Episode 378 | Mr. Fred

Summary

Podcast Summary: New Rory & MAL – Episode 378 | Mr. Fred

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Hosts:

• Rory
• Maul

Description: New stories, new laughs, new random hot takes that no one asked for... New Rory & Mal.

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1. Return from LA and BET Awards Discussion [03:01 - 05:05]

The episode kicks off with Rory and Maul returning from Los Angeles, following the recent BET Awards. They humorously discuss their presence (or lack thereof) at the event and deliberate over their potential outfits.

• Rory: "We're back here and excited for the week." ([03:24])
• Maul: "This is us talking to our future selves." ([03:41])

They ponder whether to attend the red carpet, contemplating casual attire versus more formal outfits typically seen at such events.

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2. Navigating the Dating Scene: Personal Experiences and Challenges [05:05 - 24:20]

The conversation shifts to dating, with a focus on adult relationships versus past experiences. Damaris shares her struggles with transitioning from long-term relationships to casual dating, highlighting the emotional complexities involved.

• Maul: "You don't want to miss a minute of this." ([05:35])
• Damaris: "I've entertained intimately one new male in the past seven years." ([16:43])

Key topics include:

• Serial Monogamy vs. Casual Dating: Exploring the difficulties of moving from committed relationships to casual dating without falling into toxic situations.
• Communication Issues: Discussing honesty in dating and how to handle situations where partners may have different expectations or desires.
• Personal Growth: Emphasizing the importance of self-awareness and breaking negative dating patterns.

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3. Speed Dating Skit – A Humorous Take on Dating Conundrums [36:07 - 40:05]

In a comedic segment, Rory and Maul engage in a mock speed dating scenario. They portray exaggerated interactions, highlighting common awkward moments and misunderstandings that occur during first dates.

• Rory: "You too fine to be here... What's your name?" ([38:38])
• Damaris: "I like to read. I like to dance. I like to cook." ([37:35])

This skit serves to entertain listeners while shedding light on the often humorous side of dating dynamics.

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4. Reflections on Public Figures and Moving On After Tragedy [43:57 - 52:10]

The hosts delve into a sensitive topic, discussing rumors surrounding Vanessa Bryant and the challenges public figures face when moving on after personal tragedies. They emphasize the importance of respecting individuals' personal lives and the right to find happiness post-tragedy.

• Damaris: "I hope she finds happiness." ([52:10])
• Maul: "Life goes on, man. We all got to move forward." ([52:03])

They critique the intrusive nature of fandoms and the unrealistic expectations placed on widows like Vanessa Bryant to remain in mourning indefinitely.

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5. Listener Voicemail: The Dumbest Relationship Argument [68:04 - 75:13]

The episode features a listener's voicemail about a trivial argument in a relationship concerning gym habits and weight loss. Damaris offers advice, emphasizing the importance of individual well-being over partners' insecurities.

• Listener's Question: "What is the dumbest argument you've had in a relationship?" ([68:04])
• Damaris: "You're not wrong at all. You're doing what's best for you and what's best for your body." ([69:37])

Key insights include:

• Supporting Partners: Encouraging partners to find their own motivation and not letting one partner's habits negatively impact the other's self-esteem.
• Healthy Boundaries: Maintaining personal fitness routines without imposing undue pressure on partners.

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6. Concluding Thoughts and Final Insights [75:13 - 80:05]

Wrapping up, the hosts continue their lighthearted banter, touching on topics like fitness motivations, personal trainers, and the humorous side of relationship dynamics. They reinforce the themes of self-improvement and mutual support in relationships.

• Maul: "Find your way again. Get your foot underneath them again." ([73:31])
• Rory: "Don't let them know where I live yet." ([07:35])

The episode concludes with a reinforcement of the show's recurring themes: honest conversations, humor, and relatable life experiences.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Rory: "We're back here and excited for the week." ([03:24])
• Maul: "You don't want to miss a minute of this." ([05:35])
• Damaris: "I've entertained intimately one new male in the past seven years." ([16:43])
• Damaris: "You're not wrong at all. You're doing what's best for you and what's best for your body." ([69:37])
• Maul: "Life goes on, man. We all got to move forward." ([52:03])

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Conclusion

Episode 378 of New Rory & MAL weaves through a tapestry of personal anecdotes, humorous skits, and deep reflections on modern relationships and societal expectations. Rory, Maul, and Damaris engage listeners with candid discussions, offering both laughter and meaningful insights into navigating the complexities of dating and personal growth.

Transcript

[Damaris]

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[Maul]

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[Maul]

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[Maul]

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[Damaris]

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[Rory]

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[Maul]

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[Damaris]

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[Maul]

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[Rory]

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[Maul]

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[Rory]

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[Maul]

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[Rory]

And that's a great start of an episode.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

It is Monday. Well, Tuesday, if you're listening to this.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

The BET Awards just happened. Mall and I just took over la. Shut it down. We didn't shut it. No. LA was exactly the same as we came.

[Maul]

Nothing, nothing changed.

[Rory]

Literally nothing at all. But we are back here and excited for the week.

[Maul]

Yeah. Good to be back home.

[Rory]

How are you feeling?

[Maul]

I'm good, man. How you feeling?

[Rory]

Not too bad. This is bad acting as we're wearing the same clothes from a previous episode.

[Maul]

Okay.

[Rory]

Of course it's pre recorded.

[Maul]

Of course.

[Rory]

Mall and I are in la.

[Maul]

We are in la.

[Rory]

We actually might be at the BET Awards on Monday night. We haven't really decided if we're gonna like hit the carpet or not.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

What's your carpet switch?

[Maul]

This is us talking to our future selves.

[Rory]

Yes. In the event that we decide outside of the weekend, we would actually go to the awards 1. What are you wearing?

[Maul]

I don't know. I have no idea. You think I know what I'm wearing?

[Rory]

We're talking in the future from the past right now.

[Maul]

Yes. I don't know. Something comfortable and casual as always.

[Rory]

Okay. Like sweats.

[Maul]

No, not sweats. I might. I might do some. I might do some. Some jeans maybe.

[Rory]

Okay. I'm trying to think. BET Awards 2024 Men Fashion Paws. It's casual, but there's people in suits here. Usher was giving them the jeans blazer like combo us. That's, that's. That's your age group for sure.

[Maul]

She always has Usher's always jeans blazer.

[Rory]

If we had to walk the carpet together, how would you feel? If I went full gunna and did the vest with the slacks, I would feel like. With my white biceps, I would feel.

[Maul]

Like I'm ready to go home. Ready to leave right now.

[Rory]

You choose not to do it?

[Maul]

Yeah. Choose not to do it. You go.

[Rory]

You don't think Tank and I could wear the same fit?

[Maul]

No, I don't. I don't think you and Tank could wear anything remotely close to similar.

[Rory]

Well, yeah, that is something we have to think about. If we are in fact already been on the carpet, maybe they already saw us. And while they're listening to this, they're like, we already saw Rory pull off the sleeveless fit.

[Maul]

Exactly.

[Rory]

And then we saw Maul exit.

[Maul]

Saw him Leave. Because that's exactly what I'll be doing.

[Rory]

Yeah, but how's everyone feeling? Damaris, can you talk to your future self? How did your hosting go?

[Damaris]

Oh, it went amazing.

[Rory]

I love that. We can also update on our. Our Thursday Friday episode. We'll have our predictions reviewed.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Rory]

How did it go? You know, meanwhile, she ended up crying in the backseat of a car.

[Maul]

Of course.

[Damaris]

Nah. Not no more that Damaris is gone. Not no more that Damaris is gone.

[Rory]

They didn't have my rider together.

[Maul]

Where did she go?

[Damaris]

Well, Drake said rip to the girl you used to see. Those days are over. Y' all don't remember that?

[Maul]

Yes.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Maul]

Remember that. I just don't know if that's, like, what you should be singing, because. Is it over?

[Rory]

There was a rebirth on.

[Damaris]

Rebirth. Yeah. I told y' all. So. Okay. It's Monday. It's Tuesday. Yeah. I already found my Stefan Diggs.

[Rory]

Okay.

[Damaris]

Yeah, found him.

[Maul]

When do we get to get into existence?

[Damaris]

Yeah, we gonna meet him at your album release party.

[Rory]

No, but that could be n. We need to meet him, like, this week.

[Damaris]

Nah, nah.

[Rory]

Al have him stop by on Thursday.

[Damaris]

N around for a while. They popped out at the Knicks game. We gonna pop up at your album release. Like, I popped out with my last one. Got rid of him.

[Rory]

You would probably.

[Maul]

Yeah. But I don't know if. Is that the. The president. You want to keep setting. Keep bringing you.

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Maul]

It didn't last when you brought him to the last album release party.

[Rory]

It's true.

[Maul]

So you want to bring him to the new album release and. Yeah, I don't know.

[Damaris]

This one. This one. This one better. So we gonna bring him to the album Release, you guys.

[Rory]

48 hours.

[Damaris]

You guys will all meet him, and everything's gonna be good.

[Maul]

I didn't meet the last one.

[Damaris]

Yes, you did.

[Rory]

You did. You just weren't paying attention.

[Maul]

I did.

[Damaris]

Yeah. He was at the. Well, I threw the party for our. Our live after show party, too. But you were just miserable. You were ready to go home. We had did a live show, then I made y' all come to a party that y' all didn't want to come to.

[Rory]

But he was at the single release as well.

[Damaris]

Yeah, he was at the single release.

[Rory]

Yeah. You've definitely met him.

[Damaris]

You was over in the corner talking to Diana. I got a picture of y' all.

[Maul]

Okay.

[Rory]

That's cute.

[Maul]

All right.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

I just feel like it needs to happen before then. If this guy is as good as you say he is after 24 hours.

[Maul]

Here, this is Your step on my stuff?

[Rory]

Did he take you to brunch the next or did you just, like, recover?

[Damaris]

Nah, you know, I gotta replay the.

[Rory]

Coy, like, nah, I have a lot to do tomorrow.

[Damaris]

Yeah, and also, I'm moving this week, so.

[Maul]

Is he helping you?

[Damaris]

The new nigga I just met 48 hours ago that technically, I really haven't met yet. Cause we're talking in the future. No, I don't think he's moving. I don't want him to know where I live yet.

[Maul]

Okay?

[Damaris]

I don't let n know where I live till at least 6, 7, 8, 9 months in.

[Maul]

Damn.

[Rory]

He definitely got the lie off at the party.

