Are We Flirting?

your friend who is always late is your most loyal friend

• Syd Matthews and Greyson Hoelzel

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this week we talk about time blindness, pride month, and answer some of your questions! for any questions email hello@areweflirting.com :)

SPEAKER_03

How do you get your hair the way it is?

SPEAKER_01

It does look like shit because it's like five day hair.

SPEAKER_03

No, your hair is always so full and voluminous.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you. Yeah, no, I do use Aussie texture spray. That sounds like I'm doing an ad. Which is funny because I actually did um a partnership with them, but I like use them, so it's cool. Um I sound extra sexy because I am sick and actually I'm not sick. Why are you sick?

SPEAKER_03

Are you kissing strangers?

SPEAKER_01

I am not sick actually. I haven't shut the fuck up in two weeks, and I keep losing my voice. And then once I start to get it back again, I sit down and have like a six-hour coffee with a friend, and then I I lose it again.

SPEAKER_03

We've been, for the viewers at home and listeners at home, we've been having a grand old time the past couple days. My friends are in town from Philly. Shout out to Simona and Caroline, they were staying with me. They went home today. And me and Sid were out with them a couple nights watching uh World Cup stuff and hanging out with our friends. Shout out to Steven, shout out to Xander, shout out to Brandon, shout out to who else has been out? Isabella came out for a little bit the other night. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um where are these pants from? Oh my god, what the hell?

SPEAKER_03

They are linen.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, I'm very I just want you to know it's another kind of love when you let somebody with outside clothes sit on your bed.

SPEAKER_03

These are inside clothes. I didn't go out in these. I changed.

SPEAKER_01

You were you took an Uber. So your bum was touching something that other people's bums have touched. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_03

I definitely didn't change and I was in the subway. Oh, shout out to the girl that threw up in the subway right in front of me.

SPEAKER_01

No, no.

SPEAKER_03

We've all been there, sister.

SPEAKER_01

That's actually like my biggest fear. Oh, that's horrible.

SPEAKER_03

My name is Grayson.

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My name is Sid.

SPEAKER_03

And this is Are We Flirting. Welcome to the first time. We're trying to become more organic, folks.

SPEAKER_01

Why do you have to call it out?

SPEAKER_03

I've had six beers. Shout out to Pride. It is pri shout out to half of Sid. It is uh Pride Parade Day.

SPEAKER_01

That's actually kind of cute. You should have put that on there.

SPEAKER_03

What? Shout out to Sid.

SPEAKER_01

Like a half of Sid.

SPEAKER_03

Well, Penn was running out of ink, wasn't it? So I'm pretty drunk right. Sid sounds like she smokes ten packs a day, but it's working.

SPEAKER_01

Yesterday we were out at the bar and I was outside maybe smoking a cigarette allegedly, which I totally shouldn't have been doing. Oh yeah, I had like three yesterday. I'm not doing okay. Anyway, um, there was this girl that um so let me rewind. We were sitting at the table and Grayson walks up and he says, Um, if this girl comes up to us, say you're all from Philly.

SPEAKER_03

And so Which is mostly true for the table, but I was like, what a weird thing to say.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know what that means. And he's like, because this girl's like, I was talking to her at the bar and she seemed like a little drunk, and and I just said, you know, um, she asked like what I was doing, and I'm like, I'm with my friends, um, but they're from Philly, and like they're they don't what they don't like outsiders or something like that.

SPEAKER_03

This girl is the epitome. Shout out to Love Island, shout out to Sincere, Sincerely Yours, me and Sid. Um, she this girl was the epitome, aka the epitome of the girl you meet in line uh for the bathroom. She was like, Oh my god, I love you. You guys are so great. Oh my god, everybody here is so beautiful. How do you guys know? You guys are all from Philly. Oh my god, I have autism. Oh my god, I love my brother.

SPEAKER_01

It was she was I feel like the lines could not, they were the most original. Chat GPT could never. The things that were coming out of her mouth were like poetry in the most insane way.

SPEAKER_03

She was all over the place, kept talking about everybody's titties.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, was she?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, was I in there?

SPEAKER_01

No.

SPEAKER_03

You know the answer to that. No, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_01

I even won't push up route.

SPEAKER_03

She was talking, she was talking about everything and everyone, and nobody knew her. She just came up to our table, and then she was gone from the bar an hour later, and we talked to her about our podcast, so she might be watching this. She came back to the bar in a maid outfit.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, wait. So this okay. So Grayson tells us, like, be warned. Like, and then, you know, whatever, time passes, we're not thinking about it. We're outside and we're all hanging out and um like smoking cigs. And then this girl comes up to us and she's like, Oh my god, guys, can I just tell you about my past 48 hours? And one thing about me, I love a story time. So she starts telling me about the past 48 hours and how she like hooked up with this guy, and then after they hooked up the next morning, she went to kiss him goodbye, and he was like, I don't like do that. And then she was like, I'll probably have sex with him again tonight. So, but she's she's just telling us these like insane stories. She has a mini mic, and and but it wasn't plugged into her phone, so it's just hanging loose.

