Speaker 1: Novel.
Speaker 2: This show contains adult material and swearing. You have been warned.
Speaker 3: I go on YouTube.
Speaker 1: It's just that, like my ADHD forces me to watch
Speaker 1: bloopers of films that I haven't even seen. Or I'll
Speaker 1: watch like a three hour video called Hagina's Versus Lions.
Speaker 3: And like that's my day.
Speaker 2: I'm a savage. Are you bored of modern dating? Meeting
Speaker 2: the same people from the same apps in the same
Speaker 2: bar You've only chosen because it's close to your house
Speaker 2: and you can make your usual quick getaway. It's time
Speaker 2: to change the narrative on how we find love. It's
Speaker 2: time to start looking for love in all the wrong places.
Speaker 2: I'm going on a wild dating adventure, only picking people
Speaker 2: who were the total opposite of my type. And after
Speaker 2: twenty eight of these dates in two months, will I
Speaker 2: find that special someone? Or well, this experiment proved that
Speaker 2: I should just give up on dating altogether. It's time
Speaker 2: to find out. I'm Grace Campbell and this is twenty
Speaker 2: eight dates later.
Speaker 3: Dan, Hi, Hi, great, how are you? Yeah? I'm okay,
Speaker 3: thank you good.
Speaker 2: So this week's date was with someone called George. He
Speaker 2: was younger than me. Basically, how we found him my
Speaker 2: date had canceled that day and I was doing a
Speaker 2: show at the venue that we're in right now. I
Speaker 2: was doing a show, and so we got here and
Speaker 2: I wanted to go on a date. So we got
Speaker 2: a guy who works behind the bar at the venue
Speaker 2: to come on a date with me. And it turns out,
Speaker 2: because I do loads of shows, it worked behind the
Speaker 2: bar for a lot of my shows and broke he
Speaker 2: was a fan. And then he said that he loved
Speaker 2: when I had a show in because the girls who
Speaker 2: come to my show are all really hot, and like
Speaker 2: he's gotten with some of them in the past, which
Speaker 2: I respected. I like liked it. Yeah, you're like a
Speaker 2: girl boss can do attitude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like it's nice for you to pollinate my
Speaker 1: workerbees and now come to the queen.
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, like you know, you should be so lucky, but
Speaker 2: like here you are on a day with me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make a wish And that was his make which
Speaker 3: foundation request. He's now dead.
Speaker 1: The thing about Obama, what is it about like a
Speaker 1: barman or like a waiouse, someone who's like working front
Speaker 1: of house that makes.
Speaker 3: Them like so sexy because they're making you a drink. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess there's just.
Speaker 2: Something very like cool, and especially if they work somewhere
Speaker 2: where they know everyone, Like that's really attractive watching someone
Speaker 2: like in their habitat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I guess also they have to be nice
Speaker 3: to because it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, this guy blessed him was like he like
Speaker 2: had to be nice to me because I was then
Speaker 2: about to do a show where he would be working
Speaker 2: the bar in the room while. And it was really
Speaker 2: funny because apparently, like basically during the date, I said
Speaker 2: to him, Oh, would you mind if I talk about
Speaker 2: like the fact that we've done this like during the
Speaker 2: show later, and he was like absolutely loved that idea.
Speaker 2: And then apparently I forgot the show. I forgot because
Speaker 2: I was just you know, being an incredible comedian. But
Speaker 2: apparently he was like edging, like he kept thinking I
Speaker 2: was about to talk about him, and so he was
Speaker 2: sort of like waiting for it to happen. He was
Speaker 2: going to come up because I said, he come up
Speaker 2: and saying sorry for burping like that. I guess that
Speaker 2: was kind of gross. Would you bup on a first day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like what does that mean?
Speaker 2: Well, like I always like but like I bup all
Speaker 2: the time, Like on first dates. But then sometimes I'm like,
Speaker 2: that was kind of gross.
Speaker 1: I've just made well, I wouldn't like let it out loud.
Speaker 1: I'm not like an extra in the Flintstones.
Speaker 2: Something to me, I can't necessarily always control birping. It
Speaker 2: just happens when I speak. You know that.
Speaker 3: But like evolution left you behindn't.
Speaker 2: More in more ways than one, dada is you know
Speaker 2: very well, I'm a cave man.
Speaker 4: So what are you saying?