[Damaris]

Tell a nigga where you live, man, you could live in Brooklyn. Suddenly a Bronx nigga riding through your neighborhood. No, man. Now you got an auntie over here. No, I don't want nobody living where I live.

[Maul]

That's how it go, you know? You think I don't know?

[Rory]

You don't think I know anyone in Brooklyn?

[Maul]

Yeah, I'm in the neighborhood, like.

[Damaris]

Yeah, but now you in the neighborhood like, you was a Coney island nigga before. What you doing over here? Driving through Bed Stuy, talking about you in the area.

[Maul]

Move.

[Rory]

Now. First of all, that's a super red flag. I was in the neighborhood. What guys doing that?

[Damaris]

Well, I'm from a small town, so. Men did that a lot.

[Maul]

Well, you from a small town. They always in the neighborhood. Like, it's a small town. If I run to the corner, I'm running past you.

[Rory]

Everyone's on the boulevard, and we all.

[Maul]

On the same street. We all live right here.

[Rory]

Go to the same bar.

[Maul]

Yeah, same barbershop, same club, same restaurants. It's only, what, three date night spots you can go to? That's like, nice in a small town, I'm saying.

[Rory]

Yeah, Just doing that period. Is creepy, though, in New York, too. You live in the Bronx and you just like, yo, I'm in the neighborhood in Brooklyn, yo.

[Damaris]

Being in the neighborhood, like, yeah, at.

[Maul]

Least do it before you leave it. Like, yo, listen, I'm. I got to go to Brooklyn today. Like, you, you.

[Damaris]

Damn. We got back to back episodes. Two Evergreens and a Patreon. Can't make it. Sorry.

[Maul]

Damn.

[Rory]

But you should read the situation to begin with if she would even want to see you. Oh, first of all, I feel like you would only do the hey, I'm in the neighborhood if you're already, like, getting evidence that this girl doesn't want to see you.

[Maul]

Yeah, you have to be at that.

[Rory]

Because if that was the case, she'd be like, yo, come to the neighborhood.

[Maul]

Yeah. You know when a girl is like, would she be mad if you was in her hood and didn't hit her versus you hitting her when you in her hood and she's like, yo, why are you telling me that? Like, you're not coming to my house.

[Rory]

Supposed to be the worst text when they find out you was in their neighborhood and you never hit them. Yeah, it's like, no, I knew I.

[Damaris]

Was when be like, yo, I'm in your city. Have fun. Go see the Eiffel Tower. I don't know the you want. I mean the Statue of Liberty.

[Maul]

Tell somebody. Go see the Eiffel Tower in New York.

[Rory]

Now keep that. I like that better.

[Damaris]

The Statue of Liberty, I can't help you. Like, I, I, I'm not helping you.

[Maul]

But you only, only, only to the guy you don't want to see.

[Damaris]

Oh, of course.

[Maul]

If there's a guy you want to.

[Damaris]

See, I could be laying there with a full body full of hair and I will get in the shower and like putting air from my eyebrows down to my toenail.

[Maul]

It's like everything gone 20 minutes. Yeah, I know, it's, I know, I know all about those days.

[Rory]

This is going to sound sick, but it's just because we've gotten older and we've had experiences. Have you been going to a city for like over a decade and every time you text that girl in your city, they do exactly what Damaris just said, every single time for a decade, you start thinking like, you ain't never been in a relationship. Every time I touch down, no matter what month it is, what random day of the week it is, you. Why are you free all the time at work?

[Maul]

That's what you call a soldier ready for war.

[Rory]

Like, you never even been like a.

[Maul]

She ready for war at all times. You never catch, never. She never on her cycle.

[Rory]

Because there's been like times where even chicks you've talked to for that long, there'll be like months or years where it's like, I'm in a relationship now and like, enjoy yourself. If you need something, whatever, just hit me. But I'm a relationship. I want to respect that. Cool. But there's some girls that for a decade, every Tuesday I could just show up in Arizona and. You ready?

[Maul]

Ready. That's what you call a soldier. Those are the no limit soldiers right there.

[Rory]

And then you feel bad cause in your head you're like, that girl could make a great girlfriend. What is wrong because you're only spending at most three days around her at a time, you start to wonder what she's like outside of those days. You've known her for ten years. But only in three day increments.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Like, what's her two week swag like?

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

There's no way way this pretty girl. That's cool.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

Is not in a relationship at some point.

[Maul]

Yeah. And then you get upset when she stops answering your text.

[Rory]

Well, that's. I'm sure she changed her number.

[Maul]

No, no, no, it's still there. I find her email.

[Rory]

That's sick.

[Maul]

Now that's still a number.

[Rory]

I know you're doing. I know you're too cool. Damaris, when was the last time you sent an email to somebody? You know the emails I'm talking about Go green. You blocked on ignition. When was the last time you sent the email out?

[Damaris]

Well, see, I haven't had to send an email because I'm a cash app girl. I'm gonna. I'm gonna request a dollar on cash app and send 50 messages. But that was.

[Rory]

How many characters are in cash app? I've only like put emojis.

[Damaris]

You can send a couple. Like, you can send a couple. I don't need that many folks. Stop playing with me, bitch. Stop playing with me. You can get that off.

[Maul]

Wait, some characters.

[Rory]

Bitch, stop playing with me.

[Damaris]

Yeah, yeah. I don't take much.

[Rory]

There's not a character limit.

[Damaris]

There is a character limit, but it.

[Maul]

Ain'T the same as like Twitter. It's like 400.

[Rory]

Oh, I can get my off if it's 140.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

Well, Rory, were you aware that you have that even when you block somebody, they can still leave you a voicemail? Like you have a blocked voicemails. Oh, I did not know that folder. Yeah, so, like, even when you block people, they can still leave you a voicemail. And then when you go to your blocked voicemail folder, like, you can see all the voicemails.

[Maul]

I don't have nobody blocked. That's funny.

[Damaris]

Really?

[Maul]

Nobody?

[Damaris]

Because, ma, you so mean. Like, if we were. If you were listening, I'll say you're strict. If we were dating and you were to block me out. I mean, if we were dating and you were to say, I don't want to talk to you no more like, I wouldn't blow your phone up because you strict. Like you give like. Like you. Not for the games. Like, you give. Like you meant what the you said.

[Maul]

Yeah, I said what I said. Stop playing. We're not even. We're not playing them again. Games.

[Damaris]

You don't have to block them.

[Maul]

Yeah, I don't have to block Rory.

[Damaris]

Say Rory. Say he done, man. I know. If I call five times, I'm gonna get through.

[Maul]

And he'll come. And he'll come pick you up.

[Damaris]

Yeah, exactly.

[Rory]

Sounds like a kind soul.

[Maul]

Yeah, Rory. He'll block her, then go pick her up.

[Rory]

I'm not a. I'm not a block. No, I'm not a block person.

[Maul]

You've never blocked nobody.

[Rory]

I've only blocked, like, spam number. Like, weird. I've never blocked a girl. I just.

[Damaris]

Yeah, never a cough wrong around me. He blocked.

[Rory]

I've been. I've been blocked before, and I've done the email thing and I always start it, like, the same way every time. Oh, I guess you're not into communication.

[Maul]

So.

[Rory]

Oh, I guess this is how you handle issues.

[Maul]

Yeah. Someone's not being an adult. Yeah, yeah, I see.

[Rory]

You run away from your problems instead of confront them.

[Maul]

Exactly. That's how you.

[Rory]

That's starting every email that way I've. And it's always has to be no subject either.

[Maul]

Yeah, I've definitely been blocked, though. And I don't know why, because I don't blow phones up. But whatever.

[Rory]

I mean, maybe I blocked a number for like the night because they were blowing my phone up, but I've unblocked it. Like, I've never. If I go through my block contacts, it's a bunch of random numbers. I do not know.

[Maul]

I thought about changing my number.

[Damaris]

Don't. You've had it for so long.

[Maul]

I've had my number.

[Damaris]

I know. You're not gonna give us the new one either.

[Maul]

No, no. You have to have them all. I'm saying, like, I. It's so many people that know not to hit my phone that still have my number. Yeah, Like, I don't know. I just. I feel like I want to change my number, though.

[Rory]

I did. I mean, you guys remember I had like five different numbers at one. I kept switching my number because I was doing the social cleanse. But this was right before COVID I've been fine since. Like, only people that need to have my number have it because it was before. It was just too many people have my. Yeah, too many people were hitting me. But that should have clear your mind. Trust me, I. I encourage it.

[Maul]

It's changing.

[Rory]

I would change that.

[Maul]

Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking about it. I'm really thinking about it.

[Rory]

At one point, I was doing it like once a year.

[Maul]

Nah, see, that's I can't do.

[Damaris]

My little sister does that once every six months.

[Maul]

Like, who run it from.

[Rory]

Well, no, no. It started with, like, business stuff. At that point. I gotta keep my number because I've had this number definitely since, like, 20, 19, or 18. But I was switching my a lot because I don't know too many people. I think palooza also had a lot to do with it because it was just so many rent.

[Maul]

Oh, okay.

[Rory]

Like, everybody was even in the palus crew would give my number to so many people. And then, like, yeah, it got to a point where I was like, who. Who the are these people that get like.

[Maul]

I can understand that.

[Rory]

It got way too crazy.

[Maul]

Yeah, I can see that.

[Rory]

And I mean, of course, I was a heart throb. So just the hoes was just like, oh, my. Can I get a break, guys?

[Damaris]

Yeah, can I get a break, guys? I was. As I was telling y' all on the last episode, and I said I was gonna talk to you about it on this one. When I get in a new relationship, I'm gonna change my number, But I'm about to start casual dating. Mall said, that's how you become a hoe. But I realized I had a self real.

[Maul]

No, no, that's not. I didn't say that's how you become a hoe. I said, baby D About to become a hoe. It's a difference out of.

[Rory]

What's the difference?

[Maul]

Difference. I said what? I said.

[Damaris]

I. I do not feel like I'm about to become a hoe. But what I realized when I looked back on my dating history, I only gradually dated from 18 to. As an adult, from 18 to 23. 22. 23. That was it. Since 23, I have been in relationships and then a very toxic situationship. I have never just dated. Just like, oh, I have a date.

[Maul]

This day and the day situation.

[Damaris]

Yeah. Like, I haven't just been like, oh, I have a date this week. And then I have a date. Like, I don't date. Like, I. I don't date. I don't have sex with people who aren't already in love with me. I caught one new body in the past seven years. Like, I have to. I wasted my 20s in relationships. So I want to get. You said, what.

[Maul]

What type of math you doing?

[Damaris]

What do you mean?

