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Syd Matthews and Greyson Hoelzel Season 1 Episode 12

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This week on Are We Flirting? we’re joined by Xander Favazza, @xandus17 — comedian, filmmaker, content creator, and the mustached man behind the short film “first car” link below!

We talk about Xander’s life as a creator in New York, how TikTok helped open career doors for him, comedy/media, and the rite of passage that is getting blocked by James Charles. 

Watch Xander’s short film “first car” here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njn9Yb1uMy8

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna start dealing with my problems by getting somebody pregnant. It's really cheap.

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Charles added you on Snapchat. Get ready. If you had to pick one of us. Well who would it be? Hey everybody, welcome back. This is another episode of Are We Flirting? I'm your host, Sid.

SPEAKER_07

I'm your host, Grace.

SPEAKER_02

No stop. Like why? We have very limited time until Xander gets here because Grayson and I just came back from school.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, and the teacher gave us good regards. He said pleasure to have in class, and we have a little surprise for you guys.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. At the end of this.

SPEAKER_07

We have a guest. We have a guest on.

SPEAKER_02

We have a special guest on today. His name is Xander. Um, so we'll give a warm welcome to him when he gets here. Up a little bit on one another. Crazy things are happening. Alex Cooper is pregnant. Yes. Dua Lipa is sexy as ever. I looked up pop culture that's happening now, and it just said Alex Cooper, Dua Lipa.

SPEAKER_07

Are they both pregnant? Dua Lipa's pregnant?

SPEAKER_02

No. But should we start a rumor?

SPEAKER_07

We should. And we should say it's my child.

SPEAKER_02

And she is let's at least try and make it believable.

SPEAKER_07

Within her womb, she has my seed that has now been fermented into Why do you speak? A ch uh what is a youngling, a child, and it is now nursing and getting absorbing the nutrients from her body in the womb so that it can become big and strong and grow up to be sexy.

SPEAKER_02

Grayson just woke up from a nap.

SPEAKER_07

I did just while Sid was setting up, I took a nap. Um my tum tum is still not feeling good.

SPEAKER_02

No, he got drunk again last night. Like this, I was telling Grayson, like, I feel like I get you the next day. I'm gonna get your sloppy signs.

SPEAKER_07

Um yeah, no, I went to the Yankees. Here's my little catch-up. Go ahead. That was fun. That was fun to see that in post-production. Um, I went to the Yankees game last night, it was a lot of fun. The Yankees almost won uh off the last hitter. Well, they almost tied it off the last hitter, who was Aaron Judge, who is my favorite player. Um I'm gonna start dealing with my problems by getting uh somebody pregnant. That's whenever I am like caught up in a big scandal, as Alex Cooper was, not even a scandal, just like an internet beef. I'm just gonna announce within the same month that I am now pregnant, and uh that will seemingly resolve all my problems as it has with Alex, because nobody wants to go after a pregnant woman.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Well, I f yeah. Grayson also um posed to me on the subway on the way here that I should get pregnant so that way the warrant for my arrest right now allegedly would just kind of be swept under the rug.

SPEAKER_07

Imagine arresting a pregnant woman. Like that's not a good look. Yeah, come on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And I they'd probably done it before.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, and police officers, you guys need some good PR.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, seriously. So let me the let that be uh my letter to you.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I didn't realize I was touching you. I as soon as you touched me, I immediately my my I locked in, my entire body was right there, and I was like, That's like when our toes touched when you were taking a nap.

SPEAKER_02

Did you feel that? The fire, the electricity.

SPEAKER_07

Is that why I had nightmares? Is that why I was in hell? I had a dream I had a dream about my ex-girlfriend.

SPEAKER_02

Which one? I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_07

The first one. Um that she was still in love with me. But she's married, so shout out. Um She probably doesn't watch us. Um Yeah, so I don't know what that oh, I kind of want to go to a a psychic too.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, to ask about that?

SPEAKER_07

No, to to to ask if I have been cursed.

SPEAKER_02

How many times do you think that psychics get this question particular comes to them, whether like, I had a dream about my ex, I want to know if my ex is still thinking of me, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, my ex.

SPEAKER_07

Probably a lot. I feel like being a psychic would be so easy. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02

Um, for listeners only, Grayson is holding my palm.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Uh go ahead. What do you what do you what problems do you need to do?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, um, yeah, I don't know. I've just been feeling like I lost my job and I have a worn-out for my rest and stuff, so things are like a little weird lately.

SPEAKER_07

You came to the right place. Um It says here in your reading and in your poems that uh your hands are really clammy.

SPEAKER_02

Keep going.

SPEAKER_07

And that was my impression of a psychic who has really clammy hands. Thanks, Sid.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, I'll do one now. Ooh. What's been going on?

SPEAKER_07

Um my apartment kind of sucks. Uh I don't really have much going on. I you don't have to rub my hand.

SPEAKER_02

You have uh an uncle.

SPEAKER_07

I do have an uncle.

SPEAKER_02

He is a really part of your family, huh?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And you have a sister.

SPEAKER_07

I do have a sister.

SPEAKER_02

Older than you. Older? Yeah. She is thinking of you right now. Sorry, I just came to me. She's alive.

SPEAKER_07

She is.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, well, she is. Um you're really independent. And you are sort of taking on a lot lately.

SPEAKER_07

Not really, no.

SPEAKER_02

Seems like you have like a lot going on. Uh you're there's some work. You're not sure about work.

SPEAKER_07

No, I'm pretty sure about it. I I do have a lot of it. You you did get that one bang on the nose, as they say. But uh someone died. Uh how recently.

SPEAKER_02

You had a grandmother.

SPEAKER_07

No.

SPEAKER_02

Oh you're no, your mom had a grandmother who died.

SPEAKER_07

No, she's still alive.

SPEAKER_02

Your mom's grandmother great grandmother is alive still?

SPEAKER_07

No, she's dead.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's what I meant.

SPEAKER_07

She's buried. She's long gone.

SPEAKER_02

She's thinking of you right now. She's here actually right now. To tell you to give me she gave me top or Oh my god, Grayson! That is a family member, you sick fuck.

SPEAKER_07

So anyway, um And that was Sid's impression of uh an ancestral psychic reader.

SPEAKER_02

I don't think I want to play this game anymore. Alright, well that was a really fun recap of the week. I don't have anything to share except um I looked at my calendar and it literally just said cancel Instacart on Tuesday. So I didn't do that. So I gotta do that right after this. Um but yeah, we're gonna we're gonna go ahead and introduce Xander. So he's in the closet right now.

SPEAKER_07

Very excited. Xander is a very good friend of ours. Also.

SPEAKER_02

What are you drinking?

SPEAKER_07

Me instead are drinking a little bit.

SPEAKER_01

Take it wherever I go.

SPEAKER_03

Oh man.

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Slurp up that bubbly.

SPEAKER_05

Slurp up that.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, you know what's a fun bit? I'm gonna do I want to incorporate this into a video somehow. You know how you know how like asparagus piss is like a thing where it smells like.

SPEAKER_02

I just thought of this yesterday.

SPEAKER_07

Where it reeks like asparagus.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

So I I made myself some asparagus the other day. Wouldn't you know it? Piss stank like shit. What color? Uh chartreuse.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

And I was thinking how funny would it be to be like the the funny tag in a video. It's like you're Okay, the whole concept. Okay. It's two people. Alright? Two people. Two syllables. Um no, it's the whole idea of the video is the guy's like, oh man, I had asparagus, and the other guy's like, oh man, you know what that means, and the guy's like, yeah, my cum's gonna smell like asparagus. And the and the other guy's like, what? Don't you mean piss? And he's like, Ew, no, I wouldn't be talking about piss. And the whole time the joke is that he thinks that you're you're semen that shoots. That's how bad that is. Sorry, I'm allergic to shitty jokes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

No, that was really good. Let's act that one out. Okay. Well, not now, because I we have to introduce a special guest. Gotcha. Maybe we'll put a pin in that.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe you and Xander can do that later and I can just watch.

