Idiot + Dummy
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Idiot + Dummy met where many boneheads meet: in grad school. One night, they ran into each other on the subway. The two are alike in a lot of ways. They both stay up late, go to punk shows and raves, do drugs, and have sex — lots and lots of sex.
As the two get closer, commitment and monogamy become harder and harder to negotiate. Idiot flees from her true feelings as she gets blindsided by a Dummy.
Written & produced by Julia Alsop in collaboration with The Heart. Voice Acting by Brian Dolphin, Julia Alsop, Jenn Custard & Sophie Traub. Special thanks to Allen Watts, Max Pearl, Pizza Haus & the original “Dummy.”
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| 0:00.0 | Dating is difficult for everyone, but it can be especially difficult when you're my mom. |
| 0:04.7 | I can't go 30 years looking for somebody. |
| 0:08.2 | She's 73 and is recently divorced after 42 years of marriage, but my mom loves love. |
| 0:15.5 | He kissed me. I felt like I was on cloud 999. |
| 0:20.4 | And she's determined to find the love of her life before her life is over, |
| 0:24.2 | so she dives into the online dating world. But online dating is not easy. |
| 0:29.5 | Men lie to her. |
| 0:31.2 | All of a sudden, he tells me, oh my gosh, I was robbed. |
| 0:36.3 | Men, don't call her back. |
| 0:38.0 | Why would a man who kissed you not call you right back? |
| 0:41.6 | Men break her heart. |
| 0:43.6 | And then he crawled me up and said, I don't want to see you anymore. |
| 0:47.3 | Luckily, she has me, her daughter. |
| 0:49.8 | Have you ever had a vibrator? |
| 0:52.0 | No. |
| 0:52.8 | Oh my god, mom, you're gonna, okay, I'm ordering you one. |
| 0:56.3 | Done. |
| 0:58.0 | And a few experts to guide her. |
| 1:00.4 | Make a decision that you're changing your belief, and your new belief is, love is possible for me. |
| 1:07.6 | It's about discovery and experimenting. |
| 1:11.2 | If you let the relationship develop slowly over time, then you can really see |
| 1:16.1 | who someone is, and you can see how you feel about them. |
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