[Maul]

So you caught one new body?

[Damaris]

One new body?

[Maul]

As in, like, everybody Female bodies count. See, this is this woman math. See this? This is. Come on, baby.

[Rory]

I don't think that counts.

[Damaris]

Happy pride.

[Maul]

Stop it. Yes. Pride month be prideful how many cats have you licked in the last seven years?

[Damaris]

Okay, cancel each other out.

[Maul]

Two cats. Yeah.

[Rory]

Negative one plus negative one equals zero. Whatever the it is.

[Damaris]

I've. I've. I've entertained intimately one new male in the past seven years.

[Maul]

I've entertained.

[Rory]

That's why. That's why she dressed this way. Because you sound like Jada.

[Maul]

Yeah. You sound like Jade at the red table. Like, listen.

[Rory]

What do you mean?

[Maul]

What did she say intimately? Like, what are you talking about?

[Damaris]

I was. Yeah, I was.

[Maul]

You had sex with one new guy?

[Damaris]

Yes.

[Maul]

In the last seven years?

[Damaris]

Yes. Okay, that's of. That's insane. What did superhead For a girl in her twenties?

[Rory]

No, superhead said, we collided. When somebody asked her, like, did you. This person, like, well, we collided.

[Damaris]

Our universe is collided.

[Rory]

Yeah. We swapped energies.

[Maul]

Okay, so you are. So you're looking back. You're looking to get back into the dating game.

[Damaris]

Yeah, but I don't know. I don't know how to do it because I've never done it as an adult. I've never done it. So I'm trying to figure out how to be cool and, like, laid back and not jump into a relationship after date three, which is what I usually do.

[Rory]

Yeah, I don't think you're built ho. Tough. I don't know if hoen's really for.

[Damaris]

You, but I don't really want a ho is like, Is there only serial monogamous and hoe. Is there, like, no middle ground?

[Maul]

No, there's a middle ground.

[Damaris]

What is it? How. How do I get there?

[Rory]

Casual dating. But I don't know if you're built for casual dating.

[Damaris]

I. I don't think I. I don't. I don't think I am either, but I don't really have a choice. I can't go and get into another relationship right now. I think that that is. I don't think that's the spot in my life I need to be in right now.

[Maul]

Yeah, I don't. I wouldn't say go get into another relationship, but you could have fun. You could casually date, have fun.

[Damaris]

How do you have fun?

[Maul]

It doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be. You don't have to be, like, intimate or physical to casually date. You know, I mean, you don't have to have sex with somebody to casually date. Hang out, flirt a little bit, you know, just see what happens. But you don't have to, like, don't put that pressure on you. Like, oh, he gonna want some up. Yes, he's gonna want some pussy. We all know that.

[Rory]

It comes with the date.

[Maul]

Yes, it comes with it. Like, don't. No matter how many flowers he sends you, how many. Good morning. He thinking about that cat, and in.

[Rory]

His head he's saying, damn, I even asked her to come through. Like, I took her on a date.

[Maul]

Obviously, I'm pussy, but, you know, just. Just. Just have fun. Don't put no pressure on it. No pressure. Don't put no pressure. Don't put no expectations.

[Damaris]

I don't like calling a. He don't answer. Like, I haven't had to deal with that in a very long time.

[Maul]

What you mean he don't.

[Damaris]

Like, I'll call a nigga, and, like, he don't answer? Not. Okay, I've called men and they don't answer. But, like, I can't cuss you out for not answering. Like, I don't like that.

[Maul]

But what?

[Damaris]

Like, I gotta just deal with the fact you didn't answer. You busy?

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

And you don't have to explain to me what you're doing. Like, you don't have to, like, tell me, like, anything. Like, you was just. Oh, I was out. I was just out. I can't.

[Rory]

That is the toughest part about going from serial monogamy shit, which I've done and then tried to date. Your brain is wired for exactly what.

[Maul]

You think, of course.

[Rory]

Like, no, I'm not saying you owe me that. But when you're talking to somebody, you just. That's what you're used to.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Rory]

What you're doing where you're not even on, like, a. Yo, what the. You doing? You're just used to that update.

[Maul]

Like, that's what you let them know.

[Rory]

Not talking to somebody for a day. You're like, wait, what the.

[Damaris]

Yeah, dude, I even like me. Like, I don't know, but we're the.

[Rory]

Psychopaths in that degree.

[Maul]

But let them know, though, baby. Deep. Like, let them. I'm not pressing you. I'm not trying to be like, you know what I'm saying?

[Rory]

Like, clocking your ass scarier, too. That's like, leading with that.

[Maul]

No, but let them know, like, I'm not. It's not a press. I'm not saying, yo, what you was doing. Like, I'm not pressing you. You just like, you know, that's what you're used to. It's just like, you know, you just. Okay, you know, how do I know.

[Damaris]

That they like me?

[Maul]

How do you know if they like you?

[Damaris]

Like, for me, how do I know that?

[Maul]

I mean, what you mean for you?

[Damaris]

How do I know if they like me for me or if they're just trying to hit you?

[Rory]

You don't always trying.

[Maul]

I just told you step one. Baby D A N is always trying to hit. Like let's not skip over step one.

[Rory]

And also that doesn't mean a bad thing. He could also want to hit but really like you and get to know.

[Damaris]

You and want to keep it difference between like I know first of all. Okay, let me put like this. I've been loved by men, so I know what it feels like to be loved by men.

[Maul]

By men. And.

[Damaris]

But if. Huh?

[Maul]

Nothing good.

[Damaris]

But. But as far as the casual dating thing, the slow growth of it all without running and jumping into a relationship. How do I know? Like I don't know. How do I know?

[Rory]

You have to take that time so you don't end up in a seven year toxic situationship where you're both trying to prove and disprove that you like each other. You actually have to take the time in the beginning to do so instead of rushing into would you know, I'm not judging you because I've done it a million times of just immediately hopping into a relationship with somebody that you just like at the time and then you don't really get to know each other and it ends up being a toxic situation for years instead of taking the time to really get to know them before you hop into anything. Getting to know somebody that way in a relationship is where the toxic shit starts. After two weeks it's like move in.

[Damaris]

You don't even know that that'd be.

[Rory]

Me, but you don't even know them. That's why it turns into toxic shit because you don't even know them. You're getting to know them once you've already committed to somebody that you don't even know.

[Maul]

Moving after two weeks is crazy. Baby D. So you can't do that.

[Damaris]

I moved in, I think after two months. Two months. I moved in.

[Maul]

Moved in with somebody.

[Damaris]

Yeah, that.

[Rory]

That's wild.

[Maul]

After two months it was.

[Damaris]

We were in love. We were in love. I.

[Maul]

Okay, two months is crazy.

[Rory]

You're in love with the idea. Yeah.

[Maul]

I don't think.

[Damaris]

No, we really were. We really were in love.

[Rory]

Eventually. Yeah.

[Damaris]

Yeah. It said didn't work out, but we really were in love with each other. But my thing is. Okay, so I was having this because I'm asking all my male homeboys about this. Y' all are my male homeboys. I asked reason about this. He said, I Said. Okay, so how do I handle if I start having sex with someone but, like, I'm casually dating and I start dating somebody else? Like, obviously I'm not doing them both.

[Maul]

Oh, you. No, I'm sorry, baby. I just had a flashback.

[Rory]

Bubba Sparks.

[Maul]

That's Ludo.

[Rory]

No, isn't Luda and Bubba, though?

[Maul]

I don't know.

[Rory]

Go ahead.

[Maul]

They always trying to put the whites in the hip hop. See?

[Damaris]

Yeah, I see.

[Rory]

Dungeon family.

[Damaris]

I was just trying to figure out, like, okay, if you're sleeping with one, you really like them, and then you start liking another one, but you don't another one.

[Rory]

How they speak about us.

[Maul]

Yeah, like one of those just objects. Yeah.

[Damaris]

I don't know. Operate in that environment. Like, I don't know how to like, two people at one time. Like, what do I do?

[Maul]

Yes, you do. You don't want to two people at the same time.

[Damaris]

Okay, but.

[Maul]

Yeah, but you know how to like two people at the same time.

[Damaris]

If I'm really, really liking somebody, first of all, in order for me to sleep with you, I have to really, really like you. And then if I'm really, really liking you and really, really liking, how am I gonna continue to just casually date other people? I don't know how to. How to make my brain split like that.

[Maul]

Okay, so what you need to do is you need to always remember, this is just fun casually dating. If you slip and fall into bed and you knock your head through the headboard when you get up and you go in the shower to get that warm rag, look in the mirror and say, this is just fun, Damaris.

[Damaris]

This is just fun.

[Maul]

This is not a long term relationship.

[Damaris]

Okay?

[Maul]

I'm still having fun. This. Okay, I like him. It's cool to like somebody. I'm not gonna say don't like nobody. I like him. Just keep your options, you know, still keep walking. That's like at the buffet, you stop at the chicken tenders, but that's not all you put on your plate. We love. Who doesn't love? You love chicken tenders. Of course you love the chicken tenders, but you gotta move on down. Get some sides, get some greens, some veggies, a salad, you know, get your whole spread going.

[Rory]

48 mozzarella sticks.

[Damaris]

Yeah, okay.

[Maul]

That's what you gotta do. Have fun. Love your chicken tenders, but leave room on your plate for others is what I'm saying.

[Damaris]

Okay?

[Maul]

That's all.

[Damaris]

All right.

[Rory]

Are you somebody that wants rigorous honesty in dating?

[Maul]

Swallowed your pride right there. You heard how that hit. I heard that Shit hit her belly button, that shit went strict. Boom. Damn. Women can't even. You swallowed a sneaker.

[Rory]

That was crazy.

[Maul]

You heard that? Yo, women can't swallow they pride at all.

[Damaris]

I do, I do, I do. I do want honesty. I do.

[Rory]

Okay, let's say we've been on two dates, we've been talking.

[Maul]

But what honesty, though?

[Rory]

For three, let's say two weeks. Two weeks, two dates, talk, whatever. And you say, hey, are you free Tuesday? And I say, no, I'm not. And you just think, because we've just been talking back and forth. Oh, okay, like, what you got going on?

[Maul]

I got a date.

[Rory]

I have a date. Is that the type of honesty you want?

[Maul]

That honesty? That hurt. I ain't going to lie.

[Damaris]

I got ptsd. I would like for. Okay, I would like for you to be honest. I want you to feel like you can be honest. I don't want you to feel like you have to be honest about that.

[Maul]

Like, if I asked you, you're not answering a question.