Speaker 2: Why did you?
Speaker 5: What made you want to do this?
Speaker 4: I mean, first off, you're very funny. Thank you very pretty.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: It's charming mainly and because I was asked.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're asked because I'm doing a show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well I really appreciate it. Problem I'm getting
Speaker 4: paid for it as well, so why not?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, That's That's just how I like my paid.
Speaker 3: At that time. Okay, I've never heard a situation that's
Speaker 3: so clearly. Is that good? Point a gun to my head? No? No,
Speaker 3: an to his please.
Speaker 2: He was having the time of his life.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was like it was like mentioning the sponsors.
Speaker 1: He was like, you're really pretty and funny, because I've
Speaker 1: been told to say that real nice to be here because.
Speaker 3: I've been paid to be here.
Speaker 2: No, he was like terrified.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, of course, but he was quite young.
Speaker 2: He was like twenty one, which is obviously like quite
Speaker 2: a lot young.
Speaker 1: That's too young though, No, of course it's too young
Speaker 1: where we're well like think back to being twenty one.
Speaker 2: No, I know, I hadn't even crazy as yesterday I
Speaker 2: saw this tweet Bradley Cooper went out with su Waterhouse
Speaker 2: when Bradley Cooper was thirty eight. He went out sueh Hoortails,
Speaker 2: who was twenty one, and at the time, everybody was like, oh,
Speaker 2: look at them, they're like such a power couple. That's fuck,
Speaker 2: that's fucked up.
Speaker 3: What are you going to talk to someone about?
Speaker 2: What was about you at your man having common with
Speaker 2: the twenty one your girl.
Speaker 3: The Lion King? I don't think so, but sorry, I
Speaker 3: mean I'm doing about the cartoon. They would know the
Speaker 3: live action version of it.
Speaker 2: Me and this guy, like we actually did have like
Speaker 2: quite a long common because.
Speaker 3: He so you're Bradley Cooper in the situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, No, I am very much. That's the third
Speaker 2: time in my life where I felt like Bradley Cooper
Speaker 2: actually when were the other times? The other times, Well,
Speaker 2: when I was born, a star is born.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah that's what happened of course, and then
Speaker 3: that you're playing Bradley Cooper, not the star I'm playing.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just playing the star.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like in your nativity at school.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, I'm and all of them. But he basically
Speaker 2: is a YouTuber, So what's your YouTube?
Speaker 6: So when I we just rebranded like the channel and
Speaker 6: we started with a new six series season. We did
Speaker 6: a fashion show on the London Underground recently for Oh Wow.
Speaker 6: Every stop new models came in from different design so
Speaker 6: it was on the train, on the actual train whilst
Speaker 6: there was going So every single stop new models came
Speaker 6: in parading through the London Underground.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Lyon we put a red carpet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 4: It was a great project.
Speaker 3: I mean, just say ASMR. I mean just say ASMR.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? I mean, like, what are you
Speaker 3: talking about? What does that mean? Like? What content is it?
Speaker 2: It's like what like these big YouTubers, it's like a
Speaker 2: prank basically.
Speaker 1: But I feel like if you're in the twenties, you
Speaker 1: are a YouTuber by default, Like I don't think I
Speaker 1: know anyone who's like, uh, twenty five.
Speaker 3: And under who hasn't got a YouTube account, whether model.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, you need to have money to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: Baby.
Speaker 1: Carpets aren't cheap exactly, a red carpet tube exactly.
Speaker 2: And then all of the clothes, like they made all
Speaker 2: of the clothes and then they filmed it all. I
Speaker 2: actually liked his can do attitude. I mean he just
Speaker 2: he sounds as sounds a bars. Well, my best friend
Speaker 2: works for the side men, all right, yeah, producing, she's
Speaker 2: a producer. Well she works for their management company, but
Speaker 2: she does.
Speaker 5: Like so she did that football.
Speaker 2: Match, you know they did, Like she produced that whole thing,
Speaker 2: and then she's now doing a few other projects.
Speaker 3: A day with her.
Speaker 5: Her best friend.
Speaker 3: I like him now, I am. I respect him.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of banter I like you. Like, he's
Speaker 1: not just seeing romance, he's seeing opportunities.
Speaker 2: He's here, like what can I milk out of his nepo? Baby?
Speaker 2: Like what connections does she have for me?
