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An App Allows You To Send A Drink To Anyone At The Bar · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you're heading out this weekend, maybe you're hitting
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  Speaker 1: the bars meet somebody, or maybe you're at home and
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  Speaker 1: you know somebody's at a bar, you can do this.
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  Speaker 1: I never heard of this app until you just told.
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  Speaker 2: Me, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's brand new. It's or new ish. It's
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  Speaker 3: called Dion and it's an app that lets you send
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  Speaker 3: a drink to someone at d io n you can
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  Speaker 3: send a drink to someone at a bar. You can
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  Speaker 3: send a cocktail, you could send a coffee to somebody
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  Speaker 3: wherever there are venues participating with this.
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  Speaker 1: if I knew my kid was there, And.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Chuck E Cheese is.
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  Speaker 1: Part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna look up Dion right now.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about it the iown so yeah, they've got.
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  Speaker 3: They're in a bunch of cities like New York, Miami,
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  Speaker 3: La Dubai, and Mexico City, and the apps creators say
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  Speaker 3: it's often hard to spark conversation at a bar. It
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  Speaker 3: can feel awkward, and you want to send a drink.
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  Speaker 3: This way, you can send a stranger a drink in
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  Speaker 3: the hope that that's going to kick off a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: And he said people are using it just to make friends,
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  Speaker 3: like you could send somebody coffee and hope that they
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  Speaker 3: want to meet up with you. He said. When it
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  Speaker 3: comes to breaking the ice, some experts are warning that
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  Speaker 3: it can blur the lines between genuine connection and transactional interactions.
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  Speaker 3: But I think you understand the idea. You're you're gifting
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  Speaker 3: someone a coffee, a drink, whatever it is, in the
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  Speaker 3: in the hope of meeting them in real life.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds cool, but how does it work if you
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  Speaker 1: want to send, say, I know you're at a.
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  Speaker 2: Bar, Christy, how do I know where you're sitting? How
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  Speaker 2: do I know what you're wearing? I have so many questions.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm on the app right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the app store and I typed in d
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  Speaker 1: io n yes, and I'm reading the description of the app,
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  Speaker 1: and you kind of summed it up. But it also says, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Dion is more than an app. It's a movement to
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  Speaker 1: revive the essence of human connection, whether you're near or far,
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  Speaker 1: near or far, the gesture of treating someone is universal,
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  Speaker 1: a language of kindness and warmth. Nice, apply to oh,
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  Speaker 1: it says here, apply.
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  Speaker 2: To join the Dion community.
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  Speaker 3: Because you have to be vetted.
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  Speaker 2: Ah yeah, I'm sure there's some age issues.
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  Speaker 3: Here for well, alcohol true, and they want to be
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  Speaker 3: I think there's like almost a background check basically, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, all right?
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, Like if a Starbucks shows up at my house,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's okay, send me a gift, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that tomorrow morning you wake up and
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  Speaker 1: you have twenty cups of coffee in front of your
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  Speaker 1: front door.
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  Speaker 3: That's so fun.
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  Speaker 2: Like ifect