June 11, 2025 • 4 mins
Ever seen a Rubik’s Cube used as a pickup line? 🤯
Comedian, Vinnie Corrales shares how he used his cube-solving skills to impress women at bars—and it actually worked... like, 99.5% of the time.
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Comedian, Vinnie Corrales shares how he used his cube-solving skills to impress women at bars—and it actually worked... like, 99.5% of the time.
Watch the full clip on Youtube!
youtube.com/michaelzavala
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I did see. I didn't watch the whole clip because
I want to ask you on the show. But you
had a clip on your Instagram about a not a
roll of decks. What do you call it? Ruber's cube?
Oh yeah, and you use that as a trick to
get girls' numbers at a bar. Uh yes, yeah, yeah,
So how does that work?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
First off, you can solve a Rubik's cube. He needs
tips keep.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A rubyscube with me at all times.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Okay, let me ask. So when you were a kid,
you did you learn how to solve it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I got into rub cubes very late in.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Li okay, and you can solve it pretty quickly, like a.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Normal three by three by three Yeah, about forty seconds
on average. But this is a five by five by
five separates the men from the boys.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now I've been I've been saying this for years. You
tell me if I'm wrong, right, I don't know how
to solve it. I can't solve this. Just mix up, yeah,
mix it up, shuffle the deck. I can't solve a
Ruby's cube. But I've said this, you know, as a
why saying that? I tell people like when when you're
trying to make a decision, about something or form an
opinion about a particular topic. I say, you can't solve
(01:00):
a Rubk's cube by looking at only one side. That's
what I say. I think I made that up. I'd
be I stolen. I don't know. That's pretty good. But
then I thought about it, I'm like, well, can you
solve a Rube's cube by looking at am I an idiot?
If you only looked at one side the Rubik's cube?
Could you fix it? Could you? Could you solve it?
Or do you have to look at the whole thing?
You'll look at the whole thing? Okay, So I was good,
all right, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good
(01:21):
I absolutely use it. And you know, I'm gonna put
on my tombstone or whatever. And then it turns out
that I stole it from somebody. I don't know, but
I think it makes sense, Like you can't you have
to look at all sides of a situation before you
make a decision. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And if you try to solve it one side at
a time, you're gonna like face dead ends.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah exactly, and then but you never solve it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, Like, there's a lot of people that they'll try
to do it, and they'll just get like all the
reds and they're like, man, I'm almost there, and it's like, no,
you put yourself in a trap, you'll ever be able
to get out.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And that's what so many people do. Look at me
being philosophy, mister philosopher. They build the prisons around themselves
and they can't get out in their minds.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But in their mind they're accomplishing something right exactly, and
they're like, but they're.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Just a hamster on a on a wheel. Yeah, yeah exactly,
look at that. Who would have thought you'd learned something today? Yeah,
but I used to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I used to take a rubic scubes too, Like restaurants,
you know, your ol host locosts, your twin peaks, your
your hooters here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
By the way, all of which I think are like
a bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now late great, yeah, yeah, shout out bombshells.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh yeah, bombshells still rocking around shows. Nice, nice, nice,
and uh.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I would always like, you know, i'd pull it out
and I'm doing like my whole tortured artist stick like
working on jokes. I got a rubic scube right there,
just sitting sitting at the bar or just getting I
get to tell. Sometimes I would get like I asked
for a table for two and then like pretend to
get stood up my writing partners didn't show up, yeah something,
so they'd be more inclined.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
To come talk.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
But uh, I'd always like capture their interest and UH
would would be able to like work it out to
where you know, they they'd be impressed. They'd be like, I, man,
how long is it going to take you to do that?
And I'd be like, man, one like that. I'd be like,
you know, how long would it how long would impress you?
And I you know, ten minutes? Yeah, And I'm like
I'm like, oh god, this fishing a barrel right here? Yeah,
(03:03):
this thing could take me like seven minutes. So I
was like, okay, how about if I solve it within
ten minutes, you get my next drink? You know, pretty
good deal.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So I'm working and I saw it, you know, I'm
working on work, going to work on it, and I'd
always be able to time it to where like whenever
I was about to finish it, I was like on
my last move, I'd like have them like come over
and I'd be like, you know what, how about instead
of that drink, I get your number instead.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What a smooth guy. Yeah, and that had a.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Success rate of maybe ninety nine point five percent.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It got to a point where I started feeling icky
about it. Yeah, I really started feeling kind of vicky
about it. Yeah, little Harvey Wallers before I met my wife. Yeah, yeah,
oh you're married now, that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Did work on her? Is that how you did it?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No? But she is impressed with it too.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't. I did a gimmick.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I hustle people at bars with it too, Like I'll
take it out at bars. And you know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Mike's gimmick right now is trying out in jokes on people.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, well I've been doing that my whole life, you know.
And then if it us that's not impressive enough. So
then what I do now is I'm like, hey, I've
got this emulator on my phone. I have to set
up this whole thing, right, I have an emulator on
my phone. I have Super Mario Brothers three on my phone.
How long do you think it's going to take me
to finish this first level? And they go, I don't know,
thirty second, Like they're not interested? Right, I could watch
it twenty nine seconds. I'll beat it and then I die,
(04:18):
and then it's not impressive at all, and then they
I'm usually kicked out of the place, so it doesn't
really I need a good gimmick though. Yeah. So now
what I do is I tell people I was on TV.
