Latest / Gorls Unplugged / Book Boyfriends: Smash or pass, red flags, first loves & fictional delusions

Transcript

Book Boyfriends: Smash or pass, red flags, first loves & fictional delusions · Gorls Unplugged

• 0:00
  Hey guys, welcome back to Girls Unplugged.
• 0:02
  Today we are talking about all things fictional men because as
• 0:07
  romance and romance to see girls, there's a lot of red
• 0:10
  flags, there's a lot of green flags that we notice and feel
• 0:13
  like it's only fair. We dissect how they affect our
• 0:16
  standards in real life. Yeah, as a married woman and a
• 0:19
  very single woman. Yeah, we have definitely two
• 0:23
  different life experiences for this one. 100%.
• 0:26
  But let's get into it so first. Question for you, who was your
• 0:30
  first fictional crush that you like vividly remember?
• 0:34
  Are we talking books? Anything.
• 0:36
  Anything. I feel like it's not just books
• 0:38
  because let's face it, like TV characters do this to us as
• 0:42
  well. Yeah, like.
• 0:43
  Just anyone. OK, I feel like mine was
• 0:46
  definitely Max from Hocus Pocus and and then but that was like,
• 0:55
  that was like a very sweet innocent crush.
• 0:58
  And then I feel like my first proper one, where it was like
• 1:00
  posters on the wall, was Edward Cullen.
• 1:04
  Oh my God, Yeah, fair. I mean, I'm.
• 1:06
  Still a Robert Pattinson stand now, aren't I?
• 1:10
  He's like the. Not me so much.
• 1:13
  Yeah, no. So yeah.
• 1:15
  But I feel like Max from Hocus Pocus very much sets up a
• 1:19
  precedent for the rest of my dating life as well actually.
• 1:22
  Because he's like very grumpy, very brooding, very like woe is
• 1:28
  me. So true, Too cool for school.
• 1:31
  I've even had an ex call with Max so I think mine has like
• 1:37
  manifested its way into my life. Oh my God, yeah, that's so true.
• 1:41
  What about I don't even do you know what I genuinely don't
• 1:45
  like? Remember.
• 1:46
  I don't remember a lot from childhood.
• 1:48
  I just don't have that type of memory.
• 1:50
  I feel like the first character I remember being like like book
• 1:56
  wise it actually was Edward because I like read those books
• 2:00
  obviously like fairly young when they came out and he was my
• 2:03
  first like I need this man to be my boyfriend in real life.
• 2:06
  First time I remember it from a book.
• 2:09
  Actually. That's a lie.
• 2:10
  Definitely Vampire Academy came before that.
• 2:12
  So it would have been Dmitri Belikov would have been my first
• 2:15
  like book. I can't remember.
• 2:19
  What would have come first? Yeah, I was just.
• 2:20
  About to say I can't remember if it was House of Night, Vampire
• 2:23
  Academy, or Twilight first. I definitely read House of
• 2:26
  Knight after those books. It would have been like Edward
• 2:29
  or Dimitri. But I remember being absolutely
• 2:33
  obsessed with the Twilight books, obviously when they came
• 2:36
  out. Yeah, TV wise, Damon Salvatore.
• 2:40
  Yeah, Like, I was like, in my late teens when I started
• 2:43
  watching that show, early 20s even.
• 2:46
  But that's the first, like, fictional man I remember seeing
• 2:48
  on TV and being like, I am so unbelievably obsessed with this
• 2:52
  man. It's unreal.
• 2:54
  And then Klaus came in. And then Klaus never got another
• 2:56
  look. No.
• 2:57
  I mean, he got some looks, but Klaus and Caroline, that
• 2:59
  storyline just. Yeah, see, I'm an Enzo girly, as
• 3:03
  you know. And he's a lovely man.
• 3:06
  He's a lovely man. He's a very lovely man.
• 3:09
  But yeah, that makes sense. I honestly don't know which of
• 3:11
  those books I read first, but if because I I definitely always
• 3:16
  often refer to James Stark from House of Night as like my first
• 3:20
  proper book boyfriend because I was obsessed with him, but I
• 3:25
  can't. I equally can't remember which
• 3:26
  one came first, but as you know, I'm not a Dimitri girl in
• 3:29
  Vampire Academy. Anyway, I'm an Adrian girl.
