Models. Yes. Like car models? Yeah. Like I like knowing that a geo tracker is the same as a Chevy tracker. Is this hot? That's the same thing as a Suzuki sidekick. And that the samurai is the earlier edition of that car.

And I know I've talked about it on this podcast, but one of my favorite moments as of recent is my friend was talking about how her brother got an older car that he's restoring. Okay. And she said that it's such a rare car that other people, there's like three other people who have that car where he lives. Yeah. And he has to like talk to them because like they want to talk about their car. And I was like, well, what kind of car is it? Two-door? What kind of?

And she was like, it's a two-door SUV. And I was like, a Dodge Rader. It's a Dodge Raider or it's a Mitsubishi Pajero. And she was like, it's an American car. I was like, it's a Dodge Raider, please ask. And then she asked and he was like, yes. And I was like, I knew it. That's so cool.

I love that. I miss stuff like that right now. No? No, I'm just like so busy. But that's nice to be busy. Yeah, but what happens like when, yeah. So like when happens when I have one of these like deep dives, I just can't get out of it. And I have to learn everything about it.

And I just can't. I can't devote another year. year of my life to a special interest. Fair, I get that. But I just learned that the Geo-Tracker slash Chevy Tracker slash Suzuki sidekick also has a Pontiac counterpart. Stop it. But I can't remember, I think it's not a sunfire. It's something fire. I don't know. But it was only sold in Canada. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy. It's pretty cool. This is really cute. Just so you know, like, thank you. It's really attractive when someone just like knows a lot about cars especially.

I just like when people are excited about something. Yes. Anything. Any, well. Truly anything. Uh-uh. No, no. Oh.

So, yeah, I knew someone who was really obsessed with the makes and models of cameras. Eh. But not a good photographer. Oh. See, that's funny. That's bad. That's really funny. And he's like, look.

And I'm like, oh, really, an upskirt shot on a building. Good job. Groundbreaking. I famously cannot take a good picture. Oh, no. My nail is always in the frame. Yeah, that's a lot. I went on a safari in South Africa, and there was a bunch of elephants crossing the path.

That's cool. And one little baby elephant just stood there and then, like, sat down. And I was like, oh, my God, that's a great picture. And I took a bunch of pictures. And when I reviewed them later, all of them were blurry. Because the elephant wasn't moving. Really? I wasn't moving.

Nobody was moving. But the pictures, all of them were blurry. What type of camera did you use? My phone. Okay. It's me. It's a user error. That's wild.

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Here's a question. Do you have advice for single people? Yeah. First of all, do not despair. Being single is great. You have to accept it and enjoy it and live your life and not be waiting for someone to come rescue you. Rescue yourself. Oh, was that mean? No. I feel like I said it when an attitude. Sometimes you got to get a little sassy to get your point across. Trust your gut if your gut is healthy. If not, then trust your advisors, as long as they have healthy guts, too. I like that. I might, I have trouble trusting my gut because my gut is quite tainted. And why do you think your gut's

Tainted. Because I've had some negative experiences. And I don't want to paint everyone with a broad brush and be like, well, all people are like this or whatever, right? So it's hard to forgive the misdeeds of the previous person. It's hard to like look at, like you'll see what you think are red flags and maybe they're not. You have to trust your gut if your gut is healthy. Yes. I think that's really interesting.

Yeah. Because I, when I was dating and when I first started dating the nice man in my life, I realized I was bringing in a lot of like bad shit from other things. Yeah. And like bringing in the, what's it, baggage, bringing my baggage. Yeah, it's not fair. Yes, it wasn't fair because it was like, oh, he's a different person. Just because I'm reminded of something doesn't mean that it's going to end up the way that it was. I really like that. Trust your gut if your gut is healthy. Yeah. Get healthy first. Or if you, like, can't get healthy and talk to your friends. Talk to all your friends about it.

