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Mercedes Has A Mystery Man And They're Going On A Date · I Do, Part 2

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Speaker 1: iHeart Podcasts bring you the ultimate Summer of Love tree.
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Speaker 1: This is Famously Available Joost Ben Higgins. I'm very excited
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Speaker 1: for today's conversation. It's really fun. When we launched Famously Available,
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Speaker 1: the messages that I received from so many people about
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Speaker 1: how incredible this human is, how beautiful she is, and
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Speaker 1: how sweet she is, and how nobody can believe that
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Speaker 1: she's single. Well, we got some big news for you.
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Speaker 1: We haven't been able to send Mercedes on a date
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Speaker 1: yet with Famously Available, so Mercedes did it herself, but
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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we don't get an inside look
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Speaker 1: into where her dating life is today. She's a date
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Speaker 1: this weekend, so I want to get in touch with Mercedes.
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Speaker 1: She's on the streets of Boston currently, but we gave
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Speaker 1: her a call because she's getting ready, prepped and excited
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Speaker 1: about the date ahead. We're going to talk to her
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Speaker 1: and get some intel on how things are going. She's
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Speaker 1: excited about, and we're going to continue to follow her
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Speaker 1: on this journey to finding love. All right, Mercedes, to
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Speaker 1: kick us off, we do know here that you're going
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Speaker 1: on a date.
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Speaker 2: How did you meet this guy? Kind of walk us
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Speaker 2: through how you met what's gone on so far? Why
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Speaker 2: we're talking about him the day?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? So I met him on Instagram.
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Speaker 4: Actually, he dmmed me and said he was coming to
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Speaker 4: Nashville and would love to take me out, and I
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Speaker 4: was like, I.
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Speaker 3: Gotta say yes.
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Speaker 4: I was like, I can't turn another one down.
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Speaker 3: So I said yes.
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Speaker 4: And I honestly didn't expect much out of it because
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Speaker 4: he doesn't live in Nashville, and yeah, I just I
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Speaker 4: was like, I'm just gonna go on this day, have fun, whatever.
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Speaker 4: And then I actually really ended up liking him and
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Speaker 4: we hit it off great. And then he was like,
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Speaker 4: I want to see do you want to come out
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Speaker 4: to Boston? And I was like sure, So now I'm
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Speaker 4: in Boston for the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Uh are Okay? There's so much I want to ask you.
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Speaker 1: First off, Instagram is a great way to meet somebody.
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Speaker 1: How my wife and I met, so you never know,
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Speaker 1: you never know. But before I get too excited, just
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Speaker 1: about all the questions that I want to ask you,
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Speaker 1: let's take it slow. So tell us about him as
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Speaker 1: a person. What does he look like, how old is he?
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Speaker 1: What industry is in? How do you find you? All
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Speaker 1: those things?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I honestly don't know how he found me, but
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Speaker 4: we do have like a couple of mutual friends that
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Speaker 4: we figured out later on.
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Speaker 3: But he's definitely my type. He has dark Harry's tall,
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Speaker 3: he plays hockey.
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Speaker 4: He's not like a professional hockey player, but he like
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Speaker 4: plays in a league, super athletic, and he honestly.
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Speaker 3: I hope he never listens to this.
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Speaker 4: But like going into the date, he like is on
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Speaker 4: Instagram obviously, and he posts like days in the life
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Speaker 4: or whatever, and so I was like, I don't know,
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Speaker 4: like I really didn't have high hopes. And then like
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Speaker 4: he told me he works for this startup and it's
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Speaker 4: with like like when women find out they have breast cancer,
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Speaker 4: basically like they help support them, like financially.
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Speaker 3: I need to ask more about it, but like.
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Speaker 4: Something along those lines, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 4: you're like actually like a really cool, like good human.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, I just I really didn't expect
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Speaker 4: anything out of this date, and then now here.
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Speaker 2: I am the nerves.
