JAMIE GARCIA Is Looking For Love

Summary

Trash Tuesday w/ Esther Povitsky & Khalyla Kuhn

Episode: "JAMIE GARCIA Is Looking For Love"

Date: September 16, 2025

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Episode Overview

This week’s “Trash Tuesday” dives into friendship, food, relationships, and love with returning guest, comedian Jaime Garcia. Hosts Esther Povitsky and Khalyla Kuhn are joined by co-host Ellie, and together they explore the chaos of LA, the struggle of road gigs, roommate disasters, culinary nostalgia, and Jaime’s endearing yet bumpy love life. Expect personal stories, comedic rants, food debates, and honest reflections delivered with trademark S.L.U.G. (Sexy Little Ugly Girl) energy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Gift-Giving Drama & Childhood Trauma

• The group starts by discussing awkward gift exchanges. Jaime recounts gifting a pricey Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt, only to see it regifted immediately, sparking debate over gift etiquette.
• Esther: “If I’m getting a gift for someone specifically, and then they're like, ‘oh, yeah, you can have it, other person.’ It’s hurting my feelings.” (04:28)
• Childhood stories highlight trauma around gifts, with Esther sharing how a desired kitten turned into a disappointing animatronic toy.
• Ellie reveals: family’s subtle antisemitism discovered during Christmas gift-giving, leading to reflections on growing up feeling misunderstood.

2. Friendship & Roommate Realities

• Jaime talks about his affordable apartment in Dallas’ gay neighborhood: “Not because the gay people, but because of the prices of the apartment. Very cheap. And it’s close to the airport.” (09:08)
• Road gig stories abound: Jaime and his comic bestie Ralph sometimes share hotel rooms to save money; Khalyla muses on travel “soul sisters” and how shared trips can make or break relationships.
• Ellie discusses her nephew moving in with his college girlfriend, sparking conversation on cohabitation and the hazards of living with friends or romantic partners too soon.

3. Domestic Life: Chores & Cleanliness Quirks

• An extended riff on the politics of dishes and cleaning, with each host laying out their quirks.
• Bobby: “Our rule is, like, there are no dishes in the sink, like, ever. We eat, we wash, it’s gone.” (16:12)
• Esther confesses to loving dishwashing with gloves (“game changer”), while Jaime flexes his dishwashing skills from kitchen work—making him, according to the panel, “perfect boyfriend material.”
• The hosts compare the dynamics of doing chores for a partner, including the sly art of “rendering him useless,” a trick learned from observing their parents’ relationship dynamics.

4. Jaime’s Love Life: Too Nice for Escorts?

• Jaime describes his challenges dating, feeling he’s “too nice” for casual hookups or hiring escorts.
• Jaime: “I want to do escorts. I can’t do it. It wouldn’t even work. Too nice.” (23:11)
• The hosts roleplay Jaime’s club approach (“Hey, you got a name?”), dissect what women actually find endearing, and tease him about a recent breakup.
• Notable moment: Jaime reflects on breaking up with a long-distance girlfriend, revealing lingering hurt over a mutual friend’s involvement:

  “When you hear news like that, my heart dropped…that’s the worst feeling. I genuinely feel nauseous.” (27:03, Bobby echoing Jaime’s pain)

5. Rage Room Release & Emotional Management

• Discussion surfaces about rage rooms and expressing anger:

  “You’re able to in real time say, ‘I don’t want that. I don’t like that. That hurt my feelings.’ So you let it out in the moment versus me, where I’ll let it stew and then fester…and that’s why I need something like the rage room.” (27:44, Bobby to Ellie)

6. Food Nostalgia: Struggle Meals & Comfort Eats

• “Struggle meals” become a comedy goldmine—peanut butter, ramen, popcorn, buttered noodles, and creative combos like Esther’s Hawaiian roll-banana-honey “gourmet.”
• Esther: “Every meal I eat is a struggle—now I’m just like, why?” (43:14)
• Bobby shares a Filipino comfort meal: rice with soy sauce and oil (patís and mantika), a go-to when broke.
• Hilarious fears of reheating rice and botulism jokes ensue, with a mini rice-cooking tutorial.
• Jaime on tacos: “Ground beef…that’s not tacos. That’s like Taco Bell.” (51:22)
• Sauce wars: Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A Polynesian sauce, and the risks of referring to packaged flavors by color—shout out to discontinued/renamed “Oriental” ramen (“the blue one”).

7. Gross-Out Movie Theater and Public Transport Tales

• Esther’s time at the ArcLight cinema included breaking up a man masturbating in the audience (“I guess just let him finish”). (59:11)
• Khalyla recalls her first year in America: nightmare commutes on public transport with men openly masturbating, prompting a group riff on early American trauma, boundaries, and social cues.
• Khalyla: “Welcome to America where you cannot—reading the Bible—stop!” (60:46)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On gift-giving disappointment:

  “Don’t take creative liberties with my gift. I’ve specifically laid out what I wanted.” — Esther (05:55)

• Jaime’s style:

  “Hey, you got a name? That’s a joke. Hey, you got a name?” — Jaime (20:20)

• On doing chores:

  “You have to render them useless. Trust me. I took that out of your playbook…” — Bobby (19:37)

• Dealing with breakup news:

  “When you hear news like that, my heart dropped…that’s the worst feeling. I hate that feeling where I genuinely feel nauseous.” — Bobby (27:03)

• On ramen nostalgia:

  “Did you ever eat it without cooking it? That was a big thing—we’d crush up the bag, put the sauce in, and eat it like little chips.” — Esther (53:32)

• Food trauma:

  “The sickest I’ve ever been in my life…out my ass, out my mouth, out my eyes, out my ears—double dragon—was from rice.” — Bobby (48:13)

• Dissecting “real” tacos:

  “Ground beef is like…spaghetti. It’s not real tacos.” — Jaime (51:31)
  “It’s Taco Bell.” — Esther (51:26)
  “I want a girlfriend who makes fajita…that’s closer to real tacos.” — Jaime (51:49)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Gift-giving Drama: 04:10 – 07:10
• Friendship & Roommate Chat: 09:03 – 13:22
• Domestic Life & Chores: 15:08 – 18:29
• Jaime’s Dating Life/Roleplay: 20:20 – 23:15
• Breakup Story: 25:11 – 27:03
• Rage Rooms & Emotions: 27:37 – 28:56
• Struggle Meals/Food Talk: 43:14 – 51:06
• Ramen & Popcorn Hacks: 53:32 – 58:57
• Movie Theater Horror & Public Transit Masturbators: 59:02 – 61:29

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Tone & Style

True to “Trash Tuesday,” the conversation is raw, comedic, tangent-filled, and deeply relatable. The hosts’ chemistry keeps the pace lively, with bittersweet and ridiculous moments dropped between more serious observations about boundaries, friendship, and growing up misunderstood.

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Takeaways

• The panel reminds us that being “too nice” in dating isn’t always the advantage it seems—authenticity and boundaries matter.
• Food nostalgia is universal, often tied to struggle and comfort, from “artistically” constructed childhood bread meals to adult rice-phobia.
• Even the grossest public transit stories can be spun into sharp, comedic exorcisms of trauma.
• Love, friendship, and family are always messy—and worth laughing about, even when it hurts.

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Transcript

[Bobby]

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[Jaime Garcia]

Does he have a boyfriend?

[Esther]

Mm.

[Jaime Garcia]

Oh, is he white?

[Esther]

He's white.

[Jaime Garcia]

Cool.

[Ellie]

Why did you ask that?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, it's because everybody just pick up.

[Esther]

One because every dates different.

[Bobby]

Like, she tell me what I date.

[Jaime Garcia]

There'S no place I rather be, right?

[Esther]

Lilo and Stitch.

[Bobby]

Hey, sluggies. I don't know if you know, but we have a producer tier. Halloween is coming up. We're planning a bunch of themed episodes. And what's really cool is if you sign up for the producer tier, you get to dictate what we do, how we dress, what the theme is. You get to send in advice, you get to send in ideas for segments. And we are at the mercy of your suggestions. So go sign up for that. And also, thank you, thank you, thank you to our golden slug, Brandon. I'll tell you a couple of things about Brandon. Extremely hot, extremely successful, from Texas, Brandon. You don't know him, but he's the homie.

[Jaime Garcia]

Thank you, Brandon.

[Bobby]

Thank you from Garcia.