I agree. Talk to humans. Yeah. Yeah. This is especially right for men. Like, men don't talk to their friends about relationships. They really don't. It's shocking. Why not? Why not? Yes. Like, it's private. I'm like, no, it's not. You're going to introduce me to those friends at some point. And like, yeah, there's part of me that's like, don't tell them like our, you know, private things. But like, yeah, discuss, discuss things that are. Things that like matter, but aren't. Yeah. Things that like matter, but aren't. personal. And it's like use discernment. Right. Yeah. Talk to your girlfriends. Yes. Just talk to people. Talk to people. Talk to people you trust. Yeah. I think that's good advice for everybody in every facet of life. Yeah. I don't know if I've talked about this, but I was at a bar. Okay. And the the server was, I don't know how we started talking about her car, but she was like, somebody stole, Did I talk about this? Okay. She was like, somebody stole the airbags out of my car.

And when someone does that, the car is considered total because it's no longer safe for the road. Right. And she was like, it was a Toyota four runner, but my payout from the insurance was a lot of money. And I was like, yes, because the Toyota, Toyas, Hondas, they all have high resale value. She knows. So that's why you got such a good payout. And she's like, and I'm thinking about getting a Rivian. And I was like, I don't know.

Rivians are good. They're good cars, but they haven't been around long enough to know what the actual reliability is. And she was like, oh my God, chat GPT said the same thing to me about both things. And I was like, but if you just talked to a human being, like, I'm sure eight other human beings could have said the same thing. I just, I don't know. I think we're relying too much on technology and not enough on people and community and

friendship. Big time. Big time. I don't get it. I'm a very, I'm a hyper-social person. All my friends, like, are they're really. super important to me. I can't imagine, like, not having my friends. And especially, like, I'm not having kids. I'm single. Like, my friendships are everything. I agree. Yeah. And they always have been.

When I was in relationships, I can't imagine entering a relationship and being like, okay, goodbye, everybody. Like, why? I'll never understand people who do that. Who are just like, oh, yeah, I can't. I'm with my boyfriend or I can't. Can I come over? Like, what? What are you doing? Yeah. What are you doing? Let me watch a movie with you, please. Yeah, what? Yeah, that's strange to me. I don't get that. And then when people are like, so I host a podcast with my best friends this year and people will write in and they're like, I don't know how to like make friends. And I'm like, but like why don't you have friends?

Not that I'm judging people. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's like maybe you moved. I don't know those circumstances. But I feel like I've gathered friends. I have so many friends from all the different things I've done. I have friends from school when I was in New York. I have friends from Jersey when I was in high school.

I have friends from improv. I have friends from like a job that I did two days on that I still, you know, keep in touch with. But I'm like, gather people. It's work. Reach out to people. Yeah. Keep in touch. Like, keep in touch and find like hobbies you do with people.

Find things you want to do with them. I recently got into Pickleball. Oh, it's the fastest growing sport in America. It sure is. And it's the fastest growing sport in me. And we're having a great time. It is so much fun. It's so like low impact.

I'm not sweating. I still look cute at the end of it. Okay. It's perfect. I've never played pickleball. Come. Okay. You love it.

It scares me. Why? I don't know, because it's tennis adjacent. Yeah, but it's really not. Oh, really? That thing weighs two feathers. Oh. It's the weight of two feathers.

Oh. Yeah. My dad also played tennis. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's weird. He had two little black girls. Yeah. And he really was like, I'm going to have me a.

Venus and Serena. And I said, think again, my dude. I don't think so. Okay. And I had to go to tennis camp every summer. Okay. And then I, a tennis camp would just hit the balls over the fence. So then I'd be like, oh, I got to go get that ball. Oh, no ball. Sorry, you can't play. And then the scoring of it doesn't make no sense. That's really funny. The scoring is complex. It does love. But I let other people deal with it. I love that. No, they hate that. They hate that. Oh. They want you to, when you're serving, you're the one telling us what the score is. So I'm like, okay.

So you gotta keep this stuff in your head. Yeah, it's not. It's just as mindless. Is it the same scoring as tennis? I don't know. I don't play tennis. What do I know? I play pickleball.