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Speaker 1: You know that first you know, travel date, that first
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Speaker 1: time that you give up a weekend of your life
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Speaker 1: at home to go see somebody. You only do it
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Speaker 1: when you are interested and you've admitted that you're interested,
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Speaker 1: But how are the butterflies?
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Speaker 3: Honestly, like pretty good. I thought I would be more.
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Speaker 4: I was definitely nervous yesterday because he picked me up
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Speaker 4: from the airport and I was like, oh my godd
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Speaker 4: like I'm literally.
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Speaker 3: In Boston right now, Like what the heck am I doing?
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Speaker 4: So I was definitely nervous, But then like I don't
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Speaker 4: know like what I'm with, Like it's just very easy
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Speaker 4: and it's never been like awkward, Like there's no awkward
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Speaker 4: pauses ever.
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Speaker 3: Like we just like definitely like we're both they appers
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Speaker 3: for sure.
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Speaker 4: So we just like yeah up, yeap, and just like
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Speaker 4: my ADHD brain is just like all over the place.
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Speaker 4: So we're just talking about everything under the sun, and
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Speaker 4: it's yeah, it's great. Conversation's great. So butterflies in the beginning,
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Speaker 4: But then like now that I'm here, I'm like.
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Speaker 3: It's just fun.
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Speaker 1: What is uh what's the plans while you're there? Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I mean you're there for a few days probably, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So we're going we're walking around Seaport I think
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Speaker 4: is the area. We're walking around there today. He works
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Speaker 4: into like one so after he gets off work, we're
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Speaker 4: gonna do that and then we have dinner tonight and
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Speaker 4: then tomorrow we're going to Salem, which do you want
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Speaker 4: to know something is so funny, Ben, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I so.
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Speaker 4: I don't know why I thought this, but when he
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Speaker 4: asked me to come there, he was like, have you
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Speaker 4: ever been to Salem?
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Speaker 3: Or come here? He's like, have you ever been to Salem?
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Speaker 4: And I'm like no, and he's like, well, we could
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Speaker 4: do that, And for some reason, I thought he meant
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Speaker 4: like the whole weekend in Salem. So I was like,
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Speaker 4: I was like telling my mom. I'm like, Mom, like,
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Speaker 4: I don't even know what we're gonna do in Salem
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Speaker 4: for three days. Like I was like kind of like
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Speaker 4: tweaking out a little bit because it's like, you know,
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Speaker 4: witchy and like, yeah, all this tuff.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, I have no idea what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 3: But we're just going for a couple hours tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: And then we're going to dinner tomorrow night, and he
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Speaker 4: his cousin and his girlfriend.
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Speaker 3: Are going to meet up with us.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I know.
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Speaker 4: But it's like I feel like they're like just really
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Speaker 4: good friends, you know. It's not like meeting in the family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing. It's okay, there's two ways to look
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Speaker 1: at Do you want my input on this?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I do.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I think as a guy, you when you're very excited
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Speaker 1: about somebody, even if it's early, like just early on fun,
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Speaker 1: no pressure, like no, like it's not super tentship. I
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Speaker 1: think it's a really good sign in an appropriate way
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Speaker 1: to be excited to like introduce her to friends, you know,
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Speaker 1: And I think let's look at these people as friends
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Speaker 1: not family. But that's a big deal. I think you
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Speaker 1: should just take it as like a doesn't mean there's
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Speaker 1: pressure on it. It just means like, hey, he's he's
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Speaker 1: excited for me to introduce like meet people. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think it's a good sign.
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Speaker 3: No, for sure.
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Speaker 4: I know when he told me that, as he's like,
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Speaker 4: I hope that's not weird, I'm like no, I was like,
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Speaker 4: I think that's great, Like I would love because I
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Speaker 4: think like meeting people that you have, like in your circle,
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Speaker 4: like you learn a lot about the person that you're
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Speaker 4: also like.
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Speaker 3: Getting to know too. You know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited. I think it'll be fun. And then
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Speaker 4: I leave Sunday, so those two.