[Ellie]

I am so excited Because I am officially going on tour and it is starting so soon. We're right around the corner. First. September 12th and 13th, I'm going to be in Madison, Wisconsin for the first time ever. I had to reschedule last time and was never able to do it. I cannot wait. These shows are going to be so much fun. Madison, Wisconsin. And then next I'll be in Portland at the Aladdin Theater. I'm going to be in Seattle at the Neptune, Olympia, Washington, Philly, New York City, Boston. I'm hitting all the best cities this leg of this tour. So please get tickets. Come see me. It's going to be so much fun. We'll hang. I have all this new material that I've been working on. I can't wait to share it. And you can get tickets@prettylittlebaby tour.com or at the link below. I cannot wait to see you guys.

[Esther]

I love Donut.

[Ellie]

Wow, she's really not good at podcasting.

[Esther]

My dog's not good at comedy, period. How old is Donut?

[Ellie]

Donut is nine years young.

[Esther]

Cute.

[Ellie]

She's not even halfway done.

[Esther]

These kinds of dogs live forever.

[Ellie]

That's right.

[Esther]

Like, you could hit Donut with a car right now and she'll just be like, hey, do not see this.

[Ellie]

He's so small. Oh, my God. Well, welcome back to Trash Tuesday.

[Bobby]

I. I have to talk about how cute you look.

[Ellie]

Well, wait, we're both like Y2K because you have Ozzy Osbourne, which to me is the greatest reality show of all time. The Osbournes. I know that's what you're representing, kid.

[Bobby]

This is what happened with this T shirt. Jaime actually yesterday gifted this to Bobby.

[Jaime Garcia]

It's a hundred and fifty dollar shirt.

[Bobby]

And he goes, here, have it. And then I snatched it right out of his hand. And I was like, let me see. And I'm like, oh, I want it. And Bobby's like, you can have it.

[Esther]

I would be pissed if I were you.

[Jaime Garcia]

I mean, it's a shirt, but it's a hundred dollars. I mean, it's 100.

[Bobby]

It feels like 150. That's why I was like, oh, please.

[Jaime Garcia]

But then Bobby was like, do you mind? I was like, oh, yeah, I guess.

[Ellie]

Was it a gift or like you were wearing it?

[Jaime Garcia]

It was a gift.

[Esther]

Oh.

[Bobby]

Did it hurt your feelings?

[Jaime Garcia]

No.

[Bobby]

Not even a little bit.

[Esther]

It's hurting my feelings.

[Jaime Garcia]

Why?

[Esther]

Because I'm like, if I'm getting a gift for someone specifically, and then they're like, oh, yeah, you can have it. Other person.

[Ellie]

I feel like, when you're gifting something to Bobby, though, you must know that that's, like, on the table.

[Esther]

Yeah, I guess anything's on the table with Bobby.

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[Bobby]

There was this, like, one of a kind. Like, they only made, like, 30 of these jackets for some Korean rappers, like, opening party. And it obviously was a very, very expensive piece. And dumbfounded was like, hey, make sure this gets to Bobby. And it was really, like, nicely wrapped. I gave it to him, and he, like, took one look at it. He's like, I'll never wear that. I'll never wear that. And he, like, just left it in the podcast room. So I swiped it.

[Ellie]

I think it's beautiful when someone knows they don't want something. Like when I was 15 and I asked for ugg boots, and my mom got me an ugg hat. Stop. Obviously, I had a huge tantrum, and it's all on camera. And, like, of course she did the wrong thing. Ugg boots. Everyone knows that means ugg boots.

[Esther]

Mm.

[Ellie]

I'm not gonna wear an ugg hat.

[Esther]

I feel you on this.

[Ellie]

Are you gonna wear an ugg hat?

[Bobby]

No. But I do have ugg sheets.

[Esther]

Oh, comforter.

[Bobby]

So if I got ugg comforters instead of ugg boots, I wouldn't be that upset.

[Esther]

But it's still. If you're asking for something, I know that's the thing you want.

[Ellie]

I know. It makes me feel like the ugg hat was on sale, and then she just sort of went for that. Like, it would be.

[Esther]

It's also, like, don't take creative liberties with my gift. I've specifically laid out what I wanted. Don't.

[Bobby]

She liked the hat.

[Esther]

It's like, maybe she would, but she didn't want that. I had a stepmom growing up. She's still alive. She's just not my stepmom anymore. Whoa. And she was so sweet. But for my birthday, I wanted a damn kitten. I wanted a real life cat. And she got me an animatronic, like, toy cat. And I was too old for. For little games like that. If there was a video of me, it would have gotten me viral because of the way I freaked out about this. Like, people would have been like, something is wrong with this girl. I, like, slam my door. I'm like, you don't understand me.

[Ellie]

Well, it's just there's something about it where it's like, I know it sounds so spoiled rotten and, like, baby. And it is. But it's also like, there is this, like, betrayal or something. Like, I'll never forget the one Christmas where I wanted the Men in Black vhs. Which is obviously pathetic, but my dad had this policy of like not buying VHS's cause he's like, you only need to watch a movie once and you don't need to rewatch it and.

[Bobby]

Wrong, by the way. I know when I was a kid, that's all I did was rewatch everything.

[Ellie]

So we're at Christmas at my grandparents house and like all the cousins are there, whatever. Like all my most traumatic times. I hate my Christian family because I know they're anti Semitic, but.

[Esther]

Really?

[Ellie]

Yes, but oh my God, T. I know, it's so crazy. I've always suspected it and then recently confirmed. But my dad walks over to me and he goes, look, it's the Men in Black vhs. I'm like, oh my God. Like it's weird that it's not wrapped. He's like, yeah, your cousin got it. I'm like, you suck, man. Like that's just the weird kind of psychological torture that I feel like we should do a holiday themed episode.

[Bobby]

We really should. Because I don't. I have a lot of up trauma, but gift giving in my family is serious business and I feel like my parents nailed it every time.

[Esther]

Really?

[Bobby]

Oh yeah.

[Ellie]

That makes sense though for like an abused child.

[Bobby]

Oh, that's true.

[Ellie]

To placate me, like you get Christmas is like they mat the one magical day we.

[Esther]

And you know you can't take this from her.

[Bobby]

That is true. Today we have our favorite return guest.

[Esther]

Thank you.

[Ellie]

Beautiful, brave girl.

[Bobby]

Talented.

[Ellie]

Pretty, funny.

[Bobby]

Gorgeous. Tiny pictures.

[Ellie]

Is tall. Huge tits.

[Bobby]

Oh, huge tits. I forgot that one.

[Esther]

They're not huge. I feel like now we're gassing them up.

[Ellie]

Okay, okay.

[Esther]

They're very moderately. They're very nice.

[Ellie]

Let them surprise you.

[Esther]

Yeah. If you're lucky enough.

[Bobby]

And we have podcast superstar from. Are you from Dallas or Houston?

[Jaime Garcia]

From Dallas.

[Bobby]

From Dallas. Jaime Garcia.

[Jaime Garcia]

What's up, guys? What's up? D town.

[Esther]

Lives in Dallas. Do you know him? Stephen.

[Jaime Garcia]

Stephen. And also in the gay scene, Stephen.

[Bobby]

I feel like you really think you might know him.

[Jaime Garcia]

It's because I live in a gay neighborhood.

[Ellie]

Oh, really?

[Jaime Garcia]

Not because the gay people, but because of the prices of the apartment. Very cheap. And it's close to the airport.

[Ellie]

Interesting. In Dallas, the gay neighborhood is cheap, but in la, the most expensive and.

[Jaime Garcia]

It'S like on the border of like the gay neighborhood and like the homeless people.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

So like in between.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

Not me, but I just live there.

[Ellie]

You're not in between.

[Esther]

You're not between. Homeless?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, no, no. But it's close to the airport.

[Bobby]

So what I thought was really cute about you, a story you told, was when you go on the road with your best friend, Ralph Barbosa, you guys actually sleep in the same room.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, we don't. No. Okay. At first, when. When, like, he started touring and it was like, small cities like Nebraska or.

[Esther]

Kansas, and you got to save some money.

[Jaime Garcia]

There's nothing out there. So it's just one night show and we just stay in.

[Bobby]

Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm telling you, it's my dream come true to go on the road with my bestie and share a. I'm right here. Do you not? Isn't that not, like something you guys, both of you guys, do?

[Ellie]

Well, this my next road gig, my mom and my sister are meeting me and they're going to stay in my room. I'm excited for that.

[Esther]

In my head. It's a really cute idea to stay with a friend because I'm like, oh, it's like sleepover. Like, you know, we'll prank call people and, like, order pizza. And then I realized I love my own space and I don't do. I don't travel well with others.

[Ellie]

My favorite, though, is, like, going to Vegas for a night for a concert and sharing a room with a friend. Yeah, like, that is so fun to.

