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Speaker 1: Are you single and burned out on dating apps? It's

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Speaker 1: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. Well you're not alone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And we cover this topic quite a bit here because

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Speaker 1: of the second date calls that we do on the show.

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Speaker 2: Not only that battle of the tender dates, people like

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Speaker 2: go against each other with their worst dating stories.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have a lot of dating stuff here.

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Speaker 1: But there's something called dating.

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Speaker 3: App fatigue, and it's a real thing where people get

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Speaker 3: real tired of swiping and scrolling and chatting online forever and.

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Speaker 4: Ever and ever.

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Speaker 2: I know, I swear that Jose and Alexis are always

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Speaker 2: complaining about dating apps, but that's still kind of on them.

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Speaker 5: But then not, Yeah, they don't want you to find

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Speaker 5: love those dating apps. You don't go be out of

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Speaker 5: business if everybody finds love.

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Speaker 4: That's true. So instead, events.

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Speaker 1: Like speed dating and singles mixers and other in person

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Speaker 1: group parties are now making a huge comeback. People want

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Speaker 1: to finally get offline and find their potential mate in person.

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Speaker 5: It's so funny that speed dating is now a good option.

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Speaker 2: It is like when speed dating first came out, people

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Speaker 2: were like, what the hell is and now.

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Speaker 6: Young people are like, let me tell you something out

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Speaker 6: of the box.

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Speaker 2: Personh my god, I've posted so many speed dating events

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Speaker 2: in my radio and they're so awkward.

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Speaker 1: But they're actually getting more creative with these now, Like,

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Speaker 1: for example, in spots around Chicago, they have something called

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Speaker 1: Shuffle speed dating, where you show up to the bar

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Speaker 1: and then once you're in, they send you a photo

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Speaker 1: of a person to your phone.

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Speaker 4: Okay, it's somebody in the bar.

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Speaker 1: You need to go around and find them and just

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Speaker 1: strike up a conversation for five minutes.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's at least three people just standing there

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Speaker 2: not looking like their photo.

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Speaker 4: They take the.

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Speaker 1: Photo when you arrive, and then you go find them

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Speaker 1: and talk for five minutes. Then after five your phone

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Speaker 1: dings to let you know times up, and then you

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Speaker 1: get a prompt to swipe right or left on that person.

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Speaker 5: Ouch.

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Speaker 4: Well, that makes so much more sense to meet them

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Speaker 4: in person.

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Speaker 1: Then swipe we'll just clear out.

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Speaker 4: It's like an uber like you don't rate them until

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Speaker 4: you go on the ride first.

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Speaker 6: And this is good for me because I'll be crying

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Speaker 6: before she swipes right and after.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's good because she does it in person now,

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Speaker 2: so her it's just a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: Because you're looking for me, like, Okay, my guy's crying

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Speaker 4: by himself.

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Speaker 1: Then they'll send you a new photo of a different

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Speaker 1: person after that to go find in the bar. So

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a love scavenger hunt for the

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Speaker 1: whole night.

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Speaker 2: So you're getting the backups of the people that didn't

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Speaker 2: get swiped right on, Alexis.

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Speaker 1: Would you go to a singles event like that one?

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Speaker 1: Assuming all the drinks are free for you and there's.

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Speaker 5: You can't ever say that drinks are free. She'll go

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Speaker 5: to anything.

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Speaker 4: Funerals.

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Speaker 5: It was a bad question, especially with the drinks.

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Speaker 1: There's another popular dating event in La called Game Night Socials,

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Speaker 1: where singles are meeting up at this giant warehouse with

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Speaker 1: of different games, like like they have Jenga at one table,

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Speaker 1: Cards against Humanity, They've got Mario Kart.

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Speaker 2: Set up, and they're all simple games so you don't

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Speaker 2: have to spend twenty minutes learning the rules exactly.

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Speaker 1: So you go around playing them as you meet new people,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's to see if you have a connection

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 5: Would you do that one, Jose?