[Damaris]

How. Okay, I want the honesty. I do want the honesty, but I don't want. I'm cool if I don't get it either. Like, I'm like, I'm like, if you just tell me you busy and I don't ask a follow up question, then that's fine.

[Rory]

In this scenario you do lie.

[Damaris]

But I'm fine if you omit some shit. But I don't want you to lie. Like, if I ask you, hey, I called you last night, where were you? And you're like, oh, I was on a date. I gotta eat that, I gotta eat that, I gotta eat that. But I'm probably not gonna, I'm probably not gonna do the same. I don't think that men can handle that same amount of honesty. Men, when they find out that other men are entertaining you, there's, from what I've experienced, there's two different types of men. There's one that they see that they have competition and they're gonna act like a lion and really go hard for it. And then there's someone, they see that they have competition, they're gonna fall back and say, oh, I'm not about to be trying to woo you when another is trying to woo you.

[Maul]

No, I don't. Well, for myself, I, I was at a girl's house. We was just, just friends. Like, just, just home, I'm sure. And I was at her crib and we was chilling, rolling up, smoking, right? And she was like, yeah, you know, this, this guy, he about to pull up Whatever, Whatever. He's about to come through. He's supposed to do something for her. Whatever, right? Respected the honesty. Gangster, right? Now, I never saw her again after that. Like, I never. Never ended up after that. But I respect the honesty, though. Like, all right, cool. Like, let me get up out your space. You know what I'm saying? I was at her crib, chilling, you know, rolling up, smoking, talking, just chilling. She's like, yeah, you know, my friend about to pull up in the field, she just let me know, like, basically, like, you know, so we gotta wrap this up. I respected it. Never saw again after that. Never went to a crib after that.

[Damaris]

Why?

[Maul]

I don't know if I'm being honest. It wasn't. Because it wasn't. Again, just homies. It wasn't nothing. Like, you know, wasn't trying to really do nothing. But if there's other men actively coming to your crib to, like, kicking and chilling, hang out, I don't need to be in that rotation. Not me. Like, you could take me out of that. You could. I'll go over here. I'll take myself out the rotation. I took myself out the rotation.

[Damaris]

But if. And that's why I say that's why sometimes women lie. Because I do know that men feel. You're not the only man that I know feels like that. As far as coming to my crib. Nobody's coming to my crib. But as far as just, you know, like, if you feel like you in a rotation, a lot of men don't like feeling like that. So they'll take themselves out of the rotation. Whereas, it's like, the whole purpose of casual dating is like, this shit, a rat race. We gonna see who the fuck make it to the finish line. So. But you know why you could win.

[Maul]

No, no, no, no. Because you know why I took myself out of the rotation? Because other men can't handle knowing that a girl has a rotation. So now this dude pull up. I'm there, chilling. Say we just. Our times just overlap. He pull up sooner than he was supposed to.

[Damaris]

Yes. That's dangerous.

[Maul]

You understand what I'm saying? So that's why I take myself out the equation. Cause I know other dudes can't handle. I'm fine with it. I'm cool. Like, I'm not tripping. But I know other dudes can't, you know, they can't handle that. They get mad when they know that the girl that they like is, you know, entertaining other girl and other guys, that they. Even if the guy is Just literally just chilling. Like, they don't. They not gonna take that well. And then I don't take getting, you know, asked questions well. Like, you're not gonna question me, like, if I'm walking out, yo, who you fancy now? Talk to her. Don't ask me nothing. Don't ask me where I'm from, who I came to see, how long we've been knowing each other. Don't ask me nothing. Talk to her. She'll give you the rundown. And that's between y' all. I'm out, though. And that's why I take myself out of that, because, again, I know what comes with that. With other men. Like, they don't. They can't handle that. But I would say to you, keep your options open, though. Have fun. Let them know, listen, I'm not looking for nothing too heavy, too serious. I'm having fun getting to know people.

[Rory]

But when you say that, that's when a guy can say, like, I have a. A date tonight. And say. He says that. I know how petty you are. The way that's happened to me.

[Damaris]

Oh, it's gonna be. It's gonna be a patek on the story in five seconds.

[Rory]

Like, what are you saying the next day? Like, oh, how was your little date?

[Damaris]

Oh, I'm for sure. Like, oh, how was your day? Oh, that's what's up. She smell good. That's what's up.

[Maul]

What?

[Damaris]

It depends. It depends.

[Rory]

Anytime a woman has said that, I said, oh, my phone is on when you want to come through after I've said that and it's worked more than.

[Maul]

Once, my phone is working.

[Damaris]

If a said that to me, I might. I might be in jail.

[Maul]

What did you say?

[Rory]

My phone is on for when you want to come through.

[Maul]

After thinking I'm about to after she left a date.

[Rory]

Because I know it's not. I know she's gonna like me better.

[Damaris]

Oh, that's what you meant. I thought you meant, like, after you lead a date, see if I want to come through.

[Rory]

No, no, no. If a woman says she's going on a date, like, she's going out to dinner with a guy. All right, when dinner's done, hit me.

[Damaris]

I'll let you know how I go.

[Maul]

Nah, don't let me know how your date went. You ain't got to tell me. Like, don't.

[Rory]

I don't, but I'm set. Like, that's a win or lose situation. There's no gray area with that one. Because when she don't hit you, you're gonna feel away like. Oh, so they did after that. Yeah, but he hitting something. But it's been the biggest confidence booster. When? After dinner. Yo, where you at then? I know what time it is. But that time. That time, it's a risk when she.

[Maul]

Pull up after the date and she telling you about the date and how whack it was. Why she taking her clothes off? Oh, that's a. I mean, God bless your heart.

[Rory]

I've. I've had, like, situationships of 10 years.

[Maul]

He got you on carbs and dropped you off.

[Rory]

You got your favorite martini. That get you in that mood?

[Damaris]

Yo, man, see, y' all gonna make people afraid to date. Don't do that.

[Maul]

I'm gonna make people. I'm just giving them what's out there. Some of y' all be dropping her off at the nigga crib.

[Damaris]

That's wild.

[Maul]

It's a fact, though. You can be on a date with a girl like, yo, you going. Nah, I'm going to my friend's house. Da, da, da. I'll drop you off. She ain't say what friend it was. She just said she was going to her friend's house. And here you are pulling up.

[Damaris]

You shouldn't even have. No knowing where the nigga just. People not raised right.

[Maul]

Like, he upstairs on GTA. Nine hours, you done spent 400.

[Rory]

She got underwear and a toothbrush there.

[Damaris]

Stop. Y' all aren't gonna make people afraid to date.

[Maul]

It's a real.

[Damaris]

Okay, but there are women who don't.

[Rory]

It's happened to everybody in both ways.

[Maul]

Yeah, there's women that don't, but it's women that do. That's what we speaking to the women that do. Don't you be one of those women that do, though, baby.

[Damaris]

No, I don't. I don't operate. I don't. That's not.

[Maul]

But it's good that you're getting back out there, though. Getting back out on the dating scene and, you know, seeing what's out there.

[Damaris]

I'm either going to be back celibate by August or in a relationship by September.

[Rory]

Get Richard. I try.

[Damaris]

If y' all know me, y' all know me. I'm either gonna be back celibate by August or in a relationship by enriched by 26.

[Rory]

I'll be dead or in jail. Yeah.

[Damaris]

Yeah. So I don't know why you put.

[Maul]

No, but don't put that much. See, though, you can't put that much pressure on it, though.

[Damaris]

I just know myself. I'm very. I'm trying to Break my patterns. But I'm very aware of my patterns. I've gotten rid of my other patterns. Those patterns are blocked. But my. My patterns tend to be. I tend to end up in a relationship. Or I'll go on one date and hate men so much that I'll be like, I'm cool. Like, one date go bad for me. I can't handle a bad day. I'd be like, oh, I'm cool. I just wanted.

[Rory]

But you shouldn't view it that way, though.

[Damaris]

I know.

[Rory]

That was just not the right person.

[Damaris]

I'm trying to be better.

[Rory]

I mean, don't. I know you're not gonna spin the block on the toxic relationship, but nothing is more fun when you've had a situation like that that wasn't toxic and you're still cool with her and she's actively telling you about her dating life. Like, oh, I'm going on a date. And she'll, you know, y' all not or nothing anymore. But she'll text you like, oh, this was. This was bad. Whatever. One of the ten year things I was talking about, I've had these conversations with. Nothing boosts your ego more. When she goes on a bunch of dates and they're trash and she thought she was a piece of shit, but y' all still cool. Death Row don't look so bad now, do it? These guys is boring, huh?

[Damaris]

That's why.

[Rory]

Yeah. No, this is what comes with the territory. I may be a piece of shit, but I'm fun.

[Damaris]

I had to stop dating. I went on a date one time and called my old shit crying. I said, I hate it out here. I'm coming back. These niggas tried to make me take a fucking train back home from a date. I hate it here. I can't live like this. Come. Stop being a hoe and just let me love you.

[Maul]

Stop being a hoe. It's hilarious.

[Damaris]

Crying, yo. I was like, I cannot get back out here. But fuck it, I'm back out here now.

[Maul]

What's up? See, back outside.

[Damaris]

Well done. Fine niggas. I'm trying to find niggas. I've been cuffed up too long. Let me remind niggas. Yeah, Cardi.

[Maul]

That spoke to your soul, huh? It's gonna speak to your soul.

[Damaris]

Me and Ma gonna go speed dating and find some hoes mio.

[Maul]

I'm down.

[Damaris]

You don't. For real. Would you go speed dating? Yeah, okay. I'm gonna find the ones with bad.

[Maul]

I'm not looking for nobody at the speed date.

[Rory]

I'm Just gonna speed day that has the bad speed name.

[Damaris]

Have bad.

[Rory]

I don't know, I've never done.

[Damaris]

But bad. Regular women, though, like the. Like the J. Cole fans.

[Maul]

All right, hold on. What?

[Rory]

That speed dating is like cuck dating to me. How are you just watching the girl you, like, talk to 50 men in one second?

[Damaris]

It's not 50. It'd be like 12, and it's for like 60 seconds.

[Rory]

And like, imagine if you. Because the girls move or the guys move.

[Damaris]

The girls move. No, the guys move. The guys move.

[Rory]

Okay, but you're still in the same rotation, right? Like, what if I don't even know more, but he's ahead of me, like, the whole time I'm trying to date, all I can hear is him making every girl laugh after. I didn't make her laugh. You know how weird that must feel? That's why speed dating would be rough.

[Maul]

Yeah, you can't. You gotta.

