Young Mazino: The straight guy in "Beef" and "The End of Us," with nine queer hints, some n*de photos, and Missoula, Montana

  

You have probably seen Young Mazino as Paul Cho, intensely hetero-horny younger brother of focus character Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) in the road rage-escalation drama Beef (2023). 

Or as Jesse, one of the leaders of the community of Jackson, Wyoming in the zombie Apocalypse The Last of Us (2024-5), whose ex-girlfriend starts dating focus character Ellie.

Two intensely heterosexual characters, but at least they gave us a butt shot and a bit of his penis.  And maybe there's some gay potential in his other work or his biography.

Young is a first generation Korean-American, born in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1991.  

His family is very conservative. Dad works as a computer engineer, but has a Ph.D. in Theology, and promoted the hegemonic masculinity "boys don't cry," "be tough" stuff.  He disapproved of Young's artistic interest and  pushed him into martial arts, where he received a black belt in Taekwondo.

Queer hint #1: Dad doesn't think he's masculine enough.

His mother offered quiet, behind-the-scenes support, but otherwise his interest in the arts resulted in hostility, rejection, and hatred. 

Queer hint #2: The artistic, musical outcast kid is usually gay

 He was active in the church (he doesn't say which, but there are eight Korean churches near Silver Spring, including Presbyterian, Wesleyan, and Baptist).  At age 17, he visited Korea as part of a church-based symphony. He played the violin.

After watching Daniel Dae Kim on Lost and Steven Yeun on The Walking Dead, he dreamed of becoming an actor, but the parents, the community, and the church disapproved. So he tried the heterosexist trajectory, college-business major-money-making job, and enrolled at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Queer Hint #3: That same trajectory was pushed at me, but it was "job-house-wife-kids."

 

Young wanted to be true to himself, so in 2014 he dropped out of college and moved to New York. While studying at the Stella Adler School of Acting, he worked in corporate finance, as Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, a French company specializing in luxury goods.  How did he get such a prestigious job with no college degree?

Queer Hint #4: He was working in beauty products.

He also did some modeling and appeared in some short films, mostly playing guys who get girls. 

In 2018, the grind of corporate job, acting classes, and auditions became too much, so Young dropped it all and moved to California.

Queer hint #5: This is the standard trajectory for the Great Gay Migration.          

There were too many actors with his birth name. Christopher Kim, so he chose Young (his Korean given name) and Mazino, after a character in the Korean webtoon and comic book Tower of God.  Mazino is a "tall and muscular warrior" who is "respected by every man" and "hated by every woman," although he has an unrequited crush on one. 

Queer hint #6: Attracted to muscular guys.

In California, Young got guest spots on New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, Tommy, Prodigal Son, and Drama High.

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Adults, Episode 1.1: "Friends" 2025, with racial diversity, a gay guy who dates women, and some butts. With bonus Dot dick.

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Matthew Underwood: The "Zoey 101" It-Boy Logan plays himself again and again...and again, posts dick pics. With bonus Noah Beck

 

The internet was all agog over pictures of Matthew Underwood's penis.  I wasn't impressed.  First, the guy doens't even show his face.  Second, he rubs me the wrong way.  I can't quite remember how.

Oh, yeah.  It's that annoying smugness.  It's one thing to be heterosexual -- lots of guys are.  It's another to brag about it.  "I'm so entirely heterosexual, I'm the most heterosexual of all heterosexuals, I can heterosexualize anywhere, anytime.  Every girl wants to be with me, and every guy wants to be me."

It's not just his character: this photo came directly from Matt's Instagram, posted in 2025.

Born in "The Sunshsine State of Florida" in 1990, Matt began acting at the age of eight, and appeared on screen in some guest spots before hitting paydirt in Zoey 101 (2005-08).

Zoey (Jamie Lynn Spears) and her brother Dustin (Paul Butcher) are students at the prestigious Pacific Coast Academy, filmed on location in Malibu instead of on a sound stage.  Her coterie includes:

1. Logan (Matthew Underwood),  the fabulously wealthy son of a famous actor, an it-boy who is basking in the absurdly exaggerated longing of every girl who sees him.  Eventually he settles down with the nerd Quinn (see, looks aren't everything).

