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Because if you're presented
with the opportunity,
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to hear from Mythical
crew members who have had
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interesting online dating experiences,
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you know you're gonna click
through for that, and you did,
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'cause I know you, and there you are.
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Alright, come in guys.
- Wow.
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- That got a little children's programming
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there for a second.
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A little Blue's Clues, like,
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addressing someone individually--
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- Can you see the people coming in?
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- Making me feel a little uncomfortable.
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You want me to look behind me?
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There are Mythical crew members behind me.
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- Welcome to the show guys.
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- I must have spilled
water in the midst of being
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so happy to have you guys.
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- Chase, Theresa, and Tess, everybody.
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- Now, is there a particular order
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that we're going to hear from you in?
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Because I know nothing other than the fact
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that you all have interesting stories
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about online dating.
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- Whoever has the happiest
story should go last.
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- Mine's not happy.
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- Okay, mine's pretty exciting.
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- Chase, you go first.
- Okay.
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- Since you're closest to
me, and you didn't respond.
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well I tried to start dating
this girl that was online,
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but she kinda curved me for about a month.
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- How'd you try, what did you do?
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- We were having good
flirty conversations.
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But then she just kinda like,
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was not really into actually
meeting up or anything.
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And I was like, well, okay.
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- Did she say that?
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- Yeah, she was just
like, "Yeah, I'm alright."
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Every time I'd be like,
"Oh, lets go get coffee."
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And she's like, "I'm, you
know, shampooing or whatever."
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Like shampooing a dog,
or shampooing herself?
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- Kinda either-or, whatever.
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- He kinda got the idea.
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She wasn't shampooing anything, Rhett.
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- There was no actual shampooing.
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- But like, slowly, she was like,
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"Okay, fine, we can like,
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"I can give you my phone
number, okay fine,"
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and like, "I'll meet up with you,
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"but with a group of people."
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- And then finally, when I was like,
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"Okay, can we go on a date?"
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and she was like, "Yeah, sure!"
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I was really excited, but
then I forgot that I had
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a lot of durian in my
backseat, from this show.
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- Yeah, this show'll do
that kinda thing to you.
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- Shoulda done some shampooing.
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I should have shampooed the backseat,
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because it smelled horrible.
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So I picked her up, and it
was just not going very well.
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- Did she immediately notice it?
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- She didn't say anything,
she was nice about it.
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- You should have said something!
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- I was like, "I'm real sorry,
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"you know that weird show I work on,
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"there's a bunch of real
smelly fruit in the back seat."
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And she was like, "Yeah, I noticed."
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- Oh, so you had already been texting up
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about the weird show you work on.
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You can use us to get a
date, that's totally fine.
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- Probably thought you robbed
a fruit stand or something.
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- You know that weird show I've been
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talking to you about endlessly.
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- Yeah, that date did
not go terribly well,
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and I think that the entire
time we were in the car,
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she was kinda talking a little nasally,
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like the was holding her nose...
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- She was breathing through her mouth.
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- Maybe she's a mouth breather.
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Maybe you got the upper hand.
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- (laughing) Well, no...
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Her next couple dates ended up well,
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and, you know, we're still dating.
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So, it ended up, in the
long run, working out.
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- This is Sarah.
- Oh, this is Sarah.
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- A long time, Ben called
her stinky fruit girl,
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because the only story he knew was that
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I went on a durian date with her.
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- Wow, you really overcame
adversity with that one,
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- I think there's a
strategy to setting up--
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giving yourself some sort of a handicap
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in a situation like that,
because what it does is
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it gives somebody an
opportunity to overcome that,
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and see if there's something real.
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- She liked me enough--
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- One underarm that's
unwashed for a couple of days,
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just something that'll
be off a little bit.
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- One eyebrow shaved,
and the other one's not.
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- Just not even acknowledge it.
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- That might be a little too far.
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But, I like the idea.
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- Mine's also smell related, actually.
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- Oh, good.
- Yeah.
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(laughing)
- Great.
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- I love smell related dating stories.
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I can't remember which app.
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I think it was Coffee
Meets Bagel, or Hinge.
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But it was--
- Is that, hold on.
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- Was that two apps,
three apps, or one app?
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- One of those apps, those random ones.
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- Coffee Meets Bagel?
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- Yeah, we've heard about this.
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- Those are actual dating websites?
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- I don't know if it's still around,
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You just get a match a day,
and then you say yes or no.
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- So you're a coffee, and
they're a bagel, I guess.
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Or whoever is the coffee.
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- But I went on a date with this guy,
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and then he kept talking about
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wanting to go to California,
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because he heard I was from California.
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This was in New York.
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And then he was ranting
about wanting to go visit
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this lake near San Diego,
and he really built it up,
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he was like, "You go to
this lake, there's no water,
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and it's dried up, and
there's all these dead fish."
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Okay, so it's a thing.
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- I am the guy.
- You know what it is!
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- And we're still dating.
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- Gotta go to that lake!
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- I gotta get out of here.
