Bad dates.

Sweet dates.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Bad Dates.

I am your host, Joel Kim Booster, coming at you with a very special episode of bad dates today.

Normally, if you're just tuning in, this podcast covers all manner of bad dates, from hookups to relationships to marriages even.

We cover it all.

But today, we're doing something a little bit different because we have two very special guests in the studio with us today.

We have a comedian, actress, writer, an Emmy-nominated host of shows like Nailed It and Wipe Out.

She's the author of Very Fat, Very Brave, and she hosts the podcast, Why Won't You Date Me? And co-hosts Best Friends. It's Nicole Beyer. Hello. Wonderful, wonderful to see you. And we welcome a comedian and actress from Woke, Home Economics, Agatha all along, and, of course, saturday night live she is also the co-host

of the podcast best friends it's shishir zameda it's me wow thank you so much for supporting this

this is very exciting because you guys just took six months off from doing best friends so

what was the rift what was the what caused you to split up for six months? And what reconciled you? Well, Sashir sometimes says really rude remarks when we're not on air. You fucking lying. You fucking lie, you bitch. Kind of like that. And I really just got sick of it. You needed space. And I needed just a little space. Yeah. And now you're glowing. And I hope she doesn't take away the glow. Thank you. She likes it. She likes what I mean. Therapy, talking about it. No, we took a hiatus because we moved network. Yeah, we're new home and now we're at Headgum. Nice. And it's fun. We're glad to be back. Yes. Talking about friendship, answering questions. Yeah, because we like, you know, our friendship. Yeah, no. I mean, famously, best friends. And it's also nice to. The media talks about it. The people talk about it. The media talk about it.

I am the media.

The media is hot on it.

Yeah.

As we do every episode, even though we're not doing a full bad date stories time hour

here on this episode, I am going to start you off with a little bit of an icebreaker,

which we have a panel of

experts and listeners who write in with questions that you can ask yourself or your partner

or your friends before you decide if someone is the one. And today, I want to know from the two

of you, what is something that you have overlooked in order because you want to love or like the person.

And this can be something you've overlooked in a hookup, a date, or a relationship even.

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