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Speaker 1: Days it's gonna be it's gonna be great. I think
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Speaker 1: Salem will be super interesting. Outside of Boston is nothing
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Speaker 1: but beautiful. Massachusetts itself is a gorgeous, very romantic state.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he planned this just perfectly.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 4: And I told him, like with Salem, I was like,
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Speaker 4: just so you know, like I'm a scaredy cat, like
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Speaker 4: I don't do well with this kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: And he's like, yeah, me too. We're screwed. The go perfect.
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Speaker 1: You hold me, I hold you right literally obviously because
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Speaker 1: of your background in my background, we have to ask
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Speaker 1: has he ever been.
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Speaker 2: On reality television and did he know you from the
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Speaker 2: show at all?
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Speaker 4: No, he hasn't been on TV. And then he said
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Speaker 4: he's like never really watched it.
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Speaker 2: So no, I mean, so how did he know about you?
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Speaker 2: But you don't know that right? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: No, I think it was just because you know, on Instagram,
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Speaker 4: like the Explorer.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure I just like came up on there or something.
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Speaker 2: You matched his algorithm something.
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Speaker 3: I have no idea how it came up.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that's fun.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's not that far off from my story,
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Speaker 1: but it's uh yeah, that's a goodness.
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Speaker 2: Today's world is wild.
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Speaker 4: Literally insane I know, but at least it wasn't hinge.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good point. And he brought you out
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Speaker 1: to Boston. You know, I think there are really good
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Speaker 1: so far. I'm here in this and like, there's really
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Speaker 1: good signs here, like it feels like very fun and
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Speaker 1: hell that you guys live in two different places. He
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Speaker 1: made the effort to ask you to come out. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he has a weekend plan for you. I think all
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Speaker 1: of these are good signs because here's what else could happen.
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Speaker 1: He could have asked you to come to Boston and
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Speaker 1: you would have said yes because you were interested in
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Speaker 1: the first day. He could have had you out there
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Speaker 1: and like had no plans and been like, hey, you know,
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Speaker 1: it sounds really nice, Mercedes, Like movie nights in my
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Speaker 1: apartment and let's just like lounge in the couch, which again,
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Speaker 1: at some point in your life are all you look
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Speaker 1: forward to.
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Speaker 2: Really.
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Speaker 1: However, right now, you know, first date stuff, you want
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Speaker 1: to get out and about. You don't want to have
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Speaker 1: the pressure of being one on one all weekend, you know,
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Speaker 1: So this is good so far. I'm really excited for this.
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Speaker 1: You did I heard you've referred to this guy. I
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Speaker 1: really hope he doesn't listen to this either.
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Speaker 4: I know.
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Speaker 1: On your on the first like interaction, you you told
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Speaker 1: us it was a practice date, like this was just
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Speaker 1: something you're doing for practice.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I did say that.
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Speaker 4: I literally said yes, because I'm like, oh, it's a
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Speaker 4: practice date like this perrevict. He doesn't live in Nashville.
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Speaker 4: Like it's yeah, it's fine, and now I actually like
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Speaker 4: the dude, So goodness, how that works?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's kind of great. Do you think at
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Speaker 1: some point he would come on here and just chat
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Speaker 1: with like me, one on one.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe I don't know.
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Speaker 2: You should see it.
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Speaker 4: I mean I told him that I'm doing this, but
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Speaker 4: like he definitely doesn't know I'm talking.
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Speaker 3: About him right now. No, it's I had a meeting.
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Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, I have a meeting.
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Speaker 2: You do you do have a meeting at eleven thirty?
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Speaker 2: You just have a meeting about him? I? Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Let's hope he doesn't listen, but if he does, we're
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Speaker 1: going to keep this good and positive.
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Speaker 2: A couple like rapid fire.
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Speaker 1: Questions from the listeners out there, on a scale of
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Speaker 1: one to ten, how is the flirting.
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Speaker 3: A solid eight point five?
