Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop & I Have a Big Announcement
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Jake's back from Florida with a roulette win and some bachelor party receipts. Ilana has a major life announcement that's been months (or years) in the making.. Two listener questions: does astrology actually matter in dating, and how do you stop waiting for the other shoe to drop when something finally feels really good?
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| 0:00.0 | Ready to go? Let's do it. I'm tired. Yeah. We just had an eight-hour nap. Really, probably like nine. Went to bed early. Yeah. Yeah, sleep by like 11, 11.30. I know how late you stayed up reading. Probably not much later. I'm on my third book of the week. Isn't that crazy? It's actually insane how much you read. |
| 0:22.9 | Jeff and Sid. |
| 0:23.8 | Are you in like the top like percentile of readers? You have to be. |
| 0:27.1 | Definitely not. Not even close. |
| 0:29.6 | How many people are reading 52 books a year? |
| 0:32.8 | Probably a lot of people. |
| 0:34.5 | When you think about readers, like people who read, think about it. Think about all the people who like don't, who are like retired. Or... Even them. I don't know if they're reading 52 books a year. I think more. I think like my aunt Marcy reads 52 books year, but how many hundred books does she read? We should ask again, because she reads a lot. |
| 0:55.4 | Maybe, I think over 100. |
| 0:56.3 | Probably. |
| 0:57.4 | She probably does. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | How do you not like run out of books at some point? |
| 1:00.8 | I mean, it's like watching movies, right? I mean, there's so many books. |
| 1:01.5 | No, I get that there's so many books. but like it's like watching movies like even for yourself you do run into times where you're like |
| 1:08.1 | I'm done with this author or something they've run out of books and I really like to now I find |
| 1:13.2 | a different author totally to times where you're like, I'm done with this author or something. They've run out of books |
| 1:12.1 | and I really liked it. Now I find a different author. Totally. It's hard. And people have been |
| 1:18.4 | writing and releasing books for centuries before I became a reader. Yeah, I'm not saying that |
| 1:25.6 | you're out of books to read. But other people. I'm saying if other people reading 50 to 100 books a year for Yeah, I'm not saying that you're out of books to read. I'm saying if other people |
| 1:28.0 | reading 50 to 100 books a year for 45 years, that's a lot of books. It is. It is. The good thing is |
| 1:37.2 | is I just don't think I'm going to run out of books anytime soon. Yeah, yeah. I'm not worried |
| 1:40.6 | right. Okay. Wait, let me talk about the books I've read in the last week. |
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