[Rory]

It's just so much going on.

[Maul]

Yeah, it's a lot. That's a lot. I mean, I'm down to go just to have fun with you, but that'll be fun.

[Rory]

And then the girl that doesn't, like, the girl doesn't move. She can hear the other guy. Use the same lines one table over. Like, there's no winning in that entire thing.

[Maul]

Yeah, see, I'm. I'm. But I'm. I would be a bad speed dater. Cause if I'm hitting up with my funnies and she ain't laughing, like, look, she laughed. I think she's the one. Like, yeah, she laughed. She thought I was. She thought I was great.

[Damaris]

Number three thought I was hilarious.

[Maul]

She thought I was great. Like, I don't know why you not laughing, but whatever.

[Rory]

And so do you exchange numbers? How does it work?

[Damaris]

I think if you like them at the end, you like, exchange.

[Maul]

So you get 60 seconds to get your off.

[Damaris]

60 seconds.

[Rory]

That's how people get.

[Maul]

I'm coming in hot.

[Damaris]

Coming. What you saying? Come on, do it right now. 60 seconds. We start in now, favorite position.

[Maul]

Have you on the first date before? How long did it last? Did you like it or swallow?

[Damaris]

Oh, my.

[Maul]

Yeah, you gotta. 60 seconds.

[Rory]

That. We're only 10 seconds in. I'm looking at the clock.

[Maul]

You gotta go to it.

[Damaris]

I'm not comfortable answering any of those questions, sir.

[Maul]

Why are you here?

[Damaris]

Because I'm trying to get in a relationship. I'm not just trying to fuck.

[Maul]

Okay, so you trying to get a relationship. What are you looking for?

[Damaris]

I'm looking for a guy that's like nice, sweet, honest at a speed date.

[Maul]

Yeah, Nobody's honest at a speed date. We got 60 seconds to lie.

[Damaris]

Nobody's fucking at a speed date.

[Maul]

I fucked at a speed date. I'm here every month. You gotta get your up. You gotta get your over.

[Rory]

You guys have 10 more seconds.

[Maul]

You gotta get your off.

[Damaris]

I think. I think you're a serial killer. And I think I'm okay. But I did enjoy this time with you. You were funny.

[Rory]

So switch.

[Maul]

All right, bye.

[Rory]

All right, here's the thing. Let's say there's 20 girls there. Mall is definitely just by sheer numbers. He's three girls from there. Based off that approach, for sure.

[Damaris]

God.

[Rory]

I didn't say all, but there's definitely three girls that are definitely into that exact.

[Maul]

I'm sure knocking three shots down if.

[Rory]

You come with that energy first.

[Maul]

I go three for 12. But I'm not leaving here with anything in my book bag.

[Rory]

Three is crazy.

[Maul]

Yeah, three for 12. I went three for 12 tonight. Coach put me in.

[Rory]

All right, but did that. That probably left more of an impression. Even if it was a creepy one or hypersexual one to.

[Maul]

Everybody will be talking about me.

[Rory]

Let's start the clock now. What's your name?

[Damaris]

Damaris.

[Rory]

Oh, like, what are you into? Like, what type of stuff do you like to do?

[Damaris]

I like to read. I like to dance. I like to cook. I like to entertain my friends. I'm a family oriented person. How about you?

[Rory]

Okay. I like outdoor sports. And, you know, like, I'm really into reading as well. Like, when's your last.

[Maul]

He's gay.

[Rory]

Like, what. What is leaving a lasting impression? What my. Or what he did?

[Maul]

Yeah, because he's.

[Rory]

You're gonna wonder about him after speed dating is over. There's a middle ground.

[Damaris]

There's a middle ground.

[Rory]

You're gonna look him up online to like, really find that guy to figure out what was wrong.

[Maul]

You gonna be mad you didn't take my number?

[Damaris]

No. I'm coming in hot. What time is it? We starting at 36. Hold on. So why are you here? Cause you way too fine to be single.

[Rory]

Talking to me or the guy next to me? There's too many people going. Sir, can we start on the clock again? I don't know who he's talking to.

[Maul]

You talking to me or him?

[Damaris]

I was talking to you. See, you got. You said he got nervous.

[Rory]

All right, it's on me. All right.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Rory]

Three, two, one, go.

[Damaris]

Okay, so you way too fine to be single. What you doing here?

[Rory]

You. You probably said that to the last three guys.

[Damaris]

Does it matter?

[Rory]

Yo, she. She said the same thing to you.

[Damaris]

Does it matter if I'm saying it to you right now? What's up?

[Rory]

But you said it one minute ago to somebody else.

[Damaris]

It doesn't matter. Why do you keep worrying about him when I'm right here? How are you?

[Rory]

Because we sitting thought of thought.

[Damaris]

What's your name?

[Rory]

My name is Rory.

[Damaris]

Do you have any kids?

[Maul]

Yes.

[Damaris]

Can you show me a picture of her?

[Rory]

No.

[Damaris]

Do you want any more?

[Rory]

Not with somebody that says the same thing. The last three guys.

[Damaris]

Why did you come to Speed day? And if you so worried about what the other men do, meet somebody here for him.

[Rory]

No, I'm not. We're just having to be sitting next to each other saying the same thing.

[Damaris]

He's too nervous. He's shaking. I got him shaking. He blushing and shit. Like, come on now.

[Rory]

Yes, I would like kids eventually.

[Damaris]

You would? Okay. So are you interested in like, casual dating? Are you looking for something serious? Like, what prompted you to.

[Rory]

I'm looking for casual into serious.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Rory]

Rent to buy.

[Damaris]

917392. Yeah.

[Maul]

Wait, that got the number.

[Rory]

Yo, man, see, you didn't think my rent to buy line was a serial killer.

[Maul]

You can't get. Nah, see, nah, see, that's why I can't go speeding because I'll yell at. But, yo, he got your number. Nah, come on.

[Rory]

Yo, what's funny is I. I would. I'd probably call her.

[Maul]

No, you wouldn't. That's not the girl you want.

[Damaris]

Why is. Hey, what the. Why is that not the girl you want?

[Maul]

No, you don't want that girl.

[Damaris]

Why? What's wrong with me? Mall.

[Maul]

No, nothing is not you. Nothing is wrong with you. I'm just saying you don't want the girl that a conversation like that. You don't want her number.

[Rory]

Oh, I do, because that's hilarious.

[Maul]

See, he's weird.

[Damaris]

I forget why you don't like smooth women more.

[Rory]

That was funny. Yeah. It wasn't smooth.

[Damaris]

That was just because you made it awkward.

[Rory]

I know.

[Damaris]

I was rising you up and you kept being weird. I was smooth.

[Rory]

Saying you too fine to be here is not rising it up.

[Maul]

You too fine to be here. I ain't never seen you around here before.

[Damaris]

Yeah, where you come from?

[Rory]

Because I really would have met that if we were being serious. I would have met that with. Well, why are you here? You don't think highly of yourself.

[Maul]

Nah, that's what you got to say because I knew you was here. See, I knew you was here.

[Damaris]

See me, I don't even.

[Maul]

I don't. I don't even really do this.

[Rory]

I have reality.

[Maul]

I have reality.

[Rory]

I like that every is cute at the party and don't. I can do that for fun. For funsies at the party.

[Damaris]

I've never seen you give Riz. When you be talking to bitches, you be like, you. Just like you. They love you because you're like, awkward, funny.

[Rory]

Peach, You've seen me in action.

[Maul]

Peach. Remarkable. Remarkable.

[Damaris]

Peach. Don't piss me off, Peach.

[Maul]

Be it back. Like, he's so good, man. He's just so good.

[Damaris]

How does he do it?

[Maul]

Look at him, man. Look at him go, man.

[Rory]

I was using that I feel like we've known each other line before. It was mainstream.

[Maul]

Yeah, he was on the ground.

[Rory]

Like we've known each other forever.

[Maul]

He was indie with that.

[Rory]

It's like. It's definitely. Yeah, grassroots. I was fat beats at that. I was the raucous of that.

[Maul]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rory]

Like not knowing, only knowing each other tonight, I just feels like we've known each other forever. I'm so comfortable around you.

[Maul]

No worry.

[Rory]

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[Maul]

Did you say 25amonth?

[Rory]

25?

[Maul]

I thought you said 35.

[Rory]

Not with Boost. It's 25 every single time.

[Maul]

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[Damaris]

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[Rory]

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[Maul]

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[Damaris]

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[Maul]

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[Rory]

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Start having the most Fun [e-mail] no purchase necessary. VGW Group void. We're prohibited by law 21/ terms and conditions apply. We didn't talk about it last week because I. I didn't really want to give it too much light because I know it was a rumor of Vanessa Bryant being pregnant and people were tweeting how upset they were about it. I don't care to talk about that rumor because it was false. Even down to like people saying Lauren London was dating. Just that topic in general. Why are people so upset after so many years that people would move on with their lives? Like I can even speak to it in my family. My cousin passed when I was 15. She was married at the time. I Went to her husband's wedding. I mean, it was years and years and years later, but, like, people are supposed to just forever be alone. Like, I don't get that. Like, me and my family all went to my cousin's husband's new wedding. And, like, we love his wife. She's amazing. She treats us great. Respectfully. To her daughter Alexandria. She's an amazing stepmother. Like, what? It's. People move on.

[Maul]

Like, yeah, no, I think with this one, it's just because obviously, you know, it being one of the greatest athletes of our time and then the way in which he passed and, you know, his daughter and everybody else that day, I think, you know, again, fans just being fans fanatics and wanting to attach themselves too much to the situation and, you know, the family just expressing themselves and feeling like, you know, Vanessa Bryant should still be in mourning and, you know, she should never move on. You know, even though Kobe has passed, she should never move on and find love again and be happy. That's just. That's just not realistic. That's not reality. Even if Vanessa Bryant has moved on and even if she is pregnant, you know, that's. You know, that's. It's her life. She has to move on. She has to. Her life continues. She'll carry her daughter and her husband with her forever in the memory of them, in the spirit of them. But, you know, she should find happiness and, you know, help pull because we don't think about her enough mentally where she was losing a daughter and a husband and the way they passed, you know, such a tragic accident. So for her to even find herself back in a position where, you know, she's dating or, you know, she. She's looking for love again or companionship or whatever. People should be happy about that to some capacity. You know what I mean? Like, and. And again, people just need to stop being so involved. Like, that's none of our business. Like, if she moved on, great. If she's pregnant, congrats. You know, God bless. But, you know, just. Just fans being fans and feeling like they have a platform to voice their opinions and, you know, just to talk it. It's stupid. But, you know, either way, life goes on. People. People die and, you know, tragically. But, you know, the. This. The widow should be allowed to move on at some point.