• 3:31
  You are an Adrian. Girl I.
• 3:33
  Love him. I mean there was fictional men
• 3:35
  before that. Like, even when I think that's a
• 3:36
  like Buffy, Charmed, like I loved.
• 3:39
  Yeah, I love. Angel.
• 3:42
  But I don't remember having that same, like, infatuation of I
• 3:48
  literally want my boyfriend to be like this, like I did when I
• 3:51
  first started watching Damon on TV.
• 3:53
  I need a man like this in my life.
• 3:55
  Yeah, because I just felt like as a teenager, you don't have
• 3:58
  that same sense of relationships.
• 4:01
  Yeah, 100%. But but Damon is such a walking
• 4:04
  talking like red flag it's unreal.
• 4:07
  Oh yeah, I'm Edward. I mean, he literally watches her
• 4:10
  sleep and stalks her. Yeah, he's so fucking creepy.
• 4:15
  He's a Gemini. I'm just saying.
• 4:16
  Is he actually? Yeah, but I can't make fun
• 4:19
  because they always say he's also an INFJ personality type
• 4:22
  too, and that's mine. So he's basically a mixture of
• 4:25
  me and you. I mean, what a good place to be.
• 4:29
  That's our first red flag. We're like.
• 4:31
  Edward Cullen. I mean, if you're a Gemini, I
• 4:33
  feel like you're a walking, talking red flag anyway.
• 4:35
  Like, yeah. True, you're my only Gemini
• 4:37
  friend. Actually.
• 4:39
  Wow. Yeah, I feel so honest.
• 4:41
  I don't typically get along with them.
• 4:45
  OK, so the next thing I want to ask you is what's the number one
• 4:50
  thing that you expected from real men, real relationships
• 4:54
  that you got from books that's actually different, I feel like.
• 4:57
  From like my teen reading that like typical like YA like grown
• 5:02
  up. The marked, the vampire Academy
• 5:06
  was for them to be vampires. Yeah.
• 5:09
  But no, I just think like I always expected all hopes, I
• 5:17
  guess that might not. I feel like I expected like all
• 5:21
  men to be like protective, obsessed with you.
• 5:24
  Like once you kind of like found someone that you felt like there
• 5:26
  was a genuine chemistry in connection with.
• 5:29
  And then like going into my late teens, early 20s, realising that
• 5:34
  actually 99% of the male population are dogs when it
• 5:38
  comes to relationships at that age because they just can't and
• 5:42
  don't commit. And even if like when I think
• 5:44
  back on some of my ex boyfriends, like the chemistry
• 5:47
  was 100% there between us but they're just fucking straight.
• 5:52
  Do you? Know what I mean?
• 5:53
  And I feel like I did not expect that going into the proper, like
• 6:00
  dating, well, once I kind of finished school, you know?
• 6:03
  What I mean, Yeah, I definitely know what you mean.
• 6:04
  I feel like that too. But I think even more so for me
• 6:08
  was like, I expected men to communicate more like they do in
• 6:12
  books, as in like, like at any age, whether you read Yana,
• 6:17
  adult men in books tell people more.
• 6:22
  Men written by women. Men written by women communicate
• 6:25
  their feelings more and they do words of affirmation more.
• 6:29
  That bothers me now as a 33 year old married woman.
• 6:32
  I'm like, why doesn't Kyle do this thing?
• 6:33
  Yeah, like just just say what the problem is.
• 6:36
  Just say how you feel. Just tell me the truth, even if
• 6:40
  I want to hear it. But like in real life?
• 6:43
  A lot. Of men, not all, but a lot like
• 6:46
  to play games. Maybe men shouldn't be watching
• 6:48
  this episode. Content warning at the
• 6:50
  beginning. Do you think we have any male
• 6:52
  watchers anyway? It's literally called girls.
• 6:56
  But yeah, like I feel like men don't really like to say how
• 6:59
  they feel, don't really want to tell you what their intentions
• 7:02
  are if they get. If they're in bad.