[Bobby]

Me because nothing can go wrong if you just do one night. One night with any. You can put up with everything. That is an interesting thing you bring up, because I feel as though I've had friends in my life where I'm like, I really like this person. We really click. Wow, this is a sister in the making. And then we go on one trip together, and then it's like, oh, we can never be that deep of friends. I took this girl all the way to the Philippines because I was like, oh, like, we're soul sisters. We met at a dog park. I looked at her dog, she looked at my dog, and I was like, our dogs look exactly the same. And I was like, how old is your dog? And she gave me the age. And I was like, my dog, too. And then come to realize that our dogs were sisters.

[Ellie]

Wait, what?

[Bobby]

Yeah, because they immediately fought each other. And apparently that's the thing. It's like, when they're from the same litter, they become. They fight for the milk and the mom and stuff like that.

[Ellie]

I would drain my whole baking out to find donut sisters.

[Bobby]

I think you could probably find her using, like, the dog DNA registry.

[Esther]

Yeah, I did a dog DNA test and it shows you the cousins and the siblings.

[Ellie]

What, what brand?

[Esther]

I forget I have to get the.

[Bobby]

Name, but it does. You can find.

[Ellie]

I would. I would die. Like, that's all I want in life because I'm so depressed that we got her spayed and she can never have, like, I can never have grandbabies from her.

[Bobby]

Yeah. That is sad.

[Ellie]

But I know we did the right thing.

[Bobby]

Yeah, you did. Sure. Yeah, you did the right thing. What do you new backyard breed her?

[Ellie]

Well, it's only backyard breed if you sell the puppies. I would keep them.

[Esther]

Cruella De Vil.

[Ellie]

Well, no, I'm not going to use them as a jacket.

[Bobby]

That's her favorite movie.

[Ellie]

But yeah, I do love Cruella. But in my mind, she's not evil. She's just pretty and likes dogs. One of my nephews is so he's in college.

[Jaime Garcia]

One Dalmatians or the.

[Ellie]

Yeah, Emma Stone one. No, I like the original cartoon. So there's 101, 102, the live action ones. I liked that with Glenn Close. The original one back in, like, when I was a kid. I don't know how old you are. Are you 37?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, I'm 29. Okay, but is the one where they. They bake her in a cake?

[Ellie]

I don't remember that. Who baked who?

[Jaime Garcia]

Perilla. The dogs that make her into a.

[Bobby]

Cake, they baked her.

[Ellie]

I don't know.

[Jaime Garcia]

You don't remember?

[Ellie]

No, I actually, I can rewatch any movie after a year because I don't remember anything that happened.

[Esther]

They make it out alive in Titanic, right?

[Ellie]

Yeah. You can watch it this weekend. You're ready. Wait, so one of my nephews, he's in college and he's going into his junior year and he's rooming with his girlfriend. No, obviously, like in the family, you know, we've been like, is this a good idea? You can't really stop someone when they want to do that. And it got sort of all of us like, talking about, you know, how, like, the reason that we're kind of like, ah, about it is because, like, the thought of living with your friends, like at this age, you're like, oh, my God, that sounds so fun. And I started thinking, like, I was in college with my best friend who was on the show a lot. Her name's Jenna. And we never lived together. And I'm like, oh, my God, that would have been the dream. Like, if me and Jenna had lived together, what I would have. I would want that. So Bad now. And I started thinking, I'm like, we might not be friends if we had lived together.

[Bobby]

I think you're correct.

[Ellie]

Yeah. I'm not the cleanest girl at the show.

[Bobby]

It's really tricky at that age.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

I think that the quickest way to burn a friendship to the ground is to room with him when you're 19, 20, 21.

[Esther]

How long have they been together? It's his girlfriend.

[Ellie]

They've been together since freshman year. And it's now they're going to junior year.

[Bobby]

I feel like that's fine.

[Ellie]

Really?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Esther]

That's good.

[Bobby]

As a couple. They're not best friends. They're. They're a couple.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Oh, that's fine. As her. I've lived with every single boyfriend since the age of 17.

[Ellie]

I know, but I think, like, when you think about college, I think people want, like, friends and.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

What if. What do you say?

[Jaime Garcia]

One night stands.

[Ellie]

Oh, my God. Hi.

[Bobby]

Have you ever lived with a girl?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Esther]

How long?

[Bobby]

Currently you're living with a girl, like in a relation?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, no friends.

[Bobby]

Oh, just friends with roommates.

[Jaime Garcia]

It's better.

[Bobby]

And would you say you're a good roommate?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

[Bobby]

Do you, like, clean up after yourself in common spaces?

[Jaime Garcia]

I wash the dishes after every time we cook, so that's nice. So she can just, you know, relax and watch TV while do the.

[Ellie]

Do you have a crush on her?

[Jaime Garcia]

No. Oh, no, no. Why?

[Esther]

My boyfriend doesn't even do that. I'm going to have you move in, kick him out.

[Jaime Garcia]

Because I grew up as a dishwasher.

[Ellie]

Oh, really?

[Jaime Garcia]

I'm used to it.

[Bobby]

Oh, yeah. You work the kitchen with Ralph, right?

[Jaime Garcia]

We used to work the kitchen.

[Ellie]

That is like such a flex to me.

[Jaime Garcia]

Why?

[Ellie]

Because it's really hard to wash dishes for me. Like, because my mom did it for me. And so I just. It's not in my body. And so someone that has it in there. It's in your bones, in your memory.

[Esther]

Your body hasn't kept the score of dishwashing.

[Jaime Garcia]

Do you use a dishwasher?

[Ellie]

It's not in my muscle memory.

[Bobby]

Here's my problem with a dishwasher. I. It's always. I require it everywhere I live, but I hardly ever use it.

[Esther]

I feel like that's very immigrant of you.

[Bobby]

I have to manually wash it and I know that the dishwasher saves water. It's probably more efficient. It's probably cleaner. All of the above. I just can't fucking do it. I use it as a drying rack. It's so stupid.

[Ellie]

So if you eat, do you. Are you like, is it in your bones to wash the dish?

[Bobby]

Yeah. Jules and I up until recently, like, live together and our rule is, like, there are no dishes in the sink, like, ever. We eat, we wash, it's gone.

[Ellie]

I need to know in the comments if you guys are having empty sinks or if you're comfortable putting your dishes there and just kind of letting it be for how long?

[Bobby]

Because if someone leaves their dishes there, I personally don't care, but I think Jules did. Jules is a stickler for common space cleanliness. So I had. I know this about her. So I had to make sure the counter is wiped down. But if she were to anyone else were to leave it for a day or the morning after, like, I don't care. I'm not. I'm not. Not like a crazy like that.

[Esther]

Yeah, I can leave it out for a beat, but then I'll start to get antsy if it's out there for a while.

[Bobby]

And yeah, I'm like, I have a question for you. When you see a home and you see, like, clutter and a lot of things happening, your brain doesn't like, short circuit. You don't start to get, like, hot in the throat?

[Ellie]

No, I don't like it because I grew up in a pristine, like, perfect home where everything was so clean. So I don't like it, but I just don't have those life skills to like, always be on top of it. I don't know.

[Bobby]

But then what happens? You just sit there and you're, like, stressed about the.

[Ellie]

I can shut it out. I'm really good at shutting out, like, noises, my surroundings, lights. The only thing that I can't shut out is smell. But Dave is always like, do you hear that? I'm like, yes. Sounds don't bother me. Like, I just don't care.

[Bobby]

Interesting.

[Ellie]

But smell really bothers me.

[Esther]

I like doing the dishes. I can get in the zone.

[Jaime Garcia]

Will you put music on?

[Esther]

I put. Yeah, music or podcast. I watched a TikTok series about this girl who murdered someone and she was being invested. Investigated for it. And the tick tock was like 10 minutes long. So I just had my headphones.

[Ellie]

I love a 10 minuter. Yeah. For just washing bottles. That is fun.

[Esther]

And I put my gloves on. I got gloves. And that really is a game changer. If anyone out there, there's a psa if you're struggling to do dishes, if you buy gloves, it's very fun. You can really, like, cosplay like a real woman.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah. The yellow ones are the black.

[Esther]

The yellow ones.

[Jaime Garcia]

Okay.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

Black ones. The carbon fiber.

[Esther]

I'll get there.

[Bobby]

Is that like a level up?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, like, because, you know when you put your fingers in water for a long time.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

It gets dried. Yeah, it doesn't do that.

[Bobby]

Oh, nice. That's good to know.

[Esther]

Okay.

[Bobby]

I shouldn't really be talking. I haven't washed a dish in almost like a year.

[Esther]

Me and Jaime will come over.

[Bobby]

Well, it's not. It's not. It's just because my.

[Esther]

Good to work.

[Bobby]

I. I got with someone who is just so. Yeah, he's like. He does everything.

[Esther]

Oh, good.

[Bobby]

So then I'm like, am I going to lose my skills? Because.

