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Episode Date: June 9, 2026

Today on “Golden Hour,” we’re back with Jared Freid for Part 2, and this one is all about your dating questions. Jared is tackling your relationship dilemmas and dishing out the tough love you need to shake up your love life. We’re also breaking down some infamous texts from men and decoding what they really mean; what does it mean when a guy says he just doesn’t post his personal life on social media? Jared has thoughts. Tune in now for plenty of laughs, honest advice, and be sure to subscribe!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Our listeners want to know. We answer questions. Susan and I answer questions every week. But, you know, we're not so smart. We don't have the life experience that you have. That's right. So we thought that you might join us today and help us with some golden advice.

I love. You're not golden. Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm going to go with the first one. My name is Britt, and I'm 33 years old. I've been dating for years, and at this point, I really just want to find my person, settle down, and hopefully start a family someday. I've been seeing a guy for the past couple of months, and overall, he's honestly great.

He's kind, has a great job, a close family, and treats me really well. But there's one thing. that keeps bothering me. Oh, boy. And I can't tell if I'm overreacting or if it's actually a red flag. He's an extremely picky eater to the point where I usually let him choose where we go for dinner because I know he's particular about food. But even when he picks the restaurant himself, half the time he still can't find anything he wants to eat and then spends the rest of the night complaining about being hungry. It genuinely drives me crazy because I'm always thinking, then why did you choose this place? I know it probably sounds minor, but it started to feel bigger to me because it affects almost

every date night and honestly just feels exhausting. Part of me worries on being too picky or dramatic, especially because I really do want a long-term relationship and don't want to throw away something good over a habit. But another part of me wonders if little incompatibilities like this actually matter more than we think in the long run. Yes, dear. So I need your honest advice. Is this something I should just accept and laugh off?

Or does this kind of behavior become a bigger issue over time? Help. What do you say, Jared? No, we want to know what you think. I know what I think. She has two problems. There's two problems here. It's not the food and being picky because there's everyone's dating someone that doesn't enjoy things they enjoy.

That's a normal thing to have different with your partner. Like I, it's very important for me to connect on food with my partner. You know, that's something I love to do with Emily. I like to go out to eat and we eat so much that we hate our. and then we agree to not touching in bed for 24 hours. It's like our favorite pastime. Wait a minute. You sleep with her?

Yes, separate beds. Okay. Separate beds if we eat too much. She does the guest room and I do the regular room. So I, but for this person, that might not be as important for her. I would have a bigger issue with him picking. the place and then complaining about how hungry is later. Like, that takes a level of, that's a lack of ownership of your decisions.

Like, that could be made into a bigger, real issue. And what she needs to do is to stop saying to herself, I'm 33 and been dating for years. Like, so, like, it's a combination of those two. One, you have an issue that you're not attracted to. And two, you're afraid of losing okay to then be back in the situation of dating again. She's freaked herself out of dating again so much that she's not even willing to have a normal conversation with her boyfriend. So that's her biggest issue is that she's so afraid of being single again that she won't communicate with her now boyfriend to make it a great relationship. So she's just settling for an okay one where she's not talking about this.

Does that make sense? Yes, it makes sense. But I see something deeper because she mentions there over time. It will get bigger. You will resent him. You will not want to go to dinner with him ever. Right. But she's not bringing it up because she's afraid of being single.

Talk about it. And he's picking the place. Pack him a freaking goody bag, what he likes. No, no, no. Susan, Jared's right. I think it'll hurt them in the long run. It will, but this is, this is a, in the book, Walking Red Flag, which you can pre-order now, you, these are called 10-cent fights.

10-cent fights turn into $10 fights, the more you push them off. This is a 10-cent fight. You deal with it. Hey, every time, you're complaining about a place that you chose. Why are you complaining about it? That's a fight that a couple can have and can survive from. You can't survive from, I resent you so much because you sound like an idiot 20 years later, right. She's saying that he does it every time he complains afterwards.

I wouldn't want to go to dinner with them. But she's just listening to it. She's not even calling him out. Right, right. Call him out on it. But listen what I'm saying. There's books on tape. You can get my book on tape.

We can get your book. Pre-order now, walking red flag. now on Amazon. Walking red flag. You heard it here. Here's my question though, guys, I don't think any of this has to do with food, picking the restaurants, picky eater. I think this is a whole different issue. He doesn't go down on her. You're right. This was all just to say, oh, sorry. He's very picky. You know what? Right before I go. and order my book on Amazon. I'm in Lisbon, Portugal.

