Bonus #165 - Raanan Hershberg [PATREON PREVIEW]

Patreon preview. Unlock full episode at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld Raanan Hershberg returns to the pod to discuss his new special MORBIDLY JEWISH (out now on Youtube), the art of trash talking, why he loves taking baths so much, his anticipation of becoming a first-time father, his favorite Stephen Sondheim musicals, and much more. Raanan and Stav help callers including a man who’s wondering if he should tell the girl he’s dating that they already went on a first date three years ago even though she completely forgot, and a guy wondering if he should snitch on a drug den next door in exchange for the possibility of forgiveness of his $4,000 in unpaid parking tickets. Watch Raanan Hershberg’s new special MORBIDLY JEWISH out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kc6151SE1U See Raanan Hershberg live and follow him: https://www.raananhershberg.com/ https://www.instagram.com/raanancomedy/ https://www.youtube.com/@RaananHershberg https://www.tiktok.com/@raanancomedy 🎟️ See Stavvy live on the Dreamboat Tour 🛥️💕!!! https://stavvy.biz/ for tickets ‼️ Bonus episodes every week! Unlock exclusive, Patreon-only episodes at https://www.patreon.com/stavvysworld ☎️ Wanna be part of the show? Call 904-800-STAV and leave a voicemail to get advice!

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:26Speaker 01

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• 0:54Speaker 02

  Hey, it's Dav and Elvis and whoever's the guest. I am calling because I have sort of a unique, maybe unique problem. I just had a great date with this girl.

• 1:09Speaker 02

  Met up at a bar, ended up hooking up afterwards, pretty, you know, fairly intensely, which is all, you know, that's all good. The problem is I, this is my second first date with her. She, she and I went on a date to this exact same bar three years ago.

• 1:32Speaker 02

  She does not remember me at all.

• 1:34Stavros Halkias?

  Holy shit.

• 1:35Speaker 02

  And the first time that we went out, you know, we talked, had some good banter and then she said like, oh, I'm getting more of like a friend vibe than like a romantic thing. And it was, you know, whatever. But now I know that I have seen her before and she has no idea. And to her, I'm just this new guy who came up and she hooked up with.

• 1:58Stavros Halkias?

  This is like, uh, what's the Jim Carrey?

• 2:01Speaker 04

  Eternal sunshine.

• 2:02Stavros Halkias?

  Eternal sunshine, but like if you're not in love with her, you just gotta, it's like, yeah.

• 2:06Speaker 04

  You forgot her because neither you are interested.

• 2:08Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is very, I wonder if he improved or her life got worse in three years, which happened. Keep going, Elvis.

• 2:15Speaker 02

  Like, I don't know. Like, I feel like I'm being dishonest in not telling her that we have. Met up before. But, you know, I wanted a second chance and I it got I got it and it totally worked.

• 2:30Stavros Halkias?

  Whoa.

• 2:31Speaker 02

  So.

• 2:31Stavros Halkias?

  He got to repeat it.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  And I like, do I take this to the grave if I can't see this person? Or do I tell her at some point? Uh, I I feel like that might fuck up the dynamic a little bit. Um, so I don't know. Do I just kind of take this as a win and just, uh, keep it with me? Uh, whatever your thoughts are, uh, would appreciate.

• 2:53Stavros Halkias?

  This is really interesting.

• 2:55Speaker 04

  Mm hmm. I I think on the next first date, they go on.

• 2:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 3:02Speaker 04

  I think.

• 3:04Stavros Halkias?

  Well, I mean.

• 3:08Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, you kind.

• 3:10Speaker 05

  How how many first dates have you fucked up that I was just like, oh, it was a little different. Uh, I went, you know, I wasn't in, I wasn't on my A game. I wish I could do it differently. The universe just gave him a second chance for no reason at all. And I don't know.

• 3:27Stavros Halkias?

  Same bar is so funny.

• 3:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 3:29Speaker 04

  Well, yeah, creatures of habit. Yeah. I I think you should, I think you should always tell the person because if you do end up spending, there's a chance you could spend the rest of your life with this person. You're just, what, you're just gonna have to carry that secret around?

• 3:42Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah.

• 3:42Speaker 04

  So I I think you should always, if it's someone you actually think of someone that you really like, I think you have to tell them.

• 3:50Stavros Halkias?

  There is a type of dishonesty here, though, at the end of the day, Aldous, where it's like, and look, you can, you can meet us halfway and pretend you were going through your texts or something, or you can make up something and be like, and be like, hey, I was going through my iMessage and a text from you popped up, like, did we? We went on a date, like, this is so insane.

• 4:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 4:14Stavros Halkias?

  You could do it that way because the good news is she doesn't remember you either.

• 4:17Speaker 04

  Though, though, at the same time, that she could be fucking calling into, you know, girls we.

