Speaker 1: Second date update, We got an email from a woman
Speaker 1: who says people in her area aren't really using Bumble
Speaker 1: or Tinder anymore. Use it not even my favorite app, Clinger,
Speaker 1: where personal space is just myth.
Speaker 2: At least everybody on the app are you imagine you
Speaker 2: hear knock at your door, immediately find your fellow codependent Clinger.
Speaker 1: But she says she's found a more unique way to
Speaker 1: meet guys. And we've heard of these types of movements
Speaker 1: before where people are like trying to move away from
Speaker 1: the apps in favor of other methods. So let's talk
Speaker 1: to her and find out what she did. Her name
Speaker 1: is Mandy. Mandy, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, Hey, you sound cute and fun and like
Speaker 3: you did something fun to meet some guys.
Speaker 1: She said, Hey, how did you get that from? Hey?
Speaker 4: You did it?
Speaker 1: You sound perfect for Clinger Brooks. So tell us about
Speaker 1: this guy that you met and how you met him.
Speaker 1: What's your strategy now?
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, So I'm loving not being on dating apps.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's really been a game changer for you, Huh.
Speaker 5: It really has. And there was this TikTok movement going
Speaker 5: around and I want to say it started in Spain
Speaker 5: and it's where singles meet up at a grocery store.
Speaker 5: So like you'll you'll have a store and you'll have
Speaker 5: a time, and they usually see a huge turnout, like
Speaker 5: sixty to seventy people take part in it at store.
Speaker 4: It like, how do you find when the meet up?
Speaker 1: I feel like, let's see you guys at checkstands, Like I'd.
Speaker 4: Be the person not invited to the grocery store for some.
Speaker 1: Reason already there. Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 5: So it is a movement on TikTok, so like people
Speaker 5: will just kind of post the store name and time,
Speaker 5: and they'll get reposted and reposted, and then people just
Speaker 5: I seem like.
Speaker 6: Not exactly this, but like I've seen people go on
Speaker 6: and they'll be like, I think this bar would be
Speaker 6: fun for singles.
Speaker 4: Go this Friday night and it's like a popular barn.
Speaker 3: And go viral, and we're doing grocery stores, and so
Speaker 3: you can just say, yeah, exactly makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like if you're going to do it, you share it.
Speaker 3: If you watch any video where it says hot singles
Speaker 3: might be here, I feel like you're into it.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of those websites and so a
Speaker 1: bunch of people go to the grocery store hoping to
Speaker 1: meet someone.
Speaker 4: Right, we can go to the meat section because.
Speaker 1: I'm thirsty. Mandy, tell us how it works. What happens
Speaker 1: once you're in the store.
Speaker 5: Then here's where it gets a little lake saucy. So
Speaker 5: you go and you get a pineapple. Okay, it's okay,
Speaker 5: it's not like that.
Speaker 4: Why is it that fruit?
Speaker 5: You know? I wondered the same thing, like you couldn't
Speaker 5: have chosen a different fruits? But whatever, Okay, upside down
Speaker 5: which I know, run like rampant with that other Are.
Speaker 4: You sure you're going to the right.
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 1: Shut up? I'm loving this idea more and more going true.
Speaker 5: Then you put it upside down your cart, and then
Speaker 5: you go over to where the wine is and you
Speaker 5: grab a bottle of wine, a little bowl.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got an upside down pineapple and some wine.
Speaker 5: Yes, And you check out who's around you see if
Speaker 5: they have the same items in theirs. And if you
Speaker 5: see somebody who kind of tickles your fancy so speak,
Speaker 5: give them a light bump with your cart.
Speaker 4: Over we're bumping carts.
Speaker 2: I will say this this could be subtle because even
Speaker 2: if you don't see someone at first, you could just
Speaker 2: wander around.
Speaker 4: Looks like do you have to wander in? Every question? Though?
Speaker 4: If you bump someone, do they bump you back?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 4: Do you run away with carts?
Speaker 5: If they're not interested, they could you know, just oh sorry,
Speaker 5: excuse me and walk away.
Speaker 1: Okay, So bumping carts is the equivalent of swiping basically exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So who did you bump? Upside down pineapple wine?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: We're all following who was it?
Speaker 5: That is how I'm the Mark Mark?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 4: And then how do you how do you turn that
Speaker 4: into a date?
Speaker 5: Well, once we bumped, then we exchanged information. We actually
Speaker 5: got together and we went to a wine bar and
Speaker 5: it was it was really nice, like we just.