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He was just like, "It's a smelly lake,
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you stand there, once
you get past the smell
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It's all these dead fish.
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- Lots of dead fish.
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- And well, I really
put my foot in my mouth,
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because it seems like a
thing that we all know about?
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- I think you were on the right track.
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- No, no, no, yeah, I'm weird.
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- He should have gone
on a date with that guy.
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- You were on the right track, keep going.
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- So I wasn't that into
it, and also I will add,
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he did keep taking about
how, he wanted to bring up
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that his ex girlfriend was Thai,
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because I said I was from Taiwan.
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Not the same thing,
also, why does it matter?
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- Noted on both fronts.
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- But then I still went on
a few more dates with him,
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because I was like, 22.
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Like a year ago, no.
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I didn't know how to say no.
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- After a few dates, he then
invited me to California
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to go to the lake, and
really wanted to fly me out,
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like sent me flights, and I ended it.
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- So you never actually
got to see the Salton Sea?
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- No, I guess I can go.
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Can I get the rest of the day off?
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- I once drove there by myself.
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- This is really odd.
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- Wait, so what is it?
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- I mean, you two could
have made a love connection.
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- I don't remember, but he
looked like Andy from The Office.
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- There are other people who
also know about the Salton Sea.
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- I know about it, but
to hear him describe it,
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it's not a place I'd wanna go.
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- It's a giant body of
water east of San Diego,
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that was created when there was
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some sort of breach of some
dam many, many years ago,
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and when all this water
filled up this space,
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they were like, "This is gonna be
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"the next awesome tourist area!"
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- And they built a resort.
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- They built resorts all
around it, people had boats,
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but then they started realizing
that it was so salty that
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fish died constantly.
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Literally, you'd go there and--
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- To water ski and stuff.
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- You can still get in the
water, and some people do.
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but the entire shoreline is
just lined with dead fish,
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and they don't clean it up.
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It's just like, there's just dead fish.
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I took some pictures.
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- Put 'em on your Tinder profile?
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And I recommend it, you know,
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not as a date, though.
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Just as a solo experience, as I did.
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- Yeah, that's a big date.
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I mean, to fly across the country,
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and then take a road trip
from the airport for hours
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to the Salton Sea, and then
that's what you end up with?
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That's not my idea of romance.
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- You could have like, a dinner kicker,
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or like, maybe go-karting
afterwards or something.
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- That would do it.
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- Tess, what about you?
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So, I broke up with my ex-boyfriend
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and moved out to California,
and I was living in a--
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- I was living in my-
- I didn't say anything.
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- Yeah, that's right.
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So, long story short, I was
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living in New York for nine years,
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And I was like, "Well, I don't
want to drive to my date."
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So I filtered by distance.
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- So I walked a mile to a wine bar,
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and this was actually a
cancellation, initially--
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Sorry, let me back up.
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I forgot, I was so excited.
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First, I was on OKCupid,
and I filtered by height,
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I wanted someone who-
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- I thought you filtered by travel.
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- Well it was height,
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height, distance, and ethnicity.
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I wanted someone who was foreign.
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Like from Europe, who
spoke another language.
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- That's fine, okay.
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- So you wanted a tall,
close, foreign person.
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- Yeah, I knew who I wanted.
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- That could be an app of sorts.
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- [All] Tall, close and foreign!
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- Yeah, and so I found this
man named Federico, right?
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And so then I messaged him.
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I said, "Hey, you look cute,
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"my dad buys marble in Italy.
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"Like, he goes there.
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"Are you also Italian?
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"That's rad, let's go out."
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Because I'm kind of aggressive.
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- My dad buys marble, let's date.
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- I was like, "I also cook, so yup."
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- And he was like, "That's amazing."
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- He didn't understand any
of it, but he said yes.
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- Well then he canceled.
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- Yeah, he canceled on me, and I was like,
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"Whatever, ball's in your court,
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"you don't seem that interested anyway,
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"Like, if you wanna hang, let's do this."
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- And so he was like, a
week later he messaged me,
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he was like, you know, "Okay."
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and that's kind of how--
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So he's like, "I'm
really interested in you,
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"I want to explore."
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And so I didn't know that this man
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sounds like this when I met him.
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- Obviously the Tess.
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So we went out, he smelled
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a little bit like cigarettes
and beer, and I was like,
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"He likes to party."
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But he seems put together, you know?
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- But not too much.
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- He didn't show up drunk, you know?
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- He doesn't smell like two cigarettes.
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- I was like, "Okay cool."
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So then the date went really well.
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He was like, "I'd love to take
you for something to drink,
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"you seem very excited to be alive."
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- That was his criteria.
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- Yeah we got married though.
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- You seem excited to be alive.
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- And then you got married?
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- Both of these are not horror stories,
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because they ended up with the people.
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- You should have just
gone to that Salton Sea!
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You should have gone!
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- You missed out, man.
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- Thanks for sharing your stories, guys.
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- Yes.
- That was crazy.
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