Latest / In My Hometown / Pascal Is in the Hot Seat: Dating After 50, Relationships & French Standards
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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Hi, everybody.
- 0:01SPEAKER_00: We're giving Pascumal the whole microphone today with a new series that we are calling.
- 0:09SPEAKER_00: I'm calling Pascuml's Take Life, Love, and French Standards.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: And we asked our community and our audience to send in questions on social medium and in on YouTube about dating, relationships, about marriage, friendship, aging, all sorts of things.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: And because why are we doing this?
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: We have a lot of comments about the show, which is really great, and a lot of comments about Pascal and just that people love your unfiltered takes on things.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: Some people don't love them, but some people do.
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter, right?
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: We'll take everyone.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: And um so we're gonna have a little bit of fun.
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: But you're in my hometown with Jamie and Pascal.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: Are you ready, Pascal?
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: I am.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 1:01SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: So I have uh I have uh collected some of these uh questions and I've done um prepared a little something.
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: So what I wanted to start with is what is a French standard?
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: And sort of just a little bit about um, since you know, uh being French is so part of you, and we had just discovered or I discovered that in one of our recent episodes that you did not speak English when you came here um to the US, right?
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: Yes.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: That you have um you picked it up here.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know, are do you think that Americans are um too forgiving in in the way we are?
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: Like what do you think that that the French people are too demanding?
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: Like I'm just sort of starting you off on just a little bit of a French American culture French American culture.
- 1:54SPEAKER_01: So I I think there is a huge difference of the the uh uh American versus the European, and I'm talking French uh particularly.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: We we live in a country where number one, we are known for fashion, we are known for food, we are known for uh design and architecture, and as you know, Paris is considered as the city of light.
- 2:14SPEAKER_01: Yeah the opportunity we have as an European is we have a lot of country next to us.
- 2:20SPEAKER_01: We have Spain, we have Italy, we have Germany, we have England, we have Greece.
- 2:24SPEAKER_01: So when an American travels, most likely he will go from Chicago to L, Chicago to Colorado, Chicago to Florida, Chicago to New York.
- 2:34SPEAKER_01: When we're in France, we go from Paris to Italy, Paris to Spain, Paris to Rome.
- 2:39SPEAKER_01: So I will have to say without being kind descended by any means, but I just think that the European has a little bit more joie de vive, savoir faire.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: We have uh uh we have a lot more culture, obviously.
- 2:51SPEAKER_01: We're a much older country.
- 2:53SPEAKER_01: We're just gonna celebrate 250 years' anniversary in this country, which is remarkable what we've done.
- 2:59SPEAKER_01: But uh when I moved in the state to go back to the first question you asked me, in 1978, I had what we call the American dream.
- 3:08SPEAKER_01: I didn't speak a word of English and I had five dollars in my pocket.
- 3:12SPEAKER_01: I just wanted to come to America because from Europe, America was the land of opportunity.
- 3:19SPEAKER_01: And I realized then the only way to succeed in this country is to learn the language, as you know.
- 3:23SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you can't speak English, you can go anywhere.
- 3:26SPEAKER_01: So that was my priorities.
- 3:28SPEAKER_01: And the second is to work very hard to be able to make yourself something.
- 3:33SPEAKER_01: That's basically my understanding of uh yes.
- 3:37SPEAKER_00: All right, well, that's good.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: I think that gives us a little bit of a grounding, I guess.
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: Where I was going.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: I thought it was more a little bit more in just the realm of you always are very put together.
- 3:47SPEAKER_00: Is that necessarily the Frenchman in you, or is that just you?
- 3:51SPEAKER_01: The Frenchman in me.
- 3:52SPEAKER_01: I think in France, as you could see, I mean, you've traveled all over Europe and you see in Europe we we take pride of our appearance.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Why we we have the the war designer from Yves Saint Laurent to Christian Diors and uh everybody dressed up in France.
- 4:06SPEAKER_01: We don't wear baseball hats, we don't wear sweatpants, we don't wear gym shoes.
- 4:10SPEAKER_01: So I think to me, what I stood here a little bit different than the American is a dress.
- 4:16SPEAKER_01: I like to dress, I like I like the culture of having a nice clothes, nice gamut, and have a good presentation.
- 4:22SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people have made comments about your accent, and you know, I think it's just it's I don't know, it was it's been surprising to me.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: I mean how many people uh both.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: I mean, some people love it.
- 4:34SPEAKER_00: Well, most people love it.
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: It's always some people don't understand it.
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: Right, and some people don't understand it, and some people asking why you still have it.
- 4:41SPEAKER_01: You know, I I came I came to the United States, like I just told you earlier.
- 4:45SPEAKER_01: I didn't speak a word of English at 21 years old.
- 4:48SPEAKER_01: So I learned the language in a bastard way, in the in by watching TV, by uh reading the newspaper, by uh understanding, and I really never master the the language as as much as I would like to.
- 5:01SPEAKER_01: So uh uh the accent for it it sometimes is very funny, Jamie.
- 5:06SPEAKER_01: Is when I go to Paris and I go into a store and I speak French to them, you know what they said to me?
- 5:12SPEAKER_01: Oh, you speak French very well for an American.
- 5:15SPEAKER_01: Wow because over the years I roll my accent.
- 5:18SPEAKER_01: So in America, in in America, I have the French accent, in French I have the English accent.
- 5:23SPEAKER_00: Yeah, isn't that I love that?
- 5:24SPEAKER_00: Isn't it?
- 5:25SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is interesting.
