Series premiere. Joel Kim Booster sits down with comedians and real-life best friends Alyssa Limperis, Evan Williams, and Kel Cripe to take apart the mental “checklist” of qualities we swear we need in a partner — and what happens to that list the second you actually fall for someone. They get into dating red flags, the code words couples use to defuse a fight, and how the relationships we grew up watching shaped what we think love is supposed to be. Plus, a listener question from a newly single party boy looking for a man who’s got his life together but still knows how to misbehave.

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Joel Kim Booster: @ihatejoelkim · Loot Season 3 (Apple TV+), Fire Island (Hulu), Psychosexual (Netflix)
Evan Williams: @itsevanwilliams · viral “Credit Card Fraud Dept.” characters; album It’s All Embarrassing
Alyssa Limperis: @alyssalimp · What We Do in the Shadows, Hacks, Dexter: Original Sin; special No Bad Days (Peacock)
Kel Cripe: @kelcripe · creator of the viral “SCRAM!” video; sketch trio Babe Motel

Produced by Brian Baldinger and Anne Harris. Associate Producers are Maddie McCann and Katherine Calligori. Editor is Jacob Vaus. Executive Producers are Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Robert Cohen, Richard Korson and Bernie Kaminski.

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