Speaker 1: And like some people like go on the first date
Speaker 1: and like accidentally leave their jumper, like at the person's house.
Speaker 3: They can go back. He's leaving his CEV.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, you know he emailed me it is.
Speaker 3: A pdf, exactly. He's a YouTuber. He don't know what
Speaker 3: paper is. What are the side?
Speaker 2: Now they're YouTubers. They're big YouTubers. Really showing your age
Speaker 2: there now?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, because I go on YouTube.
Speaker 1: It's just that, like my ADHD forces me to watch
Speaker 1: bloopers of films that I haven't even seen, or like
Speaker 1: I'll watch like a three hour video called Hyena's versus Lions,
Speaker 1: Like that's my day.
Speaker 3: So like, I know YouTube, I'm sure you do. I'm
Speaker 3: not the same.
Speaker 5: You're crying, but you're you're crying, so tell me about you.
Speaker 6: I'm from England, but I grew up in Mexico. My
Speaker 6: dad's from Rochester. My mum's from Mexico City.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you grew up in Mexico and Cancune
Speaker 3: the beach.
Speaker 5: Wow, that's cool, spring Ber because oh yeah.
Speaker 4: The worst.
Speaker 2: Do you speak Spanish?
Speaker 4: Yeah? But effect on mummy, I see friends.
Speaker 5: Oh we will say.
Speaker 3: Oh we okay, that's all I know.
Speaker 5: That's good. I like leon. Yeah, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 3: I'm thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you to du Lingo are sponsor this dreams date
Speaker 1: this date and podcast.
Speaker 3: I'm actually just not to brag.
Speaker 1: I'm on my sixty third day streak of my julingo
Speaker 1: learning French.
Speaker 3: Can I remember any of it? No, it sounds like
Speaker 3: he's lying about everything.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: His accent was mad.
Speaker 1: No, no, I can hear him being Mancunian. But it's
Speaker 1: like him going to say that I grew up in
Speaker 1: Cancun and then go the beaches. Oh yeah, that's an
Speaker 1: in depth knowledge of that place. Just go the beach,
Speaker 1: I will say.
Speaker 2: From my limited of Kangoon, it's probably the beaches. Bakers go.
Speaker 2: Some would say yeah, yeah, yeah when you hear Kangoon
Speaker 2: the beaches. So tell me about your dating life.
Speaker 4: I don't go out on a lot of dates.
Speaker 6: It's more like one I stand kind of things usually
Speaker 6: because I work here at the bar, so I meet
Speaker 6: a lot of girls here at the bar, and it
Speaker 6: just happens to you.
Speaker 2: You ever shogged anyone you met one of my shows?
Speaker 4: Yeah in the bar?
Speaker 3: No no no no no no no?
Speaker 6: Your well maybe yeah, because your I love when it's
Speaker 6: your shows. Crowd is like there are girls and they're
Speaker 6: like fit.
Speaker 2: Put that blast out on the fucking internet. That's an
Speaker 2: advertiser to come and see my shows.
Speaker 3: This is true.
Speaker 2: I don't know why more men don't come to my
Speaker 2: shows because it's the perfect place to pick up women.
Speaker 6: It is, it is, and it's always helped me full
Speaker 6: of girls around my age, like mid twenties.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it was perfect. Definitely, words.
Speaker 1: I like within that, Like basically that's just like a
Speaker 1: campaign to invite predators to your show. You come and
Speaker 1: see me perform because they're fit girls that you can
Speaker 1: finger at the bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because there are always girls who are like I
Speaker 2: wish there was more single guysres I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: if you want to come and like be out like
Speaker 2: a woman's show, and if you could bear watch a
Speaker 2: woman be funny.
Speaker 3: If you can bear hearing, if you can bear a
Speaker 3: woman's voice, you.
Speaker 2: Can be.
Speaker 3: Which is actually the demiography The side of a Woman
Speaker 3: for an Hour. And wait, the title of my first
Speaker 3: EP is bear a Woman's Voice.
Speaker 2: What was that like feminist phrase, like I am woman,
Speaker 2: hear me raw?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's about b E A R. And the whole
Speaker 3: album just be going.
