Cheating Can Be Fun w/ Chloe Radcliffe | First Date with Lauren Compton

Summary

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Podcast Summary: “Cheating Can Be Fun” w/ Chloe Radcliffe

First Date with Lauren Compton – YMH Studios
Date: December 23, 2025
Guest: Chloe Radcliffe

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Episode Overview

In this candid and comedic sit-down, comedian and viral content creator Lauren Compton welcomes fellow comic Chloe Radcliffe for a “first date.” The two dive deep into the messy realities of dating, the complexities of cheating, red flags, past relationships, and what makes a meaningful connection. They swap stories, reveal dating and relationship philosophies, and play an off-the-cuff Q&A “menu” game that surfaces personal quirks and honest admissions—all with their trademark wit and openness.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Cheater Becomes Monogamous (01:14–02:53)

• Lauren shares her personal history of cheating in “almost every relationship,” and how her new two-year, monogamous relationship marks a turning point.
  • Quote: "I have a solo show about how I've cheated in almost every relationship I've ever been in... and now I'm in this two-year-long, wonderful, monogamous relationship with a man who I love so much, and it's, like, weird." [01:44]
• Publicly acknowledging her past and building a show around it put additional pressure to “be a good girlfriend.”

2. How They Met & First Date Vibes (02:55–04:57)

• Lauren met her boyfriend at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while performing her show (about cheating).
• Their first hangout: seeking advice from him, during which he disclosed his recent autism diagnosis.
  • Quote: "He saw the show before we ever dated, and he was like, I can fix her. And he did." [02:20]
• Lauren makes light of their communication, crediting his autism for clear communication:
  • "As an autistic person, that is clear communication, and I can absolutely comply with that." [04:54]

3. London vs. New York & Living Situations (05:12–06:52, 25:40–26:02)

• Lauren splits time between New York and London with her boyfriend, preferring New York for its energy and edge.
• They don’t fully cohabitate but have an “international, part-time” vibe.
  • Quote: "He has a whole life in London...it will always be like 30% of the time long distance." [25:40]

4. Why People Cheat (07:10–08:24)

• Lauren admits she’d often cheat instead of breaking up due to a tendency to “stay too long.”
• She sees cheating as both hurtful and more common than people admit.
  • Quote: "Cheating is always bad. I think it always hurts somebody. I think in a healthy relationship, cheating does not exist. Also, it happens all the fucking time." [07:48]
• The allure of cheating is the excitement and thrill, not just dissatisfaction.

5. Cheating vs. Leaving (08:24–10:03)

• Chloe, on the other hand, has never cheated—prefers to end things rather than betray—except for one notable “stuck” relationship during COVID.
• Chloe shares a story of her ex reading her brutally honest journal, leading to an overdue breakup.
  • Quote: "As soon as he read my journal, it was over." [09:44]

6. Superficial vs. Substantial Relationship Gripes (14:15–16:12)

• Chloe recounts her long list of cons about a past boyfriend, ranging from the silly to the serious.
• Lauren probes if such annoyances are just proxy for not liking the person fundamentally.
  • Quote: "All those superficial things would be fine if you liked him as a person." [15:52]

7. Meeting People & App Dating (17:44–19:51)

• Lauren describes her disinterest in dating apps, preferring organic, in-person connections and interactive “vibe checks.”
  • Quote: "I find it more exciting to meet people in person. I find it much more, like, clarifying, like, just to interact with somebody, watching them move. Immediately you're like, oh, okay. I've already answered 60% of the questions." [18:59]
• She shares her “bar eye contact and wave” move for sparking in-person approaches. [19:01–19:37]

8. Ideal First Dates (19:51–21:17)

• Lauren dreams of spontaneous first dates: walking one city street, stopping randomly for tiny drinks/appetizers, never deviating off course.

9. Relationship Philosophy: No Kids, No Marriage, Just Connection (21:22–22:38)

• Lauren’s goal is deep emotional and intellectual compatibility, not traditional markers like marriage or children.
• She values dating fellow comedians for shared worldview and conversational sharpness.

10. Comedy Career Path (22:41–24:15)

• Lauren was raised as a performer across speech, debate, and theater, but fell into standup only after a corporate layoff.

11. Female vs. Male Friend Groups (26:12–29:44)

• Discussion on why women more often integrate into male friend groups but not vice versa.
• Chloe notes her husband prefers not to join her “loud, obnoxious, flighty” girlfriend gatherings, and Lauren finds this common.

12. Friendships with the Opposite Sex (32:13–34:28)

• Lauren and Chloe reflect on how guy–girl friendships shift with age and relationship status.
  • Lauren: "Most of my friends are guy friends—or maybe it's half and half..." [33:10]
  • Chloe: "As I got older, none of my relationships would allow me to have guy friends." [33:20]

13. Quickfire Q&A Menu Game (35:13–44:56)

A playful, revealing exchange using random questions:

• Irrational Fear: Lauren dreads gas pumps not shutting off, and bedbugs; Chloe, dead bodies [35:27–36:34].
• Astrology Belief: Raised by hippies, Lauren is secretly a believer, though commercialized astrology bugs her [36:53–37:43].
  • Quote: "I think I actually do believe in astrology, but the way it is metabolized in popular culture now feels so commercial and annoying." [37:31]
• Past life books: Chloe recommends Many Lives, Many Masters—Lauren intrigued [37:46–39:38].
• Nightstand contents: Lauren is proud (and cheap): thrifted lotion, "Bag Balm" picked up cheap from Facebook Marketplace [40:10–42:11].
• Biggest relationship pet peeve: Contrarian partners who argue to win, not connect [42:41–43:27].
• Biggest “addiction”: Lauren confesses her past need for "male attention"—the slow, addictive high of seduction and validation [43:32–44:12].
• Drink of choice: Sweet cocktails—especially old fashioneds and, lately, avoiding Negronis after a few wild nights [44:17–44:51].