SPEAKER_03

She's like, I don't know, I'm just crazy. I just bring this along with me.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she's like, I just do it for the bit. And I was like, honestly, I respect that. And like that was she was really funny, but like also insane. And then, like, every she sort of said that she was um either a Jew or autistic in like every other sentence.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So those are her words. That's her direct quote. Um, but anyway, yeah, so we had um a fun time, but then she came in with us and then sat in the booth and then was there for quite some time. Whatever, we're all talking. She leaves and we're all like, okay, you know, just hanging out amongst ourselves, and then she comes back in this like slutty maid costume. I don't know where she went, but it was awesome. And she looked amazing. She actually like had a full glow-up. I don't know if that was in the bathroom or what. It was like an hour later.

SPEAKER_03

She was she was like, All right, guys. She got first of all, she came to our table and was like, Alright, I'll only hang out until the my drink's gone. Oh, yeah. She came to her drink was empty when she got to the table. There was nothing left in it. So she was just hanging out. And then randomly, she was like, Alright, guys, I gotta go, I gotta leave, I gotta go get ready. And then she turned to me and she was like, Maybe I'll just bring my makeup to the bar. And I was like, No, you should go home, take your time. Like, we'll be here, it's fine. And then she left, strangely, and then I turned to the other person that was at our table, and I was like, I I bet you ten dollars she comes back into the bar eventually, and she's all dolled up.

SPEAKER_01

She did that. She did exactly. She had a lot of lovely things to say about you though. She was like, Your friend Well, we were outside, and she's like, Your friend is so symmetrical. And I was like, Simona, yeah. And she's like, No, no, no, the boy. The boy. So I think it's funny when people refer to you as a boy and not a man. Like, no, like, or the the guy inside. Like, she's like, No, the boy. It's awesome. So anyway, that was uh it was super entertaining. I you know, I just have to say, moral of the story is if you find yourself way more drunk, I guess you're unaware to even have the self-awareness to walk away, but I think that's the only time that there's a bit of a disconnect, is if the person that you're hanging out with is like way more drunk than the rest of you. Because if everyone's like at that level, it's fine. But I don't think anyone was there.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, if you have to force yourself into a table of 10 people and you're the only one that doesn't know a single soul, and you are casually finding yourself being in a conversation where the other person is like, Wow, no, that's crazy. I can't believe that.

SPEAKER_01

Or like, oh, Dennis came with his crutches, and I'm like, and we have people like standing. I'm like, girl, but it was fine. Um, everything worked out. And Dennis, like, literally just had a surgery like 24 hours prior, but he had to make it to that Portugal game. Yeah, shout out to Dennis. He's so amazing. So, anyway, that was our weekend. It was pretty weekly. We spent a lot of time together.

SPEAKER_03

We drank a lot, per usual. This is now day three for me. Uh-oh. Old habits.

SPEAKER_01

No, no, I you're rumpling around a little.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry.

SPEAKER_01

It's okay, rumpy.

SPEAKER_03

It's the shakies.

SPEAKER_01

I know, I know. Well, I have this thing with drinking is that you can't just go from drinking a ton one day to drinking nothing the second day. You have to wean yourself off. So today might be my day. I have like a glass of wine. Because I don't want to like go through withdrawal. That'd be horrible.

SPEAKER_03

I have carried it through from Friday to now Sunday.

SPEAKER_01

I'm doing uh Didn't we didn't something happen on Thursday? Maybe with just me.

SPEAKER_03

I was gone. I was in Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_01

So make it sound like it's so far away.

SPEAKER_03

It is a four-hour drive.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah, 50-minute training. Hmm. So yeah, so that was that. Um I was just thinking, because you know how you're always mad at me that I'm always late.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

I found this video that is so perfect, and I want to play into the mic.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

It's not super long.

SPEAKER_03

While Sid pulls this up, I'll give a little context. We have an improv class. Mind you, the time never changes every week. It's 11 to 2. She shows up at least five minutes late every single time. It drives me furious because she actually. She shows up and she's like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry to be late. And it's like, Dog, get on the earlier train. It's not like it's not rocket.

SPEAKER_01

So I'm gonna play the video that it fully encapsulates everything.

SPEAKER_00

Your friend who's always late is actually the most loyal person in your life. Late people are not disrespectful, they are not lazy, they operate on what neurologists call time blindness, a cognitive condition where the brain genuinely cannot feel time passing the way yours does. To you, 30 minutes feels like 30 minutes. To them, it evaporates. They looked up and it was gone. No warning, no internal alarm, or suddenly behind on everything again. Here's what nobody tells you. The same brain that loses track of time is the one that loses track of itself when you're in pain. These people hyper focus on what matters to them, and if you matter, you will feel it in a way most people never will. They will sit with you at 2 a.m. without checking their phone. They will remember the thing you said once in passing six months ago. They will show up, maybe not on time, but completely. The ones who are always perfectly on schedule are managing life like a calendar. Every commitment calculated, there is no room in that system for the chaos of being truly present for someone else. They burn it recklessly on people they love, and that is exactly why when you are falling apart, they are already on their way.

SPEAKER_03

Now that's good podcasting where instead of actually talking because you guys are here to hear about us, we just play internet videos for two minutes straight.

SPEAKER_01

That's important because I think that you I'm gonna I'm gonna uh clip this so that people can send it to somebody that they know and love.

