How to Trick your Partner Into Better Taste (w/ Bobby Berk)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.8 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emmy Award-winning interior designer Bobby Berk (Queer Eye, Junk or Jackpot?) joins Nicole to share the secrets of success behind his 22-year relationship. He discusses meeting his husband on Gay.com, his trick to manipulate a partner into having better taste, and the wild reason why everyone was throwing up during his marriage proposal. Plus, he explains why he refuses to give gifts or celebrate Valentine's Day, and why giving in to those societal pressures is actually the quickest way to ruin a relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to watch this episode? |
| 0:01.3 | Catch the full video on YouTube. |
| 0:03.3 | Just hit the link in the episode description. |
| 0:07.1 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:10.8 | We never poop in front of each other. |
| 0:13.0 | I think that's a really big deal. |
| 0:14.3 | I think that I, you know, all my other friends that have been a really long-term relationships all have that same rule. |
| 0:20.6 | That's a fun place. Like, that's not a really long-term relationships all have that same rule. That's a fun place. |
| 0:22.2 | Like, that's not a... |
| 0:23.3 | I simply cannot fathom that. |
| 0:26.4 | Neither can I. |
| 0:27.3 | Because when I'm shitting, I'm going for the gold, I'm like, Rastatic. |
| 0:30.4 | Like, I'm fucking shit. |
| 0:31.8 | You're like, I'm shitting it. |
| 0:32.7 | I am putting it in a Delta Airlines blanket. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm going to leave it for somebody |
| 0:38.7 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:43.4 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:45.2 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:47.1 | Please tell me why. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh, baby. Welcome to you. Why? |
| 1:00.4 | Ooh baby, welcome to another episode of Why Won't You Date Me? |
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