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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 a 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 Paolo.
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Welcome.
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Thanks for coming here.
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Thank you for having me.
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So you have never been married, but now you feel like you're ready and you want it.
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So why are you ready now?
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What changed?
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I don't know.
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I think just just over time.
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And you know, having a daughter and knowing what I want, Before, when I was younger, I didn't know really what I wanted.
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So I think now I do know what I want.
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So that's what I'm looking for, which is extremely difficult these days.
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So I am ready.
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Do you have a long list of what you want?
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I don't.
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I don't have a huge list.
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Do you have it?
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written down somewhere.
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I do actually.
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Do you Really what you want?
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Um, I don't, I don't have a huge list, right?
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Do you have it written?
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down somewhere.
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I do actually do you?
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Yeah, really I actually wrote it down one time.
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Yeah, I don't remember where I put it though.
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So you've never been close to getting married, you've never been engaged you've never had that feeling of being with a woman and thinking, oh, I want to grow old with her.
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Um I think there was a point at one time I was thinking about it, but it just never evolved to that right.
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So then it ended, and since then I've just no, never again and how's your daughter?
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She's seven and how.
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So I was gonna say how was that relationship?
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um, we're cordial you know, but I try to, like you know, mom does her thing, I do my own thing, you know, and if we need something serious or come to a decision, then we discuss it, but other than that, you just go live your life, I live mine.
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How long were you with the mother for?
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Very short period of time, oh really, yeah.
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So, um, I actually wanted to continue dating her and but she didn't want to, and then she got pregnant, and then I wanted it again and she just said we're never going to be together.
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I said okay, and as soon as she said that I was just, I was done.
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It's time to move on.
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Wow, so was the pregnancy planned unplanned.
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It was unplanned.
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Unplanned.
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Do you?
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want more kids.
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You know, people have asked me that and at my age it's kind of like yes and no.
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So if I'm with someone that does yes, if I'm with someone that doesn't no, I'm okay, you can go either way.
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I can go either way yeah, Does your daughter want siblings?
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Oh my God, like crazy yeah.
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So I'll give you a little story right.
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So on the mom's side, my daughter has two cousins an aunt, uncle and a grandma.
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That's it Right On my side, cause I'm Portuguese right and for people that don't know that, portuguese families you tend to be really big.
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So we go to my California to Christmas, you know, and my uncle has a Christmas party and my daughter walks up to me and she goes dad, who here's my cousin.
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I go everybody here is your cousin except uncle and auntie, that's it and she goes.
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But there's like a hundred people here, cousin I go.
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Everybody here is your cousin except uncle and auntie, that's it and she goes.
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But there's like a hundred people here I go.
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I know there's a hundred cousin dad, nobody, I have nothing like that at my mom's house.
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You know I'm a mom's side.
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I go.
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I know it's just a lot over this way.
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So, and she loves it.
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Every time we go she's excited, she wants to go there, she wants to hang out and everybody's just cousin I go.
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If you don't know their name, just call them cousin so do you still have family back in Portugal?
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um, yes, extended family, portugal.
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So all my brothers and sisters, except for one sister, live in California.
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So I have a sister lives in Virginia, she's married to a JAG officer, and then my mom's there.
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My dad's no longer with us.
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Um, she remember I'mried, but everybody lives in California, so I'm the only one who lives out here Nice, yeah, and so you are very international.
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You've done a lot of traveling.
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Tell us about that.
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Well, most of my traveling I did so back in college I wanted to do well, I'll rewind.
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First of all, I'm in agriculture, right, so people don't know what that is.
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Sexiest industry in the world by the way, Woohoo arriba, I grew up on a farm.
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I can attest to that.
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Heck yeah because we have music, country music, whatnot?
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So when you say you're in agriculture, what exactly does that entail?
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You know, it's funny because for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to explain it to you.
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And I pharmaceutical rep is right.
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So I'm like a pharmaceutical rep for farmers.
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So there's a manufacturer I work for and then I go and talk to farmers, you know, and say hey, what do you need to take care of your crop?
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Now, do you guys remember and I don't even know if they have these anymore you remember the old supplement store called GNC?
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Yes.
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You know.
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And then there's the vitamin shop right.
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So they no longer have those.
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Well, I can't find them.
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I typed in the other day vitamin shop because I was looking for a particular vitamin.
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It's like optimal.
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Something pops up Anyhow.
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I would be more like their rep, so I'm looking.
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I'm trying to help farmers, you know, be proactive in putting proper nutrition in their crops so that they have they don't have to use pesticides or at least a small amount of it, right?
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So that's what I pretty much do.
