Bad dates.

Speed dates.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another edition of Bad Dates, the Speed Date

Edition.

For those of you who are just joining us for the very first time, you might not realize

this, but a speed date is not a regular episode of the podcast.

Normally on the podcast, I have a panel

of three esteemed guests who talk about their dating traumas for your enjoyment, but the speed

dates are a little bit different. We slow things down, which is, I know, sort of an sort of opposite

of what you think a speed date would be. But we slow things down, we sit one-on-one, and we chat

about whatever the hell we want, not just relationship stuff. But today's guests, we might be jumping into some relationship stuff anyways because of the nature of a book that they wrote. I cannot wait to get into it with him. Joining me today is a comedian, writer, an actor who you've seen in shows like The Nightly Show, Everything's Trash, The Colbert Report, and First Wives Club.

He co-hosts the podcast, Adulting, with his friend and ours, Michelle Butteau, and his new book,

Chore Play, The Marriage Saving Magic of Getting Your Head Out of Your Ass will be out in February.

Guys, it's Jordan Carlos.

Wow, what a send up. Thank you so much, Joel. I appreciate

that. I am so excited to have you today, Jordan. This is a really exciting time for me to be

interviewing somebody who is a marriage expert. And I say you're a marriage expert because you wrote a

book about it. So you have to be an expert. And you can't argue with me. Otherwise, that would be

terrible promo for your book. Stand by. I like to say I'm like a veteran. I'm a veteran in the cause.

And I've been at it for 18 years now. So I think I'm going to get a contract extension for

19th year. I'm really excited about that. And yeah, I think it's more just like being a wily veteran than being an expert. You know what I'm saying? Like an expert is just like, yo, I hope this goes well for you. But like a veteran, you know, I don't know. I can tell you with your two. I don't know, man. Going on 19 years,

that sounds pretty expert level to me. You're not playing on easy mode in 19 years in.

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