2. Chase (Sean Flynn, left), in love with Zoey but trapped in the "friend zone."  Eventually, she realizes that she is in love with him, but then she leaves him again.

2. Michael (Christopher Massey, right), mostly in charge of advising Chase to admit his feelings, although he eventually gets a girlfriend of his own.

Matt reveals that just after Zoey, when he was 19, he was sexually harassed and then assaulted by his agent. The trauma prompted him to move away from Los Angeles and retire from acting.

He returned in 2017 to direct and star in two tv pilots with Sean Flynn, playing themselves: The Magic Studio, about kids who find magic rings, and The Golden Stars, about missing award statues. 

And some shorts: Time Hoppers (2018), Matt and Sebastian Cabanas in silly costumes.

The Alien (2019): Matt (playing himself) and some girls meet a classic grey.

The Unicorn Sisters (2019): Matt helps some grieving girls write poetry. 

Kind of full of yourself, aren't you, Matt?

He appears with some girls in Remi (2021) and with the entire Zoey gang in the Jamie Spears music video Follow Me (2020).

Noah Beck plays an alternative Logan.  No, I don't think that the penis is real.

Matt returned to the Zoey universe in Zoey 102 (2023): A struggling 32 year old film producer, Zoey is asked to be maid of honor at Quinn and Logan's wedding.  It took them 14 years to get married?  She also resolves her feelings for Chase.  After 14 years, he's moved on, girlfriend.

Matt's social media is mostly generic, landscapes, weird jokes, boating, pictures taken with the Zoey gang. He is currently single, his last heterosexual relationship (that he told fans about) in 2015. 

Ready for the cock pics?  #1: Impressive size, but the physique is nondescript, and dude doesn't even show his face.

#2: Full arousal.  This must be from a different session, since he's wearing pants.

3. I censored a silly emoji.

Not bad, but I'd rather see Noah Beck's abs.

See also: Dakota Lotus: The Disney Channel's Coop sings, shows his pitts, brings on Christmas depression. With ice cream, Peltz tush, and Dakota dicks

Shane Harper: the "Good Luck Charlie" and "God's Not Dead" guy shows his dick surprisingly often

Nathan Kress, Freddie from ICarly, grown up. Is he still homophobic? Is he still shy about showing his dick?

"Malibu Rescue": Ricardo Hurtado hits the beach for a retro 1980s nerd-jock battle, with bonus lifeguard photos

"Sinners": Twin brothers fight vampires and klansmen in the Mississippi Delta. With Jordan junk and O'Connell cock

For movie night this weekend, we actually went to a movie in a theater, for a change: Sinners (2025), about twin brothers fighting vampires in the Mississippi Delta in 1932.

The first hour is quite naturalistic: Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan in a dual role) return to the Deep Delta from their gangster career in Chicago with a lot of money and Irish booze, buy the old abandoned mill from a klansman who says he's not a klansman, and organize a juke party. We get the sense of the vast emptiness of the cotton fields, and the terror of everyday life for African-Americans in the Jim Crow South.  

You had to be very careful; glance at or speak to a white woman, accidentally bump into a white man, and you would be attacked.  Gay people live with a similar fear -- hold hands with your boyfriend or display a Pride flag, and you could get attacked or killed.  But at least heteronormativity ensures that most gay people are assumed straight, and can keep hidden in the riskiest situations.  Most African-Americans could not.

Left: Michael B. Jordan

The brothers pick up Preacher Boy (Miles Caton), who is torn between the church and the guitar (which his Preacher father calls Satanic).  After he agrees to perform tonight, they split up.  

Stack and Preacher Boy go to town, where they recurit another performer, the elderly, alcoholic Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo).

They hire shopkeeper Bo Chow (Yao) to make up signs and fry the catfish.

Left: Malaysian actor Yao received a MFA from Yale University in 2023.  He played a gay character in #LookatMe (2022).

They pull Cornbread (Omar Miller) from the cotton fields to act as bouncer.

The brothers are so intimate that I was sure that one or both would be gay, but heteronormativity is running rampant.  Both of them, and Preacher Boy, get girlfriends, whom they have s*x with, one after the other.