14. Most Romantic Gesture (45:02–46:11)

• Lauren’s boyfriend, Stuart, made her a custom audio track of distant trains to help her insomnia—a thoughtful birthday gift.
  • Quote: "He made this like long, 20 minute long looping track of the sound of trains at night in the distance that I can just listen to." [46:02]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Cheating Culture:
  "It's, like, much easier to say that you've been cheated on than it is to admit that you've cheated. And if that many people have been cheated on, then that many people have cheated." — Lauren [08:01]

• On Recognizing Relationship Patterns:
  "I admire that. How do you meet people in person?... I would much rather. I also just find it. I find it more exciting to meet people in person... You've just made somebody's decision for them." — Lauren [18:44–19:37]

• On “Girl Groups” vs. “Guy Groups”:
  "I would say that my friends are loud and obnoxious. That's probably the best way to round that up." — Chloe [26:54]

• On Emotional Compatibility Over Tradition:
  "I want somebody who, like, if I'm lazy, I can be like, what do you think about this? That's what I think about this." — Lauren [22:38]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:14] — Cheating history and the public pressure to “be good”
• [02:12] — Meeting boyfriend at Fringe, first hangout
• [04:47] — “Contracted autism, get a dictionary in your brain” (humor about communication)
• [07:10] — Why Lauren used to cheat—thrill, fear of breaking up
• [09:44] — Chloe’s ex reads her “pros and cons” break-up journal
• [15:52] — Superficial annoyances as stand-ins for lack of deeper affection
• [18:59] — Lauren’s case for in-person “vibe” over app dating
• [19:51] — Ideal first date: one street, random stops
• [21:22] — Lauren’s relationship philosophy: deep compatibility over convention
• [25:40] — Living situation: always partially long distance with boyfriend
• [33:10] — Male/female friendships and relationship boundaries
• [35:13–44:56] — Menu Q&A game (fears, astrology, nightstand, addiction, pet peeve, drink)
• [45:02] — Most romantic gesture from boyfriend

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The tone is irreverent, funny, rawly honest, and at times sweetly introspective. Both Lauren and Chloe blend confessions with self-deprecating humor and openness. Lauren’s willingness to discuss her history with cheating and relationships head-on—ranging from “cheating can be fun” to “actually, monogamy and compatibility feel right”—mirrors Chloe’s own directness about her breakups and boundaries. The episode playfully dissects modern relationship taboos, personal growth, and the ever-complicated hunt for real connection—with plenty of laughs along the way.

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End of Summary.

Transcript

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[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm so excited to see you tonight.

[Lauren Compton]

First date, baby. First date. I can't wait. First date.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What's up, you guys? Thank you for joining me on another episode of first Date. My guest today, you can see her doing stand up all over the [e-mail]. give it up for Chloe Radcliffe.

[Lauren Compton]

Yes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thank you for coming on my show.

[Lauren Compton]

Yes. Clap for me. There's people in the other room. I can hear them clapping. I need the applause. Give it to me. I need the noise. Why do you think I do stand up? Hi. How are you? This is the kind of energy you're gonna have to deal with.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

For me, I'm here for it.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So tell me a little bit about yourself. Are you dating anybody?

[Lauren Compton]

I am dating somebody.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

How long?

[Lauren Compton]

Two years. He's the best. He's amazing. My history of dating is like, sort of like canonically. Hold on. Big word, big word, $10 word. Canonically.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like, why would you use that word? You come out the gate using canonically?

[Lauren Compton]

I'm in Texas. You don't know those words here.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't study vocabulary.

[Lauren Compton]

Here's what it is. I have a solo show about how I've cheated in almost every relationship I've ever been in. Oh, okay. And so for the fact that I'm now in this two year long, wonderful, monogamous relationship with a man who I love so much, and it's, like, weird. I think this is gonna be the thing. I don't think it's weird, but all of my friends, everybody in my life is like, and how's it going? And it's great. It's great. He's awesome. He's the best.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

How'd you guys meet?

[Lauren Compton]

At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where I was doing. Where I was starting to develop my solo show about cheating. So he saw the show before we ever dated, and he was like, I can fix her.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh. And he did.

[Lauren Compton]

And he did. He fixed it. No, really? I think, like, doing the show fixed it. I think I, like, thought so much about it, you know? Yeah, I talked. I thought a lot about my own.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You talked yourself out of it.

[Lauren Compton]

Talked myself out of it. Now it's also now it's like an insane look. Now if I. Now, if I ever did anything bad, I mean, what a bad look. For me to ever step out of line. For me to be like, and now I'm better and then I'm not.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

I now have a public pressure to be a good girlfriend.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What was your first date like?

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, God, I don't. Okay. So do you know. Do you know what the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't.

[Lauren Compton]

It's the world's largest performing arts festival. It's a month long. It's in Scotland. In Edinburgh.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, okay.

[Lauren Compton]

In the city of Edinburgh. For one month, for 30 days, the entire city, like, transforms and goes from a city of like 200,000 people to like literally 3 million people. I actually shouldn't say literally, because I really don't know if that's real. But anyway, it becomes huge. And there's like 3,000 shows that go comedy, dance, puppet, magic, kids, theater, whatever the fuck. Yeah, anything you can imagine. And so have you ever had the experience where you, like, you bond with somebody really intensely because you're in this really intense situation and you're just like, hanging out with them 24 7? Like, have you ever been, like, on set for a project or, like, gone to camp or whatever? Yeah, it's that. So, like, I. Do we have a first date? I don't know if we have a first date. I will tell you the first time we ever hung out, one on one, we. I, like, needed advice on a thing that was happening at the festival and I was like, I am free for this hour and 20 minute time slot. Can you get a drink in that hour and 20 minute time slot? And he said yes. He, like, moved something around to hang out with me. And then during that hour and 20 minute time slot, I was talking about whatever problem I had and he was like, oh, also it came up. It wasn't like out of the blue, but he was like, oh, yeah. Today I got diagnosed with autism. He was 39 at the time. He's 41 now. He was like, today, I got diagnosed with autism at age 39. And I was like, interesting. Frankly, I don't have time to talk about that right now. We have to go back to me. So if you could just hold that, bookmark it, put a pin in it. Let's come back.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We'll come back to this.

