Bonus Giggly Hotline: proposals, pastors, and pickleball

Summer's not over, we're still drinking our @dunkin refreshers! This week, the gigglers called in with more juicy summer gossip and steamy advice questions. #sponsoredbyDunkin

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• 1:05Speaker 01

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• 1:35Speaker 02

  Sup, gigglers? Gary, fix the wifi. Manifest that shit. We can't be managed.

• 1:45Speaker 02

  I mean, the day just got away from me.

• 1:49Hannah Berner?

  We've been living on Dunkin' Refreshers all summer. It's in our veins. Sorry, for the YouTubers, I just showed you my veins. It only makes sense that you guys are asking us for summer advice because we are hydrated, at least at this moment.

• 2:00Paige DeSorbo?

  That's true.

• 2:01Hannah Berner?

  And some funny stories. We love hearing from the gigglers.

• 2:04Paige DeSorbo?

  And huge thanks to Dunkin' for, one, making these episodes possible and keeping us hydrated all summer.

• 2:12Hannah Berner?

  And I just want you guys to know, I'm drinking my mango pineapple refresher with green tea.

• 2:17Paige DeSorbo?

  I got strawberry dragon fruit refresher with a little sparkling water because you know I like a little.

• 2:25Hannah Berner?

  And we did say earlier that if you like sparkling water, um, you also like BDSM. Yeah. That's true.

• 2:37Hannah Berner?

  So Paige and I were actually working all day long and we're so drunk on being tired. Yeah, but we're in glam. We're in glam, so we're kind of feeling ourselves. Um, well, you're in a ponytail. This is really fun because Grace is DJing and she is sending us all your messages of advice. I love to hear the gigglers in their. Natural habitats. Let's go.

• 3:02Speaker 05

  Hi gals. Okay, so I am twenty nine years old. I've been celibate for like a few years. I just haven't really tried or gone on any dates and it is what it is. So this forty four year old man joined my pickleball team the other day and he's pretty scrumptious. And I'm like, okay, he might be a good way to like, you know, ease into being with someone again or, you know, just, you know, getting the cobwebs off. So we follow each other on Instagram and he follows two thousand people. At least twelve hundred of those are like Instagram thotties, which could not be more of a turn off for me.

• 3:42Speaker 05

  And, you know, it's just such an ick. Um, what do you think? What do I do? Do I pursue this for like a little fun? Little zaddy moment or do I just totally disregard jump ship? Let me know.

• 3:57Hannah Berner?

  These are getting progressively harder. Yeah, there's layers to these. What are your first thoughts? My first thoughts, speaking for the zaddy community. Yeah. Um. As an ambassador.

• 4:09Hannah Berner?

  I have to vote each year. It's like a whole thing. I have to watch every movie. Okay, so if you're in your late twenties, this is for you. If you're for your early twenties or your teens, stay with my own age. But once you're like in your late twenties, your brain's fully formed. Men in their twenties, no offense, Chris. Squirrels, they move a lot. Yeah. They like, they always have to be like playing with something. They're like standing up, sitting down. Like it's chaos. They're like, where'd I have my nut?

• 4:37Hannah Berner?

  Chasing each other's tails and shit, then they start like fighting, but just for fun.

• 4:41Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 4:42Hannah Berner?

  They're like kittens and then when in their thirties, they're like the same, but like should have money, but they don't.

• 4:48Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, they're like chilling out a little. They're getting a little bit slower.

• 4:52Hannah Berner?

  They're like, I don't like my job. It's like a sad time.

• 4:57Paige DeSorbo?

  People don't say that enough. In their thirties, it's a sad.

• 5:02Hannah Berner?

  Cause in their twenties, they think they just fuck around and in their thirties, women are just gonna be like, give me your ball sack. You like have a shitty job and you're mean to people and then they're like, why does no one like me? Anyway, I'm not getting into specifics. I digress. I love a forty four year old man. Nothing turns me off more than when they've, I don't mind if you've accidentally clicked on a couple hot girls that you follow. I follow some men just because they're beautiful and hot.

• 5:28Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 5:28Hannah Berner?

  Two thousand?

• 5:29Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah. It's a little big number.

• 5:31Hannah Berner?

  And do, do I think it's fun to have casual sex? I personally, I don't get turned on by a man that can get turned on by a warm apple pie, which is every man.

• 5:47Paige DeSorbo?

  I feel like, not speaking from my own experience, but speaking from my own internal brain. If I were to be that celibate for that long, I know it could be a sewer rat, could be my next man. I'm obsessed.

