If I Were You - 34: Dibs
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They tried to seize the cheese and talk about chicks, STDs, so email in your inquiries and they'll sound all...
Which means make fun of you!
You might think it was to take advice from these two guys, but I wouldn't do it if I were you.
You do you!
You do you indeed.
Why are you mad?
You sounded like that song with...
Yeah.
You go, why don't you do you?
Why?
Anyway, hey, welcome to the show. This is If I Were You, the only advice podcast on the internet, hosted by us.
I'm Amir.
And I'm Jake.
And we're in your basement.
Where...
You say that like you're mad.
I am a little bit mad.
Acoustically, it's great. This is like an amazingly soft, nice...
Roach! Roach!
Cock-a-roach!
Cock-a-ro-cha!
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Ooh, that is a...
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It's half wasp.
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Ten times as dangerous as the spider.
Yeah, I was kicked out of my apartment, I think.
I had to vacate the premises very much so.
Uh-huh, you were finally kicked out of the apartment for having what we call fake parties.
You would crank the music up really loud and play a movie.
So it sounded like you had guests and they were dancing.
When the landlord knocked on your door, you only opened it just a crack.
But he saw that it was bone-bare inside there.
You were wearing pajamas.
You ordered nine pizzas just to complete the ruse.
And they were just stinking up the hallway.
It's small, man.
You wanted to seem popular to your doorman?
The police came and they eventually broke down the door and saw the sad, sad situation
cracked up, high-fived each other and left.
They left their gun on the table with one bullet.
They said, trust me, this guy can do no harm to anyone but himself.
In a perfect world, we'll hear a goddamn blast as we leave.
And we'll smile knowingly.
Yeah.
I feel like we are downgraded.
We keep getting further and further away from a studio, like from rec room to my apartment
to this cockroach infested basement.
Hey, we have a lovely basement here.
It's really a night.
This is like the basement from that 70s show or something.
Yeah, it's really weird.
It's a dark eclectic...
It's a dingy little place.
There's wallpaper.
I haven't seen wallpaper in 25 years, I think.
That was a weird thing that was popular wallpaper, like instead of just painting stuff.
It's kind of interesting though.
It makes sense.
I prefer wallpaper.
I think it looks cool.
Yeah, like just put a poster on the entire wall so that's what the wall looks like.
Yeah, great.
Why paint?
And this wallpaper is bright pink, yellow, and it's a demonic anime princess monster
sitting on a mushroom holding a mushroom as an umbrella.
She's sitting on a mushroom and holding another mushroom.
Because that was...
It was actually designed by someone on mushrooms.
Look how many iterations there are of this girl.
She has so many different...
Yeah, it seems like it repeats, but it's completely unique.
Yeah, wow.
It's another thing we have to take a picture of and put on our Instagram.
Yeah, we must.
So, yeah, different locations, same podcast.
How does it work?
We get emails.
People email us in.
There, questions, and conundrums, and sticky situations.
And we do our best to help advise them to get out of them.
And if we don't do that very well, hey, at least we make fun of them.
At the very least.
And if we don't do that very well, then at least we tried, and at least we have a podcast,
and you won't do jack shit except for listen to a podcast.
Okay?
You judgmental goon?
You goon.
You're a goon for that, I think.
You're all goons.
Stop saying goon.
Goons.
Goonsy.
Goonsy.
Goons.
So, should we throw ourselves right into it?
Yeah.
Let's get this party farted.
Let's get it farted in here.
Let's get it in here.
Get this party farted on a Saturday night.
What else?
Hey, you've got to hide your fart away.
What is that?
Who sings that?
Bob Dylan?
No, I think it's the Beatles.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, you've got to hide your-
It's just so weird.
You're doing a Bob Dylan voice.
Yeah.
Hey, Jews, don't make it fart.
Three half jokes.
This is so convoluted.
It's Bob Dylan covering the Beatles.
That's weird Al, but a dumb version.
Oh, my God.
My mind just exploded.
I want to hold your fart.
Hey, you've got that sun fart.
I want to hold your fart, fart, fart.
And it's a body.
That's top 41.
Tom DeLong covering the Beatles as weird Al.
Not just anybody, fart.