SPEAKER_07

You want to watch me and him make jokes about asparagus body fluids, bodily fluids.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. So um we'll be right back with um a little special friend, and maybe maybe we'll put some pants on Grayson.

SPEAKER_07

Next time you see me, next time you see us, we will be talking to our friend.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, literally. Wait.

SPEAKER_07

No way.

SPEAKER_04

This is perfect, I really want to.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, didn't you say we were breathing too much last episode?

SPEAKER_07

I I when I was listening to uh to I think it was to the YouTube, all I could hear was me mouth breathing.

SPEAKER_00

Was I mouth breathing too, or is it just you?

SPEAKER_09

Probably because your mic covers the sock.

SPEAKER_07

That's true.

SPEAKER_02

Your voice is so good on this microphone, Xander. It does sound really good. Oh my god! Holy shit. I don't what's the female equivalent of like growing like chest hair?

SPEAKER_07

Probably getting boobs, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like that made my tits blossom. Yeah. Speaking of, um, when you look at this shirt, what's the first thing you notice?

SPEAKER_09

Um It's pink. Yeah. Okay. What do what what were you hoping we would say?

SPEAKER_02

Grayson made some perverted comments before you got here.

SPEAKER_07

She was making a comment because when I got here, she was like, hey, look at the shirt, and I was like, oh my god, we have merch. And then my second comment, at like five minutes later, was like, hey, you should probably put on a bra because I can see your nipples.

SPEAKER_02

And then I was like, that's so crazy. Well, we'll see what Xander has to say, and he like didn't even notice.

SPEAKER_09

So I did not notice your nipples.

SPEAKER_02

Swear and honest.

SPEAKER_09

In a I guess in a kind way. I don't know what the answer you're looking for. I did not notice. Yeah, that's actually should I do that? I don't know which way. Yeah, I'm not sure what you want me to take it.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, well, oh I love when we reach for things at the same time. Okay, guys, um, we have a special guest here today. I feel like we've introduced him like before, like a hundred times. Um, yeah, sorry, I want to give you a little intro. Okay. Uh my own intro?

SPEAKER_09

This is crazy.

SPEAKER_02

Today's guest.

SPEAKER_09

No, no, no. I'm excited. I want to see what you guys have to say about me.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. That's why I'm here. It's really short.

SPEAKER_09

We are very new, so I'm excited. I'm BJ. I am honored to be the first guest.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he's our first. Isn't that crazy?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, it is crazy.

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Guest virginity.

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Guest virginity.

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Today's guest is a comedian, short filmmaker.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Okay.

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Former stage manager of Shrek the Musical.

SPEAKER_09

Wow. You guys did your research.

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Owner of the most beautiful mustache we've ever seen.

SPEAKER_09

Wow. That's welcome, Xander. Thank you. Thank you, guys. I'm excited. I'm so happy to be here.

SPEAKER_07

We're very excited to have you here.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. Shrek the Musical. Where did where did you Google and that came up?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, if you look your name up, there's a lot about your high school.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

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I spent a lot of time there.

SPEAKER_09

In my high school, in Hamilton Winham.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. It's famous.

SPEAKER_09

Great school. Great school.

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Lots of projects you were on.

SPEAKER_09

I was. Did a lot of theater stuff, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That's awesome. And now you're living in the Big Apple.

SPEAKER_09

Big Apple with you guys.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. We have you in a weird spot where you have to keep turning and looking at both of us.

SPEAKER_09

I'm going to just whip my head back and forth between you guys. But I can also we could also just like talk. We could all just put our heads down and talk like this. It's going so amazing.

SPEAKER_02

That's actually helpful because we all sort of have to be in within the same line or whatever.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

You'll notice. We'll just follow you. Um so yeah, so you're living in New York. How long have you been here?

SPEAKER_09

I've been in New York now two years. I came right when I graduated college in 2024, and I got here in like this yeah, summer of 2024. So two yeah. Two years now?

SPEAKER_02

2024.

SPEAKER_09

Right? 2026 now?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. He's a baby.

SPEAKER_09

I am. How old are you guys again?

SPEAKER_02

Twenty-eight.

unknown

Cool.

SPEAKER_02

I am didn't you just turn like twelve? I just turned 24.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, thank you. Also, thank you for coming to my birthday.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Xander had a very crazy birthday party. Extravaganza. It was an amazing time. And um, do you want to tell us a little bit about your jar of cash?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I wanted to raise a bunch of money for a Lego Millennium Falcon. Um So here's here's the trick. You real everybody offers, right? Everybody offers to buy you a drink on your birthday. And I realized I could that nobody not everybody does it. But what you could do, if you're all gonna offer me $20 in New York, then why not extort this right into and I tried to use it as a appeal to emotion. So I made a party full that was like, my birthday is gonna be a fundraiser for a toy I always wanted as a kid. And then I I got all the money. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02

Wait, did you get enough to buy it?

SPEAKER_09

No, we didn't. We didn't get enough money. But not everybody gives enough. Yeah, it was like $600 or something like that, which is pretty crazy. It was $850 we needed to raise. Should we start a GoFundMe? Yeah. Put it up.

SPEAKER_02

When you say when you start a sentence with raising money, it sounds like it's gonna be charitable.

SPEAKER_09

And it's not. It just wasn't. It was complete gluttony and greed by me and stealing from my friends. No, I I was excited. It also gives like a theme. Because sometimes you do a birthday and there's like nothing I guess there's a theme, but like this theme, I guess.

SPEAKER_07

The theme is birthday, usually. That was usually a birthday part. That's true.

SPEAKER_09

But this theme I I made uh Give Me Stuff, I guess.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's a good theme. I like that. Maybe I'll implement that next year.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, you guys should you guys should uh find the same way to use it for something else, maybe.

SPEAKER_02

Chris, and if you had to raise um a certain amount of money for something, what would it be?

SPEAKER_09

Um, what's like a childhood thing that you always wish you had that you never uh man.

SPEAKER_07

When I was a kid, I always really, really wanted honestly, I'd probably do like a PlayStation 5. Like I was I was a big gamer when I was a kid. So now, because a PlayStation is like 500 bucks.

SPEAKER_09

More, bro. Really? I think the PS5 is like bumped up the price or something like that. It's like 600 or something. If I'm not mistaken, editor fact check. We'll get the jar going for you.

SPEAKER_02

I really want a switch.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that's that's doable. You can make that happen. You can have mine for free. What? You don't use your switch? I never use my switch.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god. Are you kidding me? All I like to play is Mario Kart, so.

SPEAKER_07

You're gonna have to pay for Mario Kart. I don't believe I have to.

SPEAKER_09

What do you play? Well, I guess you play nothing on the Switch as you're giving it away so quickly.

SPEAKER_07

You know what's fun? Um I would play Fortnite on the Switch, and I would I would play Overwatch.

SPEAKER_09

On your Switch? Oh yeah. At at 10 frames per second? A Switch can run Overwatch?

SPEAKER_07

It can, not very well. It would freeze quite a bit. I'd be like, what happened to the game?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

That's tough. Overwatch is a for the listeners at home and for Sid who is glossed over the face.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, she left. Sometimes when Grayson talks about something I don't care about, I'll I just actually go into the audio and I speed up that part of the clip. So it's like so if you ever listen to the podcast, which I know you don't, but I I have not listened to the full episode.

SPEAKER_09

I I see the clips and I love the clips. And I I love your clips.

SPEAKER_02

I don't think we've ever even met anybody that's what that's listened to it. Oh, funny enough, I sorry.

SPEAKER_07

Funny enough, I have. Shout out to Nicole, shout out to John, shout out to Reagan who came to the improv showcase who listened to the pod. Thank you guys so much.

SPEAKER_09

Hey, thanks guys.

SPEAKER_07

Sorry you wasted $5 at the improv showcase. It was not good.

SPEAKER_09

What do you mean? Did you do an improv show?

SPEAKER_07

Yes. And the best thing I did for the entire set of scenes, I played a dead body on the ground.

