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baddie 2 baddie: the boys are calling - ep. 23

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baddie 2 baddie: the boys are calling - ep. 23

welcome back to Baddie 2 Baddie - the check-in where nothing is off limits. this week, we're handing the mic to the boys. since so many of you listen with your man, we asked you to call in with your biggest questions, hot takes, and relationship dilemmas. from tight jeans and scalding-hot showers to green flags, friendships, and what actually makes women lose interest... no topic was off the table. think your question should be next? drop it below or call into Baddie to Baddie - this series is here to stay x 0:00 Baddie to Baddie begins 0:40 Current Events 11:17 Why Are Your Jeans Tighter Than Mine 14:35 The Urge to Point Things Out 16:32 Attitude Check 19:26 The Chase? What Chase? 22:40 Biggest Fears 24:53 I Want My Guy Friends Back 29:30 Messy Sleeping Arrangements 31:50 Hot Ass Water 34:05 Lost Interest & Green Flags   Baddie 2 Baddie Phoneline: Need advice only a baddie can give? Have some tea to spill or a story to share? Send us a voice note to be featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/Baddie2Baddie   Follow Better Half: https://www.instagram.com/betterhalfpodcast/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@betterhalfpodcast https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61588018913258 https://www.youtube.com/@BetterHalfPodcast   Follow Stas: https://www.instagram.com/staskaranikolaou/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@stassiebaby?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/@Staskaranikolaou   Follow Vic: https://www.instagram.com/victoriavillarroel/?hl=en https://www.tiktok.com/@victoriavillarroell?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/@victoriavillarroel   By submitting a voice message, materials, or story, you understand and agree that your submission may be featured on this podcast. You grant Better Half with Stas & Vic a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license in any and all media to use, edit, publish, and distribute your audio submission and any related name/information in our podcast episodes, videos, and promotional materials across all platforms. You represent and warrant that the content you submit is solely owned and controlled by you, that you have the right to grant this permission, and the permission of no other person is necessary for our use. You acknowledge your voice message, story, and materials shall not defame, disparage, invade the privacy of, portray in a false light, or violate the rights of any person. You will indemnify and hold harmless Better Half and its parent corporation, partners, producers, and talent (including Stas & Vic) from any claims or damages that arise from our use of your submission. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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getting to a great idea is hard in college nonsensical essays cringe-inducing presentations and seemingly unsolvable problem sets but then the first thought becomes a final thesis jumbled slides transform into a polished keynote and that midterm assignment gets a lot less mid because the road to great ideas is littered with bad ones you just have to keep going until something clicks great ideas start on mac find out more on apple.com slash college this is matt rogers from lost culture east us with matt rogers and bowen yang this is bowen yang from lost culture east us with matt rogers and bowen yang you know when people try a new food and suddenly it's like okay hold on i got a new favorite food that's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first try cupi mayo yeah it's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle you've probably seen it at the grocery store and this mayo is different most mayonnaise uses whole eggs cupi only uses egg yolk which gives it this rich umami flavor it's smoother deeper almost buttery once people try it they start putting it on everything egg sandwiches fries burgers chefs use it restaurants use it people who really care about flavor use it put it on just about anything then you'll understand cupi the original japanese mayonnaise amazon pharmacy presents painful thoughts of course i see my co-worker in line at the pharmacy can you tell i'm picking up prescription hemorrhoid cream i'm probably standing waiting why is he smiling he knows he's gonna call me hemorrhoid lloyd tomorrow i know it i gotta quit my job next time avoid awkward conversations and get fast free delivery with amazon pharmacy health care just got less painful this is danielle official from pod meets world back to school shopping used to be so simple and then my kids developed opinions apparently not just any shoe will do luckily famous footwear makes that part easy because they carry all the brands they actually want like nike adidas new balance jordan and more everyone gets the shoes they want i get great prices and we can cross one more thing off the back to school list that's a parenting win in my book right now it's bogo buy one pair get one half off at famous footwear shop in store to get ten dollars to spend this fall some exclusions apply plus join famous rewards to get their best benefits including free shipping labor day deals are looking good at lowe's save ten dollars on one gallon cans and fifty dollars on five gallon pails of select interior paint via rebate plus get two 2.5 quart or three quart mums for just eight dollars a fresh look and savings even better labor day deals are on now at lowe's in store and online valid through nine nine while supplies last mum sizes vary by location and exclude alaska and hawaii see store at lowe's.com for more details hi guys welcome back to body to body welcome back to better oh welcome back to body to body um we're here we're here you guys we asked you to have your boyfriends call with you and leave us cute little voicemails i have no idea what to expect i don't know if they're going to ask us questions or just state things so we're going to have to just watch yeah are we going to and see are we reacting or are we i don't know some advice are they going to be like why are girls like this right i don't know i guess we're gonna have to see before we get into our baddie