1. Stack with his ex-girlfriend Mary, who is an octaroon (one-eighth black), so Jim Crow laws still apply to her.

2. Smoke with his estranged wife Annie (Wummi Musaku).  She's rather old , so I thought she was his mother until they started doing things.  

She's also quite butch, so I figured that the actress must be a lesbian. LezWatch says that she is cisgender, unspecified sexual identity, but she has played at least three queer characters.

3. Preacher Boy with Pearline, a married singer.  Fortunately, her husband isn't around. 

It keeps going like that.  Bo Chow has a wife (we learn their favorite s*xual activity).  Cornbread has a pregnant wife.  Delroy Slim isn't married, but discusses the hetero exploits of his youth.

Left: Michael A. Newcomer, who plays a bartender in a white joint, is gay in real life.  

Vampires after the break

Pontius Gemstone, the Boy Named Stacy, and the Erotic Alphabet. With a special appearance by Gideon Gemstone.

Stacy awoke with Pontius pressed against him, head on his chest, an arm wrapped around his waist, a hand cupping his butt cheek.  He was aroused, rock hard, his gorgeous cock rising into the air like a flagpole!  Stacy couldn't help reaching down to stroke it.  

"Mmm...keep doing that."  His eyes still closed, Pontius took Stacy's hand and helped him squeeze harder.  

"Sorry, I didn't know you were awake."

"I try not to sleep when I'm lying in your arms.  I don't want to miss any of it."  He leaned up, and they kissed, both of them hard and pressing together.

"Good morning."  Pontius' gaze was intense, yet warm, comforting, loving.  

"I love you," Stacy said.

Instead of saying "I love you" back, Pontius moved down and started sucking his cock!  "Well, this says love, doesn't it?," he thought as Pontius' tongue darted around the head, and his lips moved up and down the shaft.  Or maybe it doesn't.  It says that he likes cocks.

Suddenly Pontius leapt out of bed.  "Be right back -- gotta pee."  He bounced to the bathroom, his cock still sticking out in front of him.

 While listening to the pee-sounds  -- why was that erotic?  -- Stacy looked around the room: New dresser, desk cluttered with books and headphones, a map of the world taped to the wall, drawings of car designs, a bookcase with mostly Matchbox car models, three dusty guitars that no one had ever used, a glowing neon P.  

Pontius had replaced a poster of a bikini babe with a muscleman because Stacy asked him to, and cleared a drawer for some shirts, socks, and underwear, but it was still his room, Pontius with capital P, in the house he shared with his brother. 

They met last July, when Stacy was shot in the Gator Farm Massacre, and Pontius visited him at the hospital.  Since they, they had hung out almost every day.  There were movies, concerts, plays, Queer Youth Game Nights. dinner at Jason's Steakhouse after church, volunteer work, a Halloween Party, Thanksgiving with Stacy's family, Christmas with the Gemstones, New Year's Eve in Myrtle Beach -- yet whenever Stacy hinted at moving in together, or getting their own place, Pontius deflected, changed the subject, or bounced out of the room, and God forbid he say "I love you."  Did he think of Stacy as a boyfriend or a buddy? 

Sound of the water running, a towel being yanked, and then Pontius rushed out of the bathroom.  How was he still aroused?  

"So, what were we talking about?  Oh yeah, my mouth, your dick.  Are you up for a little butt-fucking first, Stace?"

"Always.  But it's not that little," Stacy said, moving onto his stomach.

"No, on your back. I want to look at you."

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Dakota Lotus: The Disney Channel's Coop sings, shows his pitts, brings on Christmas depression. With ice cream, Peltz tush, and Dakota dicks

 

I was searching for former Disney teencom stars to profile, and this guy popped up.  

A great name: Dakota Lotus.  

And a great physique -- you into pits, dude?

And obviously gay: his Instagram posts show him hugging, gazing at, dancing with, and asking to pitt-lick a boyfriend named Joaquin.

Wait -- that was just a tease.  The other 1,360 pics and reels show Dakota with a girl, hugging, kissing, frolicking in London, posing in formal wear, eating, celebrating Valentin'e's Day, and saying things like "I've never met anyone like you" and "you don't meet your soulmate by chance."

Ok, so he's straight.  But no doubt he's done a lot of gay and gay-subtext roles.  