SPEAKER_09

Hey, that's big. Somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got to do it. Somebody's got to step up and be like, my body will be on display for this.

SPEAKER_07

Somebody would somebody needs to step and be like, hey guys, I will be the one with no speaking lines. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Did you step off the back line?

SPEAKER_07

You were like, I will I will fall to my knees. I stepped off the back line and flopped on the ground and it got a big laugh, and I was like, great, people laughed. I hope that's not the big the only big laugh I get. The only thing you did.

SPEAKER_00

Is there a video of this?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. I made sure nobody was recording.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, I wish I could watch that over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_02

You've done improv?

SPEAKER_09

I have. Yeah. I did all the UCB classes. Oh, you did how many? Four of all four. Or I did from 101 to 401. So I did all them. Oh my god. Google shows. I did a sketch class. I did a character class. Nice. A couple of those. Wow.

SPEAKER_02

I snuck into 201.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, you really there's really no security in that building. They don't share now. They have the keypad now at UCB. They did not have it before. You could just walk in and do any of them. You could have just walked into any of the classes and just like sat outside and listened.

SPEAKER_02

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_09

Which is crazy.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I um I snuck in and Grace and I were actually we recorded a podcast and then didn't we start drinking? I think we were drinking and drinking on the and then we were like standing up and you know when you get in in this mode when you're like, dude, fuck everything that's happening with film right now. Like, bro, like you know, and we could make something so much better, dog. Yeah. We were like drunk, and then he was like, dude, you gotta sign up for improv. And I was like, Yeah, I do. He's like, take 201. I was like, I haven't taken 101. He's like, fuck it, no one checks. And like that's how I ended up signing up. Yeah. Yeah. I always drunk, sign up for classes.

SPEAKER_09

What other classes have you signed up for?

SPEAKER_02

Uh French. That's actually. You're taking French? I've taken it. Intermediate three.

SPEAKER_09

S'il vous plaît.

SPEAKER_02

Please. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09

I actually don't know what it means. I didn't know what it is. It means please.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Grayson's learning French because he's like, he's trying to one-up me. I'm learning French because I I'm Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03

We'll see.

SPEAKER_07

I'm learning French. And you'll like this as a as a as a you're a yearner. I would consider it. I like to yearn. I would consider you.

SPEAKER_09

Who does not like to yearn?

SPEAKER_07

Exactly. I'm learning French because a girl who I went on two dates with, I'm pretty sure, and we don't speak anymore. We haven't remains.

SPEAKER_09

Hence the yearning.

SPEAKER_07

Hence the yearning. I'm pretty sure. I think her mom speaks French. You think? So you're sorry. So if it works out and we fall in love, and then one day when I meet her mom, I can be like, I I've been learning French so you and I can speak to each other.

SPEAKER_02

And she's a she's a really beautiful actress.

SPEAKER_07

Really? The mom or the I I don't know what her mom looks like, but she could be. The girl is beautiful. We have that conversation of like, dude, we should be, we we need to make sketches. We have that conversation once a week where we're like, let's come over with characters, let's come with ideas.

SPEAKER_02

You didn't like mine, so that's not true.

SPEAKER_07

Who is the character?

SPEAKER_02

No, I wanted to do park rangers.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that's cool. I think that's fun. I just it sounds a lot like parks and recreations.

SPEAKER_02

No, it's not. They're not literal park rangers out there in the parks. Like, it's in an office and then in the parks. Like, I want to be in the parks in the the courtroom pants.

SPEAKER_09

I I hate to tell you this. In parks and rec, they spend a lot of time in the office and a lot of time in the park.

SPEAKER_03

Fuck guys.

SPEAKER_09

I do I do think there is I haven't actually watched super troopers.

SPEAKER_07

That was my second thought with super troopers, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. That could be another way.

SPEAKER_02

Anyway, so that's that.

SPEAKER_09

Um live your dreams. No, I I support both of you guys in every way. Financially. Do you tell me? I'm just gonna open new credit cards for you guys.

SPEAKER_02

Can you have another birthday party and it's a jar that just puts me and Grayson's face on it?

SPEAKER_09

Yes, I will. And I'll be like, put your credit card. Open a Chase Sapphire preferred and put it and put it in this jar for my friends.

SPEAKER_02

Um so yeah, you're out here in the Big Apple. Do you ever do you ever run into anybody famous out here? Besides us.

SPEAKER_09

Besides you guys, I ran into I ran into John Mulaney on the street. John Mulaney and Olivia Munn uh in Washington Square Park, which is really cool. Okay. Jeff Ross ran into a couple times. Oh my gosh. Which is pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_07

I feel like he's one of those people that like Both in Washington Square Park, by the way. You see him out in public and you're like, oh my god, he looks worse in person? Oh my god. Oh, it's horrible. Alright, come on. Jeff, Jeff.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you guys are good. Oh my goodness. Do you um do you have any uh similar to Grayson? Do you have any beef with anybody famous?

SPEAKER_09

I So yeah. I have one person, uh Kareem from Subway Takes. Oh I would like to first off, if Kareem, if you're watching this, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god, what'd you do?

SPEAKER_09

Basically, I used to work at this company and we I would make advertisements for this company. It's called Bird Dogs.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Right? And I would write and direct these ads, and my uh CEO was like, we should do an ad that's like an episode of Subway Takes, but it's a pitch uh for our shorts.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Right? And so I did it and I made a uh perfect recreation of Subway Takes. Uh but it like the hook was like it was like uh pretend we're on Subway Takes. Yeah. Ready? UB UB uh Kareem.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Alright, what's your take?

SPEAKER_09

Uh Bird Dog's khaki shorts are the best shorts out there. And then you were like a hundred percent agree, and then it went into an ad pitch. So that got posted. That was really good. Back behind some real meta ad spends. Uh and it wasn't my great, it wasn't my let me tell you, it looked exactly like Subway Tech's. Yeah. Kareem commented and saw it and was like, this is evil. Oh I was like clearly upset with it. Which is not that much beef.

SPEAKER_02

No, but that's that's I would hate that. I would hate that. But he'll probably never remember you, right? You don't have that much of a memorable. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I don't really have a memorable face. I was acting in the ad. I was the person acting in the ad. So I have thought about that and I go, wow, I'll never, I'll never make it on social media.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god. Well, you know what you can do? You can just continue your own plagiarized version of it.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because now once you have the whole thing.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

But I guess that that's like kind of beef. And then another person, James Charles. Let me tell you guys this story. Yeah, I told you this one.

SPEAKER_07

We We talked about Jimbo Chuckles last week. We actually did, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

We talked about James Charles as a clown named Jimbo Chuckles.

SPEAKER_07

We did a bit. We did a bit where James Charles goes to prison that also has Ronald McDonald and he's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02

I'm the security guard.

SPEAKER_09

You guys are doing great bits. That sounds great.

SPEAKER_07

I want to know what was the premise there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we should have cut that down. Yeah, and you'll be like, uh, maybe, yeah, okay, there's a lot to work with, but like basically, yeah, he's I was a security guard.

SPEAKER_02

He was a clown named Jimbo Chuckles, which was the clown, like James Charles his c his clown alter ego.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

And then he was being too much of a nuisance. I paired him up with another clown, Ronald McDowell, and he's like, What the fuck? This and then sort of became kind of a prejudice to the club.

SPEAKER_09

Screw this corporate clown. Yeah, yeah. I'm a real I'm a real clown. Yeah. This guy is corporate funded.

SPEAKER_02

We really needed you there for that.

SPEAKER_09

No, I just We could we could work it out the whole rest of this party. We could do that. We could find a way to make the Jimbo Chuckles sketch work.

SPEAKER_02

We could.

SPEAKER_09

I'd be excited.

SPEAKER_02

One thing I really appreciate about your bedroom. I was only in it one time at a party, but not like that. Okay. But what I really appreciated about it is that you have a wall and you have um like five minutes, right? Like your idea board. Yeah. Can you talk about that a little bit?