to baddie line we are going to just chat about some current things that are happening in our life yeah um well i think you should share about your sub stack because i just paid for my subscription you did finally it took you long enough donnie's a subscribed member yeah well i didn't know that i had to pay you do well i did i did thank you so much for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye thank you do you subscribe for the month for the year babe nice what do you mean you should have done founding member that would have been iconic what does that mean i don't know actually i don't have one of them but it's like the most expensive how do i do it oh my god i'm doing it obviously obviously i'm becoming a founding member like hello i've already bought the book for the book club i'm like part of the i'm part of the girl gang i don't know um i've had it for a while and i just thought i would make my own and it's been so fun i just you know i'm giving a mix of like instagram blog yes so i've always wanted to be a blogger so i'm just writing articles but i'm taking like lots of time like so everything you see is super like well thought out and precise and i spent hours i heard it all the things you put on first dibs today weren't they cute so cute i'm just basically doing the shopping for you guys and also not only that but i'm sharing i'm doing articles about my life and you know just cute things it's like a cute girl world that you it's really welcoming you too and it's called maria maria my what's it called my whatever more publication i guess it's like my little magazine i'm in my carrie bradshaw era she's literally living sex in the city yes i'm on my window like so today okay also we both don't have our extensions in and i'm like last time we felt well one of the last times we filmed you remember we're like we both got our extensions in i chopped all my nails off i took my extensions out it's nice i'm sometimes it's too much of an upkeep and sometimes during summer if you especially if you're traveling and you're getting in the water all the time it's hard it takes three and it takes so long for your hair to dry with the extensions so sometimes it's nice to give you and like the extensions when they hair you have to like blow dry them they don't really look good air dried to me at least yeah it's super refreshing for now not to have them in feels nice you feel light i do miss my priscilla hair always always we feel i'm putting it in tomorrow actually you are well just to fill out my front pieces because i got my this is also something you guys have to be careful with if you're getting if you get extensions i wanted a super layered like face framed haircut and when we cut all the like i filled out my extensions like all throughout my hair and then we went in and we cut all my face framing layers so i just took all my extensions out and the back of my hair is like normal length and then all my whole front area is probably four inches what is that yeah that's almost four or five inches of like all of the hair that got cut into the face framing so i have to fill that out and then let it grow out so that matches the back our friend ariel told me he everything he says he gets i buy everything he said main mat no main tonic main magic no main magic it's a tonic but you it's a dropper and you do it twice a day he says it's a it's chinese it's based off chinese medicine so it's herbal it's not like actual like minoxidil or anything and it's supposed to bring the flow the blood flow in your scalp it's supposed to like make it make it flow in there make a party which means well our hair will grow hopefully so i ordered it because vic put it on her what about mary ruth mary i googled ariel said the max hair max the growth the max whatever he said that it's amazing and your hair will grow crazy so i bought it it's in my fridge oh it's sweet cookie butter something weird i think i have it but it expires so check oh but he said i started taking neutrophil oh that's good too but he said i'm taking minoxidil he said the hair i have minoxidil i don't know if that's controversial but i need this front hair is to grow it yeah the annoying thing about hair is it takes so long like you gotta wait like two years ago i had my chemical cut well assassination so i got it was bad what happened to me those photos oh i'll post the photos because we found them my hair was i remember i showered and when i touched it it was like spaghetti it was like all like elastic elastic it was stringy and i have never seen hair texture like that i was like what am i and it took two years it took two years for it to be like now it's like wow i could walk a fashion show for my hair compared to what it was so but it took two years so it's like two years mine was just so good before this cut god damn it just takes so long but i mean the years will pass whether you take the pills or not so are you gonna take the pills or you're not gonna take the pills i'm gonna take the pills take the pills oil it up do whatever you have to do i started using the brett monrock what is that dr groot roller scalp serum okay i'm doing everything yeah it's good and i leave i left everything out so i see it hair vitamins on the kitchen counter so when i go have my lunch and make sure i take the vitamins after i eat monoxidil next to my bed right next to my let me sleep apparently we need to check our vitamins because if you take prenatals you could be giving yourself too much of certain vitamins when you don't need them when you don't need them and then you could get breakouts and you can get like all these other things hair will always be a topic of discussion in this podcast so any questions any comments any advice we have gone through literally everything i've had bad hair good hair bad cut good cut i've had it all extensions no attention everything grays chemical reactions to a hair dye i've had it all also didn't you have like a horrible assassination also i had to get my iud changed you guys and holy ballsack well because she had texted our friends like this girl we had that we have and a few of the girls were like no stars like you i think you're gonna be okay you can do it right you can do it i was like i want to be put to sleep to get my iud switched out because i got my iud put in i had to do my endometriosis surgery