Speaker 9: Got to sit down and really talk, and there wasn't
Speaker 9: all that anxiety that you would normally feel because you've
Speaker 9: already seen them, so you're not worried that they're lying
Speaker 9: on their dating apps.
Speaker 5: See that?
Speaker 2: Okay, okayproved you know nothing about anxiety tends to go
Speaker 2: down after you bump carts with What did you like
Speaker 2: about Mark when you were hanging.
Speaker 1: Out with him?
Speaker 5: You know, I just I liked that he's really funny
Speaker 5: and he's a he's an animal lover and which yeah, exactly,
Speaker 5: and I mean he's just he seemed very genuine.
Speaker 3: So did you get the vibe that you guys were
Speaker 3: going to do this again, You're going to see each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, And that's the weirdest thing, Like he walked
Speaker 5: me home you know we can't and then gone done
Speaker 5: and then done now you said, And then he was gone.
Speaker 1: He ran away after the kids.
Speaker 2: He was like, oh my god, I have wine breath
Speaker 2: and then he runs away.
Speaker 7: Maybe he had to go get another Pineapple's interesting.
Speaker 3: So have you called him or texted him or are
Speaker 3: you waiting for him?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 5: I did. I called him and I texted and I've
Speaker 5: got nothing.
Speaker 1: Have you been back to the grocery store to see
Speaker 1: if he's still?
Speaker 7: Like, well, I haven't seen a name or time come
Speaker 7: up for another one, Like I had been doing this
Speaker 7: for a little while and this, but he was my
Speaker 7: first thump.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you never forget your first upside down pineapp.
Speaker 1: So how long has it been since you and Mark
Speaker 1: went on that date.
Speaker 5: It's been about two weeks.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, long enough that he should have reached out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, Well, let's call him in find out what
Speaker 1: he has to say. We're gonna come back and do
Speaker 1: your second date update you got I put in my
Speaker 1: Instacart order already, so we'll be back and do it
Speaker 1: right after this hold on second date update. I am
Speaker 1: never going to shop for groceries the same ever again
Speaker 1: after this call with Mandy.
Speaker 3: You and meeboled, I am going to be just eyeballing
Speaker 3: eagle eye who who's in here?
Speaker 1: Because Mandy told us about a strange new dating ritual
Speaker 1: that apparently started with singles in Spain and now it's
Speaker 1: come over to the US where people will show up
Speaker 1: at a grocery store like a lot of people. They
Speaker 1: take all the pineapples, put them in carts upside down,
Speaker 1: and meet in the wine section, then start bumping each other,
Speaker 1: just show interest and wink. Definitely not a swinger, even
Speaker 1: though it sounds like it to literally every person on
Speaker 1: the planet, except for our listener Mandy, because she ended
Speaker 1: up meeting a guy named Mark.
Speaker 4: There and she only been out with Mark.
Speaker 1: Yes, instead of everybody with pineapple, just with Mark. They
Speaker 1: went out, had a really good time and this was
Speaker 1: her first grocery store bump, sesshon, But we never asked,
Speaker 1: what about Mark, Mandy, did you discuss that has he
Speaker 1: bumped before?
Speaker 5: He said he had? Okay, she and a girl had
Speaker 5: gone out a few times after they had a bump. Second,
Speaker 5: it's crazy.
Speaker 4: How successful this is people.
Speaker 2: What's it like when it's busy and it just sounds
Speaker 2: like a hundred shopping cars crashing in the corner store.
Speaker 3: Even more fascinating is how confused the produce man must.
Speaker 5: Be, like.
Speaker 3: Pineapples and now they don't want but they're back, and there's.
Speaker 1: Clearly a lot of questions that we have and'sie answer.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The only person that can is the tropical fruit stud
Speaker 1: that we're about to call here. Hopefully we'll squeeze some
Speaker 1: answers out of him.
Speaker 4: Can we call Jaqa?
Speaker 1: What's his name? Okay? Pineapple Mark? We'll just call him
Speaker 1: Mark until we get more from him. But let's just
Speaker 1: dial and see if he picks up first. Here we go, Hello,
Speaker 1: Hey is this Mark?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hey, Mark? I'm not sure if you're ready for this,
Speaker 1: but you are on a radio show right now. We're
Speaker 1: called Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. Ye boy, have
Speaker 1: we been dying to talk to you?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, seriously, so many questions.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Sorry, it's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to like scare. You're a whole show, bro, Yes.
Speaker 8: Four of us.
Speaker 4: We have a radio show and we do a podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm jeff and have you heard everybody else?
Speaker 4: So I'd like to tell.