Dakota was born in 2004 in Santa Barbara, where his mom Autum Lotus performed for the Cirque de Soleil.  He started classes at  the Adderly School for Performing Arts when he was only five years old, and appeared in an unspecified number of plays.  The only one mentioned in his bio is Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate's Christmas at the Laguna Playhouse in 2019.

Dakota played John Darling, one of the young Darling kids, who gets to play pirates and sing.  Meanwhile Peter (Lincoln Clauss) is torn between girl-next-door Wendy and pixie-licious Tinker Bell.  

Lincoln Clauss is gay in real life, and played the nonbinary Evan on Batwoman.

Dakota's first on-screen acting job was in the Disney Channel's Coop & Cami Ask the World (2018-20): Dakota as Coop and Ruby Rose Turner as Cami host a show within a show, Would You Wrather?, in which fans get to solve their problems by voting on two options, or vote on what prank they should do (the wikipedia article is unclear).  

Their friend Fred (Albert Tsai), younger brother (Paxton Booth), and widowed Mom all have problems, too.  

Left: Paxton Booth.  I just liked the ice cream cone.

All of them are heterosexual, and get one or more boyfriends or girlfriends.  Cami's two boyfriends are played by heterosexual actors who fill their social media with pictures of their girlfriends and wives.  Actually, all of them do, except for Albert Tsai, now a Film & Media Studies major at Columbia University.

Dakota has also appeared in:

The music videos Stay (2019) and Lonely (2020), as singer Ana Dubec's boyfriend.

Ok, no gay connection there.

The short Moonshine (2021).  No synopsis is available, but it also stars David Kepner, best known as Wes in The Ladies.   And writer/director Joseph Wise is known for Virgins for Satan (a horny Christian girl wants to get laid) and D-Day for Denise (an elderly woman longs to reunite with her dead husband).

Definitely no gay connection there.

In the upcoming Thena, "a young musician spirals into addiction while her brother searches for her."  I went through the top five male cast members, and every one of them has a social media full of pictures of their wives and girlfriends.  Every single one.

Although Will Peltz has a gay romance (and shows his butt) in The Deleted.

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Gemstones Episode 2.6 Deep Reading: a frame-by-frame analysis of the sex scene

 

In case you're new here, The Righteous Gemstones is a HBO Max sitcom about the famous, ultra-rich televangelist Eli Gemstone and his three children, who live in separate mansions on his compound and get into constant squabbles and scrapes.  But of course they love each other deep-down.  Kelvin (Adam Devine) is the youngest son, 29-34 years old during the four seasons, a muscle enthusiast who usually works in the low-prestige teen ministry, and has to constantly prove himself.  Keefe (Tony Cavalero), a former Satanist whom he saved, is his boyfriend.  

Kelvin has a standard fiction coming-out process, one that we've seen a hundred times in movies and tv-shows.

Season 1: Falling in love with his best friend, sexual experiences, feeling guilty, denial, then recognizing that he is gay.

Season 2: Becoming obsessed with the erotic, refusisng to admit that he and Keefe are romantic partners, eventually coming around and coming out to the family.

Season 3: Trying hard to stay in the closet, refusing to call Keefe his boyfriend, leading to their breakup and reconciliation, and a kiss.  

The problem is, up to the Season 3 kiss and even after, many viewers insisted that the two were straight buddies.  The queer codes were all misdirections or misreadings.

Which brings us to Season 2, Episode 6: Kelvin is standing naked in front of the mirror; distraught:  he has lost the respect of the God Squad, his cadre of muscle men; his father hates him; he is worthless, nothing, no better than a beast.  Keefe suggests that he will feel better if he gets dressed for the day.  His hands are broken, so Keefe will have to dress him.

What happens next is about as explicit as a sex scene can get on television, yet some viewers insisted, that Keefe is just helping Kelvin on with his underwear.  Even after Season 4, when they two are out as boyfriends and eventually get married, viewers insist that they were not sexually active until the after the wedding.  

Maybe a frame-by-frame analysis will convince them.

1: Kelvin turns around.  Keefe kneels in front of him, and says "Now step into your Tommy Johns."  Instead, Kelvin reaches out with both hands and pulls Keefe's head forward.  