I'm heading over to the Ferrari dealer because I'm going to have way better elect care. I'm saying, I think it's about control. There's something else going on with this guy. It has nothing, in my opinion, to do with being hungry. There's something else going on. But Kathy, that may be the case, but I'm telling you with like, especially with when someone wants to argue with me,

I think men live very much. in the tangible and not very much in the intangible. Like what you're saying is like years of therapy. Like men don't like therapy because they want to like mix or fix it. You know, they want to go, well, what's on off switch? So she needs to attack the issue, not the diagnosis that he has this big fucked up problem. Well, the issue is you're a 10-year-old who is it's making me not want to fuck you. time you order chicken fingies and then you complain about the chicken fingies not being that good.

You're annoying about this. Let's talk it out. And if he can't have that conversation, she's afraid she's going to be single. And I would say to her, you're 33, you're young, you're beautiful, you listen to this podcast, you must be amazing. You'll be okay. So don't, you know what they say. Kathy, you know, scared money never wins. Isn't that the?

I never heard that. What? Scared money never wins. When you play with money that you're afraid of losing, you lose. So this person is playing with scared money because they're so afraid of being single again. 33 have been dating for years. I find, shut the fuck up, dating for you. Every time someone says I've been dating for years, what do you think?

So of us all. Everyone has. I haven't, Jerry. We still are. Let's do another one. Okay. Yeah, let's go for it. Okay.

Here we go. Hi, Kathy and Susan. My name is Rachel. I'm 39 and lately I've started to feel really discouraged about the whole dating experience. I used to get excited about meeting people and believe dating would eventually lead to finding a real partner and building the life together. But now it honestly feels like dating has lost a lot of its meeting. Meaning everything feels so casual, temporary and surface level. People say they want a relationship, but then disappear the second things require effort, vulnerability, or consistency. The hardest part is that I genuinely do want love. I want marriage, a family, and a real partnership someday. But lately,

I've caught myself wondering if that kind of relationship is even realistic anymore, or if I've built it up too much in my head. My friends are all either married, engaged, or having babies. And while I'm so happy for them, I'd be lying if I said it doesn't make me feel left. behind sometimes. I'm trying to stay hopeful, but I can feel myself becoming more guarded and cynical with every disappointing experience. How do you keep your heart open without completely burning out from dating? Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Let me give some, can I speak directly to Rachel and just let her know that I think she's wonderful and I think she's deserving of love. And I do believe at some point she will find love because there's really a butt for every seat.

So you're going to be fine, Rachel. Do you really believe that? I do. I do believe that. I think Rachel's in her own way. Why? Because she just wrote into us everything she repeats to everyone at every turn and every opportunity she gets.

She's a horrible first date because she's miserable. You are a genius. I'm just, thank you. And I don't mean to be meaner because I'm trying to be up front with her so she can hear it. She's not listening. She just gave us everything she wrote. Can I just tell her? I've heard that speech from every single woman that's ever existed in the year 2010 through 2026.

She just did what I call. She just did her blog. All that shit she just said is stuff we've heard before. We've said it. We've heard it. it's a speech that everyone's disposable anytime someone says oh it's disposable everyone disappears

I've heard it until they don't until they don't so like I think Rachel the problem she has is her words are really making everyone avoid her like she's not she needs to start getting local instead of national

she needs to concentrate on a good first date. That's it. She's so into everyone disappears and she's so into telling everyone her hot take on dating, which isn't even original, isn't even new, that she's making everyone want to fucking get away from her. Her honest to God, all my friends are married and having babies. I could have given you her speech before she gave it.

I've heard it so many times. And that's also because I'm in the dating space, so I get it. but I'm just saying she's got to delete the apps. She needs a refresh. She's got to delete them. She's got to go hang out with her married friends. She needs to hang out with her married friends and get her groove back and find out what it feels like to hang out with people

who she's not trying to get something from. Because right now she dates to get something. She dates to get love, to get a relationship, to get married, to get babies. go hang out with people and relearn. She has forgotten what it's like to hang out with people who don't owe you and you don't owe them. They're just people who love you. Just have fun. Right.

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I think this is what you're saying. It seems to me that this Rachel, who's 39, is probably scared times running out all those things. You know, the clock's ticking, she wants a kid, she's 39. So there's probably part of that going on. But I also think,

I think you were saying this, that she comes to every relationship with this premeditated, you know. Is this the one? Not her game book. She already knows how the date's going to go. So that's the energy she puts out. Is that what you were saying?