You know, I need some fart.
Oh, my gosh.
All right.
Now let's get started.
We got that out of the way.
We got that out of our system.
Thank gosh.
So, these are real emails we're reading,
but I'm going to give them a fake name
to preserve their anonymity.
Anonymity.
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All right, let's get started.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Let's call this guy Prancer.
Prancer.
Prancer writes,
Dear Jake.
All right.
What up?
Dear Jake, I was troubled with some lady problems recently.
So about a few months ago, school started
and there was this new girl who was rather attractive.
Being as quick as I am,
I called dibs in front of all my friends.
She was totes flirting with me,
but my friend of five years
asked me if it was cool for him to ask her out.
I respectively reminded him that I had dibs
and to let me work my magic.
Then, the next week, the D-bag asked her out.
Worse yet, she said yes.
I decided to just wait it out
because my friend isn't the best in relationships
and I knew it wouldn't last long.
Fast forward to two months to now
and they are still dating.
There's a lot of tension between them
and I can tell it's not going to last much longer.
What should I do when they finally break up?
Is there a certain amount of time
I have to wait before I can ask her out?
I mean, after all, I did have dibs in the first place.
Or, is this girl off limits?
Also, they always kissed in front of everybody
and I'm not sure I would be able to smooch her
after seeing her swap spit with my bestie.
Appreciate it, Prancer.
Yeah, Prancer.
You had, I think you had dibs.
I'm surprised you're friends
with someone who doesn't respect that.
The dibs?
You had dibs.
I mean, at that point,
she's legally attached,
associated in your possession.
It's just two months worth of dibs
that you just threw away.
It's appalling.
It's appalling, that's what it is.
He doesn't respect the dibs.
He doesn't respect you.
Jesus, she accepted
his marriage proposal.
And you had dibs.
You're getting married.
It's a destination wedding. You show up.
Holy cow, does anybody object?
Is there any reason these two should not be wed?
Speak now or forever or hold your peace?
Yes, Your Honor.
I had dibs.
Everyone stands up,
gives you a standing O
as you walk down the aisle,
grab the smaller back
and smooch her.
Dibs, dibs, dibs, dibs.
Oh, man.
He wrote this email specifically to you
because he thought you would respect the dibs.
You know what?
Is there any level of dibs that you do respect?
Being as quick as I am,
I call dibs.
She's not shotgun.
It's not the front seat of a car.
It's a human being that needs to reciprocate feelings.
He just ran around
high school yelling dibs.
First day of school, I get there at 7.15 a.m.
I'm tapping everybody.
That's how quick I am.
Dibs, dibs, dibs, dibs.
Shit, I don't know.
But I'm going to call dibs just so nobody else can do it.
I'll get back to you later, sweetheart.
Mila Koon is dibs.
Natalie Portman dibs.
I don't like that. I think she might be married,
but that's kind of fucked up.
Did her husband ever even call dibs?
Or did he just ask her out, quarter make her fall in love with him,
marry her and then give her a great life?
I don't know. I call dibs.
Is he providing for you?
Because I actually have dibs on this.
I don't have a career
or much in the way of a personality,
but I am quick enough to call dibs.
Yeah, sure. You bore his child
and you're raising it together
in a loving family, but
all due respect, Miss Portman.
I do have dibs here.
And shut up and kiss me, you dibber.
I will, but just because
your French ballet fucking husband
needs to get the fuck out of here.
Yes, I shall go away.
You call dibs, I'm sorry.
Yes, dibs, the American.
Get the fuck out.
Get the fuck out of here.
I have dibs.
That means you leave and I stay the end.
I got dibs on your chick.
You know, there's no dibs.
I think there's like...
Is there any part of dibs
or any sort of calling dibs
that you do respect?
I don't...
No, I don't respect anything.
Or anyone.
Well, what about like an emotional dibs?
Like, somebody doesn't
necessarily call dibs, but you get
to a place your friend is flirting with a lady
for a while. You see that there's
something going on.
Would you swoop in? Would you be a swooper?
No, I've never...
I'm not a swooper.
I don't swoop in. But dibs is sort of
like a lazy way of like,
you didn't actually establish a relationship with someone, you just yelled dibs at her.
