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Speaker 1: Hey there are folks. A lady just calling herself F

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Speaker 1: wrote to us asking for some relationship advice. She says,

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Speaker 1: I am a successful black woman, so why aren't men

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Speaker 1: into me? Robots initial thoughts, you're asking the wrong questions.

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Speaker 1: My initial take, stop leading with your height and your weight,

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Speaker 1: and welcome everybody to this edition of Amy and DJ

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Speaker 1: based on the question that came into us in our

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Speaker 1: weekly Yahoo column. And this was a hell of a

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Speaker 1: question in a lot of ways robes and it was

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking to some degree. But we'll let other people decide.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the initial thing.

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Speaker 3: I remember you said right away when we saw the question,

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Speaker 3: and we'll read the entire question for you, the listener.

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Speaker 2: But your first response was I just want to give

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Speaker 2: her a hug.

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Speaker 3: And I think that's kind of where my head went first,

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Speaker 3: because I get it. It's you're looking for a partner,

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Speaker 3: looking for that love of your life, and you can't

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Speaker 3: find him, and you're asking what is it about me

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Speaker 3: that I can't find someone?

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Speaker 2: And I my initial thought was it sounds so cheesy.

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Speaker 3: But to love yourself, to date yourself, to actually put

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Speaker 3: the work into finding who you are and what you want,

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Speaker 3: not who wants me, who's looking at me? Why can't

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Speaker 3: I attract someone? Find yourself attractive? And if you don't,

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Speaker 3: if you aren't happy with who you are, or you

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Speaker 3: don't feel good about who you are, then work on.

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Speaker 2: That and work on friendships.

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Speaker 3: I think that's such a great way as a social escape,

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Speaker 3: instead of going out and hoping or wishing that you'd

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Speaker 3: find or bump into that man and have that amazing

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Speaker 3: meat cute that we all see in those ridiculous rom coms. Instead,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but that's just yeah, what they call

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Speaker 3: them meat cute?

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Speaker 1: Just figure that out about six months ago what that meant.

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Speaker 3: And I think so many girls, and I'll be honest,

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Speaker 3: have it in their head that that might happen to them,

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Speaker 3: or that could happen, or maybe tonight's the.

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Speaker 1: Night and read sure, the same cup at the Starbucks

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Speaker 3: Right, or you drop the popcorn and you both go

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Speaker 3: down to get it and your and your hands touched

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Speaker 3: and look up and say oh you hi? Yes, or

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Speaker 3: even a car accident, a friendly thunder bender like these

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Speaker 2: No they don't, yeah, exactly, that never happens.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like, maybe if you can, if you

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Speaker 3: I know that's really easy to say and hard to do,

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Speaker 3: but really to turn inward and to really what do

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Speaker 3: I want to do, what fills me up, what brings

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Speaker 1: I'm laughing and you're gonna know why. And because as

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Speaker 1: you were saying all of that, I turned my head

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Speaker 1: tell everybody what's paused on the.

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Speaker 2: Screen right now, Love Island not just the.

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Speaker 1: Show like just you just so happened to pause it

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Speaker 1: the screen and it says love Island. As we're you're

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Speaker 1: telling people, yeah, I just love yourself, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 3: Love Island USA. But see, that is like a fun

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Speaker 3: it's a fun fantasy exactly. And I do think sometimes

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Speaker 1: It is the way it should be, even sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: not the way. Sometimes it's never that way. But yes,

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Speaker 1: f is all she calls herself. But this is what

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Speaker 1: she wrote to us Amy and Tej. I'm a forty

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Speaker 1: two year old black female, one hundred and ninety five pounds,

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Speaker 1: What else can I do? My question is robes. What

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Speaker 1: be right there. But Robes, I got very hung up on,

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Speaker 3: She felt like that information might be the reason why

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Speaker 1: in reverse? Right, start with I volunteer in my community,

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Speaker 3: interesting when you read it backwards. That's the way that

