WEBVTT
00:00:01.241 --> 00:00:03.867
Oh my god, I just totally got catfished.
00:00:03.867 --> 00:00:05.913
He looks absolutely nothing like his picture.
00:00:06.379 --> 00:00:11.029
So I found out, the guy that I've been dating is married with kids.
00:00:11.029 --> 00:00:13.173
His wife just reached out to me.
00:00:15.461 --> 00:00:16.623
Welcome to the meat market.
00:00:16.623 --> 00:00:19.891
The single scene is a slaughterhouse and we are here to devour it.
00:00:19.891 --> 00:00:20.801
We are your hosts.
00:00:20.801 --> 00:00:24.652
I'm Lindsay, I'm Jess and today's sizzling single is Simon.
00:00:24.652 --> 00:00:26.885
Welcome, hello, thank you for having me.
00:00:26.885 --> 00:00:31.271
So you have had a bad string of dates and some scary situations.
00:00:31.271 --> 00:00:32.167
Yes, I have.
00:00:32.167 --> 00:00:32.551
I sure have.
00:00:32.551 --> 00:00:33.340
We want to hear those.
00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:34.523
Yeah, absolutely.
00:00:34.523 --> 00:00:36.628
Well, I've got two that stick out to me.
00:00:36.628 --> 00:00:42.070
One I had a stalker, so basically I was emailing this guy on an app.
00:00:42.070 --> 00:00:50.090
Every email he would send back to me would be two to three pages long, like it got to a point where it was like okay, creepo.
00:00:50.109 --> 00:00:50.531
That's eternal.
00:00:50.811 --> 00:00:53.384
Yeah, big time, and it was about nothing really.
00:00:53.384 --> 00:00:55.892
And so finally I was like this is not working for me.
00:00:55.892 --> 00:00:59.365
So then I sent an email back saying I'm not interested, let's just move on.
00:00:59.365 --> 00:01:01.808
So then I don't hear from him for months.
00:01:01.808 --> 00:01:04.253
Next thing I get, I get an email from him.
00:01:04.253 --> 00:01:06.040
Do you know a good oncologist?
00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.450
I'm in the oncology field and I ignored it, didn't say anything.
00:01:10.450 --> 00:01:15.612
And so then I show up to work and I get a text message Not sure how he got my number.
00:01:15.612 --> 00:01:18.762
He's like you're so much prettier and taller in person.
00:01:19.141 --> 00:01:23.929
That is scary oh my gosh, yeah, I was like what the heck?
00:01:23.929 --> 00:01:28.055
And so then I look at the patient list and I see his name on there.
00:01:28.055 --> 00:01:30.667
So he's actually a patient of one of my partners.
00:01:31.168 --> 00:01:31.990
Wow yeah.
00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:40.790
So yeah, but he signed in saying I was his doctor, even though I was not, and the whole time he just was texting me constantly, constantly.
00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:41.611
What.
00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:43.346
Yes, really creepy.
00:01:43.346 --> 00:01:49.430
So then I went to my partner and said you've got to get rid of him.
00:01:49.450 --> 00:01:50.632
I mean, this is bizarre.
00:01:50.632 --> 00:01:52.316
That's like call security Exactly, Exactly.
00:01:52.558 --> 00:01:56.429
And unfortunately, my partner was like no, he's a patient, I've got to take care of him.
00:01:56.429 --> 00:01:57.311
Like what about me?
00:01:57.311 --> 00:01:58.641
Yeah, thank you.
00:01:58.641 --> 00:02:01.484
Well, anyway, he stayed there, got his chemotherapy.
00:02:01.484 --> 00:02:06.932
Finally, I found him in the room alone and I went up to him and said listen, you can't be doing this.
00:02:06.932 --> 00:02:07.953
Stop your texting.
00:02:07.953 --> 00:02:09.975
This is a professional setting.
00:02:09.975 --> 00:02:10.981
Don't do this anymore.
00:02:11.323 --> 00:02:12.325
I was just going to ask that.
00:02:12.325 --> 00:02:14.891
Did he actually need treatment or was he?
00:02:16.343 --> 00:02:16.463
faking.
00:02:16.463 --> 00:02:16.805
He really did.
00:02:16.805 --> 00:02:18.710
I thought he was faking it, but how do you fake it?
00:02:18.710 --> 00:02:25.192
I know that's the thing you can for a while until you get the tests back Exactly.