[Esther]

Yeah, good.

[Ellie]

Lose them.

[Bobby]

I don't know. I am starting to wonder because I. He like, really picks up after everyone and I'm like, oh, whoa. Like, I'm going to be useless after this.

[Esther]

This is calling me out and, you know, in a very deep way. But it is nice having a boyfriend who doesn't do that, because then I can. I can be like, look at me. I. All these things. I feel like if my boyfriend was your boyfriend, I'd be like, I'm a fucking loser.

[Jaime Garcia]

I don't do anything.

[Ellie]

I have nothing to clean. I fully relate to that. So hard. Because whenever there's the things that I take care of and then I can't. And then he takes care of them, I'm like, he can't know that. Like, it's doable for him. He needs to believe that only I can do it.

[Bobby]

You have to render them useless. Trust me. Like, I took that out of your playbook for a long time. And then look what happened with Bobby. So that can backfire. Just, you know, watch.

[Ellie]

Yeah, my mom has rendered my dad useless for sure.

[Bobby]

It is. I feel like a very good strategy for keeping a man down. But then also.

[Esther]

But then it's keeping you down.

[Bobby]

It's keeping you down.

[Esther]

Keeping you down. What are you. What's your relationship dynamic? Who are you in the relish?

[Jaime Garcia]

Nobody.

[Esther]

No, you seem very thoughtful and given.

[Jaime Garcia]

And that's why you can't win. Yeah, I had a girl. I had a girl at a bar tell me that because I was trying to talk to her. I don't know who she was, but I was trying, you know.

[Bobby]

How do you approach girls?

[Jaime Garcia]

Hey, you got a name. That's a joke. Hey, you got a name?

[Bobby]

Ali.

[Jaime Garcia]

It doesn't work like that, but usually say, of course I have a name.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

But it's just.

[Bobby]

Okay, try it. Try it with Me?

[Ellie]

I'll be your friend.

[Esther]

Okay.

[Ellie]

We're dancing.

[Esther]

I'm just a creepy loner watching.

[Bobby]

Yeah. Sweaty.

[Ellie]

Why is that guy following us?

[Jaime Garcia]

Hey, what's up? He got a name? You got a shot.

[Bobby]

You talking to me?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

I can't hear you.

[Jaime Garcia]

You got a name?

[Esther]

You got it.

[Jaime Garcia]

How you doing? Jaime Garcia. That's how I do it. But one girl got mad. She's like, you're too nice. Like, nice guys never finished. Oh, wait, nice guys finished last.

[Bobby]

But you got a name is not a nice guy move.

[Esther]

Yeah, the way you're delivering it is like. It's very sweet.

[Ellie]

You think?

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah. You got a name?

[Esther]

Look at that smile. Look at those eyes.

[Jaime Garcia]

I'm just asking, what's your name? Oh, yeah, but I know it's like,'80s style, you know? You got a name or sugar tits or.

[Bobby]

No, sugar tits is not. It's not an 80s style or a style, like, ever.

[Esther]

It's like, it's my dad's style for sure.

[Bobby]

Wouldn't you just like, hey, sugar tits Tits?

[Esther]

I don't know. You're gonna have to ask Larry. I feel like you could get some moves from my dad. Yeah, he's a ladies man.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, I can see that's because people think you.

[Bobby]

Sugar tits. In a sentence for me, please.

[Jaime Garcia]

What's up, sugar tits?

[Bobby]

Oh, okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

I don't say to girls. I just say to friends because I overthink things.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

I think too much about stuff.

[Bobby]

Okay, okay. But I mean, listen, like, I'm not here to, like, steer your dating life like, you're doing just fine.

[Jaime Garcia]

Dating or life?

[Bobby]

But I mean, like, you always tell me, like, about a new girl.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, but I'm tired of that. I'm.

[Ellie]

What's going on now with girls?

[Jaime Garcia]

Nothing much. I. I was in Hawaii.

[Bobby]

Huh.

[Jaime Garcia]

I don't know. They have escorts out there.

[Bobby]

They have escorts everywhere in the world.

[Jaime Garcia]

But in Hawaii.

[Bobby]

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

We're leaving the bar and this. This. This lady keeps staring at us and she's like, hey, is that the famous comedian Ralph? He's like, yeah. Oh, I love his stuff. And then he. He's with his date and they walk away and they leave me. And she's like, you want to have some fun with me? I was like. And I can't already tell she's an escort. I was like, what kind of fun I have? I live 10 minutes from here and, you know, come back and pay me 400 bucks.

[Bobby]

Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

For an hour.

[Bobby]

For an hour. That was her rate. Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

I was like, no, no, thank you.

[Esther]

Would you have if the price was lower for a good deal? What if she's like, this is normally 400, but for you, 150. It's the price of an Aussie Osborne shirt.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, I want to do it.

[Ellie]

What if. Were you not attracted to her?

[Jaime Garcia]

I want to do escorts.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Really?

[Jaime Garcia]

I can't do it. It wouldn't even work.

[Esther]

Too nice. Nice.

[Jaime Garcia]

Too nice.

[Bobby]

Nice guy. Would you feel like, badly about it after sex? Just in general, Just a transaction of. Of a sex worker.

[Jaime Garcia]

I wouldn't feel bad because it's her job, but I would feel bad.

[Ellie]

So you would feel bad for yourself?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, because I have to tell my wife if I ever get married, say, hey, When I was 25, I had an escort.

[Bobby]

Hey, by the way, you don't have to tell your wife that.

[Ellie]

That's.

[Bobby]

That's. If she wasn't a part of your life, then that's.

[Ellie]

You're.

[Bobby]

You're entitled to your privacy.

[Jaime Garcia]

But. Yeah, but then everybody has a pass. Like, I don't know. Do you guys have a boyfriend? How is he white?

[Esther]

Here's why.

[Jaime Garcia]

Cool.

[Ellie]

Why did you ask that?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, it's because everybody's.

[Esther]

Just pick up one.

[Jaime Garcia]

Because everybody different.

[Bobby]

Like, she, tell me what I date.

[Jaime Garcia]

There's no place I rather be, Right.

[Esther]

Lilo and Stitch.

[Jaime Garcia]

And then, you know. A writer. Yeah, a good writer.

[Ellie]

Jewish writer.

[Jaime Garcia]

He's brown skin, right? Is he brown?

[Ellie]

He's like a darker Jewish guy, I.

[Bobby]

Think, to me, like, dark features, dark hair.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

You know, a show I loved him on and I love to live. That's why I want to move to la. Is that show love?

[Ellie]

Oh, yeah, I love.

[Esther]

Love.

[Ellie]

He's. He plays one of the writers in it.

[Esther]

Stop it. Yeah.

[Ellie]

He's so mean. I love.

[Esther]

Love.

[Ellie]

It's so good. I know. I love that show.

[Esther]

It's one of the best shows.

[Jaime Garcia]

When I watched it, I was like, is this what LA is? And I want to do this. I want to live where he lives. That Gus.

[Ellie]

Oh, yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

And then I think she's pretty, that.

[Bobby]

Girl that plays Mickey.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

I want to find a girl like that.

[Ellie]

Yeah, she's really pretty.

[Jaime Garcia]

Doesn't have a job, but she's just making by. And then I'm just a podcaster and that'd be a good show. Can you.

[Esther]

Hardworking guy. I feel like I don't know much about you, but I'm picking up clues.

[Jaime Garcia]

That's like.

[Esther]

You'd be a great boyfriend. Yeah. I feel like you would try hard to be a good.

[Bobby]

When's the last time you. You were in, like, a relationship?

[Jaime Garcia]

Beginning of the year.

[Bobby]

And how long did that last?

[Jaime Garcia]

Four months.

[Bobby]

Why did. Why did you guys break up?

[Jaime Garcia]

Long distance.

[Ellie]

Wait, I heard that there's something going on with someone back home. Is that what that is?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, no, she's. She lives in Sacramento, and we broke things off. She was half Hawaiian.

[Bobby]

Oh, yeah? Who broke it off with who?

[Jaime Garcia]

We both did. But, like, this is not gonna work out.

[Bobby]

Were you chill with it, or were you, like, pretty.

[Jaime Garcia]

I was pretty chill. We're going on tour again. Me, Ralph, Renee.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

And I was like, okay, I guess.

[Bobby]

Have you ever been, like, stupid in love with a girl?

[Jaime Garcia]

With her.

[Bobby]

That was her. But you were chill when you broke up?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, I was like, okay, it was too much. I loved her. And I. Like, I'll call. I'll go fly to her every now and then.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

But then. I don't know. I should say this, but I'm not gonna say names. But we don't keep in contact anymore. But I found out through Ralph that at the beginning of our relationship, before we started talking, she went out with a friend of our. Like, not friend, but, like, a mutual. Yeah, she was drunk. She told him, hey, if I was in with Hymen, like, I'll you. But they didn't do anything. Well, I hope they didn't do anything.

