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I don't

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know.

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It's the social dose.

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The social dose is your go to podcast for

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a gorgeous dose of what's going on in the world of social

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media brought to you now every Tuesday

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and Thursday. Today is Thursday, July

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20th, and I'm Paris Nicholson at Paris

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Nicholson on socials. And I'm Michael

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Judson Berry at M Judson Berry

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on socials. And now let's get into

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these headlines today. She's

0:40

everything. He's just Ken, but that

0:43

doesn't mean he isn't also a doll. We

0:45

get into the Kenissance happening alongside Barbie

0:47

mania.

0:48

Hi, Ryan. Then a twist

0:50

on our celebrity roundup. It's celebrity

0:53

breakup time. Ariana Grande,

0:55

Sofia Vergara, Billy Porter, even

0:57

the upper echelon of Hollywood is getting hit

0:59

by single girl summer. And finally,

1:02

don't you just hate it when you find out your coworker

1:04

and you have the same boyfriend or when your aunt's

1:07

mystery man is actually your situationship

1:09

or when your date for the Barbie movie has a double feature

1:12

plan with someone else? We get into the

1:14

online phenomenon known as the are we dating the

1:16

same guy Facebook page.

1:18

All this breaking social media news and more

1:20

coming up next on the social dose. We'll

1:22

get right back into those trending stories after this

1:24

break.

1:29

And we're back. I'm

1:31

Paris and I'm, I'm

1:33

still Michael. Now, Paris, you

1:35

have something to talk about that still

1:37

is incredibly confusing to me. Will,

1:40

yes. Will you jump into this story just

1:42

right away? Because I'm confused.

1:45

And to be fair, it is objectively

1:47

confusing, even for me who vaguely

1:49

understands it. So besties, you may have

1:51

seen this on your timelines lately or for you pages.

1:54

There is a trend going around of this sort

1:56

of AI NPC live

1:59

streaming. in which a human

2:01

person pretends to be

2:03

a robot kind of and

2:06

then has these like canned automated

2:09

responses to everything that people do in the

2:11

stream. For example, if

2:13

you donate a little ice cream cone sticker, they say,

2:15

mmm, ice cream.

2:18

And they just like repeat it in the exact cadence

2:20

every time. So if you like spam ice cream, they

2:22

go, mmm, ice cream. Mmm,

2:25

ice cream. And then there's like, thank

2:27

you for the rose.

2:29

Thank you for the rose.

2:30

Thank you for the rose. It's totally insane.

2:33

Like, it's like everyone's giving themselves a lobotomy

2:35

and then going on livestream. Trisha Paytas

2:38

has even jumped in on it. She started

2:40

doing it. I saw one, there's like so many permutations

2:43

of this now where there was like a bitch that had like an entire

2:45

like old ass TV over her

2:47

head. And she's just standing there like a little robot

2:49

and she's like, I can't eat ice cream. I

2:52

can't eat ice cream. I can't eat ice

2:54

cream. And then also the main girl that does

2:56

it while she's doing all of this, she

2:59

has like a flat iron, like a hair straightener

3:00

and she's like popping popcorn

3:03

kernels in it. So she's just like,

3:05

yeah, she's multi- she's a multitasking

3:07

queen we have to acknowledge and

3:09

bitches are making money. What?

3:12

And I originally did find out that this originated in

3:14

Japan. This was like a Japanese trend first. Okay.

3:18

And now it's made its way over to our culture.

3:21

Don't know why. I fully don't get

3:23

it,

3:24

but it's so weird and it's so unhinged

3:26

and it's like the hottest thing in live streaming on

3:28

like TikTok and Instagram right now. It's

3:30

bizarre.

3:31

Like no wonder I was talking to a friend who's a

3:33

teacher and she was saying to her classic and elementary

3:35

school teacher and she was like doing

3:37

the whole like, what do you want to be when you grow up? And

3:40

a lot of the kids were like, I want to grow

3:42

up to be an influencer. And it's just

3:44

like, kids don't want to be like scientists

3:47

or firemen or whatever

3:49

anymore. At some point you're going to like be able

3:51

to go to like Cornell and get a BFA

3:53

in influencing. And like it's,

3:57

I don't know this. Oh my God.