- 5:26SPEAKER_00: So you were you've been married two times and you have kids with both of your wives.
- 5:32SPEAKER_00: You have a long-standing salon business.
- 5:35SPEAKER_00: Um, big history here in Chicago.
- 5:37SPEAKER_00: You haven't lived in other have you lived in other places in New York?
- 5:40SPEAKER_01: I live in New York when I started.
- 5:42SPEAKER_01: I moved to New York when I moved in 1978.
- 5:45SPEAKER_01: I went to New York first.
- 5:47SPEAKER_01: And uh I stayed in New York for about four or five months, and I realized that's not the city for me.
- 5:53SPEAKER_01: So my next step was my game plan was New York, Chicago, Alley, Florida.
- 5:59SPEAKER_01: And then so I New York didn't like it.
- 6:01SPEAKER_01: I came to Chicago, and then I love Chicago and I and I end up staying, and I had a job opportunity in Chicago.
- 6:07SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
- 6:09SPEAKER_00: So um, so we talk a lot about uh dating but and relationships and everything.
- 6:16SPEAKER_00: So, like I said, we asked um uh for some questions, and we're gonna have you give your take.
- 6:24SPEAKER_00: Because you you you're not um you're not shy about giving your take, and that's what people love.
- 6:30SPEAKER_00: We we're gonna call this give people what they want.
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: So, okay.
- 6:33SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 6:33SPEAKER_00: So, what's the biggest dating um mistake that people over 50 make?
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: Settle.
- 6:40SPEAKER_01: Settle in too quickly.
- 6:42SPEAKER_01: Settle in too quick, settle in too quickly because of loneliness.
- 6:46SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 6:47SPEAKER_01: That's that's the that's the main tendency.
- 6:50SPEAKER_01: People have tendency to settle for less than what they want just because they don't want to be alone.
- 6:57SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right.
- 6:58SPEAKER_00: And what do you think?
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: Would you separate that two between men and women?
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: Is there something else in particular that women are doing or that men are doing?
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: Or are they both settling?
- 7:08SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, I you might not lack what I have to say about it.
- 7:11SPEAKER_01: But that's okay.
- 7:12SPEAKER_01: But I'm gonna tell you one thing.
- 7:14SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think when a woman is in the early 30s and uh, you know, they have the power.
- 7:19SPEAKER_01: They have the power to choose whatever they want to choose.
- 7:21SPEAKER_01: When a woman passes a certain age, and I'm not gonna say the age, all of a sudden the power is reversed.
- 7:27SPEAKER_01: The man's got the power.
- 7:29SPEAKER_01: And uh so I think to me, uh uh when you when she's a 23, 24 years old, you know, they they women are much more selective, they're much more picky, they're much more difficult than when they are in their 50s.
- 7:43SPEAKER_01: Uh and the difference that now for the man when he's 25, 26, is not that difficult, not that picky, but when he's in 50s and 60s, he's a lot more picky.
- 7:54SPEAKER_00: Wow, that was a hot take.
- 7:56SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna take that in.
- 7:58SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna take that in.
- 8:00SPEAKER_01: So what you're basically what I'm hearing men, okay, again, I think you might not like that, Jimmy.
- 8:06SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 8:07SPEAKER_01: Okay, I think as men get older, they appreciate it.
- 8:11SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 8:12SPEAKER_01: As women get older, they depreciate it.
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 8:17SPEAKER_00: Um I don't like to I don't like to hear that.
- 8:20SPEAKER_00: And I I think I would think that a lot of other women don't, but I I see, I see things play out in a way uh along those lines.
- 8:30SPEAKER_00: I don't know exactly, but in in the sense that I have I've mentioned this before, I have some absolutely stunning friends who are in their 50s who are, and we just met one, Aaron and Tim from the Age of Attraction, and that are in their 50s and they're single and they're gorgeous and they're talented and they're um intelligent and they're um successful and cannot seem to find, you know, a decent guy.
- 8:59SPEAKER_00: Um but yet I see these guys who don't seem that they're necessarily that attractive or even that successful, and they after a divorce, they seem to be scooped right up and they seem to be on the move.
- 9:14SPEAKER_01: Okay, so so my what's your take on that?
- 9:16SPEAKER_01: My take, my take on that is uh yes, we've met Aaron, she's a beautiful, attractive looking woman.
- 9:22SPEAKER_01: She's 50 years old.
- 9:24SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 9:24SPEAKER_01: Okay, she's not old.
- 9:25SPEAKER_01: It's uh I think to me, it's a beautiful year.
- 9:27SPEAKER_00: I think she's 50.
- 9:29SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
- 9:29SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah, in her 50s.
- 9:31SPEAKER_01: In her 50s, yeah.
- 9:32SPEAKER_01: It's a beautiful year for a woman.
- 9:34SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
- 9:35SPEAKER_01: But most like men in the 50 will date a 35 to a 40.
- 9:40SPEAKER_01: They will not date a 50 years, regardless of how beautiful she is or how beautiful the woman is.
- 9:46SPEAKER_00: Um I I hear you, and again, I I and I know I know my reasons or what I think is the why.
- 9:55SPEAKER_00: Do you think we've talked a little bit about this?
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: Do you think that some of it is society and the movies and TV and things that we're exposed to where we see these men like Harrison Ford or these these old Robert De Niro, and they're in these movies and they are with these younger women?
- 10:13SPEAKER_00: Yes, I mean, I think there is this So we're just we're like, what's the word?
- 10:16SPEAKER_01: We are being sensitized, sensitized, yeah, sensitized.