• 4:23Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 4:24Speaker 04

  Groped or whatever and, uh, and asking the same thing. You don't know. She could have been like, oh, fuck, we went on a date before.

• 4:30Stavros Halkias?

  I don't know. I don't think, I don't think you need.

• 4:32Speaker 05

  Too unless like it ever gets serious and then if it does get serious, you could.

• 4:37Stavros Halkias?

  The longer you wait. This is one of those classic, the longer you wait, the weirder it is.

• 4:41Speaker 05

  Something like this is like so inconsequential and.

• 4:45Stavros Halkias?

  Is it? He's fucking the Count of Monte Crisco over here. Monte Cristo, Monte Cristo, fuck. Young man, the Thousand Island Stair Zone now. Fuck. I said the.

• 5:01Stavros Halkias?

  Which is my, which is my remake of it.

• 5:05Stavros Halkias?

  I'm fucked here.

• 5:09Stavros Halkias?

  Crisco doesn't even taste good. It doesn't even, I don't even like Crisco. It's shortening my mom used to make for cookies. Fuck.

• 5:16Speaker 05

  Stav wants pie.

• 5:19Stavros Halkias?

  God damn it.

• 5:20Speaker 05

  Thinking about pie.

• 5:21Stavros Halkias?

  It's, this is happening on purpose now, subconsciously. Anyway, this guy's the Count of Monte Cristo for pussy. He's been scheming. He was scheming on this pussy dude.

• 5:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's not a scheme though.

• 5:34Stavros Halkias?

  It's a bit of a, it's scheming in the British sense, which is not necessarily negative.

• 5:37Speaker 05

  If, if we want to trust him, he didn't realize it until after the first date.

• 5:42Stavros Halkias?

  No, no, no, he knew.

• 5:44Speaker 05

  Oh, really?

• 5:44Stavros Halkias?

  He said he wanted a second chance.

• 5:46Speaker 05

  Oh, well, I think it's, well, I think it's the easiest thing. Cause if it occurs to her one day, it's the easiest slide to be like, what? Oh, yeah.

• 5:57Stavros Halkias?

  He cannot pull that off.

• 5:58Speaker 05

  I think he can. I think that's, I think that's the easiest thing.

• 6:01Stavros Halkias?

  You could never pull that off.

• 6:02Speaker 05

  I could pull it off.

• 6:04Stavros Halkias?

  I'd be pretty cool. But I also, it's not like he did something so bad. You know what I mean?

• 6:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 6:09Stavros Halkias?

  And that's why I'm saying it's yes, but I, I think it's the kind of thing where the longer you wait, the weirder it is.

• 6:19Speaker 05

  Yes, exactly.

• 6:20Stavros Halkias?

  The less weird thing is to be like, as soon as you're on the date, you could be like, we've done this before. Like you bring this up at some point. I would say it would, some people would see this as dishonest and which I, I'm not going that far. I don't think this guy's a criminal or anything like that. I'm just saying he should, like the quicker you say it. And yeah, you can couch it in the terms of like.

• 6:45Stavros Halkias?

  Hey, oh, we did, like, we went on a date before, whatever. I don't know.

• 6:49Speaker 04

  I think what you said is perfect, because he shouldn't, because I guess the problem now is that he, he, the whole, this whole nude date was kind of a lie.

• 6:55Stavros Halkias?

  It's a lie.

• 6:56Speaker 04

  But I think, I think the lie you said, you lie the truth out.

• 6:59Stavros Halkias?

  I would lie the truth out.

• 7:01Speaker 04

  Like, I look back, oh, we went on a date, I guess we're both not very memorable.

• 7:03Stavros Halkias?

  Which maybe is even more just, maybe people are like, that's actually the worst thing you could do.

• 7:07Speaker 04

  I would. I will say, if two people go on a date and neither of them remember, it's probably not a good sign for the future.

• 7:14Stavros Halkias?

  He remembers, though.

• 7:15Speaker 04

  Oh, but he didn't remember enough to...

• 7:17Stavros Halkias?

  He did remember. He didn't want to tell her because he didn't want to fuck it up.

• 7:20Speaker 04

  I thought he realized it at the bar. Did he know the whole time?

• 7:22Stavros Halkias?

  He knew.

• 7:23Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 7:24Stavros Halkias?

  That's how I took it, anyway.

• 7:25Speaker 04

  But wait, I'm confused.

• 7:26Stavros Halkias?

  If he realized it at the bar, that's different.

• 7:28Speaker 04

  I'm confused, though, because how did he even, how did the date even get arranged, then? Like, he messaged her?

• 7:33Stavros Halkias?

  He saw her on a fucking dating app or some shit, and she didn't remember. Yeah. And he did.

• 7:38Speaker 04

  Oh, so it really started as a lie. So, so far, this relationship has been her completely forgetting his existence, and then him lying.

