This is a downbeat in ninety seven to one, the freak. All right, we've got some callers on hold. We'll get to in just a second. Obviously, big stories of the day, Bill Belichick out head coach, the Patriots, hard freeze coming over the weekend. It seems the forecast looks cold. But what is something right here called Katie's Key Party. I think we're gonna go with for a minute, and we'll get to these callers in a minute. But millennials are really tired of dating apps. Guys and gen
Z singles may not even be messing with them. There's a new survey that came out. They surveyed a bunch of people in college and grad students, and they found out that eighty percent of these people surveyed do not use dating apps collegen grad students. What was it prior like most? Yeah? I think it was most. You know, I was in the dating app renaissance as a single man from twenty thirteen. You know, I probably had about four years experience, you know, screwing around on the dating apps. Oh
my god, stick it in every hole I could find. Good God, n look at JJ's face, What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you. The company that owns the apps tender hinge, match dot Com and ok Cupid are agreeing with this survey. They've seen their stock price drop forty What was your app of choice? Were you a tender boy or were you a bumblebee? I was a bumbler put the you I have empowered women? Yeah, because women have to message you first. And I believe in
empowering women. So any guy can go and say the first no of the women, just like literally thirty seconds ago. Any hole I can find that doesn't sound empowering to women? What crevice would that have done it? Yeah? That would have cleaned it up. Nice. Grinder kicked us off in nine damns. Yeah, that's but that's their price, that's not usage.
Yeah, but that's sure, there's a direct correlation kind of. But these companies grow so fast and they think they'll grow forever and they misappropriate funds, and sure usage is down. That is a shocking number. I don't think that's I don't think usage. But now Grinder started No nine there, Danny, you were telling me about that back in the day. Yeah, like I believe in the fall of O nine. If I remember exactly tender we
Mane. This one started interning. When you say you were one of the first people to get an account, they just said, Danny, I didn't realize what it was. You were so early. You got just your first name. I remember as an intern, and then Danny D got one after you, and yeah, he got all the action. I remember as an intern coming in to meet you. Guys all you were telling me that I should get on it. I was with you, Yeah, come and get the fire d. Yeah, it's just tagline. Tender went mainstream in twenty
twelve. Then you have had little apps that came up Bumble where women message the man first, Hinge. It's geared more towards love rather than hot sex. Raya, which is exclusive in private, which I believe. Jonathan Owen's the packer's safety and husband of Simone Biles. He claims that Simone Biles messaged him first on Raya. He also claimed didn't know anything about gymnastics, but he had tweets about Gabby Douglas. He's a fraud and a bad safety.
Cowboys and Dak Prescott will take advantage of him on Sunday. He's a nasty bit. We're gonna have the incredible and great Simone Biles in the house on Sunday likely one of the greatest living athletes on planet Earth. Likely right, well, yeah, with I think her hubby's playing, right, you better get that camera shot. We won't have Jody Foster because she's got to get back for her episode of True Detective Sunday night. I mean, if Jodi Foster can't, she can't be there at the game. She's got a big
True Detective Pilot that she's got to do live on HBO. Oh, it's not live. I don't know why Jolie Foster came up. I don't know what you're doing again, Jodie Foster is a Packers fan and True Detective season three I know that part all right? Season four please go kicks off Sunday night. I just learned that it's not live. What about match dot com? Hold on? The league is another one, and the league is for
ambitious professionals like me. Other apps are I'd never heard of these les her scruff Field, f E E, L D and some of those cater to the l G B t Q I A plus yeah, j R Okay l
again and the next generation. Though, this is what this article is one theory the next generation seen through these fraudulent ways of social media where people put the best versions of their south out there and here's your five photos that you've maybe maybe done some photo shopping too, or you've done some cropping out and maybe you put a filter on there. They're seeing all through that stuff and it doesn't matter. And you say, covid has something to blame with all