and when I was out asleep while they were doing my endometriosis surgery i got my iud put in fast forward five years my iud is expired and i have to switch my iud and i was gonna get put to sleep for it because i didn't want to deal with the horror stories i hear about the iud switches and my doctor was like fine perfect come on surgery on a surgery day like i'll do it for you asleep it'll take literally 20 minutes it was like amazing so then i got that bill but what made you oh how much it was it was it was like five times the expense just to put the iud in 20 minutes just because the anesthesia to put you to sleep well you have to pay for the anesthesia you have to pay for the room you have to pay for the doctor's time you have to pay for the device you have to pay for our gynecologist isn't through insurance she's like a private doctor so everything we pay for it doesn't get covered by insurance once i got the bill you i texted my group chat of all of our girls and i said guys do i really need to be put to sleep for my iud thing because when i got it i was asleep and i don't know what it feels like to put it in what do i do and four or five of our friends were like you're gonna be fine it's so easy do the laughing gas she'll numb you and you'll be totally chilling one of my friends was like stoss go the fuck to sleep don't do this awake and so i'm like okay whatever i can handle this like i'm i've got a high pain tolerance i got this anyways we get to the appointment i lay back legs in the fucking are you sucking on the laughing on the laughing gas my head is whomp whomp whomping i'm like feeling the laughing gas and she numbs and she does the numbing shot and you didn't feel that the numbing shot hurt but i was okay so lindsey was like holding my hand about to pass out i can't it's like you know that tiktok that's like whatever the hangout is yeah yeah yeah you holding my hand at the guy though anyways apparently we're gonna have our gynecologist our gynecologist on the pod so we can get more into it with her but apparently it was just she couldn't get the fucking she pulled out the iud and couldn't get it back in what because i don't get my period oh yeah so every time every time you get your period your cervix dilates to like one to three centimeters or something that's why we're in pain so that's why you're cramping in pain your cervix dilated because i don't bleed because i don't get my period my cervix never dilates so she literally couldn't get it in she had to like manually dilate my cervix was tried like four times to push it through and i was it was oh my god it was awful it was the most dramatic thing ever i would have had to but why do you need an iud because i have endometriosis which is what we'll talk about but what does it help with it helps with like so i don't get my period because i have endometriosis and i have endometriosis and i have endometriosis and i have my my lesions so so you don't want to get your period it's not i it's not necessarily good for me to get my period okay i think apparently we'll ask her we need to like talk to her more because honestly i should be a little bit more educated about my body and i'm not so dr a is coming on well that's horrible we'll get more into it with her but yeah i think that that should be a procedure that you should for sure be put to sleep for i think that it's crazy and i think that in 20 many years there's gonna be something that comes out that now it's protocol for this to happen when you're put to sleep and that everyone's gonna be like that is so crazy that you were not put to sleep for it's like very handmaid's tale energy and think about dr a's office like how nice sweet gentle she numbs she makes like all my comments on tiktok people are like you got numbing you got numbing and a laughing gas i just they just told me to breathe through it what it's like crazy that's not nice i will never do that insane that sounds like a horrible experience it was traumatizing to say the least anyways sorry if that traumatized anyone the boys listened to the boys so like damn this took a turn fuck anyways we're gonna go ahead and listen to our first caller okay this is matt rogers from las culturistas with matt rogers and bowen yang this is bowen yang from las culturistas with matt rogers and bowen yang you know when people try a new food and suddenly it's like wait that's the one that a lot of people are having when they first try cupi mayo it's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle you've probably seen it in the grocery store before and if you've ever just walked past it some people would say that's a huge mistake because this mayo is different most mayonnaise uses whole eggs cupi only uses egg yolks which gives it this rich umami flavor it's smoother deeper and almost buttery once people try it they start putting it on everything egg sandwiches fries burgers some fans even swear by dipping pizza crust in it and once you notice it you start seeing it everywhere chefs use it restaurants use it people who really care about flavor use it never tried it grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're at the store put it on just about anything then you'll understand cupi the original japanese mayonnaise getting to a great idea is hard in college nonsensical essays cringe-inducing presentations and seemingly unsolvable problem sets but then the first thought comes the final thesis jumbled slides transform into a polished keynote and that midterm assignment gets a lot less mid because the road to great ideas is littered with bad ones you just have to keep going until something clicks great ideas start on mac find out more on apple.com slash college hey everyone it's cal penn i'm the host of ear say the audible and i heart audiobook club this week on the podcast i am sitting down with ray porter the narrator of andy weir's audiobook project hail mary massive sci-fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from earth i really had to make a decision because i caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as i'm narrating some of these sections and it's like okay yo yo yo is this indulgent and i really thought about it i was like no at this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if i don't go through it but there's places in this book that that deeply emotionally