- 10:20SPEAKER_01: But I think it's always been known.
- 10:21SPEAKER_01: I mean, before De Niro and uh and uh George Cooney and anybody, I mean, men always want a younger woman, and then younger women want an older man for for for a reason is because financially they want to be a good one.
- 10:34SPEAKER_00: I I don't want that's where we argue all the time.
- 10:37SPEAKER_01: I don't want an older man, you don't want a older man, no, but that's you.
- 10:40SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 10:41SPEAKER_01: That's you.
- 10:41SPEAKER_01: But you if if if you see what's going on up there, right, you will see a lot of older men.
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: And when I said old, not 8090s, I'm talking a mid 60s, late 60s, who are very successful and hang in with a 35 years old woman.
- 10:57SPEAKER_01: They have what we call an arrangement, they have an understanding.
- 11:00SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna take care of you, I'm gonna make you look good, and you're gonna take care of me.
- 11:04SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 11:04SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna do that.
- 11:05SPEAKER_00: I just don't have, I haven't been exposed to a lot of those ladies.
- 11:08SPEAKER_00: I don't want to make a judgment.
- 11:09SPEAKER_00: It's gonna sound like I'm making a judgment, but just people that I are in my um contemporaries that I have grown up with, um, were all women, young women in my 20s and 30s, who wanted to make it on our own.
- 11:23SPEAKER_00: We were all working, we all had really big jobs.
- 11:26SPEAKER_00: I was, I was never searching for someone who was gonna take care of me.
- 11:29SPEAKER_00: That's you, I was making my way.
- 11:32SPEAKER_01: That's you.
- 11:32SPEAKER_01: There is there is, okay, let's just rephrase the conversation.
- 11:36SPEAKER_01: If you have a woman who is successful, a woman who has a career, a lawyer, a doctor, or stuff like that, she will not settle for anything less than what she wants.
- 11:46SPEAKER_01: But for a woman who's got a shitty job, who work in marshall field or or sell clothes in a clothing store or or work in a in a pharmacist, or uh uh, yes, she's gonna want security, and the security she will have more tendency to sit up, set, set herself up with a guy who's got money, who is older, who's gonna take care of her.
- 12:07SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 12:07SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean that's the fact, right?
- 12:10SPEAKER_00: You know, but that's what it is.
- 12:11SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 12:11SPEAKER_00: This is I I have to remind myself that this is Pascal's.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: Um what did I call the jugment?
- 12:18SPEAKER_00: Pascal's take life, loves, and French standards.
- 12:23SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's keep going because I I don't know why it's not Jamie's.
- 12:27SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 12:28SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's a that's a I want to make sure this is my point of view.
- 12:31SPEAKER_01: This is not Jamie's point of view.
- 12:33SPEAKER_01: Okay, Jamie's asking me questions, and I'm answering you as candy as I can, as honesty as I can't, because that's what I see when I go out.
- 12:42SPEAKER_01: I mean, I live in the city, I've lived in the city my whole life, I'm out all the time, and I go to a lot of events, and I see what I see and I report what I see.
- 12:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah, good.
- 12:53SPEAKER_00: I love it.
- 12:54SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 12:54SPEAKER_00: Um, what is the biggest um red flag that you see on a first date?
- 13:01SPEAKER_01: Uh alcohol.
- 13:03SPEAKER_00: Oh, right.
- 13:03SPEAKER_00: For you personally.
- 13:04SPEAKER_01: For me personally.
- 13:05SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's good.
- 13:05SPEAKER_00: And then answer.
- 13:06SPEAKER_00: So for you personally, for me personally because your lifestyle.
- 13:10SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but if I see somebody drinking uh two, tweet drink during dinner on a first or second date, it's a little flag for me.
- 13:16SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
- 13:17SPEAKER_00: You know, there's a movie on Netflix that just released on Friday night with um Jennifer Lopez and um Brett Goldstein.
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: Have you seen it?
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: It's called Office Romance.
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: No, you were not home Friday night watching it.
- 13:29SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 13:29SPEAKER_00: Uh, and the first scene is Brett Goldstein on a date, and the woman proceeds to get drunk.
- 13:35SPEAKER_00: She's drinking these margaritas, and then the craziness ensues.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: So that's just what came into my head.
- 13:40SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I think that alcohol is the number one thing.
- 13:44SPEAKER_01: And number two, uh you're talking in general or you're talking me?
- 13:49SPEAKER_00: Um how about advice that you would give to someone?
- 13:52SPEAKER_00: What do you think is a red flag for someone on a first date?
- 13:55SPEAKER_01: I mean, obviously, uh, on a first date, when you go to you take a woman on a first date in a restaurant, you see what she's ordered.
- 14:03SPEAKER_01: You see what, if she observes lobster, lobster stecking, steck and cake, uh, you know, then uh you know she's taking a little bit of advantage of the situation.
- 14:12SPEAKER_01: You know, I think uh when she's ordered a lapster salad.
- 14:14SPEAKER_00: A side sal, she should order a side salad.
- 14:16SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, she ordered No, I mean, I think there is a certain woman who will say, Hey, look, he's taking me for dinner.
- 14:22SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna hit the whole menu.
- 14:25SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna take the most.
- 14:26SPEAKER_01: I mean, I went on a date well back, and we go to the bar, and uh that uh I said, What would you like to drink?
- 14:31SPEAKER_01: And she said, uh, she looked at the weather, said, uh, what kind of champagne do you have?
- 14:36SPEAKER_01: And the guy said, We have veuf cliqueaux, we have moelle et chandon.
