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Oh my god, I just totally got catfished.
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He looks absolutely nothing like his picture.
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So I found out, the guy that I've been dating is married With kids.
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His wife just reached out to me.
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Welcome to the Meat Market.
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The single scene is an absolute slaughterhouse and we are here to devour it.
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We are your hosts.
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I'm Lindsay, I'm Jess and today's sizzling single is Pete.
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Meet Pete.
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Welcome.
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Thanks for being here.
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Thanks for having me.
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It's good to be here.
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You have some crazy dating stories, including a first date where the woman grabbed your crotch.
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We want to hear that story.
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Yeah it.
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You know, the thing about that date is that it started off fantastic.
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You know, we got along great, and normally I'll just for a first date I'll do a coffee or, like you know, one drink, and so that's what we planned.
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There was a happy hour and it was great.
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Everything was good Beautiful smile, wonderful woman.
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We got along great and so had dinner and then decided to go see a band and dance and everything.
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Well, we get to this place and she just flipped, like I don't know if she did drugs or something during that date, but it was bizarre.
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She just did and she just kind of started, I don't know, getting really weird, and so I'm like, okay, it's time for us to go, and I wasn't going to let her drive home because she clearly was in no good state, and so that's a really long story.
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But eventually I finally get her address and bring her home.
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And then she couldn't get in her house.
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She couldn't get the key in the door and all this stuff.
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Oh my God.
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It was just oh my God, it actually is even worse than that.
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I'll tell you this part I shouldn't.
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So we pull up into her driveway and she takes off her seatbelt and jumps basically across my seat and starts making out with me.
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Right, and I'm just trying to.
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I'm like whoa, no, right.
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I mean, look, she was beautiful and everything, but like the end of that.
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Had it been just the drink and we end up at her house, that may have been different, but it was really awkward at this, at this, you know live band thing.
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So anyway, I'm sitting there trying to get her off me, her garage door opens and there's her son staring at us.
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Oh yeah, Is she still on top of you at this point?
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Yes, oh cringe.
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I know how old is her son?
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Oh, he was probably 17, 18.
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Oh, how embarrassing.
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Although he's probably seen this before I'd imagine.
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I was gonna say the same thing I.
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I have a feeling he probably.
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This probably isn't the first time he's seen something like this, for you well.
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So I'm like, you know, I kind of I'm like your son, your son, and so she's like, oh my gosh, she was so embarrassed.
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She's like move.
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So so I moved over.
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You know, I moved all the way her son backs out and leaves, and then, you know, I pull back into her driveway and I'm like, okay, I got to get out of here, like this date needs to end.
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And so she gets out and then, like I mentioned, she's fumbling getting her keys in the door.
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So I get out and go up to the door, help her keys, and then she sticks her hand down my pants.
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So it wasn't over the clothes?
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No, she actually puts her hands down your pants?
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Oh no, it is.
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It wasn't over the clothes.
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She's feisty.
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Let's just say there was a firm grip.
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A firm grip, yeah, so there's no getting away from this, right I mean, oh yeah, it was not good, so finally I got out of there.
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Oh yeah, it was not good, so finally I got out of there.
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And yeah, it was not good.
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The important question is did she still want you to stay and hang out after the hand down the pants?
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Because, like was she doing a size check?
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She was like am I going to?
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invite this guy to stay overnight, yes or no?
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Well, so the add-on that I left out of the story.
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She's like we are going to fuck and I'm like, oh no, we are definitely not.
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I can't believe we're opening this segment with this story.
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These two guys are crazy, so this is so not me, but yeah, so I ended up?
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yeah, I got out of there and no, we did not Was there a second date.
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So she called me the next day, kind of oblivious, like I don't think she remembered anything.
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After dinner and I told her in detail what went down and she was horrified.
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She's like you know what you know, let me make it up to you.
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You know we got to.
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She's like that's not me.
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You know, I don't know what happened.
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I'm like I think I've had enough.
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I think I'm good Interesting.
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Did she have a lot to drink on the day?
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We had one drink pre-dinner.
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We we shared a bottle of wine.
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So what does that?
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Maybe two glasses, yeah, and then you know, then there was a span of time before we got to the band and she hadn't even drank her vodka soda, so it wasn't that much.
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That's what.
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I'm saying I think she and like I don't think she was roofied by someone, because I was there the whole time it was she went to the bathroom and the only thing I can assume is that she, maybe she did shrooms or something Like there has to be assume is that she maybe she did shrooms or something like she has to be something to fuck around real quick.
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Yeah, I mean this it was bizarre.
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Yeah, yeah, I can't believe.
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You opened with it.
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That's a good story, so tell us about you.
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What do you enjoy doing?
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What are your hobbies?
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What are you looking for?
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yeah, so I am.
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I'm a pretty active person.
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I uh, I love the sun that we have down here in Phoenix and I like being outside, be it happy hours.