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Interesting.
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How did you get into that?
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So first of all I grew up on a farm forever, and then I got to farm for about eight years for a guy, and then one day he was just like I'm going to close the business, I'm done.
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And so I went looking for a job and I landed one in in sales and and I was working in California for a company for a little bit and then this headhunter called me and goes hey, we're looking for someone that could speak Portuguese and Spanish to go to South America.
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And I go, I'm in.
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So I applied and that was that.
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So then I traveled a lot and down South America.
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Oh, nice yeah.
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But when I was in college I wanted to do weed harvesting.
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So in the US they call it the 3,000-mile harvest.
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They start in Texas to Canada.
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But I was graduating later when they started.
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So one guy goes why don't you go to Australia?
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They start in October.
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So I was like all right, so I went to Australia.
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And so when I got there it was all Irish guys, one Palmy, which is English Uh, I was the only American and two Australians.
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So for a week nobody would talk to me, you know, and I was just like why?
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And then later on they were like well, we didn't talk to you because we just thought you were one of those pompous Americans that we had to deal with.
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And then we find out you're not.
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So it's kind of to americans, I feel have a little bit of a negative reputation oh yeah of being loud and obnoxious, and oh yeah people always say you can always spot the american on the train because everyone can hear them uh-huh for sure I think americans sometimes go places and they they feel like they can do the same thing they do here, somewhere else, without you know they don't adapt to other cultures they expect to interject our culture, whatever our culture is, into other countries.
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It's true because england everyone is quiet.
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They keep to themselves when you're on the tube or the bus.
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Same thing in japan and I think americans go to these countries and, kind of, you know, continue to be loud and right everyone know what they're talking about.
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Yeah, and I think it's also my my.
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My feeling is I think they get in trouble.
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They think, oh, you know that some somebody from the government's going to come help them.
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It doesn't really work out that way.
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You get in trouble their laws.
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You just gotta deal with their laws now, right how do you like australia it?
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was amazing yeah, a lot of fun, yeah I love it because it's like England, but with good weather, with the sun.
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So I did weed harvesting in the bush they call it right.
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In the bush.
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It was basically that right.
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So I did that.
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And then it was a drought year, so we only got to do it for about a month, a little longer than a month, and then we all kicked over to Sydney and I found this little place right right on Coogee Beach.
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So I found a place there then.
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I started, I was just gonna say Australia is just set up for inappropriate right all day right, it's like it's.
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It's south of Bondi Beach where so everyone?
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Knows Bondi Beach.
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So anyways, um, I was there and I started.
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I was working at a club as a bar back then during the day, bartender, and then I would do construction on the side.
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You know, just to make ends meet, cause I wanted to stay you know, so I, just I was constantly just working, and then I think, the last few weeks of being there, um, I just traveled the country you know, and I'll tell you one thing, man, australia is scary in some parts?
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Yeah, because there's things that eat you and kill you.
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Lots of bugs and snakes there's like certain places you go in the water there's crocodiles, you know, and there's saltwater crocodiles, you know.
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Where I was, at Coogee Beach, they had this huge net, you know, out in the ocean to keep the sharks from coming in right.
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And then constantly there was a plane or helicopter would fly by to watch and then all of a sudden you hear a siren because a shark jumped the net.
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Oh, my God.
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You know.
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So then they had to send guys out there, find the shark, grab it, put it back over, and everybody would just get out of the water, you know.
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I remember I was snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and we were surrounded by these reef sharks and they weren't huge.
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They were like don't worry they're not gonna eat you.
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They're innocent.
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But they're still sharks, so I'm still like freaking out, and that was fun.
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I did that too.
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That was a lot of beautiful.
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Oh my god, it was great.
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I went on a.
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It was a sailing ship.
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I went out and you just stayed out there the night for a couple nights, you know, and then you go um diving at night, and that was that was amazing gorgeous oh the, it was a full.
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It was like you could.
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You felt like you could touch it.
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It was so big, it's cool, it was so pretty.
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So you said that you would bartend there.
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Yeah.
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Did you meet many Australian women?
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How was that?
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How were they?
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No, so I was bartending during the day, oh gotcha.
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You know it wasn't at know you would see a lot of Australian women.
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It was different because they would be pregnant women smoking at the bar.
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It was okay, savage.
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You know and I was just like I never saw that right.
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I was like this is interesting.
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As ever, the men were very much like you know, how did they speak?
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They would say something like oi, oi, yeah, when they wanted to talk to somebody, it wasn't like what's up or hey, how are you, it was like oi, and it was like we just grabbed someone's attention and they were just what's going on?
