- No farting flirts.
- You really gotta get a nice feel on the wheel.
- I was told by my dating coach I can't make sexual jokes.
- [Ki] Joyce, go ahead and press a little harder!
- Hello. - Oh, there's the joke there.
- I'm drunk, I don't give a (beep).
Wait, that's me, Joyce.
You might know me for being your local internet bestie,
confidant or bad ass (beep).
But there's one thing you might not know about me,
I've never had a boyfriend.
(bright upbeat music)
Welcome back to my room.
This is not actually my room, this is a set.
The last time you saw me I went on speed dating
and I actually got a match.
And he might've texted me to go out on a date.
- Why do you have 830 unread text messages?
- Cause daddy likes to eat.
(Lindsay sighs)
- Hey Joyce, it's John Michael.
- Oh my gosh. - From speed dating.
I had a really great time getting to know you.
Would you be free to hang sometime?
(Lindsay sighs)
- I'm gonna say yes, of course, he's cute.
It's actually funny because I do have dating experiences,
we all know that, but I've never been on a real date.
Most of my dates are never really specified to be a date.
I think this is the first time where I get that date.
Oh, I know this cool pottery class that's happening,
if you're down to throw some clay.
How about Thursday?
- Throw some clay.
- Y'all, pottery, it's such an activity
you see in the romantic comedies, in the movies.
- He did a winky face.
- Oh my God, is he flirting with me.
- Yes.
Accept it.
(Joyce shrieking)
- I'm so nervous.
I guess this is the hard thing,
it's like with the series I realized
how most of my romantic situationships
were more happened to me, it was thrown to my face,
but now it's like me actively searching, actively looking,
actively asking myself if I want this person
and not just accepting them because they're there.
That's a lot of pressure.
This is too many thoughts in my head, I can't.
Let me go talk to my dating coach, Monique,
cause I need help.
I'm going on a date with a white man.
(Joyce laughs)
So you know I went on the speed dating.
- Yes.
- And I matched with someone, so now I got a date.
- Oh! Wait a minute.
We gotta do the meet someone dance.
- Hey.
Hey. - Hey.
- Hey. - Hey.
(both laughing)
- That's awesome.
So where are you going on the first date?
- So we are going to a pottery studio.
- I love that.
- That's so hallmark.
- That is so hallmark, that is romcom
as we know you love.
And it's such a fun date.
We're gonna go into this expecting the best, okay?
So what is the fear now
that you guys have connected and you're going on the date?
- I mean, I didn't wax yet, that's my biggest fear.
- Okay, we gonna get that together honey
just in case. - Yeah, I gotta go.
It's been a long time.
(Monique laughing)
- Remove the cobwebs.
- Yeah.
People perceive me to be very flirtatious.
- [Monique] Okay.
- You know, because you know, I got the face,
the waist, and the mind.
But when I am at the brink of my nervousness.
(Monique laughs)
I make jokes.
So I definitely need advice on how to flirt seriously.
- There's an art form to flirting, right?
Look them in the eyes, give them a compliment, laugh,
tell them you're a little nervous.
Do what makes you comfortable.
Cause I don't want you to be like Monique told me to touch.
(Joyce laughs)
I don't want you to change who Joyce is,
because Joyce is more than enough.
So be okay and uncomfortable
because it makes you look more vulnerable.
So we're gonna incorporate Joyce into the flirting.
It's normal, it's natural, and just ride with it,
there's nothing you can do about that nervous energy
except ride with it.
- To be the main character means you have to be,
to yourself maybe delusional, even though it's not delusion,
but you have to have that energy that you are the prize
and you are the main character.
I shouldn't get so wrapped up about
what someone's gonna think of me,
even though I mean, they did ask me on a date, so?
- Yeah, you're gonna have fun.
- I'm nervous.
(Monique laughing)
I have to treat it like,
I'm Sailor Moon and turn it into energy.
- Yes Joyce, you got this.
- You're right.
And at the end of the day,
he's lucky to date a bad bitch like me.
- Hello!
- Purr.
- And y'all connected. - Purr.
- Wait a minute, like purr. - Purr.
(both laughing)
- And don't forget NFF, no farting flirts.
- I'm going to ward away the spirit of fart jokes.
(Monique laughs)
- You got this.
- Hi! Welcome to my actual room.