[Lauren Compton]

We'll come back and he was like, great. As an autistic person, that is clear communication and I can absolutely comply with that. So I feel like that was probably, that was like the vibe of our first date and that is.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's where canonical comes from.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The autism. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, you know, that's what when you get, when you, when you come contract autism, then you also get a whole dictionary in your brain.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's amazing.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, it comes with a territory.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So now you live in New York.

[Lauren Compton]

Now I live in New York.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you guys live together?

[Lauren Compton]

He is part time London and part time New York. And so when I'm there, we live like I live at his place when he's in New York.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Where do you like more?

[Lauren Compton]

New York.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Really?

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, yeah. It's like not even a contest. It's here I am mean about London. I think London. I'm about to say something that all of my new friends in London are gonna hate. Do you remember Richard Scarry, Busytown? Like those books as a kid? Do you remember these books? No, they're kids books. I'm not using $10 words now. I'm using $1 words.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No. And I'm surprised that I don't know those.

[Lauren Compton]

You would recognize it. You've seen these books before.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Lauren Compton]

London feels like that little kids author does. New York. It's like, and over here is the policeman and over here is the fire truck. And you're like, okay. It's kind of like it cleaner and nicer and quieter and sweeter. And New York is like, we're gonna fuck you up, you know?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay, so this is what it is.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember that? Have you seen that? You know what I'm talking about?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Kind of like that's London. My parents didn't let me read books.

[Lauren Compton]

You know what? In every single Richard Scarry book, he uses the word canonical.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Does he really? No, he doesn't.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, hold on.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was like, oh, hold on. That'd be fucking crazy. They're still scrolling as if I'm like gonna like catch, like understand it. I don't. I. I did picture books like where's Waldo? You know, they're like, open up a book, they're like, where's Waldo? And then just for like an hour, I just sit there and be like.

[Lauren Compton]

You'Re like, I don't want words, I just want images. Just honestly, that prepared you for like social media now. Yeah, yeah, now you're like a video. That's all I was trained on.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No one needs. I don't need to read anything. Twitter. Not for me. So back to your relationship. Have you. So you said that you've cheated on, like, everyone you've ever been with.

[Lauren Compton]

Not. Not every, single, but most many. What is it about?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What is. What is it about cheating? Do you just get bored and that's how you break up with people?

[Lauren Compton]

I mean, that is like. Yes. The trend was that I stayed too long and I could never, like, quite bring myself to break up at the time that I was supposed to. And so then I would cheat, and then I usually would stay. I would, like, continue to stay. That wasn't. That was, like, often not the final straw, but I just, like, wasn't doing the big kid decision of now. It is over. You ask, what is it about cheating? Have you ever cheated?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I have never cheated, but I've been cheated on.

[Lauren Compton]

Yes. And look, I'm not saying, like, I think cheating is always bad. I think it always hurts somebody. I think in a healthy relationship, cheating does not exist. Also, it happens all the fucking time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

And nobody's willing to stick a microphone in front of their face and say that they did it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

It's, like, much easier to say that you've been cheated on than it is to admit that you've cheated. And if that many people have been cheated on, then that many people have cheated. And if, frankly, if we wanted something like this to stop, we would want people to talk about it is my take. But anyway. But you asked what it is about cheating. The problem is, is that it is, like, it's very exciting.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Really?

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. That's like, one of the big problems.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I feel like it's scary. So the reason that I never cheated wasn't because I, like, wasn't attracted to other people or, like, didn't want to, but I was so terrified of, like, what would happen if I got caught.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, tell me. What, like, what were you scared? What happened?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, I never.

[Lauren Compton]

If.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, here's the thing. If I didn't want to be with someone anymore, then I would just leave.

[Lauren Compton]

I mean, that's honorable. That's very admirable. Here's the thing. I'm like, a well adjusted, mature person who can listen to my intuition, internal.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Guides, but I just. I. I can't. There's only one time I was ever with someone that I didn't want to be with anymore. And it was Covid.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure. You're sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I was stuck with this guy.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I felt stuck because I didn't want to be alone.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And it. And co. Covid was like, a different kind of alone.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Totally.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It wasn't like I could just go out to a bar and, like, go have some fun and, like, had to do some me time. I mean, that was like. You are secluded.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I was like, no, I don't want that. I'd rather be with someone that I don't really like.

[Lauren Compton]

Were people secluded in Austin?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was in California.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, okay. Yeah. Where all the liberals are at that time. I was.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I'm a recovering California now.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, okay. So. So you got. Wait, oh, so you got stuck then. So you wanted. You didn't want to be alone, so you stayed with somebody longer than you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Yes. And then as soon as he read my journal, it was over.

[Lauren Compton]

And what did the journal say?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It just, like, was a long list of all the pros and cons about him. And it was.

[Lauren Compton]

The second. The second that a person or a relationship is, like, treated like deciding to move into which apartment you're gonna move into, you're like, God, this feels bad. Oh, no, it is transactional.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

To see pros and cons about yourself is a nightmare.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I didn't even. I did not journal. And he encouraged me to. And it was a way for him to get to know how I felt because I didn't like him, so I didn't really communicate anything.

[Lauren Compton]

I just like, oh, so he trapped. Did he trap you?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He trapped.