00:02:25.192 --> 00:02:26.054
Exactly.
00:02:26.054 --> 00:02:29.651
But you know, I was just living on edge, just walking to my car.
00:02:29.651 --> 00:02:31.747
I was afraid I had someone walk with me.
00:02:31.747 --> 00:02:35.046
He would constantly text me, he would bring girls with him, what?
00:02:35.046 --> 00:02:38.835
Sitting in his lap in the chemo room being rowdy, just trying to make me jealous.
00:02:38.975 --> 00:02:39.960
Oh my gosh yeah.
00:02:40.501 --> 00:02:41.002
Oh my gosh.
00:02:41.002 --> 00:02:46.554
So finally he was done with his treatments and I had that talk with him and I never heard from him again.
00:02:46.554 --> 00:02:52.173
But, wow, it took me a few months to just not look over my shoulder about that.
00:02:52.500 --> 00:02:56.632
Seriously, so you're a doctor, do you like people to call you Dr Simon?
00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:58.485
No, no, no, I mean, that's a job.
00:02:58.485 --> 00:03:01.010
Yeah, that's not completely who I am.
00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:07.352
Because I know, like my brother has his doctor and he he does not like people calling him doctor, but there are some people that you have to call me doctor.
00:03:07.391 --> 00:03:10.725
I worked hard to get no, no, no, absolutely not no for me.
00:03:10.725 --> 00:03:12.852
Call me whatever you want, you know my name's preferable.
00:03:13.942 --> 00:03:18.112
No, I'm not like that do guys ever get weird about it, about me?
00:03:18.193 --> 00:03:19.597
being a physician.
00:03:19.597 --> 00:03:20.919
Yeah, yeah, sometimes.
00:03:21.361 --> 00:03:25.020
Oh, you're a doctor, you know that kind of you know that kind of thing I'm like all right, I already know that in there.
00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:25.443
Can you pull?
00:03:25.503 --> 00:03:26.552
out the stethoscope.
00:03:26.552 --> 00:03:33.540
Yeah, right, I'm like no, then you kind of know, then there's going to be some weird vibes going on.
00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:34.442
Yes, Agreed.
00:03:34.461 --> 00:03:37.182
So do doctors date doctors, doctors date nurses.
00:03:37.182 --> 00:03:37.963
Is there a lot of that?
00:03:38.063 --> 00:03:40.925
Yes, yeah, they do.
00:03:40.925 --> 00:03:42.926
Only because you're constantly with each other.
00:03:42.926 --> 00:03:47.349
You know, for me it's like I'm open to meeting all different kinds of people.
00:03:47.349 --> 00:03:50.570
I don't think you should stick with one profession necessarily.
00:03:50.570 --> 00:03:53.233
If I meet a great guy who happens to be a doctor, fantastic.
00:03:53.233 --> 00:03:59.096
If he happens to be something else, great, even better you know, have you ever dated another physician?
00:03:59.096 --> 00:04:00.296
I have yeah, is ego an issue?
00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:03.902
No, it actually wasn't.
00:04:03.902 --> 00:04:04.789
Yeah, yeah, luckily.
00:04:04.951 --> 00:04:07.567
I would not choose to date a guy that was you know.
00:04:07.567 --> 00:04:11.222
Oh, I'm better than you or I'm smarter than you, that kind of stuff, yeah, I don't.
00:04:11.222 --> 00:04:12.966
Yeah, no, my my brother-in-law.
00:04:13.006 --> 00:04:15.471
I always ask my brother-in-law to set me.
00:04:15.471 --> 00:04:18.750
I'm always there's gotta be somebody good that works in your practice.
00:04:18.771 --> 00:04:23.086
They're in Dallas and so I'm always just like he's a physician, he's a surgeon, yes, yes, and so I'm always like there he's a physician.
00:04:23.105 --> 00:04:23.466
He's a surgeon.
00:04:23.487 --> 00:04:26.475
Yes, yes, and so I'm always like there's gotta be somebody, there's gotta be somebody, to where always?
00:04:26.475 --> 00:04:33.250
And he's like listen, he's like all of my colleagues, they're either married or they're weird.
00:04:35.353 --> 00:04:35.935
Isn't that funny.
00:04:35.935 --> 00:04:42.250
And because you know, a lot of times I asked my friends and I was over that whole app thing and I said, hey, do you have guy friends that you can set me up with?