SPEAKER_03

So we're gonna we're gonna make a clip of somebody else's video from our podcast instead of us talking.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, but it's important. So I just I want to stand by that. I'm just like forever present in the moment. I'm just really here. And I do have time blindness, and I know that you think it's a lack of accountability, but I really am just so present in whatever I'm doing that I don't look at the clock.

SPEAKER_03

Well, can't argue against that. That is rock solid loss.

SPEAKER_01

Perfect. Okay, thank you. Okay. Let me take a look at my little Do you like her? Like, what if I just wrote in here?

SPEAKER_03

Like I have a picture of me and Grayson in my and for the audio-only listeners, there's a picture of me and Sid as she said that and then I just have like notes on it, and it's like I'm actually secretly in love. I have a question for you, Sid. Yeah. Because it happened this past weekend where uh evidently it seemed as though I got recognized on the streets. Oh, yeah. In passing.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, this was a really interesting weekend of like like Steve got a lot of that. I think Xander did too.

SPEAKER_03

We there was a this weekend, we were all at the top of our game. We just kept like people just kept calling us beautiful. It was like a very strange Xander and uh I forget her name got um free shots at Carousel because they're the bartenders were just like, You guys are really good looking.

SPEAKER_01

Victoria, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, Victoria. Random people at the bar that we were watching the World Cup game were just like, You guys are beautiful.

SPEAKER_01

That was so funny.

SPEAKER_03

It's life is great when you run in packs of hot people, apparently, evidently.

SPEAKER_01

But you know what's funny is like I did look around at the table and especially like Nandi, like she's so beautiful. I was like, I actually think she's bringing us all up right now, like the she's like the class average. Yeah, she's bringing us up. Um, so that's you know, shout out Nandi. She's so sweet, such a beautiful angel.

SPEAKER_03

So my question for you is is when somebody recognizes you in the street, how do you want it to go?

SPEAKER_01

Like, what would be the best case scenario for somebody who's like Wait, this just so this happened at the the bar we were at yesterday when we were watching the game, right? I was in the bathroom line, and this guy was like with his girlfriend, and he was like, dude, love the videos, like you're so funny, keep it up. And then he like gave me like a high five or something and then like walked away, and I just thought that was so cute.

SPEAKER_03

Perfect. Yeah, whenever somebody is like trying to maintain it, and this is no like if you I'll talk to anybody though for 25 minutes if they want to yeah, genuinely. Like if somebody comes up to me and recognizes me and they want to have a conversation, that's fine. But when there's no out, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm in jail.

SPEAKER_01

That's just I think that's like a I get like that too. Like socially, I don't know when the conversation's supposed to end. I don't I think a lot of people feel like that in all circumstances. Like if you're at a party and you're stuck in a corner with someone and like you're talking for a while and like neither person really knows when to go.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, I think we all sing. That was kind of that response here.

SPEAKER_01

No, but I always like look for you. Like if I think that you're getting stuck somewhere, like I do check in.

SPEAKER_03

I do, I that does happen kind of a bit. Not even just getting recognized. People are they I have a very welcoming presence and they're like, I want to talk to this man.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, that's so funny you said that because I don't think anyone's ever described you as having a welcoming presence. Um I was like, my friends literally like just started learning that you like them. And it's been like, oh, it's like eight months of you hanging out with them. Um so anyway, yeah, that was that was this weekend. Ooh.

SPEAKER_03

We got written down.

SPEAKER_01

I have so much stuff. Like I put time blindness in here because I really like felt like that was something.

SPEAKER_03

Are these the notes you take during improv?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, no. During improv, I was coming out. No, during improv, do you want to know what I came up with? An impression. Yeah. Oh you have to guess who it is. Close your eyes. Mount Everst. Hang out, shit on me. No. Okay, I can't do it because I don't have a voice right now, but it's Mickey Mouse singing Mount Everst.

SPEAKER_03

Hey, is that an impression of Mickey Mouse singing Mount Everst? Bro didn't even give me a chance to describe what I heard. So I was working on that. To be fair, my first thought was it's Minnie Mouse doing the euphoria song. So it's a spot-on impression.

SPEAKER_01

I actually can do a really good Mickey Mouse. I think I told you this before, but it's like I can't do it right now. Ho totals, wait. Ho totals, time to get to it. Oh boy. Time to get to it. Wait. Time to get to it. Show the mask tool to help us do it. Show us the mask at all to help us do it. Anyway. I still I've done it before on this podcast and it was better, I think. And that's what I'll say the next time I do it. I'll be like the last time was better than this. Um oh guys, really exciting news. Um, I'm really trying to implement more community. I said that like it had if eight syllables, community in New York, and I am hosting a kite fest on July 11th. So if you're a New Yorker and you want to come out, you make your own kite, and you you're gonna build it at home, bring it, bring a picnic blanket. We're gonna meet at Prospect Park at 3 p.m. If you're one of my stalkers, don't um it's a different day, it's on the 12th. Um, but if you're a trustworthy person and it's on the 11th, and bring a kite and there will be a prize.

SPEAKER_03

That's always the risk you run with putting stuff on the internet being like, hey, we're having a public meetup on this date.