[Lauren Compton]

He encouraged you to journal and then read the journal.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. So I wrote down the things that I liked about him, which was only, like, three things. It was like, he has blue eyes. He has okay abs for a pro athlete, baby. And he's like, male. And then the list of things I didn't like were.

[Lauren Compton]

That's the craziest list of things that you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's all I liked. And then all the things I didn't like went on for, like, four pages.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure. Was everything about him that I didn't like? I'm saying male. Male is, like, not a. That's not about him.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But I like that. I like that he was a man. Like, sure, Right, Sure.

[Lauren Compton]

I mean, like, the Walmart greeter is a man, you know, like the man.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I like that.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, great. Okay. Abs. I'm just saying, like, abs.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He was a pro athlete. He was not in great shape, but his abs were okay. So I had to give him that.

[Lauren Compton]

What did you like about him being a pro athlete?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That was all he had going for him.

[Lauren Compton]

But. But. But I'm asking like, did you like that he still had some shadow of abs or I. I hear that you liked that. But did you, did you also like the mystique of like, he was a pro? Like, was there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like, I thought it was cool that he was a pro athlete.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So that counts the title.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was like the title. You know, I'm like, oh, he's a pro athlete.

[Lauren Compton]

Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

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[Lauren Compton]

Good, good. That's.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And he had. Okay.

[Lauren Compton]

Abs. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And he had blue eyes. He had beautiful blue eyes.

[Lauren Compton]

Yes. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And that was it.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. And give me some things you didn't.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like about him at the time. I wrote things that didn't even apply. Like, I was like, he's not European. I didn't like that. I felt like if he was European, I'd like him more. So he wasn't European.

[Lauren Compton]

And I didn't like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I didn't like that.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. Have you dated?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I didn't.

[Lauren Compton]

Europeans. I have.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

My ex husband was Italian.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This guy was like, not romantic. He drank way too many protein drinks to look the way he did. He. He had like kind of a list. I thought he maybe was gay. Dude. This list went on for like four page. This is just like right off top of my head. And it's been years. I didn't like how he would walk barefoot everywhere. Like, he felt like that both. He was like, us grounds me with one with the earth. And I'm just like, you're gay. And so I didn't like that.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, it's. It. Fellas. I'm like, guys, is it gay to not wear shoes?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Put your shoes on. He took a shit on the side of the freeway one time and told me about it.

[Lauren Compton]

That's. I mean, that's kind of.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He had IBS that was so bad, I could hear him shitting through every single door ever.

[Lauren Compton]

Now here's the question.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I could keep going.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, I've gotten that. I've gotten that sense. The question is, do you think. Okay, all of these things that you're listing that you don't like about him are. This is not a criticism. Relatively superficial. And my question is, is it also that you just don't like who he is as a person?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

No. And all of those superficial things actually, like, would be fine if you had liked him as a person. Like, if you. If there was a man who you. If there was a man who was perfect for you in every way.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

But he had IBS so bad that you could always hear him shitting. And one time he had to take a shit on the side of the freeway. Okay. Okay, great. That's the question.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, I just didn't like this guy.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

All the ways around.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. You don't say.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And there. Oh, and three things I liked about him.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so he read my journal one day when I went grocery shopping and I came back and he was.

[Lauren Compton]

Did you know that he was going to read it, like, when you were writing it, Were you? Did you? Sort of Surprise.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think I hoped that he would.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure. Yeah. Because it's the way. It's the same. It's sort of the same with cheating, where you're like, I don't know.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I hope I couldn't get out of this relationship. And I felt like if he would just read the journal, he would know how I felt about him, and that's all he really wanted to know. So I went grocery shopping. I came back, he was sitting in the corner crying his eyes out, and I was like, oh, my God.

[Lauren Compton]

Crying. His beautiful blue eyes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Beautiful blue eyes.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes you sad to see this?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It did make me sad. It made me sad. I was like, aw.

[Lauren Compton]

And then I was like, oh, now they're all red.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Damn.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

There goes the other thing I liked. And so he was like, I was.

[Lauren Compton]

Cleaning the house, and my elbow bumped the side of the couch.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And your journal fell open to page.

[Lauren Compton]

Three where it had the list of pros and cons.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I look around and I'm like.

[Lauren Compton]

It'S really early in a journal to get to pros and cons.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Clean the house, because this place is a mess, dude. Also, I'm glad that you read that, because that's how I feel. And then he moved out the next day.

[Lauren Compton]

Great. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was perfect.

[Lauren Compton]

Great.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I wasn't even sad.

[Lauren Compton]

Do you still journal?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, I didn't even want to journal.

[Lauren Compton]

He made me journal. I don't read. I don't read. I don't write.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't talk about how I feel.

[Lauren Compton]

It was taking a lot of effort for me to even get to page three in this goddamn journal. Know. Okay. Okay, good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The end.

[Lauren Compton]

That's how. Congrats.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. So.