Does pickleball have the same woman? Scoring as tennis? I don't think so. I don't know. Why would I know about tennis? But what's the scoring in pickleball? It's different, probably. I don't know.

You move around. It's a four-person game, really ideally. Oh, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's ideally a four-person thing. From what I know, I've just got into it. I don't know anything. I don't know nothing. I don't speak English. I don't know nothing. I can't hear anything.

I don't see anything. Yeah, it's a four person. We started just, you know, to volleying and then I got in with, it's a very social thing. If you want to make friends, it's a great way to make friends. You go and you kind of meet people. Okay. And you're outside. You're in the sun. It's a lovely time. Yeah. It's nice. Can I ask, what is a red flag for you in dating and or friendships? Hang on a moment. I took notes on this one. Ooh, wait, let's just read your notes. We could just read my notes. Yeah, here.

I'll check this out. All right, here we go. Check this out. Here we go. Also, this is a good color. Is it a gel on your nails? This is a gel on my nails. I like it. Thank you. It's not the healthiest thing to do to your fingers. I have acrylics. It's definitely not the healthiest thing. No, we're really playing with fire here.

Killing my nails. Okay. Okay. This is a weird one. I wrote down some weird one. Okay. Asking for my number before meeting me. Mm-hmm. Like on Hinge or Raya or whatever.

Okay. Asking for my number before meeting me. I don't know why, but it really, it's such an invasive move. Okay. So I don't need it. You don't need it. You have a way to contact me. Why do you need a secondary way?

You also have my Instagram in most cases. Like, why do you need that? Mm-hmm. I don't know you. And one guy, I remember, was like, he fought me on it. He's like, what are you married or something? Are you hiding this? And I'm like, you can reach me two other ways on my phone.

Why do you need my number? I don't get it. That's a little while to get defensive about it. I know. Give it to me. And it's like, well, now I actually don't want to. And this guy, oh, no, that wasn't an app person. That was like an Instagram person.

And we had like, I guess some mutuals or whatever, but it was just like, why do you? Yeah, why do you need this? Why do you need this? I don't know. I personally just don't like it. Fair. I like that. I just personally don't like it. This is awful. A guy who asks questions, anybody who asks questions. I don't know why I'm so man-centered right now. And interrupts the answer within five to ten seconds. I'm not kidding. No, I wasn't droning on. I start answering the question.

And he's like, cool, cool, cool. I asked me a question like about the business. Like, oh, so how did you, like, ask me, like, how did you get the job? How did you get the job as Ash Ketchum? So I, you know, I started acting and then I got the audition. You know, that's the thing that I've done. I've done acting a little bit. And that was the timing. I swear to go. And it was every time.

It was every time the entire conversation at some point. My jaw was on the floor. I'm like, no, why don't you just answer it? You know, you know what it is? It's like, okay, cool, cool, cool. And then this thing. And I'm like, okay, cool, cool, cool, can I answer you? Can I answer it?

I don't care to answer it. This isn't good for me. I got to go, actually. Anyway, that, don't do that. Listen, listen when people talk to you. It doesn't matter. Gender doesn't matter. Love bombing. Oh, you're so amazing.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. Don't do that. I fall for love bombing because I think I should be loved and treated just so well. Yeah. Just give me treats all the time. Treats, sure, once you know me. If you're doing it prematurely, my eyes are rolling in the back of my head. They're not coming back.

Oh, the over-googling thing. Yeah, that's tough. Oh, bragging about other women he's been with. That's happened. Women, no red flags, ever. That's very funny. Men full of red flags. Full of women.

They're just delicate little angels. There's just a thing about like proving, proving worth, I think, that needs to just, everybody calm down. I don't know if I've ever been out with somebody who bragged about other women they've been with. I don't think it ever got to the point of a date. I think it was an attempt to get to. get a date. Negging.

Oh, this is a story I wanted to tell. Oh. Oh, boy. Two guys. It's always guys. Two guys. One, I was sitting in a lobby.