00:04:42.250 --> 00:04:44.752
Like yeah, we have friends, but nobody would set you up with.
00:04:44.752 --> 00:04:45.935
I'm like, what kind of friends do you have?
00:04:45.954 --> 00:04:47.766
then I mean like what's the deal with that?
00:04:47.766 --> 00:04:54.127
Well, it's funny because doctors always comes up as the number one profession that cheats doctors and nurses.
00:04:54.550 --> 00:04:54.971
Interesting.
00:04:54.971 --> 00:04:56.185
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.509
Because it's like Grey's Anatomy, right yeah?
00:05:00.721 --> 00:05:01.524
Like it depends on who.
00:05:01.524 --> 00:05:05.591
If your spouse understands yes, you know, because it's a very hectic schedule.
00:05:05.591 --> 00:05:16.459
You're very busy, you're not always home, not always available, so someone has to be really understanding of that, and so sometimes if the spouse or significant other doesn't understand your schedule, that can be pretty tough.
00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.586
Well, and especially if they meet later in the career, like with my brother-in-law and my sister.
00:05:21.586 --> 00:05:27.875
They met while she was in her DNP program and he was in his pre-med.
00:05:27.875 --> 00:05:38.908
You know what I mean so they understood each other's the dynamic that comes along with each other's careers, and it's like now they work together and she is his nurse.
00:05:38.908 --> 00:05:40.031
You know what I mean.
00:05:40.100 --> 00:06:03.245
So it works for them, and so sometimes I feel like if you're coming in and you're dating or trying to date someone who's already established in that career, that's when you have the issues of the not trusting because of the late nights and things like that Well, I think a lot of people watch TV and see the glamorous picture of what a doctor is, and that's not always the case.
00:06:03.500 --> 00:06:05.065
It's very unglamorous, trust me.
00:06:05.065 --> 00:06:06.069
So yeah.
00:06:07.141 --> 00:06:08.665
So you date, all rangers you date.
00:06:08.665 --> 00:06:10.630
You're willing to date from 30 to 60.
00:06:10.630 --> 00:06:12.225
Is there a difference in?
00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.005
You know, you just never know.
00:06:15.005 --> 00:06:18.108
I mean, there's some mature 30-year-olds and immature 60-year-olds.
00:06:18.108 --> 00:06:25.922
That's very true so you know, to me age is just a number, I just a number.
00:06:25.922 --> 00:06:26.803
I mean, I honestly just have to be open.
00:06:26.884 --> 00:06:29.170
Otherwise, if you're limiting yourself to just a small group of people, then it can be pretty tough.
00:06:29.170 --> 00:06:31.276
Is the stamina better in the younger guys?
00:06:31.276 --> 00:06:33.403
I would assume so.
00:06:35.007 --> 00:06:39.980
But then again older men have the have meds, that's true, there are ways around that.
00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:40.701
Yeah, exactly.
00:06:40.701 --> 00:06:42.925
How do you feel about being a sugar mama?
00:06:44.228 --> 00:06:45.992
Oh, I don't know, wouldn't want to do that.
00:06:45.992 --> 00:06:46.733
No, I don't think so.
00:06:47.141 --> 00:06:49.329
If he's younger, he has to be still established.
00:06:49.819 --> 00:06:51.144
Because for me it's a respect thing.
00:06:51.144 --> 00:06:52.589
That's key.
00:06:52.589 --> 00:07:02.146
You know, I tend to lose respect for people if they don't respect themselves, so to me that would be a turn off Big time.
00:07:02.146 --> 00:07:03.732
That's fair I agree.
00:07:06.141 --> 00:07:06.221
Easy.
00:07:06.221 --> 00:07:07.764
To me that would be a turnoff big time, that's fair.
00:07:08.004 --> 00:07:08.406
So I agree.
00:07:08.406 --> 00:07:09.226
Easy answer Did you grow up in Arizona?
00:07:09.226 --> 00:07:09.869
No, I actually.
00:07:09.869 --> 00:07:10.670
So long story short.
00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:15.327
I was born in Romania, grew up in New Jersey and then lived in Oklahoma.
00:07:15.327 --> 00:07:16.552
That's where I went to med school.
00:07:16.552 --> 00:07:19.370
Really, and then been in Arizona now almost 20 years.
00:07:19.370 --> 00:07:22.120
So wow, yeah, so been all over, yeah.