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Speaker 2: She loves about herself first, and not that she shouldn't

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Speaker 3: Other things about herself. But that is really interesting. And

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Speaker 3: she asked a direct question, what is it that men

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Speaker 2: That never works.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna work because we're gonna see you in the morning, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's that's just the way of putting. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: we got a problem, because, as we always say, when

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Speaker 3: But but yes, of course, looks are important to a

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Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna stay as hot as they are perhaps in

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent every single time. Confidence is one thing. Now,

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Speaker 1: that My recommendation to her, walk embrace Walk in there

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Speaker 1: Nothing is wrong with you, You embrace it. If you're not,

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Speaker 3: By that, But if it is the former, if she

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Speaker 1: and think what intrigued. Even if there's not some instant

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Speaker 1: You'd be surprised if you give that off. The right

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Speaker 1: they might be six seven, I don't know, but they're coming,

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Speaker 1: but they're coming. All right, we'll stay with us because Robes,

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Speaker 1: mean you're saying once again, it was a bunch of dudes.

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Speaker 2: A lot of men, a lot of men.

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Speaker 3: But I do have I do have well, well I

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Speaker 1: Hey, she probably makes more sense than the rest of them.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everyone to this edition of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 3: This is the Ask Amy and TJ podcast, where we

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Speaker 3: at Colin and every week we get a new question.

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Speaker 3: This week's question comes to us from f and she

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Speaker 3: is asking what men are looking for. She is single,

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Speaker 3: We've been laughing because we have so many men writing

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Speaker 2: Do you see it there? Tj uh?

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Speaker 1: Let me get it in front of me here. Okay, hell,

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Speaker 1: read it now? All right, Alana says Chip. The good

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Speaker 2: What do you think about that that?

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Speaker 3: Maybe it might be the area is that she lives in.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes people really feel like that is the only

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Speaker 2: I don't either. I've never believed that.

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Speaker 3: So I I you know what, it's never a bad

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's bad advice at all.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I hate like Okay, And again she put it

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Speaker 1: What's her name? Oh my god, Alana. She's from the

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Speaker 1: Alana Mayer. You know who I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: She was a super star for USA, medaled in USA rugby.

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Speaker 1: I am Meyer Meyer.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you don't want to talk. You see your face now?

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Speaker 1: I remember if she's five ten around one hundred and

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Speaker 2: Five ten, one hundred and ninety eight pounds. Wow, that

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Speaker 1: She's an Olympic medallist, she's an athlete, she's a stud,

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Speaker 1: But you remember how much she was hailed and talked

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's all coming back to me now and

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Speaker 3: I really do think how you feel about yourself has

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 3: It's when opportunity meets the right time in the right place.

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Speaker 2: He said, better stop worrying about looks.

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Speaker 3: We've certainly heard that from for since the beginning of time,

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Speaker 1: Like so, this is something else, women's unrealistic expectations of

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the rom com conversation.

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Speaker 3: I think I think women, I will totally be honest

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Speaker 3: You want a man who's funny and charming, who's sexy

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Speaker 2: Come back to me.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what water Walker is referring to.

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Speaker 1: I could have never come up with that Oh, that.

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Speaker 1: Ask a man, what do you think a woman's perfect

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Speaker 2: That's because you don't watch mom come.

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Speaker 1: That was good. Okay, that was I'm gonna go back

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Speaker 3: You know what, though, a couple of other men I

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Speaker 2: Or more difficult time for them to date.

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Speaker 3: So this is I think this is an interesting conversation

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Speaker 3: and one that I think a lot of people want

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad that really it takes. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know it is anonymity to f but still to put

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Speaker 1: it in took a level of bravery. So we appreciate

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Speaker 1: you writing into us, folks. Anytime you can do the

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Speaker 1: same again. It's a Yahoo dot com in the life section,

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Speaker 1: you'll see us right there. But for now, I'm TJ. Holmes.

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Speaker 1: Have of my partner in your robot. We'll talk to Alsine.

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