3:59

I'm gonna go find a wig then and practice my

4:02

weird mouth noises. But first, let's get

4:04

into these stories.

4:08

["The Hymnopas"]

4:30

The most popular Ken's coming off the Barbie movie

4:32

are actors Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu.

4:35

And the internet is loving their

4:37

fantastic and plastic

4:38

Ken Personas. This

4:42

whole campaign has been so fun. And I feel like we

4:44

have talked mostly about the Barbie, about

4:47

the outfits. But we got to give Ken

4:49

some credit. Like Ryan Gosling and the men in

4:51

general are killing

4:53

it. I love what he said in a BuzzFeed celebrity

4:55

interview. He said, the Ken thing is tough.

4:58

It's a bit like that Pillsbury, go with

5:00

me on this, Cinnabon mix. You

5:02

know, like once you open that canister,

5:04

it's very hard to close

5:07

it. Once you open it, you're making Cinnabons,

5:09

you know? And you're loving it. You're loving

5:11

making Cinnabons. And that's so true.

5:13

Like you know that thing where you open the can and the Joe just goes

5:15

like, phew.

5:16

Yeah. And then you're baking whatever

5:18

it is. And you know what? You're happy. You're happy

5:21

after that. I love that Ken was always

5:23

in Ryan Gosling and now it's just bursting out

5:25

of him.

5:26

Did you see the video of him explaining how to

5:28

be a good partner? Yes. His

5:30

GQ, like what's in my bag interview, it

5:33

was so funny because the whole time it's

5:35

like a bit. Like none of it is like what's in Ryan Gosling's

5:37

bag. It's like what is in Ken's bag?

5:39

My favorite part of it is that it includes

5:42

two pairs of sunglasses, one pair

5:44

that also looks good on Barbie in case she forgets

5:46

hers, and then another pair that's mirrored

5:49

so that Barbie can see herself and her greatness

5:51

reflected in them.

5:53

Yeah. And I love that the whole theme is

5:55

like how he's behind every great Barbie there

5:57

is a Ken. And that's exactly where he needs to be

5:59

right behind.

5:59

in case she needs something, and he's

6:02

fine with that. Like, I love

6:05

that Ken is completely cool with being like,

6:07

I come in second in this situation. Like,

6:10

I am just here to support her. Be a supporting

6:13

role. It's lovely. There

6:16

is a clip

6:18

from one of the many interviews, and I've literally watched

6:20

almost all of them at this point because I'm trying to get as

6:22

much Barbie as I can without any spoilers. There

6:26

is a video posted by Ali Plum

6:28

on Instagram from an interview with BBC

6:30

Radio One, where they talk about like, oh, is

6:32

the Barbie movie gonna have like some of your most embarrassing

6:34

moments in it? And Ryan

6:36

Gosling's like, no, I've been pretty embarrassing my

6:39

entire life. And then we get like a lovely little montage

6:41

of like

6:42

all of the times in his life where he just like clearly didn't

6:44

take himself too seriously and is just like always in

6:46

on the joke. For example, getting hit in the face

6:48

by a pie when he was a young actor,

6:51

as well as this truly deranged

6:54

performance that he gave in Young Hercules.

6:58

Which I never watched, but I kind of

7:00

want to now. You forget

7:02

that he's been around like for so long. Like

7:04

we all think newsies obviously. Since the Nicki Mouse Club.

7:06

Wait, no, is that him and Newsies? No, that's

7:08

Christian Bale, sorry. Sometimes I mix up

7:10

Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale

7:12

if I'm being totally honest. Really? Yeah, and

7:14

I don't know why. Isn't Christian Bale British? No,

7:16

but he's crazy. And like, I feel

7:18

a little bad that I mix them up because I think Ryan Gosling's

7:20

like fun and charming and then Christian Bale's like terrifying.

7:23

So I really shouldn't. No,

7:29

but

7:30

no, Ryan Gosling. You forget that Ryan Gosling's

7:32

been around for a while. Yeah, like another

7:35

clip they have in there is when he played a hamster.

7:37

Like he's in a full crazy hamster outfit.

7:40

And like,

7:41

I will give like the physical comedy's

7:43

genius of him trying to cross his legs in this

7:45

hamster suit and he just can't. Like

7:48

it's absolutely hysterical. And

7:50

you do get, you're like, you are just like a funny,

7:52

ridiculous, probably kind of like nerd trapped

7:54

in a hot body. Which, yeah, we

7:57

love to see. He's like a little

7:59

rascal.