I feel like dibs is like, sort of a fun game,
but like, you can't be two months into it.
Like, you should not still be thinking about the dibs
that you called right now.
Yeah, two months later, there's no dibs.
Yeah, if we're hanging out with a new group of girls
and I say something to you like, oh, I mean, I would never say dibs,
but like, I'm going after this one.
And like, just to let you know.
But I mean, also like, if you were like, oh,
I'm so am I. Then I'd be like, you know what?
May the best man win.
Well, for me and you, I feel like you always
just give it to me because it's like, you're like
a fat kid in a candy store.
You're like, all you whatever the fuck.
You could have dibs.
And I'm like, I really just want that one little like,
it's a really nice thing that I do for you
back off girls and like, let you pursue them.
And you just called me a fat kid in a candy store
that says all you whatever.
So you take it.
Don't you think it might just be a kid that really likes candy
and it's like, hey, you eat that piece of candy, friend?
No, no, because you like any piece of candy.
You don't mind the candy.
I have very specific tastes.
So you're like, yeah, I'll back off this candy
because I can have that one, that one, that one.
But I'm like, I don't want gummy, I don't want sour,
I don't want raisins. You want that truffle.
That sweet, that nasty, that truffle stuff.
See, I feel like I'm looking at the
like the case chocolate, the nice truffles.
But then I'm all like, as I'm just chowing down
on gummy worms, eating ice cream.
Can I have the truffles too?
And then I'll spend the rest of my life with a truffle.
I'm a puke.
I think I had three pounds of fun dip last night.
And she's still texting me.
What's with her?
She's crazy.
She must have thought I was into her
because I spent six hours eating fun dip or something.
That's another thing I do.
I spend so much time convincing a girl to like me
and like sleep with me.
And then as soon as they're texting me the next day,
I'm like, ew, what the fuck is this?
Whoa, where does she get off?
I'll tell you where she did get off.
I didn't bring it on myself.
Let her know that that was an acceptable thing.
And now, whatever, I suck.
Well, for you, feelings and physical are two different things.
You're like, whoa, just because I wanted to sleep with you
doesn't mean I want to text and hang out with you.
Yeah, absolutely not.
I'm sort of a vampire.
And during the day, just consider me ghost.
I will come out at night at 2 a.m.
and if I'm still interested, you will hear from me.
All right, how's that?
I'm going to be watching the gray with Liam Neeson
for the next two hours.
You're watching the gray with Liam Neeson.
Yeah, you're with Liam Neeson
watching him just sort of getting commentary.
We did sort of a commentary, yeah.
He thought it was his best work
and I politely disagreed.
I said, Mr. Neeson,
you should be punching more things in this movie.
Absolutely.
An emotional vampire is a good way to describe you.
Yeah.
An emotional vampire.
During the day, your feelings burn
and go away.
And then at night, they come out like Nosferatu.
Oh, man.
What is it called?
A reverse falling back into a casket.
That's how you elevate?
I don't know what that's called.
Like lifting a barn door.
That's in the rigid body.
That's your emotions coming out.
I come out at night, man.
Yeah.
I only come out at night.
You know that?
During the day, I sort of retreated
to my own personal cave of anguish.
I'm afraid to open up and be myself
and to like to...
I don't really like to put myself out there
because I don't want to get hurt,
so I actively hurt other people.
No, it's hard.
It's hard to be me
because I feel...
I joke about these things.
And what I'm really doing
is I'm building a wall.
I think it's keeping people out,
but it might be...
It might just be keeping me in after all.
Ha!
I wish that voice only came out at night.
That is just that all the time.
This is you during a therapy session.
Ha!
And the honking...
the noise, the honking noise.
The ham?
Yeah, it's that tick, I guess.
I sort of hate myself
and can't handle me
at all times.
You want a ham and cheese sandwich?
Ha!
So, yeah, dibs.
You don't get to call it.
And I think if you do call it,
it's a fun game,
but it's not a binding contract.
It's not an oral agreement.
You don't...
It's one of those things that's just like...
Everyone should just never respect this guy's dibs.
They're just like, I'm so confused.
What's going on? Do dibs mean nothing?
Dibs? No.
Wait a second. Absolutely yes.