• 6:04Hannah Berner?

  She's not thinking straight.

• 6:05Paige DeSorbo?

  I'm changing my personality. My clothes are different. My hair is different. Cause I'm like this, I've been just waiting for him. So I worry that if he's the first man, you're going, you might fall in love more quickly. And he doesn't seem like the best option. And, but if you're going into it, strong minded. Where you're like, this is just a casual thing, just to like ease me into dating and I really, I'm gonna go for someone else, but he's gonna be my first. Okay. But I think thinking anything serious is gonna happen, or he's the love of your life, or he's your husband. I think no, because I know that my husband, he only follows me.

• 6:48Hannah Berner?

  Yep.

• 6:49Paige DeSorbo?

  You know, like he doesn't follow.

• 6:51Hannah Berner?

  A dream world doesn't know what Instagram is.

• 6:53Paige DeSorbo?

  Doesn't have an Instagram.

• 6:55Hannah Berner?

  And let's also not be confused, just because he's forty-four does not mean he wants to settle down.

• 6:59Paige DeSorbo?

  No.

• 7:00Hannah Berner?

  I would argue if he's made it this far and he's still single.

• 7:03Paige DeSorbo?

  He's gonna Clooney it.

• 7:04Hannah Berner?

  He may never settle down.

• 7:05Paige DeSorbo?

  He's gonna go to fifty-five.

• 7:06Hannah Berner?

  Exactly. I do feel like the first guy you hook up with, it could actually be good that he's just like a horny old fucker. And like have some fun, give him some Advil and get out of there. That's what I do.

• 7:22Paige DeSorbo?

  I'm a Benadryl and skedaddle.

• 7:27Hannah Berner?

  Good sex could be from a nice forty-four year old because they know what they're doing. Some of these, you got a thirty-two year old guy who's had one girlfriend.

• 7:36Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 7:36Hannah Berner?

  That's not proper training.

• 7:37Paige DeSorbo?

  No, that's.

• 7:38Hannah Berner?

  She doesn't know what's going on, he doesn't know what's going on. Together, he's rubbing her thigh. He's rubbing her thigh and she goes, that's the best I've ever had, thank you. You need a man that's been divorced.

• 7:48Paige DeSorbo?

  Around the block.

• 7:49Hannah Berner?

  You need a man that's been in court-ordered therapy. That's the education you want to. I want a man who has been cultured, who's seen the world before he sees this pussy. Grace to you.

• 8:03Hannah Berner?

  Respect to you.

• 8:06Speaker 06

  I'm twenty-eight and a happy long-term relationship and living in that waiting on the ring limbo. Where every romantic date, family trip, or sunset hike feels suspiciously proposal-ish, but then nothing. So here's my question. How do you stay patient and present when you know your person is the one, but his timeline doesn't seem to be matching mine?

• 8:26Hannah Berner?

  Ooh, that was deep, y'all. Again, I was engaged during COVID, which was different. There was nothing for us to do. We weren't going on like romantic dinner dates. One day I woke up and he was outside of the bed.

• 8:39Paige DeSorbo?

  Dare I say, I've dated someone where our timelines didn't match up and guess what? He wasn't for me. So you might think he's your person, but ipso facto, he's not.

• 8:50Hannah Berner?

  Also not to like come for the romantiness of a proposal, but I'm pretty sure, and the girls don't talk about this, but I'm gonna say it right now. You talk to him, you go, hey. We're getting married, right?

• 9:03Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 9:04Hannah Berner?

  Or he's like, you're right. And it's like, okay, you look at rings, you tell him which ring you want. And then you wait a couple weeks or months.

• 9:11Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 9:11Hannah Berner?

  And that's how it should go. It's not some like you out of the blue moon, he does it like. It's two consenting adults deciding to spend their life together.

• 9:21Paige DeSorbo?

  That's what it is.

• 9:22Hannah Berner?

  It's not you waiting to be picked by them.

• 9:24Paige DeSorbo?

  I think you have to have a conversation. That's not like, also, I feel like society has made it like, oh, women give like an ultimatum. And that's like, it's like, uh, no, we're just having a civil conversation. I'm running through timelines.

• 9:37Hannah Berner?

  Yeah, do you want to do this?

• 9:38Paige DeSorbo?

  I'm running through my own personal schedule.

• 9:40Hannah Berner?

  Check his calendar.

• 9:41Paige DeSorbo?

