WEBVTT - #48 Brainspotting 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.480 Hell I Suck At Dating with Dean, Vanessa and Jared 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:10.240 and I Heart Radio podcast. Hey everybody, welcome to an 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.000 all new episode of Help I Suck At Dating. Mrs 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.440 Jared Haven, I'm back in studio from my long vacation 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.160 over East, joined always by the beautiful Dean unglair Mark 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.560 and Easton in studio. Everybody round in Claus round and 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.720 plus Vanessa is not here this week, but we do 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.720 have a very special guest who's on the phone right now, 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:28.240 which is a surprise for Dean. Dean, do you know 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:33.120 who this person is? Okay, so it's renowned l A 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.680 legendary chef Roy Choy. Now that's not the reason for 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.199 the surprise. Wait, I think I do know who it is. Well, 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.159 who do you think it is the reason for the surprize? 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.960 Go ahead because there's a pop up hot Cheeto restaurant 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.879 three days wait are you kidding me? And on the 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.480 line right now. And for people that don't know, Dean Love, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.680 I tried to make a reservation at the New York 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.800 restaurant last year, didn't get to do it. I try 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.680 to make a reservation at the l A restaurant this year. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.360 Book solid, Well, we have the right person that you 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.720 can contact for a reservation. He's on the one right now. Roy, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:09.119 are you out there? Yes, you can't get home stuff 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.520 like this, you guys, Oh my god. Wait we'll get 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.280 to the next part of surprise at a second, but 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.320 talk to Roy about this amazing thing they're doing. Roy, 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:16.600 how are you? Will you fill us in a little 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.119 bit about what you've been doing? Yeah, Hello, I'm here 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.520 right now. We're getting set up for tonight. Tonight see 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.559 opening night pop up of the Flaming Hot Chee Spot 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.720 Incredible Spot restaurant. It's the three day pop up using 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.560 flaming hot Cheetos and everything like everything, which just sounds 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.240 like my dream restaurant, which makes me I'm so honored 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.000 to have you on here with us because as anyone 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.039 that follows me on Instagram or is just close to 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.360 me or anyone knows, I'm obsessed with hot Cheetos, every 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.200 single kind of hot Cheeto, whether it's the regular one, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.880 is the extra extra hots, the spicy lamon ones, whatever 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.880 they are. Um, tell us a little bit about maybe 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.960 what inspired you for all of this stuff, because if 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.200 I was a culinary artist such as you, I probably 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.440 would do the exact same thing, but obviously not quite 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:57.720 to the ability that you're able to do it. So 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.080 tell us kind of where you got the inspiration all 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.920 that kind of stuff from. Yeah, you gotta come by, 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.200 and we got every flavor. I think for me it 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.400 was this was looking to my fun side, you know, 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.120 Like I mean, I'm very I'm a very serious person, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.840 but like we all have a fun side, and this 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.560 is my fun side. And what my fun side really 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.000 is is Kokee and Chego. I'm out there on the 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.639 streets cooking tacos and burritos and capes Sadilla's, and then 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.240 at Chego we're making rice buls. So it's like, I know, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.240 the fans that love our food love hot cheetos, so 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.080 it's like, let's make our food but with hot cheetos. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.840 And that's exactly what we did. I'm sorry. You got 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.600 your start with fruit trucks, right, Yeah, with Kokee, the 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.760 Kokee Korean Barbecui talkbook trucks. That's awesome. And then then yeah, 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.160 so now you're you're onto Cheetos, which is amazing. I'm 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.919 looking at some of the entrees here, Dean has anything 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.880 catching your eye, because everything is catching my eye right now. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.600 The main thing I want, I really want to try 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:55.120 is to flame and hot ranch wings everything. So it's 0:02:55.240 --> 0:03:00.120 flaming hot Chipotle ranch wings sounds amazing in front of mean, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.400 this is amazing. And then there's a Cheetos sweet and 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.440 spicy chili meatballs. Good God in heaven. It sounds like heaven. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.519 That's really good. It's like sweet and sweet and spicy together, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:15.079 really good. Broy, do you like hot Cheetos? I love them. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.880 It's my number one snack. So that's just what you 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.360 were like. I know, if there's a big fan cult 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.519 following up Hot Cheetos, obviously you make good food. You're like, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.760 why not combined the two and see what happens? Yeah, 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.280 you know, it's like one of those things. I mean, 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.320 you guys are uh entertainment. It's one of those things 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.400 where like something that you're already using and if the 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.240 brand contact you and want to do a clap, it's 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.360 like it makes it even better. So Hot Cheetos reached 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.080 out to you and they're like, hey, let's work together 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.080 and make something magical. Yeah, that's I'm so envious. Right now. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.720 There's so many feelings that are coursing through me and 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.200 one of those is Envy. So that's awesome. I think 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.880 I've reached out to so many times. I'm like you guys, listen, 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.400 I'll be I'll be your I'll do whatever please. I'll 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.680 mop the floors, I'll clean the bathroom. Just let me 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.400 be part of the Hot Cheeto franchise, please, So I'll 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.520 tell I'll tell the team today. Appreciate. So when is 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.520 the pop up in Los Angeles? When't you guys open 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.680 doors tonight night? Uh? Huh? We opened tonight at five 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.080 thirty for the next three day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays in Hollywood, 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.400 on Tonga and Franklin. So I guess it must have 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.680 been a big hit and back in New York then, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.200 right in order for you guys to to bust out 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.360 here on the West Coast too. Yeah, I don't know. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.440 I really didn't know too much about last year. Um, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.480 but this year is so you know whatever whatever New 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.320 York was l A doing topic because it's l A right. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.400 So you weren't you weren't part of the New York 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.839 launch last year? Then huh No, this is the first 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.320 year they contact me. Very cool. I'm really excited. Um, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.680 so are all three nights booked up. Yeah, they told 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.120 out in like thirty minutes. That's insane. I'm looking at 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:49.760 the three so it's a three course menu and it's 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.440 between price between eleven dollars and thirty two dollars. And 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.360 it's just like, where did you come up with some 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.400 of these dies ideas? Like, for example, you have a 0:04:56.520 --> 0:05:00.880 Cheetos dessert menu. I see a Cheetos sweet ohs hotcake. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.400 That's that's, you know, good of iteration right there, a 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.880 Chester Cheetos truro, a hot chocolate shakes. Wait, what's the 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.800 hot chocolate shake? Does that have any Cheetos in it? Yeah? 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.400 It does. It's like it's like a spicy mixed a 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.200 lot of chocolate milkshake. I'll be honest, I don't know 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.240 if I could do that one. I think to me 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.600 exclusively the crunch, and I don't think I could sip 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.599 one through a straw, but again I could be mistaken. No, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.520 we grind it up into the milkshake, so it just 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:34.880 makes the milkshake spicy, almost like spicy chocolate. And and 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.320 then we rimmed the glass like a margarita, but with 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.159 crushed cheetos. Oh my god, you're telling me there's a 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.240 crust Cheeto rim on this milkshake. Holy god, I've alarm 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.799 Cheeto stick. That sounds good. What's Roy, what's your favorite? 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.279 I think the meat balls are really really The wings 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.000 are crazy too, because it's like all layers. It's in 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:57.159 the marinade, it's in the crust, it's dusted on top. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.919 It's really really good. That's amazing. I mean, this is 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.280 the perfect date night for Dean. Uh. This is God, Dean. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.799 I wish you could you could go tell us about 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.279 your experience. It sounds amazing. Well. The good thing is, though, 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.720 here's the thing. If you can't make it out to 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.960 l A, you can also enjoy the dishes at home. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.920 You can order all the recipes and the ingredients and 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.600 they can be delivered to your door through Amazon Fresh. Yeah, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.640 so you can get Yeah, you can download all the 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.640 recipes on Cheetos, Flame and hotspot dot com. You can 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.640 try them to yourself. Dean, But then you're telling me 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.960 I have to do the cooking, which I'm not. And unfortunately, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.520 I think Roy's probably a little bit better chef than 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.839 you are. Like, listen, I appreciate you, buddy, but I 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:35.760 think Roy might got you be if they come, if 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:37.479 they come pre cooked, and I'll have to do this 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:39.320 like throw them in the microwave. I can do that 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.839 pretty easily, pretty good, Master microL waver Um. Well we 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.200 can speak you guys, if you really if we really 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.279 want to come, right, I really want to come, Well 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.480 let's go. I'll put your name at the door. It's 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.160 like the club. Put me on the left. You're talking 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.680 to the right guy. Roy. Are you going to be 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.719 there all three nights? Yes, I will, amazed saying all right, cool, Well, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.040 we'll be on the lookout. Like I said, I definitely 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.800 want to show up if I If I show up 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.560 and I get pushed away, at least I can say 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.560 I was there and I tried. But it sounds delicious. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.120 Like I said, I'm I'm a freak for lame chios. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.280 There are very few things in this world that I'm 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.760 passionate about, and I swear Flamecheas is one of them. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.200 Oh man, we're gonna get too in. I'll have this 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.680 team reached out to you. Right. I got a quick 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.280 question for you too. You're so you're affiliated with the 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.640 two dozen fourteen movie chef. Can you talk a little 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.280 bit about that? Because I heard that was loosely based 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.400 on your on your life. Yeah, I don't I don't 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.200 know if it was based on my life, but it's 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.040 probably what I did for a living with influence. But 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.640 it was John script through and through and um he 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.240 first brought me on just to be a culinary consultants, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.440 but we ended up becoming really really good friends and 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.280 uh we just inseparable and he just brought me in 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.920 all the way to the process. So you're good friends 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.960 with John Favon now, yeah, Yeah, that's badass because I'm 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.120 a huge fan and big iron Man and iron Man 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:04.560 too fan. I'll let him, no, yeah, I'll merge them 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.560 into this call. Don't you tease me like that. You're 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.320 just making all sorts of dreams come true. Today, I 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:14.320 feel like awesome. Well, so yeah, for the listeners out there, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.120 Like Jared said earlier, Roy CHOI has the pop up 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.320 Flame and Hot Cheeto restaurant in Los Angeles for the 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.960 next three days from tonight and through September. Uh. Full 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.680 three course meals, all encompassing Flame and Hot Cheetos. I'm 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.520 I'm crossing my fingers. I'm I'm praying to the Flame 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.440 and Hot Cheeto God's above that I can show up 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.120 and hopefully you get see um and we'll see what happens. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.960 But but again, like Jared said earlier too, if you 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.280 can't make it to the restaurant, uh, they did partner 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:40.960 with Amazon Fresh and you can order all of the 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.440 Flame and Hot dishes to your house by ordering the 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.280 recipes on Amazon fresh dot com, so be sure to 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.599 check them out. Um. Well you're the man. Thank you 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.280 so much for calling in. I'm thank you for what 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.520 you're doing for the world by creating these dishes that 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.360 are delicious. Um, keep doing the the incredible things that 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.800 you do. And like I said, I really hope I can. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.720 I can squeeze myself into the staught and sit down 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.320 and enjoy some of your fresh cooked meals. All right, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.240 thank you guys. Here the man take care, all right, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.360 thanks Roy? All right, all right, well, I know the 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.240 thing is, we have all this food that's staring in 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.760 front of us right now. I'm eating. Let's take a 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.120 break and then we'll eat, and then we'll come back 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.680 and tell everybody how it was here first flaming hot 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.680 chicken wing you guys, let's hear it. It's it's not warm, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:27.800 it's cold in my hands. But last week, Oh my god, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.880 I'm not even exaggerating a little bit. This is the 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:35.360 best thing that I've ever had in mind, in my 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.280 mouth and my entire not even the slightest bit of 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.120 exaggeration with that. All right, let's see it and we'll 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.439 be back in a minue. Oh my god, No, I 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.760 don't want to stop. So Dean is actually currently still 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.920 eating the Cheetos. He can't get enough. It's I mean, 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.400 I gotta say, the wings in the corner of the 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.680 cob is pretty incredible, so I can't blame him. But 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.080 in the meantime, we do have a special guest on 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.880 the phone right now. We have Samantha Hess, who is 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 the owner of Cuddle Up to Me. Samantha, Hello, thank 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.560 you for joining us. Thanks for having me. No, I 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.440 appreciate it. So, Samantha, tell us a little bit about yourself. 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:10.080 You are a professional cuddler. What does that mean? So 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:15.319 I'm technically now a master cuddler? Is Is there a 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:20.280 difference between a professional and a master cuddler? Yes? So, uh, 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.679 technically certified cuddler is what we call ourselves here. As 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.000 we go through a forty hour certification process and then 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.600 a master cuddler is someone who's completed that forty hour 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.040 program and then completed at least two hundred and fifty 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.240 session hours two hundred and fifty session hours of cuddling. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.840 Who are you cuddling with? So our clients are anyone 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.800 eighteen and over, men and women, married, single, everything in between. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.040 Everybody has moments where they just need a hug. So 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:55.600 what got you into being a master cuddler? So I 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.040 was one of these genius people that married my high 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:03.160 school sweetheart, which surprised surprise, didn't turn out so well. Sorry, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.680 for more than a decade of like complete lack of 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.959 touch in my life, I decided that I needed to 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.679 matter too, and so I left my ex husband and 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.240 I decided to be a person. And at the age 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.559 of twenty eight, I decided to go and uh strike 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.360 it out on my own and kind of figure out 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.720 how the world works. And then I was on Facebook 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.319 one day and I saw this stree hugs guy article 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.720 who gets pumped into lux hugs two dollars. I had 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.040 just been hit on by like all of my male friends. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.320 I was not expecting it, and I realized that paying 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.600 for hugs made it safe for me because I could 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.600 dictate what the rules were. And so I decided there 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.960 needed to be a Starbucks for hugs, and why wasn't 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:51.200 that available? So I decided to make it a thing. Wow. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.600 So that's incredible. So you're so you're married to your 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:05.199 high school sweetheart? Yes? Um? And so how was that relationships? Wow? Wow? Um? 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.160 And then so you got out of that and needed 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.520 some cuddles. And so now that you're a master cuddler, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.760 is there like a technique that you personally like to use? 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.800 Like can you tell us a little bit about the 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.640 way you cuddle and like what's better and what's worse? Totally? So, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.880 I love cushy cuddles. I don't like when people are 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.560 nervous they're afraid to like just get in there. That's 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.800 my personal style. Um, you know, for work, it's I'm 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.040 whatever somebody needs. But yeah, we do have seventy eight 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.880 different cuddle poses that I can take people through. Seventy 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.679 eight different cuddle poses. Holy crap, that's a lot of 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:44.040 I mean, I'm a big cuddle don't get me wrong. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.440 There's nothing that I enjoy more than you know, ordering 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:51.280 in cuddling and watching house Hunters. Um, but that's so interesting, Like, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.480 what are the different Can you just run through some 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.560 different techniques that you might use on a day to 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:00.360 day basis of cuddling, for sure. So there's a tandem bike, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.559 which is a like a version of spooning essentially. There's 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.040 a gummy worm, which is the squishiest cuddle pos of 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.680 all time. There's a Mama Bear, which is a stated 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.199 post where you use someone like a human being bag chair. Yeah, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.920 stuff like that. Yeah, I never knew that, everybody. I seriously, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.800 I never knew there's so much thought to put into cuddling. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.760 So people go to your website who want to be cuddled, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.760 and they can choose their cuddler. I was just looking 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.480 at it right here. They choose their cuddler, and then 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.000 the chosen cuddler will travel to them and you pay 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.040 them for their time. We actually were retail space in Portland, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.360 but we do also offer outbound sessions as well. Oh 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.800 I see, so people come in and do this. Yeah. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.040 So do you ever get hired and you show up 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.960 and you're like, I have to cuddle this person? Yeah, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:55.920 it happened. Yet I'm somebody who just believes in people. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.400 I don't know, I'm sort of ridiculous about it. I 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.520 think that off sometimes people are kind of treated as 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.559 predators in today's society, and I like to give them 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.840 that opportunity to prove that. But not, we shouldn't assume 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.240 that people. No, we shouldn't assume that. But it is 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.160 a dangerous world to live out there, and so how 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.959 do you keep not The first question that comes to 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.880 mind is how do you keep your cuddlers safe? Because 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.440 if these people are like I'm assuming that, is it 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.960 more men or women that get ordered from your company? 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.280 I'm assuming women? So yeah, professional cuddling is definitely a 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.920 women driven industry. There's not much to man for male 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.520 cuddlers at this point. Well, do you find that more 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:39.600 men are ordering cuddlers or more women? Uh? So, our 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.440 business does have a pretty close to fifty split, but 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.840 most of the industry is mostly men. So it's mostly 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.840 men ordering women, correct, Yes, So how do you keep 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.880 your women safe? There? That's where the training program comes in. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:57.760 We have you know, they have to go through so 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.440 many things to learn how to protect themselves while also 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.240 not creating shame or judgment for the clients. It's often 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.360 we're guiding people through this very new concept of posonic touch. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.120 You know, we're not taught how to touch each other 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.480 without sexual intention in our adult lives, So we could 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.040 teach people that. That's really great, Yeah, because you talk 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:18.080 about how your mission is it's time to change the 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:23.800 taboo around touch and engage in meaningful conversations around consent. Now, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.520 I'm curious about that because in my my past, you know, 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:33.120 cuddling is definitely a precursor to more intimate uh moments 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.600 between the two people that are cuddling. So what would 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.200 you say about that? I think that there's a great 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.360 way to use cuddling, but it's not the only way. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.080 I think that we kind of missed out on this 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.320 whole part of like what kids get to experience, and 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.520 it's something we still need as adults. It's this like 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.240 basic concept of human connection and cuddling is one of 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:58.359 the quick, quickest and easiest ways for us to recognize 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:00.680 that we exist in other people us as well, and 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.200 we kind of need that to know that we matter 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.720 and that we are esteemed just as we are. No, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.040 I agree. I mean, physical touch is a big love 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.840 language of mine and I personally believe in it very 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.440 much that uh, you know, some people just desire even 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.880 just holding hands or having their arm, you know, put 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.680 around somebody else. They really crave it um and so 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.560 that's very interesting. And so like for you being a 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.400 cuddle master, like what is master cuddler, master cuddler? Excuse me? 