Unspoken rule. A gentleman's agreement.
Sir Elton Dibs created it in 1901.
Why, I do believe I call her.
And I shall call her me.
Dibs.
All right, dibs, relax.
You can't just call your name whenever you want to...
Meanwhile, she's blowing him.
Oh, my God.
Dibs. Dibs is a pimp, I think.
Have we answered him?
Can't call dibs.
Get over yourself.
Dibs is an actual thing.
So I call dibs right away.
And then I gave it...
I asked him for time to work my magic.
A week goes by and he asks her out.
Like, yeah, of course. You can't just call dibs
and then sit on it for a fucking two weeks
while you're trying to work your magic.
The couple probably like...
During their hook up session.
Just like...
Remember when he called dibs?
I've talked so much shit about people during hooking up.
It's my favorite thing in the world.
What?
Someone from someone and then making fun of them
while you're with a girl?
What a mean thing that you do.
What an evil thing.
They can't even hear it.
It gives me such a goddamn rush.
I'm gonna destroy her.
It's all a power thing.
I'll know that I have...
That I'm gonna take some girl home
and then I'll just let her talk to whoever she wants.
And then I just like to walk up, grab her hand
and leave.
Oh man, do you remember at the bar that time
when I was a kid that was freestyling?
Trying to impress that girl that I was with?
No.
Oh wait, remember you weren't there?
I was with this girl.
I'd taken her on a date.
I came back. I was outside.
Came back in.
There was some dude just hitting on her.
He was freestyling.
And I just walked in and grabbed her hand.
I started making out with her.
What is it? Why is it that you like the power?
I don't know. It's just that fucking alpha move
It's like you're asking what is it like?
What are you insecure about?
I don't know. I don't know enough about psychology
but I don't feel insecure at all.
So I don't know.
Maybe I'm just a piece of shit. Maybe I'm a monster.
I feel like I've hurt...
Oh no, you're just insecure. You need validation.
No, I just really like having my dick touched.
I don't think it's...
I don't think it's valid. I don't know.
But you do like swooping in and taking a girl
from a group of guys.
Is that a different rush?
Swooping like for my friends.
But I guess I like...
If you are with a girl and you know that she likes you.
You like to see her hitting on another...
Or a guy hitting on her.
Yeah. And just standing there watching
knowing that it won't work.
Yeah, I love that feeling.
Tota.
I really...
We should do a...
I guess it wouldn't be legal but
for you to just go to a therapy session
and that's the podcast episode.
It's psychoanalyzing you.
If there's a therapist who listens to the show
who's willing to do a session on Jake
on microphone.
Maybe that like defeats the purpose.
Right, because I would still be like performing.
Maybe like have a session with me
and then like give the results.
Okay, so
Jake suffers from narcissism, delusions of grand chill.
Chill.
I thought you were going to say I had a big...
big peen.
I thought you were going to proclaim that I was
like by the end of the fucking session actually.
This has turned into a private
and now a public shaming of me.
A private shaming of me.
That's okay.
Intimate shaming for just
me and my close podcast listeners.
Just me and my 41,000 friends.
Alright. Good.
Dibs.
Absolutely dibs.
Absolutely untrue.
Next question?
We called the first one Prancer.
This one's from a lady. Is there a lady reindeer?
I don't know the sexes of the reindeer
but we call it reindeer dancer.
Okay, dancer. This lady dancer.
Tiny dancer, right?
Oh, Vixen. Yeah, Vixen. Vixen writes.
Hold me closer, tiny Vixen.
Hold me closer, tiny Vixen.
Can't be heard.
Weirdest fucking character ever.
Lay me down.
Lay me down.
If you hate that,
you've been hating it for a while.
You want us to stop.
Well, it's not gonna happen. I love it.
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Alright so this guy really likes me
and his friends have even gotten back to me about him
talking about how much he loves me. I was in a group
with my friends and it was freezing outside
and one of my best friends was between us and she moved
leaving us right next to each other. I was wearing
a thin shirt and I didn't have a jacket and he put his arms
around me and pretty much held me really tight.
Oh yeah. It felt nice
and I feel like I'm starting to like him back. Good.