- 14:39SPEAKER_01: I said, Can I have a glass of moelle et chandon?
- 14:41SPEAKER_01: Okay, that was a$47 glass of wine, uh, champagne.
- 14:45SPEAKER_01: Already right there, there was a red flag for me.
- 14:48SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 14:48SPEAKER_01: And she was never never been a second date with her.
- 14:51SPEAKER_01: I think to me, if you want to order a glass of wine, order a cocktail, it's acceptable.
- 14:56SPEAKER_01: But I think for you to go to the extreme and say, hey, he's gonna be paying, I just think that's a red flag.
- 15:01SPEAKER_00: All right, I love it.
- 15:02SPEAKER_01: Okay, you know what also the red flag?
- 15:04SPEAKER_01: I think it would be very nice when you go out for a dinner and the woman says, Hey, would you like to split the check?
- 15:10SPEAKER_01: It's good.
- 15:11SPEAKER_01: That's good.
- 15:12SPEAKER_01: It's never happened.
- 15:13SPEAKER_00: Women always again because you're dating these women who want to be with older men because they want to be taken care of.
- 15:19SPEAKER_00: So why would that woman then ask to split the check?
- 15:22SPEAKER_01: I've never dated a younger woman.
- 15:25SPEAKER_01: I date woman age appropriate, 50 and above.
- 15:28SPEAKER_01: At 50 and above, they should know it's a younger one.
- 15:31SPEAKER_00: So you're saying you don't date young women, but you're dating younger women.
- 15:35SPEAKER_01: I'm dating women pre-golden.
- 15:39SPEAKER_00: Going golden.
- 15:40SPEAKER_00: Going golden.
- 15:42SPEAKER_01: Yeah, pre-golden, going golden.
- 15:43SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right, okay.
- 15:44SPEAKER_01: This is our vernacular.
- 15:45SPEAKER_01: I want to make clear.
- 15:48SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 15:48SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 15:49SPEAKER_00: So you right, and so those women are not looking to be taken care of.
- 15:53SPEAKER_00: No, no, right, because they've already established them.
- 15:55SPEAKER_01: They establish themselves, they have a career going on, so that's we're not talking about the young kid who doesn't know where they're going yet.
- 16:02SPEAKER_01: Okay, yes.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: All right, this is really good.
- 16:04SPEAKER_00: All right, people who want to date you, that's good.
- 16:05SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 16:06SPEAKER_00: All right, what immediately makes someone attractive?
- 16:10SPEAKER_01: Presentation, the way a woman carries herself.
- 16:13SPEAKER_01: I think it's very important to me.
- 16:15SPEAKER_01: It has to have a certain elegance, a certain style, certain fashion.
- 16:20SPEAKER_01: Uh, I don't like, I like sexy, I don't like sleazy.
- 16:23SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 16:24SPEAKER_01: I like cleavage, I don't like to show the whole breast.
- 16:27SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 16:28SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think the way that person carries herself, the way she dresses, he doesn't have to be expensive, but he's got it, she's well put together.
- 16:36SPEAKER_01: Somebody who takes part of herself.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: What do you think is a good first date outfit for a lady?
- 16:43SPEAKER_01: You know, it depends on the lady.
- 16:45SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think to me, uh, you know, obviously, uh sometimes we feed her, who compliment comp complement her figures.
- 16:52SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, uh, I'm not big on heavy makeup, uh, a hair down, you know.
- 16:57SPEAKER_00: Are you good with jeans of some kind?
- 16:59SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, jean.
- 17:00SPEAKER_01: I think if it's a fashionable jean, you know, I mean, I wouldn't want to go leave-eyes or you know, I mean yeah, fashionable jeans, a nice purse, and you could see the you could see the the sense of fashion, the way in my industry, you judge a woman by the shoes she's wearing, the purse she carries.
- 17:16SPEAKER_01: And you could see if the shoes are well and fashionable and the purse she carries, you know that that woman has a sense of fashion of sense of style.
- 17:24SPEAKER_00: Yes, agree.
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: So you should sort of give thought to that.
- 17:26SPEAKER_01: Yes.
- 17:27SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 17:28SPEAKER_00: Um, people are always told to, well, you were talking about how you think too many people are settling, but someone asked us a question about sort of this idea of lowering their standards just so that maybe they could be with someone, but you would never advise that.
- 17:43SPEAKER_01: I know, I don't think so.
- 17:45SPEAKER_01: I don't think you should ever, ever lower your standards.
- 17:47SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 17:48SPEAKER_01: You should go for what you want and what you like, who make you happy, who please you visually, who stimulate you emotionally and mentally, who challenge you.
- 17:58SPEAKER_00: Well, what if it was one of your friends who keeps sort of maybe their expectations are so out of whack?
- 18:04SPEAKER_00: Have you ever told someone, you know, don't maybe lower your expectations?
- 18:08SPEAKER_01: Oh, definitely.
- 18:09SPEAKER_01: I mean, I have a friend of mine who are looking and say, Oh, look at this one.
- 18:12SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 18:12SPEAKER_01: I mean, you you're not in in the same calibers.
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 18:15SPEAKER_01: You know, you're not in the same league, I think.
- 18:17SPEAKER_01: You know, you just bring down your expectation based on who you are.
- 18:21SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 18:21SPEAKER_00: So it's not necessarily lowering your standards, but your but your expectations.
- 18:25SPEAKER_01: Expectation.