[Bobby]

But you guys were already together. But she said that we were talking. Oh, see, that's not cool. Yeah, that would hurt my feelings a lot.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

And I just found out, like, three weeks ago. Oh, I was having a bad week already. I was having bad shows.

[Bobby]

And Ralph gave you even worse news.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, because we haven't seen. I haven't seen Ralph in two weeks, and we're catching up, and he's like, oh, yeah, also, I heard this. I said, oh, you. I was saying I had a. Like, I had some bad shows in at the Addison Improv. And then, you know, we came back, and we're just catching up. He told.

[Esther]

I guess it's better to deliver bad news when you're already in a bad mood. It would suck if you had great shows. And he's like, by the way, I heard this. I'd rather already be in a bad mood.

[Bobby]

Yeah, take me down. Yeah, take me down to the pits of hell. Yeah, I'm already here.

[Esther]

I don't want to be on a high and then be like, excuse me.

[Jaime Garcia]

When you hear news like that, my heart dropped. Like, you know, when you're.

[Bobby]

That's the worst feeling. I hate that feeling where I. I genuinely feel nauseous.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

There's a feeling I get where I'm like, oh, I'm just gonna have to lay down.

[Jaime Garcia]

You ever go to like a panic room? Not a panic room.

[Esther]

Escape room.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, not escape room. The one where you break things.

[Esther]

Oh.

[Jaime Garcia]

No. You want.

[Esther]

Should we go?

[Bobby]

Yeah, I want to go to a rage. You know what? I want to see this little one in a rage room.

[Ellie]

I would bomb. I just can't. I can't. I don't have. I can't do that stuff.

[Bobby]

Do you have pent up things in your body or.

[Ellie]

No, Everybody asked me that. They're like, you never have rage. You never get angry because you're boundary.

[Bobby]

Is what it is. You are able to in real time say, I don't want that. I don't like that. That hurt my feelings. So you let it out in the moment versus me, where I'll let it stew and then fester. And so that's why I need something like the rage room. I can't stand up for myself in real time.

[Ellie]

I feel like there must be times where I have. But it's just. I don't know. Yeah, I don't. I don't. Do you. So do you feel like a rage room would be fun?

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

But I can set you off. I think I know what to say. I can set you off. I can light that fire and be like, okay, now think of this.

[Ellie]

Yeah, you could. You could get me mad.

[Esther]

You know the triggers.

[Bobby]

I know her triggers.

[Ellie]

Yeah, that's true. I feel like we've been on, we've talked before where I'm like, I'm just so mad.

[Esther]

Even you saying that wasn't very convincing. You're like, voice cracked a little bit. I'm so mad. But they take videos of you in the rage room, so you can. That would be fun to watch. I would love to see you coaching Esther on getting.

[Ellie]

We should go.

[Bobby]

I really think we should go.

[Ellie]

That's good.

[Esther]

It's funny how everything now has like cameras and it's like a selling point. And it does work for me. I want to watch myself.

[Ellie]

Same.

[Esther]

I am a bit of a narcissist in that way.

[Ellie]

Well, look at where we are.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

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[Ellie]

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[Bobby]

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[Bobby]

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Like kind of a personal stylish because.

[Bobby]

This stuff is curated, right?

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[Ellie]

But, Jaime, I thought that I heard that maybe you were in something right now.

[Jaime Garcia]

Oh, yeah. I'm talking to a girl right now.

[Ellie]

What's going on?

[Jaime Garcia]

I don't know. It's weird.

[Bobby]

Tell us.

[Jaime Garcia]

It's hard to tell.

[Bobby]

Let your sisters help you this.

[Jaime Garcia]

I have six sisters back.

[Ellie]

Oh, yeah, you do. That's why you're so like.

[Bobby]

That's why you're a sweetie pie.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

Because I don't, like, hurt people's feelings.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

Like when I have, like when I ask, you know, Ralph, like, hey, can you let me borrow like 500 bucks? He'll do it. But it's. I get afraid to ask.

[Ellie]

Why are you borrowing money?

[Bobby]

Well, why not besties?

[Jaime Garcia]

Well, he pays me, you know, because every now and then, whenever, you know, when it's getting low, I'm like, hey, can you Name me borrow 100 for now?

[Esther]

Now.

[Jaime Garcia]

But I'm always afraid to ask. But you have six sisters.

[Esther]

That's really sweet. I love sisters.

[Bobby]

Wait, did you. Did you guys grow up in Mexico for like a couple of years?

[Jaime Garcia]

No.

[Bobby]

What was that story you told us where I think you were, like, playing oh my sisters and then you broke your jaw?

[Jaime Garcia]

Well, we were in Mexico for the summer, and that's why my mouth's crooked.

[Bobby]

Is that why you have a speech impediment, is because of the broken jaw?

[Jaime Garcia]

I think so, yeah.

[Bobby]

Crazy.

[Jaime Garcia]

Can you tell Is broken.

[Esther]

I just thought maybe you had like an underbiter or something. I wouldn't have assumed that it was because you had a broken jaw. I would have just Thought that you were born with a fun mouth.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, no. My sister's causes. We were playing in. In like. Like a market, and we're playing that. What was that game?

[Bobby]

It was like.

[Jaime Garcia]

Like they were holding hands.

[Bobby]

Is it like. Yeah, like Red Rover. Right. Come on over. That's an American way of you go.

[Jaime Garcia]

And break the bridge.

[Esther]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

And I was, like, 5 or 6, and I was too small, and they were bigger sisters, physically, and I couldn't do it. And I just went back and then I just. I think I did. That's what you charge.

[Bobby]

The locked arms and then. Right. It caught you, like, right in the jaw.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah. And I fell back and I was like, not in the coma, but I was, like, in and out of it.

[Bobby]

Knocked you out?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Esther]

Damn.

[Jaime Garcia]

And I woke up to my uncle, like, in his arms, like, running and carrying me.

[Ellie]

Was he breastfeeding you? Why do you have it, like, right at the teacher?

[Jaime Garcia]

Well, he was carrying. I don't know how he was carrying me, but I was, like, looking at the streets. I was like, oh. Oh. And then I just woke up in the hospital. They have the X rays somewhere in Mexico.

[Ellie]

Even there, they were taking pictures.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

And did they?

[Esther]

That might be why I like going to the doctor.

[Ellie]

So much content material.

[Esther]

I got a colonoscopy. I love, loved it. I'm like, more photos.

[Bobby]

Oh, yeah, those are fun. Especially the drugs. My. One of my biggest flexes is I like being told I prepped well, that I was, like, excellent with my prep. Because when I got done with my colonoscopy and I came to after my propofol, which was so fun.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

The next lady next to me was being yelled at. They couldn't give her any information about her colon because she didn't do it. She didn't.

[Esther]

Damn.

[Bobby]

Because before a colonoscopy, you have to drink a lot of, like, laxatives. Jaime.

[Esther]

Is it possible to get those without. I wanna. I wanna cleanse. I want to get rid of everything.

[Ellie]

That's a good idea.

[Esther]

I want to, like, start fresh because I felt great. I had my colonoscopy in, like, ninth grade. I don't know why. I don't know why, but my parents had good health insurance, and I just, like, had stomach issues, but not. Anyway, I got a colonoscopy. It was very fun. And, yeah, you, like, drink that stuff. You're on the toilet for, like, a full day. Everything is released from you like a demon. And then, because I was, like, in high school, I was like, oh, my God. You know what I want after my surgery? Chili cheese fries. And that's like, the first thing I put back into my body. I would like to do it now with a more refined palette, but I know myself. I probably would still end up getting.

[Bobby]

Like, this is so ravenous.

[Esther]

No, it was from this place, Volcano Burger, where I grew up.

[Ellie]

We used to serve chili cheese fries at Johnny Rockets. They're so good.

[Esther]

I love chili cheese fries.

[Bobby]

I do too.

[Ellie]

And what. What's not to love?

[Esther]

I went back to the high school Volcano Burger because I was like, these were the best chili cheese fries. And they did not hit the same.

[Ellie]

Where would you go today for good ones?

[Esther]

I don't know. I don't know where I would go. Where would you go?

[Ellie]

I don't. I don't know. Try to go to Dubai and find a Johnny Rockets. Cause they don't have them anymore anywhere. Oh, wait, there's a place.

[Bobby]

Chili cheese fries. The lucky boy has it tops in Pasadena. Has it tops is great.

[Jaime Garcia]

Carney's.

[Ellie]

Oh, they're probably good.

