<v Speaker 1>Jared, Katy, and Josh.

<v Speaker 2>I got some stories about dates here. So the average

<v Speaker 2>all in cost on a date in America, including pre date, grooming, gas, money,

<v Speaker 2>all that is up to about two hundred and fifty

<v Speaker 2>two dollars for a date. Now, with that being said,

<v Speaker 2>I went out this past weekend. I'm trying to think

<v Speaker 2>of what we spent. I think dinner was like a

<v Speaker 2>buck fitty.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's expensive, and you know, tickets.

<v Speaker 2>To comedy works and gas, and I didn't really spend

<v Speaker 2>much on the pre date grooming.

<v Speaker 3>You get what you get at this point.

<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you get what you get.

<v Speaker 3>I busted out my nice cologne, a little Polo Red.

<v Speaker 2>Now, Nancy, With that being said, nearly forty percent of

<v Speaker 2>Americans admit that they've gone on a date just to

<v Speaker 2>score a free meal. Why do I feel like I'm

<v Speaker 2>looking at Katie?

<v Speaker 3>Did you see me?

<v Speaker 2>Head?

<v Speaker 4>Yes?

<v Speaker 3>I don't think Josh would have done this. Josh is

<v Speaker 3>paying because he's a gentleman.

<v Speaker 2>He's wooing all those ladies, and he got one princess

<v Speaker 2>Pilot and she's great.

<v Speaker 3>But Katie, I mean, do you go on dates just

<v Speaker 3>for free meals? Have you considered it?

<v Speaker 4>That's the thing is like my take on it is,

<v Speaker 4>once you're already in the date and you know it's

<v Speaker 4>not working, I will still continue that date just so

<v Speaker 4>I get the food. Now that being said, I will

<v Speaker 4>always offer to pay for my own food. Most people

<v Speaker 4>are just nice and want to pay for you even

<v Speaker 4>if you're not feeling the date. So I've been in

<v Speaker 4>the camp where I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna keep this going,

<v Speaker 4>so I can, you know, eat this cheeseburger free charge

<v Speaker 4>then they're done that.

<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'll have dessert.

<v Speaker 4>Absolutely.

<v Speaker 3>I know we shouldn't. I feel like a soup. Today's

<v Speaker 3>a soup. Who wants some mummers?

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So I'm definitely in the camp.

<v Speaker 2>I've been there and it's been a minute too for you. Okay,

<v Speaker 2>well hold on, let me ask Joshua question really quick.

<v Speaker 2>Do you feel like you've been out on dates with

<v Speaker 2>the ladies that just are using you for a free meal.

<v Speaker 2>Have you felt that before?

<v Speaker 1>Yes? Not not as much as I thought, though, only

<v Speaker 1>like once or twice. We're at the end of the day.

<v Speaker 1>I was like, she ordered a lot and we are

<v Speaker 1>not going to be talking after this. So you feel it, Yeah,

<v Speaker 1>But I don't really mind it because they still said yes,

<v Speaker 1>and you got to figure out to sleep with you.

<v Speaker 4>Well, that's right, it's called it's called a foodie call.

<v Speaker 3>I was trying to think of the term. It's called

<v Speaker 3>the Josh didn't deny it.

<v Speaker 1>We still got a whole date out of it. We

<v Speaker 1>still got the whole date experience. I didn't really want

<v Speaker 1>to see him afterwards either.

<v Speaker 3>That's fine. I paid for a cheeseburger.

<v Speaker 1>It was fine. I got my cheeseburger.

<v Speaker 2>You did, Oh yeah, but Bunso this other story. I

<v Speaker 2>have a survey of a thousand single adults revealed that

<v Speaker 2>one in six haven't dated somebody.

<v Speaker 3>Uh for about two years.

<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, that's a long time.

<v Speaker 3>That's a long time.

<v Speaker 2>Specifically more so, they said even offline. So people that

<v Speaker 2>you're just out and about and you meet somebody organically,

<v Speaker 2>if you're hanging at the pool or your you know,

<v Speaker 2>browsing target or something and you bump into into somebody.

<v Speaker 4>Okay, so this is you haven't been on a date

<v Speaker 4>in two years, not that you haven't been dating a

<v Speaker 4>relationship for because I definitely go on dates more than

<v Speaker 4>once ever, but it's been like five years since I've

<v Speaker 4>been in an actual relationship.

<v Speaker 2>M you haven't dated somebody they've met offline. So that's

<v Speaker 2>the gist of this offline in two years. So essentially

<v Speaker 2>it's saying that people have a general lack of confidence

<v Speaker 2>right now when it comes to approaching somebody in person. Oh,

<v Speaker 2>I don't know, they would lie completely on the apps.

<v Speaker 4>Well, and I think it's not even that I'm not

<v Speaker 4>confident in going up to talk to somebody, it's I'm

<v Speaker 4>automatically perceived as creepy when I go up and try

<v Speaker 4>and talk. It's just because no, shut up, Jeremy. No,

<v Speaker 4>it's because people are so used to the interaction on

<v Speaker 4>the apps. Like if you try and approach him in

<v Speaker 4>real life, they're like, get up out.