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Speaker 2: No? Okay, nine nine nine guys kissed yet?
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Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, you're like, are you are you blushing because
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Speaker 1: it was so special?
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Speaker 2: Or are you are you blushing because you're embarrassed?
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Speaker 3: No, I'm not embarrassed. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I just I just think I really like him, and
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Speaker 4: it's like weird for me. No, I haven't liked anyone
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Speaker 4: in like two years.
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Speaker 2: Sure, sure, lean into it. How fun with it? If anything?
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Speaker 1: You never know where these go and there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of like things from the here to you know, whatever
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Speaker 1: stages next, But just enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: It is fun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to like have those butterflies, the excitement, the you know,
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Speaker 1: the first kiss, those types of things. That's just a
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Speaker 1: really fun season of life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, I definitely forgot like how fun it is. Like
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Speaker 4: I'm like, dang, why have I not dated in two years?
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Speaker 3: Like this is fun?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Well, you you've had to find your person in Boston.
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Speaker 1: You live in Nashville. Long distance dating. I remember when
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Speaker 1: we talked early on, like you are you do enjoy
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Speaker 1: your quality time, You enjoy being around the person that
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Speaker 1: you like. How are you thinking about this as you
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Speaker 1: maybe start dating somebody a plane flight away?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's definitely tough.
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Speaker 4: But I think like if I I mean, obviously I
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Speaker 4: couldn't do it for like a really long time, like
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Speaker 4: I think like a year max, probably, and then i'd
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Speaker 4: like want to be in the same city obviously, especially
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Speaker 4: because I don't know if I was like twenty three,
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Speaker 4: it'd be different. But I'm twenty seven, So it's like,
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Speaker 4: what's the point if like we're not even going to
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Speaker 4: be near each other.
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Speaker 3: But I don't know, I'm open to it.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think, like thank God for FaceTime and
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Speaker 4: like calls, you know, because that makes you feel like
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Speaker 4: you like, you know, actually have interactions.
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Speaker 3: So and like last like I saw him a month.
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Speaker 4: Ago in Nashville probably it was like a month ago
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Speaker 4: or maybe three weeks, and we talked every day and
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Speaker 4: it was fine, and it like builds excitement for like
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Speaker 4: the next time we see them too, So it's.
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Speaker 2: It's fun, you know.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, I was talking about my story and my dating
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Speaker 1: experience with Jessica. We spent a long time long distance,
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Speaker 1: and the phone calls and the facetimes were amazing. We
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Speaker 1: got to know each other really well because we could
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Speaker 1: just talk like there was nothing else to do, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not a big phone talker. We really like in
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Speaker 1: our marriage, we barely talk on the phone. This is
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Speaker 1: not something I just don't.
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Speaker 2: Enjoy it that much.
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Speaker 1: I kind of get like distracted or whatever. But when
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Speaker 1: we were dating, we were talking a lot on the phone,
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Speaker 1: and we had two rules. After this became after our
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Speaker 1: second kind of travel trip to see each other. At
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Speaker 1: that point we knew at like something serious. It was
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Speaker 1: either going to be the best thing that ever happened
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Speaker 1: to me or the hardest. Was kind of like my mindset,
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Speaker 1: and so we had two rules for long distance dating.
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Speaker 1: One we could not leave each other and express sadness,
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Speaker 1: which is really hard. We make the assumption that we're
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Speaker 1: both very sad to say good about each other. But
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Speaker 1: I had a friend who dated long distance with somebody,
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Speaker 1: and what destroyed their relationship was every time one would
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Speaker 1: leave the day, even before two days before, they would
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Speaker 1: start talking about it, Oh, I'm so sad, I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to miss you so much, and then there would
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Speaker 1: be sold these tears, and it felt like every weekend
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Speaker 1: instead of just being this like joyful time together, it
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Speaker 1: became burden with sadness.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like, oh, we have to leave each other again,
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Speaker 4: like this is happening again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we just said no, we know each other
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Speaker 1: as but we're gonna leave and say, hey, I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to see you again.