[Rory]

I mean, I think what Dame and his current wife have is great because I see Dame honor Aaliyah constantly, especially on her birthday day of her passing. I see Dame's wife honor her as well.

[Maul]

Like, you still love the person you still love them forever. But it's just. Life goes on, man. We gotta move forward. Life is gonna continue. Life is gonna happen and.

[Rory]

Okay, but from beyond the grave. I don't think you'd be cool with it.

[Maul]

Oh, well, we spoke beyond the grave. We spoke about that already. Nah. You single forever. Forever. The day I die, I'm taking that pussy with me.

[Damaris]

Oh, yeah.

[Maul]

I'm old school, baby. Do you hear me?

[Rory]

You would try to haunt them?

[Maul]

Yeah, for sure.

[Damaris]

What if he. Oh, my God. I can't imagine. If he clapping from the back and, like, he slapped your ass a specific way and it's like, damn, this remind me of Maul. That's.

[Maul]

Yo, you a different type of evil. Like, that evil.

[Rory]

I thought ball was being really weird right now. Yo, that was like. You just took that to like a.

[Damaris]

Whole, like a real evil, like, drop out your eye. Like, damn, it's like a scary movie.

[Maul]

Yeah. Like, just look how you. What's wrong with you? How would your mind even go to that parent, Somebody after your husband?

[Damaris]

Because some things have familiar. Like, what if he got your cologne on? Like, I go on a first date, he go to kiss me, he got. He got your cologne.

[Maul]

You should start breaking down, having an emotional breakdown, crying.

[Damaris]

I am. But what if I really like that cologne on you? Used to really, like, turn me on. Like, it ain't supposed to turn me on on him.

[Maul]

It's not on me.

[Rory]

Would that be a sign that you shouldn't be there or that you should.

[Damaris]

A sign that you should. I think that would be. I would take that as a sign that I was supposed to be there.

[Rory]

Yo, baby D is okay, but as the man that's on the date devil.

[Damaris]

How about a devil? You are. And it's reminding me of somebody I love. Like, damn. Like, this makes me feel comfort. This makes me feel safe. Like how mom used to.

[Rory]

Okay, if you told me that on the first day or even.

[Damaris]

I would never tell you that we.

[Rory]

Were a year in. If you told me and you brought.

[Maul]

That up, I'm never wearing that cologne again.

[Rory]

Really creeped out.

[Damaris]

I would never tell you.

[Rory]

Like, wait, so do you, like, am I here because I had that cologne on and I'm the replacement?

[Damaris]

Thinking that just the cologne is what kept me and ended up me in a relationship with you is insane. But that could be.

[Rory]

People grieve different.

[Damaris]

That could be a positive sign. Like, oh, my God, he smells like mall. He smells like he's comforting me. Yeah, I feel like that's a good sign.

[Rory]

I mean, I'm not. I would want my significant other to eventually move on.

[Maul]

Yeah, you have. I know I would. I'm joking. No, you have to move on. Life goes on, man.

[Rory]

But, like, if it was within two years, like, I'm definitely. I'm gonna be sitting there with Jesus, like, yo, look at this hoe, thinking.

[Damaris]

You'Re gonna be with Jesus. Crazy.

[Rory]

Like, me and Jesus be like, yo, come on.

[Maul]

But now, you got to be careful now, because there are some sick people out here. And, you know, somebody like a Vanessa Bryant could meet a sick guy who just want the clout of being the guy that Vanessa Bryant was with after Kobe.

[Damaris]

Like, I don't even think Vanessa Bryant would run into. I get what you're saying.

[Maul]

What happens. Don't think it. Don't.

[Damaris]

I'm sure it does, but I pretty sure that she has enough people around her. I'm pretty sure she has the discernment.

[Maul]

Oh, yeah. I'm just saying, not her in particular, but women in her position, like, gotta be careful because. Absolutely. Guys will clout, chase, and be like, they would want to be in that position, like, because they know what. They know what comes with that. Like, everything that's happening on the Internet now. They know what comes with that, unfortunately.

[Rory]

Like, with her moving on with her life. Not that I want to make it clear. I don't think Vanessa Bryant would even look my way, but that, in that scenario, would intimidate me. Like, I don't. I know what comes with that. Like, what you're saying. I don't know if I'd want to date the widow of, like, even if we got along, I still. That's. That's a lot of what's going on there. Yeah. I'd feel awkward even going on the first. Let's say we had mutual friends. Like, you guys would get along. She's ready to get back out there. Like, I think I'm cool.

[Maul]

She's beautiful.

[Rory]

I think I'm cool.

[Maul]

It's definitely heavy. It's a heavy. It's a heavy thing to kind of take into account. You know what I mean? But listen, man, life goes on, man. We all got to move forward. And if Vanessa Bryant is happy, that's all that matters.

[Damaris]

Well, I hope she. I hope she. I hope. Hope this is. I mean, obviously this isn't true, but I do hope that she finds happiness.

[Maul]

Yeah, absolutely. She deserves it. She deserves to be happy.

[Rory]

Go ahead.

[Damaris]

Or no. What were you about to say?

[Rory]

Have you guys had any of these type of situations in your families or lives where that's happened.

[Damaris]

When my grandfather died, my grandmother started dating again. She was in her older ages. Um, and it was, you know, we all wanted the best for her. I think our thing was just kind of like constantly comparing him to my grandfather. It was just kind of like my grandfather was like that and like, this ain't that. You know, like. But she. But she's.

[Rory]

Well, you were a little boss.

[Maul]

See, that's how they gonna look at homie that's dating Vanessa Bryant. Thinking like, you ain't. You ain't Kobe, nigga.

[Rory]

That's like everyone.

[Maul]

That's what I'm saying.

[Rory]

Like, you ain't.

[Maul]

You can't.

[Rory]

Who could be that?

[Maul]

You can't go left. You can't hit a free throw with a blown of kids. Achilles. Like, you can't. You can't do that. You know what I'm saying?

[Rory]

Imagine trying to date the person that dated. Mama mentality. I don't have it.

[Maul]

Yeah, yeah. I don't have mama mentality. Having sneakers, but I don't have mama mentality.

[Damaris]

Little garden snake mentality.

[Maul]

Back to your grandmother dating. How old was your grandmother when she got back out there?

[Damaris]

She was in her 70s, late 70s.

[Maul]

Come on, Granny.

[Rory]

That's wrong with that.

[Maul]

Granny, Granny, Granny. I love you, Granny, but cut the shit.

[Rory]

You could be. Yes, you'd be companionship at the.

[Maul]

In the 70s.

[Damaris]

You know, the highest rates of chlamydia are in the nursing homes.

[Maul]

Wait, what?

[Damaris]

The highest rates of chlamydia are in the nursing home.

[Rory]

Double check that.

[Damaris]

Chlamydia runs. Chlamydia runs rampant through nursing homes.

[Rory]

I think it's going way crazier in D.C. where?

[Maul]

And the nursing homes in DC. Where and why do you have that information?

[Damaris]

Because I read that nursing homes tend to be very high at STDs. Because, I mean, you at that age, you ain't give a about no condom. We like, where.

[Rory]

Where'd you get chlamydia?

[Damaris]

I don't really have nothing to lose. Like, they're. They be. And them people don't get checked. Yeah.

[Rory]

Who got.

[Maul]

She just had a stroke. She got bigger things to worry about than chlamydia. She just had a stroke.

[Rory]

And the amount of medication that they're taking in penicillin, like, the fact that an STD could survive in their body is crazy.

[Damaris]

Yeah.

[Maul]

While specific, up to the minute data. Oh, I love when they say up to the minute. Up to the minute data.

[Rory]

What time is it?

[Maul]

Chlamydia rates in nursing homes by location is limited. It's clear that STIs including chlamydia are on the rise among older adults, including those in nursing homes. The overall trend indicates that the number of chlamydia cases among those age 65 and older has more than tripled between 2010 and. Oh, that's because when they get older they feel like they don't know how much time they got left to fuck.

[Damaris]

Yeah, we. They just fucking.

[Maul]

So they.

[Rory]

That doesn't mean that the highest rate of the clap is in there. It's just tripled sense. But I'm saying you always have to find the source. Like have you ever watched the AIDS documentaries where they try to find out exactly like who. Who to get the entire thing. What young bull, a granny, one of.

[Maul]

The male nurses in that.

[Damaris]

It doesn't have to be a young.

[Rory]

Girl.

[Damaris]

Or grandpa could have had chlamydia because you know, old do not go to the doctor. Grandpa could have had chlamydia for 30 years and he was only his wife, so they both just had it and then she died and now he don't.

[Rory]

Clap is like the common cold. Goes away without burning for 30 years.

[Damaris]

If you thinking don't be having STDs for 20 some years. These older people. These older people ain't going to the doctors to get their dick swabbed, bro. Especially if they're unsymptomatic or asymptomatic. They're not going to do that. They just got that HPV syphilis, a lot of syphilis. Before they know they even got syphilis. Yeah, yeah.

[Maul]

I guess at that age you just happy your still work.

[Rory]

Yeah, they don't give a. Yeah. If my work at that age. Chlamydia is the last thing on my mind. But yeah, it works.

[Damaris]

Just because you older don't mean you stop missing companionship and love.

[Maul]

Yeah, companionship and love is different. Chlamydia is another thing I would.

[Damaris]

Well, I didn't say I'd sacrifice. I'm just saying companionship, older people be okay.

[Maul]

So Granny got back out there.

[Damaris]

She. Yeah, she had a little boyfriend.

[Maul]

Okay. She needs somebody around the house. You need that companionship, that company.

[Damaris]

Yeah. She had a little boy.

[Maul]

I ain't mad at that. Go ahead, Granny. What?

[Rory]

What you go. You gonna call him grandpa?

[Maul]

Me?

[Rory]

Yeah.

[Maul]

I don't know that. My grandfather like Granny, get all my love and respect that. Who is that? I don't know that.

[Rory]

Tell us about the war.

[Damaris]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rory]

Now Granny, bringing somebody to like to a holiday would be kind of crazy.

[Maul]

Though. Yeah. Your grandmother walking with a new boyfriend on the holiday after your grandfather died. It's like, what are we gonna do? We can't beat. We can't jump them.

[Rory]

And that has to be intimidating on the other side, too, because, like, just dating somebody with a kid is a thing in itself. You got five kids, 10 grandchildren. Like, I'm just walking into that shit.

