Bad dates.

Speed dates.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Speed Date, the Bad Dates mini episode, where we sit down one-on-one

with one of our esteemed guests from the past, or maybe somebody new to the podcast all together,

but either way, we slow things down, we get to know each other on a deeper, more meaningful level. And this guest today,

I'm so excited to have him back. He's been a guest on the main pod before. He's a comedian and

a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post. His debut comedy

special Surprise Me is available on YouTube,

and he is the author of Is It Hot in Here, or Am I Suffering for All Attorney for the Sins I Committed here on Earth?

It's Zach Zimmerman.

Hey, Zach, welcome back to the podcast.

Woo-ha!

Thanks for having me, Joel.

Hope you're well.

Of course.

Thank you.

You are looking well as well. As always, and this is going to be a little bit of a different format for the mini episodes. But before we dive into what is going to make it a little bit different, I did want to talk to you. We both share a similar background. Both of us escaped evangelical Christianity at some point in order to live big

gay lives, which has undoubtedly scarred us and, you know, traumatized us on some level. But I wanted

to ask, like, do you think your upbringing in the church is affected, how has it affected your dating life,

and do you think it is still affecting your dating life now?

Oh, wow.

Fantastic question.

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