7:59

And such a gentleman, like the

8:02

interview he did with Amelia Demoldenburg,

8:06

I want to say, where she's like, how

8:08

do you find a Ken? How do you find your

8:10

own Ken? And he was like, well, you

8:13

drop something

8:14

and then you wait for your Ken to pick it up. And

8:16

then she drops her cards and he's

8:18

like, oh, and stops and he's like, I see you drop

8:20

these. And then still with microphone

8:23

and hand turns and just walks away.

8:27

I mean, honestly, she had to shoot her shot.

8:29

No one can blame her. Nope.

8:31

And I love that. And she walks away too. I love that they

8:33

both like fully commit to the bit. And

8:36

I sincerely hope that's exactly where that interview

8:38

ended. Like he walked away and someone had to come

8:40

and find him to get the microphone back.

8:43

I love this. I'm going to be sad

8:45

when it's over and we no longer get... Actually, aren't

8:47

they no longer doing press for this movie

8:49

because of the strike? Yeah, I think they're done.

8:52

Well, at least the videos were pre-recorded

8:54

and we can still see some more, hopefully. The

8:56

marketing team on this film could solve world

8:58

hunger.

9:00

Yeah. But back to Ken's. So

9:03

everybody obviously wants to think that their man is

9:05

a Ken and like, obviously we can all dream,

9:07

of course. But there are criteria,

9:10

Divas. Michael, let's rapid

9:12

fire alternate these. Sure.

9:14

Let's do it. This first one is, he

9:17

lacks common sense. Important.

9:20

Next, he needs to do the little finger

9:22

thing when he goes right or left. Would

9:25

literally die for you. Adorbs. Adorbs.

9:29

Next,

9:30

not only does matching outfits, but

9:32

initiates said outfits matching.

9:35

Does not gender colors. He is the rainbow.

9:38

Very hot. He looks like he has veneers,

9:41

but swears he didn't even need braces. That's

9:43

actually me. Same. He

9:46

buys your mother a birthday holiday and

9:48

Mother's Day gift, unprompted. Oh my

9:51

God, my boyfriend's a Ken. He bought my

9:53

mom a Mother's Day gift before I did and

9:55

she'll never let me forget it. He

9:58

only calls you babe, which may not be true.

9:59

Maybe he forgot your name, but it doesn't annoy

10:02

you because when he does it, it's cute. Oh my God,

10:04

he calls me babe too. Okay. Can't

10:08

calculate tips, so just asks the waitress, how

10:10

much would they like? Oh, he doesn't

10:12

get that. I love that. Well, who has the funds

10:14

to do that? Only a real Ken does,

10:17

to be real. Yeah, I

10:19

love these. Listen, besties, if

10:21

your man got seven out of, wait,

10:24

one, two, three, four, five, six. We don't even know

10:26

how many there are. If your man got

10:29

six out of nine

10:29

of these correct, congratulations,

10:32

you're dating a Ken. And you should probably let us know

10:34

about it at thesocialdosepodcast.com. What's

10:37

the male version of Skipper? What?

10:40

Who's Skipper? Cause you know how

10:42

Barbie has like her counterpart who's a little

10:44

bit younger and has flat feet. Does

10:46

Ken have like a sidekick

10:49

also? I don't know. Nevermind.

10:52

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16:00

Anyway, I would love to know because I have really

16:02

just had an obsession with Joe Manganiello for years.

16:05

He has a custom made Dungeons

16:07

and Dragons table

16:09

because he's such a big hot nerd

16:11

and like truly when I found that out I

16:14

like watched a video about it like getting made and it was like 10,000 or

16:16

like over 10,000 dollars and it's

16:18

a gorgeous table. But when I saw that I was like

16:20

that's the man for me.

16:23

Anyway, that's like remember during COVID when Henry

16:25

Cavill built a computer because he's such

16:28

a huge game nerd and he builds

16:30

his own computer from scratch and then filmed the

16:32

whole thing and shared it on social media and I was

16:34

like, oh, stop, I'm getting hot under the collar. Let's

16:37

get into some of these divorce memes. Sorry,

16:40

yes, let's get back to the task at hand.