Speaker 1: So we want to ask you a little bit if
Speaker 1: it's okay about your dating life, because we heard that
Speaker 1: you met a woman the other day at the grocery
Speaker 1: store named Mandy.
Speaker 8: Oh she told you about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to.
Speaker 2: Be embarrassed, bro, we think it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She told us all about like the TikTok trend of
Speaker 3: going to the grocery store at the same time, like
Speaker 3: a call goes out to hot singles and everybody shows
Speaker 3: up and puts pineapples in their cars.
Speaker 8: You like, bump their cardival. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Apparently you bumped with Mandy and she liked it.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have. I have a couple of friends that
Speaker 8: they're doing this trend and they told me you should,
Speaker 8: uh see what it's about. Yeah. A couple of times
Speaker 8: I met Mandy and I don't know, I thought she
Speaker 8: was cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good.
Speaker 4: That's a good start.
Speaker 1: Cool enough to take out on an actual date to
Speaker 1: a wine bar.
Speaker 8: We heard we went out. It's just uh, towards the
Speaker 8: end of the date, like a weird thing happened. I
Speaker 8: know she told you guys about it.
Speaker 4: Weirder than the grocery store things.
Speaker 1: We kiss.
Speaker 7: You're supposed to.
Speaker 4: Was it not a good kiss?
Speaker 8: I walked her home and we kissed and it was
Speaker 8: really great. But I take her to her door and
Speaker 8: she reaches into her purse and pulls out an envelope.
Speaker 1: Okay, is this Hogwarts letter?
Speaker 8: I'm walking away thinking that this is a thank you
Speaker 8: for the night kind of letter. So I get to
Speaker 8: my car and I open this letter and it says
Speaker 8: thank you for this lovely date, and then under it
Speaker 8: it says, here is my pre and post date expenses.
Speaker 2: Huh wait, it's an invoice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, to what with the makeup? There was the petticue
Speaker 8: or things like that.
Speaker 4: She needed her toes painted to go to a wine bar.
Speaker 4: I just put on close to old shoes.
Speaker 8: Okay, like I thought, I didn't know that this was
Speaker 8: part of it.
Speaker 4: That's insane.
Speaker 8: Her Venmo was on there. There was a Venmo barcode handle.
Speaker 5: Maybe you don't like more than someone where it actually went.
Speaker 4: Well, that's why would.
Speaker 3: You would you, especially because didn't you pay for the
Speaker 3: wine bar?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Well, I paid for everything. I thought, okay, I'll treat
Speaker 8: her to a date. That's normal. I just didn't know that.
Speaker 1: You did not pay for everything, okay, or maybe he
Speaker 1: didn't have enough money to pay for the Venmo thing.
Speaker 4: So come on, what is she having to buy new
Speaker 4: makeup for the date?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 5: Everything does run out at the same time.
Speaker 1: Don't get me started on a lot of theoreticals. We
Speaker 1: don't know the true story. The only one that does
Speaker 1: is Mandy, who is on the other listening to this
Speaker 1: call right now, Mark and wanting to talk to you.
Speaker 8: Mark.
Speaker 4: Oh girl, indeed, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't realize that was what bothered you.
Speaker 1: So you admit that you invoiced him for everything before
Speaker 1: and during the date.
Speaker 5: Well, I went out, I got my makeup done, and
Speaker 5: I got my hair done, I got a new outfit,
Speaker 5: I got cheese.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't put that much for a man to say.
Speaker 8: But I didn't ask you to do any of that,
Speaker 8: and I had no idea that there was a bill
Speaker 8: attached to our dating culture.
Speaker 5: You were insistent that you wanted to go out and
Speaker 5: that you wanted to pay.
Speaker 8: I wanted to, but to give me the receipts. It
Speaker 8: was just it was impersonal. I didn't feel right about it.
Speaker 8: I walked away feeling good, thinking, oh cool, I got
Speaker 8: a cute envelope with a note instead I had a receipt.
Speaker 8: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean a letter does kind of make it more
Speaker 1: personal in a way.
Speaker 4: Does it?
Speaker 1: She took the time to write it.
Speaker 5: Indeed, you know, it's one of those things. I didn't
Speaker 5: see that as a big deal.
Speaker 3: Have you had other men actually fork up the cash
Speaker 3: for these invoices? Because my guess is this isn't your
Speaker 3: first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I've got before, and I've never had any
Speaker 5: roken lengths.
Speaker 1: Really, maybe in the Pineapple community the standards for paying
Speaker 1: men are a little bit different.
Speaker 4: I had to admit, though.