affected me and i left it on the mic that's great because it served the story people will say like oh my god i cried at the end it's like yeah dude me too listen to ear say the audible and i heart audiobook club on the i heart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts this is danielle official from pod meets world summer is winding down and you know what that means back to school shopping but don't worry this year i'm here to help with famous footwear they make it easy to get great shoes at great prices with brands like jordan nike adidas birkenstock new balance sketchers and more they have what your kids want without breaking the bank which considering how fast these kids grow is important you don't want to waste money on sneakers they'll constantly outgrow and let's be honest here these kids have specific style requests you must fulfill famous footwear has the massive selection to make sure those standards are met and with that i'm going to hand it over to a famous footwear is always nearby right now it's bogo buy one pair get one half off at famous footwear shop in store to get ten dollars to spend this fall some exclusions apply plus join famous rewards to get their best benefits including free shipping hey this is kevin this is joe and this is nick from hey jonas you know i recently learned that every 36 minutes another child in the u.s is diagnosed with cancer think about that for a second some of the bravest warriors you'll ever meet aren't professional athletes or superstars they're not professional athletes they're not superheroes they're kids in this fight and every day these young warriors face challenges most adults couldn't imagine yet they continue to show up with incredible courage determination and hope that's why we're proud to support hyundai hope on wheels for the past 28 years with support from hyundai their dealers and every new hyundai sold hope on wheels has contributed over 300 million dollars to childhood cancer research helping save more than 40 000 kids but we're not done yet we need your help together let's bring every warrior home learn more at hyundai u.s. a.com hope on wheels or ask about hope on wheels at your local hyundai dealer you ready sorry this is i'm obviously not a guy but i just need you guys to address for all the men listening how they need to fucking dress because the outfits men are wearing i mean i live in la so i'm sure it's honestly 10 times worse everywhere else but it's still bad here why are your jeans tighter than mine why am i seeing like or like the length of the jeans like then your ankle is out like are you in a capri i don't like that what the fuck is going on sorry but i just feel like that needs to be addressed if there's men that are listening to this okay thank you so much it had to be said it had to be said i mean it's so true the amount of times we're like ankles is such a turnoff and he's such an ick and you're like are you wearing socks are you wearing the ballerina socks and your shoe because if you're wearing the ballerina socks it's even worse you don't think it could get worse but it does when the shoe comes off and there's a little ballerina it's such an egg it is like we had a friend harry remember okay so harry our friend harry when he first moved to l.a from australia he came to sasa's house when we're all like living there together and he took off his shoes and he had only this only the toes were covered by this thin little sock like a thong in his sock form and we're all like harry no no no you need normal guy socks and hopefully i don't know i haven't seen him in a while hopefully hopefully hopefully no more ballerina but i agree but i think like guys either have the swag or they don't and if they don't it's hard for them to attain it yes it's hard to fake it it's hard to fake it but you either have it or you don't but it's so easy as a guy get a nice pair of relaxed jeans a good few t-shirts tennis shoes tennis shoes and you're good a nice little hat donnie's fit the best my boyfriend's hats donnie's clothes honestly yeah just go to namias.com yeah literally do like the but also like even donnie's insert like if you look at the instagram it's like that's how you should just look at donnie's instagram or the dress is great or like like she said you need a nice pair of low right like low rise nice sorry you need a good relax low rise sorry relax jeans a nice pair of like like pumas you know like a nice skinny tight jean like it shouldn't be tight against your cat i don't want to see a tight jean i also hate fedoras please don't throw them burn the fedoras a cute hat good like uniqlo has really good basic teeth yeah black white basic wife beaters are good too if you're gonna work out just keep it monochrome also basketball shorts yes a nice flannel looks good on a guy depending on like depending on the long like long shorts are really in right now oh cherry cherry la has really good clothes too for guys so just go there cherry and amias keep us at the vibes yes something like that but thank you for saying that and speaking up because it takes a brave woman i'm kidding uh no we agree with you we agree heavily okay next color hey girlies uh shout out to the pod i'm a constant viewer thanks to my girlfriend shout out tori i only have one question and that's what's the woman's urge to tell you to do something or point out a task that has to be made when she visibly sees that you're already headed towards doing that or already starting to do it like why do women have the urge to do that thank you oh my god this is gonna be fun he's so cute when you're already on your way why does she have to point it out because she probably can do it quicker than you yeah she's probably been waiting for you to do it all day and then you're finally about to do it and she could have done it in two seconds i know i'm telling you i live with my boyfriend and i he just gets so distracted sometimes and it takes him so much longer to just do something quick and i just end up doing it myself and we just get frustrated as women because we're like come on like i've asked you a thousand times just do it so maybe it was like the final ask yeah or maybe i don't know maybe surprise her next time and do it like before she asks yeah if there's something she like always expects you to do i don't know that would be