[Lauren Compton]

But other than that, you end relationships at the right time. Yeah. Yeah. I've. I've. I have a bad. I have a bad history of that. I just am not. It's hard. I'm. I admire that. How do you meet people in person? Like, for, like, dating? Yeah, in person. Yeah. I've. I've been on the apps. Probably like a sum total of like, six months across five years. But I would just go on the thing. Here's the thing. I don't want kids. I'm not attached to getting married. And so on the apps. And. And, like, I like being in serious relationships. I have a pattern of being in serious relationships, but I'm always sort of like, I don't feel like I need it now. Does data Say that maybe I do actually need it. Sure. Arguably. But, like, I would just go on the apps, and it's just like the endless game of, like, tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. I mean, it's just like, I'm a menace. And people are on there being like, I'm looking for a relationship. And I'm like, tell me. Every. Tell me, tell me. And so I would much rather. I also just find it. I find it more exciting to meet people in person. I find it much more, like, clarifying, like, just to interact with somebody, watching them move. Immediately you're like, oh, okay. I like. I've already answered 60% of the questions that I had about you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

And my favorite move in bars, which I developed in New York, was I would make eye contact with somebody from across the bar. It's better from far away. Are you in a relationship right now?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I am, yes.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. This is. So. This is for everybody who's not. Is works better from women. I think that men can do an abridged version of this, but it's much more difficult far away. You make eye contact with somebody. It's fun. Okay, whatever. And then you, like, look away. Right. Because it's, like, scary to make eye contact. And then, like, the second time you make eye contact, I would just go. And it works every time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

I've never had it not work.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's awesome.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. They just walk over. They just. And then they just walk over. Yeah. It's just great. You've just made somebody's decision for them. Or I just, like, go up and ask somebody their name or just, like, find a way to talk to them. Yeah. I just find that so much more exciting and interesting. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What is your idea of a perfect first date?

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, perfect first date. Probably like, ice cream in a park and then just probably, like, walking. Here's. Okay, this is not a first date, but this is. Or I should say I've never done this at all. I don't know if this would work as a first date. But here is. Here's a thing that I've always wanted to do that I think would be a great first date. I've always wanted in New York to just pick one street, wherever, like, it can be. So hundreds of streets, whatever. Pick one street and just only walk down that one street and go into any bar or any restaurant that you want, but you have to stay on that one street. You can't turn. And you just, like, have to only have a little bit at each one because otherwise you'll get so full. How do you. But, like, just have half a drink and then set it down and don't finish it. And then, like, go to the next place and, like, just have an appetizer at this restaurant and then set it down and keep going to the next place.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Why haven't you done that?

[Lauren Compton]

I don't know. I've said it to so many people, and I've just never. I mean, the reality. Every man who I've said it to has been. Would be listening to this right now, being like, yeah, I would have done that with you, but you are busy, Chloe. But I don't know. I think that would be. I think that would be a very fun first date.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. So you said that you don't want kids and you don't care about marriage.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So what is your goal in a relationship?

[Lauren Compton]

To feel like I see the world, like, really, really similarly to the person that I'm in a relationship with, which I do with Stuart, my boyfriend. Like, the. I love feeling like I have a partner who I. When. When there's a situation where I'm like, I just have a general vibe about this situation, but I can't put it into words. I trust. I. I can, like, go to them and be like, tell me what I feel about this and where. It's like, we are going to analyze a situation the same.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Lauren Compton]

Does that make sense? Yeah. Like, where I can just, like, I love. So many people are, like, dating comics. Comics shouldn't date comics. And I'm like, I love. I've dated two comics, and they've been the two best relationships that I've been in.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Because we see the world really similarly. We, like, we understand each other's work really, really intimately. Work is all I care about. It's all I ever want to talk about. Yeah. I think, like. I think comics are the smartest and most interesting and, like, sharpest people in the world. So I'm. I just like, yeah, that's what I want. I want somebody who, like, if I'm lazy, I can be like, what do you think about this? That's what I think about this. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

How did you get into stand up?

[Lauren Compton]

I always was like a little ham. I was always. I always wanted to be a little star. And I did. This is where canonically comes from. I competed in speech and debate for 10 years, and I did theater and I did improv. And I remember in high school, Watching a Comedy Central special where the guy was. He was, like, probably in his early 40s, talking about having sex with his wife. And I remember the joke. And, like, the joke is a fine joke. I couldn't. I have no idea who it was. Would never be able to find who this comedian is. But I remember watching that and just being like, that's what stand up is. That has nothing to do with me. Could I do standup? No. I think I'm funny, but not in that way. Eh. Not gonna be stand up.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

And, like, moved on and was like, I'll perform in some other way. And then worked. I was a math major. Then I worked a corporate job at Target headquarters in Minneapolis. And then target laid off 2,000 people, and I was one of them in one day. And two months later, I decided to, like, do the performance stuff that I had always promised myself that I would try. But it's just, like, I stayed at Target for a while. I'm bad at leaving. I'm bad at ending things. It's, like, very easy to keep doing a job that you're pretty good at that pays you a lot of money. Yeah. Rather than be like, and now I'm gonna quit and try, you know, sketch comedy or whatever. Yeah. And at the time, I didn't even know it'd be stand up. I just tried one stand up open mic as a. Like, what if I missed something? Great. But, like, I don't think I'm gonna like it. I'm just gonna check it off the list. And then I loved it immediately.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's fun.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. Yeah, I loved it immediately. And so it was speech. It, like, was the thing that I had done forever.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. And so your boyfriend does comedy too.

[Lauren Compton]

Does performs, and is a director. Like, direct stand up specials.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you think that you guys will ever live together? Like, move into the same place?

[Lauren Compton]

Totally. I mean, like. Like, he's been in New York for two months where he's living at my place, and, like, he has, like, half the drawers are his kind of thing. Not true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

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[Lauren Compton]

30% max of the drawers are his. But like he leaves stuff here. He has his desk set up. He has whatever. But like we will never be. He will never be 100% in New York because he just has a whole life in London. Like his career is in London. And now he's like expanding his career to the US so it will always be like 30% of the time long distance.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And do you go out there often? Because you said you had friends in.

[Lauren Compton]

London that are his friends. I have weaseled my way into his friend group.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think that's normal.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Guys always have the fun group of friends that you can like become friends with. I don't like.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, interesting to say more with. Okay. Are you saying. Are you saying a girl group of friends is not fun for a guy to get into?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Why?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I mean my husband doesn't ever want to hang out with my like group of girls.

[Lauren Compton]

Uh huh. And. But do you want to hang out with his group of guys?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, they're fun.