• 7:47Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 7:48Speaker 04

  Sounds like they're gonna make it.

• 7:51Stavros Halkias?

  I wouldn't worry about it, because it's like, what are the odds that it'll get serious, even? That's when you have to worry about it. No, man. There's a thing about, we have to have some morality in Stavi's, within Stavi's world. And we're not even saying come fully clean. We're even saying, like, I, I was, you know, I had such a great time, and I just started getting this feeling of deja vu, and I look back through, like, whatever, like, I think we matched before. But he, dude, he remembers and she doesn't remember at all. That's a little weird.

• 8:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:22Stavros Halkias?

  That's a little weird.

• 8:23Speaker 04

  Was she drunk? Did he roofie her? Is this the part he's...

• 8:26Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that, and also, I mean, you know, to make sure she didn't remember.

• 8:30Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, I, I, I think, obviously, the, the long, it doesn't get easier to tell her.

• 8:35Stavros Halkias?

  Yes.

• 8:36Speaker 04

  It only gets harder.

• 8:37Stavros Halkias?

  Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is right now.

• 8:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 8:42Stavros Halkias?

  That's how it is with lies, too.

• 8:43Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. You, you, uh, it's not, like, you don't want to tell her this shit, like, you don't want to be like, you know, she's on her deathbed, you gotta be like, our whole relationship was a lie from the beginning, you know? I, I would just... Tell, I don't think it's such a, yeah, lie, that's a perfect compromise. You're lying.

• 8:58Stavros Halkias?

  A soft lie about like having a, and by the way, prepare yourself to lie. Unlike eldest pretend, hoping he's gotta be at the ready in case she remembers and he's gonna fucking be Daniel Day Lewis all of a sudden.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  But you know why, you know why the advice is great though, too, is because what you're kind of saying by that is that the lie, it really isn't about morality. It's just simply like, this is inconvenient for you to have to like, it's not good for you to have to like have this in your head.

• 9:26Stavros Halkias?

  Right.

• 9:27Speaker 04

  So like, so like lie a little to get you both on the same page.

• 9:31Stavros Halkias?

  There's a little morality to it too, where it's like.

• 9:33Speaker 04

  No, no, you're nihilist.

• 9:35Stavros Halkias?

  You're harboring a little, yeah, you're right. It would be good to free yourself of the burden, but you are harboring a, an untruth here.

• 9:43Speaker 04

  But you are, but the lie to get that out kind of shows us not just morality.

• 9:47Stavros Halkias?

  What I would say, exactly, would that, I guess what I'm proposing is almost like you have gangrene in your pinky right now.

• 9:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:55Stavros Halkias?

  Right? The pinky's gone.

• 9:56Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:57Stavros Halkias?

  Cut the pinky off with a different lie.

• 9:59Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 10:00Stavros Halkias?

  A different lie cuts the pinky off, it doesn't spread.

• 10:03Speaker 04

  It doesn't spread.

• 10:04Stavros Halkias?

  It doesn't spread. Now, coming fully clean would be curing the gangrene.

• 10:08Speaker 04

  Right.

• 10:09Stavros Halkias?

  Being like, I have something to tell you, I.

• 10:12Speaker 04

  But that's weird.

• 10:14Stavros Halkias?

  It's now you sound like a criminal.

• 10:16Speaker 04

  You sound like a criminal.

• 10:17Stavros Halkias?

  Confess to it, now you're like, I've been plotting this day.

• 10:20Speaker 04

  And also like, why, why should this guy be punished for the universe giving him this gift of this second chance? It's not his fault.

• 10:28Stavros Halkias?

  The universe, he lied, the universe didn't do it.

• 10:31Speaker 04

  His boring ass gave himself a gift.

• 10:33Stavros Halkias?

  Plunk him on the fucking head. He had temporary amnesia and he had a great date with this woman he, who broke up with him.

• 10:40Speaker 04

  Did he use stuff from the first date to like, learn?

• 10:43Stavros Halkias?

  That's interesting, yeah. Did he like? That's a good point.

• 10:46Speaker 04

  This Groundhog Day?

• 10:47Stavros Halkias?

  How, right, it was his Groundhog Day for you. Have you been thinking, have you been reading up on her interests?

• 10:52Speaker 04

  Did she say she liked French poetry on the first one?

• 10:55Stavros Halkias?

  He's gonna speak it now.

• 10:56Speaker 04

  Fucking associates in French poetry the last couple of years.

• 10:59Stavros Halkias?

  Yeah, that's it, that actually, how much, now, did you just match with the girl who didn't remember you, you went on a date and went well? Then I feel like you can fucking just be like, hey, I think I had some deja vu. I looked at it, we had matched, whatever. If you've been plotting this a lot, you did something fucked up.

• 11:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:18Stavros Halkias?

  You did something that makes me feel a little uneasy.

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