SPEAKER_01

It's like so it's like in a big park, so I feel like it's fine. If it was anything else, I'd be like, no.

SPEAKER_03

Do you think announcing it to the public makes anybody else who's going to the event a little deterred from going? They're like, oh, I'm scared now.

SPEAKER_01

No. Who cares? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Life's not that serious.

SPEAKER_01

It's really not that serious. No, I shouldn't actually. Guy who's decided that he shouldn't take life so serious.

SPEAKER_03

Sid, when's the last time you didn't take life serious?

SPEAKER_01

Literally today. Hmm. The last time I didn't take life serious? Well, probably this morning.

SPEAKER_03

Are you gonna you're just gonna say this morning? You're not gonna go into it.

SPEAKER_01

I never take life serious. Every time I do, things I don't make the art I wanna make, you know what I mean? I'm just not here. I've decided also if people ask me what I do, I'm gonna say I'm an artist.

SPEAKER_03

So you like lying?

SPEAKER_01

So you like lying. You're a liar.

SPEAKER_03

I've never told the truth about anything ever in my entire life, ever, actually.

SPEAKER_01

Do you care about me as a friend?

SPEAKER_03

Well, see, that's a complicated that's a loaded question. And it's good, it's important to like bring this up during the pod as well, because I feel like one thing we we lack is is is is something to discuss, right? Something to like really dig into. Because when's the last time we really dug deep into a subject?

SPEAKER_01

Guy who's trying to hit the word count in the pod. In a way that's thank you so much for sharing that, Christian.

SPEAKER_03

Uh this is now the fourth time Sid has opened up this book. I know I have so many things in here. Why do you write in cursive?

SPEAKER_01

Because I went to Catholic school and I'm traumatized. And I also got a really bad grade in handwriting. Did you get graded on handwriting?

SPEAKER_03

No. What's your favorite Catholic church song?

SPEAKER_02

Excelsior.

SPEAKER_01

That was really scary. And actually, like, I don't think I was like on Kia if I fucking tried. Also, like last night, I don't know if it was because I was drinking, but um, we were all like hanging out, me, Victoria, Xander, and Steve, and Steve was playing the piano, and then I started singing, and I was like, it was like an Adele song, like chasing pigments or something. Now I have to cut your reaction off. You're so stupid. So we were playing piano, and I literally was like, oh my god. Like, you know, when you're like you have a couple drinks and you're like, you're like, that was so good. Like, I'm so talented. I can keep up with you. I have to cut this out too. You want to make my life an editing hell.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yes, that's why I'm here. I'm here to make your life a living hell.

SPEAKER_01

Do you want to share what we said beforehand?

SPEAKER_03

About never being chosen as the one.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So glad you asked that. I have this weird, um kink. Kink where for some reason, when I think I hit it off with somebody, and I'm like, oh. I I I and this is not a bit, I think I play it too genuine and nice, where I'm like, oh, I need to be the nicest person this person has ever met in a way that just kills every sort of interest. Like, I don't this has happened several times now, where I meet somebody, I'm like, oh, like I want to go on a date with this girl. And they shoot me in the head with a gun, and they step over me and step on my neck, and then step on my balls a couple times. My perky little balls, they step on them with cleats, and then they drive over them with tractor tires, and I've got tractor marks all over my body because they're driving over me. I don't know what it is about me when I think I find somebody that I'm like, oh, I could hit it off with this person. They just do not display any ounce of interest in me, which is a real bummer because I know that there are people out there that like me. I just wish Who's gonna tell 'em? I just w that I'm the problem.

SPEAKER_01

No, I'm just kidding. No. You know what's actually hot sometimes? Being a little crazy.

SPEAKER_03

Well, see, that's the thing, is I want to be honest with this person, be like, hey, I thought we liked each other. You showed interest in me first. What you know?

SPEAKER_01

Okay, cli I'll clip this and I'll put it on the page.

unknown

Please.

SPEAKER_01

I'm just kidding. No, but like, I feel like it's actually super hot when someone's acting a little bit crazy, and like is totally okay with being like, no, I'm obsessed with you.

SPEAKER_03

See, the problem is, is I I am that way, but I do not pr I present myself in a way that's like I have to be kind, I have to be Mr. Gentleman, I have to be super.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but maybe it just feels disingenuous.

SPEAKER_03

But I mean it though.

SPEAKER_01

But you're saying I present myself this way. That already doesn't feel like it's genuine.

SPEAKER_03

I am genuine. Like, I I know that in our current withstanding, in our lack of a relationship, but our you know, how we know each other. Like, I have no claim to that throne at all.

SPEAKER_01

It's okay, bud.

unknown

That's okay.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Remember that girl that was um DMing me? Oh, wait, I should see if she responded.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, do you have an update on this?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Oh my god, okay. So my friend, she asked me to be on this sh dating show thing, which I was like, I don't I don't really know about that. Um, and then she was like, Do you know anyone? And I was like, actually I do. I but I I was like, but I don't know if this girl is whatever. So then I don't know if you saw my story, I said, Hey, if you're a single woman who is interested in women, can you like this story? It's for research, thank you. And then she liked it.

SPEAKER_03

Gotcha. Okay. See, when I saw that, I thought you were posting that for yourself, selfishly, being like, I'm gonna set myself up.