[Maul]

And they always front, and older dudes always front. Like, they just take your grandmother to run errands, you know, I just take her to go get her groceries and. Yeah, you in there fucking my grandmother. Shut up, nigga. Stop making it seem like you just picked my grandmother up, like you accessorized or something. Nigga, you take my grandmother to get her groceries and then go back and eat her groceries.

[Rory]

It's not just bingo on Tuesdays.

[Maul]

Yeah, she got new. She got new house dresses. She walking around in now all of.

[Rory]

A sudden smelling different.

[Maul]

Yeah, them slippers, them ain't the same slippers you had on Two. Two for the last three years. Granny, new slippers. She getting her hair done now. Got them little pin curls in there all day. Granny, what you doing? You in there fucking you in there.

[Rory]

She got Hulu at the crib now. How your grandmother got a streaming service now?

[Maul]

Yeah. Gr. Granny in there humping Mr. Fred. It's always a Mr. Fred, too. He wants you to call him mister. I'm not calling you Mr. Fred.

[Rory]

My 30s, I'm a grow.

[Maul]

Mr. Fred. Get the out.

[Damaris]

I think that was his name, too.

[Maul]

It's always a Mr. Fred.

[Rory]

His name was Michael, but you called him Mr. Fred.

[Maul]

Mr. Fred.

[Rory]

I would want Granny to get into her grave, though, for sure.

[Maul]

I mean, that's what she want. I don't want to see it, though.

[Rory]

I'm not suggesting see it.

[Maul]

Yeah, I don't wanna. I don't want to see it. I don't even want to know about it. But have fun, Granny. Do what you do.

[Rory]

But, like, once she passed, like, you're not a part of this.

[Maul]

No, don't do that.

[Rory]

You're not front row. You're not in the front pew.

[Maul]

He has to be. That's family. Don't do that.

[Rory]

You're not entitled.

[Maul]

If your grandmother has a boyfriend and your grandmother passes away, he's allowed to come to the funeral.

[Rory]

No, no, he can go to the funeral. I never said that. You're not in the first family pew.

[Damaris]

Why not?

[Rory]

It's gonna be pew pew. What the are you talking about? In the first pew?

[Damaris]

Yes, that's your grandma there.

[Rory]

Are certain cousins that don't even make the first pew.

[Maul]

That's her boyfriend.

[Damaris]

That's her boyfriend. That was her man. He knew her intimately.

[Maul]

Yeah, he was taking care of her. The days you didn't want to go to Granny's house.

[Damaris]

Mr. Fred was breakfast.

[Maul]

Mr. Fred.

[Rory]

How long were they dating?

[Damaris]

Ten years.

[Rory]

Oh, all right.

[Maul]

Never mind, fam.

[Rory]

That's way hard. All right. No, no, 10 years. Of course.

[Damaris]

Because I even think five years. I think five years.

[Rory]

He deserves five years. No, no, five years, that's five Christmases.

[Maul]

Five years.

[Rory]

She's 75.

[Maul]

She only got five left. No, she's dead.

[Rory]

She's in the ca.

[Maul]

She only had five left. It ain't my fault.

[Rory]

Last five years, you're Pew Three. And if my grandfather's still alive, he's P1.

[Damaris]

You're disrespectful.

[Rory]

Is he a Paul Bear five years in?

[Maul]

He can't carry no goddamn casket, man.

[Damaris]

He gonna be next.

[Maul]

Damn. She his funeral next week. Can he be a part and he.

[Rory]

Gonna do that now that she died? I'm dying. Yeah, you just old.

[Maul]

Yeah, I had to go with it. I had to go.

[Damaris]

Broken heart.

[Maul]

Yeah, I had to go with it. I had to go with my.

[Rory]

Okay, but you know, there's part the back of the pallbearer. You don't really have to carry anything. You could just be there for show. I've been a pole bear enough times. I know what I know.

[Maul]

The way he walks behind a casket. He walks right behind.

[Rory]

Five years. Yeah.

[Damaris]

No, you a hater.

[Rory]

You with the amount of cousins, uncles.

[Damaris]

I'm gonna keep it real with you. I'm keep it real with you. Your grandmother didn't. Your grandmother died. God bless her. So I guarantee you, shane fuck with 75% of your cousins and you know that it's true. I guarantee you. She love her.

[Rory]

My grandmother and my grandfather pulled me aside when I was like 20. When I was at St. Peter's no, it was right before I got kicked out, so 19. And said, it's really just up to you.

[Damaris]

The way to.

[Rory]

I swear to God, both my grandparents are dead. And thank God they paused. Died like pause died together. I don't know where there was a pause there and there was not a Mr. Fred anywhere around, but they really pulled me aside and said, it's really up to you.

[Maul]

Your grandparents died together?

[Damaris]

No, like a week or two.

[Rory]

So a month. My grandfather died during COVID He fell down the steps and then covet happened. He wasn't able to see anybody so, like, his health deteriorated right away, and he passed. And then my only Republican uncle was like, they're just folding him into the COVID numbers. I was like, uncle Paul, now is like, of all the times that you want to talk about your Republican bullshit, like, can we just not do this right now?

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

So my grandmother had Alzheimer's, and my grandfather refused to ever go to a home. That's why he fell down the steps. Prideful Irish guy. Grandma had Alzheimer's, was taking care of her. She went from uncle, aunt, house to house, and it got too crazy. So she went to a home, and the doctor said the only reason she stayed alive was because of her Alzheimer's, because every day she forgot that he died. And then the. We were talking to the doctor when she passed, and he was like, it takes a while with patients from Alzheimer's for their body to set in that the person was gone. I was like, oh, wow. That was, like, deeply fucking romantic, Doc.

[Maul]

Wow.

[Rory]

But, yeah, Alzheimer's can keep because they were together since they were 19. My grandfather died when he was 93. My grandmother died when she was 91. 92.

[Damaris]

Crazy.

[Rory]

And he was like, yeah, Alzheimer's makes them forget that shit. And it took her body more time to figure that shit out. And then I was like, damn, my grandfather was wearing that out. If it took her body some time.

[Maul]

We never needed, Mr. Fritz knocked the memory out of her. No.

[Damaris]

All right, okay.

[Maul]

My bad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man.

[Rory]

But with that said, if my grandmother dated somebody else five years. No. Even if she didn't, with my cousins that don't even come around and check on anybody, they're a pallbearer before Mr. Fred for sure. Yeah, you don't get to be a pallbearer.

[Maul]

You could walk behind the casket. They're right behind the casket.

[Rory]

Q3.

[Maul]

That was my girlfriend. That was my lady. My Mrs.

[Damaris]

He loved her.

[Rory]

Yeah, but we don't even know. Like, did you claim her like that? Like, I don't even know what you else. Better than nursing home how you cl.

[Damaris]

How you claim people when you old. Like, how you. Like, y' all go to church together?

[Maul]

No, you do a cardi and stuff on there. You post each other on. I.

[Rory]

There's a lot of women that'll show up to a funeral, claim they was a girlfriend, too, and they wasn't. You're not even. Pew three.

[Maul]

That. That happens. That that happens.

[Rory]

And they've been dating for 15 years.

[Maul]

Yeah, that happens all the time. You find out somebody got A kids. You ain't even know you was in 15 years. Like, you got kids. You was with her for 15 years. She ain't know you got kids. I seen some crazy shit at funerals, man. Funerals. It's gonna come out. I'm dead and gone. It y' all do what y' all want.

[Damaris]

I have anxiety from the grave. Please, Lord, please, please. Don't let nobody sit next to each other. Don't let nobody talk. You know, be at the repass, talking about good times. Times start overlapping.

[Maul]

Time start up. Seven years.

[Damaris]

Seven.

[Maul]

Seven years. It's always seven.

[Rory]

It's always five or seven, depending on what it is. It's five or seven.

[Maul]

Five or seven, Always. It's always seven. Seven years ago.

[Rory]

Which side of your family are you more worried about with funerals as far as what shit being exposed or how it's gonna go?

[Maul]

My mom's side, my dad's side. My mom's side of the family is certified crazy. Certified. Some shit gonna happen at a funeral.

[Rory]

In my mom's side, my dad's side is going to be louder and more obnoxious, maybe more physical, but everything's going to be fine. My mother's side scares me more because it'll be like, yo, you know you touch kids, right? Like, it'll be the very subtle, weird that they'll hold. I'm more terrified of my mother's side when it comes to funerals. More insane shit is going to come out on her side.

[Maul]

100.

[Rory]

My dad's side is gonna be loud, angry, drunk people.

[Maul]

Yeah.

[Rory]

And everyone will be fine. After you're gonna hear some dark, like, well, nobody brought this up when he was alive.

[Maul]

I don't know why y' all here crying about Uncle Teddy.

[Rory]

You know what he used to do?

[Maul]

You know what he used to.

[Rory]

That's my mom's side.

[Maul]

Yeah, no, I can see that.

[Rory]

Like, I thought we're here to honor him, not bring out his deepest dark. Yo. He's been at every Thanksgiving. What the.

[Maul]

Right?

[Rory]

So either way, stay away from Mr. Fred.

[Maul]

Nah, shout out to Mr. Fred's around the world.

[Damaris]

Yeah, shout out to them.

[Maul]

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[Maul]

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[Rory]

All right. Yeah, that got dark. Let's. Let's get to voicemails.

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[Maul]

Okay, fine. Hey, what's going on? I enjoy the show. I'm gonna keep this anonymous. Two part question one, what is the dumbest argument you've had in a relationship? And while I express my dumbest part of argument, relationship, let me know if I'm in the right or wrong. So my job got rid of the telework. So I go in five days a week now and it just makes sense to join the gym at my job. And ever since I've joined, I go to the gym at least four times a week now. My wife hit me up the other day and was just like, you know, I think you need to either slow down or just stop so you can allow me sometime just to catch up. But my problem is she hasn't been motivated to work out. Granted, I haven't stopped working out myself, but it was just like I don't know if there's any type of insecurities for why she will want me to stop or slow down yet. She's not doing anything. So I understand that women, I would love Damaris perspective on this as well, but I understand women can have some insecurities. I like feel still find my wife attractive, beautiful, all that. But you know, we definitely bump heads with it because I haven't stopped but yet she hasn't started. And I just want to know who was in the right or wrong. And I have all, you know, we do go walking together as a couple. That's good, you know, a couple times a week when I come home from work. But that's where it stops. So am I right?

[Rory]

Wrong.

[Maul]

Let me know.