Well, no. I would say it's like going to the casino and saying the only way I had fun is if I want a million dollars. You know, what if you win $10? What if you win $100? What if you have a good first date? I have fun and I lose $400. But I had fun because it was my time.

Yeah. But I had a good time. That's why I went to the casino to have a good time. No, I thought you were saying that she comes, which is kind of what I read out of this, that she comes to every relationship with sort of her checklist, and they're not, and then they're not meeting

the checklist she has. And then she goes, oh yeah, Jared, he's one of those guys. You know, she compartmentalized pigeonhols. I just think she's miserable, and I think that rub, that should, and I think there's no win for her other than getting married and having babies, and then

here's what's going to happen. She's going to have all that, and she's going to hate her life that she's built, because she never had fun along the way to see if she actually likes the person. I just think if she backed away, because her whole speech, I've heard it before. It's just crazy. Like, I can't believe how original she thinks it is.

Like, I just, if I were her, she has friends. She referenced her friends. Go hang out with them without trying to get something from them. Like, go have a fun night with your friend and their husband. And be fun. Be the fun, Rachel, that we know lives inside. and just do that. See what happens.

You need, because what happens is when you're single, and I've been in this, you just go on date after date after date, and then you forget what it's like to be a human. You forget what it's like to like be yourself and like do those stupid, you know, fun things with your friends that you do.

And then you go, oh, this is what I do. Oh, yeah. Something that she said, everything feels so casual, temporary and surface level. To me, you're going on this day hoping that you're going to have that chemistry he's going to be and

then they you know drift away it's because you're not being you right me i scared half the people that didn't want to call me back because i am me on every day you'd rather but that's a win fail fast you know like but she's like she's on that you know when she says everyone's casual you don't have to be casual don't try to win them they're trying to win you that's that's tell I would go on a date. Look at me. No. And let's have fun.

I think she's coming with, guys, I think she's coming with a checklist. I'm 39. Yeah. She has a good job. Yeah, but that's part of it. But see, that's the problem. She said they're coming casual. They're not coming casual.

They're coming to have a date to see if there's any connection. Right. She's on the first date scene. Is this guy met, and I get married? Well, here's the thing guys say after, you know, what do you, what do guys say on dating apps? And I'm not saying this is right, but you have to just understand the beast that you're trying to,

to battle. Yeah, you're trying to tame this beast. Guys say, I'm just looking to have fun. I don't want someone who takes it too seriously. Every guy says that. I just like going to have fun. I don't want anyone who takes it too seriously. That's okay.

I think you just listen to that. So are you fun? First date is meant to be fun. That guy is not wrong. You got to laugh. You can be fun while also admitting to what we're going towards. I can have fun on a date while also saying, I'd like to have a family one day.

I agree. Yeah. And that's what I did for years. And leave the checklist at home, Rachel. All right, we have another one. Okay. All right. Hi, friends.

My name is Amanda, and I'm 27. I honestly don't even know where to begin when it comes to dating. So I could really use some advice. I'm not really a bar person and I truly hate dating apps. I've tried them, but they just make me feel drained and discouraged more than anything else. I do participate in a lot of activities and hobbies that I generally. genuinely enjoy, and I try to stay social and put myself out there. But they're not really the kinds of environments where people flirt or ask each other out. I've actually never had a boyfriend

before, and sometimes I feel embarrassed admitting that at my age. I think people assume relationships just naturally happen for everyone. But for me, they never really have. I'm friendly, social, and open to meeting someone. I just honestly never get asked out. At this point, I feel less confused about relationships themselves and more confused about how people even get dates in the first place. It seems like everyone else knows some unspoken rule that I somehow missed. I'm trying not to lose confidence, but it's hard not to wonder if something is wrong with me and when years keep going by without anything ever really happening romantically. So I guess my question is, how do people actually meet?

someone naturally these days. And if you were someone who found love later than your friends, how did you stay hopeful in the meantime? Thank you. My heart's breaking for her. I know. Yeah. My heart's breaking.

I feel so bad. I have no words. That's unusual. I have some words, Susan. You better have them. This story, she's got to figure out a new ladder statement because she just brought three people to tears. I swear to God.

Well, she's got to start figure out how she talks about her. Because she's fun she does everything I do what are the hobbies what do you like to do? You know, I This idea that 27 never had a relationship. No one's the thing asked her well I I think that that's more normal than she wants I I know she's telling she's written her own rom-com well what about her asking somebody else out? She can ask people out but I think like it starts with your story is not that original. Here you go again. I'm just saying. I'm going to say, Jared, you are. You are. I'm not being, I'm just saying that I've heard this before.