that too, Maybe I guess. But these apps also have tired gimmicks like paid users and other things that frustrated users. For example, Hinge has a feature called a rose feature, and basically it's started to frustrate its base audience because they're like to interact with what they're calling standouts hot people. They give you one rose per week that you could send to this person. You would
get one rose, but you could pay to get a bushel. Yeah, here's a bunch of rosen here's more for three ninety nine each, so you can start hollering at hot people more if you pay. And they're like, that shouldn't be that way. So that's something they're kind of taking hot people and gatekeeping them and that's made some of their people mad. One user set it feels like they're hiding all the good guys who are actually looking for relationships
behind a paywall. Uh industries, right though, it's just like anything else, you get the dudes to pay. I just want you to know that listening to our shows free. Yeah, just know that you can, though, throw roses at us as we leave the building every day. If that's what you still get annoyed third day though, we got to do this thing again. Get in the car. Some of them are just straight pay sites. I think the Harmony's a pay site. Well, I think Match is
largely a pacee my hot Lunch? What is that one? No, it's lunch, hot dog. It's just like it's just lunch. That's its actual dating service, yea where you call and you have a speed date lunch. Yeah, like that. We have someone we know that met a woman on It's Just Lunch. Really got married to her and divorced, No, happily married one or two kids. Now he probably a yeah, no, he's probably listening, but you know five and a half, but it's rocky,
like a self admitted five and a half. Probably she and eight? What and the eight is worth millions of dollars? And the five and a half is worth about five thousand dollars, no joke, five thousand dollars. I'd just rather have a negative net worth than a five thousand dollars networth. I so on this hinge thing. So that worked. It did work perfectly. Five and a half, two and eight. I'll tell you in the break and you will be shocked exactly what I'm talking about. Is it fits.
It's not stop it fits is a six, He's not a five and a half. Courtney's a nine. Twenty six year old Hannah looking at the standout section, the men all have jobs, families in great teeth. The same can't be said for my regular feed, where you get these bozos you know dot com. Okay, that's another one that's a little different. I don't know they didn't get into that in this article, but yeah, because you don't have to be lonely, No, I hooked up with the chick on
Farmers Only dot com to Jeff. Apps are trying to pivot now. Tender used to be the casual sex app. It's now trying to reinvent itself because gen Z. There's studies out too. There's like they're kind of hook up adverse don't really like that. Tender suck trying to get more into We'll focus on is that right? Are they hook up adverse? That's a verse what I'm here? I mean, you know, not all no blanket statements, right, but you know, we'll get the research and something like that.
The CMO at Tender says forty percent of users want to find long term relationships. Yeah, dating apps to gen z might be like Facebook to millennials. They're on them because everyone else is, but it's not like they're having any fun with it. So they're on the aid that the apps, but they're not enjoying their experience. And some dating experts are like, well, you have to shoulder some of the responsibility. If you can't have a good,
interesting conversation with someone on these apps, then that's on you. Like if your response to everything is high or uh, what do you do? You know? Hey, cool to say, and then it's a corny pickup line either and that's not gonna work. But I think that's kind of interesting where it's all going with dating apps. We challenged our callers and they have came through be crazy dating app stories. I got a couple, uh, mainly not involving me because I keep things on the up and up. But let's
go to one of our callers right here. Who do we have on line one? Here? Hi? What's your name? You're on ninety seven one the freak? Hello? Oh still there, don't give up, keep trying Hello. Let's take another caller then. If it's oh, Hi, what's your name? Hey? Rebecca? A Rebecca Rebecca? Where are you calling from? What's going on? Uh? Well currently loop twelve and thirty five? Yes, where all the good things happen. What are you going to a strip club? I wish? No, I'm actually going to work.