super cute of you but what is the urge that we have i think yeah i think i answered it yeah i think it's just like maybe out of frustration but do you guys live together because if you live together you know sometimes we get annoyed like i get annoyed all the time because donnie doesn't pick up after himself he he actually did really good today we had a whole we had a very productive day and he cleaned the whole garage he gets like these bursts of energy and then he'll get everything done that he's been meaning to do so today was a good day i don't know i don't have anyone to tell what to do i have to do all my tasks myself literally thank you for calling i appreciate you for listening constant listener shout out to tori hi it's alia and my boyfriend's name's jackson i currently just asked him a question he's playing his video game um his question was why are girls so mean um or why we have attitudes so i guess if you want to give him an answer to that question um but yeah love you bye love you bye i don't i i just think i think that if you have an attitude and you're mean it's because you're disappointed with something right they're doing right it goes back to you it goes it always comes back to you boys yeah you're probably you probably did something and you didn't even know you did it and you could have it could have been as simple as you could have cheated in the dream last night and that's why we're mean that's why we have an attitude today yeah i have attitudes when yeah i just get frustrated sometimes either i'm super sensitive because of something or he's annoying me because of something yeah disappointment so we are frustrated out of disappointment because of something or you know what's an something that i've had to learn in my past relationships is like when you're in a relationship they're the closest person to you so it's like you take it out you kind of take things out on on them which is like shitty but you kind of do it to each other and it's like you could be so frustrated or disappointed in something that happened and like they do something one little thing that's different from what you're expecting in your head and then it all like goes out on them that's true but you have to be able to recognize that so you can be like sorry babe i didn't mean that yeah to you and this is what's going on with me i think communication is key if something's bothering you get it out talk to your partner so that you don't blow up on them for not wiping down the counter or taking the trash out communicate definitely helps a lot like a healthy relationship has good communication and if she's being mean be like babe what's wrong or you're being mean and be more gentle with me yeah which is what donnie tells me gentle babe you gotta be more gentle and i'm like and that's really cute by the way gentle babe because then you're probably like oh i know because i'm like sometimes i like get annoyed and like i snap at him and i'm like and i my tone of voice changes and he's like babe gentle and i was like babe i'm sorry like can you do this for me or just like it's about the tone how you ask the questions yeah some guys are sensitive and sometimes we can come up a little strong because we're doing a thousand things at one time to me make their lives easier while they're playing video games exactly and also we want a little appreciation here and there you know a little help hope that answered okay hi guys i'm gonna keep this anonymous i'm lesbian so like i count as a guy right because i'm more of the man in the relationship okay anyways um so please pick me pick my question i understand that women like the chase they like to be you know they like the game whatever but at what point would you guys say like it just begins to be too much and it's just like not even a chase anymore and it's just annoying at that point um like does it get to a certain point where you're just like okay you shouldn't be chasing after a month or two or like what do you guys like the chase let us know let us know let us know do you like the chase i don't chasing after your ass like sorry no i'm just like i think if a guy if a guy wanted you he would be let it he would let it be known and he would and if and vice versa if i wanted a guy he would know that i would i want him and if he didn't want me back and i felt like i had to chase him and the chase you later it sounds like what you're saying that it's a little toxic at this point that it's like at this sometimes you gotta just call it and set boundaries for yourself like i'm not doing this i love myself too much to be doing this desperado be so comfortable in your own life like your partner should just amplify your life you can't find a partner to like complete your life so if you feel like you have to chase this person to be with them to make you happy like be happy with yourself that you're like oh i don't care if this person doesn't want me like i'm good where i'm at i'm whole within myself and if you don't add then sayonara bitch that's it probably why i'm gonna be single forever i'm like there's no way i'm chasing relationships so i haven't been like chasing anybody and i won't even waste a guy's time if i don't like right he's like i'm not gonna let him chase me consistency and like persistent is like really attractive like from my past with my exes but then he like kept trying and then i was like fine let's hang out then it worked so i don't know so sometimes the chase works but that's like a that's like a healthy cute chase like oh my god he likes me and it's like more like the back and forth like we're like flirty and he's sexy and cute and excited and fun and then you like go out and then if the person like after like a few dates isn't is still feeling like a chase then maybe they just maybe you just have a conversation yeah maybe sit down and say do you like me what do you think what's happening here it's been three four months of the same you know like what do you want the hot and cold like you know like what do you want out of i'm really i think we're like too old for this i think so too like i'm like i'm just like if you're over it we're like if you don't want me like bye leave me alone then maybe we're too old for that specific question maybe i'm like we're just like over it this is matt rogers from las culturistas with matt rogers and bowen yang this is bowen yang from las culturistas with matt rogers and bowen yang you know when people try a new food and suddenly it's like wait that's the reaction a lot of people are having when they first put the red cap and the little baby on the bottle you've probably seen it in the grocery store before and if you've ever just walked past it, some people would say that's a huge mistake. Because this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. Kewpie only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, and almost buttery. Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Egg sandwiches, fries, burgers. Some fans even swear by dipping pizza crust in it. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. Chefs use it. Restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Never tried it? Grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're at the store. Put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand. Kewpie, the original Japanese mayonnaise. Getting to a great idea is hard in college. Nonsensical essays, cringe-inducing presentations, and seemingly unsolvable problem sets. But then, the first thought becomes the final thesis. Jumbled slides transform into a polished keynote. And that midterm assignment gets a lot less mid. Because the road to great ideas is littered with bad ones. You just have to keep going until something clicks. Great ideas start on Mac. Find out more on apple.com slash college. Hey, everyone. It's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart audiobook club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook project, Hail Mary. Massive sci-fi adventure about survival and science. And what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth. I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections. And it's like, okay, yo, yo, yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no, at this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that deeply emotionally affected me. And I left it there. And I left it on the mic. That's great. Because it served the story. 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Together, let's bring every warrior home. Learn more at hyundaiusa.com slash hopeonwheels or ask about Hope on Wheels at your local Hyundai dealer. We're like the chase. The chase. What chase? Not, or he, she. Like, ask a question. Does she want you? Sit her ass down and just ask her. Don't waste your time, girl. What's one thing all girls are afraid of, but will never admit to a guy that you probably won't be able to answer because you're a girl? We're too old again, because I'll say it. What are we scared of? Um, I'm scared of lies. Like, not dishonesty. I think dishonesty for me. I think that's a good one. Dishonesty. Like, we always say, don't cheat on me, just tell me you want to leave. Or be like, I'm attracted to somebody else. And then you're like, oh, okay, well, shit. Damn. Thank you for telling me and love you. Like, I'd rather know always than, like, the sneaky games. But I feel like, hopefully, at this age, it's just kind of like, I don't know. Like, the sneakiness is, like, a little immature. It's, like, harder to cover up the lie than to just be like, I don't think this is working, babe. Then break it down, you know? Break it up. Or whatever it's called. Break it. Whatever. But, yeah, so I think dishonesty is something that, but we say it. We're not scared to say it, I guess, because we're girls. And, like, being disrespected. I think disrespect is a good one. And, like, talking, like, the way that you talk about us when we're not in the room. Like, if you are disrespected. I guess that's not, like, scary. It's just, like, fuck off. Like, what are we scared of? Spiders? What scares us is the fact that they're scared to show their emotions and talk about how they feel. That is crazy. Like, man up. Say how you feel. And don't disrespect me or cheat on me or lie to me. I would rather you fucking tell me that you don't like me than to fucking do shady shit behind my back. Yeah, absolutely. Grow some balls. Grow some balls. Yo, as good as Eli raised, I don't even know where this is going to go to. I just saw this post on Saucy Baby's story. My question is, maybe get a girl's perspective on this because this is more targeted towards y'all. How do y'all balance straight guy best friendships while being in a relationship? Because from my, like, experiences, I've gotten drunk. I've dropped. Well, I've really only had, like, two, like, friends that I consider, like, really close friends. But, like, how do y'all, like, balance it? And some of them, like, are my friendships that are girls. They're not even sexual like that. Like, we kiss. But, like, that's not even, like, that's like if we're drunk or something. So it's never that serious. But, like, if y'all got, like, a regular, like, like, a straight guy friend and you got a boyfriend, like, how do you balance that? Because I don't think a lot of women know how to do that. Because sometimes I lose really good, close friendships over them having a man. And they don't know how to control, like, balancing it, too. So, yeah. Also, Stassi, beautiful woman. You're a beautiful woman. Ten out of ten. What just happened? Also, he, I love how he started with his name and last name. And last name. A.K.A. Find Me Girl. I'm intrigued to see what he looks like, to be honest. Me, too. I really want to see. I have no idea what to expect. He said y'all, so maybe he's from the south. Oh, please. Texas boy. This is a good question. And I was just thinking about this last night, actually. I was talking to Donnie. And I was saying, like, I used to have so many guy friends. Yeah. Like, I had so many guy friends. But I think when you're in a relationship, I don't know. I feel like I've lost some of them. I really do think I've lost some of them. But I told him I want them back. And I, well, my guy friend's back. And he fully supports because he knows who they are. Yeah. So I'm going to make it a mission. I'm going to make it a mission to be more, like, be better about that. Because I feel like I wasn't as good at the beginning. I think that maybe at the beginning, you're trying to respect your partner. And I don't know. Yeah. And you're, like, have boundaries. I mean, especially my guy. You just said that you kissed them. You kissed and shit