- 18:25SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, I mean, you get a guy who is like, you know, heavy on a heavyweight, and uh, you see that girl walk by and say, Oh, look at that ass, look at a fat she's saying, Look at you.
- 18:34SPEAKER_01: How do you how are you talking about her?
- 18:36SPEAKER_01: Look at you.
- 18:37SPEAKER_01: So I think I think men has tendency to be more critical than women are.
- 18:43SPEAKER_01: They are much more critical.
- 18:45SPEAKER_01: They don't look at themselves in the mirror and say, Oh, look at I'm overweight, my I'm losing my hair, I'm you know, my skin's not that great.
- 18:52SPEAKER_01: But you know, I think you gotta look at who you are and and evaluate yourself and and and act based on who you are.
- 18:58SPEAKER_01: Right, you know.
- 18:59SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right, good.
- 19:00SPEAKER_00: And so, but but you would never say to you know, lower what you want just to be with someone.
- 19:07SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right, good.
- 19:08SPEAKER_00: Um how much texting is this is was asked by two people, how much texting is too much texting?
- 19:15SPEAKER_01: Texting is too much.
- 19:16SPEAKER_01: I just think to me, you hide behind the wall.
- 19:19SPEAKER_01: We have a tendency today, it's very easy to take a rejection through text because you don't see the person, but it's not easy to have a conversation and be rejected because you feel it personally.
- 19:31SPEAKER_01: Like when we have our guests in in a hot seat, we like you and I like to have them and look at them and feel their energy.
- 19:39SPEAKER_01: Uh, it will be very difficult to do it in Zoom and text into each other because we don't see the body language, you don't feel the heat, you don't feel the chemistry there.
- 19:47SPEAKER_01: So to me, texting is a no-no.
- 19:49SPEAKER_01: It's a texting for me say, hey, I'm be there in five minutes.
- 19:53SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 19:53SPEAKER_00: Uh but not right.
- 19:54SPEAKER_00: Not uh not communication.
- 19:56SPEAKER_00: Not communication.
- 19:57SPEAKER_01: How are you?
- 19:57SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
- 19:58SPEAKER_01: Were you eating?
- 19:58SPEAKER_01: But no, no, okay.
- 20:01SPEAKER_00: How when you go on a date, uh what what how long do you wait to um connect with her?
- 20:08SPEAKER_00: Have sex?
- 20:09SPEAKER_00: No, to connect with her afterward.
- 20:11SPEAKER_00: Uh like are you texting the next day?
- 20:13SPEAKER_00: Are you calling her?
- 20:14SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think I think if you go, I mean, you know, it it's sad to say, but it's the game.
- 20:19SPEAKER_01: You have to learn how to play the game.
- 20:21SPEAKER_01: Uh and and that's the way our society works.
- 20:24SPEAKER_01: So if you go on a date and you really like the person and you text her two right away, it's like uh you sound desesperate.
- 20:33SPEAKER_01: If you take her two days later, or five, if you test her a week later, you're not interested.
- 20:39SPEAKER_01: So there is very in the middle in between where you know, after the the the the date, the the couple deserves and you had a very good time.
- 20:46SPEAKER_01: I said, What day are you available?
- 20:48SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, and uh when will be the best time for me to call you.
- 20:52SPEAKER_01: Okay, you know, I think try to get from the text to the call.
- 20:56SPEAKER_00: Okay, but you do admit that no matter what, there's a bit of games messaging.
- 20:59SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, definitely a game.
- 21:01SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 21:01SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely a game.
- 21:02SPEAKER_01: How to get, most likely for women.
- 21:04unknown: Okay.
- 21:06SPEAKER_01: I'm just again speaking as a man.
- 21:08SPEAKER_01: You know, I don't know.
- 21:09SPEAKER_01: If you ask a woman, they're gonna say the opposite.
- 21:11SPEAKER_01: The opposite.
- 21:12SPEAKER_01: Right, okay.
- 21:13SPEAKER_00: So you're saying that with the way you see it is you feel it's a little bit more on that end that it's like a game.
- 21:18SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's it's a game, it's a game.
- 21:20SPEAKER_01: You can't be desesperate by calling her the minute after you drop her and say, Hey, that was wonderful.
- 21:25SPEAKER_01: When can I see you?
- 21:26SPEAKER_01: Uh and if you text her a week later, they're gonna say, Oh, you're not interested about me.
- 21:30SPEAKER_01: So you gotta, you know, right in the between after, you know, the next day, right?
- 21:35SPEAKER_01: You know, hey, how would it be?
- 21:36SPEAKER_00: Like, I have to say, we just talked with a gal who was talking about how she'd met someone and you know, not sounded like the same, like within the same hour that they were going somewhere, he was like, Well, let's not, you know, let's not um uh let's continue to keep our options opened and open.
- 21:58SPEAKER_00: And she was a little bit frustrated.
- 22:00SPEAKER_00: With that.
- 22:00SPEAKER_00: I think that it would have it would have benefited her for her to have said, agree.
- 22:06SPEAKER_00: I want my options open too.
- 22:08SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
- 22:08SPEAKER_00: And that shows the guy that you don't care so much, you know, that you have a connection.
- 22:14SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I could have a connection with someone else too.
- 22:17SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
- 22:17SPEAKER_00: There should have been a little bit more.
- 22:19SPEAKER_01: Yes, I agree with you.
- 22:20SPEAKER_01: I think, you know, you're in a group and you meet someone.
- 22:23SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean then that's it, you meet that person, you date that person.
- 22:26SPEAKER_01: I think when I was in the dating scene, I was dating a lot of different women until I found one I want to settle down with and I focus on that person.