SPEAKER_09

Yes, definitely. I have uh a wall that's a it's like a cork board, and on it is a bunch of like note cards, and then like one thing is like it says like five minutes for like stand-up stuff, and then just like ideas is the other one. Then I'll write stuff down on note cards and like punch it up there and stuff.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Currently it's empty because I removed some of them, but I gotta put them back up. Uh but yeah, it's dope.

SPEAKER_02

And I think that that's actually I started not doing that exact thing, but in my my journal, but I yeah, I love the idea of just like pinning that up on your wall, especially if you don't care about aesthetics.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Especially some way taking your idea board.

SPEAKER_09

No, that's fine. She can.

SPEAKER_00

I just thought of this one.

SPEAKER_09

100% disagree with how you've decorated your room. I got a cork board mostly because I didn't know what else to fill a wall with.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Besides like art, which is expensive, you know, and you go Just well, why don't you just like AI something and it'll have that same AI font.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm actually gonna make my room four screens. Okay. That are all playing an AI loop of a wall.

SPEAKER_07

That's fun.

SPEAKER_09

You know what I mean? Instead of that. And then you could change. I bet you that's gonna be a thing at some point where it's like people will like, yeah, hit that. Hit that shit for real.

SPEAKER_07

It's like the uh, what is it, the the globe in Vegas? The sphere and just my walls.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, that'd be sick. That's awesome. That would put somebody in a coma.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

I think if you lived in that room, you could really screw up somebody's life.

SPEAKER_07

I know a couple of like two-year-olds that would probably eat that shit up.

SPEAKER_09

I I hate to say it, I'd eat it up for about I bet 30 minutes. It would probably be the greatest thing ever, and then I'd probably get really sick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I think that I would like either I went to a planetarium and they had this like really cool astrology thing going on, and it was really beautiful. It was like all the constellations. Um, so I would either want that or Amanda Seifried and Megan Fox making out from Jennifer's body over and over again.

SPEAKER_09

That sounds great too. That sounds great.

SPEAKER_02

Which one would you of those two would you guys pick if you had to? Three, two, one.

SPEAKER_09

Megan Fox.

SPEAKER_07

Uh it depends. I feel like Amanda's Amanda Seifried.

SPEAKER_02

That's his autism speaking.

SPEAKER_09

Why why Amanda? Um I don't know who Amanda is. Amanda's in Jennifer's body.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you've never seen it?

SPEAKER_09

I have, I just didn't know the actress's name.

SPEAKER_07

Uh what else she's in that movie? Dear John movie with um Yeah, Dear John. She's also in that movie with Sisney. Mamma Mia. Mama Mia. She's the main character in Mama.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, I'm foolish. I'm foolish. I do know her.

SPEAKER_07

She plays Karen and Mean Girls too. Oh sick.

SPEAKER_09

Sick. Yeah. Love Mean Girls.

SPEAKER_07

Um Yeah, it depends like it is.

SPEAKER_09

Mean Girls. I'm wearing a pink short. Hold on a second. Hold on a second.

SPEAKER_02

You're I got rumple still skins one and two. You're rumpling around with this microphone.

SPEAKER_09

I am sorry, am I am I making too much noise? Hold it by the shaft. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Are you dating anybody right now?

SPEAKER_09

I'm not.

SPEAKER_02

So you're okay. Well, we have a primarily female audience and a couple perverts.

SPEAKER_09

Sub sub ladies and couple perverts. To be fair, the ladies. Couple perverts, hit me up. Let me know what you're up to. How are you carving lately? Yeah. The ladies are perverts too. Really? Oh yeah. How are the ladies perverts?

SPEAKER_07

Um Well, it's kind of like how it's like it's kind of like how Sid is like, oh, I want to see two women making out all the time. They're like, hey, we want to bone.

SPEAKER_02

They would want to see you guys making out, probably. But we should just do it.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. But that's like a general that's like a general internet trend right now where it's like, hey, there's two guys together.

SPEAKER_09

Let's watch him kiss.

SPEAKER_02

Like pot like podcast rival rivalry. Yeah. Seated podcast rivalry. Seated rivalry. Wow.

SPEAKER_09

Well, we got something.

SPEAKER_02

No, he's got something with like those things, which I'm not.

SPEAKER_09

Word association.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_09

Um He's really good with pattern recognition as he's a human. That's crazy. It's crazy. What's your beef with James Charles? We never got it. He blocked me on uh on Snapchat. I'm one of the people. I'm not kidding. Are you ready? I'm what okay. You remember he had this big thing where he was like, he got canceled because he was like trying to hook up with straight guys. Oh he gets canceled. Then I'm in like college, this is like 2022 or whatever. I'm in college. I'm in my room, and I was making videos at the time on TikTok and stuff like that. And my TikTok username was the same as my Snapchat username.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Which I didn't really think anything of. I was like, who's gonna be looking me up at Snapchat? And then one day I'm on, I like get a notification from Snapchat, and it says like James Charles has added you. And I was like, Yeah, right. So I open it and like I accept, and immediately I'm start fucking with the guy. And I'm like, oh really? This is James? If this is James, send a picture. James, send a video of you doing the Dougie. And I'm like sending him videos of me like Dougie. And then my friends are like, dude, that could actually be him. Check. So I checked, and there was like a uh you can check like public profile on Snapchat. You can see if they have like a creator profile, and I checked and it said he had like 16 million followers. And it's like, oh my god, it's really jammed.

SPEAKER_02

Charles added you on Snapchat.

SPEAKER_09

Get ready. And then he added me on this thing, and I was like, oh my God, like it's James. And then I'm like, okay, now I really need to screw with him. So I was like, what should I do? And I was like trying to think about like what I could do. And so then I'm like, he also got mad at me because he was like, you keep saving all these messages. Why would I talk to somebody that wants to save all these messages? So I was like, okay, I need to ease it back. I need to win. I need to win him back. I need to hook line and sinker James back. And so I was like, oh no, it's chill. And then he was sending me, he likes sent me some selfies and stuff of him. Uh like he was like about to do an escape room. And I was like, him like this, uh, which was funny. So I was like, okay, like I didn't really want to like screw with him too heavy. And I was like, what could I do? Like, I didn't want to like actually like be a dick to him. And I was like, okay, well, what could I do that would be funny? So I made a private story with just him on it, and I called it like friends. So it made it look like he was on, it made it look like he was on like my best friend story. And then I would just post like weird things to the story and just check throughout my like day or week if he shot. So like I would just do like progressively weirder and weirder things or like stupidest things.

SPEAKER_00

Example, example.

SPEAKER_09

The one that eventually got me blocked.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Was it was like me, I was at like a barbecue, it was like me with 10 glasses of milk in front of me. And I was like, today's gonna be long. And then and then I checked one day, and I was like, oh, he hasn't been viewing the story. And I went and looked, and then I couldn't, I can't search him. Like he doesn't come up on Snapchat anymore. So I was like, oh my god, I got blocked.

SPEAKER_02

No, yeah, which is tough. What about other social medias? You're still good on there.

SPEAKER_09

I'm still good. I think we're still good in there. I haven't checked on if he's on Should I check on Instagram right now?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, check on Instagram right now.

SPEAKER_09

That'd be crazy. I don't even think he I'm probably one in a I'm one of the victims. There's probably a million other guys like me. Uh that but he he had this like big thing I remember. That was like what he got canceled for, right? He was like flirting with straight guys?

SPEAKER_02

I have no he gets canceled for a lot of things.

SPEAKER_07

He gets canceled for a lot of things. I think it was, yeah, I think it was he was flirting with straight guys who were also underage. I think that was the big one.

SPEAKER_09

That'll get you. That'll get you. That'll get you. Yeah. Uh no, we I don't even follow him.

SPEAKER_02

Oh.

SPEAKER_09

Sorry, James.

SPEAKER_02

You should text him.

SPEAKER_09

Unblock me, and then you can you can follow me back.

SPEAKER_02

You know what's funny? The last podcast, I just blocked him just because Grayson blocked him.