Speaker 2: So I was in a very weird, anxious mood when
Speaker 2: I arrived that day because on the way to me
Speaker 2: him someone had tried to steal Eddie on the while
Speaker 2: I was convinced he was trying to steal Eddie, it
Speaker 2: was just like boy and he was like asking me,
Speaker 2: like how much she costs if she was a girl,
Speaker 2: had I had her spade yet, obviously trying to identify
Speaker 2: how much money like he could make off of her.
Speaker 2: And we were on the Bakerloo line, sitting on those
Speaker 2: seats where you're aready close together, you know, when you're
Speaker 2: like the four And then it was just me and him.
Speaker 2: And then what happened was we got to Paddington and
Speaker 2: so many people came on the train, and so then
Speaker 2: I just slipped and moved up the carriage and then
Speaker 2: got rid of him. But I was very anxious. And
Speaker 2: then he told me this story about when somebody tried
Speaker 2: to steal his dog.
Speaker 3: Oh God, that's evil people in the world.
Speaker 6: I had a pug and there I was walking my pug.
Speaker 6: This is in Mexico, so I mean, the story won't
Speaker 6: surprised you. But I left her loose off the collar
Speaker 6: and let it go around and a chuck came by,
Speaker 6: literally the truck stops.
Speaker 4: Two men out and grabbed my pug.
Speaker 2: Are you joking?
Speaker 6: I'm not joking. I literally bolted. I went fucking fast
Speaker 6: like heh yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, keep running, yeah yeah, And how did you get
Speaker 5: the dog back?
Speaker 6: He's just like, oh, ship, you know, they must have
Speaker 6: thought that, you know, I wasn't looking. Literally dropped him
Speaker 6: mid air.
Speaker 2: Now I'm listening back, that sounds like it didn't.
Speaker 3: Have a baby. All of this sounds like it's not real.
Speaker 2: I'm listening back to that. That sounds like a made
Speaker 2: up story.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I truck came along, they threw the pug, they
Speaker 3: dropped the.
Speaker 1: Mid air, and then what you chase it going a
Speaker 1: such a fast runner that you managed to volt it bolted.
Speaker 3: Now I'm buying that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I had bought it, I want the receipt
Speaker 1: and I'm taking it back.
Speaker 2: But I do you know, I appreciate that he's trying
Speaker 2: to give a good chat. I mean, do you ever
Speaker 2: like logical podcasting? Do you ever like make up ship
Speaker 2: on dates?
Speaker 3: What like that? I'm emostally available, like sometimes.
Speaker 2: Like I'll just tell a story that's completely made up.
Speaker 3: I will never do that because I think I'm not I'll.
Speaker 2: Try to story that happened to Anna. But I'll just
Speaker 2: say it happened to me.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe No, I think I'd be more likely
Speaker 3: to be like, oh, this happened to my friend.
Speaker 1: I think I've got enough stories where the universe is
Speaker 1: absolutely treat me like a piece of shit to be
Speaker 1: able to tell someone on a day.
Speaker 2: I just sometimes prefer telling her stories though it happened
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean there used to be a time when I
Speaker 1: was younger, like like I'd pretend that I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'd pretend that I was like related
Speaker 1: to like Ian.
Speaker 3: McKellen or like Irish.
Speaker 1: I would have believed that yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you shall not pass. That's just me being gay at school.
Speaker 1: But like, I haven't lied for a long time. No,
Speaker 1: I mean I used to also say that I was straight.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I spread this really big rumor when I was at
Speaker 2: school about how Lindsay Lohan she had a twin. And
Speaker 2: then what happened was they were filming The Parent Trap. No, no,
Speaker 2: let me tell my story. She had a twin, like
Speaker 2: she was born as a twin and they were identical.
Speaker 2: They started filming. It's actually really story, it's crazily laughing.
Speaker 2: They started filming The Parent Trap. Right, the twin died
Speaker 2: in a car crash while they were filming The Parent Trap,
Speaker 2: and Lindsay Lohan then finished the film on her own.
Speaker 2: I told everyone at primary school that, like all the
Speaker 2: way out to year sick, everyone to be.
Speaker 3: Honest the way that you just told me that. Then
Speaker 3: I believed it.
Speaker 2: Exactly, I tell her, And there are probably people now
Speaker 2: they're still on Google it and like telling that story.
Speaker 2: And I used to be like, how amazing of her,
Speaker 2: Like she started that film with her sister and then
Speaker 2: she finished it sister.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it's inspirational.