• 7:04
  Intentions and then not very, like, confident with expressing
• 7:08
  how they feel compared to, like, women.
• 7:10
  Yeah. So that is something I think I
• 7:14
  definitely expected to be different in real life.
• 7:18
  I also just felt like I was going to meet one person and
• 7:21
  that would be it. Like, you know, but that doesn't
• 7:23
  happen. I definitely didn't feel like
• 7:25
  that. I feel like Sex and the City
• 7:26
  gave me the right expectations of war.
• 7:29
  I didn't watch that until. It was going to be like, yeah.
• 7:33
  I should have watched that younger.
• 7:34
  I didn't watch it until it was like uni, but yeah, I think the
• 7:38
  communication thing is the is the most realistic and biggest
• 7:41
  thing, yeah. This is why we want all men to
• 7:43
  read books written by women, yeah, So that they understand
• 7:46
  what we actually want. Yeah, Yeah.
• 7:49
  It's like a manual at this point.
• 7:51
  It's really easy. You just.
• 7:53
  Communication either guys. No, definitely not.
• 7:57
  Definitely not. If you.
• 7:59
  Feel like you're lacking? In the sexual department, read a
• 8:01
  few books written by women. If you need Rex, hit us up.
• 8:05
  I was just that made me. The sex isn't quite like how it
• 8:09
  is in books either. Sometimes depends who you're
• 8:11
  with, sometimes it's great. I feel like that though can be
• 8:15
  like the length of time in a relationship as well sometimes.
• 8:18
  Sometimes they're just icky. Yeah, yeah, 100%.
• 8:22
  Sometimes they are just icky, but I feel like sometimes like
• 8:26
  it's very rare that you like meet someone, have a one night
• 8:29
  stand and have like the most mind blowing of your life.
• 8:32
  Like that comes of getting to know each other and feeling
• 8:35
  comfortable and confident with each other, I think.
• 8:37
  Yeah, but I don't even do that anyway, so I'm only talking
• 8:40
  about relationships. Yeah, not there's anything wrong
• 8:42
  with it doing that. You know, I don't judge, but I
• 8:45
  have only slept with people I either been dating or in a
• 8:47
  relationship with. And even then sometimes you, you
• 8:51
  like, you can have been with someone like 2 months before you
• 8:54
  sleep for him and you think this is going to be great.
• 8:56
  I fancy him so much. And then you're like.
• 9:00
  I can't say that wait two months to sleep.
• 9:05
  OK, but. But I know what you mean.
• 9:08
  There's a build up like you'd be seeing each other for a little
• 9:10
  while and then you finally do it and then you're like, Oh no.
• 9:13
  Yeah. Whereas in all books it's
• 9:17
  always. Mind blowing, yeah.
• 9:19
  And you're like. And and that's not true, it's my
• 9:22
  phone when they've been travelling for weeks and they're
• 9:25
  dirty and they've not. Showered and.
• 9:27
  They're in a tent. No way I absolutely that is they
• 9:33
  were in reefs in alcohol where it literally says drown out the
• 9:38
  sounds of the dying. Oh my God, that's so true.
• 9:44
  That's like, no, that can't be good.
• 9:47
  I refuse to believe it. Yeah, true.
• 9:49
  Fair. Yeah.
• 9:50
  I mean, who knows? Yeah.
• 9:52
  I mean, it's recent, so. OK, so let's talk.
• 9:54
  About actual. Red flags and books that we
• 9:57
  love. Yeah.
• 9:58
  But if it was real life, it would be an absolute no no.
• 10:01
  OK OK so stalking red flag cannot express real life red
• 10:09
  flag. Like books?
• 10:11
  It's a green. Flag.
• 10:12
  It's not even a green flag in books for me.
• 10:14
  Like I can't. Again, not judging but can't say
• 10:17
  I enjoy a stalker romance. Listen, being so obsessed with
• 10:21
  her, you have to follow her. I'm like, yeah, I love this
• 10:25
  shit. I have to be in the mood for it.