[Esther]

Carney's is good chili. But I don't like their fries. Aren't my favorite.

[Ellie]

Cause they're skinny.

[Esther]

They're a little bit too skinny for a chili cheese fry. I think you need a thicker fry for that.

[Ellie]

Have you ever had Famous Dave's?

[Esther]

No.

[Ellie]

They have this thing on their menu that is, like, become my favorite thing that I think should have. They should serve this everywhere, and they don't. But a barbecue chicken salad where the dressing is barbecue sauce. And so you're just, like, getting the barbecue experience, but like, with lettuce and cheese. And it's so good.

[Esther]

I'm trying to think. I feel like CPK has a decent barbecue chicken salad kind of similar barbecue chicken pizza.

[Bobby]

Pizza.

[Esther]

The pizza was great, but I think they also have a barbecue chicken salad.

[Ellie]

Look into that.

[Bobby]

My best friend was a CPK girl for.

[Esther]

I feel like that was such a hot job.

[Bobby]

It was. It was.

[Esther]

First came out, it was like the hot girls worked at TPK.

[Bobby]

Yep. She was a CPK for I think, most of our early 20s. And we got the hookup then. But. And then she worked for Tony Romas. Do you remember Tony?

[Ellie]

Of course I remember Tony Roma's. The ribs.

[Bobby]

Are you kidding?

[Ellie]

Yes. There was one at Universal City. I used to go by myself all the time in my 20s.

[Jaime Garcia]

Can't be that good.

[Bobby]

Yeah, it wasn't.

[Ellie]

It was mid, but it was Go.

[Jaime Garcia]

To Texas and then.

[Bobby]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, we can't compete.

[Ellie]

But CPK went Downhill. And I actually recently was doing crowd work, and someone in the front row, like, he worked at tpk, and I was like, oh, my God. I've been dying to talk to someone on the inside. What is going on? It sucks now. And he was like, yeah, corporate. Like, they. We got bought, and it sucks now.

[Esther]

It's really bad.

[Ellie]

It's so sad because it was amazing.

[Esther]

It kind of feels like a Chili's now, where it's like, it's. It's bad, but it still is good. Like, it's not the quality I remember from back in the day, but there is still something about it that I love. When's the last time you guys have been to a Chili's?

[Ellie]

It's been a while.

[Esther]

Can we do a field trip Trash Tuesday road trip Chili's?

[Bobby]

I think I can't do it for.

[Esther]

Someone who loves to eat.

[Ellie]

Anyways. We can move on. I mean, food.

[Jaime Garcia]

Are you getting hungry?

[Ellie]

No, I just. Once I get started, I just can't stop talking about it.

[Bobby]

Yeah, I mean, I've told this story before, but I would go to Outback Steakhouse a lot, and I would steal their utensils. Hey, you did too.

[Jaime Garcia]

I still stuff. I still still stuff.

[Bobby]

Wait, what stuff are you stealing?

[Jaime Garcia]

I still cups.

[Bobby]

From where?

[Jaime Garcia]

Everywhere. If I. If I like the cup, I'm taking it.

[Ellie]

Well, I'm holding on to this.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, comes like, those, like, the Japanese cups.

[Bobby]

Oh, the smaller ones?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

You can't ste from, like, mom pop shops, though. You got to steal from, like, corporate chains.

[Jaime Garcia]

So Chipotle. I don't know if anybody does this. I take the forks.

[Bobby]

We can take from Chipotle.

[Esther]

But the forks are plastic.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, yeah. For the house.

[Ellie]

Oh, that's not stealing.

[Bobby]

Not stealing.

[Ellie]

My mom does that with the napkins.

[Bobby]

That's not stealing. We're. I'm talking about, like, their knives, like, the real, like, you know, steel. And so I would walk out of Outback Steakhouse, like, clinging and clanging, and I would have a full set. Like, people would come to my. In college, and they were like, you're not broke. I'm like, yeah, I am. I just steal from Outback Steakhouse.

[Esther]

And I guess you don't need that money. Like, it's kind of an easy job. You only need really, like, four sets.

[Ellie]

Who is looking at your silverware from Outback and saying, you're not broke. You're doing great.

[Bobby]

In college, you would do, like, when I would go to friends homes, they would have paper plates, red cups, really ratchet shit.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

And my stuff was like. Like, top tier. Because obviously I was.

[Ellie]

Yeah, I saw that. Like, this. There's a trend on Tick Tock where people are talking about their struggle meals. You know, like, what you make when you're broke.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

You're making a face like, I didn't just know you making struggle meals on.

[Esther]

No, I was just confused what that. What that meant.

[Jaime Garcia]

Struggle meals.

[Bobby]

Tell me. I. I want to talk about this.

[Esther]

Like, because I just feel like every meal I eat is a struggle. Now I'm just like, why?

[Bobby]

I feel like this is the birthplace of girl dinner.

[Ellie]

Well, my favorite girl dinner is when people are like, oh, my boyfriend's out of town, so that means I'm having noodles with no protein. I'm like, that's so real. Because, like, men need protein every meal. It's like, whatever, relax. But what I forgot. What were you making recently on the road?

[Esther]

So I got Hawaiian rolls from Safeway, and then from the breakfast bar, I had banana, and then I also had honey from the breakfast bar. And so I just got a little bit creative, and I. And I mashed the banana onto the Hawaiian rolls, and then I put honey on it, and I put butter on it.

[Bobby]

Wait, that sounds so good.

[Esther]

It was delicious. But here's the thing. It's. Because I grew up mostly living with my dad in the kitchen, would just have, like, bread and, like, various condiments, and so I would just create little things. And I'm sure people eat that, like, regular style, but I love coming up with something kind of random on the fly and putting it together. I really. And I also had, I think, like, leftover English muffins, and I had bought prosciutto, and. And I had butter, and so I made little, like, baguettes. Like, little. Little prosciutto.

[Bobby]

I feel like this isn't a struggle meal, though. This is just like. Like, it's artistic. Yeah, it's super artistic.

[Esther]

That's how I feel about it. But then someone, like, DM'd me and was like, oh, my God. Are you, like, struggling? No.

[Ellie]

I feel like you get. You get in the flow state.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

Start going, what's your struggle meal?

[Bobby]

What's. What's. What's a meal you remember where you're like, okay, shit's a little hard right now, and, well, this is all I can get.

[Ellie]

Junior year of college, I. When I was living by myself in college for the first time, first of all, every lunch, I would do noodles and Company buttered noodles, which is, like, so fucking good. And I know it's like going out to eat. So it's not exactly like a struggle meal, but it was really, really cheap. It was like $5 or the $5 foot long from Subway. And then for dinner, I would do a bag of microwave popcorn. And then I would walk down to Coldstone and I had on campus. You know how, like when you first start the school year, there's like these coupon books? Okay. Well, I would literally collect the coupon. Like, I would. If I saw a coupon book laying around campus, I'd flip through it, rip out the Cold Stone coupon. Like, I literally had like 60 of these. So I would go every day. I would eat my popcorn and then I would go to Cold Stone and get the Gotta have it of like the sinless sweet cream, which was like so toxic. But like low calorie whatever. And so I would just do that. And I think I got cinnamon as a mix in. And that was my struggle. Dinner every day. Popcorn and a big thing of ice cream.

[Bobby]

That's crazy.

[Ellie]

Why?

[Esther]

It's a weird combo.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Esther]

I just don't think I would be like, full, but I guess Coldstone's pretty heavy.

[Bobby]

My sugar would just crash right after that and I'd be hungry all over again.

[Ellie]

Was sinless sweet cream. Oh, so it was toxic sugars.

[Bobby]

A struggle meal that I still eat because now it's more of like a comfort meal. Is just rice with. We call it patis and mantika, which is soy sauce and a little bit of oil, any oil. And it gives you the taste of like umami. So it tastes like a protein. And that's just it. Rice with oil and soy sauce. And it is. My mouth is watering thinking about it.

[Esther]

Me too. Really embarrassing. But rice is too much effort for you. Yeah, it's too much effort.

[Ellie]

And it's complicated.

[Esther]

It's complicated. And I. And you can never make the right amount of rice. It's never the perfect amount. You have to save it for later. And then I'm scared of botulism. I know. And then I don't know how to reheat the rice.

[Bobby]

I will. I will do. Gladly Do a tutorial. All it takes is a finger sticky.

[Esther]

And then you have to clean the pan. It's not.

[Bobby]

It's not. It's very easy.

[Ellie]

What do you mean? All it takes is a finger.

[Bobby]

It's a finger.

[Ellie]

What are you talking about?

[Esther]

What do you mean?

[Bobby]

You don't need to actually measure.

[Esther]

No, I know. You put the finger and then the rice goes in and then you do A little bit more water.