It's not at a strip club, is it. Well, I to work you in. I'm in sales support strip club? Yes, actually no, we do office furniture. Really do you sell that? Do you sew the X chair? The future of sitting? What if the I don't know that one, Hayward, No X chair. It's like commercials all the time, and it says it's no, I use the elements of the universe for a sitting experience. Oh no, I don't know about that one. Friends,
What about the egg chair? I think that's the ex toilet And it's a different tagline Okay, let's let her go and proceed with what she came to say. Yeah, hey, that's okay, guys, you can take up as much time as you need. I'm not actually I actually been calling because if you can remember, back to like twenty eleven and twelve, we used to have pof Do anybody remember plenty of fish? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
yah, oh I remember hearing about it. Yeah yeah. Well it was very seedy and I didn't know what I was doing, obviously because I was very young. But I did meet a gentleman and made a mistake of getting in this car so we could go and smoke a little reefer. And then it got real icky, and so I was like, yeah, let's let's let's go somewhere. Let's split up, you know. And we we split up, and I just last second was like, noscri this. So I like fucked it off onto the highways, you know, and ended up
getting pulled over, driving kind of erratically because I was so great. He was going to follow me and got pulled over by a cop. He basically flirted with me the entire time because I was truthful. I was like, I'm running from a weird day online. He was like, you know, you don't you shouldn't you You're not the kind of girl that needs to go online today. I'm like, I just left one dick to come to this dick. I'm just trying to get to my gay best friend's house so I
can pop this out. Like I'm not going to give you a ticket. Yeah, He's like, I'm not going to give you a ticket, but just so you know, you're in a workstone and blah blah blah blah blah. I was like, thank you, Officer Hernandez, not to mention that you're stoned. And here's Officer Hernandez trying to bad lieutenant you dude, Danny. That actually reminds me I had weed in the car and he was like do I smell something? And I was like no, and he totally let
it go. And I was like, wow, thank God for these biggus. Are you an Officer Hernandez now happily married with two children, job he wishes. So that's interesting. Now. I know in your case it's true, but as we all continue to search for like ways to get out of tickets, that's a great one to say. Just say, I just went on this really awkward online date. I was a little frightened the guy I'm
trying to get away from him. I know I was speeding. I'm really I was just scared he was smoking weed in the car and look at my boobs. Yeah, and look at you right out of my mouth. I'm serious. It worked like a charm. However, you know, I've also not gotten out of some tickets, so you know it's fifty to fifty? Is that the all? I mean? Did you go on a lot of plenty of fish dates? Oh? Yeah, I made an art out of it because I was a single person. Well I am a single person.
But it's been about a decade, yeah, ten twelve years now. I don't can't keep a truck in time. But yeah, it's like you just keep going back and then now I'm just like, I'm over it. Do you still think? So you don't use the apps anymore? I don't. I don't even have them downloaded on my phone. I's got rid of it all because it was there. I'll go to it. I've always been curious the difference, the distinction between the main's intention of getting on the app in
the woman's Were you looking for a boyfriend? Are you looking just like, were you just curious or are you looking to hook up? What? What was your intention? Yeah? It evolved over time. You know, I didn't date a lot as a young person, so I like did it as like sort of a social experiment to see, like if I could get into online dating because that was a new big thing. Right then it turned into oh, I know what this is, and so I learned to play that
game and I enjoyed it and I got great gratification out of it. But at the same time, nothing worse right and home about right if you will, Yeah, so what's your what's your current age? If you don't mind, I am thirty three and a half, I'll be thirty four and June thirty three and a half. And you were doing this all when you were
like twenty one, right, twenty one twenty two? Yeah, I mean yeah, I was born in ninety so, like we're talking like twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen was right around when I started like getting into it. Yeah, what was what was the ultimate thing that easy to do? What was the ultimate thing? Was there one straw that broke the Campbell's back? He said, you know what, deleting all this nonsense from my phone. I'm not doing this anymore, honestly, if you like make me
think about it. I got into a relationship that was just really like it kind of just was, yeah, the straw that broke the camel's back, and I was like, I just can't keep investing. And you know, people that are not honest about theirselves, you know, until it's too late. So you know, I just what do you do? Well, what do you do now? As far as now that you're off the apps? I mean, what your how do you meet people? Especially in a post
COVID world where nobody's going out anymore? Honestly, I mean my situation is a little unique in that, you know, I'm a single mom and I don't have a ton of help, so I don't I don't honestly get to go out, but when I do, it's the loan. I go to the bar and I see karaoke and I get drunk, and that's how I socialize. I'm a butterfly in the sense that I can sort of meander and