00:07:22.620 --> 00:07:24.264
Have you dated in multiple States or?
00:07:24.283 --> 00:07:27.269
Uh, I was pretty young you know, obviously in New Jersey.
00:07:27.269 --> 00:07:31.408
I was, you know, just 10 years old or 12 years old and then came to Oklahoma.
00:07:31.408 --> 00:07:39.307
I you know again, as I mentioned, I came from a sort of conservative culture, so dating was not allowed.
00:07:39.307 --> 00:07:41.793
It was more you got to study, you've got to.
00:07:41.793 --> 00:07:44.867
You know, do well in school, that's your focus, that kind of thing.
00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.644
So I dated on the sly With your family and your culture.
00:07:50.644 --> 00:07:52.387
Do they do arranged marriages?
00:07:52.387 --> 00:07:56.891
No, no, no, my parents, there were a lot of marriage, If anything now my parents regret it.
00:07:56.911 --> 00:08:06.473
They're like Simo, we shouldn't let you date yeah yeah, it was more just like strict about dating, I think it was more, just not losing track.
00:08:06.473 --> 00:08:12.189
Okay, you know my parents are physicians as well, and so I think they're like just do well, and then you know work hard now, have your fun later.
00:08:12.288 --> 00:08:14.663
Yeah, and now you are ready to have your fun.
00:08:14.663 --> 00:08:17.752
Woohoo, heck yeah, absolutely.
00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.442
When was your last long-term relationship I would say it's actually been a few years.
00:08:22.442 --> 00:08:27.750
I mean, I dated here and there, but a long-term relationship it's been a few years have you been married before?
00:08:27.930 --> 00:08:29.312
No, are you looking to get married?
00:08:29.973 --> 00:08:30.454
Open to it.
00:08:30.454 --> 00:08:31.596
Open to it okay.
00:08:32.181 --> 00:08:32.890
You don't have to get married.
00:08:32.931 --> 00:08:33.398
But it's not necessary.
00:08:33.398 --> 00:08:35.365
Yeah, I'm not looking to have kids at this point.
00:08:35.706 --> 00:08:35.767
No.
00:08:35.787 --> 00:08:36.470
Like my own kids.
00:08:36.470 --> 00:08:49.943
You know whether someone has kids, that's biologically.
00:08:49.943 --> 00:08:50.687
Would you date a guy with young kids?
00:08:50.687 --> 00:08:51.509
I'm open to it, okay, if they are flexible.
00:08:51.509 --> 00:08:53.096
Meaning you know I understand kids are, you know, going to be the priority.
00:08:53.096 --> 00:08:55.226
I understand that and that might actually be to the advantage.
00:08:55.226 --> 00:08:59.323
Because I'm busy, I want my own life as well, so if they're busy with the kids, I'll do my thing.
00:08:59.323 --> 00:09:01.008
Yeah, it could work out.
00:09:01.207 --> 00:09:05.726
Yeah, so I'm not closed-minded about that so you made the comment that you get bored easily?
00:09:05.726 --> 00:09:06.048
I do.
00:09:06.048 --> 00:09:07.751
Do you think maybe you have a fear of?
00:09:07.812 --> 00:09:09.957
commitment or you know.
00:09:09.957 --> 00:09:10.639
I wondered that.
00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:14.005
No, I don't think so, I I, yeah, I think.
00:09:14.005 --> 00:09:20.889
For me it's just, you know, I with what I do for a living life is short, so the same old, same old.
00:09:20.889 --> 00:09:22.133
You know, I get, I get it.
00:09:22.133 --> 00:09:26.893
Every relationship will have that static kind of feeling, but to me it's like let's keep it interesting.
00:09:26.893 --> 00:09:30.106
You know, I want to be dating someone for the rest of my life, you know.
00:09:30.106 --> 00:09:39.173
So I think that's what it is and I'm the kind of person who mentally always has to be stimulated, so I think a relationship has to be that way for me.
00:09:39.173 --> 00:09:40.903
Yeah, are you on the dating apps?
00:09:41.385 --> 00:09:45.878
I was not anymore, because you had mentioned you went on a date and he was 40 minutes late.
00:09:46.359 --> 00:09:48.086
Oh yeah, that was my other disaster date.
00:09:48.086 --> 00:09:51.966
Yeah, so this guy basically showed up 40 minutes late.
00:09:51.966 --> 00:09:53.549
He smelled.