- 22:35SPEAKER_01: I think to me, you give you option open until you find the person you want to be with.
- 22:40SPEAKER_00: And it might scare the guy to think that you just want to, you know, close off.
- 22:46SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
- 22:47SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 22:47SPEAKER_00: What do you what's the deal breaker that most people like overlook?
- 22:51SPEAKER_00: What like what do you think should be a deal breaker?
- 22:54SPEAKER_00: And you've seen some of your friends or others that have not let that um be a deal breaker.
- 23:02SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think I think communication is key to be able to communicate, understand each other, have a have conversation about the past, present, and future.
- 23:12SPEAKER_01: I think uh it is very important to know what your goals are, what the goals are.
- 23:16SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, talk a little bit about a walk.
- 23:18SPEAKER_01: If you show that you have interest about what she does, and should she same time with her, interest about what you do, and just have fun, just being yourself.
- 23:27SPEAKER_01: You can't, again, you cannot pretend to be somebody else because in the end of the day, you are who you are, and that who you are will come up in the long run.
- 23:37SPEAKER_01: So I had a friend of mine I introduced uh a while back, and uh, that woman, uh, my my friend loved golf.
- 23:45SPEAKER_01: And uh, when I introduced her, they used to golf all the time.
- 23:48SPEAKER_01: Golf, golf, golf, golf, golf, golf.
- 23:50SPEAKER_01: They end up getting married, they end up having children, and all of a sudden I said, Honey, I'm gonna play golf.
- 23:56SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, why you always play golf?
- 23:58SPEAKER_01: All of a sudden, she doesn't like golf.
- 24:00SPEAKER_01: So she played golf because she wanted to please him, and then she did what he wanted.
- 24:05SPEAKER_01: But when she was committed and and and have a certain security with the children, all of a sudden she became who she is.
- 24:12SPEAKER_01: But she never liked golf.
- 24:14SPEAKER_00: You know, it's like are you sure she never liked golf or just golf?
- 24:18SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, their life has evolved a bit, and so golf can't always be a front end side.
- 24:25SPEAKER_01: I agree with you.
- 24:26SPEAKER_01: I think that's what the point was.
- 24:27SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she she it's not like she didn't like golf.
- 24:30SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was to an extent where he was doing too much golf and not less time at home, and because of the kid tend change.
- 24:37SPEAKER_01: So he has he had to be able to say, you know, I look, I'm gonna be with my family, and instead of paying four days a week, I'm gonna play two days a week.
- 24:44SPEAKER_01: Good.
- 24:45SPEAKER_01: It's it's all about compromising.
- 24:46SPEAKER_00: For sure, for sure.
- 24:47SPEAKER_00: That's good.
- 24:48SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 24:48SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 24:49SPEAKER_00: Um, what keeps a relationship alive, do you think?
- 24:54SPEAKER_01: Communication.
- 24:55SPEAKER_01: Um uh I would say the um uh similar interest, you know, have a have a sometime in common you like to do together, like if it's working out, if it's go to theaters, if it's to go take a walk.
- 25:11SPEAKER_01: Uh I think what keeps alive is the chemistry.
- 25:14SPEAKER_01: You have to have sex, sex gotta be great.
- 25:17SPEAKER_01: And then as as you get to know the person, you get better and better and better, and then you're more open, more confident.
- 25:23SPEAKER_01: But I think to me, uh yeah, sex is a very important part of a relationship.
- 25:28SPEAKER_00: Okay, good, okay.
- 25:30SPEAKER_00: What's um gotten better with age?
- 25:33SPEAKER_01: Maturity, understanding better yourself, know who you are, know what you like, know what you don't like.
- 25:38SPEAKER_01: And as you get older, you don't give a shit about a lot of thans anymore.
- 25:42SPEAKER_01: You tend who used to bug you doesn't, you know, and uh you just you know, more relax, more lay back, and and you don't you don't do ten because you don't want to do it, you do it because you want to.
- 25:54SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 25:55SPEAKER_00: Um someone asked us about um a friend, one of your friends doesn't like the person they're dating.
- 26:02SPEAKER_00: What would you do about that?
- 26:05SPEAKER_01: If some of my friend doesn't like the person they're dating.
- 26:08SPEAKER_00: No, they like your a friend doesn't like who you're dating, or you don't like who that person's dating.
- 26:14SPEAKER_01: I I just think my friend, you know, I mean, I mean I have dated some women where my friend didn't like them, but they keep their opinion for themselves because uh my my true friend wants me to be happy, and if they know that I'm happy, they'll they'll shut.
- 26:29SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
- 26:29SPEAKER_01: Okay, exactly.
- 26:30SPEAKER_01: It's when you break up with them, they'll tell you, Oh, I couldn't stand her.
- 26:34SPEAKER_01: You know, okay, and then you go back with her again.
- 26:36SPEAKER_01: Right, you know, it's happened a lot.
- 26:38SPEAKER_01: Okay, where you go out with someone, your friend doesn't like her, but they accept her because they love you, and then you break up with her and say, Oh, I couldn't stand her anyway.
- 26:48SPEAKER_01: She was this, she was that, and then you and then and then you end up going back with her again in your friend.
- 26:54SPEAKER_01: So the advice I give is keep your opinions.
- 26:57SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's that's a very good advice.
- 26:59SPEAKER_00: You heard it here, right?
- 27:01SPEAKER_01: Keep your opinion for yourself.
- 27:02SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 27:03SPEAKER_00: Um, okay.