mingle with different crowds of folks, so I'll make my own fun. I don't need to bring anybody with me, and if it happens organically, it'll happen if not, there's no pressure on me or anybody else. Have you ever seen a photo of Danny Bayliss? And do you like musicians? I'm old enough to be her dad, so what shut up? Let me do this. Danny, you are an attractive gentleman. I don't know how old you are, but my father was born in nineteen sixty, so if that
tells you anything, I'm eight years younger than your dad. Okay, that's okay. Huh do you have a that could make Thanksgiving dinner awkward? When he and I have more in common than you and me? You know what? That has always been a case. My dad's a mechanic, He's always he's a guy's guy. Every guy I've ever been with has just gotten real in cahoot, So that would be totally fine. I'll tell you what. Talk trucks, hold on talk, Hey, Rebecca, can you just text
me your dad's number? I need a new friend able to cut out the middle man, and I don't want to have to deal with Rebecca. I just want to hang out with her. Old man. Rebecca, do you like Luke Bryan? Okay, well, we won't give you, Luke Brian tickets, thank you for your time today. Yeah? Do you want them? Oh? If she doesn't go, she could give them. I don't want to take them from somebody who really wants What a sweetheart, great call. Thank you, Rebecca. We appreciate it, all right, Yeah,
she's Great's hilarious. We're looking for we need to buy some furniture and some chairs from wherever? Yeah? It works at Who we got next? Here? J j What we have here? Hi? What's your name? You're on the freak? Let me do Hi, Jeremy, where are you calling from? I am calling from Dallas. And this is also the unofficial official amputee of the spree. All right, hey, welcome back, Hey Jenny
weird dating app stories. Yes, so I've only been an amputee since twenty eighteen, and after my amputation, I decided I was going to get in the dating scene. But I didn't think that I was worth anything. Obviously, self esteem was low versus the high self esteem that I have now just poured out of me. So I joined a dating site called Dating for Disabling Oh, and joined and it was great. And it took me about a month to realize that I had joined a fetish website. Oh the reason I
found this out is I matched with an individual. We swapped some messages, we started texting, and she wanted to use my residual limb as a uh as a thing. So yeah, wow, yes, so I am open to all in any any questions. Yes, because this sounds like our tongues up off the floor. That's an angle I had not considered. No, because I and I would think either, because it was about six inches around when I first got amputated. So the first thing that ran through my mind
is exactly where would you like this to go? Yeah? Yeah, because I would think dudes are into weirder stuff and not, I mean a little less so girls on the hunt for that sort of thing. But I remind our listeners, what you what? What's been amputated my left leg? I'm a below the knee left leg amputee below the knee. Okay, And via text or in person, when you realize that this person was interested in what
you were missing for as much as all the great things you have. Like Rebecca, she was a single mother, so we were working on schedules. This was post COVID. This is you know, like I said, twenty eighteen or pre COVID. I'm sorry, and you know I was. I remember being in Times Square and was like, hey, like, I'm going
to bring you back. A little nick knack could be great. You know when we first meet, to have something saying yep, I can't wait to have you back because I want to lose your leg as a blah blah blah. And I was like, all right, and that's where you hit the end button and then you go to the circle, buddy hit the block button and you just sort of move on from there. So oh wow, where you hit the green. But I think I probably would have just at least
handed to her gift to see where this goes. Just you didn't have any curiosity or are you just like completely turned off by the whole ordeal? I had curiosity, Danny, But the biggest thing that my brain kept working through is you wanted to use my six inch residual limb. You have to work up to that, Yeah, I mean, like, how do you follow that opening act with the real thing? To be disappointed with the main course? Let's say I'm full up? Yeah, did nothing come on ship that
tiny? D Let's just have the leg back, please, and can you get back into the bass bass pro shop? Tank should try instead of like dating for the disabled to shock ask for amputees or something, it's a little more like, so you're getting I want you to get something out of this man. Well, now I've got a beautiful girlfriend, Stephanie. Shout teachers out there, so yes, shout out Stephanie. So fantastic. Well hey do you like? Do you and Stephanie? You want to go see Luke
Bryan? No? No, all right, we'll keep him then Luke Bryan. The tickets nobody could even give away? Huge, very divisive. You gott to meet the right person. I think people either love him or hate him. It feels like, you know, we'll have three pairs to give away tomorrow him legend call. That's two legend two. That was two for
two days. Yes, sir, guys are crushing everybody. See that's what happens when you pick up your phone and dial two one four seven eight seven one, or when you send a picture of yourself to that number that Danny can look at. Will you stop it? What you're obsessed? You're trying to hook me up with thirty three year old Rebecca. Yeah, because you're the coolest dude ever. Oh you're so sweet and you're single. Boy. Our listeners are all texting in I tot rebooker all dat. Oh my god,
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