SPEAKER_01

No, that's insane, and now I'm realizing that that's how that sounds, and that sounds like really crazy. Yeah, exactly. So, um, anyway, that's what we're dealing with. Um, but she did like it, and I don't know what's gonna happen, but my friend might she she's in LA who has the show, so she might fly me out. So we'll see. Yeah. Um, also, I was thinking in honor of pride and my friend Allie, um, I wanted to share a coming out story with my grandma. Did I ever tell you this one before?

SPEAKER_03

I don't believe you have. Please. The floor is yours. Uh the floor is yours.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. I'm like jealous of your beer buzz right now. It probably feels good.

unknown

It does.

SPEAKER_03

It feels so good. I have no walls up. There's no blockade stopping my thoughts from getting out from my brain.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Anyways, floor is yours.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, totals. So basically, I was in Colorado visiting my grandmom. If you're a close friend, you know the story, but for so skip just like two minutes ahead. Uh I was visiting my grandmom and my friend Holly was with me. Holly is Holly Count. She is um I I she's she's bi, but she mostly dates women. As it should be. Yeah. As it should be. So so she um we were in the car, I'm in the front seat next to my grandmom. Holly's in the back. My grandmom's asking Holly about her dating life, and you know, if she's dating any guys, whatever. And Holly was like, Nope. No, I'm not. And then I kind of look at my grandmom, I look at Holly, and I I was like, This is a good time for me to introduce that Holly dates women. Why are you laughing? Did you come up with a joke?

SPEAKER_03

No, I did not. I'm just listening to this.

SPEAKER_01

So then Holly, I say, actually, grandmom, Holly is dating women right now. And my grandma was like Okay, cool. So this is my non-racist grandmom. This is my this is my dad's mom, who she's so cool. She's so amazing. Um, so I was like, Okay, shit, this is my time.

SPEAKER_03

Like, this is my time to come clean about me, because at that time I was like dating women and everybody's feeling good, like there's no there's no bad vibes, vibes are up, like this is the best time to present some very, very normal information.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, correct, Grayson. So I turn over to my grandmom and I say, Grom, actually I date women sometimes too. And in this moment, Holly there to to um confirm the story. My grandmom goes, I don't feel so good. She whips the car over, like trying to like park the car. She like whips into a park and she um throws up on herself and says she can't see. She had a diabetic attack, like in the moment that I was telling her. And um, she gets out the car. Holly gives her like it was something of Holly's, like a bag, or I think it was a sweatshirt, like Holly's sweatshirt. My grandmom threw up in Holly's sweatshirt, like hands it back to her. We pick up my grandma. My grandmom is not um super light woman. We slide her into the back seat, lay her down. Um, she's like she's really not doing good. I I think maybe Holly had like a granola bar or something. We're like, try whatever. We get her back, we get her on her CPAP machine at the house in Colorado, everything's fine. Um, and Holly and I are like actually just like what just happened, and we're like shitting ourselves and cracking up. Um, but anyway, so it was clearly a um it was quite the experience, and I'll never tell anyone again. So I figured if I put this on here, maybe I could just send it to my the rest of my family.

SPEAKER_03

But so your grandma, you think, supposedly had a panic attack of you coming out as bisexual?

SPEAKER_01

Um I told my grandmom that I was bisexual and she threw up and went blind.

SPEAKER_03

So all you said to your grandma was, hey, sometimes I think women are not too bad, and she was like, My body's going into anaphylact.

SPEAKER_01

No, she actually got herself so worked up, she got sick. She did have a diabetic attack. She's and it's what's funny is that like it was never brought up again. Like I laid her down when literally she has like a like one of the like like CPAP machines and put it on her face and like tucked her in, and I was like, Alright.

SPEAKER_03

She she's like, Sid, I kind of blacked those pigeons are having sex. No, they're not dead ass, those pigeons were just having sex. They're literally just no, I'm not joking. They I just watched it. Um so your grandma is like, Sid, I'm gonna say.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, how do pigeons have sex?

SPEAKER_03

So I actually I'm glad you asked. If you ever see one pigeon courting another, it's gonna look like this. Their tail feathers are gonna be brushing the ground, they will have a puffed up neck, and they will make a cooing noise that sounds like this prrr prrr, and they'll be chasing around one dove or uh pigeon. I learned that recently.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, so pigeons have sex with other pigeons? It's not like a pigeon and it's not like as it's intended. I know, but what I'm trying to say is like roosters have and chickens fuck. Like chickens and chickens, or like chickens are women.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. It's chicken and chicken, not chicken and steve.

SPEAKER_01

What the hell does that even mean? And now I have to cut it out again.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, that makes sense. It's it's it's a joke. It's a joke that some people say it's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. That was the joke I was making. But it was with chickens. So your grandma was like So you're projecting.

unknown

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03

So your grandma was like, Sid, I just have this weird, I think I blacked down. I had this weird memory. What were you telling me in the car? And you're like, nothing about it. Don't even worry about it. We were just chatting and you had a little diabetic emergency.

SPEAKER_01

It was nothing to stress about.

SPEAKER_03

We got you a hostess Debbie cake, and now you're fine.