- It's your first date day.
All right, so we're gonna pick you out an outfit.
- Let's do this.
- I would say this was easier than, you know,
your typical dinner date,
because you had to be okay with getting something messy,
and it's just like art girl Joyce vibes.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so I feel like we need something artsy, cute.
- I've always wanted to wear this on a date.
- Oh, cute.
- But I don't wanna (beep) this dress.
- Yeah, no, no, no.
This is I'm going to pottery in the nineties.
I'm about to meet my future husband.
- I love this.
- It's perfect because it's sage green, a little sage.
At the moment it's corduroy, so cozy vibes.
- I like it, it's definitely is nineties vibe.
- This literally I look at this
and it looks like I you're going to a pottery class.
- It really does.
- That's a really cute tank.
It looks like the color of clay.
- I have this one too.
- Your whole closet is just ready to go to pottery.
(Joyce laughs)
This is a cute denim.
- These are my nineties denim.
- Yeah.
All right. - Try on.
Whoa!
- Yes, this is my outfit.
- Peekaboo.
- I love peekaboo with a tum tum.
- Okay, well, my first impression is that
your arms will not be able to move too well, right?
- Yeah.
Especially if I'm gonna like touch hands, you know.
- Hands.
This is your first date after all,
we gotta make a statement.
- That is true.
(Lindsay sighs)
- Cute.
- This is definitely giving.
- This is so casual, but like shows color.
- Yeah.
- It's creative.
- It's giving that like 90s flair,
it's just like, babe let's make some pottery.
- Can like do your shoulder.
- Yeah, yeah, a little, - So flirty.
Oh, it fell over.
- Oh, X-rated, stop it.
I definitely think, you know, doing the series,
I feel more comfortable in my femininity.
- Yeah. - You know.
- Well finding an outfit that you feel so confident
and comfortable in for your first date
will literally be a night and day difference.
- Mom, I'm going on this date with this guy and I'm nervous.
- [Mom] Why are you nervous?
- Ma, cause I ain't never been on a date.
I get nervous Mom, I know it's hard to believe
because I'm sensational.
- [Mom] That you are.
- I love you mommy, I'll talk to you later.
- [Mom] All right baby, bye bye.
- Bye.
So we are arriving to the destination.
- Whoa!
Yeah, how are you feeling right now?
- I'm just really nervous.
I'm just very nervous.
- Like what are you nervous about?
Like do you have butterfly nervous, or like?
- Like the same nervous I was with the speed dating.
- It's so anxious when they haven't arrived yet, you know.
- Yeah, that's very true. - Just like waiting.
You'll be fine.
- Okay.
- Can we just talk about how good you looked in that outfit.
You looked so radiant and artsy
and just like girlfriend cozy vibes, but also elevated.
- Yeah. - I loved that look on you.
I'm not gonna be on this date,
I'm just dropping her off like a mom.
- Cause you're mom.
I don't know if I brought all my fruit snacks.
It was time to meet him on the date, you know,
I met him outside in the parking lot.
- Romantic.
- Romantic. Very indie film, okay?
It was giving first season a euphoria.
- What's up Joyce. - Hi.
- Hi.
(romantic music)
Look at us with the corduroy.
- We're at art house.
- Yeah.
- Oh my God, matching couple outfits.
Match made in heaven.
- You know what, he's very attractive.
He's a very pretty man.
I so excited.
- Me too.
Let's head in there.
- Let's go, okay.
(bright upbeat music)
- So when we walked into the pottery studio
it was so beautiful.
It just had that aesthetic of art.
There's a perfect amount of light.
There was people doing like pottery stuff
and their hands are getting dirty.
And I really just love that environment.
- Yeah. - I love being surrounded
by creation, you know.
Basically we go inside, we put on our aprons, you know,
real cute.
- Let me know if you need some help.
- You know, I'm not good at many things
and tying things as one of them.
- Woo!
What a sweet man.
- You know in the world the fan girl,
that would've been screen shotted, blown up,
and put on repeat in a fan edit.
- Hell yeah.
- And you said you did this in college?
- Yes.
And I failed horribly.
- Really, wow.
I'm sorry.
- It's okay, you know.
- My boy Ki is gonna help us out.
Maybe make that F into an A.
- Oh, are you smooth?
- No. - Okay.