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You know, they want to talk to you and um, it was.
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It was just very interesting to see so you never dated any Aussie women.
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I did actually I did date, you know, um one of the girls that worked there at the same club that I, that I worked at.
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Yeah, we dated for a little bit was she different than American women or?
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Um, yes, yeah, um, in one sense is she was constantly working out, in a sense like in no, I know a lot of American women work out, but hers was just swimming like we'd finish at three o'clock in the morning.
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She said I'm gonna go swim in the ocean.
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You know forever, let's go, all right, cool, I'm not going to, you know like I'm going to bed, I'll see you back at our place, you know, and uh, she'd show up, just you know, a couple hours later soaking wet kind of thing, and I'm trying to think what else would be different about her.
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I mean, the accent was great.
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She was very like um, I want to say like wanderlust, hippie-ish kind of you know, which I wasn't really into back then.
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Yeah, but, um, but, but overall she was just a very nice person so we were talking about how, um, like Australia owned by the commonwealth, and that's where in the olden days, the Brits would send the prisoners to Australia, but it's so beautiful like I'd rather be in Australia than England.
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And then he was telling me how, in Portugal, they have the same thing.
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Tell us about that.
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Oh yeah, so I think the Azor Islands was um was where the Portuguese would send, you know, the prisoners to those islands.
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But now it's a big tourist destination.
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It's become a huge tourist destination.
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Yeah, people love going there.
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The Europeans like going there, you going there, the europeans like going there.
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You know they buy houses, they want to go there all the time it's.
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I remember going back in 92 and there was still, you know, horse and buggy kind of thing and now it's more paved.
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I haven't been back so I can't tell you everything, but my cousins ago they tell me that it's more paved, there's more cars, more people, etc kind of remember how in the olden days they would serve lobster to the slaves, because that was like the bottom, and now it's so expensive to eat lobsters.
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Yeah yeah, are you looking for someone that wants to travel?
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with you a travel partner yeah, a travel.
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Have we talked about this before?
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like the travel bunny, like there's girls that are literally looking for that, some like looking for men that just travel at it uh-huh, it's kind of like a gold digger, but they just want to travel you pay, you pay their way and they'll be on your arm he's like no thank you not that type of travel partner?
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yeah, my travel buddy right now is my daughter yeah, and I love that.
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Oh yeah, yeah, I take her wherever I took her to to portugal, spain, in in italy last year.
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We just had a blast she's a good traveler at that easy super easy.
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Even when she was a baby, she was so super easy.
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She didn't cry, didn't complain no she's like she'll just say, hey, dad, when we're gonna get there, and then say, oh, a couple of hours or whatever, and she's like okay I feel like if you start taking kids when they're like young, young they're just used to it.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, but I mean some, some kids don't do that great of a job.
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I mean some kids just screaming, you know?
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Okay, headphones.
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Yeah Right, I want some music.
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So are you on the dating apps currently?
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I'm not.
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I got completely off of them.
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I've done them all you know, and um, yeah, I don't know what's going on.
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I was actually probably gonna ask you guys you know what's up with this world of dating, cause it's a sucks so flat out.
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Have you had any bad dates from the app?
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So disaster dates or catfish?
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Um, I don't know if it was a quite a catfish, but I went out with one woman once and she asked me she goes, oh my God, you look exactly like your photos.
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I go, I'm supposed to right, you know that's the point.
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That's the point of pictures she's all she's like how about me and I go?
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No, no.
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You said that yeah.
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I go no, not even close.
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She goes what.
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I go no, and she's like what's different?
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I go everything.
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That's hilarious.
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How did she take that?
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She's just like well, it is me and I go.
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Well, you can say that all day you want.
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Were the pictures different?
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Were they filtered?
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Was she, you know, heavier?
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Well, yeah, she was heavier.
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They had heavily filtered.
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Right, you know, filters are terrible, so terrible I feel that way, though I I'm not on the dating apps, but I feel that way when we, when we talk to people that want to come on the podcast, so they'll reach out to us on social media and go, hey, I want to be a guest on your show, I'm single, and it's like, okay, great, send us, you know, a recent photo and and why you think that you know you would make a good guest.
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And so they send photos, or they send their social media and we check them out and then we jump on the FaceTime with them and it's like whoa, like I thought we were talking to wait, who are we talking to right now?
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and it's like oh, oh yeah, you're the same person.
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Like it's crazy.
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Most of them don't look like their pictures.
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The women especially.
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Which is weird to me, because I would be mortified to show up on a date looking uglier than my picture.
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I don't want to disappoint people, I'd rather have people be pleasantly surprised.