when you're drunk. So, like, obviously, their men are probably like, well, you guys, like, there has to be some sort of attraction for you to be kissing when you're drunk. And then it takes that. You know, boundary. Like, my guy friends, I haven't actually kissed them. They were, they have always been purely guy friends. Yeah. So I think there's a difference if you kind of have had a little, como se dice, a little, like, a little kiss, bang, bang. But I don't know. Like, I'm thinking, like, does Donnie has, does he have girlfriends? I don't think Donnie has. I do not think Donnie has girls that are friends. I mean, he doesn't have anyone that he's, like, hanging out without me. Yeah. Sometimes it could be a little tricky. So I think it just depends on the situation, situational. Yeah, situational. It just depends on your situation and who these girls are and what's your history with them. And if it's something that bothers you and they're actually your really close friends that you miss, again, have a conversation, talk to them, say, I want to make an effort. Like, I want to keep you in my life. I miss you as a friend. Like, can we all hang out together? I want to meet your man. Like, what if you guys end up becoming the best bros? And then you all have happy friendships together. You know, think about if you were in a relationship and your girl had, like, I always think it's good to put yourself in the position of the guy. So, like, if you're sitting there and you have a girlfriend and then your girlfriend's like, I'm going to go hang out with this guy that I used to kiss when I was drunk. And, you know, we're really good friends, but we have this past, you know, you probably wouldn't like that. But also, like, if you have a, if you're one of your good girlfriends gets a boyfriend, and she's now kind of like disappearing a little bit maybe be like hey let's make a plan that includes your boyfriend like let's go paintballing something that will get the boys excited or like let's go play basketball i know my boyfriend loves to play basketball he's always meeting you guys playing basketball so maybe find something that you could have in common with this boy and then set a plan to like bond with the guy and then if you bond with the guy then you guys are going to become homies yeah and then you'll be able to see your girlfriend all the time your girl that's a friend exactly you also sound like trouble that little voice of yours it's not like you're trying to well that's actually not fully true because i love to make out with anyone when i'm drunk like i don't have like i'll make out with you i made out with carter at gabby's wedding yeah hey guys so i have a quick story and i want to get your opinion on it so i went to visit some of my friends and one of my closest friends is a girl and she's in a relationship with a guy i love them both they're really cool um but the sleeping arrangement when i went to visit was kind of messed up and she was like i don't know what why don't we just go sleep at her boyfriend's place he has a couch in his bedroom they said we'd watch a movie and hang out and watch tv out i don't know just vibe so i was like yay okay i'll do it so i go with them to sleep there instead of where i was supposed to sleep and within like 10 minutes of being there they start like making out crazy whatever whatever i don't know if they thought i was asleep what so then i'm just like okay let me just pretend i'm asleep mind you the and they were up all night fluffing from like 1 a.m until like 4 35 a.m and i just laid there through it all because i was too scared to freaking move like i was so scared and disgusted was like oh so anywho is this something normal vick would you do this to stoss if she was asleep on the couch no i would not do that holy hell that is so funny also i would have gotten the fuck up if vick started doing that while i was laying on the couch i would get up immediately and be like what the fuck are you doing bitch be like hello i can hear you i'm right here i can hear you're smacking lips yeah why would you tell me to come sleep here if you're gonna start fucking your boyfriend in front of me i can't believe you like didn't say anything for five hours have a forced threesome or something maybe they wanted you to join in i i don't know it's very strange behavior like i would never do that and did you say something to them after right you should have said that to us i would be like by the way i heard you guys last night why the fuck would you have me sleep over if you wanted to fucking right but he said from one to five like it's a long time for you to just be laying there i would be traumatized i didn't i did not like that at all hearing all those noises yeah i'm sorry babe so sorry sam maybe say something to her like that was fucked up and love you but don't do that again hi my name is trevor and my partner's name is sam samantha and my question has to do with the ungodly temperatures that my partner enjoys keeping the water at whether that's washing her hands doing the dishes taking a shower the water is constantly like painful to touch and i don't understand why that's my question thank you her giggle in the back she definitely forced him that's so funny because in my relationship right now i shower with super hot water and donnie showers with cold water so we can't even shower together because he'll go first freezing and then he makes it really really hot and then i go into like my steam shower yeah and when i wash the dishes also like we have superpowers it doesn't burn me it feels good it feels good i don't know how to explain it we like warm we're women it feels good to feel warm because it reminds us of the being in the womb being in the womb but they were also in the womb but they disassociated they don't know but they disassociated they don't get it they don't get it because we also have wombs right i'm telling you we're all connected you went viral chinese tiktok of like what you should have for breakfast and it should always be a warm breakfast for us women and women don't get it they don't get it they don't get it they don't get it should always wear socks in the house or like little slippers you should never be barefoot at your house because i forgot what it's why but it was because you're supposed to be our blood flow to our