- No, no, I have no idea
what I'm doing. - John Michael, two names.
- [Ki] Any idea what you guys wanna make?
- A bowl.
- A bowl, okay.
- I'll do a little tea mug.
- Are you advance?
- Is that advance? - Boy.
- Yeah, you gotta do the handle.
- All right, all right,
I'm aiming way too high,
sorry about that.
(Joyce laughs)
- And we started doing pottery.
- [Ki] Place it slightly off to the center,
and then spin the wheel.
- Oh, oh.
- [Ki] You guys know what the clay is?
- It's mud, it's water.
- [Ki] Good answer.
- That's exactly what I was gonna say.
(all laughing)
You really gotta get a nice feel on the wheel.
- I was told by my dating coach I can't make sexual jokes.
- Oh really?
- [Ki] Joyce go ahead and press a little harder!
- Hello. - Oh, there's the joke there.
- So a lot of times when you're nervous about flirting
you'll make jokes, like fart jokes.
So we're gonna delete the fart jokes from the flirting.
- I learned a lot of things about myself.
I learned that, you know,
when I get nervous or a little anxious
I start to get a little inappropriate.
- Did you make any inappropriate jokes?
- Not at all.
Oh my God, I'm gonna pay more attention when I poop.
(Ki and John laughing)
Do you watch face vacuum videos?
I do that all the time.
- And you're talking about pimple popping videos.
- Yeah, and face vacuuming it's like my weird obsession.
- I've never seen face vacuuming
but I love pimple popping videos.
- Yours is looking great,
mine looks like poop.
- You really gotta just, once you give it a nice squeeze.
- Oh.
(John laughing)
All right, in my defense,
I am a very inappropriate person, okay?
We were doing pottery.
The way that he was touching that pot,
I could've said a thousand things.
I'm literally watching him go into the pot like that,
I get my mouth studio friendly.
- So where are you from again Joyce.
- I am from many places, - Many places.
- It's hard, you know, different people
I say different things.
- Oh really?
- Cause I'm a Gemini.
- That's funny, so am I.
- I have never talked to a Gemini man in a romantic way.
- We're Geminis in here.
(Lindsay laughing)
- Two Gemini.
I like that he was a Gemini
because he could keep up with me.
- I did too.
- When is your birthday?
- June 10th.
- I'm June 9th.
- I think it's time for me go.
Thank you guys so much for coming.
I know the internet was so interested.
- Listen, I'm sure a lot of people in the comments
are gonna be like, two Geminis dating,
that's a recipe for disaster.
But I will say I'm dating a Cancer,
and it's going on three years, so?
- I'm a single mother, you know,
I take care of my little sister a lot.
- Yeah. - She's very important to me.
- That's nice.
- Do you have any siblings?
- I have a younger sister,
she takes care of me more so than I take care of her.
- So she's my age.
- Yeah.
- That's a lot going on. - I have a sister
that's your age.
- And I have a sister that's your age.
- And we're both Gemini
born one day apart. - And we're both Geminis
born one day apart.
- Look at that, meant to be.
- Meant to be.
Actually it is getting there.
Oh my God, maybe we are similar.
- [Ki] Not yet.
(all laughing)
- I learned that we have a lot of similarities,
you know. - Yeah.
- I'm from Philly.
- Get the (beep) away from me now.
So look now I'm sweaty, coz you're making me uncomfortable.
- What? From Philly?
- Yes, because I used to go to Philly all the time.
The Poconos that's what we used,
the kangaroos. - Yeah Poconos.
- Yeah, we love the Poconos.
- Yeah, I love to read.
- What do you, what kind of books do you like to read?
- I'm a sucker for a like celebrity memoirs.
- That's insane.
I'm a sucker for celebrity memoirs.
I just really love intellectual conversations.
Like conversations that have a good balance.
- Yes.
- And I felt comfortable to not talk.
- Yeah. - As I'm comfortable to talk.
I asked questions he asked questions.
- And that's a really good sign.
- Joyce, yours is looking really good,
I gotta say I'm,
- You know, I think the bowls
they were meant for the ladies.
- I can't believe you got an F in that class.
- Honestly, you know, I'm a vase.
I thought I was a big bowl but I'm just a little vase.
- Hey, I thought I was a teacup, and here I am.