• 10:28
  I'd like to say like, I'm not a ride or die dark romance girly
• 10:33
  like my soul mate Amy, like sheep with some fucking dark
• 10:37
  shit and loves it constantly. But yeah, I mean, haunted man, I
• 10:43
  was. I was all about that guy for a
• 10:44
  little while. Yeah, see, that was just like,
• 10:46
  not for me, not my vibe. I do, however, occasionally dip
• 10:50
  into mafia romance. But.
• 10:52
  If you were, if you messaged me, say you were single and you
• 10:56
  messaged me in real life and said, wow, I've started seeing
• 10:59
  this guy. He keeps leaving me presents on
• 11:01
  my doorstep. He keeps turning up to where I
• 11:04
  work. I would be like talk, get a
• 11:06
  fucking restraining. Order someone that talks to me.
• 11:09
  Yeah, he gifted his hands. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 11:13
  I would honestly lock you in my flat.
• 11:17
  Like could be like well now thinking.
• 11:21
  Sorry girl, I didn't swing that way.
• 11:23
  But yeah, no, no, absolutely worst red flag there could be.
• 11:27
  I mean, I would never in real life, like I would be totally
• 11:31
  obviously freaked out. But in books, yes, sometimes I
• 11:35
  just feel like it brings a different vibe to a romance.
• 11:37
  Fair enough. Do you know what one thing I
• 11:41
  fucking hate in books and real life?
• 11:44
  So it's a red flag on paper, It's a red flag in real life.
• 11:48
  Love bombing. Oh, Oh yes.
• 11:51
  Too much too fast mate, You are, you are.
• 11:56
  Gone if. You're a love bummer.
• 11:58
  Like first date and you're texting me a million times a
• 12:01
  day. No, there's no way.
• 12:04
  Yeah, and I've only experienced this once or it like ended up
• 12:09
  being the biggest red flag out of anyone I've ever dated.
• 12:12
  So I definitely agree. But I don't think I've read many
• 12:15
  books. I guess like maybe books, it
• 12:18
  kind of translates to insta love in a little bit, which I hate.
• 12:21
  That's like my least favorite romance trope.
• 12:24
  I don't even mind, I don't like insta love, it's not too bad,
• 12:28
  but it's when it's like weirdly obsessive really quickly, not
• 12:32
  even really quickly like real life experience, remember?
• 12:37
  This. Situation shit didn't work out.
• 12:40
  Pop that off. I went to Australia and then all
• 12:44
  of a sudden while I was gone, he was texting me like we were
• 12:47
  together and this was some months after we've been together
• 12:50
  and he was like bombarding me and I was like, sorry, what even
• 12:56
  is this? Like we are not together.
• 12:57
  We haven't slept together in months.
• 13:00
  Why? Why are you all?
• 13:02
  Of a sudden becoming so obsessive.
• 13:04
  Yeah, What was he even trying to gain from that?
• 13:06
  You're on a different continent. Literally it's.
• 13:08
  So strange, Yeah. But again, like, I would call
• 13:11
  that love bombing. And it is the least attractive
• 13:15
  thing ever. It's like, I feel like there's a
• 13:17
  fine line with possessiveness, green flag versus red flag.
• 13:22
  But sometimes it. Carl's been a bit obsessed from.
• 13:25
  Oh, OK, Sir, do you know what I mean?
• 13:28
  That's fine. Like we're married.
• 13:29
  Like if he was really weirdly possessive, like, no, no, no,
• 13:32
  no, no. But you know, like.
• 13:34
  There's a difference between. Very protective and like I'm not
• 13:37
  it's so. Attractive.
• 13:38
  Yeah, there's a difference between protective and
• 13:40
  possessive and controlling I. Think that's 100%?
• 13:43
  It translates into a. Great way to explain.
• 13:46
  It because if he was telling you like what you kind of can't
• 13:48
  wear. Oh no.
• 13:50
  It wouldn't fly. I mean, you know me.
• 13:52
  There's absolutely no way. No way.
• 13:54
  Joke's on him if you try. But like, yeah, that I think is
• 13:58
  where like someone who is a little bit protective of you and
• 14:03
  is really looking out for you. Yeah.
• 14:06
  You can tell that comes from a place of love and nurture and
• 14:08
  care, a person that is restricting who you're talking
• 14:12
  to, restricting what you wear, telling.
• 14:14
  You about a narcissist. Exactly.