I realize how amazing he is but he's starting
to do something. He's bringing
hints on what I think is kissing me.
He always talks about a dream shop
he always talks about
a dream he had about us and how he kissed
now that I'm really falling head over heels
for him I don't know what to do. Like I
want to kiss him but I don't want it to lead to anything
more sexual and since when we go
on walks we're always really close to each other so how
do I all of a sudden kiss him? Do I just go
in front of him and all of a sudden kiss him?
Like seriously what do you guys think? What?
This girl's the worst romance novelist
of all time. My
thin shirt, my breast getting
cold and he pushes me up against
him and he talks about wanting
to kiss me and I wanted to
and he pretty much held me really tight.
Yeah.
And then suddenly he starts talking
to me about how much he wants to kiss me but
I just don't want it to
lead to anything sexual
so I retract into my cave.
This amazing man
wants to kiss me but god forbid
it leads to what? More kissing?
No. This pervert, this
disgusting slob.
You
you strange, weird
girl. What does she want?
What does she want? This is the reason
some guys are just like he held me really tight.
It felt nice.
She's a robot.
This is the reason why some neurotic guys are like
fucking like overthinking it
going crazy about ladies. It's like
because sometimes the girl is this crazy like
I held her tight, she said
she liked it, I went
to kiss her, she freaked out then she said
oh I really want to kiss you
so then I thought she wanted to kiss me
but then she doesn't because she doesn't want it to lead.
Kissing is a sexual thing. My theory is that she's Italian.
Oh.
I feel like this is some kind of
they're definitely not American, they're not English.
I think that English is not their first language
and I think this is like
you know how
foreigners are weird?
No, you know how a French person
or a Spanish person
can say they're so sexy like oh I had
a dream where we kissed and you're like
oh my goodness I had a dream where we made love
and oh my god I'm so like turned on by that.
This is like the first foray into that
for both of them. Like I don't know
what I want but it's all about it's like
all so lame it's like about a kiss or maybe
they're like 14. Right 14 year old
Spanish people.
14 year old Spaniards is the only way
to explain this weird weird email.
It's like this is the podcast is
I decipher who wrote the question, not
give them advice. Have you ever wanted to kiss
someone but you were afraid because you
didn't want it to lead to anything more sexual?
No I've only ever wanted it to lead to something
sexual. Well kissing is sexual.
Yeah kissing is the sexual destination
you arrived at sexual. You're allowed
to do something without having
like you are in control it doesn't have to
go anywhere and if he tries and you don't want to then
just say no and he'll stop or if
he doesn't you should kill him.
Oh my god
what a violent advice.
Well if he's gonna try to push her
I think he deserves to be dead.
He deserves the death penalty for what he did
to her. I'd like to give
him the needle myself.
That Pablo
French person
Pablo Francois
there's Vixen
so is there even advice like
her question is how do I kiss him?
What do I all of a sudden kiss him? Seriously what
do you think? Yeah you all of a sudden kiss him.
Especially on a walk by yourself that's like one of the most
romantic things you can do before a kiss.
I think like and you don't have to do anything
it sounds like he wants to kiss you he shouldn't
be like too much of a baby about it just
like look at him for long enough that he has
to kiss you. Are there girls who think oh I'll
never make the first move? I think so
and I think that's normal
there's like that's like that's not fair
I mean I'm not saying it's fair or equal
but I think that like there is
a girl who will never ever ever make
the first move. Well I feel like everybody
should have exceptions to the rules.
I don't think
most of the time I've been in a situation
where the girls made the first move
I feel like most of the time
I make the first move. But like
the girl can do something that predates
the move like the precursor of the move.