SPEAKER_09

So I'm recognition.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And I just do those things to we do those things together in solidarity. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

We like to have fun on this podcast.

SPEAKER_05

We we block cancel stories.

SPEAKER_09

Here's some of the pictures and stuff we sent. So here's me realizing that it's him. So this is him. You had like 11 million. I was losing my mind, by the way, if you can't tell by how many pictures I was taking. Oh my god. It's him typing my screenshot of that. I got it.

SPEAKER_00

You look like a child.

SPEAKER_09

I know, I look so young in this. Oh my god. Here's a video I sent him. You could play this on screen.

SPEAKER_08

Look, man, if it's really you, I'm gonna need you to send a video of yourself doing the Dougie. Uh you know, if you don't know that old dance, it goes like this, it goes.

SPEAKER_09

Sent this to him.

SPEAKER_01

That's not even the Dougie.

SPEAKER_09

Sent this to him. Delivered. He was like talking about random shit. Here I asked him if he saw the movie Chef by John Favreau. Uh my look at this. Look at this. This is my I posted on my Snapchat private to just my friends. You can tell my phone is blowing up with all these people being like, what the fuck is happening? Here's him. He goes, Your odd LOL.

SPEAKER_02

Do you have the milk story saved?

SPEAKER_09

I don't. I looked through that. I don't have it. I don't know, like Snapchat didn't save everything to my camera when it was like 2022, so some of it's on my old phone. Damn. We need to get that. I should find that. Tell somebody at Snapchat, find that one of the perverts that still works at Snapchat. Go for that.

SPEAKER_02

That can access that. Okay, well that's well, we're gonna take a really brief pause just so I can hit the record and play on this because we don't know how to make it keep recording. Oh, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_07

Every like, what is it, 20 minutes, we have to hit like re stop and start. Otherwise it'll randomly shut off and we won't know where we left off.

SPEAKER_09

Shut up. Guys, we can trouble fix this. We can fix this. This is can you can as not to be your producer. No, but as somebody who's done some producing.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, please.

SPEAKER_09

Step one, let's get a tripod. The viewers can't see what the camera. The camera is sitting on a shelf. It's literally there's nothing, it's just sitting on a shelf staring directly at us.

SPEAKER_02

One of the first comments we got about the camera sit like the setup was that there was too much dead space above us. I'm like, well, the shelf is there. Like, I don't know what you want us to do. We can't make the camera go lower because the shelf is, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_09

You can. With a tripod. That's the truth. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02

I didn't realize we were hanging out with Mr. Big Box. This guy's got all this kinds of money.

SPEAKER_09

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02

So are you dating right now?

SPEAKER_07

You already asked him that. No.

SPEAKER_09

I'm not dating anyone right now.

SPEAKER_02

Did I ask you that already?

SPEAKER_09

Yes. You already asked if I'm dating anybody. I'm not. I'm not. I'm single. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

But are you dating somebody right now?

SPEAKER_09

So actually, no. Surprisingly no. Surprisingly no. I'm not. I'm not.

SPEAKER_02

Um I've I'm just curious a little bit about like your past and your dating history and if you have any fun like breakup stories for us.

SPEAKER_09

Um I have a great breakup story.

SPEAKER_02

I just thought of that question right now.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, nice, nice, nice. Uh I have a great breakup story. It's pretty okay. So it was like COVID, and I was dating this girl in it's not a it's not a bad breakup story in the sense that it was like dramatic in the fact that like, oh, after people were fighting and things like that, you know what I mean? It wasn't like that. But the actual breaking up, me breaking up with her became an ordeal and an odyssey. So I wake up and I'm like, I wake up randomly one day and go, I gotta break up with you. I wake up and I was like, I realized I was like, okay, we I this is over, I want to break up with you. It's in like COVID, so like I couldn't, we weren't really like my parents and her parents were weird about like going over each other's houses. So like we spent a lot of time together, like in cars and like like sneaking in, you know what I mean? Like sneaking over and stuff like that. So I was like, all right, I'll I'm just gonna drive over there and I drive over, pick her up, and we'll go to like a parking lot and talk, and like I'll break up with her there, you know? So that's it.

SPEAKER_02

Somewhere around kids.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, somewhere around a ton of kids, and uh somewhere really dramatic. And I was like, okay, I'll just drive and I'll pick her up first. My dad had been in a car accident. Uh it's okay, he's he was totally fine. He he really he was fine. So we only had one one car at the time. So we used to have like three cars, so it's like the kids had a car, my mom had a car, my dad had a car. So we only had two. So I had to take a new car. I know, so but my parents took it get ready for the yeah, me poor thing. It was a Honda Civic. It was a Honda Civic and a Honda C R V. But uh, I was I needed to go, and I was like, all right, I'm gonna go, and the only car I could take was the new car that my parents had just bought. And it was a 2016 Honda Civic. It was the first new car that my family had ever purchased. We only had really like old used cars before we had like a Honda Fit, we had a Honda C R V, we had like a lantra that was like gold and a grandpa, it was bad, like not great cars. And this was the first nice car, and I was like, big deal. So I was like, Can I take this car to go break up with my girlfriend? My dad was like, Yes, you can take the car. So I go, I drive, I pick her up, I bring her to this parking lot, I bring her to the parking lot, and I tell her, I'm like, hey, I don't want to do this anymore. And uh she's crying, hopefully, because I'm breaking up with her. Uh, and I'm like, oh, I'm I'm I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't want to do this anymore. She's sad, um, or she was faking it. Um she's like, I'm this sucks. We talk for a while in this parking lot, and then I'm like, okay, like we should probably go. She's like, Can I hug you? Before I was like, Yeah, of course. And so she uh climbs over like the center console because I'm sitting in the driver's seat. She climbs over the center console and her foot accidentally hits the shifter, and the shifter goes into like a weird position in the middle of the car, and then the engine goes like and then all the lights on the dash come up, and every light in the car turns on, and then the whole thing goes like entirely. So now she's even more embarrassed. Oh and I'm like, oh my god, it's okay. And I try to start the car.

SPEAKER_07

She's like, I swear this never happens.

SPEAKER_09

Performance anxiety. Um, and I try to start the car, and the car's not starting. I'm like, oh my god. And then it starts raining. And I'm like, oh my god. So I'm like, okay, we have to do something. I'm like, I don't know what we're gonna do. So I was like, I'm embarrassed with my parents' new car. The first nice car we had, I'm like, it's totally screwed up. So I'm like, okay, we'll call triple A. We call triple A, triple A comes, Triple A guy. I'm like, I'm like, can we drive with you in the car? Like, we're also like sitting outside in the rain now waiting for the car. We just broke up, by the way. So the the 10 fives are bad. Fives are not good. We've just broken up, it's so tough. She's we're standing outside the car, we're waiting for Triple A to come, like in the rain. Triple A comes, they pick up the car. I'm like, hey, can we ride with you to the mechanic? Because the mechanic is close to my house, and then we could go get another ride. And he's like, You can't during COVID. He was like, I can't have anybody ride with me in the vehicle. He's like, You're gonna have to get somebody else to pick you up.

SPEAKER_05

It's a good protocol.

SPEAKER_09

So then he drives off and it's just us. And I'm like, Well.

SPEAKER_02

Wait, are you guys wearing COVID masks during the city?

SPEAKER_09

No, no, no, we're not wearing COVID masks.

SPEAKER_02

I'm picturing you during your breakup. It's it's just like the vibes are weird.

SPEAKER_09

It's it's like in that weird time period during COVID where we were like, oh, it's kind of okay to hang out again, and they remove you know what I'm talking about? There was like a weird summer where they were like, yeah, it's fine again.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Were you in high school when COVID was happening?

SPEAKER_09

I was in 2020. Oh my god. Where were you guys?

SPEAKER_02

Probably at a retirement home. Yeah, somewhere.

SPEAKER_09

This is what you guys filmed it. They filmed this in a retirement home, by the way. Just want to let you know.

SPEAKER_07

Apologies for the smell.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah. I we were in college, I think.