SPEAKER_01

No, literally, what's the worst part is that it was never brought up again. But it was actually it was just so funny. Like, honestly, I mean it wasn't funny, it was really scary. But also the fact that she was like, I can't see! Like after I told her, I'm like, what a crazy thing to happen. So, Jesus. I'm going through pre-puberty today. Oh, Grayson's film.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah, the Finance Bro thing. That was fun. Uh, I'm glad it's being perceived really well. Most people don't understand this about that. That was all improv. None of that was scripted.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it was all improv.

SPEAKER_03

Every single the the poems were pre-written. Director was saying, come to this filming with a poem pre-written. All one, two, three, four, all five of those guys, we all presented a poem. Um, and then not all of them like made the final cut, which is fine. Um, because some of them were pretty long. But yeah, like all of the the dialogue, all of the interactions, it was all improv, made up on the spot. One thing I will say though is a lot of people are giving me some undue credit. They're like, This was incredible, you're so creative. I didn't that was all somebody else's idea. I was just acting in it.

SPEAKER_01

Well, no, no, that wasn't all someone else's idea.

SPEAKER_03

It they the guy that the director was like, Hey, I have this idea for a short film if you're interested. I said, Sure. And so I made I made a script for two I made two different scripts for this, and both of them the guy was like, I think we're just gonna stick to improv. These are dog shit and you suck and I hate you, and I'm gonna shoot you in the head with a gun, and you're never there's a lot of violence on today's episode. Yeah, and you're never gonna be anything and you're worth nothing. And I think none of this was said. Kind of this is an opinion. This is all facts-based, actually. And so he was like, I think I just want to stick with improv, it's gonna feel more genuine, which to his credit, absolutely true. And so a lot of people are a calling it really good acting. I don't necessarily think improv is acting, I think it's just reacting. And so thank you guys for responding positively to it, but I think you're giving me a lot of credit when it's not it was it was honestly a group effort, it was a lot of the director, and I was just there.

SPEAKER_01

Agree to disagree. Awesome. So yeah, if you haven't checked it out, go check it out. This is just the beginning of of Grayson's on-film journey, so I'm really excited for him. Um, but I I would disagree. I mean, people can do improv and they do improv bad. Like, have you ever asked a family member to be in a video with you and they don't know how to act at all? Like, I'll literally tell my mom to say, like, Sid, what's that? And she's like, suddenly forgets how to talk.

SPEAKER_03

She's like, Sid.

SPEAKER_01

What is that?

SPEAKER_03

What is going on off camera?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like it's just not the same cadence of like a regular conversation. So I would argue that there's a level of improv that is also acting.

SPEAKER_03

Thank you. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01

And we have our improv showcase coming up soon, and I'm shitting my pants, pants, pants.

SPEAKER_03

Should we put when it is?

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, we don't have an official time yet, but it should be July 18th.

SPEAKER_01

If you Oh, is that what it is?

SPEAKER_03

Yes. If you have five dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you're willing to waste it on a group of theater kids trying to relive their theater dreams, come on down to UCB. We don't know the time yet. It's Sid and I's 201 class. More than likely we will not be in the same group, which is good because then you get a nice dose of both worlds.

SPEAKER_01

Do you think we're not gonna be in the same group?

SPEAKER_03

I don't think so. I think I have a pretty clear image in my head of how he's gonna break it up, and I don't think you and I are going to be in the same group.

SPEAKER_01

Maybe that'll be for the best.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Because sometimes I still feel like I feel comfortable improving around you, but like sometimes it feels layered where I'm like thinking specifically of you and your sense of humor.

SPEAKER_03

Yes. I when I the few times I have been in a scene with you, all I'm thinking about is how can I get Sid to break right now?

SPEAKER_01

No, that's hard. That's all I care about. Wait, sometimes when I'm doing a scene though, and I hear you laugh in the back, I'm like, yeah. I like like I get get this. It feels like I just got like coins in in Mario Kart or something. It feels so good.

SPEAKER_03

Me and Sid did a scene this past Saturday, the TSA one. That one was fun. Oh yeah. So basically, see Sid had this genius idea. I forget what the prompt was. What was the prompt?

SPEAKER_01

Um, the prompt was shoelace.

SPEAKER_03

Shoelace, and Sid came up genius idea. She was it was TSA, and she was a TSA member, and me and this other gentleman were in line, like going through the TSA lines, and then it very quickly turned into it was a job interview where she was TSA, and me and this other guy were recruits trying to get a job.

SPEAKER_01

Like TSA boot camp.

SPEAKER_03

Like TSA boot camp. And I I think it was one of the more fun scenes of the day, and it was a good time. Yeah, Grayson did a good job.

SPEAKER_01

It was very like military-esque. Yeah, they did have to strip naked, and then after that, I was like, I don't know what to do now. Oh, I was gonna get you guys to tell secrets.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, we we were getting there for sure, and then the our instructor self-edged.

SPEAKER_01

I wish we could see more of these scenes questions.

SPEAKER_02

Suddenly seem more is standing beside you. Suddenly see more.

SPEAKER_01

Do you hear like how my voice though, like low-key sounds so much better?

SPEAKER_03

As opposed to when you're not sounding nasally.