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Speaker 6: I think I would, but it's dangerous that they have

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Speaker 6: video games incorporated, because I would just be on Mario Kart,

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Speaker 6: and then I would hoard the games and then I'd

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Speaker 6: be telling everyone how to play the game alone.

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Speaker 4: Probably get a little competitive. You start calling them news.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, look, I'm a streamer.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, and then I'd be like.

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Speaker 4: Following me on kid.

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Speaker 5: It sounded fun, intel Jose.

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Speaker 4: With that, we're back to crying Jose in front of

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Speaker 4: the Mario. I'll go back to the first event.

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Speaker 1: Experts are saying attendance that these in person events has

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Speaker 1: grown forty two percent in the last year, and it's

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Speaker 1: even higher now than it was pre pandemic.

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Speaker 6: Dude, I wondering why.

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Speaker 4: So it is the burnout that's gotta be it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people are just sick of the DAYDA like hold

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Speaker 3: back the hot people too for money?

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 5: So you think game Night's gonna pull out all the adies.

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Speaker 1: Another huge thing that's blowing up are athletic dating events.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like pickleball dating meetups. Those are up one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three percent. Even spin class mixers one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five percent work.

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Speaker 2: I'm not really sure go to spin class that is

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Speaker 2: like it's dark, the music is so loud.

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe the bikes are like facing directly at

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Speaker 1: each other, and you pedal for a mile and then

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Speaker 1: switch one bike to the left.

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Speaker 4: Heavily breathing dating. Sorry, let me clip for a second.

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Speaker 1: And now you might be wondering, Okay, so how are

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Speaker 1: all the dating apps dealing with the shift?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Are they trying to get into events now because

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Speaker 5: of it?

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Speaker 1: We think about it, they were getting There's millions and

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Speaker 1: millions of people signing up to their apps just a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and now the numbers are slumping. Okay,

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Speaker 1: like match Group, which is the people who own like

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Speaker 1: Tinder and.

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Speaker 4: Had sexy dyslexics all the popular How just get onto

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Speaker 4: that smell? You gotta want to find reel.

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Speaker 1: But since hitting their peak back in t went into

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Speaker 1: any one, stock shares for those apps have lost eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of their value.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, same with Bumble down eighty percent.

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Speaker 2: Wonder the Bubble owner just sold her like she's out,

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Speaker 2: She's like it does.

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Speaker 1: Take your billion dollars game night, Because everybody's saying there's

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Speaker 1: so many people on the apps now that everybody kind

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Speaker 1: of starts to look and talk the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean kind I mean because everyone's using chat, GPT, probably.

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Speaker 4: Each other up all using the same filters.

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Speaker 5: On the photos too, So exactly.

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Speaker 1: The apps are also shifting and they're trying to create

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Speaker 1: in person events.

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Speaker 4: Now we're weird. Get us together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we are going back to full circle.

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Speaker 4: Like Bumble just launched. Bumble I r L.

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Speaker 1: Encourages singles to chat with people and person at community

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Speaker 1: service outings.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's a cool one where you volunteer then you

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Speaker 5: meet people there.

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Speaker 1: Go pick up some trash off the freeway, then pick

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Speaker 1: up a date on.

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Speaker 4: Your way home.

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Speaker 2: That'd be careful of that, because not all the people

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Speaker 2: picking up trashing freeway are.

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Speaker 4: Free people and dates and days people.

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Speaker 1: Let's not get too picky, but people are dating like

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Speaker 1: it's nineteen eighty eight. Again, we're in person is officially

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Speaker 1: the way to do it now. Okay, so I'm meeting online.

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Speaker 4: You're almost ick.

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Speaker 2: So maybe we'll go back even further and you'll start

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Speaker 2: having your.

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Speaker 5: Dad trade cows for you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, arrange a marriage that way?

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Speaker 4: Is that what you want? Brook?

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Speaker 5: I mean, how full circle this was gonna go?

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Speaker 4: Ye, totally full circle. It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,