SPEAKER_07

I was, yeah. I don't know. You're she's a couple years older than me.

SPEAKER_02

I'm one year older than you.

SPEAKER_09

You're 27. Oh, 28. And you're 27.

SPEAKER_02

But you're gonna be 27 this year. No, I already turned 26.

SPEAKER_09

He's two years younger than you. How does it feel to be the oldest person in the room?

SPEAKER_02

Can you tell?

SPEAKER_09

No, honey. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02

Grayson loves to come at my physical appearance. It's like one of his like it's like one of his little things.

SPEAKER_09

It's one of his quirks.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Um he likes to do is belittle me.

SPEAKER_02

It's yeah, and then I can just like edit in posts. Like I can cut it so that he's like, I love you so much. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Anyway, so so you're COVID. COVID in the car.

SPEAKER_09

So now he's like, We can't drive you. I can't drive you guys. You're gonna have to get another ride. I'm like, well, so I call my dad, and I'm like, hey, can you pick us up? So my dad has to drive and pick the two of us up. We get in the car. I sit in the front seat with my dad. She sits in the back seat alone. We nobody in this car is speaking.

SPEAKER_03

Oh god.

SPEAKER_09

It is the most silent knows why you went down. Oh, my dad. My dad knows we've broken up. We drive and drop her off. Okay, we drop her off at the end of her driveway. I don't, I I can't remember if we went down or but I think I remember walking down her driveway. The door closes, and it's me and my dad for a second. He goes, It's not gonna get worse than that. Oh, that's like that's the worst breakup you'll ever have in your life. Oh, that's right. He's like to spend that much time together. And then to like, I felt so bad. Um hey, I'm sorry, Emily.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god, you're gonna see this. You're gonna name drop her right now?

SPEAKER_09

Uh no. It was awful. It was a horrible. I think it's a funny story now. No, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_02

It's honestly amazing now, but I feel like your your dad kind of taking all of that and then just feeding it to you in that one. Like, that's actually really sweet.

SPEAKER_09

No, it was kind. It was a big bonding moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Father and son, quiet car. It was a quiet car right back, too. I was pretty sad about the ordeal.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. I mean, imagine you close the door and you're like you just dropped your girlfriend off at the end of the driveway. The f the the fun it's funny that it was at the end of the driveway rather than like pulling up as far as you can.

SPEAKER_09

And you made it like kind of a long driveway, too. I I don't remember how far we pulled down, but I do remember like it was far enough that I remember watching her walk away, and I was like, oh. And my dad, my dad had that loaded up. You were in a short film. I was in a short film, yes. Called good transition. Ready for this?

SPEAKER_02

Called How to Eat a Skateboard or something like that.

SPEAKER_09

I was in, yes, Ant Bo, a bunch of friends, they kindly invited me into their they made a big video called uh They had to eat a skateboard in 24 hours. And I play a guy who's I a liar, a villain in it, who uh uh lies and says that I have a dad that knows how to eat a skateboard.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

So anyway, and if you've watched the video, it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_02

It's so cannot recommend enough.

SPEAKER_09

It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02

It's so funny. And it's like I I'm not just saying that because I want people to watch it. I just want you to care about our opinion of it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Which it was. That's why people do podcasts.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_09

That's that's literally why we sort of hard. So people care about your opinions on things.

SPEAKER_02

But other than that short film, you've created your own since then, which was maybe not as good, but no, nothing compared.

SPEAKER_09

Nothing compared. Uh no, genuinely, theirs was fantastic. There's definitely a very different vibe than mine.

SPEAKER_02

But I would love to hear you talk a little bit about yours.

SPEAKER_09

Sure. Uh, it's called First Car. Uh I appreciate you guys watching it.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Um you can watch it on YouTube. Look at that plug. Yeah. Look at that plug. What else? You can watch it on YouTube. No, that's about it. Um But yeah, I made that. I made it with my good friend Colin and my good friend Steve and my good friend Reagan. Reagan was so great. Yeah, Reagan kills in it. She's a great actress. Reagan plays uh my girlfriend and the ex basically in the thing uh in the short, and it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun to write.

SPEAKER_02

Was that based off of your break your car breakup?

SPEAKER_09

It was no, I've had a lot of car breakups though, so that's why I wrote a car breakup. Uh it does seem like it has happened a lot to me. I feel like I've had a lot of like fights or like big things that have happened in a car regarding to a relationship. But um, yeah, it was it was based off of real breakup that I had. I had I have this car for a long time, and it was a car that I really liked. It was a challenger, and it was a cool car that I got when like I was like 18, 19.

SPEAKER_02

Um you've had it for like six months.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I just turned 10. Um and I had it for a really long time, and I really liked the car, and I knew I needed to sell it when I moved to New York. And I was like, okay, when am I gonna do this? And then I was dating somebody and I was like, oh, I could bring the car back when I go back home. I'll bring the car back, and then we could go on like a road trip or something like that. So me and her go on a road trip in the car, and I was like, okay, this will be a lot of fun, and then I'll sell the car. And then the car like breaks, and it like got screwed up, and I was like, uh, like uh the transmission, like a piece under the transmission was working and it wasn't shifting. I was like, oh my god, I've already put so much time and money into this car. It was like a whole ordeal. The car's been in like 14 accidents. I think somebody died in the car. I'm not even joking. It's like a whole ordeal. This like saga with this car. I know. There we go, there we go.

SPEAKER_03

God damn it.

SPEAKER_09

Um, and I loved the car a lot, and I I really loved it. I was like, okay, I'm gonna bring it to the mechanic. I bring it to this mechanic, and the mechanic is basically like, You have a toxic relationship with this car, you have to get rid of this car. He's like, it's not worth it to keep putting hours and time into this thing, get rid of it. And I was like, oh my god. And then I was like, okay, I think if you fix this thing, it'll fix it. He fixed the car for decently cheap. I was like, okay, I gotta get rid of it, I gotta sell it. Then, like a week later, or I don't remember the exact timing, uh, my girlfriend that I went on the road trip with breaks up with me, and it was like kind of B for B, like a similar conversation. I was like, Well, uh, so I thought that was what a crazy parallel. Yeah, so then that's kind of the parallel in the film.

SPEAKER_05

Was the car from the video that same car? Because you said it was that's that's okay. That's my car. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the car that's in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Damn.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that was so great. I I especially I was literally sorry, sometimes I forgot to breathe.

SPEAKER_07

I do it, yeah, do it in the microphone. Yeah, we can all do it together. And for video only watchers, it's very loud.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. True.

SPEAKER_02

Um, no, I um the one part that really got me was the part when you were like, the first time that I see you cries with me last time I see you. Oh my god, trying to drop that in there. It just is like a super, it's super emotional. And if you've had a breakup, I don't I feel like everyone's broken up in a car. I've broken up with the same boyfriend in a car, I think like 12 times. Yeah. The same relationship.

SPEAKER_09

Right. It's so good.

SPEAKER_02

It's so easy to do. It's quiet, it's relaxed, it's like kind of it's chill. You don't have to look right at each other. You can kind of look forward.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Takes away that pressure a little bit. You can you can stall the car out if you hate them.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kick them out while you're driving. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Well, thanks for sharing that with us.

SPEAKER_09

Of course, guys. I appreciate you watching it. It was so kind. Of course. Um, and then I'll be screening it uh at uh my friend's film festival on June 13th. Oh. Maybe you guys want to come. It's uh at Lifeworld, you know that venue?

SPEAKER_07

I do know. May 26th.

SPEAKER_09

Uh, there's also I'm also doing it on May 26th. But I don't think this would come out by then, so maybe there's a world in which it does.

SPEAKER_02

This will come out Tuesday.

SPEAKER_09

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that turnaround's crazy. Grindset. I'm production, so that's why everything looks the way it does. No, I think. Grace was literally sleeping while I was getting all this ready and creating a s like a prompt of how we're gonna I want to make it very clear.

SPEAKER_09

I made fun of the production. You're doing a wonderful job, you're keeping it very cheap and very lean.