[Ellie]

I don't want your dirty finger in my rice.

[Bobby]

Well, you're gonna like the rice you eat.

[Esther]

Rice is like a once a year activity for me when I'm feeling ambitious every single day. I love it. I want to eat it more. I just don't want to deal with the aftermath of it.

[Bobby]

What about a rice cooker?

[Esther]

I've had a rice cooker before, but then it's more about. It's not about the making the rice.

[Bobby]

Making.

[Esther]

Making rice is very easy. I love that part. It's the. What do I do once it's made and I have leftovers? Just throw them out.

[Bobby]

No, keep it.

[Esther]

And then how do I reheat it?

[Ellie]

Like 20twenties urban legend that like some girl died because she ate her white rice that was sitting out for too long. So then it's like, what are the rules? Because it's like you can't put it in the fridge right away because then it's. You have to let it cool. But then you can't leave it out too long because then it's going to grow bacteria. So it's like this, like extremely stressful game you're playing.

[Bobby]

It's not. I think that. I think that maybe you guys just didn't go grow up with rice.

[Esther]

Yeah, I grew up with rice peel off.

[Bobby]

Because I think for us it's immediately we can tell when the rice has gone bad. There's no, this is rice good or bad? Like, we call it panos. We even have a word for it. Yeah. Because as soon as you see it a little mushy, you can smell it from afar. But the rules are, you're not wrong. Like rice. The sickest I've ever been in my life. I mean, double dragon. Like, out my ass, out my mouth, out my eyes, out my ears.

[Ellie]

What came out of your ear?

[Bobby]

Fun things. And I remember it was like Christmas of 1998. It was like my first month in. In America. My dad was in the hospital. He had just had a heart attack. But I'm like, it's okay. We'll. We'll have a Christmas nonetheless. You, my, my sister, my mom and I, and we went to a mall in Pasadena. It's not there anymore. And I had Chinese food and I had their fried rice. And within, I'm telling you, 30 minutes, we were supposed to go to Michael's to buy Christmas ornaments. And I shit my pants.

[Esther]

How do you know it's from the rice?

[Bobby]

I think that's all I had that day. Or no, I was the only one that had that particular fried rice.

[Esther]

But also I thought, like, food response happens like with like 24 hours after.

[Bobby]

Not necessarily. It depends because I think noro hits a little bit quicker than that.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

But I was so gravely ill, like with a fever and everything. And then when I. When I tutored microbiology at. In Long Beach, I learned that. That there's a particular type of bacteria that settles in rice, that even if you reheat it, if it's already released its toxin, you cannot kill the toxin. You can kill the bacteria, but the toxin is not something you can kill off. Right.

[Ellie]

This is what we're scared of.

[Bobby]

I know, but it's like I would implore you to know good rice, bad rice. How it's. You tell them. Is it easy for you to cook rice? No. To know bad rice, good rice, rice by the smell.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

My mom taught me. She used to make a whole batch of Mexican rice. Have you had Mexican rice?

[Esther]

Oh, yeah.

[Ellie]

So good.

[Jaime Garcia]

Delicious. She taught me how to be.

[Bobby]

Do you know how to cook rice?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah. I think that's why I'll be a perfect boyfriend.

[Ellie]

I agree. I agree.

[Jaime Garcia]

I know most because we grew up in the kitchen, but. And then you guys have had baraka.

[Bobby]

Yes. I love.

[Ellie]

No, what is it?

[Jaime Garcia]

Bar. I don't say in English.

[Esther]

Oh, barbacoa.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, no, baraka.

[Ellie]

What is it?

[Jaime Garcia]

It's the same thing, but you guys are saying it.

[Ellie]

Is it. Is it pork? Shredded pork?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, it's beef.

[Ellie]

Oh.

[Esther]

I'm not super into barbacoa.

[Jaime Garcia]

Why?

[Esther]

It's just not my. My go to.

[Jaime Garcia]

Like, the tongue.

[Bobby]

Yeah, it's beef originally. It's supposed to be the ears, the head, the face.

[Jaime Garcia]

You should try it.

[Esther]

I've tried it.

[Jaime Garcia]

Where?

[Esther]

Chipotle.

[Jaime Garcia]

But you. You in California niche. I love California food.

[Esther]

What's your favorite Mexican food? Tacos in la.

[Jaime Garcia]

Oh, tacos.

[Ellie]

Is it true that ground beef or ground chicken tacos is like white person taco?

[Esther]

Yeah, because that's what white people make for like taco night.

[Bobby]

Family dinner. Assemble your own tacos.

[Ellie]

Why do you guys not like that? It's so good.

[Jaime Garcia]

Ground beef.

[Ellie]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

That's not taco.

[Ellie]

Are you serious?

[Bobby]

That's not taco, Esther.

[Ellie]

It's so.

[Esther]

It's Taco Bell.

[Jaime Garcia]

It's Taco Bell.

[Ellie]

Yeah, but why doesn't that count?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, ground beef is like. It goes with anything. Like spaghetti. It's not. Well, I don't know. It's not real tacos.

[Bobby]

Wow.

[Esther]

It's good tacos.

[Ellie]

I'm so Heartbroken.

[Esther]

Good. It's not bad. If someone gave it to you and you ate it, you wouldn't be like, ew.

[Jaime Garcia]

Well, it depends who's giving it to me.

[Esther]

Okay.

[Jaime Garcia]

But, you know, like. Because if I have a girlfriend, you know, hopefully she makes. Makes fajita. Fajita. That's kind of like closer to real tacos. Make fajita instead of ground beef.

[Ellie]

Fajitas just means, like, the veggies, right?

[Jaime Garcia]

No, fajitas like the meat, right?

[Ellie]

Oh, like beef strips.

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

Oh, yeah, that is good.

[Jaime Garcia]

Try that at home. And then stay away from ground beef.

[Ellie]

Stay away from ground beef?

[Jaime Garcia]

Yeah, for tacos.

[Esther]

But it's so easy.

[Ellie]

It's so.

[Esther]

It's easy. I think it's about the simplicity.

[Ellie]

I'm seasoning it.

[Bobby]

It.

[Ellie]

Well, that makes me not white.

[Esther]

You know what I just got? When I went grocery shopping? I got. Speaking of seasoning. Sorry. I got. I got the big bottle of Taco Bell hot sauce.

[Ellie]

Oh, you're nasty.

[Esther]

Yeah. And then I got Chick Fil a Polynesian and Chick Fil A sauce. Oh, don't bring up Polynesian in the big little. Why?

[Ellie]

Because literally, like, I'm getting scorched earth treatment on Tick Tock.

[Esther]

Why? That's what it's called.

[Ellie]

Because.

[Esther]

Wait, wait, what's happening? What did I just walk into?

[Bobby]

Yeah. We can't talk about.

[Esther]

Do I need to be educated?

[Ellie]

I will not apologize. That's to be clear. I will not apologize. I'm holding firm. All I did was I had a question about Polynesian sauce, and I asked a Polynesian man, my.

[Bobby]

He. She asked my partner, like, like, you know, is Polynesian sauce, like, authentic? And he was like, I, you know.

[Ellie]

He didn't even know what I was talking.

[Bobby]

He didn't know what he was talking. She was talking. But I think that the, The. Let's break it down. We should watch the video and talk about why it's problematic. You know what, Ellie? You can tell us why it's problematic.

[Ellie]

It's not problematic.

[Esther]

I know I'm the right person. I mean, I, I. I imagine Chick Fil A, as a company, has no idea what, like, Polynesian sauce is. Of course, there's. They're not like, let's go to the. The Indonesian territory. No.

[Ellie]

It's almost, like, kind of shocking that they even named it that, because every other chain has that sauce, and they call it sweet and sour. I've never heard.

[Bobby]

All it is is sweet and sour, right?

[Ellie]

To me, that's what it tastes.

[Esther]

It's like a little Bit of sweet and sour with, like. I feel like there's a little hint of barbecue in it. There's like.

[Ellie]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Esther]

Because I don't like sweet and sour, but I love Polynesian.

[Ellie]

That's weird.

[Esther]

I love the.

[Ellie]

You don't like Burger King sweet and sour?

[Esther]

I don't like any sweet and sour. I never do sweet and sour.

[Ellie]

This is. Now this is challenging me.

[Jaime Garcia]

I don't.

[Bobby]

What?

[Esther]

I feel like we're gonna be dating by the end of this episode. You're making great points and great rice.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

Wait, I. I wanna ask this question. We can get back to that later. But were we. Were you actually. Sorry, I interrupted you with your sauce. Your condiment.

[Esther]

That was it.

[Ellie]

Okay.

[Esther]

I was just really excited about having big, big, big sauces.