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I run two to three days a week with my dog and I go to the gym a few times a week.
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I'm very involved in hockey.
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It's probably my favorite pastime.
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Hockey or ice hockey, ice hockey.
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Okay, yeah, those of us from the north.
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Well, in England, you know, we play field hockey.
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Yeah, no no, it's a good qualifying question.
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Yeah, no ice hockey, so I spend.
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Uh, I have season tickets to ASU and my son plays hockey on two different teams and so um and you like to travel.
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You've had a lot of crazy, fun travel stories.
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I have.
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Yeah, I do love to travel.
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I travel a lot for work and um and.
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But you know, personally I love to travel.
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I travel a lot for work, but personally I love to travel too.
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Yeah, I had a great trip to Europe where, just randomly, I ended up seeing Pearl Jam in Budapest.
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So that was your divorce vacation, right?
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Yes, yes, so tell that story.
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It's an interesting story, yeah it's great.
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So I went with a friend and our plan was, you know, we were just kind of looking at cost of everything, and so our plan was to fly into Munich and then take a train to Budapest and then fly to Amsterdam and then home from Amsterdam.
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great trip, right, great cities because, because, when you get divorced, the first place you need to go is Amsterdam, the number one spot in the world to go after your divorce.
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It's like, it's like divorce trip Amsterdam well, I'm not interested in that.
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But, yes, amsterdam is a great town, by the way, I love Amsterdam.
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But so we were in Munich and our plan was three nights there and then two nights in Budapest and then two nights in Amsterdam.
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Well, after two nights in Munich where we didn't get to the back to the hotel room to like four or five in the morning and, by the way, this is like you're not going to see me at the clubs in Old Town or anything like that, but you know, when you're in Munich, you do as they do.
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You know we'd get up and run in the morning and then, you know, spend all night.
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But after a couple nights we were tired of this, so we decided to split the trip and go to Vienna, which was great, and then we went from Vienna and on the way down to Budapest, we got an announcement on the train that there was an accident up above and the train couldn't get us all the way to Budapest, so they were going to drop us off at this little village that I'd never heard of.
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So we started talking to the people around us and there ends up being seven of us France, germany, italy, croatia.
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I mean, there was like just this eclectic group, and we decided okay, all of us are going to look for a way to get from this village to Budapest.
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And you know, but you have to find for seven, it's all for one, one for all.
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So this woman from Italy gets this, gets, finds this way.
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So before we get to this little village, we're set.
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There's the hotel sending a van out to pick us up.
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Well, they dump this train of 900 people probably off in this little village that probably only had, like your hometown, like a thousand people in it.
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Right, so it was mayhem.
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The train just went back the other way.
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There's no buses, there's no Uber, there's no taxis.
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Everybody's stuck here trying to find their way home.
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But we're already set.
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So this guy named Martin goes into this little tiny gift shop, buys all the beer they have and it was a beautiful day we sit out on this picnic table and, uh, are drinking beer, getting to know each other, and then he looks across at the two of us.
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He's like hey, I have two extra tickets for Pearl Jam tomorrow night if you want to join us.
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And we're like, yeah, so why?
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not yeah, exactly, so it was awesome yeah, that's awesome yeah so do you have any unique talents or unique facts that not many people know about you?
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um, you know, I I don't I guess one thing I uh, I mean most people know this, but I'm adopted, um had raised by a great family, just it was awesome.
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I wasn't want for anything.
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But maybe about six years ago my ex-sister-in-law gets the entire family a 23andMe test right.
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So I take the test more to find out kind of some medical background which I know nothing about and I find you know one of the results come back.
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I don't know if you've ever taken these things but like a typical, I've done one on my dog.
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Oh, wow.
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It's gotta be the same thing, it's totally the same thing.
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Well, most people related to you are like less than 1% related.
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I mean, you and I are probably less than 1% related, like there's just nothing.
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But I had one person 25% related and it and it said and then it predicts like what your relationship is Right, and it says grandson.
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I'm like okay, I know.
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I'm like okay, I've done a lot of crazy shit in my life, but I know I don't have a grandson, right, that's funny.
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So.
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But I reach out to the person and they never responded.
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And then time goes on.
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I decided to log back in and, based on all the new people related, related to me that have entered in it, changed that to half brother and I'm like, whoa, now I'm really interested.
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So I started digging in and doing all this stuff and fast forward.
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I end up in San Diego for a hockey tournament with my son and while there I find my birth dad and he lives on Coronado Island.
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Like, literally, I'm in San Diego and he lives on Coronado, and so I met him the next day.
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Oh, how cool.
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That's very cool yeah.
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And so we have a great relationship.
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I see him all the time, and then, just about four months ago, I found my birth mom.
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Oh wow.
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Yeah so yeah, so it's been really cool.
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She lives in Tennessee.
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So are both of your birth parents and your adopted parents.
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Are they all still alive?