That's my gimmick now. And also they're not impressed. That's
a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You should tell them what you're on TV. List Steve Harvey, Yeah, yeah,
I did help, and I showed them the clip. I
even I sign a little autography. They're very confused. They
don't know what's going on. Meanwhile, they got five tables
yelling at him. I'm over here holding them up.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's the whole thing. So I really have to get
like a really smart maybe a card trick. Yeah,
I did see. I didn't watch the whole clip because
I want to ask you on the show. But you
had a clip on your Instagram about a not a
roll of decks. What do you call it? Ruber's cube?
Oh yeah, and you use that as a trick to
get girls' numbers at a bar. Uh yes, yeah, yeah,
So how does that work?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
First off, you can solve a Rubik's cube. He needs
tips keep.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
A rubyscube with me at all times.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Okay, let me ask. So when you were a kid,
you did you learn how to solve it?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I got into rub cubes very late in.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Li okay, and you can solve it pretty quickly, like a.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Normal three by three by three Yeah, about forty seconds
on average. But this is a five by five by
five separates the men from the boys.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now I've been I've been saying this for years. You
tell me if I'm wrong, right, I don't know how
to solve it. I can't solve this. Just mix up, yeah,
mix it up, shuffle the deck. I can't solve a
Ruby's cube. But I've said this, you know, as a
why saying that? I tell people like when when you're
trying to make a decision, about something or form an
opinion about a particular topic. I say, you can't solve
(01:00):
a Rubk's cube by looking at only one side. That's
what I say. I think I made that up. I'd
be I stolen. I don't know. That's pretty good. But
then I thought about it, I'm like, well, can you
solve a Rube's cube by looking at am I an idiot?
If you only looked at one side the Rubik's cube?
Could you fix it? Could you? Could you solve it?
Or do you have to look at the whole thing?
You'll look at the whole thing? Okay, So I was good,
all right, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good
(01:21):
I absolutely use it. And you know, I'm gonna put
on my tombstone or whatever. And then it turns out
that I stole it from somebody. I don't know, but
I think it makes sense, Like you can't you have
to look at all sides of a situation before you
make a decision. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And if you try to solve it one side at
a time, you're gonna like face dead ends.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah exactly, and then but you never solve it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, Like, there's a lot of people that they'll try
to do it, and they'll just get like all the
reds and they're like, man, I'm almost there, and it's like, no,
you put yourself in a trap, you'll ever be able
to get out.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And that's what so many people do. Look at me
being philosophy, mister philosopher. They build the prisons around themselves
and they can't get out in their minds.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
But in their mind they're accomplishing something right exactly, and
they're like, but they're.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Just a hamster on a on a wheel. Yeah, yeah exactly,
look at that. Who would have thought you'd learned something today? Yeah,
but I used to take that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I used to take a rubic scubes too, Like restaurants,
you know, your ol host locosts, your twin peaks, your
your hooters here.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
By the way, all of which I think are like
a bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now late great, yeah, yeah, shout out bombshells.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh yeah, bombshells still rocking around shows. Nice, nice, nice,
and uh.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I would always like, you know, i'd pull it out
and I'm doing like my whole tortured artist stick like
working on jokes. I got a rubic scube right there,
just sitting sitting at the bar or just getting I
get to tell. Sometimes I would get like I asked
for a table for two and then like pretend to
get stood up my writing partners didn't show up, yeah something,
so they'd be more inclined.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
To come talk.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
But uh, I'd always like capture their interest and UH
would would be able to like work it out to
where you know, they they'd be impressed. They'd be like, I, man,
how long is it going to take you to do that?
And I'd be like, man, one like that. I'd be like,
you know, how long would it how long would impress you?
And I you know, ten minutes? Yeah, And I'm like
I'm like, oh god, this fishing a barrel right here? Yeah,
(03:03):
this thing could take me like seven minutes. So I
was like, okay, how about if I solve it within
ten minutes, you get my next drink? You know, pretty
good deal.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So I'm working and I saw it, you know, I'm
working on work, going to work on it, and I'd
always be able to time it to where like whenever
I was about to finish it, I was like on
my last move, I'd like have them like come over
and I'd be like, you know what, how about instead
of that drink, I get your number instead.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
What a smooth guy. Yeah, and that had a.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Success rate of maybe ninety nine point five percent.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's incredible.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It got to a point where I started feeling icky
about it. Yeah, I really started feeling kind of vicky
about it. Yeah, little Harvey Wallers before I met my wife. Yeah, yeah,
oh you're married now, that's great.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Did work on her? Is that how you did it?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
No? But she is impressed with it too.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, I don't. I did a gimmick.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I hustle people at bars with it too, Like I'll
take it out at bars. And you know.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Mike's gimmick right now is trying out in jokes on people.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, well I've been doing that my whole life, you know.
And then if it us that's not impressive enough. So
then what I do now is I'm like, hey, I've
got this emulator on my phone. I have to set
up this whole thing, right, I have an emulator on
my phone. I have Super Mario Brothers three on my phone.
How long do you think it's going to take me
to finish this first level? And they go, I don't know,
thirty second, Like they're not interested? Right, I could watch
it twenty nine seconds. I'll beat it and then I die,
(04:18):
and then it's not impressive at all, and then they
I'm usually kicked out of the place, so it doesn't
really I need a good gimmick though. Yeah. So now
what I do is I tell people I was on TV.
That's my gimmick now. And also they're not impressed. That's
a good one.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You should tell them what you're on TV. List Steve Harvey, Yeah, yeah,
I did help, and I showed them the clip. I
even I sign a little autography. They're very confused. They
don't know what's going on. Meanwhile, they got five tables
yelling at him. I'm over here holding them up.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It's the whole thing. So I really have to get
like a really smart maybe a card trick. Yeah,
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