[Bobby]

You hit a sore spot when you said Polynesian sauce.

[Esther]

I didn't know about this. Yeah.

[Ellie]

Did you have any of you guys ever had a ramen noodles era? Still?

[Bobby]

I don't think you leave that era. I'm out of my era, still in the.

[Ellie]

You know, I'm one of those unfortunate souls where my favorite flavor was blue.

[Esther]

Wait, what?

[Bobby]

What does it mean?

[Esther]

Blue ramen.

[Ellie]

You know the one.

[Esther]

Blue.

[Bobby]

Well, I don't. I don't label my food with, like, the color.

[Ellie]

You're gonna make me say it.

[Esther]

It. What?

[Bobby]

Oh, the Oriental.

[Ellie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And now I can't find it anywhere.

[Esther]

It's at Ralph's.

[Ellie]

Oh, really?

[Esther]

Yeah, I just saw it.

[Ellie]

Do they change the name?

[Jaime Garcia]

No.

[Esther]

I don't know.

[Ellie]

Yeah, they did, so. They did.

[Bobby]

They did.

[Ellie]

What's the difference between ramen and top ramen? Is it just a brand?

[Bobby]

I always just think top Ramen is just packaged ramen and. But maybe. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Esther]

Did you guys ever eat it without cooking it? That was, like, a big thing we would eat. We'd cross crunch. You'd crush up the bag, you'd put the sauce in, and then you'd eat it like little chips.

[Ellie]

Everyone in the studio is nodding.

[Esther]

Yeah. That was a struggle meal. That's a struggle meal.

[Bobby]

I feel like that was a treat.

[Esther]

Yeah. Being in, like. Because the. The sauce packet was so good that when you sprinkle it on, it was like, so, like. It's just. You're mainlining it straight to your stomach.

[Ellie]

So good. What was your flavor?

[Esther]

Blue chicken.

[Bobby]

The.

[Esther]

No, the orange chicken.

[Ellie]

I think it was b. Chicken.

[Jaime Garcia]

Chicken.

[Esther]

Chicken.

[Ellie]

Beef is red.

[Esther]

Okay. Yeah. I like the orange one. The orange was my favorite.

[Jaime Garcia]

Can you say the name of the brand? That one. No, that's.

[Ellie]

What's so weird is ramen is a struggle meal. But it's so good, so good.

[Esther]

And I like, I feel like the grown up version is when you get, like, one of these little marchan, red, orange packets of noodles, and you, like, add egg, maybe add a little green onion.

[Bobby]

Let's see this.

[Esther]

Why, like, start chefing it up?

[Bobby]

This is all taking a back seat to obviously, like, Bulldog. Bulldog is like, all the rage. Bulldog is like, now they got the carbonara, now they have the spicy carbonara. Now they tell you, what is it?

[Ellie]

I've never. What's the difference?

[Bobby]

I mean, it's a world of difference.

[Ellie]

But can you explain it? Because I never had it. I want to know.

[Bobby]

Number one, they have just way more flavors than just soy sauce, chicken, beef. They have spice level now.

[Esther]

Well, and their sauce packets are like, actual sauce, right?

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Esther]

It's not like a powder.

[Bobby]

And then now you can go on TikTok. And there's so many different ways you can prepare it according to, like, your own vibes that day. Just a million ways to do it now. And I'm telling you guys, like, this shit is like multiple levels up. Highly, highly recommend. But it is. It's a trap. You will find yourself, like, three weeks in, like, just still eating Bulldog. That's why Jules couldn't for a month. Month. Because of Bulldog. Yeah.

[Esther]

Well, what about at the sodium? What in it makes you know?

[Ellie]

There's no fiber.

[Bobby]

There's no fiber. That's all she ate. And her face got, like, coffee.

[Jaime Garcia]

You guys ever had, like, a snack? Popcorn with ketchup?

[Ellie]

No.

[Bobby]

No.

[Jaime Garcia]

Try it.

[Ellie]

No, with ketchup.

[Esther]

Ketchup flavored or with.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, dip it in ketchup and ketchup.

[Ellie]

No.

[Jaime Garcia]

That'S nasty. Your. Yours is not nasty. With chips. Chips in. You're supposed to cook the soup.

[Esther]

We're breaking up with you.

[Jaime Garcia]

No, eat. Try it.

[Bobby]

Okay, I'll try it.

[Esther]

I just. Here's the thing. I just don't love ketchup enough.

[Bobby]

Oh.

[Esther]

To put it on something so small. I like ketchup, like on a burger with a chicken tender. But to, like, dip something small and have most of the flavor be ketchup. I'll dip it in Polynesian sauce.

[Jaime Garcia]

Okay.

[Esther]

I'll dip it in chick fil a sauce. I used to work at a movie theater, and the kind of hack with popcorn that I learned there is, you get, like, the. They sometimes have, like, little jalapenos, little spices, and you put the jalapeno juice drizzle it over the popcorn. It was.

[Bobby]

That sounds really so good.

[Ellie]

So spicy.

[Esther]

It's only a little.

[Bobby]

What?

[Jaime Garcia]

We'll move with you.

[Esther]

I used to work at the Arc Light.

[Bobby]

Oh, fancy girl.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

Did you have any hookup stories or, like, tea with managers? Good question. Because I watch a lot of movies, so, you know, movies are big thing.

[Esther]

No, but there was. There was once a man jerking off in the movie Hail Caesar. And we had to go in and stop him. And I'm like, how do you tell a guy to.

[Ellie]

That's horrible.

[Esther]

Jerking off. I'm like, I guess just let him finish.

[Jaime Garcia]

Was it.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Jaime Garcia]

A full theater. What?

[Esther]

No, it wasn't. Which is why I was like, if he's not interrupting anyone, then that's a.

[Bobby]

Really interesting thing you just said where it's like, like, what is worse, right? Like, having to, like, yell at someone like, hey, stop what you're doing. Or just, like, take the path of least resistance and say, okay, you know what? I'm not interrupting that. Yeah, I'll come afterwards. I mean, I come. I shouldn't say come.

[Ellie]

Well, he might be waiting for you to, like, that might be what he wants.

[Esther]

Exactly.

[Ellie]

He wants you to come yell at him.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

Social skew.

[Jaime Garcia]

Social cues.

[Bobby]

Yeah. You know, one of my early core American memories as like, an early immigrant in the States is like. Like taking the MTA and having a man, like, across from me jerking off using a book.

[Esther]

Oh, a book.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Esther]

And in between pages.

[Bobby]

Yeah, he had. He was properly dressed. He was sitting on, like, the front, like, a disabled area. So was I. I don't know why? Because maybe because my dad was old. My dad didn't clock it. I was too scared to tell my dad, like, look across. But he had put his piece.

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Penis.

[Bobby]

In between chapter 10.

[Ellie]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Bobby]

And then he was, like, very lightly just doing this.

[Esther]

Ouch. And paper cut.

[Bobby]

I know. And it was.

[Esther]

Did he lick his finger before.

[Ellie]

Stop. At all? Stop.

[Bobby]

I know. It was really, really sad. And it was very. Welcome to America where you cannot reading the Bible. Stop.

[Esther]

No. I mean, those pages are soft.

[Ellie]

They are soft.

[Esther]

They are very soft.

[Bobby]

In my head, I, I, I, my sister. And I was like, I swear. She was like, I swear that was the Bible. I was like, it wasn't the Bible. I think that we're just traumatized and we remember. We probably associate that kind of behavior with, like, Christianity as a whole. And another time, I took the MTA back home on a 188 on Fair Oaks and it was 8:30pm I was alone. I was all the way in the back of the bus. There was maybe like four other people on. A man comes on, sits right next to me, looks me straight in the cry and just starts like, jerking off.

[Ellie]

Oh, my God.

[Bobby]

I swear. And I was like, again, welcome to America.

[Esther]

Yeah.

[Bobby]

Where they just do this jerking off. Yeah. And I remember I ran home crying and I couldn't explain it to my dad. I was like, there was a guy just, you know, and I do it.

[Jaime Garcia]

In the bat in the shower.

[Ellie]

That's good.

[Bobby]

Thank you, Hannah, for that shower.

[Esther]

Like at the ymca.

[Jaime Garcia]

All at the hotel. And like my bed, bedroom.

[Esther]

But Cartel's classic, classic jerk off place. Yeah.

[Bobby]

Yeah.

[Ellie]

Well, on that note, yeah, we have to end this portion of the episode and we are going to have some advice. We have a whole advice section that we're going to do over on the Patreon. So if you want to join us over there, you can, if you're not already subscribed. Patreon.com trash Tuesday. I think there's a link below. And we'll see you next week with a brand new episode. Or we'll see you right now at the Patreon.