16:42

This is the social dose after all. I saw,

16:44

oh no, god damn it Siri, shut the fuck up.

16:47

What did Siri do? Be nice to her. First

16:51

of all, he chimed in. My Siri

16:53

is famously an Australian man. Oh really?

16:56

Because why wouldn't you have an Australian man at your beck

16:58

and call? Mine is an old British woman

17:00

because obviously. Yeah, this all

17:02

traps for us.

17:04

I did see a meme, it was

17:06

a tweet, obviously pop base couldn't

17:09

help but tweet about this. They said Ariana Grande and her

17:11

husband Dalton Gomez have separated and are heading towards divorce,

17:13

TMZ reports. And then a user on

17:15

Twitter named Rohita Kadambi quote

17:17

tweeted it with Pete Davidson has the opportunity

17:20

to do the funniest possible thing. And

17:24

I'm like, wait, I've always loved them as a couple

17:26

and I wouldn't be mad if they got back together at

17:28

all.

17:29

Wait, Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson

17:31

were a couple at one point.

17:33

Michael. What? I don't

17:35

know. Sometimes I just want to shake you. Well,

17:38

you can't because I'm in New Jersey and here in California

17:41

and I know your arms are long but they're not

17:43

that long. Yes,

17:45

they were famously a couple for a solid

17:48

chunk of time. He's mentioned at

17:50

least one of her songs. Thank you. Next.

17:53

Thank you. Next. Oh, wait, there's also a full song called

17:55

Pete Davidson on one of the albums.

17:57

Really? Okay. So here's the thing.

17:59

I will admit this and feel free to sort of like

18:02

tear into me as much as you want. I, okay, I

18:05

have very mixed feelings about Ariana Grande. Now this has nothing

18:07

to do with her divorce. This is just me sharing something and

18:09

I'm just like, I'm gonna get flogged for this. So

18:12

I love her. I think

18:14

she's hysterical and I think her voice

18:16

is insane. Like she's such a good

18:18

singer. However, her

18:20

pop albums make me bananas

18:23

because she purposely tries to sing like a

18:25

pop singer. So even though she's like incredibly

18:27

well-trained and has beautiful diction, when she

18:29

sings in a lot of her pop songs, she's like,

18:30

uh, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah,

18:33

nah, nah, nah, nah. And I'm like, girl, I can't understand a word you're

18:35

saying and you're purposely affecting your voice to match

18:37

a style. And like you could

18:39

be like one of those like,

18:42

like a Christina

18:44

Aguilera, like a Whitney Houston, like you can

18:47

sing and you're choosing to sing in a way

18:50

that I'm like, no, don't lower

18:52

your voice to public standards, raise our

18:55

standards to your talent. Like, does that

18:57

make sense? It actually very much does

18:59

make sense. I will say she's

19:01

one of the greatest pop divas. I find her

19:03

pop stuff so frustrating. That's fair.

19:06

She's one of the greatest pop divas of all time. The pop music

19:08

is absolutely incredible and the vocals are

19:10

still there, but I completely get what

19:12

you're saying because that was actually my initial

19:15

hangup with Billie Eilish because

19:17

her first album was very like,

19:19

uh,

19:20

and I was like, girl, I know you can belt and I know

19:23

it's gorgeous. Give it to me. But

19:25

that's not what she was doing. It's her art, I get

19:27

it. But you make

19:30

an understandable point. I don't think that was as

19:32

terrifying as I was afraid it would be. Okay.

19:35

This is why I'm really excited for the Wicked movie because she's

19:37

going to sing her face off as Glinda and it's going to be,

19:39

it's going to be magical.

19:42

I'm like plausing just thinking about it. Anyway, let's

19:44

get back to this tweet. I didn't mean to fully derail

19:46

us, but friends, enjoy the Twitter

19:48

memes coming out of this entire thing because as

19:50

sad as divorce is, people still are having a good time.

19:53

Also, we have some exciting news. It's not all

19:55

sad for the girls out there, everyone. Apparently,

19:58

and this was so random to me because I didn't even.

19:59

even though she was pregnant. Lindsay Lohan had a

20:02

baby and is now a mom. Yes.