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Speaker 2: This is gonna be great.
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Speaker 1: The other rule was we never left each other without
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Speaker 1: at least having another date planned where we'd see each
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Speaker 1: other again. Even if that date was a month and
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Speaker 1: a half out. We always had something to look forward to.
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Speaker 1: It helped keep things fresh, It helped keep us intentional
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Speaker 1: on going to see each other. So we always had
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Speaker 1: another date planned. I'm not saying you implement this now,
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Speaker 1: but at some point, I mean this was early for us.
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Speaker 1: This was like two weekends in We're like, no, I
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Speaker 1: like you, I want to I want to pursue this thing.
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Speaker 2: Let's like figure out how to do it.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, how long did were you guys? Long distance?
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Speaker 2: Well a lot longer. We should have been a year
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Speaker 2: and a half. Now.
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Speaker 1: Some of that was the pandemic. Some of that was
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Speaker 1: like you know, just like yeah, really the pandemic and
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Speaker 1: some travel stuff. But a year and a half we
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Speaker 1: didn't live in the same city, just co moved out here.
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Speaker 1: I think it was like three weeks before we got married.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god. This there before we got married. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that's crazy.
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Speaker 2: It was a it was a long haul. Now.
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Speaker 1: I would never take that season back because it was
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Speaker 1: full of excitement, it was full of butterflies. I remember
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Speaker 1: the plane flight and just being so excited but also
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Speaker 1: so nervous at times, and it just became a very
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Speaker 1: special season to look back on. Yeah, Okay, back to you.
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Speaker 1: That's my advice for long distance. We're not quite there yet.
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Speaker 1: I don't feel like but at some point you might know.
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Speaker 1: And when you know, goodness, you know, it hits you
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Speaker 1: in the face and it's the most beautiful thing. What
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Speaker 1: the final question I really have for you it is,
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Speaker 1: and please expound on this as much as you feel comfortable,
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Speaker 1: what are your hopes for this weekend? You're obviously there,
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Speaker 1: You're obviously getting ready to kind of start a couple
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Speaker 1: of days together. What's your perfect outcome?
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Speaker 4: Perfect alcome would be just like getting to know him
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Speaker 4: a lot more, obviously, and getting to explore Boston and
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Speaker 4: then hopefully, like yeah, planning another trip seeing each other
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Speaker 4: again and like keeping what we have going like I
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Speaker 4: don't like, I don't know, like I I just don't
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Speaker 4: want it.
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Speaker 3: To like fizzle out. After this, because I feel.
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Speaker 4: Like we've been talking every day, but I'm like, is
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Speaker 4: it because we had this like plan, Like I hope
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Speaker 4: that like something else is planned after this, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean I think those are great, great day conversations,
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Speaker 1: like really good conversations that have at some point, and
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Speaker 1: I think what I'm hearing from him, knowing a guy's perspective,
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Speaker 1: at this point in time, he is very interested in.
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Speaker 2: Seeing you again.
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Speaker 1: He would have done this, I don't think unless yeah,
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Speaker 1: and he still had That's another thing.
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Speaker 4: I feel like he's like actually like courting me, and
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Speaker 4: it's never even like with my exes, Like it's never
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Speaker 4: been like this before, Like even like on our first
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Speaker 4: date he was like, Okay, yep, I have this reservation
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Speaker 4: like I'll see you there.
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Speaker 3: Like I don't know.
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Speaker 4: He just like has plans and he like may and
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Speaker 4: he's always complimenting me. He's just like, I don't know,
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Speaker 4: I've just never had a guy like treating like this,
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Speaker 4: which kind of sounds sad because it's just like I
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Speaker 4: don't know. But he's also like the first like old,
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Speaker 4: not older. He's like thirty one, but like maybe it's
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Speaker 4: because he kind of has a shit together, so he's
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Speaker 4: more inclined to treat women, right, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of hate your thirties and you're like, hey,
17:38
Speaker 1: I'm tired and I'm done with yeah what I did
17:42
Speaker 1: in the twenties, and now I really want to find somebody.