• 14:17
  Yeah, exactly. So there is a fine line for
• 14:20
  sure. And I definitely agree with you.
• 14:22
  Possessiveness or protectiveness, however we want
• 14:25
  to phrase it and can be attractive.
• 14:28
  But love bombing? No, No.
• 14:32
  And it is one of the biggest signs of an artist actually,
• 14:35
  isn't it? Yeah.
• 14:35
  Because they're using, like, materialistic gifts and, like,
• 14:38
  luxuries and like, making themselves look really caring
• 14:42
  and good. I saw that recently.
• 14:44
  So what about you? Fictional versus real?
• 14:48
  Red flags? Green flags?
• 14:50
  Things you love, Hate. Well, like, yeah, like in books,
• 14:55
  I really love a grumpy man who, like, doesn't really say how he
• 14:59
  feels. And I have in the past, dated
• 15:02
  that, too. But what I've learned as I've
• 15:03
  got older is actually, that's not very attractive because you
• 15:07
  want someone you can laugh with. You want someone who tells you
• 15:09
  how they feel and can communicate openly.
• 15:12
  But like, those types of men usually tend to be the ones that
• 15:15
  are, like, closed off or they've had some trauma that they
• 15:19
  haven't dealt with. So I think grumpy men in real
• 15:22
  life is a bit of a red flag, but I eat it.
• 15:27
  All so Kyle. Yeah, but even then, he's not
• 15:29
  grumpy in the sense that like when he comes home and I'm here
• 15:32
  with you, he's like. Hi, he's.
• 15:33
  So approached, you know what I mean?
• 15:34
  Like there's different types. I mean someone who is like
• 15:37
  outwardly unsociable asshole, yeah, is what you mean.
• 15:40
  Someone who's a damn right fucking prick.
• 15:42
  Exactly. Yeah, like some of the things
• 15:44
  that these grumpy men in books do to the women at the start.
• 15:47
  Yeah. Even like Teddy and Gus in Lost
• 15:49
  and Lassoed, he's kind of rude to her.
• 15:51
  He's so rude to her and he's like, for what?
• 15:55
  But you know you're fucking. Eating it up, yeah.
• 15:57
  This is so good. Yeah, but if it was in a book, I
• 16:01
  mean, if it was in real life, yeah.
• 16:03
  No, no A. 100% I agree. I do agree with that.
• 16:06
  OK, so we're going to play a game of Smash or Pass.
• 16:08
  OK. So we'll say some fictional
• 16:10
  men's names, and both say whether we would smash or pass.
• 16:14
  Yeah. OK.
• 16:15
  Yeah, First one obvious one. Resend.
• 16:19
  Smash, smash. Smash smash.
• 16:23
  Listen, he is the OG romantic book boyfriend.
• 16:28
  He is. He's not for me, but I know what
• 16:31
  you mean. In, like, adult life, yeah.
• 16:34
  Yeah, yeah, like agreed. Yeah, he's just the blueprint.
• 16:39
  He is the blueprint. That's the right thing.
• 16:41
  He's not the OG. Yeah, he is the blueprint for
• 16:44
  like 1 of the perfect, like, fictional men.
• 16:48
  Yeah, characters. He's morally grey, but like he.
• 16:53
  So swoon worthy as well. Yeah, he cares about favorite
• 16:56
  so. Much and his friends.
• 16:58
  That's one of his most likable things about him.
• 17:00
  Yep, he's charismatic, he's witty, like the banter between
• 17:05
  them, especially in Akamai. But spoiler not too spoiler with
• 17:12
  the thing that he keeps from fair in a court.
• 17:14
  Silver flames. Massive red flag in fictional
• 17:17
  life and in real life. It is, but I also don't think
• 17:19
  it's as bad as people make out. Like when I read it, I was kind
• 17:22
  of like, this is clearly a man who is like terrified.
• 17:26
  It's like his worst nightmare given what happened to obviously
• 17:28
  his sister and his mom as well. I want you to say that when
• 17:31
  you've had a baby, OK, That when you had a baby.
• 17:37
  We revisit this conversation in 10 years.
