Summary
He's hot. He's dumb. He's also a feminist ally. Househusband. Beef pillow. White knight. Clinically depressed golden retriever. And climate activist. Truly, what the f*** is a himbo? Is he a person who pops up in our everyday lives? Or is he just a misguided coping mechanism because women are (1) h*rny, and (2) feel let down by the real men around them? Hannah and Maia discuss the Himbo, his evolution from Himbo-Erectus™ to Himbo-Sapien™, and whether or not, like Maia's imaginary middle school boyfriend Derek, we'll grow out of him one day.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm so groggy today. Yeah, why is that bitch? I don't know. I slept for like nine hours, |
| 0:06.0 | which is very rare for me. And I woke up and I was like, what the fuck? I just feel terrible. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm sorry? I'm like in a fog. And I don't know why. Something seriously wrong. Something |
| 0:16.7 | seriously wrong. I think these mornings just happen. We are like in a very gray time. I know it's |
| 0:24.1 | funny because we talked about this last episode and you know I said it aspirationally. I was like, |
| 0:28.8 | it's gray outside today and I said that with the hopes that tomorrow it wouldn't be. And yet here |
| 0:33.8 | we are. I mean, welcome to March and Canada. Am I right? Am I right? |
| 0:39.3 | Canadian problems? March is the most insidious month. March is a jerk. Because you think it's going |
| 0:45.1 | to be getting warmer. And then in Toronto recently, it's just been, because global warming, |
| 0:49.8 | it's been like December and November, you barely get any snow at all. Yeah. January, you get some snow. And then February, it hits really hard. And then March it hits even harder. And you're like, you got to calm down. And March is temperamental because there are warmer moments. You get used to it and then it snatches it away from you. Yes. But come on, we're just pushing through till April. We're halfway through the month. |
| 1:12.0 | Hannah and I are going to Portugal in May. Yeah. We just booked the trip. Well, we haven't actually |
| 1:17.2 | booked our flights yet, so let's pray to God we can afford. I know. We booked the accommodations |
| 1:21.7 | before the flight, which I actually don't know if that's smart. We're like maybe the flight prices |
| 1:26.7 | will go down. Well, it's more just that like Airbnb's are scarce. So it's kind of like you kind of want to, you know that they're going to go away, whereas like a flight will always be there. Yeah. This is probably stupid. But we're young. Young people are supposed to be stupid and travel. Yeah, we're idiots. I went to Europe in 2018 and the way I planned |
| 1:45.1 | the trip. Like I thought I was a genius for the way I planned it and it was so stupid. We went to this |
| 1:51.5 | beach town in the south of Portugal and then we planned to go from there to Paris. There was no |
| 1:56.9 | flight that we had booked in the area that we were in. So we had to take a train at five in the morning, like a local train all the way to a different city and then take an official train to another city just to get to the airport. And then we had like a layover. And then we ended up flying two hours out of Paris. And we didn't realize we had done that because we didn't know how Paris worked. So we had to take a two-hour bus ride at like 8 p.m. |
| 2:19.6 | We like didn't understand how far things were from the city, basically. This summer I was doing a train trip around Europe. I was backpacking and I went from Florence to Amsterdam. Like I planned to fly out of Amsterdam and then did a detour all the way |
| 2:36.2 | in Florence and was like, honestly, that'll be a great train ride. I was on the train for 24 hours. |
| 2:41.5 | It was absolutely brutal. And I was in Florence with Hannah too. And we said by to each other. |
| 2:45.6 | Hannah said she was backpacking. Her backpack was quite literally the size of her body. Like it was |
| 2:50.7 | crazy. Yeah uh i was always |
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