20:05

Oh, no, I remember when she first announced

20:07

this on Instagram, it was one

20:09

of those things was like, if you don't feel old now, just

20:11

know that Lindsay Lohan is gonna be a mom. And I was just like,

20:14

oh, that's right.

20:15

I saw that she asked Jamie Lee Curtis,

20:18

obviously like her mom on Freaky Friday, for

20:20

parenting advice, which is so cute. And Jamie

20:22

Lee Curtis said, you just bring the baby with you and

20:24

everything will be fine. Yeah.

20:27

Which I'm like, that's such, that's actually very true.

20:30

It's like kind of hard to fuck

20:32

up a baby, generally, not like psychologically and emotionally,

20:34

that's

20:35

hard not to do.

20:36

Which like to keep the baby alive isn't as hard as you might

20:38

expect. And I love that advice from Jamie Lee Curtis,

20:41

but also like the baby's name is Louis,

20:44

but it's spelled L-U-A-I.

20:46

And I'm just like, no, that's gonna be so

20:48

annoying for the baby's entire life, Lindsay.

20:51

It almost looks like a Hawaiian name, like it should be Lui.

20:54

And it's like, they're gonna spend their whole life going, no,

20:56

it's Louis. Literally,

20:58

they're gonna say that one billion times before they die.

21:00

Yeah.

21:01

So think about it. It's not

21:03

too late to change it. That's true, Lindsay,

21:06

you heard it here. Who

21:09

knows, maybe she will listen to it. I love Lindsay Lohan.

21:12

All right, on that note, we'll be right back

21:14

after this brief message.

21:19

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21:21

the test of time. She's gorgeous, she's

21:23

an icon. She has a lengthy resume and

21:26

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21:28

her

21:28

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21:30

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21:32

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21:35

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22:02

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Okay, that message wasn't that brief, but we're back.

22:24

Yeah. Welcome

22:26

back. Paris, take us into this next story.

22:30

In the wise words of Pink Pantherus, the

22:32

boy's a liar. The

22:34

boy's a liar. And

22:37

thanks to the internet, we now have the ability to catch

22:39

him red-handed. The instant

22:41

communication afforded to us by the internet

22:44

led to the Arab Spring, but more importantly,

22:46

it led to women sharing hordes of tea

22:48

on the men they're dating.

22:50

We do have an anonymous reporter today,

22:52

and it's very exciting to me. We

22:55

cannot share who this is because of the

22:57

very sensitive subject matter of this story.

23:01

Yes.

23:02

She has requested full anonymity, so we

23:04

will be referring to her as Deborah

23:06

Massey. Deborah,

23:09

would you like to fill us in on

23:11

this very, very important story that

23:13

everyone should know about? And

23:16

that you've been working on for, I want to say

23:18

months now.

23:19

Yeah, this is straight up like CIA level

23:21

reporting.

23:22

Yes, I have been working on this for months.

23:25

I am expecting a Pulitzer for my work, actually.

23:28

I believe that. Thank

23:30

you for protecting my identity. Of course.

23:32

So there are these Facebook groups that

23:35

are pretty popular, and they're called, are we dating

23:37

the same guy,

23:39

whatever city you're in? So they're like, are we dating the same

23:41

guy NYC? Are we dating

23:43

the same guy LA? Are we dating the same guy Chicago?

23:46

And people post in there

23:49

one of two things. So you can say like, hey, I'm dating

23:51

this guy. Does anybody have any tea on him? Or

23:54

like, this is my husband. Does anybody have any tea on him?

23:57

Or you can post someone and be like, I'm

23:59

dating. this guy and he did this fucked up thing

24:01

to me or I found I was seeing this guy

24:04

and I found out he's lying and he has

24:06

another family or whatever.

24:08

It's also nice to like women

24:10

are supporting women coming together sharing

24:12

notes. This should I feel like this has been happening

24:14

since the dawn of time and now we just have technology

24:16

to facilitate it in an even better way.

24:18

Yeah. What are some of the stories you've seen?

24:21

Yeah. Okay, great. So to protect

24:23

these people's identities too, we're going

24:25

to refer to every woman as Barbie

24:27

and every man as Ken. Perfect. In

24:30

these stories. So our first

24:32

example, so this Ken is insecure

24:34

about his tax bracket.

24:36

Oh, and he's still married.