And I was with a bunch of actor friends. It was during a convention. And he, like, sidles up. He takes, like, a cushion that's not a seating thing. It's like, it's as if he took that acrylic table and sat, sat next to me on it. And I'm like, oh, hi, way too close to me. me and starts like asking me a bunch of date questions. Do I want kids? Where do I want to live? Where do I see myself in five years? The whole thing. And I'm like, answer, answer, answer, sure, sure. And every

answer is like, that's stupid. That's dumb. Why would you do? Why would you do that? There's no nature in New York. What are you talking about? And I'm like, at some point, I was like, what are you doing? What is this? What are you doing right now? And what are you saying? He's like, what do you mean? And I'm like, are we having a conversation? Or you just, it just seems like you're combating everything I'm saying. And he's like, no, I'm not. Oh, my God! I got to go!

Got to go! That's crazy. Oh, my God. I don't believe you. I don't believe you're a real person. Are you okay? That is wild. Wild.

To be like, it seems like you're being really combative against everything I'm saying for them to go, no, I'm not. And it's like, sir, did you not hear your rebuttal? You just did it again. And then another one came up to the table. This was a guy who was like working. in the space and he comes up to my table where I'm like working and it was a quiet moment and he started asking me questions again of the dating variety and when I said that I I don't want kids

he was very upset by this as if it was his business and he was like well why not it's the greatest joy and I'm like I agree it's an immense joy and I have wonderful children in my life and but I also have like a really full life yes that I intend to continue having to having and that's you know i don't need to get fully into my reasoning i shouldn't have to um but he was very insistent that women that all women have kids and they're fine it's fine i'm like it's one of the most dangerous things you're the most dangerous thing you can elect to do to your body as a woman and he's like but everybody does it it's totally fine it's not dangerous and i'm like okay doctor you want to have this conversation my friend like should i tell you about all the women

who had really bad pregnancies and are now like not doing well because of them. Should we talk about that? No. I'd not be gone. It's also wild that these men upon a first interaction are asking you if you want children. Why is this such a question for me? I don't know. Am I maternal or something?

I don't think I give that vibe. Am I maternal or something? I'm not thinking I'd give that vibe. I'm just a little guy. I'm just a little. I play a little. 10-year-old on TV. I'm just a little guy. I don't plan on having a child in my home. Maybe because you play a little guy on television, they're like, obviously you want kids,

so you're a little guy, can watch you be a little guy. No, no, I have little guys who are watching me be a little guy. And that's perfectly good. I'm very, very satisfied with that. Bless, thank you. My dear cousins and my friends who are having children, I have a goddaughter. I'm very happy. I think it's wonderful. I don't want children either. and I've had a lot of people say to me, but I think you will. And I'm like, yeah. I'm 79 years old.

Yeah, I'm 79. At what point? At what point? I'm near retirement age. Yeah. I don't want them. I don't want them. In my home.

I love children. Playing with my toys. That's something I always say because I have so many toys. I don't share. I won't. I love having them over. I love babysitting them. I love having a say and like how they turn out.

I love all that. I don't want them. In my own house. In my own house. House? Disgusting. Disgusting. Sarah.

We have reached the end. That's so sad. I love you. I know. I love you too. Do you have anything you want to promote? I have a couple of live action things coming, a feature called Raccoon, starring Tim Hydecker, and I'm in it as well, directed by Michael Basta. That should be out in the next year or so. We have Buy Nothing, which is directed by Bob Byington, and starring

Jay Duplos and many other really wonderful people that I'm also in, and we'll be coming out in the next year or so, and I do a lot of conventions, follow me on Instagram. That is where you can find out all of my goings on and beings and all of that. And the wonderful Jesus 2 that we talked about is launching today. This podcast comes out later, but it's out now on Animation Plus. Sarah, thank you so much for being here. I ask all of my guests this. I've only missed it. took a couple of times. Would you date me? Yes.

You're so cute. Thank you. You are very cute. Thank you. Pika, Pikachu. Yes. If you like this episode of Why Won't You Date Me, you can like it, follow it, rate at five stars on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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