27 and never having a relationship isn't something to be embarrassed about. No, she said she's never had a date. She's never even been asked out. She's never been asked on a date. I mean, and you guys keep screaming it out, quiet. We don't need to keep, you know, you guys are all, all. I'm not harsh. I'm trying to concentrate on the good, which is,

she said she has hobbies and she likes to, participate in a lot of things, but then she's going, but no one asked me out of those things. No, no, no. Keep with your hobbies. Every guy wants to meet a woman who likes things, who has interests. So dig into those interests. I love when I get lore. I love hearing about what you're interested in because then I don't have to do shit. I don't have to talk, okay? I want to hear about your shit. So she's got stuff she likes. So that's a good story. But you don't Don't flirt at those things, she said. Hold, hold.

Fine. Wait, wait. Maybe her activities, hold on, guys. My advice to single women, and Susan's heard this always is, Jared. Do the things you love and the right people will come into your life. However, Amanda, if you are in a sewing circle or you are in a needlepoint class, or you are, you're not going to be. Wait, what's that stuff called that they spin in your mold? pottery class. I don't know.

I'm saying, get into a tennis. The only event she does are at the retirement home? Needle point. Majong and sewing. Majong is in actually, right? It's really big. Wives that husbands. No, Rajong's getting in for like people in their 20s and 30s.

It's like a thing. Like backgammon was for us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Backgammon too. There's a back. game in club in New York that I get emails from all the time. I love that. I play that. Well, Kathy, I let me, what you're,

what you're saying, join a, join a sailing club, join a running club, join, I don't care if you're not a bar girl, join a something where there's men and women. Just, I'm sorry, Kathy. Or go break up Jared and Emily because he's interested. I give up. I agree with her, I think her, she, let's, I'm being harsh, but like, let's stick to the positive. She has interest. Yes.

Let's say she does go to female heavy clubs. Go out with those women. Let's go out with those women. And go have a night. The sewing club, now let's go do a sewing club bar night or do a sewing club park day we're going to have during the day. And we all get to know each other in this different way. The sewing club women have sewing club husbands.

What's your deal? I'm single. Oh, my God. My husband's got a friend. I think we have to swim with the current. Telling this sower to go join the catamaran club is crazy, Kathy. Okay, so we're going to go find a yenta because that's what you're saying. Yeah.

Somebody to configure. Every group has a yenta. Every group has an annoying Kathy that's going to speak up for them. It's close. Karen. It's a Karen. I can't get a date myself, Jared. Trust me. I'm not looking out for anybody else. I'm just saying swim with the current.

I don't think she should change her life upside down to go find a man. That doesn't seem to be her strong suit. Her strong suit is that she has hobbies and interests. So let's dig into those and find a group there that you can go to dinner with. I have interviewed and talked with a lot of guys in their 20s and 30s, And they all said it's really difficult when you see a gaggle of women who are to go up and approach that it's much easier if you see one or two women at a bar or a thing, you know, at a group activity. So I think if, you know, her sewing club is out there. I think you're asking a lot that guy.

At 41, at 41 you're old. You've done it all. But you know what? She's 27. She's trying to find an age appropriate guy who probably. doesn't have the confidence. You know what I'm saying? Kathy, you're missing a huge piece of this. Okay.

She's never been approached, never been on a date, never had someone come up to her. Her at a bar getting a guy to come up to her, that's something that we can't really push. She doesn't like the bar scene. Right. And the insecurities of men who can't go up to women of big groups, that's not what I'm getting into. I think this person with interest and hobbies, if you dig into those interests and hobbies and make friend groups through those interests and hobbies,

you're swimming with the current and now friends have friends, but you're saying don't go out with those people. No, I'm saying get involved in activities where there are both sexes. No, do the things you already do. Like I think to me, like join a kickball team because there's men.

No, no, no, go hang out with the women that are at the sewing club and go, that's your group and now you get confidence through that group. It's a slower process. I'm telling you, I'm not going to go up to someone in a bar, whether it's two people or four people.

But if someone said to me, my friend that I met in sewing class is like such a cool chick and she is looking to meet someone and I think you'd be great for her. Here are some pictures, check her out. And I'm like, wow, she's pretty cute. Yeah, let's make it happen.

That's like a high level date. You know, that's not like a high-end, you know, buying customer, you know, as opposed to hope for a rando to come up to me. Amanda, Amanda, pay attention. You're only 27. You're doing everything right. Enjoy what you do. Stop worrying about it. And yes, some people look at our little guest today.