17:44
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just good timing. I mean, I'm thirty
17:47
Speaker 1: six now, but I got married about the age he is,
17:52
Speaker 1: and I was so ready, like so excited for us.
17:56
Speaker 1: Still am, but like I was, that dating in my
17:58
Speaker 1: twenties thing was far far gone from my life. So yeah,
18:02
Speaker 1: maybe he's just not a little boy. Maybe he's a man.
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Speaker 3: True, we love a man.
18:07
Speaker 2: We love a man. We love a man. This is awesome.
18:13
Speaker 2: This is super fun to hear. Now. I think this
18:15
Speaker 2: is the steps forward for us here because obviously this
18:18
Speaker 2: wasn't a date we set up. So I'm gonna say
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Speaker 2: some things and you tell me if you like the
18:22
Speaker 2: ideas or not. Okay, Okay, if.
18:24
Speaker 1: This all goes well this weekend, have a blast. We
18:26
Speaker 1: still obviously want a recap and a rundown good or bad.
18:31
Speaker 1: We're hoping good. If it goes well, I think that
18:34
Speaker 1: we here famously available would and want to If you're
18:39
Speaker 1: up for it, kind of cover your next date, especially
18:43
Speaker 1: like a dinner date, Like we would love to cover
18:45
Speaker 1: that for you and just say, hey, this was fun,
18:47
Speaker 1: like thanks for joining us, and we are we're going
18:51
Speaker 1: to pay for a night out for the two of you,
18:53
Speaker 1: hopefully something fun, because we need to we need to
18:56
Speaker 1: get involved somehow, even if it's not even if it's
18:59
Speaker 1: not reading down your neck or I could sit behind
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Speaker 1: you at dinner and just ask a questions And if
19:04
Speaker 1: it goes really well, I think it'd be really fun
19:07
Speaker 1: to have him on here at some point without you. Yeah,
19:10
Speaker 1: and I can ask him all the good questions about
19:12
Speaker 1: what he likes about you. Now, if it doesn't go well,
19:14
Speaker 1: I don't really want to talk to him, right, but
19:18
Speaker 1: if it does go well, we would love to have
19:21
Speaker 1: him on here just to kind of even explain to
19:24
Speaker 1: him what this was and why we chose you and
19:26
Speaker 1: how great you are and that we're.
19:28
Speaker 2: Excited that the two of you are going to go
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Speaker 2: off and keep dating. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No, I think he would totally be open to it.
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Speaker 4: He's like, literally can talk to anyone like, he's so cool,
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Speaker 4: So he would definitely be up for it.
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Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, Mercedes, you have a big weekend ahead of you.
19:43
Speaker 1: Just have fun with it, be excited for you are
19:46
Speaker 1: a tremendous human, so anybody's lucky to spend a few
19:50
Speaker 1: days with you. And you should know that. Also, you
19:54
Speaker 1: should know that he had an out. He could have
19:56
Speaker 1: canceled your flight day before you flew out there and
19:59
Speaker 1: said he I just don't think this is going to work,
20:00
Speaker 1: and he didn't. And so get the ideas in your
20:03
Speaker 1: head that maybe you were just talking because you had
20:06
Speaker 1: this plan. No, he could have asked you not to come,
20:10
Speaker 1: and he didn't. He wants you there, So just live
20:13
Speaker 1: in the spirit of he wants you there.
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Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, Thanks for the advice.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that you're going to do great, have fun rock
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Speaker 1: and roll in Boston, have fun and Salem too. I'm
20:24
Speaker 1: interested to hear what you think of it. And Mercedes
20:29
Speaker 1: tell this this man hello, please, thanks for coming on.
20:36
Speaker 2: We appreciate you.
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Speaker 3: All right, bye, this.
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Speaker 2: Has been famously available until next time. I've been Ben