I guess like as long as we're talking
about like the subtleties
the girl almost makes the first move because it's like
she has to give you eyes
or swipe you right or match on
hinge or match on okcupid
or have a high curating on
match.com
Let me at the bar or just be on Tinder
yeah there's like
I move so slowly because I fear
rejection so like
yeah because that's the opposite of
making fun of a guy while you're with a girl
that's being the guy
well when somebody else grabs our hands
and walks out of a bar then you're like
oh fuck this. Damn it. But like yeah
you're talking you make a joke you like
maybe oh
touch her arm and see if she pulls away
and then like oh now like we're sitting
facing each other and knees are touching
now I'm gonna like move my knee now I'm gonna leave it here
see if I move it like a quarter inch away
and see if you match it. Oh a little experiment
everything's like a little experiment. Oh my god
it's so fucking fun playing games man
shit. I'm gonna start texting
please let me start texting. Oh
god remember this morning my phone was dead
I was just so excited to turn it on I had 22 texts
like oh they're
all from your mom wondering what happened to your phone
telling me my
therapy appointment really needs to happen soon
before I lose my fucking mind
saying that you sort of
get excited and off to all the wrong
races. Oh
my god I dream about that sound
which one? The
text noise
I'm gonna like you should change your text
noise to like a bell
dinging and then see if I can just
ding a bell and get you hard
like a Pavlovian
dick response. I'm gonna change my
text coming into
oh god
yeah you should
oh hell yeah. You just checked. I just
was like I had
two messages on OKCupid
why are you what's the point
of OKCupid right now
you're leaving New York City forever
in
12 days
12 days we moved. So what's the
what's the OKCupid game? Yeah what's the
wait let's go out on a date. What's the first date
so what's up? I've just been packing
I have to move across the country
oh for how long
indefinitely the foreseeable future for sure
so if you want to get a second
drinks with me let's do it
on the 13th or else I'm
actually yeah no gone forever
you know what's on last night together
what do you think baby is this crazy
I usually don't do this work so fast
but I'm gonna go to the bathroom will you let
that guy hit on you for five minutes and then I'm
gonna swoop is that cool
and if you can if you can remember his name
so we can make fun of him later that would really be ideal
for me I really don't know
why I'm on OKCupid still
I haven't met anybody I just
I mean it's the game
you almost don't care about meeting someone
messages god it's
I'm sad
well let's ease
into our break because I wanted to talk about
a little update since
you made me I shouldn't say made me
I downloaded Tinder I did I mean
like I I didn't make you make you
but I definitely you were the one who put his knee
75% of the way there but I matched
you 25% yeah yeah
and just I mean I all I
downloaded it so yes
technically you did
um
so after swiping
a lot that night yeah and
playing the game as you say
not much activity on Tinder I gotta tell you
let me see you got one match
yeah well I got two now you
got two matches yeah you didn't tell me about that second
one yeah I got to use the messenger
no
I don't know I just can't first for whatever
reason I can't get into it
I don't understand why
like swiping is fun but like
but even like you said like
since I downloaded Tinder you haven't really matched
with anyone either yeah I
I don't know what that is it just like a slow
is it a slow thing is there
too many people like
and and I guess
I did match with someone and started chatting but like it didn't
lead to anything right the app is also
I feel like the app is glitchy sometimes
yeah like why don't I match all the
time actually it was really funny last night
we downloaded on a girls phone
and
she was just drunkenly
swiping left and right left and right
and she probably swiped
within the first 15 minutes right six times
and matched all six crazy
like if you're if you're a cute lady on
Tinder game over yeah just
whoever you want nobody's gonna not
and not only that but like they were
that means these people were active in like the last
two minutes swiping her to the right that's true
so I guess like I used to think
that like oh man I should just not play for a long
time and then like go on and I'll like
get more matches yeah but maybe
I'm just I should be playing all the time
constantly I don't know
what the game is I will say also like
that girl the dudes on
Tinder are so abysmal
like when I'm
on Tinder I'm sweat like I see
I mean it seems like it's
maybe lower than 50% but a lot
of the time I'm swiping right right
I would not have swiped right
a single time with any of those guys
no they're so busted
which means