  And if it's not lining up in the six months that I think it should line up, that's a larger conversation. And why isn't it lining up? Here's the other thing. Men are a lot more insecure than they put out. Women are just as insecure, but we are more vulnerable with it. So we'll say like, I'm not ready because of X, Y, and Z. And men will just not say anything. There could be so many reasons. Can he not afford maybe a ring that he thinks you deserve? And he's like saving up. Is he waiting for like a very, like a specific trip that you have come, like, there could be so many factors. He could just have a tummy ache.

• 10:16Hannah Berner?

  Yep. We've all been there.

• 10:18Paige DeSorbo?

  So I think you have to have a pointed conversation and I don't think that makes you like not a go with the flow.

• 10:26Hannah Berner?

  It's literally what everyone says, which is like, make him think it's his idea. You give him all the ingredients and then when he makes it, you go, yay, good job. So I know it seems in movies like a guy one day just goes and one knee, no. I sat down, I talked to Dez. We basically were like, I would want to marry you. I'd want to marry you. That's the beautiful conversation.

• 10:48Paige DeSorbo?

  It's beautiful.

• 10:51Paige DeSorbo?

  I didn't know you guys had that combo.

• 10:56Paige DeSorbo?

  That is so nice.

• 10:58Hannah Berner?

  Are you on hormones again?

• 11:00Paige DeSorbo?

  No, I'm just. I'm summering. I literally am summering.

• 11:05Hannah Berner?

  No, but you're just like, hey, you're my person. Hey, you're my person. Cool.

• 11:08Paige DeSorbo?

  That is beautiful.

• 11:13Hannah Berner?

  Okay, the stinker refresher is really hitting her hard.

• 11:18Hannah Berner?

  Then he feels like he he's doing it on his own, even though you've told him everything. And then it's cute when you're like, it's either gonna do it this month, next month, or the last one, then it happens. So if he's saying, I don't know when, but eventually, that's not.

• 11:32Paige DeSorbo?

  No, that's not an answer.

• 11:34Hannah Berner?

  Two consenting adults.

• 11:35Paige DeSorbo?

  That's an answer for someone that's like, we've been dating for six months to a year, like, yeah, one day.

• 11:40Hannah Berner?

  Like, one thing, I'm for sure, I'm never gonna marry someone who's unsure about me.

• 11:46Hannah Berner?

  Cause I'm unsure about myself. I don't need someone else being unsure.

• 11:49Paige DeSorbo?

  If I had a mic, I'd drop it, you know?

• 11:51Hannah Berner?

  Thank you. Thank you. You've cried, you've gotten mad. We've gone through so many emotions. But um, so yes, communication is key. I just have to say, everyone that got picked to submit stuff has been getting the Giggly Squad Duncan merch, so tag us if you haven't. Otherwise, check it out, it's pretty fun.

• 12:08Paige DeSorbo?

  The Duncan refreshers really are true to their name, like, they are the most refreshing, especially like after that 3pm, gotta take a nap vibe, they like, they just revive you.

• 12:18Hannah Berner?

  Perfect pick me up. Also, I don't want a water. After a long day, I want a fun drink. A fun, silly, goofy drink.

• 12:27Paige DeSorbo?

  Let me have a treat.

• 12:28Hannah Berner?

  Yes, I want to have a pep in my step and I want to be a fun color. And I don't just want to have a boring ass water when all day long, I've just been working. Thank you Duncan for providing us with joy and laughter and love and rainbows and butterflies.

• 12:41Paige DeSorbo?

  And also, thanks to the gigglers for sending in their summer stories. It's been so much fun listening to them and trying to give advice back. I don't know how good our advice is, but it has been really fun.

• 12:52Hannah Berner?

  We just keep saying, exactly.

• 12:54Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, we're like.

• 12:54Hannah Berner?

  Yeah, that sounds right.

• 12:57Paige DeSorbo?

  If you want the Giggly Squad Duncan merch giveaway, make sure you tag us and tag Duncan in your photos. We want to see all of them.

• 13:05Speaker 07

  Hi Hannah, hi Paige. My roommates and I used to be really like the best trio friend group ever. Uh, and we even went to Giggly Squad in LA last year. But now, one of us is moving away for med school and I'm moving in with my boyfriend. So the trio is kind of being pulled apart. Um, what's your advice for staying close friends when everyone's in a different stage of life?

• 13:35Hannah Berner?

  Thanks.

• 13:36Paige DeSorbo?