00:09:54.331 --> 00:09:54.471
Oh.
00:09:54.572 --> 00:09:57.946
Yeah, I mean it was, oh my gosh, he looked nothing like his picture.
00:09:57.946 --> 00:10:00.488
And the waitress and I got to know each other.
00:10:00.488 --> 00:10:07.264
We chatted and know each other.
00:10:07.264 --> 00:10:09.991
We chatted and she, like, was behind him and was like uh-uh, she was like go leave.
00:10:09.991 --> 00:10:11.155
So I basically took my phone out and pretended.
00:10:11.176 --> 00:10:12.078
I had a call for work and I just left.
00:10:12.078 --> 00:10:15.110
Didn't we have a guest on recently who also was on a date with a smelly?
00:10:15.110 --> 00:10:17.359
Guy yes what is up with hygiene?
00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:21.975
people take a shower at least put some deodorant on who goes on a date when you?
00:10:22.014 --> 00:10:22.857
sleep.
00:10:22.898 --> 00:10:23.922
I was just thinking, I was like am.
00:10:24.023 --> 00:10:25.921
I having deja vu, or am I remembering?
00:10:26.383 --> 00:10:27.645
what we talked about previously.
00:10:27.645 --> 00:10:29.630
No, I'm pretty sure we had someone else on.
00:10:29.650 --> 00:10:30.601
That was with a stinky guy.
00:10:30.642 --> 00:10:31.264
I mean, I get it.
00:10:31.264 --> 00:10:33.509
If you're coming from work, wipe something.
00:10:33.509 --> 00:10:36.505
Yeah, you know 40 minutes.
00:10:36.546 --> 00:10:38.211
Did he let you know he was gonna be late?
00:10:38.211 --> 00:10:38.974
No, no text.
00:10:38.974 --> 00:10:39.615
What was?
00:10:39.655 --> 00:10:43.328
his excuse that I actually stayed that long, but I started chatting with the waitress.
00:10:43.328 --> 00:10:46.419
Yeah, I mean, i'm'm one of those people like I like to talk to everybody, you know.
00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:51.091
Well, and if you're somewhere, you might as well enjoy an appetizer or a drink or something.
00:10:51.700 --> 00:10:57.245
I mean, I ended up just, you know, having a nice meal chatting with this lovely waitress, you know and became friends with her actually.
00:10:57.245 --> 00:11:02.284
Did he have an excuse, did he?
00:11:02.284 --> 00:11:05.567
Apologize, he was like no, yeah, heck, yeah, you're very late.
00:11:05.567 --> 00:11:06.889
And I I confronted him.
00:11:06.889 --> 00:11:08.731
I'm like, hey, you're very late.
00:11:08.731 --> 00:11:10.754
This is extremely obnoxious of you to do that.
00:11:10.754 --> 00:11:13.697
Oh well, I'm sorry, you know, yeah.
00:11:13.697 --> 00:11:20.309
And then he said were there any redeeming qualities?
00:11:20.370 --> 00:11:22.934
he was following me he's like can I call you again?
00:11:22.934 --> 00:11:26.400
And I'm like no wait, you want to go get another.
00:11:26.421 --> 00:11:31.852
Obviously he didn't get the hint, not the brightest what do you do in your free time?
00:11:31.852 --> 00:11:35.508
Tell us about you I'm very athletic, so I love to work out.
00:11:35.508 --> 00:11:36.770
I've been an athlete all my life.
00:11:36.770 --> 00:11:41.269
So since I was young I played sports lacrosse, field hockey, basketball, you name it.
00:11:41.269 --> 00:11:46.270
And then when I got to college I did the jane fonda workouts, you know the step aerobics and stuff like that.
00:11:46.270 --> 00:11:51.888
And then, you know, at 45, orange Theory became the thing, and then now I'm into weightlifting.
00:11:51.888 --> 00:11:53.173
So that's just my passion.
00:11:53.173 --> 00:11:54.096
I love doing it.
00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.844
And you recently were featured in a local magazine.
00:11:56.844 --> 00:11:58.447
Is that right?
00:11:59.008 --> 00:11:59.609
Which one?
00:11:59.609 --> 00:12:01.851
I'm not sure, it all depends.
00:12:01.851 --> 00:12:03.173
It all depends.
00:12:03.173 --> 00:12:08.421
Yeah, which one For fitness?