• 17:42
  But no. But like I, I guess it's not
• 17:45
  that. I don't think it's red flag.
• 17:46
  I understand. Yes, I know I do.
• 17:49
  Get what? You're saying so?
• 17:50
  I still love that, man. Me too.
• 17:53
  OK, who else have we got? Damon Salvatore.
• 17:57
  Pass. I knew you were going to pull
• 17:59
  that face. He's a pass for me.
• 18:02
  He is such a smash, but only when his hair's not.
• 18:05
  Too long. Yeah, OK.
• 18:07
  I find the icky the long hair thing.
• 18:09
  No offense members, long hair but.
• 18:12
  It's just not for you. The physical vibe, it's when his
• 18:15
  hair is shorter, like specific seasons.
• 18:18
  I'm like. Yes, yeah.
• 18:20
  No, he's a past for me. OK.
• 18:23
  I've never really understood the Damon hype.
• 18:26
  I don't know why I like him as a character.
• 18:28
  Like, I love him and Bonnie as friends.
• 18:30
  Like, I'm about to have a heart. I think.
• 18:33
  Like, he just annoys me quite a lot.
• 18:37
  And like, even looks wise, he's a little bit too pretty for me.
• 18:41
  He kind of reminds me of a wolf. I don't know how to explain that
• 18:44
  in any other way other than like, he's got super blue eyes
• 18:47
  and a really strong jawline and he kind of looks always like
• 18:50
  he's going to eat you, which fits his character.
• 18:53
  But yeah, he just doesn't. He just doesn't do it for me,
• 18:57
  OK? Yeah, OK.
• 18:58
  Well, we'll live with him. We'll.
• 19:00
  Live with you. Lancer, Ryan Smash.
• 19:06
  Literally my favorite book boyfriend of all time.
• 19:10
  Of all time. I think me too, yeah.
• 19:13
  I feel like I have like a tie of like 5.
• 19:16
  I think that really stand out for me.
• 19:18
  But he is right out there with my top fictional men of all
• 19:22
  time. Yeah, especially in the romantic
• 19:23
  space. And he's grumpy.
• 19:26
  But not with Darcy. Really.
• 19:29
  Yeah. Especially not in the latest
• 19:30
  book. Yes, he's so intelligent.
• 19:34
  He's kind of emo. Is he?
• 19:37
  Yeah, because I don't take emo from him at all.
• 19:39
  No, not like emo aesthetic, like emo.
• 19:42
  Like he's very grumpy. Yeah, he's very well with me.
• 19:45
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 19:46
  He's an intellectual. Like.
• 19:49
  Yeah, he's a professor. And he has a library.
• 19:52
  Weird thing with we have a weird thing you and I with this like
• 19:55
  student, teacher. Thing I just wonder.
• 19:57
  Where it comes from that's a red flag.
• 19:59
  Like honestly if I see student teacher I'm.
• 20:01
  I'm going to buy it. I'm going to read it.
• 20:03
  Yeah, and actually I was talking about this with Mosey Reads on
• 20:06
  Book Talk yesterday and she was telling me to read Noctocadia,
• 20:10
  which a few people have recommended to me now.
• 20:13
  And it's it's teacher student and I was realizing I haven't
• 20:17
  read one in a long time. So I got a bump out of the TBR.
• 20:19
  Interesting. OK, fine, Noctocadia.
• 20:22
  On the list, yeah. But yeah, Lance Smash all day,
• 20:26
  any position, over and over again.
• 20:30
  OK, Carter Beckett. Pass pass pass pass pass.
• 20:35
  Why? I love him, yeah, but he would
• 20:38
  drive me mad. Yeah.
• 20:41
  And he is a bit of an ick sometimes.
• 20:45
  He's a bit crazy. Oh.
• 20:46
  My God, he is. Yeah.
• 20:48
  I can only see him as a friend or like a brother.
• 20:52
  See, I feel like if we were playing like Marry, Kill, you'd
• 21:00
  do it because. Who he was against?
• 21:04
  You'd have to, but I do get what you mean.
• 21:08
  He would drive me round the twist.
• 21:12
  I would. You're right, it probably would
• 21:14
  be a pass. I just feel bad saying that
• 21:17
  because I love his character so much.