hands and our feet and you should always have socks there's like a whole explanation but i totally forgot right now i'm wearing socks so that's why because our blood flow to our hands and our feet and because we were in the womb and you disassociated we have less flow less less blood flow to see less blood flow to our hands and and hands and knees no hands and toes so we need hands we need warm that we like warm that's why we it's like a little warm in here though can we turn the air on stassi baby vick baby i love you guys so much and i'm following you guys from morocco so my questions i have so many questions but basically i'm gonna put three questions so what's the thing that makes women lost interest in a guy and what's something men thinks women find attractive but actually don't and what are the biggest green flags in a man and yeah that was a love you guys and yeah bye love you so cute and his accent okay so what makes us lose interest a loser a loser in like just energy loser just a draining insecure loser ass bitch yeah that's what makes us lose interest second question yeah if you don't respect us if you're not if you're a dick if you're a loser if you're mean to waiters if you're not an animal person yeah you don't if you don't like dogs or cats if you don't want a family so you don't want to get married so many things especially when you're older you're way more picky and you become like crazy you're like no anything could be like a no yeah so many things could be a no a narcissist talky asshole if you care more about how you look than how i look oh no it's gonna be it takes you longer to get ready than me if you take selfies and post them i don't like that these are also i think he said red flag question was these are red flags but he asked for green uh how do we define donnie yeah secure secure nice sweet caring thoughtful loving family man family oriented doesn't really drink takes care of you doesn't like to go out doesn't like to go out like yesterday like my friend invited me to living room and i was like donnie would you go and then i was like babe don't you want to stay in and just like watch a movie and cuddle and i was like yes but also we should be a little bit more social yeah so i agree i love that you love this but we should like you don't even have to drink i'm not asking you to drink but it's just like the social aspects of it but it's a different podcast episode maybe when we bring him in here we can ask him we need to bring johnny in but so many green flags but i do like now that i've been with him i've been with guys that drink but when i'm with him and like the fact that he doesn't just that no drinking makes like him not want to like i guess party and not partying it's such a green flag for when you want to have like a serious relationship yeah imagine like because i go out and i'm the social one but i like it because i trust myself for like a man that drinks well it's messy drunk man there's nothing more insecure there's nothing more like like like than a drunk sloppy man like please don't talk to me what are you doing it's embarrassing like i'm allowed to be crazy but not you but like you are like you can't in college but like not after like how are you supposed to take care of me if you can't take care of yourself no no it's not cute just like how and that's made me look at me too different like i don't want to be for him like for him to look at me like coming home like wasted because i've done it before where i have to come home and throw up and it's just not a cute look for me and for him to see me like that yeah i gotta be more chic than elevated she's gotta curate her drunk yeah i gotta curate my drunk has to go it has to be cute it has to be sexy not like a mess it can't be a mess anymore i hate like the guys that drive that car really loud and you're like oh he's just not cute you look so good yeah i don't like or like the flexibility of it like i don't like the flexibility of it like i don't like the flexing like the constant flexing of things like it's not cute i think it's better when you're like let's say you do have money when you don't know that you have it but you do have it like the humbleness it's more attractive than the flexiness when a guy's like i'm the man so you know like that toxic masculinity yeah when they're like why can't they say that like i'm the one that's supposed to pay for this because i'm the man i'm like relax i can also pay for you know what i mean like that energy like like the super masculine masculine is that how you say that word masculinity Toxic masculinity. not attractive what are you looking for right now no one exactly right i've like not like there's no one i want to flirt with i don't know i'm like in an asexual era era of my life where i'm just like i'm having fun with my friends and i like hanging out with my girls and my gays it's bad like i think it's bad i think it's more deeper than that and i think i need to like dissect this with a therapist or something but i'm just like the thought of going through a heartbreak again after everything that i went through i'm just like i think i'm too scared me i start crying i think it's once you if you meet someone that intrigues you yeah you will it will be worth it you just haven't met anybody but i don't know how you meet people even for me as to watch it that's like i can't even be a wing woman because there's nobody there's no options we asked donnie he has no friends for me all his friends are like taken also i don't know if i could date well no i could yeah i just feel like he would remind me a lot of my dad oh and like greek men are very stubborn oh really that's all i'll say oh shit they're strong and stubborn yeah so next call you guys don't be shy call us up because it's kind of interesting to hear you guys we like the male perspective like there were some good questions in there okay guys well we love you guys we love you we love the boys thanks for supporting our girls yes thank you boys and don't be assholes no be good gentlemen it's getting crazy i don't know what we're saying okay we're like a little brain dead so thank you so much for calling in to whoever called we appreciate you and we love you we love to hang out with you body to body is literally one of our favorite episodes 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