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My mom passed away, just like the October prior to COVID or September.
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But no, my dad's 87, lives in central Minnesota, so it's still golfs every day and, yeah, well, every day you can in Minnesota, so I wanted to touch on this.
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So you said you were married for 20 years but you had said after the first two years you and your wife never kissed, she was not affectionate with you.
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And how long did you go without sex?
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Well, I mean it was pretty benign when we did, you know, missionary in bed at night, lights off, you know it was.
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But I mean there would be periods of time, it would be over a year.
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That's crazy, I know.
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Yeah, it was not ideal and she's a great person, a really good human being, a wonderful mom, but you know, I just you know, the compatibility just wasn't there.
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Is that why you ended up getting divorced?
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Yeah, I just, you know, the compatibility just just wasn't there.
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Is that why you ended up getting divorced?
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Yeah, I mean, ultimately, it just you know, and there was.
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There was some things.
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It was interesting my, my cousin, who I'm extremely close to, she lives in Fort Collins, colorado, and she got married over COVID, or remarried, I should say, over COVID, and and so they didn't have a party then, of course, and, but after COVID she had a party, and this was right after I had moved out.
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We weren't divorced yet, but we were going through the process and I went up for their wedding reception and like I saw all these people I hadn't seen in two, three years, and they were all like this is the person that we've missed all these years.
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And so I think I was so out of place and unhappy in in that um, that it and in that marriage that it just I became a person that that I wasn't um, normally and and and and and.
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So it's just been really like a huge weight off my shoulders and and it's it's been, it's it's been good to enjoy life again.
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Yeah, did you guys get married young.
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No, In fact I was, I was old, I was, I was well, I was 30 when we got married and then um.
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We didn't have kids until I was 39.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, and was like were was intimacy.
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Were you guys good with intimacy at the beginning?
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No, and it changed, or was there never.
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There was never really was there, there was never good intimacy.
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You know, before I met her I I had been cheated on by my two previous girlfriends and and then I met this woman who's you know very loyal, great values, you know strong, good person, and it was so refreshing from what I had been through that I kind of thought, you know, that isn't important.
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Yeah.
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You know, all these other values, alignment and all these other things are more important and you know, I lived and learned.
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So how long ago did you get divorced?
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Let's see.
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I guess it's officially been two years.
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I moved out four years ago.
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So you feel you're finally ready to get back in the saddle and start dating.
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Oh for sure, Definitely.
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I um, you know, I did the whole dating app thing for a while.
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I haven't been on a dating app for probably six months, Um, and so I have been out dating.
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I did date a woman for about a year, a wonderful person, but she lives in Austin, Texas, and the distance just she wasn't going to move here, I wasn't going to move there and we had to make the difficult decision.
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So what is your ideal partner?
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What are you looking for?
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I'm looking for someone who's active, who's willing to try new things.
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I probably wouldn't fit real well with somebody who's tight and rigid and needs to be controlling.
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You know I want to take an interest in their interest.
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I want them to be willing to take an interest in my interests.
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You know somebody, open communication is really important to me.
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I'm a pretty open person.
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I don't leave much in the dark, and you know that communications but I generally just really want to enjoy life.
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I kind of look at life like you know, you can't do anything about yesterday, so there's no sense really living with regret.
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We don't know if we're going to be here tomorrow, so we just really need to enjoy every single day that we're on this earth and I kind of want somebody to share that philosophy.
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Now.
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I think it's important to plan for the future but live for today.
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But no, I really do try to do that.
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I think it's amazing.
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I think we're so blessed to live in this incredible city and I just really enjoy every day.
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I'm alive.
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So you had told me, so that you've been catfished before, right?
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Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, From the apps.
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Yes, when you were on the apps.
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That's probably why I was not on the apps anymore, yeah, you know, most of the people I met on the apps were really good people.
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There just wasn't a connection for one reason or the other.
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But this was the very first person who I started communicating regularly with on an app.
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So I'm fresh out of, I'm not.
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In fact, I wasn't even officially divorced yet at this point.
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I had moved out, I'd been living on my own for a little while, but this woman and I start texting and she was a.
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She was a triathlete, and so we could never meet because she was always with her running coach or her biking coach or and it should have been a red flag.
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I mean, I've learned a lot since then.
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Yeah, but we talk on the phone all the time and anytime I would want to do like a FaceTime, for whatever reason, it didn't work out.
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Again, another red flag.
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Well, anyway, eventually, a few months later or a couple months later, I should say we finally decide to meet and she gets there like a half hour early and I'm like I haven't even left home yet and so I'm like, okay, well, I'll see you there.
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She's like hey, I'm sitting at the bar, come find me.
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Well, this place we met had this huge bar, like it probably seats 50 people.
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And so I walk into this door and I walk all the way around the bar, all the way back.
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I don't see this woman anywhere.
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I'm thinking maybe she's in the restroom or something Right.