[Rory]

Yeah, women are the worst.

[Damaris]

Yeah, you're not. You're not wrong at all. I know they say I know I am. Demir says women are always right, which is not true. But you're not wrong at all. You're doing what's best for you and what's best for your body. If she's feeling insecure because you getting finer and she doesn't like the way that she looked, then that's a her problem and she needs to work on that. You can. As long as you're being encouraging to her and loving her like you said that you are, which you probably don't even care if she lose weight, that's her thing, then you're doing everything right that you can. You should not Stop working out because she hasn't gotten her ass up to do it. Now, if you want to go be super, super boyfriend, you can come up with some creative way to motivate her, but that's not your job, and that's not on your plate. Nobody is going to make her lose weight for her. So she needs to get in the gym and do what the she has to do or risk getting her snatched by one of them. Fine. At the gym. I don't know. I'm just saying, if you're making it.

[Rory]

Worse by that, sorry.

[Damaris]

But if you that worried about him and him looking fine, that's motivation. My motivation is, oh, my God, my look mad good. Somebody might snatch him from me. Now I'm getting my ass up, hitting that treadmill. But that's just me. She ain't. She. She don't want it badly enough. Enough.

[Rory]

And I feel like if roles were reversed, she would bring that up in an argument that she'd be at the gym looking great, and you just don't be doing. Women suck.

[Maul]

I mean, he. I mean, also, maybe he just need to find a way to kind of start. Maybe instead of going to the gym, start right there in the house or.

[Rory]

Yeah. The time that they do their walks, maybe do something a bit more than walking, dude.

[Maul]

Bring the. Bring the work out to the crib. Do something in the crib.

[Damaris]

Should be on him.

[Maul]

No, I mean, but again, when you're married and this is your partner.

[Damaris]

True.

[Maul]

You know what I'm saying? Sometimes you recognize your partner's a little bit of a rut, maybe a little bit of depression. It's your job to kind of like, you know, ease them out of that, help them out of that, find their way again. Find their. Get their foot up, their foot underneath them again. Maybe she don't want to go to the gym. Maybe that's a stretch. So bring the gym to her. Work out in the house, do some things around the house. Then that'll go into, you know, let's go for a walk. Well, they doing Waltman. Let's go for a run now. Maybe get the Apple watches and kind of like, challenge each other weekly.

[Rory]

That's good.

[Maul]

You know, things like that kind of, you know, just. Just. Just to let her know, like, yo, listen, like, you know, you're my wife. I love you. You look great. I'm still attracted to you. But, like, let's challenge ourselves to, like, you know, transition and transform into, you know, get into the best shape that we've probably ever been in our lives. Like, I think that's, you know, there's ways to do it. Maybe it's. Getting her to actually go to the gym is too much of a jump right now. So reel it in a little bit. Start working out at home.

[Rory]

Yeah, there's a bunch of apps and shit on YouTube. Like, pull that shit up on the TV and start there. Like, just got back from work. Let's take 15, 20 minutes at most and do this.

[Maul]

Cause the gym can be intimidating to some people. Like, they go, yeah, yeah, for sure. And, you know, it's just like everybody else is in shape and people, you know, are lifting heavier weights and doing more reps and not breathing as heavy as you are and things like that. So, yeah, so, you know, you start. Start starting a house where nobody can see you. Nobody can see you struggling. Nobody can see how you look right now. Nobody. And then, you know, you open it up to getting into the gym and changing it. Then do maybe do some fun workouts with her. Like, maybe go to, like, you know, a cool, you know, hot yoga class. Go to some, you know, cycling classes. You know, they. They try to make the workout experience fun. Go to some cool Pilates with her or something like that. Just make it something that, you know, you think your woman would be interested in as well and not just feel like she's going to the gym to work out because she's out of shape. Make it feel like a fun activity, but it's also, you know, strenuous on the body.

[Damaris]

If you have the extra funds. If you have it. I know most people just don't. But if you have the extra funds, get her a personal trainer as a gift.

[Maul]

See? Hold on, Tama.

[Damaris]

What?

[Maul]

A woman personal trainer?

[Damaris]

Ma, come on, bro. It doesn't matter. A good.

[Maul]

It does matter.

[Rory]

Why does it matter?

[Maul]

Because these personal trainers are nasty.

[Rory]

I'm not against you There. Yes, there are a lot of weird, pervy personal trainers.

[Maul]

Yeah. Woman.

[Damaris]

Oh, nobody.

[Rory]

But not every male personal trainer is a pervert.

[Maul]

I'm not saying every. I'm saying.

[Rory]

But there's. There's definitely.

[Damaris]

I don't even want to say there's.

[Rory]

There's the photographers and the. The personal trainers. Yes, there's. There's a lot of pervs in that business.

[Maul]

Get a female trainer. Women know women. They know each other's bodies. They know what they're feeling. They know.

[Damaris]

Yes, but women don't. From my experience, I've had both. The man was better for me because he was stricter. He was just stricter. And probably because of my relationship with my father, I probably respected his dynamic a little bit more when he would tell me to do stuff like, a girl ain't about to yell at me. I just can't. You ain't about to yell at me. Fuck are you talking to? But like, when men yell at me, it's like, all right, I hear you. I'll do whatever you're saying.

[Rory]

That's dark. That's for Mr. Fred.

[Damaris]

I feel like that's dark. I just wasn't. I was taught to respect male authority.

[Maul]

Were you?

[Damaris]

I was not yours. But like, I'm paying you.

[Maul]

I'm actually, I'm actually putting money in your.

[Rory]

You're paying the trainer? Yeah.

[Maul]

Like, what the. All right. It is what it is.

[Damaris]

No, but I'm just, I feel like women will sometimes having a male. And also with some women that I've seen, I had a friend that had a personal trainer. It can be you are looking at her body and wondering why her body isn't doing. Why your body isn't doing what her body is doing. And it can be a distraction. You can feel, you know, you sitting next to some fine ass woman.

[Maul]

Yeah, but that's insecurity. No training gonna help that.

[Damaris]

But she's insecure.

[Maul]

Yeah, so that's why you get a woman training. You can be like, girl, I want my body. All right, so then put the potato salad down.

[Damaris]

Damn, I love potatoes.

[Maul]

See, that's what I'm saying. But that's why your striations ain't showing. Put the potato salad.

[Damaris]

The muscles right here, like striations is.

[Maul]

You know, when it's cut, when it's. Oh, definition. I'm saying get your striations right.

[Damaris]

Okay.

[Rory]

Did you just give her pecs when you went like that?

[Maul]

Mommy could have nice little.

[Damaris]

Get her a good personal trainer. If she's more comfortable with a woman, that's fine. Get her a good personal trainer if you have the extra funds for it. I think that that's a good. Like, you know, because sometimes when your partner is motivating you, like, like it's tougher because you don't feel like you. Like, if I'm supposed to meet my partner at the gym, I don't feel bad about canceling on them because it's my partner, we live together. It's like, I don't want to go. I don't want to go. If my partner is paying somebody to be at the gym and they're waiting for me to be there at 8am it's more motivation to Be like, I don't want to go. I don't want to go, but I have to go.

[Rory]

And I find that. Well, not the opposite, per se, but if I'm working out with a partner that keeps me more honest with everything, like, I can cancel myself. I can just be like, I've. I'm tired. But if my partner's like, we're going at this time, I would feel obligated to do it.

[Damaris]

Well, yeah, no, for sure. But I'm just talking about. In comparison to the personal trainer, like, a person. Like, I can. I can guilt my part. Like, I can like, babe, babe, I'm really sleepy. Have sex with him and go to sleep. And neither one of us will feel any guilt if he's paying a personal trainer. It's like, I have to go.

[Maul]

Yeah, no, that's. And that's what he needs.

[Rory]

You don't want to sleep with him.

[Maul]

Because you want to have sex tonight. We got to go to the gym.

[Rory]

That's a form of manipulation, and it's a great manipulation.

[Damaris]

It will work on me. Yeah, but that's not how I will come in this bitch looking like Tyra Banks.

[Maul]

Exactly. You want me to knock that.

[Rory]

Let's get.

[Maul]

Let's knock this workout out and come back in the house and knock headboard. You know what I'm saying?

[Rory]

Okay. What happens when you have sex with him and he still goes to the gym? And I just saw a viral video of a girl with her whole ass cheeks out at the gym.

[Damaris]

If I'm worried about you cheating, not.

[Rory]

Not with tights on. Like, she had her ass out. It was damn near a thong and doing that. People trying to go viral on the Internet. Yeah, which I think. And mind you, she looked good, but that. Like, what the you doing? Nobody wants to see that in the gym.

[Damaris]

I mean, people want to see it.

[Rory]

No, I don't. I don't.

[Damaris]

I never.

[Rory]

I do know I do.

[Damaris]

Oh, no.

[Rory]

Same. Same with the Lizzo convo at the Lakers game. Keep your ass cheeks out of public.

[Maul]

Well, yes, at the Lakers game.

[Rory]

Yeah, at the gym, too. I don't care what you. Your cheeks look good. Get the. We at the gym. Like, put something on.

[Maul]

Yeah, but what if she's a physique?

[Damaris]

Be out there like, oh, ass.

[Maul]

Yeah. What if she's a physique model and she has to see. Make sure everything is looking. She about to go.

[Rory]

No, she was on live, like, doing squats with her whole ass out. This is a. You have Planet Fitness. The are you doing?

[Maul]

Let me know which planet Fitness was off air.

[Damaris]

I haven't seen which one got the ass.

[Rory]

I will tell you that. Gym off Mike Mall. But let's get out of here in the meantime so you can make the gym.

[Maul]

Let's do that. All right. We'll be back in a couple days to talk to y' all. Until then, as always, be safe, be blessed. I'm that. He's just Ginger. Peace. Okay. Have you heard about this? Last year, Degree changed the formula for their Cool Rush deodorant. The fans rebel and wanted the old scent back. And degree listen and that doesn't happen often. They admitted they effed up up that are bringing the original Cool Rush scent back. And it's exactly how you remember it. Cool, crisp and fresh. There's a reason why it's the number one man's antiperspirant. And it's back in Walmart, Target and other stores now for under $4. So try it and see what the fuss is about. Head to your local Walmart, Target and try the OG Cool Rush for yourself. Hey, everybody. Tyler Perry here and I couldn't be prouder to introduce my original series Divorced Sisters. Now streaming on bet.

[Rory]

Plus, meet Bridget, Rashida and Naomi and Tiffany and Geneva.

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[Rory]

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You don't.

[Rory]

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