24:38

So this

24:40

Barbie posted quote, I wouldn't

24:42

even know where to begin, but run girl. And

24:45

I won't read the whole thing because it's paragraphs and paragraphs

24:47

and paragraphs long. And she says that

24:49

he's a little further away from Manhattan

24:51

and he doesn't have as much money and he's really insecure about

24:53

it. And he's mean to women that

24:56

say anything about how he doesn't make as much money

24:58

as like other finance guys in New York. And

25:01

she goes on and on and on about all this like mean

25:03

shit this guy did. And then the last sentence is, oh,

25:05

and he's still married. Oh my God. Oh,

25:09

and yeah, these are like novellas. I will

25:11

say these are brilliant. Someone

25:13

does need to compile these and make like a book

25:15

of short stories about terrible like a chicken

25:17

soup type book, but

25:20

honestly, chicken soup for the hidden

25:23

soul. Oh my God. Yeah.

25:25

That's interesting because in this one specifically

25:28

Barbie talks about how Ken

25:30

asked her to come home with him and she

25:32

declined to which he responded that

25:34

he likes her even more because she's not

25:37

that kind of girl. And then there's

25:39

a bunch of other comments of him trying to get

25:41

girls to come home with him and be that kind of girl.

25:44

So just like putting them on blast, like the lies

25:46

that they tell women all the time.

25:48

Like it's sociopathic. Oh yeah.

25:50

It's so ick. Like,

25:52

and I've encountered some of these people on the apps, by

25:54

the way. So some of these people it's like, Oh yeah,

25:57

I talked to him. Like I was messaging with him. And

25:59

so like, I.

25:59

I also had that experience or like

26:02

he, you know, said the same kind of thing to

26:04

me of like, I'm looking for something serious. And then was

26:06

also messaging all these other girls, like trying

26:09

to get them to come over and say, Oh

26:11

God,

26:12

Ken's are lying through their teeth. Like

26:15

the second one, tell us about the, the next one we have here.

26:17

Yes. So this next Ken is

26:20

also married and he's not

26:22

a surgeon

26:23

and he's not 29 either. So

26:26

this Barbie posted, this

26:29

Barbie posted not

26:31

a picture of him and then said, not

26:33

his real name or age. He's in his

26:35

30s, not 29. He is not a surgeon.

26:38

He is divorced, but his wife

26:41

is actually still actively his wife and

26:44

on her social media cover photos,

26:46

they have pictures together and they're still married. Wow.

26:49

Ooh. He's basically catfishing at this

26:51

point, fake name, inaccurate

26:53

photos, lying about having a better job

26:56

that he doesn't have. That's catfishing divas

26:59

get out of here. These men are out

27:01

in the wild, wreaking havoc

27:04

and ruining their own marriages. Yeah. They

27:06

are at large. These men, these

27:10

are so good. Take us into another one. Okay.

27:12

So the third one,

27:13

this Ken is a pathological liar and

27:16

he has braces. How

27:19

is he going to hide that? I

27:22

don't know. So someone posted a

27:24

true telenovela, not

27:27

a telenovela, just a novella. Like

27:30

Michael said before, this person posted

27:32

a true novella about a guy

27:34

that they matched with. And I don't even

27:36

know where to begin with this guy. He said he was a CFO

27:39

of like a related company and that he was a millionaire.

27:42

And he was sending pictures of him

27:44

in like luxury department

27:45

stores, trying all these expensive

27:47

clothes. And he was sending videos of him touring

27:50

expensive apartments. And then this girl

27:52

for some reason agreed to meet him at a hotel. And

27:55

then she got there and

27:57

he looked really different than what he

27:59

said.

27:59

His photos weren't recent. He looked a

28:02

lot older. He had metal braces.

28:04

Oh. Which I don't know, like you were saying,

28:07

how is he expecting to hide that?

28:09

Yeah. Like I'm just picturing

28:12

being like, hello. So now I have to be

28:14

like this the entire time you're with

28:16

me to try and cover up the fact that I have breath checks. Like

28:19

it's,

28:19

it's not even like in Vislaine. You

28:21

can like kind of sort of try and sneakily do it,

28:24

but. No, it's like, what's the plan, man?