- The fact that he said teacup,
I was like get out of here boy.
- So think about things that you guys have in common,
and just go with the flow of what's happening in the moment.
- What are your hobbies like?
What's your going out night?
Like do you like go to the club?
- No.
I like bars, I like dancing.
You gotta go dancing.
- You got moves.
- No.
- I need to see. I can tear off
the dance floor.
- Honey, I need to see baby.
- Do you dance?
- Absolutely.
- I do wedding dancing.
- Oh, so you do like the,
- Like the.
- Oh, the point, the point.
I thought you were talk about that.
- Yeah, yeah. - That's so fun.
This is slope setting.
- [John] No, I think it's beautiful.
- Thank you.
You know where it was like,
I really enjoyed spending time
and I really enjoyed like making my little (beep) jokes,
and I really enjoyed like our a banter in our communication.
But I enjoyed me not having any expectations.
I enjoyed the fact that
I had these nervous butterfly feelings
but I didn't feel ashamed of them.
- I'm feeling good.
- That looks like a (beep) bowl.
- Yeah.
- She is a ceremonial,
I don't know how to say the word
ceremonial. - Ceremonial.
- Thank you.
I really like pottery.
- Me too.
Wow.
- I feel things, and they're positive.
Like live butterflies.
- It went a little different than I expected,
I think when I first met Joyce,
but once we got into it
I think the pottery was a great way to kinda break that ice.
And kinda got to be ourselves there.
There were little moments where I'm like
we're just letting loose now,
and that was a lot of fun.
I'm really excited to get to know Joyce a little bit better,
especially over some ice cream.
- It gives me hope.
Now watch the top go down.
(John and Joyce laughing)
- You're (beep) ridiculous.
I was in a convertible girl.
(Lindsay screams)
It was a convertible.
- When you drove away in the sunset, it was great.
Do you know what kind of car it was Mike?
- [Mike] I'm gay.
(both laughing)
- None of us know cars.
- Okay, so we are gonna go to the ice cream shop
and he's driving sticks, so that's cool.
- Oh yeah, that's right, I could do that, so.
Jack of all trades.
- Wow, you're a so bizarre, you're a so bizarre.
- Well I'm pleased.
- Okay let's see you guys later.
- This is like textbook great first day,
I wish I could experience
this first date. - Yeah, it was fun.
He was talking to people
and then we were talking about Marvel,
and like all the media we like,
and like who's our favorite Marvel characters,
it was fun.
And then, we you know, walked around a little bit
and then we sat down.
I think the one thing about you, John Michaels
is that every time you open your mouth, I'm intrigued,
I'm confused, and I need to find out more.
The places, - I'm gonna take that
as a compliment.
- I mean, we have so much in common,
even though you're very different from me.
- We're just two cool people.
- I have a question for you.
- Okay.
- A serious one.
- Oh, okay.
- When's the last time you cried.
- That is a great question.
There's a song that I listen to that makes me cry,
Cats In The Cradle, by Harry Chepin or Chapin.
- It's a good song.
- Yeah, yeah. - That's a sad song.
- But I'm happy to express it.
- Oh good.
- At least to my therapist.
(John laughs)
- I'm really proud of you
because you have broken out of your comfort zone,
and you're enjoying this.
And that's what this is all about,
and it's gonna get easier and easier.
- I do want someone that I vibe with,
someone that makes me feel safe.
- [Monique] Yes.
- Someone that I could be myself with,
and someone that's a good person.
- Those are excellent qualities.
- It's like literally
what you're scared of this entire time
and you let yourself do it.
And look how amazing and wonderful it feels.
- It feels great.
I know that I'm worth love,
I know that I am the love of somebody's life,
and I know that someone will be the love of my life.
Not saying it's Michael y'all internet,
don't run with that.
(Lindsay laughs)
But I know that I will meet that person,
or maybe I already have, who knows?
- Right.
- Thank you so much. - Yeah.
- Of course, this was great. - You're amazing.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thank you so much.
This was great.
- Have a great time. - You too.
You too. Thanks so much.
- Maybe me and John Michael will keep talking,
and I hope we do.
I really do John Michael,
I know you're watching this.
It was really a good first date.
- It was.
- I had a really good time. - You went on your first date.
- I went on my first date.
(both screaming)
(bright upbeat music)