Undateable Habits in Men

Audra: There’s so many things that guys do to turn women off when it comes to sex and romance like wearing socks with sandals also called mandals, his drink of choice being called the Sea Breeze. Well, finally two women have put their concerns in writing and they have proof that women aren’t just too picky. We’re not going crazy, these men are just undateable. The book is appropriately called Undateables and written by authors Ellen Rakieten and Anne Coyle and Anne is here to tell us all about it. How come I didn’t think about writing this book, I could have written a couple chapters for you. Good to have you here. Anne: I know, thank you. Audra: Right, Ellen is not here but I know she worked on the Oprah Winfrey show for quite a while. She’s married and she had her stories, you’re single, dating, you got your stories, too, is that where it all came from? Anne: Yup, that’s where it all came from. She has been sort of compiling a list because she had worked with, you know, 300 single women for twenty years. So she had a list going. And I was her next door neighbor and best friend, and I got divorced and unfortunately when, and got my stories first hand. So we sort of swapping stories and thought, you know, the world needs to know. I mean, this is just too crazy. Audra: The real life stories are just as funny as the second hand stories are too. And you interviewed quite a few, hundreds of people, right? Anne: Hundreds of women. Audra: There are some really funny offenses in this book. I just have to tell you. You talk about the socks with the sandals which are a prime, high offense. Anne: Yeah, socks with sandals, we call them man sandals which are mandals. Audra: Also sporting the dad jeans, eyebrow waxing, these are from women telling you what their worst nightmares were. Anne: Yup, you know, what’s was that thing in a date where you thought, you know, this is going to be fun and you walk in and, you know, he’s waxed his eyebrows or his sporting hair pugs, and you’re just going, “Why am I here?” Audra: There’s a few things in the book where you really, do you have a man undateable when he does this, soprano speak? Anne: That’s the guy who suddenly has decided that he’s like in a mob even though he’s not Italian or has nothing to do with the Mafia and he’s, you know, saying things like batabing-batabong and forget about it and you know all he thinks is he is Tony Soprano and he is not. Audra: And also playing the air guitar also made the list. Anne: No one is ever going to look cool playing the air guitar. We have decided if you want to be cool, play the real guitar and then even better, and get paid for playing a real guitar. Audra: You got it. Our cameraman over there tried to pretend that’s he’s playing a real guitar, it’s not going to work, it’s not going to work. I have to pull out two of my favorites, hopefully you can get a shot of this one. This guy’s wearing sunglasses backwards and the Bluetooth. Anne: Yeah, the Bluetooth it has its own set of problems, because the person with the Bluetooth is usually walking down the street gesturing or sitting at a restaurant gesturing and you think that. You’re first thought is this person’s insane, they came from a mental institution and then you realize they’re on Bluetooth. And our point is what conversation is that important that you can’t sort of go outside and have a normal conversation instead of sitting there going like this. Audra: Also what event is so important that you have to wear the pimp shoes? You literally call it the pimp shoes? Anne: We call them the pimp shoes. Audra: These are the trough shoes; I hate the pimp shoes whatsoever. Anne: It’s like who’s, first of all, who’s manufacturing these and who’s buying these? It’s shocking, like, what is this? Audra: The pointy toe is what really gets me in a pimp shoes too. If you see a guy wearing these shoes ladies, run in the opposite direction completely. Now you have another one, the weekend guy, he’s wearing the high waisted Anne: Yeah, the weekend white guy. Audra: Describe that. Anne: The weekend white guy is every white guy in America who has a decent job during the week. Suddenly on the weekends they go to play clothes which is the khaki pleated shorts that are probably too short, a golf shirt, the black belt he wears to work, running shoes and white socks that are folded and it’s ridiculous. It’s like everyone has turned into a clone on the weekend and they’re all sort of walking in the cities and suburbs dressed like they’re seven. Audra: If you’re not laughing yet, do you have to take a look at one of the clips, VH1 actually has a series based on the books, you take a look. Female: Low jean shorts, even the long ones. Just don’t do it. Female2: Farting and guys, don’t name that. Female3: If a guy has dirty hair, I don’t want to go anywhere near it. Female4: Nose hairs are unacceptable. Female5: A guy talking about his ex girlfriend on a date is another no-no. Audra: And on top of all that, we have celebrities who are chiming in on this whole thing. Anne: Yes, we had Us Magazine just do a thing on things that celebrities are doing that are undateable and they have some very funny ones. They had caught Andy Garcia with what we call Chewbacca, which is like a hairy back and they had John Meyer in a mankini which is a Speedo bikini brief which works on nobody. And they took these guys out they had Terrence Howard carrying the murse which is a male purse which is basically a clutch bag that a man is now carrying as his own. Audra: And I’m not going to say which celebrity, but there a couple of celebrities in there I don’t know if I’d take dating advice from them at all but it should be interesting to see what they have to say, though. Yeah, you guys did a great job on this book. Anne: Thank you, we had fun, we had fun writing it. Audra: Alright if you guys want to transform somebody from undateable to datable which if they’re doing any of those things. They need to be transformed, you can get a copy of the book it’s called Undateable and its available now.