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:35.400 Like what does it do for your Like it's hard 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.000 to real articulate when we're gonna try to ask, how 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.240 does it make you feel? You know, like, what kind 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.280 of honestly fulfillment do you get from it? I'm not 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.760 sure I'm gonna be able to do any other job anymore, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.360 because you know, I do look to five hours of 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.800 sessions a day, and so my serotone and the whole 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.040 kind of maxed out a lot. And so we get 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.160 what we call the the oxytocin high or the cuddle high, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.360 where you just get this like kind of view for 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.640 a feeling. It's like being high without drugs. It's amazing. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.560 And there's no sorry to go back to my earlier 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.080 point about people being gross, there's no body order problems, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.879 there's no sweat problems that are just kind of not 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.960 something you want to cuddle in that moment. Sometimes there 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:19.480 are we do have a hygiene requirement in our waiver 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.040 and some people have to do their best. But you know, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.200 if somebody is severely a beast, they may not smell 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.159 super great, even if they've just taken a shower. You know, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.280 these kinds of things do happen. Are people who smoke. 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.639 You know that you've definitely been cuddling someone when they 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.160 maybe tried to kiss you or maybe their hands started 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:38.840 to wander a little bit, and you you're you're you 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.120 know how to handle that situation. You've been trained, right, Yeah, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.560 because of the training, we know how to redirect people 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.320 without they're actually knowing what we're doing. Just smack them 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.480 across the face and storm out. No. Yeah, I've seriously 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.679 never had to end the session early. People have been 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.960 very good about it. And how many sessions have you done? 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.680 I'm over a hundred and fifty thousand minutes to paid 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:03.120 professor cuddling, not including the train team, the troupe done. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:08.399 So what is the weirdest experience that you've had? Oh? 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.520 You know, I would love to share a billion stories 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.320 with you, but we have confidentiality. I know, why did 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:17.480 I even ask? I know? All right? So how do 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.960 if people want to out there want to cuddle, where 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.240 do they go? So we have two options. If they're 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.880 in Portland, Oregon, we're cuddle up to Me dot com. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.920 If there are anywhere else, we're at Certified Cuddlers dot com. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.560 And so are you international? Is this uh within the country? 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:37.480 Like you can order anywhere people in Germany and Austria, 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.520 in a few different places throughout the world. And we're 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.240 getting out there. That's incredible and and and I mean 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.680 that's incredible. I just think it's so interesting for me 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.000 because I think I've always used cuddling as more of 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:51.879 a you know, a personal intimate thing, and so it's 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.280 interesting to know that people just kind of crave human 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.000 touch so much that they're willing to pay for somebody 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.919 to cuddle with them. Um. I mean, good for them, 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.119 that's incredible. Good for you coming up with this, this 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.159 this company. I mean, it's such an interesting idea and 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.920 very obscure and unique and original. Um. I've never seen 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.680 anything like it, the idea of paying for someone to 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.560 cuddle with you. But you know, you just need cuddles sometimes. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:14.400 Dean is back from eating right now, and he's he's 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.520 a big cuddler. I love cuddling. I will say these exist. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.359 Um in Japan I think I didn't get to experience 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.720 on myself, but I think they're like cuddling hotels. Those 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:28.920 they started in Japan about twenty years ago. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.399 it's great there you can actually pay to you someone's 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:37.400 is your pillow. You can't do that in the state. Yeah. Yeah, well, Samanthan, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.159 thank you so much for coming in. We really appreciate it. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.880 And definitely everybody whoever wants to cuddle out there, need 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.120 somebody out there, please check out Certified Colors dot com. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.280 I'm a little sad I wasn't here for this entire conversation. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.320 Now we were sad too. This sounds like it just 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.399 sounds read at my you're too busy in did you 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.199 guys talk about big spoon little spoon etiquette? Well, well no, 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:55.880 but that's fun. You didn't get into that. She didn't 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.760 call what did you call it? You didn't call it spooning, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.240 you called it something else. Tandem b hand. That's actually 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:04.320 pretty good. Just the seats are really close to each 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.600 other on the standard bicycle. Apparently the position I use 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.880 a lot is uh the hunter twice seven hours where 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.280 my my wife and I are cuddling and then she 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.080 falls asleep and m to know my arm off to 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.000