SPEAKER_01

Like the like the rasp is giving it like another flavor.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, no, for sure. What what would be your go-to karaoke song? I don't know if we've talked about this before. What's your go-to karaoke song?

SPEAKER_01

It's usually an Amy Winehouse song, but uh lately it's been um Hey yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's going on? That's a good one. Wake up in the morning and uh step outside and uh like that.

SPEAKER_03

That's good. See, it's the rasp. It is, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

The rasp is free. I gotta film a cover today or something.

SPEAKER_03

That's that's a good one that uh everyone can get involved with as well. Because I I find half the fun of karaoke is picking a song that everyone wants to sing even though they're not on the microphone.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. That's why I don't like karaoke. I actually don't like karaoke in those like independent rooms. There's this place in Philly and it's raise happy birthday bar. I don't know if you've ever been, it's in South Philly, and it's so fun. On Friday nights, they do karaoke, and it's basically like a show. Like everybody that performs does a full show for everyone, and it's like people are going down the aisles and like dancing with people, and it's just oh it's it's a tiny, but it's so freaking cute. That is a lot of fun. I don't want to be in like a little like room where we have to like get bottle service or something. I hate that shit.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, I agree.

SPEAKER_01

This is a thing that has happened to me, and I'm curious if this has happened to the audience as well. And Grayson, I brought this up to you last night. I had this 60-year-old man say to me, Um, he came up to me and he was like, Oh, you're so my type. And then I was like A child? So then I was like, okay. I mean, I'm I'm pushing 30. Um, and then I am just like, whatever. He was like being weird. I walk away from him. I go, I sit at a table, and this girl, she said the same thing. She's like, Oh my god, you are exactly my type. And it was like within an hour, two different people said that to me. So it really was sitting with me because I was like, Wait, like, neither of these people are my type. Do I get a say? Like, what is what an interesting thing to say. Like, you're so my type. If uh you you don't know, then that's gonna be reciprocated. Like it's so, it's so one-sided for someone to just like come and say that to you. You know what I mean? It's like, I'm like, what? Okay, well, I you're not, thank you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, exactly. It's like, how do you want me to the thank you? Yeah, there's no other response besides that.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I don't know if anyone's ever said that to you.

SPEAKER_03

That under that under type, not often. What is something about each other that annoys you but has grown to be endearing?

SPEAKER_01

Uh that's actually so wait, I think it's so sweet when people ask questions that they actually care about, like us. I'm thinking of their own questions about their own lives.

SPEAKER_03

I'll go first if you need some time. The riffing songs. I hate it so much, but now I'm like, alright, she's doing her little thing. She enjoys it. Let her play. That's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me.

unknown

I know.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god, that's so sweet. No, I'm trying to think of like because I can think of things that I like and like about you as a person now, but I'm trying to think about things that really bothered me that I now find endearing. But it's like, no, those things still annoy me.

SPEAKER_03

Continue?

SPEAKER_01

Like, no, um, I was gonna say, like, the way that some okay, how about this? You're always on time. And I actually used to hate it. I still kind of hate it, but I think it's really sweet because it just goes to show like how much um attention to detail you put into your friendships and and showing up is like one of the most important things you can do. So now, like, if if Grayson says I'm gonna be somewhere at 3 p.m. and we talk about it two weeks prior, he will be at that place at 3 p.m. which I think is like really rare. People don't people don't do that. They will just like forget about it, or they'll say, like, oh, we hadn't talked since then, so I didn't think anything was happening, and he's like, Well, no, like that's just you know, that's gone in my calendar, so it's a thing. Um, which I think is actually really sweet.

SPEAKER_03

Here's another good one. If you two woke up in each other's bodies, what'd be the first thing you'd do?

SPEAKER_01

Oh god, don't make it weird. That's one of good questions. I haven't even received it. If I woke up in your body to clean your fucking apartment, you're welcome.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, if this is clean, that's just laundry.

SPEAKER_01

That's just what would I do if I woke up in your body? I'd probably quit your job. I'd probably go in there and I'd like make a whole scene at the office and like quit your job.

SPEAKER_03

That's fair. That's fair. What would I do if I was in your body? Um probably edit the pot a little better.

SPEAKER_01

I'm not I'm not even I'm actually not editing this week. I'm breaking the SD card over my shin.

SPEAKER_03

No, I'm just kidding. Obviously, I'm very appreciative of Sid and everything she does and everything she contributes to this podcast. I would be nothing without her.

SPEAKER_01

Um I'm just gonna clip that part.

SPEAKER_03

I I don't even know. I feel like you I feel like you're you're very creative, and so one thing I would do is using your well, I guess technically it would be me, so I don't know if this would count, but I would use your creative outlet resources, people who you know that are also very creative, because I feel like you're better connected to people who are also creative, and I would develop something within.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, that's actually like kind of telling about something deep deep within. Like if that's something you want, like you can go make those connections.

SPEAKER_03

Alright, next question is anyone not in love with Grayson? She would be the first.

SPEAKER_01

It's a long list.

SPEAKER_03

Actually, there's quite a few. I actually talked about somebody earlier. Oh, they're not in love with me. Alright. So yeah, that's pretty much I'll do it.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, Grayson, thank you. Um, so I'm trying to get back into reading again because I feel like I had like a little bit of a pause. Um, so one of the books, oh, it's not here. One of the books that I'm gonna get into reading is called Clara and the Sun. Have you read that one?