2: Kelvin guides Keefe's head down, and grimaces and groans as he begins oral sex.  Sometimes it's very sensitive, at first.

 3: A sharp breath, and then Kelvin cries out in pleasure.  Adam is obviously simulating having an orgasm.  Notice that Keefe's head is no longer visible, as he's going way down, but Kelvin is still guiding his actions.  You would steady yourself for putting on underwear by grabbing your friend's shoulders, not his head.

4: Fatigued and disheveled after all his effort, Keefe swallows (you heard me, he swallows) and whispers "Nice."  This is not the point at which you would usually do that, but remember, this is all simulated.

More oral after the break

Krapopolis, Episode 2.14: Tyrannus on "The Bachelor," some gay guys at an orgy, Jordan Young, and Jerry O'Connell's butt

  

Krapopolis (2023-25) is a Fox animation sitcom set in ancient Greece, where the inept demigod Tyrannus (Richard Ayoade) rules over a crappy city-state.  Many gods and heroes have guest shots, including Achilles, Heracles (the Greek form, for once), Hermes, Homer  (really?), Pan, Poseidon, Odin (makes as much sense as Homer). 

Top photo: Jordan Young, reputedly in the running for Tyrannus before they decided on Richard Ayoade.

I'm reviewing Episode 2.14: "Love Trap, Baby," because Tyrannus becomes a contestant in a Bachelor-like dating show.  I want to see if any of the contestants are women.

Plus 1990s mega-hunk and gay ally Jerry O'Connell appears.

Scene 1: A messenger from the city of Messenia appears before demigod King Tyrannus to see if he wants to barter for some squid.  Not interested: The Messenians forgot Poseidon's birthday, so he is making it rain squid, and Krapopolis is downwind.

Next visitor: Angelioforos, with an invitation and a gift (is it the hunkoids carrying the fruit basket?).  Their princess Lycosa is seeking True Love, so she is inviting all of the eligible bachelors in the area to come to her palace on the Paradise Peninsula for a contest.

Tyrannus' part-fish Half-Brother is cynical: this sounds like a scam.  But the rather naive Tyrannus agrees to go.

Scene 2: Tyrannus packing for the trip, asking fashion advice from his sister Stupendous, the gigantic leader of the city-state's army: slit to the thigh, or slit to the butt.  "Butt slit."

Next he tells his parents, Shlub the manticore/centaur creature (Matt Berry) and Deliria, Goddess of Destruction and Questionable Choice, that he's leaving them in charge, and could they please not destroy or "fundamentally alter the character" of his city while he's away?

Scene 3: On the road, the siblings continue to complain.  

Back in Krapopolis, the parents complain: "He thinks we can't handle his city for a few hours?"  They plan an orgy, but the roads are too bad to draw anyone, so Deliria repairs them, and turns some enchanted carts into a train that will go from town to town.

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Case Walker: ChaseDreams from "The Other Two" grows up, plays a monster, displays his delts and...stuff. With n*de Chase, Tarver, and Fin

 Case Walker was as a kid growing up in Denver who  weekly podcasts on musical.ly and other social media platforms, and within a year had 1.7 million followers and a new television program: The Other Two, on HBO Max were Brook and Cary Dubek (Heléne Yorke, Drew Tarver, left), a failed dancer and aspiring actor dealing with the sudden fame of their 13-year old brother, Chase (Case Walker), aka teen pop sensation ChaseDreams. 

At least in the first season (2019).  In the second and third seasons (2021, 2023), Brooke and Drew get the lion's share of plotlines, negotiating increasing success, friendships, and romances.

  For instance, Dreew dates Lucas (Fin Argus), a method actor who stays in character off camera and therefore refuses sex. 

ChaseDreams still appeared in nearly every episode, but he has very few centrics.  The writers just didn't know what to do with him. Turn him into a bad boy, with pink hair and a lot of tattoos? Make him a fake mental health advocate?  Have him date a girl who isn't a fan?

Viewers mostly ignored him. It was much more interesting to see a non-swishy gay guy who actually had a romantic life.

While we weren't paying attention, Case grew up.  As of this writing, he's 22 years old, and buffed.  No, ripped.  No -- have you ever seen delts like that?