[Lauren Compton]

And do they want to hang out with you?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, but we, but we. They all have families and stuff too, so there. It's not like young guys like going out to the bars getting shit faced. Like they're like. It's like all families and stuff and.

[Lauren Compton]

But I'm. Okay, hold on. But what I'm curious about is if. So like if you a woman can hang out with that group of guys.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Why wouldn't. So it's not like men and women can't hang out. It's not like they don't have fun hanging out. No.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think, I think that for me on my side it's more of like a sex in the same city vibe of me and my girlfriends.

[Lauren Compton]

Uh huh.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like so he can't relate to my girlfriends all hanging out. He would want to go into a different room and be on his laptop and like do something.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Because we're just doing girl shit.

[Lauren Compton]

Like what?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I guess there's like, like one of my girlfriends. I'm trying to think. I mean we go out a lot but I mean we just talk about girl shit.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't, I don't know how to.

[Lauren Compton]

But what I. But what I'm asking. I totally get like. I know. I know. Talking about girl shit. But what I'm asking is, like, how come can a group of girls talk about guy shit in a way that a guy could then want to hang out with? You know what I mean? Like, if we, like, we can go into a group of guys and talk about guy shit and be fine. Yeah, Right?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I guess I would say that. So Mark, my husband, is very. He owns a barbecue restaurant. He's like.

[Lauren Compton]

He loves meat and dirt trucks, shovels, I think, too.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He's such a busy person that I don't even talk to him, like, a whole lot.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure, sure. And what do we like about him? He is a man. Does he have abs?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. All right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Not critical, but he.

[Lauren Compton]

Does he have blue eyes?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He does.

[Lauren Compton]

Is he European?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I actually like that about him, though.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't think that in his free time, he would want to hang out with a group of my girlfriends that are just bantering about women.

[Lauren Compton]

Maybe more about your taste in women than about his taste in women.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I mean, it's just like his group of friends are. Are, like, more. I guess, like, grounded. They're more down to earth.

[Lauren Compton]

My girlfriends are selling your friends out there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They're just sort of.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Flighty and fun and, like, they can be too loud. They can be annoying. They can drink too much. They can. You know, they. They talk a lot of shit. Like, just in general. Like, they're so fun.

[Lauren Compton]

Great, Great. This sounds. Is. Is Mark ever bitchy?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

In what way?

[Lauren Compton]

In what way is he. Clearly there's some way that he is. Yeah. Like, is he ever. Does he ever talk shit?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, yeah. He loves gossip, so he will ask me about the gossip and he'll want to be filled in. And he likes to watch Love is Blind, and he likes to watch all the reality stuff with me. And he's into the tea.

[Lauren Compton]

All right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But he doesn't want to go, like, get involved firsthand.

[Lauren Compton]

You know what? I think Mark is making you the middleman. I think Mark needs to do his own goddamn work. Mark needs to lift, carry his own water, get the gossip straight from the source. Okay, that's true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But also, to be fair, I don't want him to hang out with my girlfriend.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like, that's my time.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So even. Cause if he was like, oh, you're gonna go out to dinner with your girls, can I go? I'd be like, yeah, of course.

[Lauren Compton]

I'm not. I'm not suggesting, like, that he's like, hey, hey. No, but it's me now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it'd be like, but it's. How do you hang out with his friends? Like, like, how can that be? Like, I would assume you would never be like, hey, the four of you are going out to get some whiskeys. Can I join? Right. Like, I understand that's.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He always asks me to go everywhere. Everywhere he goes, whether it's a sporting event or it's like worst fest or it's interesting. Anything. He's always like, it's always me and him that go. But if I go out with my.

[Lauren Compton]

Girlfriends, he's like, see you later.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. And so he gives me, like, my time to go with my girlfriends. Now if he was like, I want to go to dinner with you guys, I'd be like, come on.

[Lauren Compton]

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm not hiding anything.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, let's go. Yeah. Great.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But he would rather take that time for himself.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay, fair.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I would say that my friends are loud and obnoxious. That's probably the best way to round that up.

[Lauren Compton]

With love. We say with love.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

With love.

[Lauren Compton]

Are there. Would they describe themselves as loud and obnoxious?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I got some rowdy friends.

[Lauren Compton]

Great.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And that's like, why I like them. Cause my life is like, so, like at home, I have a nine month old.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so I'm like, it's rowdy in there.

[Lauren Compton]

It's loud and obnoxious at home, and it's loud and obnoxious at the bar.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Two totally different louds and obnoxious. One talks, some of them talk and the other one doesn't. So it's just like.

[Lauren Compton]

Like all day long.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's like what I'm doing with my son.

[Lauren Compton]

I'm just like, yeah, right. Do you have male friends? No.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

One? I have one. And he's a comedian.

[Lauren Compton]

He's a man.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He's a man.

[Lauren Compton]

No abs. No abs, no blue eyes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He does have blue eyes.

[Lauren Compton]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I guess I have a thing for blue eyes.

[Lauren Compton]

I probably, like 10 years ago, I noticed that on Instagram, the. The pictures of women, I mean, like, just models, you know, like, not women. I know. That made me feel the most insecure. I realized that the pattern was that it's women with dark hair and light eyes. And I think it's because I could, like, we looked enough alike that I could compare myself. But there was. I realized that, like, that's the thing that it's like, you are never going to look like that. There's no world in which I'M ever going to be able to compare myself to her. And so I made a blanket rule of I am never allowed to compare myself against a woman with light eyes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You should.

[Lauren Compton]

That's my, that's my, like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you have guy friends?

[Lauren Compton]

Guy friends? Yeah, I would say probably most of my friends are guy friends.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Really?