- 27:05SPEAKER_00: Um, let me go to a couple of these last ones.
- 27:08SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, how much should their opinion matter?
- 27:11SPEAKER_00: I think you just said it.
- 27:12SPEAKER_00: I don't want to hear your opinion.
- 27:14SPEAKER_00: Um what's more dangerous?
- 27:19SPEAKER_00: Staying because the chemistry is incredible or leaving because it isn't.
- 27:26SPEAKER_01: I think stay because the chemistry is incredible.
- 27:29SPEAKER_01: I think we have tendency to stay in a relationship because the chemistry are incredible.
- 27:33SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 27:34SPEAKER_01: Men has tendency, remember one thing, men are physically versus women are emotionally.
- 27:40SPEAKER_01: If men are fulfilled sexually, they will cope with a lot of shit just because they fulfill sexually.
- 27:47SPEAKER_01: But I will say then sometime then you look at it and you said, okay, sex is great, but the rest doesn't go.
- 27:54SPEAKER_01: And in the end of the day, it has to be both.
- 27:58SPEAKER_00: No, I yeah, I very much agree.
- 28:00SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 28:00SPEAKER_00: Um, okay, someone ghosted me a year ago and now they're back.
- 28:04SPEAKER_00: Do I give them a second chance?
- 28:07SPEAKER_01: You know what?
- 28:07SPEAKER_01: I've done that in the past, and I realized that the wrong thing to do, you know, I mean, uh uh, I don't want to be the second option.
- 28:15SPEAKER_01: I want to be the first option.
- 28:16SPEAKER_01: If they were going out with me and then they end up breaking up with me and they come back a year later and you open the door again, the most likely that person's gonna do it again.
- 28:26SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 28:27SPEAKER_01: You know, so you don't, you don't, I mean, I and I'm guilty for that.
- 28:30SPEAKER_01: I've done it.
- 28:31SPEAKER_01: I've I've I've went with someone and uh she went back with a boyfriend, and then we we we you know move on, and a year later we went back together, and and then she went back with a boyfriend.
- 28:43SPEAKER_01: I should have known better.
- 28:44SPEAKER_01: So the advice is if it doesn't work from the first time, right?
- 28:48SPEAKER_01: Don't take her back.
- 28:49SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 28:49SPEAKER_00: Do you think you can go from friends to lovers um or lovers to friends?
- 28:56SPEAKER_01: From friends to lovers.
- 28:58SPEAKER_00: Like you've been friends with someone for like 10 years.
- 29:00SPEAKER_00: Do you think you could possibly like start to date that person?
- 29:03SPEAKER_01: No, I think my friends, no.
- 29:05SPEAKER_01: I uh not for me.
- 29:06SPEAKER_01: Uh when they are my friend, uh, I share with them uh my my my my issues, my my problem, they give me some advice, and I just don't think then no, you can't go from from friend to lover, but you go from lover to friend.
- 29:21SPEAKER_00: Do you have friends that are former girlfriends?
- 29:24SPEAKER_01: Uh I don't keep it.
- 29:28SPEAKER_01: Yeah, a couple of them I keep in touch, but mean not really uh we don't go out for dinner.
- 29:33SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 29:33SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean if I see her somewhere and how you're not.
- 29:35SPEAKER_00: Right, you're not enemies, but you're not necessarily hating.
- 29:38SPEAKER_01: Never never and never end a relationship in a in a bad term.
- 29:41SPEAKER_01: If it doesn't work, is it's two people who make it happen.
- 29:45SPEAKER_01: That one.
- 29:46SPEAKER_00: Um someone asked uh at 55, um, someone wants to quit their job and start over, but everyone says they're crazy.
- 29:53SPEAKER_00: What would you what would Pascal tell them?
- 29:56SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you have a game plan, you know, I mean, I you know, we live longer and we have a tendency to recycle ourselves.
- 30:03SPEAKER_01: Mean, you know, I've been in a business for about 40 years and I reinvent myself every decade basically uh in my business.
- 30:12SPEAKER_01: I evaluate.
- 30:13SPEAKER_01: I think if somebody has a great idea and they believe in what they're doing, go for it.
- 30:20SPEAKER_01: If you have if you have the the if you have the financial stability to be able to do it, yes, do it.
- 30:26SPEAKER_01: Reinvent yourself, take a chance.
- 30:28SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 30:28SPEAKER_01: What's life is about taking chances, right?
- 30:30SPEAKER_00: That is, and 55.
- 30:32SPEAKER_01: I mean 55 is young, young, young, 55 is young.
- 30:36SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 30:37SPEAKER_00: Um woman goes on a first date, uh, and uh the man spends the entire evening talking about himself, but um, should you give him a check second chance because maybe he was nervous, or do you think that that's the red flag?
- 30:51SPEAKER_01: That's a red flag.
- 30:52SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, that's a red flag.
- 30:53SPEAKER_01: I think to me, uh when when I was dating and I go on a date, I'm I'm more interested about the person.
- 30:59SPEAKER_01: I want to know about her.
- 31:01SPEAKER_01: I ask her a question where she's from, where's the family, brother, sister, job, the challenge she faces.
- 31:06SPEAKER_01: Like, I want to get to know her.
- 31:08SPEAKER_01: It's not about me.
- 31:09SPEAKER_01: Me, we got time.
- 31:10SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
- 31:12SPEAKER_00: Um, all right.
- 31:13SPEAKER_00: I think I know these are good questions, right?
- 31:15SPEAKER_00: Jimmy, wow, where did you get all those?