  That's a really good question.

• 13:37Hannah Berner?

  First of all, kudos to her for having a friendship of three work as long as it did.

• 13:42Paige DeSorbo?

  I was just gonna say, I was waiting for that to be like, and one.

• 13:45Hannah Berner?

  And then.

• 13:45Paige DeSorbo?

  And then we exiled one, because that is really always what happens.

• 13:49Hannah Berner?

  Someone always gets voted off the island.

• 13:50Paige DeSorbo?

  It's a lot, it's hard with three. Yeah, four, we can make it work. Each person has a friend.

• 13:55Hannah Berner?

  Yes, well, two.

• 13:56Paige DeSorbo?

  Three is hard.

• 13:56Hannah Berner?

  Three, whenever two of them talk, it could be an attack on the other.

• 14:00Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 14:00Hannah Berner?

  And then if you start bonding over gossiping about the other, next thing you know, you don't even know who you're mad at.

• 14:06Paige DeSorbo?

  Right. We digress.

• 14:08Hannah Berner?

  We digress. They did great. They survived.

• 14:10Paige DeSorbo?

  I would say I have, I think you do too. I have a lot of friends who are, were in complete different places in our lives. All like within the same age range though.

• 14:23Paige DeSorbo?

  And I think it's, it has to be, this is like a tough pill to swallow, but like, you have to focus on your individual relationships. So like you have to focus on your individual friendship with each girl. Like the trio stuff probably isn't going to happen as much, but like I think group chat, FaceTime.

• 14:43Hannah Berner?

  I also would argue like, yeah, it's so fun when you're with your friends every day or like your roommates. Like that's so fun, but eventually your life does go in different ways. I would argue the most beautiful thing is planning like a girl's trip or a girl's weekend or a girl's dinner. Because you had to really put effort. Like when I spend a weekend with old friends, I'm like, wow, I'm like so proud of us. That we like made it to this point and you guys love me and I love you so much that we took our weekends to be together. So it's like, it's more a celebration of your friendship. Cause some friendships are just convenience.

• 15:21Paige DeSorbo?

  Yep.

• 15:22Hannah Berner?

  Like they're just happened to be in the hallway and you're like, I guess I say hi to you every day.

• 15:27Paige DeSorbo?

  That's so true.

• 15:28Hannah Berner?

  Where if you guys can make it to having your individual lives and making time for each other every couple of months, it's great. Also, sending stupid shit.

• 15:37Paige DeSorbo?

  I was just gonna say, this sounds so juvenile, but like, literally sending memes. Like, my one girlfriend Katie, she's married, she lives in the suburbs, she's trying to have a baby. We could not be more, like, have opposite things going on day to day. But when that bitch texts me a TikTok that I need to watch immediately, like, that's my friend. And like, you know, like, I have to check in.

• 16:01Hannah Berner?

  And when you're consuming content online, you have to have your, like, okay, when I see the cat stuff, now I have a couple of people I have to send it to. But it's like, okay, I see a vintage Chanel flat, send it to Paige. Like, I know where I see like a cute, like, labradoodle, I send it to Haley. Like, I need to.

• 16:16Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, and so it can be like small things, and then I think like, something to look forward to, like, once a year even.

• 16:24Hannah Berner?

  And also, it's nice to evolve and make new friends. Sometimes if you're too stuck in the past of like, that's my friend group, that defined me, I'm only me when I'm with them.

• 16:35Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 16:36Hannah Berner?

  That's limiting. And don't be afraid to make new friends as adults, even though it's scary.

• 16:41Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah. Not us, though.

• 16:42Hannah Berner?

  Not us, we never.

• 16:46Hannah Berner?

  I love when she stands up to the mic.

• 16:48Paige DeSorbo?

  I love your little socks.

• 16:49Hannah Berner?

  Did you do Pilates today?

• 16:51Speaker 06

  No.

• 16:52Hannah Berner?

  She is so attacked right now.

• 16:55Paige DeSorbo?

  She's like, sorry, when was I gonna find the time after having a baby doing my chump?

• 17:04Hannah Berner?

  She's like, I have three days most boredom.

• 17:07Speaker 06

  Okay. So recently, I did some content for a strapless, backless, push-up bra company. I took some before and after photos and texted them to myself. The photos were astounding. A couple of days later, I received a text from myself, like, my own contact that just said, "Just wanted to let you know that you have the wrong number." So I decided to investigate. Turns out, the number I was texting was one number off from my phone number. The best part of it all, I Googled the number I had been sending these things to, and it came up in a local church website directory.