<v Speaker 1>As a guy, especially girls. Girls immediately are almost turned

<v Speaker 1>off now to any type of guy approaching the actually and.

<v Speaker 4>You're a little afraid about it, almost like because you're like,

<v Speaker 4>you know, I don't want to come off as creepy,

<v Speaker 4>Like you don't want to just come up and be like, hey,

<v Speaker 4>I think you're attractive.

<v Speaker 1>I'd love to take you out. Women will be like what, like.

<v Speaker 3>So is there none of that anymore? Just hey, can

<v Speaker 3>I get your number?

<v Speaker 1>Your Instagram? Or it's pretty rare. I remember when I

<v Speaker 1>was in the dating pool. I tried to do that

<v Speaker 1>a little bit. It's hard. It's really really hard because

<v Speaker 1>you don't know how you're going to be perceived. And

<v Speaker 1>now there's so many different ways that women talk to

<v Speaker 1>each other, especially like those Facebook anonymous groups and things

<v Speaker 1>that you'll be posted on for just approaching.

<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, this guy came up to me, and that's what

<v Speaker 3>it is.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's not only that it's trying to deter you

<v Speaker 4>from a scam. Like you'll see it. You'll be like, ladies,

<v Speaker 4>if you see a dollar bill on the ground, don't

<v Speaker 4>pick it up because they're gonna kidnap you.

<v Speaker 3>What you're doing joshing dollar bills?

<v Speaker 1>Then I'm not doing that out there.

<v Speaker 4>So people are so on guard they don't want to

<v Speaker 4>let anybody in, and so like meeting someone in real

<v Speaker 4>life is almost impossible.

<v Speaker 3>Man, careful.

<v Speaker 2>There might be a man hiding under your vehicle licking

<v Speaker 2>your toes as you approach your car.

<v Speaker 3>Have you seen that one?

<v Speaker 2>See see which atrad of them? I'm that I'm not

<v Speaker 2>doing the licking. I wish somebody was under their licking

<v Speaker 2>my feet as I rolled up to my car, though,

<v Speaker 2>you'd be into it. I might lay on the ground

<v Speaker 2>and roll under the car with.

<v Speaker 4>Uh.

<v Speaker 3>Stacey called in, Hi, Stacy, welcome to the show. So

<v Speaker 3>are you like? Are you like me? Old school?

<v Speaker 5>Like?

<v Speaker 3>You would not survive in this dating app world right now?

<v Speaker 5>I don't think I would.

<v Speaker 3>Yeah, are you with that all the like tone?

<v Speaker 5>And I'm like, I don't know how they're going to read.

<v Speaker 4>This, right?

<v Speaker 3>Should I put in a winkie face? Or is that

<v Speaker 3>like too much?

<v Speaker 5>So?

<v Speaker 1>Like?

<v Speaker 3>How old are you?

<v Speaker 4>Like?

<v Speaker 2>When were you dating?

<v Speaker 5>I am forty, just a couple of weeks ago. But

<v Speaker 5>I met my husband twenty years ago and I just

<v Speaker 5>plopped down on a couch nesk and who he was

<v Speaker 5>and why he was there?

<v Speaker 3>Who are you?

<v Speaker 2>Why are you here?

<v Speaker 4>So you've never you've never had to deal with the

<v Speaker 4>online dating stuff. You've just done the in person dating

<v Speaker 4>stuff your whole life.

<v Speaker 5>It was like half and half. So I plopped on

<v Speaker 5>a couch and then I ended up shitting his al

<v Speaker 5>instant messenger. So we chatted.

<v Speaker 4>No apps, yeah, just instant message.

<v Speaker 3>Where was the couch chat that you plopped down on?

<v Speaker 5>I was in our student lounge in college.

<v Speaker 3>Oh perfect, I knew he.

<v Speaker 5>Wasn't like one of us, one of our majors. So

<v Speaker 5>I was like, why are you in here?

<v Speaker 1>Uh?

<v Speaker 3>Now would you like to smash?

<v Speaker 5>He ended up being a roommate of someone.

<v Speaker 3>Okay, been together ever since.

<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

<v Speaker 3>See, just talk to people, just ask questions.

<v Speaker 5>A couple of kids, still good.

<v Speaker 3>I'll look at you guys.

<v Speaker 4>It's so different now though, Like you have kids, you

<v Speaker 4>just said, Stacy, So do you think it's going to

<v Speaker 4>be the same for them where they meet people in

<v Speaker 4>real life and they're just able to create a connection

<v Speaker 4>like that are so far?

<v Speaker 5>Yes? I have one teenager now and everyone he's met

<v Speaker 5>has been like in his classes at school. Okay, so

<v Speaker 5>you like met a girl in computer science.

<v Speaker 4>That computer science?

<v Speaker 2>Well, Stacey, we appreciate you calling it and having some

<v Speaker 2>fun with us. Thanks so much, and kudos to you

<v Speaker 2>in the hubs for so long. She's sweet.

<v Speaker 4>Yeah,