Speaker 3: I mean it's also crazy that your mind would go there.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I remember actually at a time that I lied in
Speaker 1: primary school because I went to like a Catholic primary school.
Speaker 1: So like at the end of the week, we have
Speaker 1: to all like say prayers, and like this girl called
Speaker 1: like carry her like rabbit had died, and like people
Speaker 1: had like really had all these big, old fucking stories
Speaker 1: to like pray about, and I had nothing. So I
Speaker 1: did tell everyone that my grandma had died in like
Speaker 1: a horrific accident, just.
Speaker 3: So that I got more prayers.
Speaker 1: But then what I forgot is that because I wasn't
Speaker 1: a very well behaved kid, my mom would have to
Speaker 1: come in at the end of the school week to
Speaker 1: chat to my teacher. So then like after the day
Speaker 1: had like finished, my mom came in and the teacher
Speaker 1: was like, your dad. My mom was like, he just
Speaker 1: moved back to Ireland, and.
Speaker 3: She was like, no, he wasn't dead, And that's the
Speaker 3: problem still Isen God bless.
Speaker 2: When's your birthday?
Speaker 4: January thirteenth and yours April the thirtieth. Oh no, Joe,
Speaker 4: I don't know what.
Speaker 6: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, does I mean, what does that mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do we match?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I get on with my mom.
Speaker 3: Give you my mom.
Speaker 5: You really want me and my mom. Okay, let's that
Speaker 5: was a really good day. Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: doing that.
Speaker 2: I really nice. It's so sorry that I didn't recognize
Speaker 2: you from all of the shows, but I'm definitely going
Speaker 2: to bring you on stage during my set.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we will record that as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: I mean, how sincere and beautiful and pure just to
Speaker 3: be like I love my mom.
Speaker 5: On a day I know, but that's what I do.
Speaker 2: I just talk about my mom, and I'm always like,
Speaker 2: have you seen the oc my mom? She looks just
Speaker 2: like kissed and come, which she does.
Speaker 1: My mom loves to believe, like in our kitchen, We've
Speaker 1: got loads of cooking books of her name, The Brunette.
Speaker 2: Delia Jell. Okay, well, relax, I love Delia.
Speaker 3: I've got nothing against Delia.
Speaker 2: Delia's pesto, Delia's hermus is going to skip this ad.
Speaker 1: But my mom, I think one time got told she
Speaker 1: was like Nigella Lawson and now she like kind of
Speaker 1: puts it around the kitchen so people see it and
Speaker 1: then link it to her.
Speaker 3: You look at you like Nigella.
Speaker 2: My mom's like, what a side by side picture of her?
Speaker 1: But actually've met Nagela Lawson once. She is the most
Speaker 1: gorgeous woman. I think I've seen my god, She's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to look like in drag. Like
Speaker 1: when I get into drag, it's like I want to
Speaker 1: be nuge. Can I tell you I am?
Speaker 3: You are? Wait? How did you find the day?
Speaker 2: The day was good? Yeah, the day was good.
Speaker 3: He was fun.
Speaker 2: He then came was working at my show and then
Speaker 2: he made me a drink afterwards and we hung out
Speaker 2: of it, and then I went home because he was
Speaker 2: too young for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he seemed he sounds like he's fun, Like I
Speaker 3: kind of fancy him from listening. He is fun.
Speaker 2: He was really fun, like we would have a really
Speaker 2: good night out with him. Maybe he's our bisexual.
Speaker 3: He's a bisexual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the other thing, right, So me and
Speaker 2: Dan like we have this joke.
Speaker 1: That like, well us finding out if bisexuals fancy memour
Speaker 1: or you.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have got on with a few bisexual men,
Speaker 2: which is we basically share a type.
Speaker 5: Sometimes not all.
Speaker 2: The time because another one of my types is very
Speaker 2: much the opposite of that, but we do share a type.
Speaker 3: Other time finds me very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: To yes exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: My other time is home vibet yea yeah, I like
Speaker 1: them gay or it's a great spectrum, to be honest, same.
Speaker 2: Next time. On twenty eight dates later, then the couple
Speaker 2: started fucking on top of him, So then he was
Speaker 2: just the pillow for the couple and he wasn't even hard,
Speaker 2: he wasn't even involved. They were just fucking on.
Speaker 5: Top of him.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he's wrecking mad.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
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