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"Real Men": Four Italian dudes suffering from toxic masculinity negotiate wives, jobs, nudity, and butt plugs.

According to the theory of hegemonic masculinity, as a boy grows up, parents, teachers, mass media, and all social institutions promote an image of masculinity with five characteristics.  He must meet them, or he will be a failure, not a "real man." However, no one ever meets all of them, so men always feel like they are failures, not good enough.  The five characteristics are:

1. Big Wheel.  

2. Sturdy Oak.  

3. Playboy. 

4. Flee from the Feminine. 

5. Give 'Em Hell.

Real Men, Maschi Veri, is an Italian comedy featuring four men who have tried too hard to meet the masculine expectations, and found their way into a workshop on toxic masculinity, as revealed in Episode 1, "Made in Italy."

Prologue: At the workshop, they are asked what makes them "real men," and then criticized for their answers.  Then the moderator asks "So, how did you end up here?"

Big Wheel Massimo (Matteo Martari, top photo): A woman in a Renaissance costume shows her boobs and tells us that we must protect works of art, while the Boss yells at Big Wheel: "We can't broadcast this!  It's sexist!" 

Big Wheel: "No, it's a beautiful girl with big breasts!  Every man on Earth likes big breasts, right?  Our product is sure to sell!" 

Too many sexist commercials, like the MILF Italy Contest, plus harassing the women in the office: he's fired.

Later, at the pickleball game, Big Wheel tells the guys. "I was replaced by a WOMAN, can you believe it?  They think I'm not as good as a woman!  How humiliating!"  

Cut to his big house with a heated pool, where he lies, telling the Wife that he quit.  She is irate.  "No way I'm going back to retail!" 

In the morning, he finds dog poop on the bedroom carpet, and the maid won't clean it up.  The Wife is doing a yoga podcast to make money.  How humiliating!

Playboy Riccardo (Francesco Montanari): He is schtupping his lady.  She moans; he congratulates himself on doing a good job using sports terminology: "I scored two amazing goals!" They smooch; she asks for a repeat, but he has to go: his Other Girlfriend is taking him out to dinner. 

 This dude is amazingly femme. I hadn't just seen him scoring two goals with a lady, I'd identify him as gay.

The side piece thinks that Other Girlfriend is going to break up with him.  "Why would she do that?" Playboy asks.  "We're a perfect couple."  The schtuping?  It's a biological need; all men have to have side pieces, or they'll explode."  Butt shot.

At the pickleball game, Playboy tells the guys about his dinner with the Other Girlfriend tonight; they think that she's pregnant, a good thing for him.  He's a Real Man, so it will certainly be a boy, and when women see how masculine he is, they'll want to get with him.  A baby boy is a chick magnet! 

Cut to the dinner, where the Other Girlfriend is too embarrassed to say it, so she draws something that looks like a pregnant woman.  Playboy jumps up and yells that he's a father.  No, that's not what she meant: she's bored, and wants an open relationship.

Playboy is irate: he has a side piece because he's a man with needs, but women shouldn't want anyone else!

Sturdy Oak Mattia (Maurizio Lastrico): He's a tour guide, taking a group through a Roman building and yelling at the costumed actors, when the ex-wife tells him that their 17-year old daughter has disappeared!  She turned off her trackers and won't answer her phone.   He calls: she wants nothing to do with Mom.  She's moved into Sturdy Oak's house.   

He hands over the guide job to his coworker (Angelo Faraci) and rushes off.

At home, Daughter explains why she wants to live with Dad: "Mom, you're a control freak!  You're smothering me!"  Plus Sturdy Oak can help her with "how I feel about men."  Why, do you not like men?  Do you think Mattia can heterosexualize you? 

Later, as she moves her stuff in, Sturdy Oak asks if she wants to watch tv tonight.  No, she's going out to dinner, which in Italy means 11:00 pm.   

She suggests that Sturdy Oak go out too, since he's divorced now, and ready to "slide into DMs" (heterosexual hookups).  "You have to get with at least ten women to get over Mom."  "Nope, I'm not interested in a new relationship.  I don't experience emotion."  But she signed him up for Tinder anyway, and arranged a date for tomorrow night.

More after the break