• 21:20
  But in a sense of dating, you're right, I think it would be a
• 21:22
  pass. I personally couldn't date.
• 21:24
  Someone like that, No. I love him as a character as
• 21:27
  well, but if we were talking about to date to marry he would
• 21:30
  be bottom of the playing for keeps list for me.
• 21:33
  Actually, out of all of their guys, fair.
• 21:36
  Yeah, I feel like we need to do an episode on sports romance.
• 21:40
  Yeah, or just an episode of Ranking for Boyfriends as well.
• 21:44
  How do you feel about that, guys?
• 21:45
  Let us know. Boyfriends, yes.
• 21:47
  Comment below. Let's do that.
• 21:49
  But yeah. Okay, fair Gus, what's his face
• 21:53
  from Beechreed? Gus.
• 21:55
  Everett, Gus Everett. That's.
• 21:57
  It smash. See.
• 21:58
  I'd pass. Really.
• 22:00
  Yeah, he's a bit sweet for you. He's a bit too sweet for me.
• 22:03
  Yeah, for me, he is perfect. Yeah, he is literally like,
• 22:09
  yeah, I want a real life Gus Everett.
• 22:10
  He is so. We need to find you a Gus a
• 22:13
  Dusty. Yeah, we do a dusty, please,
• 22:16
  because he's got a nose ring. But no.
• 22:20
  But like, I just love everything about him.
• 22:25
  So sweet. I love that you love.
• 22:27
  Sweetening. It's pretty.
• 22:28
  Adorable. Apparently not in real life
• 22:30
  though. Apparently it doesn't translate
• 22:34
  with but no Gus is like. I actually think that Gus is the
• 22:38
  perfect balance of sweet, but not too sweet actually because
• 22:41
  there is some bits where he's kind of grumpy and like they
• 22:44
  hate each other and start. They do, don't they?
• 22:48
  Actually, yeah, I forget about that.
• 22:49
  It's a real tension. Not hate, but it's.
• 22:52
  Not enemies to. Love us, but it's.
• 22:54
  Disliked. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:56
  OK, last one. Edward Cullen I.
• 22:59
  Mean, I know he's not actually 17, but I can only see him as
• 23:04
  17. Maybe if I was to if you were
• 23:07
  17. If I was 17 it would be a smash.
• 23:10
  Adult me would pass because he's a walking red flag.
• 23:16
  Yeah, I feel the same. Like if I if I was answering
• 23:19
  this as a 19 year old girl reading the books originally, it
• 23:23
  would be yes, me. Now I don't like the books and I
• 23:28
  don't, I hate to say this, don't like the actor that plays him in
• 23:32
  the film. So I have no attraction to the
• 23:37
  character and I still love watching the films.
• 23:40
  I hit the reread of the book, yeah.
• 23:43
  So no, no part of me is attracted to that character any
• 23:46
  longer. Yeah, although you've actually
• 23:48
  just reminded me. If it's like DILF Breaking Dawn,
• 23:51
  Edward smash. Especially if it's DILF Breaking
• 23:56
  Dawn movie Edward and it's Robert Panson in a hoodie when
• 24:01
  he's like, you've given me no choice.
• 24:02
  I love that. But yeah, I'd smash him.
• 24:09
  Sure. OK, well that was a lot of fun,
• 24:13
  and I feel like even though we've maybe got some unrealistic
• 24:17
  standards from bookish men, it's helping us not settle for less
• 24:22
  in real life. Yeah, I mean, even still
• 24:24
  married, I still expect more and more from the books I read.
• 24:27
  As you should, but that was so much fun.
• 24:31
  Don't forget to drop us a comment below actually, and tell
• 24:34
  us what your biggest bookish red flag is in Men.
• 24:38
  And also let us know if you would like us to do an episode.
• 24:41
  So on ranking book boyfriends or sports romance as a genre, we
• 24:47
  could definitely do a whole episode about that.
• 24:48
  We are big sports romance. 100% yeah huge and don't forget to
• 24:53
  subscribe to our channel if you're enjoying.
• 24:55
  Drop us a comments, spread the love and we will see you in a
• 24:58
  couple of weeks. Bye.