28:26

If they're metal braces, you know, the teeth were

28:29

mangled. If he couldn't just opt

28:31

for a Vislaine, you know it must have been bad, which means

28:33

like, how long have you been neglecting your dental health,

28:35

sir? You're an adult. Truly,

28:37

like lying is one thing, catfishing is

28:40

one thing, but neglecting your dental hygiene

28:42

is just next level. Worse. Like get out

28:44

of here. Unforgivable. Exactly. What

28:46

does his breath smell like?

28:47

I shudder at the thought. I

28:49

see my dentist next week and I'm already

28:51

like a feared of that. Like there's nothing worse than a scolding

28:54

from a dental hygienist. It's also so

28:56

funny because like looking at this, there's all these

28:58

women that are commenting like, oh yeah, I dated this

29:00

guy too.

29:01

That's what I was gonna say. That's the best thing about these pages

29:04

is someone will say, I had the psycho experience

29:06

with this person. And then another girl will comment

29:08

like, oh my God, I had the same thing. So

29:10

this girl says, he did the exact same thing to me around

29:13

the same time.

29:14

And then she goes on about how he also

29:16

wanted her to meet him at a hotel and he made

29:18

up a bunch of stuff about how he wasn't feeling

29:20

well, was being treated for cancer, so who knows

29:22

if that's true. Yeah. I love the

29:25

idea from another Barbie who

29:27

commented maybe someone

29:29

should invite him out, but when he gets there, all

29:31

of us are just staging an intervention. Seriously,

29:34

what is this guy's deal? Could you imagine though?

29:37

Like all of these. Yeah, like that episode of Barbie's

29:39

World. Yeah, they get together and they

29:41

invite him to a hotel. He walks in the door

29:43

and there's just like 20 really angry women

29:45

staying there being like, sir, we need to

29:47

talk. And they just pull his braces

29:50

off one by one. Sorry,

29:52

I'm sorry. Break his keep. That

29:55

just became a completely different episode of

29:57

Saved by the Bell. Our boy meets world. You were not tying him to the chair.

29:59

I show up with a crowbar. I'm

30:02

like, wait, I missed the memo. I got the wrong guy But

30:06

also like this is a really good like sign

30:09

out there ladies if you have

30:11

had crazy dating experiences And

30:13

you're starting to feel like maybe you're the problem

30:16

Check out one of these groups because I believe

30:19

other girls will come out and be like no actually

30:21

I had the same experience It's not you

30:24

it's him

30:25

But don't be a narc if you would join

30:27

one of these groups because our last one this

30:29

Barbie is a narc It's not

30:31

cool for Barbies to be narcs no, this

30:33

Barbie was in the group and is dating

30:35

one of these guys apparently and Told

30:39

him about all the comments all the girls were making

30:41

about him and like showed him all the screenshots. Ooh

30:44

That's pick me behavior Desperate

30:49

Yeah, I'm not like other girls. I

30:52

don't love myself

30:53

That's what that is. Also that means she

30:55

read all these comments about this guy and then stayed

30:58

with him and not just like

31:01

Defended him. Yeah,

31:03

sounds like they're a match made in heaven

31:06

you to date the guy that

31:08

15 women agreed is

31:10

a creep. Yeah They're

31:12

not colluding. Yeah Yeah

31:17

There's a conspiracy to ruin your boyfriend's

31:19

life like maybe all the 15 women

31:21

who had bad experiences with He

31:26

loves me All right.

31:28

Well, thank you Deborah Massey for

31:30

your incredible reporting

31:32

your

31:34

your bravery izm All

31:36

so good luck with your continued dating. Yeah

31:40

Like that's really where the bravery comes in. It's not

31:43

the reporting. It's the fact that reading all this You're

31:45

still willing to give these guys a

31:47

try. Thank you very much for having

31:49

me today Paris and Michael

31:52

stay strong Diva. There's a can

31:54

out there waiting for you. You just have to drop something. All

31:56

right friends Well, thank you so much for joining

31:59

us today

31:59

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We might just read them aloud on the show. Now

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with that being said, I need to go pose provocatively

32:11

on Joe Manganiello's custom Dungeons and Dragons

32:13

table. And I need to go

32:15

send all of those questions about Ken to my boyfriend

32:17

to see if he really is a Ken because I swear he's gonna get

32:19

at least five or six of these. Happy

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