• 17:43Paige DeSorbo?

  Oh my god.

• 17:45Hannah Berner?

  For an assistant pastor. I'm sure I stirred up a few fights between him and his partner.

• 17:52Paige DeSorbo?

  Oh my god. This is the best thing ever.

• 17:56Hannah Berner?

  Is that real?

• 17:57Paige DeSorbo?

  I mean, what's the dilemma? You're anonymous. They'll never know who you are.

• 18:02Hannah Berner?

  I love that she just also was innocently trying to see if the strapless bra looked good.

• 18:07Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, and texting it to herself. Also, what strapless bra?

• 18:11Hannah Berner?

  I know. I thought you were starting a business. I love that she's doing research and she's testing it.

• 18:16Paige DeSorbo?

  Wait, every time I want to Google a number, it never tells me who the person is. I have to pay for some app who says they can figure it out.

• 18:25Hannah Berner?

  You gave them your social security number. I'm like, I don't know if this is part of it.

• 18:29Paige DeSorbo?

  They're like, it could be a series of these people. Anyway, what's the question here? I love this.

• 18:35Hannah Berner?

  Well, that was her crazy summer story. That's so fun.

• 18:39Paige DeSorbo?

  Okay, you know what? Actually, she got out of this. And anytime you're in this situation where someone says, and now tell a fun fact about you. This is a great fun fact. What a great story at parties.

• 18:50Hannah Berner?

  What if the pastor, like, wasn't in a relationship?

• 18:55Paige DeSorbo?

  No, I was waiting for her to be like, and then we started texting.

• 18:58Hannah Berner?

  And then we started texting and he was like.

• 18:59Paige DeSorbo?

  And now we're going on a date.

• 19:00Hannah Berner?

  Hey, I haven't seen a tit in a long time.

• 19:03Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, I think you could just, like, continue to fuck with them.

• 19:06Hannah Berner?

  Yeah, I think you'd message and be like, I need help with this strapless bra pastor. No, that's crazy. Also, why does he have, why is he texting? Pastor shouldn't be texting.

• 19:18Paige DeSorbo?

  I know. I feel like usually like work numbers aren't.

• 19:21Hannah Berner?

  Texting, like, hold on one second.

• 19:25Paige DeSorbo?

  I loved that story. That was great.

• 19:27Hannah Berner?

  I've been recently joking about onstage when I accidentally sexted my, the group chat, and it was such a bad sex that you, like, didn't even respond to it.

• 19:36Paige DeSorbo?

  It was like wrong number.

• 19:37Hannah Berner?

  I said.

• 19:38Paige DeSorbo?

  Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I was like, what?

• 19:40Hannah Berner?

  I said, come home, when you come home, we're gonna have sex. And I said.

• 19:46Paige DeSorbo?

  That was her dirty text.

• 19:47Hannah Berner?

  I know. I was like, we're gonna dance, then go home and have sex. And they responded to, like, the, whatever we were talking about before. And I was like, you, you guys, I swear I'm freaky.

• 19:56Paige DeSorbo?

  You're like, so sorry. I was like, that sounded just like scheduling. I was just like, first I'm gonna shower and then we can do it.

• 20:03Hannah Berner?

  We were talking about, do you ever schedule, like? Pre-food sex. So like you go, okay, we have about 25 minutes.

• 20:13Paige DeSorbo?

  Before it gets here.

• 20:14Hannah Berner?

  And then we.

• 20:15Paige DeSorbo?

  Because once it gets there, you can't then go do it because you're like, the food's here.

• 20:19Hannah Berner?

  If I'm getting it, I just fucked.

• 20:21Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah.

• 20:22Hannah Berner?

  Like you just.

• 20:22Paige DeSorbo?

  I know that when I answer the door.

• 20:24Hannah Berner?

  Know that.

• 20:25Paige DeSorbo?

  And that's why my hair does always look so good.

• 20:28Hannah Berner?

  Yeah, I'm glowing. And yeah, I brought the UTI because I'm eating Chinese food instead of peeing after sex. Um, yeah.

• 20:34Paige DeSorbo?

  That was a good one.

• 20:36Hannah Berner?

  Thank you Duncan for fueling all our chaos. I love a little bonus episode midweek.

• 20:41Paige DeSorbo?

  Yeah, so do I. And thanks for making them possible Duncan.

• 20:44Hannah Berner?

  We love you.

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