Transcript of Bad Dates Season 2 with Joel Kim Booster!

Hey, SmartList listeners, it's Sean Hayes with some exciting news. One of our SmartList Media shows is back with a brand new host. I'm talking about the one and only Bad Dates. And for season 2, it's hosted by the hilarious Joel Kim Booster. You might know Joel from Apple TV's Loot, Hulu's Fire Island, his Netflix comedy special, or his very revealing guest role on HBO's industry. This season, he'll be your guide through all of the iconic and painfully true bad date stories that his guests reveal with all the gory details you loved in season one. We'll still hear real letters and voice messages from listeners sharing their own worst dates. Plus, Joel will weigh in about his own lengthy and bizarre time in the dating trenches. We love the show because everybody has had them, everybody can relate to them. Now it's time to laugh at them on season two of Bad Dates with your new host, Joel Kim Booster. Check out this clip from the show and follow Bad Dates wherever you get your podcasts. Bad Dates.

And now, the very funny Justin Martindale So it was a nice summer evening.

This was probably about almost, I want to say, 10 years ago. Oh, wow.

A child. You were a baby.

No. I'll say like, I still am. So I went to the show. It was a show here in LA, and I met this guy, and the lighting was just good, and I was very inebriated. And we were talking, we hit it off. We started making out, and then we exchanged numbers. And he was living in New York. I was in LA. So we were like, We're going to just do this bi-coastal long distance fantasy. And one day, if destiny allows us, we will meet up again. We started talking regularly on the phone, and this was before FaceTime took off. So we were just talking and flirting. And he started talking about, so when are you going to come to New York? And I'll make this great weekend for us. And I'm like, Okay, sure. Yeah, let's make it happen. So finally, I want to say, November, maybe a couple of days before Thanksgiving, I got a flight, went out to New York, and I'm waiting at the airport for him to pick me up. He shows up, and I'm like, I don't know this person. He didn't look like the guy that I had seen that night.

Of course, it was blurry and shadowy, but I was like, Oh, no.

And New York can do a lot of damage to your-In a month. Yeah, a couple months. Yeah, a couple months in New York.

A couple months can change people. He was just not the person that I remember.

Do you think you got twin switched? Do you think?

I never thought about that. My parents were trapped. Oh, my God. Yeah, seriously. A twin catfish. We go into his apartment and I'm looking at his place and I'm like, Oh, this is really weird. He had a trench coat that was nailed to the wall. I was like, What is that? He was like, Well, I love musical theater. I'm like, Shit. Immediately, because I'm not a big musical theater gay.

That's a logical response.

What musical is that referencing?

I am so glad you asked because he had stolen Leah Michelle's trench coat when she was Epineen in Les Mis.

Oh, my God.

Well, he just shot up in my estimation, I got to say.

Nailed it to It wasn't even in a frame. It was just a trench coat crucified to the wall. I'm like, Oh, okay. He had a whole bunch of other little Broadway knicks and everything.

He didn't have time to steal a frame. What was the- Steal a frame.

It looks weird. We hadn't made any moves on each other. We hadn't even kissed. It was just very, very, very awkward. And then finally, he's like, I have a surprise for you. I got us tickets to go to see Wicked. I had never seen Wicked. I was like, okay, cool. This is a Broadway show. Fine. He got us orchestra seats. They were really good seats.

And he said, I need you to be the look out. You have to stand near the door.

I have to watch Elfaba, so you don't steal her hat, right?

The story is also very boil the Frog. You're like, Okay, all right.

I don't want to be a bad sport. I don't want to seem like I'm not grateful.

Well, you flew across country, and I'm assuming, Coach. Probably, yes, I did. You weren't in Delta One back then. No, I'm not.

Not bad.

Middle seat, back row.

By the toilet. We ended up going to see Wicked, and I I've never seen Wicked, and it starts out and it's all grand and everything. Then I realized I'm hearing something that's not part of the show. I look over and he is belting every song like he is in the show. Every song. I'm mortified. I'm sitting there and I'm like, Shut the fuck up. To the point where one of the flying monkeys in one of the numbers looks at us and hushes us.

I have never been hushed. To be hushed by a flying monkey?

By Chistery? Hushed by a flying monkey, which is not a CBS sitcom.

The flying monkey is looking at you like, Be more civilized, please. Seriously? Returns his preaching, jumping around.

I'm like, You have to shut up. He's like, Okay, sorry. It's my favorite musical. I've seen it 800 times. I'm like, Okay, well, I've never seen it, so shut the fuck up.

In my head, I'm like, Does he sing every time or is it for you? Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, that's the question. I have no idea. He was just like...

Was it for you or was he hoping a casting director was in the audience?

Probably so. We went and saw Bring It On as well, and I don't remember that musical. It was so It was just I couldn't do it. But the same thing. He was just like, curtain call came out and he was like, Natalie. Natalie. Natalie.

Yes. I've been sending you the packages. I've been sending you the packages, Natalie.

He's like, Girl, you nailed it, girl. Natalie's not even looking. It was awful. That was it.

Did you ever hear from this man again?

No, I didn't. But can I get a little dark?Oh, boy.Please.Oh, no. He died.

You tell us that after we've been ripping on him, making fun of him.

I got a memory on Facebook, and I was like, Oh, yeah, that guy. And I clicked and it was like, this is an in memorium account now. And I was like, Oh, no. But I will say, because I knew him, I have been changed for good. Wow.

Fuck you. Fuck you. Oh, Do you know if he died doing what he loved, stealing Broadway memorabilia?

I don't know.

I wonder who got the Lea Michelle trench. Yeah.

I know. Who got that in the estate sale?

He probably was trying to sneak backstage and get something from Funny Girl and Lea Michelle stand her ground laws, shock him.

Yeah, I know.

This is so dark. We have to stop. She did.

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