SPEAKER_02

Wait, so he just called us cheap, but in a sweet way.

SPEAKER_09

Good. That's good. Yeah. Cheap production is great.

SPEAKER_02

I'd also block I don't have a job and I have a warrant out for my arrest.

SPEAKER_09

Do you actually?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Is that true? Yes. F from Bristol. It's a w yeah, I it's such a weird.

SPEAKER_09

Have you talked about this before? I'm assuming this is a runner.

SPEAKER_02

We talked last week. We talked last week about it.

SPEAKER_07

We we not only did we redo our James Charles uh come out thing, pretty much like walk through the entire sketch on this one. We also talked about this one, yeah, on on the last week's episode.

SPEAKER_02

Because he was saying that basically if I got pregnant, then it would be fine because who wants to be the bad guy and arrest a pregnant woman? Yeah. That's true. Yeah. So it's true.

SPEAKER_07

That's that's how much we have going on in our lives that every podcast is pretty much just the same thing, but we rediscuss these things. In a different way.

SPEAKER_02

In a different light. We actually just got back from our improv class too, so our the wheels are turning.

SPEAKER_09

Do you guys do one together?

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

201.

SPEAKER_09

201. Wait, this is the one that you've skipped into.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, wow. Wow. Yeah. How'd you do that?

SPEAKER_02

I feel like you keep talking about like bad things I'm doing. She's not bad. She's not bad. Oh no, I meant like bad.

SPEAKER_07

Oh.

SPEAKER_02

Like bad, like I have a warnout for my arrest and I like allegedly.

SPEAKER_09

I'm gonna move my this is the wires. So I'm used to being walked like a good. You're good.

SPEAKER_02

That was one time. Um but yeah, we have our improv class. It's like really fun, but we also don't want to like do sets with each other because we're trying to keep it a little bit.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, no, that is one of the things when you do improv with your friends, you find that you're just doing it with them, and then like you're not getting good at improv because you're just doing bits that you think will get them to laugh. Yeah. So like it's it's honestly great to do it alone. Which is fun. Or do it with like two strangers, like two people that you met recently that you want to get to know better. I feel like you guys have known. How long'd you guys meet?

SPEAKER_05

Through the pod.

SPEAKER_09

Through the pod.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I initially did this podcast by myself, and then we did one episode together, and then I forgot to record any more episodes after that. I think I did maybe one.

SPEAKER_07

She was like, nobody else, only him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And then we got together for a comedy show, and then we were like at l at Bushwood Comedy Club, and then we were like, we should just do this together. That remember we went to yours sincerely. Yep, no, basically then we just decided we were like, I was like, oh, we should do this all the time. Are you and you know, he's like, No, we shouldn't. I'm like, no, are you being serious? Like, let's do no serious Yo bro.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's you halfway through the beer.

SPEAKER_02

We have to do we have to do this. Like, it would be elite. Yeah. And then he was like, okay, because his production was bad.

SPEAKER_07

Mine was you think this is bad? Mine was an hour and ten minutes of me sitting in front of a laptop on a webcam and just drinking.

SPEAKER_02

With like the same quality as Omegle. Like it was bad.

SPEAKER_07

Horrible quality, horrible microphone, and it's just me being like for unedited for an hour and ten minutes, just being like, uh so I'm gonna drink and I'm gonna answer your guys' questions. That was every single day. That was everything. Yep.

SPEAKER_09

That sounds great. It was like, dude, I see these videos of people that were like they're uh I just spat everywhere. Uh I see these videos of people and they're like uh day drinking and drinking cigarettes, and it's like an hour-long video and they're completely silent and they bom like do like so well on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02

What? So should we should just start Twitch streaming?

SPEAKER_07

Oh we should actually do that. That would be fun to live stream some of these.

SPEAKER_02

Just and dr oh, I was just saying us just drinking.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, we don't even talk about we we do that already, kind of.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Do you guys drink in the pot a lot? Sometimes. Sometimes. If if there is something to drink, we usually drink it.

SPEAKER_02

But today we're drinking Nespresso. Nespresso. It's so good. Oh, Grayson, how do you feel about Nespresso?

SPEAKER_07

Nespresso, when I drink Nespresso, I feel in a word, stupendous.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Shit. Xander, how do you feel when you drink Nespresso?

SPEAKER_09

Every day is a bliss when I have a Nespresso.

SPEAKER_02

Nespresso. Roasted hazelnut, vanilla, dark chocolate, all the flavors that you can possibly imagine. Nespresso. I put that shit on everything.

SPEAKER_07

We're also working on trying to incorporate brands. So we like that.

SPEAKER_09

I got that. I got that. Let's do another one. You guys ready?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you have one for us?

SPEAKER_09

My watch is so cheap and lame. I wish I had something better. What? What's on your wrist?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, on my wrist? It's a what's on my wrist? Oh. It's a what's up in a watch?

SPEAKER_09

I feel like it was an easy setup for Rolex. Am I wrong?

SPEAKER_07

It's such an easy Rolex instead of it. Maybe we're a little burnt out from the one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, on my wrist? It's a Rolex.

SPEAKER_07

A Rolex?

SPEAKER_02

Mm-hmm. Yeah. A Rolex.

SPEAKER_07

Rolex. Isn't that just a watch for rich people?

SPEAKER_02

No. Even poor people can spend all their life savings on it. Like me. I actually sold my car and um half of my wardrobe so that I could get this Rolex. And I stole some money out of my mom's jeweler dresser drawer.

SPEAKER_09

Can't afford something? That's where Klarna comes in. In three easy payments, you can afford anything you'd like.

SPEAKER_02

Like what?

SPEAKER_09

This table.

SPEAKER_02

Huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

The Book of Tables. Book of Tables. Frame for Life. Anything that you want that's really cheap, you can pay for it in five dollar installments for the rest of your life.

SPEAKER_02

Thanks so much, Sander.

SPEAKER_09

Thanks, guys.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that was great. Well, we actually have one last um sketch idea that we'd like to do with you.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_02

We're on a first date and I'm a conjoined twin.

SPEAKER_09

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_02

Um you look amazing.

SPEAKER_09

So do you.

SPEAKER_02

Thanks.

SPEAKER_07

Man, I wish I had a mirror so I could see what you look like back here.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Sorry. Um, ignore that. That's my conjoined twin brother.

SPEAKER_09

I I I didn't even notice.

SPEAKER_02

Really, it's usually the first thing people notice, so I appreciate you saying that.

SPEAKER_09

I it doesn't matter to me. I think your soul is beautiful, so that's sweet.

SPEAKER_06

I then you're saying my soul must be beautiful because we have the same one.

SPEAKER_02

Um, can you do me a favor? I just need you to like shut the fuck up for like the next 15 times. Alright, I'm sorry.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Sorry. Um It's alright.

SPEAKER_09

Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_02

Sorry, the waiter's here. Hi, yeah. Um, we're gonna do uh two glasses of Rose? Yeah, let's do rose.

SPEAKER_09

Rose, and then I'll do the Branzino.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Branzino? This is a this is a Mexican restaurant. Who is this guy?

SPEAKER_02

Okay, um I'm gonna do sorry, I'm gonna do the uh chicken barm. It's my favorite Mexican dish.

SPEAKER_09

I'd love chicken barm.

SPEAKER_02

I love that you love that. I saw on your um dating profile that you were like really uh foodie, so I wanted to take you to my favorite restaurant.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I mean it's a pretty eclectic menu here. There's a lot of stuff on it. I I love it. I mean, uh do you ever have um kangaroo?

SPEAKER_02

Uh no.

SPEAKER_09

You never had eaten kangaroo?

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_09

It's all I know it sounds a little scary, but it tastes so good. It's amazing. They can have kangu kangaro skewers. I was scared too the first time I tried it, but we should go to a restaurant like that sometime. I'll take you some. I would love to.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Um I have to ask just beforehand the the door frame. How like how wide is it?

SPEAKER_09

Oh, yeah, dad-eye. Um, it'll it'll fit you both. Okay.