if we in theory were
better looking than busted that means I thought
and then yet when we swipe to the right nothing happens
yeah maybe we can convince ourselves
that those people haven't seen us yet
but we all know the truth they're swiping
to the left they swipe just left
well do you think you'll keep on playing
I don't know like it's such a slow burn
that like
when's the last time you were on it when you were
just like
you know swiping girls checking out chicks
maybe two days ago
yeah you gotta be every time you're taking
a shit I want you going through 100 girls
Jesus yeah I'm serious 100
100 girls
that seems like
seems like a lot of effort yeah
but hey it's a lot of use in the meeting somebody
in real life you know what I'm saying no it's not
oh
you were saying earlier
that you've never met someone
at a bar that night
and like broken the ice in person
you need to do it digitally first
right digitally or like
have an introduction from a friend
I can't look at a girl
across the bar walk over and be like
let me buy you a drink
but if you don't have the confidence to do that
then it really does
I don't know there are people that have that confidence
that are like
I have no idea
but people do I mean that happens for people
and I don't know what it is about me
but I just like it maybe it's the fear
of performance like the same thing that keeps
you from wanting to do like stand-up
yeah because it's like it's you putting yourself
out there 100% right too much too much
putting myself out there you don't want to take a
leap you want to like take big steps
and there's also like sometimes we'll go to a
bar and I could potentially buy them
a drink but like I don't feel
a bit a major attraction like I kind
of like to build on something I like to like
see someone's pictures
like
start getting like getting excited
like build up to it for like a couple
days then meet up and then be like all right now
it's like it's all culminating
in this so what's your like average
from beginning
to end what would you say is
the process
the average I feel like the way
what happens for me most is
I'll meet up with a friend
who has another friend
and I'll meet that person a cute friend
and then we'll have fun
the night will be over and then I'll talk to
my friend and be like what's the deal with your friend
oh she actually asked about you
I'm like oh give me your number and then
we start texting she comes out another time
but this time to see me and
then that's it that's the that's the move
that happens like 70% of the time
the rest of the time it's
online
online dating related
Tinder is that friend of a friend
yeah Tinder's the friend of a friend but it's usually
like I always hook up with people like in
circles like at work or at
yeah in your Google circle
yeah in your Google plus yeah
people in your Google plus or your Friendster extended
networks I have a Friendster extended
actually
you know what let's let's answer this one other question
because that was going to lead me to that
other idea I had about an app
but let's read this one first
ready this one comes from
uh running out of time
so let's say Rudolph Rudolph
Rudolph the red nose reindeer
writes Rudolph the red nose
reindeer what the hell
is that I don't know I can't do the Bob Dylan
what was that how dare you
that was so
kind of very shiny nose
Rudolph the red nose
reindeer first
I love it
more than anyone else possibly can
Rudolph writes there's this girl
that I have known for a while and she recently
and recently she started
texting me more and more I like her so
one night I invited her to a party
we cuddled for most of the night but I didn't
make a move when I should have and now I
don't know how or when I will make the move
I really think she likes me and I really
like her but she goes to a different school
than me and I can't think of something to say
I want to ask her
I want to ask her somewhere but should I
do that in person but we have no
mutual events and I have no clue
when I will see her again should I do it by text
she and I are both
really shy and I don't know how to bring
updating in our text conversations
which are very casual how should I go at this
you guys are amazing or
you're just trying to sneak that praise in
oops see you guys are amazing
asshole
you didn't even write it
thanks Rudolph
so this is
sort of related to the thing you were talking
about how I said
I wonder how often
two people like each other
and they're both too shy to make the move
and if either one of them did it
it would have been successful
but it's just completely unrequited
because no one has the balls
to go for it everybody is like
just a little too guarded
a little too self-preserving
but like if one person made the move they would both be happy
right so
isn't there an app that can be like the middleman
like that'll force this
attract like isn't that Tinder?
