Bad dates.

Speed dates.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Bad Dates Speed Dating Edition.

I am your host, Joel Kimbooster.

Now, as you know, normally on this podcast, we invite a panel of guests to talk about their bad dating stories.

But on the speed date episodes, we slow things down of guests to talk about their bad dating stories, but on the

speed date episodes, we slow things down. We get a little more intimate one-on-one with just one

person, and I dig deep to find out all of their takes on love and pretty much everything under

the sun, whatever we want to talk about. And today, I'm very excited about my guest. He's a comedian

and an actor. You can watch

his comedy special Thief of Joy on YouTube and listen to his podcast, The Downside with John Marcus Aresi. It's John Marcus Aresi, everybody. Hello, hello, hello. How are you, my friend? I'm good, traveling, you know, back on the road. Back in the road, not seeing my, my partner enough. Well, and see, let's get into it then.

Let's really jump into the love stuff here.

John Markle, you are a prolific stand-up comedian.

Thank you.

Road dog to the bones.

The mayor of stand-up comedy currently, I would say, elected, elected official in the stand-up community.

More dictator, I like that. And a fun tidbit that a lot of

people probably don't know is you are dating your manager. I am. Didn't start that way. Didn't start

that way. Did the manager start first or did dating start first? We met during COVID, lived near

each other, became a pod.

And it was just kind of inevitable. And there was a third person and she'd always go home. And we'd be like, she would go, I'm laying, I'm going to go home. Be like, bye, peace. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to chill. And originally I posted, I was like, God, you ever meet someone you just want to start a podcast with? And my girlfriend at the time was like,

God, I hate men.

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