Speaker 2: If I went on a date with a girl and
Speaker 2: it went well and I wanted to see her again
Speaker 2: and she builed me fifty bucks, I'd be like.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh no, financially afford it.
Speaker 6: I can take care of I don't think she's thinking
Speaker 6: about that when she I just like, these are expenses
Speaker 6: about just being an adult that you just have to incur, like,
Speaker 6: this is just life expenses that you got to take
Speaker 6: on yourself.
Speaker 5: Do you don't you feel that we're getting a little
Speaker 5: screwed over by the amount of money we have to pay.
Speaker 1: It's like kind of a shared thing. You both put
Speaker 1: in your effort and your money. Mandy, is there a
Speaker 1: way that maybe going forward you could see not doing
Speaker 1: the invoice or at least giving him a discount on
Speaker 1: the thing, if.
Speaker 5: It's going to make you feel more comfortable. If we
Speaker 5: got again, you know, we can go Dutch.
Speaker 1: Dutch on the date or on the pre date expenses
Speaker 1: on all the expenses.
Speaker 4: I don't even understand what that means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it means she pays for half, and he pays
Speaker 1: for half. What he pays for one foot, she pays
Speaker 1: for the other foot.
Speaker 4: I got it. Bet you paid for your own crap?
Speaker 2: Like would the bill comes?
Speaker 1: No, Oh, that's not how modern pineapple dating works, Brooke,
Speaker 1: get up with the times market. Sounds like she's trying
Speaker 1: to be reasonable with you, offering a pretty significant discount
Speaker 1: on the rates that you have to pay, so I
Speaker 1: would give her another chance.
Speaker 2: This is like when you tell a company you're going
Speaker 2: to cancel and they give you that last offer exactly.
Speaker 8: Trial.
Speaker 3: Is it too late to go Dutch on the first
Speaker 3: bill or are we just talking.
Speaker 4: About the second.
Speaker 1: You know, we're not in charge of the entire financial landscape.
Speaker 1: We're in charge of is paying for the date that
Speaker 1: you go on, because we will offer to fund it
Speaker 1: for you. Mark, if you'll see Mandy one more time.
Speaker 8: If you're willing to talk about splitting things down the
Speaker 8: line down the middle between you and I in the future,
Speaker 8: then I don't see a reason not to.
Speaker 4: No reason. Yes, Yes, spreadsheets Excel. You need to keep
Speaker 4: your seats. Mark. Okay, if you get a haircut.
Speaker 3: You gotta remember see how many pumps the foundation she's
Speaker 3: using account numbers.
Speaker 1: This is some sexy talk that we're having on the
Speaker 1: show right now. But Mark here, is that a yes
Speaker 1: from you?
Speaker 8: That's a yes from.
Speaker 1: That do not see that coming. But congratulations, Mandy, you
Speaker 1: got yourself another date.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you guys very much. And Mark, once you
Speaker 5: then Moony the half for the first date, we can
Speaker 5: schedule a second date.
Speaker 3: Wow, Maddy, I thought you were a nuts but now
Speaker 3: I'm thinking I want you to do my financial.
Speaker 4: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 1: Remember when we first started this call and Mandy said hey,
Speaker 1: and Brooke goes, Oh my god, you sound like so
Speaker 1: much fun.
Speaker 2: I bet you are the funnest person every making money.
Speaker 1: Did not sound very fun by the end of the call,
Speaker 1: did she.
Speaker 3: God, It's like sometimes I'm too negative and then I
Speaker 3: trying to be positive and it bites me in the bun.
Speaker 1: The wrongs.
Speaker 4: I always changed the wrong always. I'm gonna tell you,
Speaker 4: if there's two lanes of traffic, I will always get it.
Speaker 1: It's not your fault, Brooke. It sounded like she got
Speaker 1: caught by the end pretty big time.
Speaker 4: She got another date.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like, what, whatever everyone else is doing,
Speaker 1: they're doing it wrong. She probably should have told us
Speaker 1: about her invoicing thing before we called the guy.
Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes I know, I'm like, why didn't
Speaker 2: you say that and you know, to them all, or
Speaker 2: why didn't you realize that's the issue. Yeah, maybe that
Speaker 2: many guys pay it without talking.
Speaker 4: My god, I can't even imagine.
Speaker 3: I do kind of want to follow her on Venmo
Speaker 3: to see how often it lights up, though, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, I could make.
Speaker 2: A living off of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But if you want to get help with your
Speaker 1: dating Life. Please don't invoice us. We will not pay.
Speaker 1: We will call the person though who's not calling you back.
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