no because Tinder you still have to
you have to be the person that says I like you
I want to make a move I want like a
chemistry app where you're in a
party right you log in
and let's in a perfect world everybody
else is there
a little circle in that
party so you basically filled out a questionnaire
that knows who you would be compatible
not even a questionnaire like oh I see
that girl across the room and she likes
me and I like her I will draw
a line from my circle to hers
and if she draws that line too it goes
you guys both like each other
just talk and hook up
just talk loser I feel like
it's like Tinder but on a
micro level where it's just like
for people in that room it should be
like the Dumbo's
feather that made him fly or whatever
like you should just have
that app that you draw the line and it's always
a match because that's all it is
all you need is just like
the confidence you know Vinny
did this to me one time there was like a friend
of his that he wanted to set me up with
and he was like
oh so-and-so we'll call her
dancer dancer
dancer says like thinks you're really
cute I'm like oh shit
dope I'm gonna talk to her
talked to her bought her a drink we like
went on a bunch of dates and then
at some point it came out she's like yeah I'm like
really happy you like told Vinny you were into me
I was like no Vinny told
me that you were into me and it turned out
that he just like fucking he
you lied to both of us yeah
yeah it's like a app should be called placebo
because it's not about actually feeling the connection
it's about having the confidence
thinking that she likes you
right exactly so like you just oh that girl
just go like alright dope hey and like
and then they just say hey because everyone's friendly
I guess in a less dystopian way
the best way to act is as though
somebody told you that
they like you yeah that way you don't
always conduct yourself just like
go it go up to anyone
acting like they like like
like their friend just came up to
you in a huff and said hey you should
make a move because she's like super into
you yeah and that is I mean maybe not
like super into you but I feel like people's default
is like usually friendly and open
right at least give it always
at least worth a shot but there's
I've also noticed recently
that like if it's not happening
with someone it's pretty apparent in the
first minute yeah it's true
like there's almost like an instant
judgment made yeah
and it's like I
for me it's impossible to overcome
right I actually think I agree
I feel like I could walk into a bar
make one lap and be like
um don't want to talk to that person that person
this person I could marry that one I could
definitely date this one I could see me and her like
hooking up maybe but I
like I all snap judgments yeah
but I feel like snap judgments a lot of time
like your gut is often right right
anyway what should we
do about this cuddle bunny I mean you should
just swing the bat dude just text her
you're she's shy you're shy but like
you got to just be the less shy one right
now if you want this to happen just text her be like hey
let's go on a date yeah this is one of those
things where if you if she asked you out you'd
be thrilled if you asked her out you she'd
be thrilled and neither of you guys are asking
the other person just be a man
and text her
be a man dude you write
that text be a man and write
uh sweet words into your magic box
click on send put it down
on the floor and see if she ever responds to
you without ever having to look her in the eye or ask
her out in person but eventually I feel like it's like
as passive as texting and online dating
is it's like sometimes it's just sort of this
they're evil so like one day maybe you guys will
be like you'll finally be able to like break
down those walls and have a real like human
connection yeah and then you'll talk about the time
where you guys uh
oh can you imagine a time where we were both too shy
to ask the other person out
how silly we were you know what you know what actually
changed my mind was this uh
this Bob Dylan loser on a podcast
he was he was singing
about farts and I think he's a hero
he's amazing
what's the best way to
courageously send a text
like if you if you're if you
are trying to hype yourself up
direct do you remember
oh fuck um I don't feel like
I can't say anybody's names but we I wrote
a text for a friend of ours and like the girls
yeah called it the
text no that's what that's
this brings us back to texting Casanova the
website we need to build where Jake texts
for you I wanted so bad you want you should
be able to send the text for everybody
the text maybe that's the name I wish
I could remember what that text was but it was something
like um you know
hey we should we should get a drink
right it was I mean it was fucking way
better but just the fact that like you have the
courage to be that forward is right charming
yeah super super confident
because I mean you'd be really confident on a text
who cares you don't have to be like hey what are
you up to tonight just be like hey I'd like
to get a drink with you I'd like to watch a movie
with you I'd like to cuddle you again you know it's
you know it helps on a psychological level
like uh just writing the text
really quickly sending it and putting your
phone down walking away yeah all right it's over
it's done I don't know what I can't come back
I'm leaving maybe she'll write me back maybe
she won't but it's over just assume
you'll never hear back from her even though like
you're secretly looking at the phone
waiting for it to vibrate it's true how
annoying is it waiting for a text message and
your phone vibrates and you like look at it
and it's just like an alarm or
it's worse
not getting the one that you want yeah
no I hate that but you know that's
the that's another bad thing about the app
that I brought up is like the fun
is being able to
like make a leap like if you know
that someone likes you it's slightly
less exciting right it's true
high-risk high reward but
at the same time you're still getting play
you're still getting play
what
you're still getting play yeah
you're still getting play
you really are playing I think this
basement is where I
where you play in this
place
oh yeah it's cool I live with my parents but I still
get like play and shit
I get kid and play actually
I'm always looking for random play
on Facebook
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