[Lauren Compton]

Is that true? No, actually, I think, I think I'm probably split pretty half and half, but, yeah, a lot of guy friends. For sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I had a lot of guy friends when I was younger, and then as I got older, none of my relationships would, like, allow me to have guy friends.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But yours, yours has no problem with you having guy friends? No, but you're, like, in comedy, and of course you're gonna have guy friends.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, but also, it sounds like you would have still had guy friends if your exes had let you. Is that right?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think that my guy friends fell off because they probably did like me, and that just didn't work.

[Lauren Compton]

And I think my guy friends probably like me, and I just keep dragging them along, keep stringing them along. Maybe someday.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I can't do that.

[Lauren Compton]

No, no, no, no, no. I don't think, I think I, I, There certainly are, like, some friends where I'm like, ah, we have chemistry, but, like, nothing's ever going to happen. But no, I, I, I definitely have, like, genuine, earnest, like, male friendships where there is not chemistry.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Where, like, this person is just a friend.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. I would say that the one guy I have that I would, like, consider a really good friend of mine is, like, a straight friend.

[Lauren Compton]

Like, just. Yeah, straight friend.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Straight friend.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I do have some, so I haven't listened. This is a menu. When I first started this podcast, it's all, like, a zillion questions, and I never, ever look at it anymore. And there's some, like, great questions in here, so.

[Lauren Compton]

And I never look at it anymore. But, Chloe, I do not know what the fuck else to say to you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So we're going to go. I want to ask you, like, some meaningful things about your dating life.

[Lauren Compton]

Me? Okay, great.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Because we could sit here and talk all day long about my pros and.

[Lauren Compton]

Cons list, which I love, which I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Love, but I want to actually, like, dive in. So we're going to play a game.

[Lauren Compton]

Oh.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Pick a number between 1 and 30.

[Lauren Compton]

17.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

1, 2, 3, 4. They're not numbered. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

[Lauren Compton]

And for anybody wondering, she can count.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you have any irrational fears?

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, an irrational Fear that. About dating or in life?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

In life.

[Lauren Compton]

In life. I'm always afraid that the gas pump is not gonna click off. You know, when you, like. I'm terrified that it's not gonna, like, stop and that gas is just gonna start overflowing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Mm.

[Lauren Compton]

I am afraid of having bedbugs because I have had bedbug. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

It was like. It was in 2019. It was, like, five, six years ago now. Yeah. Wow. But it was the worst. It's the absolute scariest, horrible, most horrible thing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's terrible.

[Lauren Compton]

That and terrified of dead bodies, which, like, who knows whether. How irrational that is, but, like. Like, to an irrational degree.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's like a phobia.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's. That's. That.

[Lauren Compton]

It's like a fixation. It's like a. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a morbid curiosity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's weird, too. That'd be. I don't want a dead body either. That, like, has fucked me up every time I've ever seen a dead body.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like. Yeah, I don't want to see that.

[Lauren Compton]

Dead bodies.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, thanks. Pick another number between 1 and 30. Don't make it go too far, because then I have to count them all. Then I'll have to just. If you pick, like, a low number, I'm gonna have to, like, count backwards from 30.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. What about 18? We're gonna make this real nice on.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You after the irrational fears. Do you believe in astrology?

[Lauren Compton]

This is a hard one. I was raised by hippies and, like, hippie hippies. Not like, my parents smoked weed. Like. Like, we talked about past life memories at the dinner table. That's, like, a normal topic of conversation. Like, my parents met at a transcendental meditation teacher training course. Like, hippie hippie hippies. And so they got my, like, Vedic astrology birth chart read when I was a baby. And so I think I actually do believe in astrology, but the way it is metabolized in popular culture now feels so commercial and annoying. Yeah. That I sort. I, like, hate astrology, even though I do actually believe it does that. That's the answer.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Have you ever read the book Many Lives, Many Masters?

[Lauren Compton]

No. I've heard of it, but I've never read it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Man, that's one of my favorite books.

[Lauren Compton]

I don't even. I actually don't even really know what the book is.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's a psychologist who goes through a series of, like, he. Through hypnosis, he talks to patients, and they have past life regressions.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then he records them all, and then he writes this book about their past lives, and then he works with them. So every single patient has a huge fear or phobia of something, and so he's working on getting them through their fear or phobia. And then there's this, like, constant thing that just happens with all of them, and it's just the book is so fast.

[Lauren Compton]

Wait, what do you mean constant thing that happens with all of them?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, it's the same repetitive. It's like they all have a past.

[Lauren Compton]

Life where it's like you're afraid of water and it's. Because in a past life you drowned or, like. Is that what you're saying?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, like, it's all. All of the fears and phobias are past life related?

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so he's working with people through their fears, and so the book is different subjects, I guess, and stuff.

[Lauren Compton]

Like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so I thought that I should read it.

[Lauren Compton]

I totally. I bet I would love it. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's how you were raised.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Totally. I. I know. I think I. I almost, like. Like, don't think about that kind of stuff because I'm like, oh, it was. I just was, like, steeped in it, you know?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Such an early age that it feels so normal.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's so interesting. I mean, not a lot of people have that kind of family life.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, totally. And I. I think even fewer of those people wind up in, like, a super normal public channel. You know? Like, I. There's a. There are a lot of us weirdos, but we sort of stick to our little weirdo corners and. Yeah. With all the other little weirdos. And I'm like, no, no, no. It's funny because that's. It's like, how do you rebel against hippie parents? It's either, like, be a Republican or tell dick jokes for a living. And I picked dick jokes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, see how these questions are great. I've learned two great things about you. Pick another one.

[Lauren Compton]

Should I make it real easy on you? Should we go to 19? No. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Skip around.

[Lauren Compton]

All right. All right, let's do six.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you keep a. Do you like to keep on.

[Lauren Compton]

Counting?

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Counting.

[Lauren Compton]

We're good counting.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We're good reading.