SPEAKER_03

No, I don't really read that much.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. There's a film coming out, so with Jenny Ortega, and I I saw the trailer for it and I was like, oh, sometimes that's like a good deadline for me to try and read something. So um that's what I'm gonna read. I'm gonna challenge you to read something uh next month.

SPEAKER_03

No, thank you, nerd.

SPEAKER_01

No, I'm so I am Ravenclaw. Which house are you?

SPEAKER_03

Gryffindor.

SPEAKER_01

Are you you're not Gryffindor? There's no way.

SPEAKER_03

Dog, what house would I be in if I weren't?

SPEAKER_01

Hufflepuff.

SPEAKER_03

How dare you?

SPEAKER_01

Holly Slytherin. Don't make a sense.

SPEAKER_03

I could see that. Um, but I'm Holly, I'm trying to Slytherin.

SPEAKER_01

When I got Rav Ravenclaw, I was like slightly offended because it's like the nerds.

SPEAKER_03

No, but I uh the two I've always respected Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Hufflepuff, joke. Slytherin, evil.

SPEAKER_01

That's it.

SPEAKER_03

No, that's it. There's there's only four.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, anyway, so what um I challenge you to read a book. What books are you gonna read?

SPEAKER_03

Well, here's the thing Do you count audiobooks as books?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I have listened to six audiobooks in a month.

SPEAKER_01

That's so good.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, shout out to Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I'm on book six right now.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, well, then you can't say you don't read. I think for people, I mean you're super busy and you spend a lot of time in the car.

SPEAKER_03

So like Yeah, that's why podcasts and audiobooks. I cook through those things. Like a mofo.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god, there's so much time. Okay. There's I miss driving. I really want to do an upstate trip with friends and have like a little camp weekend. Summer camp. Yeah, I want to do a version of that. I want to be like on a lake together. We shouldn't organize this because I was just I'm feeling like really detached from nature lately, and it's like the one thing that makes me feel like the absolute best of my soul.

SPEAKER_03

I would love, and this is one of the things that I've kind of been workshopping as far as uh like a creative endeavor. I would love to develop a creatives conglomerate where it's just a lot of people that we think are funny, which we were already friends with a lot of them, but if we all had equal stake in for lack of a better term, a company, kind of it's similar to like Almost Friday. Are you familiar with Almost Friday? It's kind of like that where it's creator-led and everybody there is all in on like developing something that's a good quality, b funny, c relatable. And so, kind of along the lines of like a summer camp where if we got, say, 20 people, which I guarantee you between the two of us, we know 20 people who are self-driven, funny, creative, know how to develop very amazing things, and even just spent a weekend together where we were hanging out, that would lead to many, many more very creative fun.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, we should do this, like a little creator camp.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Wait, we should totally do this. This is so cute.

SPEAKER_03

I would love that.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, we'll talk about this off camera.

SPEAKER_03

We'll talk about this on the Patreon.

SPEAKER_01

One of the things that you need to know though is that I can't swim. I can only do the backstroke.

SPEAKER_03

One thing Sid can't do is swim like a normal person.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I have a hard time. I don't know why, I just wasn't built for that. Oh, last thing that I think we should end on is um things that we don't understand. Because I was making a list of these like cell reception.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Aeroplanes.

SPEAKER_03

Um Bluetooth. Yes. No fucking clue.

SPEAKER_01

That's what I'm saying. Battery juice.

SPEAKER_03

Uh screws that go into a wall, but they have like a like a there's like a screw guide, if that makes sense. You have to like you have to pre-screw and then you have to nail in like a screw holder, and then you have to screw in the screw to the screw holder.

SPEAKER_01

What the fuck? Echolocation.

SPEAKER_03

Um whales mother whales feeding their young.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, yeah. How about whales having sex? It's like the sperm leaves and then I I think she like sucks it up or something. Like it's not like they don't fuck. Like it it it's like the sperm exits and is like in the sand into glass.

SPEAKER_03

How the fuck?

SPEAKER_01

Sand. Period. How does it not all get sucked up into the ocean?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_01

The moon pulling tides.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Oh, um tectonic plates. Because there's several different versions. How is there not just a gap?

SPEAKER_01

Saturn's rings. What? The fuck?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I actually feel like we should go to like a space museum in DC.

SPEAKER_03

That would be fun. Um landfills.

SPEAKER_01

Ew.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And we're not talking about that enough.

SPEAKER_03

It's just a lot of trash going around everywhere.

SPEAKER_01

Those are some things we're flirting with.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. My name is Grayson.

SPEAKER_01

My name is Sid.

SPEAKER_03

And this is Are We Flirting?

SPEAKER_01

This is that no flow. And that's what I needed and wanted. All right, guys. Thank you so much for listening. Um, and we will see you one week from now. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, anything, please comment. Also, if you want to subscribe, that would be cool. And there's no pressure, but if you do, that would be amazing. And um, every like like, comment, everything. It means so much to us, genuinely. And um, love you so much.

SPEAKER_03

Love you all. Good night.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, bye.