- 31:17SPEAKER_01: From chat GPT?
- 31:18SPEAKER_00: No, I you use chat all the time.
- 31:21SPEAKER_00: I don't use it as much.
- 31:22SPEAKER_01: Chat GPT.
- 31:23SPEAKER_00: Some of these are from people, um, and then others are my own.
- 31:27SPEAKER_00: My own questions.
- 31:28SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 31:29SPEAKER_00: Um, your partner has a very close friend of the opposite sex and they've known each other for years.
- 31:33SPEAKER_00: Like, would that bother you?
- 31:34SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not.
- 31:35SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 31:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're like absolutely not.
- 31:37SPEAKER_01: I think to me, I have uh uh girlfriends of mine who I adore, who I love.
- 31:42SPEAKER_01: They are part of my life, and the person I'm dating will have to accept them.
- 31:46SPEAKER_01: If they don't, that person is not for me.
- 31:49SPEAKER_00: Okay, all right, and then um I know you've talked a lot about long distance relationships, but someone else asked about that.
- 31:55SPEAKER_00: Just like your take.
- 31:57SPEAKER_00: Does has your take change has your take changed about long distance?
- 32:01SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think long distance relationships are very challenging.
- 32:04SPEAKER_01: I'm the type of person where I I like to have access to to my partner.
- 32:09SPEAKER_01: I want my right, I want to see my partner more than once every two weeks.
- 32:13SPEAKER_01: And I don't want that the financial burden to have her flying back and forth.
- 32:18SPEAKER_01: I just I just don't think that those long distance relationships are are working very well.
- 32:24SPEAKER_01: It's not no.
- 32:26SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 32:26SPEAKER_00: All right, final two questions.
- 32:28SPEAKER_00: What um one relationship rule everyone should ignore?
- 32:33SPEAKER_00: Like what's a norm, like something that you know, in dating or a relationship is there that you think you just doesn't matter?
- 32:41SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 32:42SPEAKER_01: What do you mean by that?
- 32:43SPEAKER_00: Like um something like uh that you need to sleep in the same bed in the same room.
- 32:52SPEAKER_00: Like, do you think that that is that important?
- 32:54SPEAKER_01: Mean, I think, I think, you know, mean sleeping in the same bed, I think it is important, but I could understand then, you know, if there is a a heavy snoring in there and that person cannot sleep, but I think you should start in the same bed, you know.
- 33:09SPEAKER_01: I think it's important.
- 33:10SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think that's where the intimacy is and the closeness is.
- 33:14SPEAKER_01: I it it is important.
- 33:16SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, yeah, I think yeah.
- 33:18unknown: Okay.
- 33:19SPEAKER_00: All right, and then final question is really, I think, relevant to our um our one of our recent guests that we had, is who's uh, you know, several of our guests who are over 50, these again successful women who are looking for love.
- 33:32SPEAKER_00: What is the big one piece of advice that you have for them?
- 33:35SPEAKER_00: I think I know it because I think you gave it to this gal recently, which was wait, I'm gonna say it what okay you know you expect for it.
- 33:44SPEAKER_00: I think that you're gonna say don't look for it.
- 33:46SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
- 33:47SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
- 33:48SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
- 33:48SPEAKER_00: I think See, I know the rule book.
- 33:50SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
- 33:50SPEAKER_01: I mean, I think I think to me is when you expect in the least, that's when you meet the one.
- 33:56SPEAKER_01: You know, I've always said that when you chase in sometime, you never find it because you're trying too hard, and then you settle for less than what you want.
- 34:04SPEAKER_01: I think uh meeting someone organically, it's it's the way to meet that person and see where they go.
- 34:10SPEAKER_01: I mean, versus going somewhere and looking for somebody and want to meet somebody and and settle for less than what you really want, just because of we're not used to live alone.
- 34:23SPEAKER_01: People like, you know, I mean, I I grew up in a large family and I've always had people in my house.
- 34:28SPEAKER_01: Over the years, I learned how to be living alone and I enjoy living alone.
- 34:33SPEAKER_01: But humans are not meant to be living alone.
- 34:36SPEAKER_01: We live, we like community, we like people, we like so I think we have a tendency to settle just because we don't want to be lonely.
- 34:42SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 34:43SPEAKER_01: And that's the main thing.
- 34:44SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 34:45SPEAKER_00: Well, I do think um, yeah, a companionship isn't it's very important in people's lives.
- 34:50SPEAKER_01: Yes, I mean with the friends, going out for dinner with friends, you know, I mean, uh having uh somebody to do tense with, I think it's it's it's wonderful than be by yourself and do nothing.
- 35:00SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
- 35:01SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 35:02SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 35:02SPEAKER_00: Well, I've enjoyed this.
- 35:04SPEAKER_00: Uh you always have very good advice.
- 35:07SPEAKER_00: Let us know if you liked this um this new series, and we'll uh have more questions for Pascal to answer.
- 35:14SPEAKER_01: And uh uh and if you have any question you want or you think I'm a little bit off there, this is my point of view, you know.
- 35:23SPEAKER_01: And uh disclaimer, you're adding a disclaimer.
- 35:27SPEAKER_01: I take full responsibility for my action right because I'm old enough and mature enough to understand that.
- 35:32SPEAKER_01: So don't blame Jamie, just blame me.
- 35:36SPEAKER_01: She's just the messenger.
- 35:37SPEAKER_01: Right, that's good.
- 35:38SPEAKER_00: All right, great.
- 35:39SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, subscribe, like, and comment, and we will see you next time in my hometown.