[Lauren Compton]

Tough reading. It's tough.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I read this backwards. Maybe I'm dyslexic. What do you have on your nightstand next to your bed?

[Lauren Compton]

Ooh, I have. Oh, no. Lauren, this is gonna. You're gonna get to know me a lot better.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

O. I should refer to these questions more.

[Lauren Compton]

I. Yeah, they're Fun. Maybe more people would watch the show on my nightstand. That's what they're. Anybody. I've talked to a lot of people, and they've been like, we would watch Lauren Compton, but she doesn't go to the menu.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

She just riffs and talks to people and gets to know.

[Lauren Compton]

That's my one problem with the show.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wearing a button up to my fucking neck isn't going to help either. They.

[Lauren Compton]

They. You want them to like you for you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, I don't. I've been selling myself short for a long time, and it's worked very well.

[Lauren Compton]

That's. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. That's how.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Tell me about it.

[Lauren Compton]

Okay. My nightstand, there's like, okay, I'm the cheapest person I've ever met, and I have a lotion that I picked up off of a stoop down my street and then put it in a different container that I got for free from whatever. That doesn't matter. There's, like, lotions. It's like mostly. It's like, mostly like, you know, face cream, lotion stuff, whatever. But the thing that I thought of is, have you heard of Bag Balm? Bag Balm? No, I just like to say, like, that it's like. It's like Vaseline. It's basically like Aquaphor, but it's like a specific brand of it that was made in Vermont for cow farmers. Whatever the fuck. Anyway, Bag Bomb. It's a thing. It's like a normal thing. But I bought this Bag Bomb on Facebook Marketplace. I basically bought Aquaphor on Facebook Marketplace from an old lady on 14th street in New York for $5. It was, what a good deal. A whole thing of. A whole tub of Bag Bomb for five bucks. Yeah. Can't beat that. Anyway, that's what's on my nightstand.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I love Facebook Marketplace, by the way. I find lots of furniture on there. Yeah, they have some beautiful things that you can get, like.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, I bought these shoes on Facebook Marketplace.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's awesome.

[Lauren Compton]

I haggled. These are. I got good used Converse, and I brought. I got her down to 15 bucks from 20.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's great.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. Can't argue with that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Negotiating it down. Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, that's right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What is your biggest pet peeve in a relationship?

[Lauren Compton]

The first one that comes to mind is contrarianism. Like oppositional. Like when somebody. When somebody just wants to. Sorry, big words. Again, the.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, you don't have to explain.

[Lauren Compton]

No, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Contrarianism. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, it's. When When a person just has to take the opposite stance, regardless of nuance and regardless of whether they actually agree with that stance that they're taking, when they just, like, need to win and need to be right in that moment, even if it's actually, like, doesn't align with their full opinions, that drives me absolutely fucking insane. Does that make sense?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you have any addictions?

[Lauren Compton]

I think for a very long time, male attention functioned as that. Like, I was. I was using it to feel better about myself. And so I think that, like, I was sort of addicted to making people fall in love with me. Mm. It's just a slower addiction, you know?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Lauren Compton]

But somehow, like, I. There go I. But for the grace of God, I have missed substances. Like, somehow it's not like. Like, I do drink and I do do drugs, but like, they just. It's not.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's not your thing.

[Lauren Compton]

It's not my thing. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What's your drink of choice?

[Lauren Compton]

It always was cocktails, kind of any cocktail. And now I realize that's just because I love sugar.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Lauren Compton]

And I'm like, give me the sweetest drink now. I've recently been into old fashions. Oh, Negronis. But they've. I've gotten so fucked up on Negronis recently that I'm like, I can't. I gotta be real careful.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Negronis are also kind of sweet.

[Lauren Compton]

Totally. Totally.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They're, like, very syrupy.

[Lauren Compton]

So is an old fashioned. Yeah, totally. But I love them.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was on a Negroni kick for a while when. Like a couple of years ago. And like, every time I would have a drink, it was a Negroni.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah. And so they're so good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I do. I do like Negronis.

[Lauren Compton]

So good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

All right, for my last question. What is the most romantic thing someone has ever done for you?

[Lauren Compton]

If I don't say something that Stuart has done, he's gonna be like, what? The most romantic thing someone has ever done for me. God, I know that. It's so funny. I'm so bad at, like, instant recall. And I know that Stuart is sitting here watching this being like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this. Oh, you know what? This is very sweet. I love the sound of trains at night. Like, when you're somewhere where you can hear them blowing their whistle. And I am a very bad sleeper. I've tried. Like, I'm just. I don't know if it's technically insomnia, but I just, like, I'm always stressed and anxious, and I like, sleep badly. A lot. And for. It was just my birthday a couple weeks ago and part of the gift was he made this like long, 20 minute long looping track of the sound of trains at night in the distance that I can just listen to.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, that's sweet.

[Lauren Compton]

Yeah, that was really good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's very thoughtful.

[Lauren Compton]

I love that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, where can people find you?

[Lauren Compton]

I am on all social platforms at Chloe Badcliffe. Like my last name Radcliffe, but bad. If you type in Chloe bad, I'll come up and I'm. I've got a mailing list. I don't know when this is coming out. I think. I think a bunch of shows will have passed by the time this comes out, but. But I'm on the road most weekends at this point, so Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Vegas, Fort Collins, whatever. Yeah, check me out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Cool.

[Lauren Compton]

Check me out. Clap for me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, thank you for coming on my show.

[Lauren Compton]

Thank you for having me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thank you guys for watching another episode of First Date. We'll see you next time.

[Lauren Compton]

First Date.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Baby, are you really drinking a glass of milk with dinner?

[Lauren Compton]

First Date. I can't wait.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You told your mom about me? Just say you're ready. Delete my number. First Date, your parents are your roommate.

[Lauren Compton]

First date.