SPEAKER_05

You uh well, sweetheart, wherever she goes, I have to follow. Literally.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. Should should we I mean, I'm I'm I'm happy to accommodate however you need. Yeah. You know, I is there anything we can do for you?

SPEAKER_05

No, I'm having a great time. Wait, uh, can you snap for the waitress? I I would love a water, by the way. She didn't ask for me.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I I literally told you to shut the fuck up. I did the same thing for you last week.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, but you saw how well that date ended. I didn't even get a kiss.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's because you're fucking weird. So anyway, um What are you like in the bedroom? Sorry, not to be too forward. It's just I have to kind of like get to these.

SPEAKER_09

I feel like I've gotten to know you pretty well and like I'm I'm I can talk to you about it, but I I feel a little weird. Like I feel like I get need to get to know the other person too, you know. Like if I'm gonna talk about my sex life or Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

It's okay, buddy. I'm a freak in the sheets.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, he's pretty freaky. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

That's great. That's great. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. He's like used to it. Yeah, I mean, um Usually one of us will just put like a sheet over our head and then noise canceling headphones, and it's like not weird. It's like a little ghost listening to the phone.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, and doing it, doing it from behind isn't really an option here.

SPEAKER_09

I I piece that together. Yeah, yeah. I piece I piece that together. I figured it was gonna be mostly frontal.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's like reverse Eiffel Tower.

SPEAKER_09

That's great. Does he ever get involved?

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah, yeah. I we we're really close. I like to include him in everything.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

And my mom's always like, bring him, and I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, I I feel like you have to. There's not really a choice. Yeah. She says bring him, and it's like obviously.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

But uh that's cool.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. Um Pete? Did you um Pete?

SPEAKER_09

Sorry, the first time I catch your name. Pete.

unknown

Yep.

SPEAKER_09

I feel like we I didn't even say anything to you. Yeah, no, sorry, it's Xander.

SPEAKER_05

Nice to meet you, Xander.

SPEAKER_09

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Yeah, thanks. Thanks.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, by the way, I really love the outfit, actually. Are you serious? Yeah, no, it's all put together. Oh my god, good top. Thank you.

SPEAKER_09

Wait, wait, you have beautiful eyes.

SPEAKER_08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_09

That is of you are amazing. I mean, I okay, sorry.

SPEAKER_05

Uh it's just kind of like first time seeing you.

SPEAKER_09

I know, I didn't even I I I feel like I I should have been. I'm sorry, I was rude. I was just trying to get to know you.

SPEAKER_07

And you know what? I did I didn't know. Yeah. And I I didn't know what you were looked like, and uh and I feel like I don't know. What do you think? Did you we have like a little bit of a connection?

SPEAKER_09

I I I feel something for sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, well, hey, hold now, hold on now. Um I'm feeling a little bit left out. Okay.

SPEAKER_09

I I I sorry, I was just trying to get to know the other people in the room, but uh I don't think that's anything.

SPEAKER_02

There's something I I'm just gonna find out the elephant in the room. It seems like you're trying to get like a two for one here, and that's just that's not how I roll usually.

SPEAKER_09

I I actually might be just trying to drop and get one.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. That's kind of what I was that's kind of picking up on.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. So that reverse Eiffel Tower is kind of looking like a one-on-one date from now. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09

I mean, if you guys just want to swap around, we can chat for a minute. We are on a swivel chair. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, that was really dumb.

SPEAKER_09

Beautiful guy. Guys, that was amazing. That was that was amazing.

SPEAKER_02

You know what? You're gonna be such a good dad because you're gonna be so good at looking at your kids' artwork and then being like, that looks like shit. No, that was great.

SPEAKER_09

Oh, thanks. I don't want to hear. I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna come back up here. You can sit right behind me.

SPEAKER_09

Are you worried? I thought it was very funny.

SPEAKER_02

I thought it was funny. Okay, well, I guess our last question is um if you had to pick one of us, well, who would it be?

SPEAKER_07

And this is you, you can pick either one of us. It's for any reason, but you have to tell us why.

SPEAKER_09

So I have to utilize if I had to utilize one of you in a way, how would I utilize you and why would I decide to use you? For the same activity. How about you guys pick the activity? And then I'll decide which of you I'll use for it. Does that make sense? It could be anything. I feel like it's like fix my c something crazy.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Uh like a little bit of an itinerary? Yes. Okay, we're going on a hot air balloon ride, and then we're gonna watch the sunset and then end the day with a rack of ribs. That's the itinerary.

SPEAKER_07

And you're gonna wash the rack of ribs down with a cold glass of mango juice.

SPEAKER_09

So I'm going with Grace. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_03

Let's go with it.

SPEAKER_09

Because I hate to say it. He just wanna know what sold me? He suggested the mango juice. He suggested the mango juice. I'm so excited to go have a glass of mango juice. I love mango juice. In your world, if he wasn't here, right? Like if he didn't say that, I wouldn't be having mango juice on my amazing experience.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, in in the world where uh you had to choose between the two of us and one of us wasn't here, you'd pick me. That's it.

SPEAKER_09

I guess if I didn't know if I didn't know that mango juice was gonna be there. Are you offering me mango juice?

SPEAKER_02

No, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna kill myself right after this podcast. So um, well, this has been this has been really great having you on the show. Guys, of course. And thank you so we're gonna all go have a drink together with with some friends after this.

SPEAKER_09

Yes, let's do it.

SPEAKER_02

Um is there anything that you want to plug?

SPEAKER_09

Nothing. I you guys I really appreciate you. No, I'm kidding. I I really appreciate you guys having me on. This was so fun. You guys are both so kind and so funny, and I really appreciate meeting you. And you guys can go watch my short film live on YouTube called First Car. Uh that's F-I-R-S-T-C-A-R, and there's a little dash in that YouTube title, and it says a short film, because that's how they're doing it these days. Yeah. That's how they're hitting the algo.

SPEAKER_02

And great and Xander's name starts with an X, not to be confused with a Z.

SPEAKER_09

Good, good, good.

SPEAKER_07

And we will put a link to that video in the description. Thanks, guys.

SPEAKER_02

And then you can go have a listen and I thought we were speaking together at the same time.

SPEAKER_07

Have a listen and enjoy and leave a good comment to Xander is wonderful production.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And we also like to end each podcast with our guests with a song.

SPEAKER_09

Okay, I'm ready. Okay. Which song are we? Are we doing an improv song or do you guys think?

SPEAKER_01

God has chosen you. Sander, the blessed one.

SPEAKER_04

Love your mustache too. Every time I spend a moment with you, it's bliss with my two best flirty friends. I have no musical ability. But man, I'll speak to no end.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Grayson, take it away. When you get three people in a room, fuck you guys.

SPEAKER_09

You can actually sing.

SPEAKER_02

No, Grayson can actually riff. Grayson, give him Grayson, give him a riff.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, give me the alphabet. Hit alphabet. Alphabet? Whoa. Uh how does it go?

SPEAKER_01

He's like this. He's like, sorry. She's like a thing.

SPEAKER_09

I think it goes like uh. Oh, it's the same. He can actually sing. Do you do you get do music? She she do you make music?

SPEAKER_07

She doesn't, but she could.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. For sure.

SPEAKER_07

You have an amazing voice.

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god, thank you so much. I have written a couple little things, but. Anyway, sorry. Enough about me. This is about Xander, his film First Car. Go stream it now. Come on. Seriously. You're already here. You're already on YouTube. Just go over and look at it really quick. Like, comment, subscribe.

SPEAKER_09

Shout out.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. All right, guys. This is Are We Flirting. Um, thanks so much so much for watching. Put your hands in. We all do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all hold it.

SPEAKER_09

I've never watched a full episode.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you guys so much for watching. Okay. Love you. Bye.

SPEAKER_09

Bye.

SPEAKER_06

I'm your host, Grayson.

SPEAKER_02

I'm Sid.

SPEAKER_06

And this is a mic already.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Bye, everybody. This is Are We Flirting. Thank you. Bye.