How old are we? 41. And he's just now saying. saying yes. First, real serious relationship. So don't give up. You're only 27. And the right one hasn't approached you that.

That's all. And don't be afraid if you are interested in somebody and you have your eye on somebody. I love this one. You go drop the napkin with your phone number on it and say, oh, you might want to look at that. I think that's like ahead of her where she's at right now. If she's writing into us with her violin, you know, story about how she's never met anyone. I just think she has to acknowledge it's not that weird to have never dated someone when

you're 27. It's really not. In the hookup culture that we live in today with the one-offs, we don't even know if it's true from her because a lot of people write into me, I've never had a relationship, but they've had millions of relationships. They just don't call them relationships because it wasn't a guy that was like, you're my girlfriend. It's like, well, those are relationships.

You hooked up with a guy for three months. That's a relationship. You know, so I think, like, a lot of people speak into themselves this tragic tale because all of us want to be this, like, overcame the odds. Look at all these people that get married. They make a TikTok. A year ago, I was sitting here in Lisbon, and I was wishing to put a star for a boyfriend. And look at me now.

Like, women want that. So I'm not really giving in to that. I'm saying she's doing just fine. it's not that weird. If I went on a date with a girl who's 27 and said, I've never really had a boyfriend, but I had some people I dated for a few months here and there. I wouldn't be so weirded out by that.

No, there's nothing to be weird. Okay. So, Jared, we have one more question. And this is from Kathy from Austin, Texas. What the hell am I doing? How do I find a converter in Lisbon to charge my vibrator? Okay, Kathy. You're not

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You're going to have a ball with this one. We're going to give you a common text from a guy, and you have to tell us what they actually mean from a man's point of view. Okay. She's just a friend. She's just a friend? Yeah. I would need more context, but is this your boyfriend that text to do this? You know as much as we do.

Work with it. Come on. She's just a friend? She's just a friend. I would never marry her. Okay. All right. Here's the next one.

At a minimum, at a plain and simple, I would never marry. I was thinking more on the terms like you're a girl and she's saying, she's asking a question. and he says she's just a friend. Yeah, I would never marry her. Yeah, that's what he's saying. If he texts that to a friend, it means whoever that woman is he's talking about, he would never marry. Okay. Okay, how about this one?

A guy texts to whomever, I'm bad at texting. I don't care enough about you to get back as quickly as you think I should. Okay. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt you means I'm going to hurt you if I make a promise right now that you want me to make. Oh my God, which leads right into the next one.

I'm scared of commitment. I'm scared of commitment. I want to keep that he's saying exactly. I would say that if someone wrote, I'm scared of commitment. I'd be like that's a really honest, nice guy. All of these sound like he's just not that into you, baby. I don't like that term.

I don't like these d'n't do. Okay. All right. I'm just keeping things casual. I'm, I don't want to be in a committed relationship. But do you want to go to bed with her? Yeah,

I'll fuck you, but I'm not going to go to your cousins christening. I like you. I'm just confused. I like having sex with you. And I want the relationship to stay as a. Currently stand. Okay.

Okay. How about this one? My ex really messed me up. My ex really messed me up. I'm still afraid of commitment. And I'm finding a really good scapego that isn't going to get blamed on me. Exactly. What about this one?

I don't post anyone I date. This one's meaningful to me. I don't post anyone I date. It depends on if they're a poster. You know, I don't post anyone I date and they post every day. That's someone that doesn't want to commit to you. That's in Jared's next book of red flags. I'm private with my relationships.

I'm private with my relationships. I'm trying to backtrack to where that would come from. That means the woman's not comfortable with where you guys are. are and he's trying to basically get himself out of it. And he's trying to make this a morality play. When someone references how they act with social media,

especially a lot of men do this, well, they're basically saying that social media is frivolous and you're making something out of something that's, you're making something more important than it has to be. But that's them not admitting to the world that you live in, we all live in. That's kind of like, it's a way of,

you know, making yourself a moral, taking moral high ground, in my opinion. I'm not talking to anyone else. I'm not talking to anyone else. I'm probably talking to somebody else. Well,

I'm not talking to anyone else. I've said that and that just meant that was a way of saying to someone that I'm dating them, but I'm also not. committed to them. Okay. So it's like twofold.

I'm not talking to anyone else, but I'm also not making this a relationship. And so if you said less, the other one, next one is let's not overthink it. Is that the same thing? You're over. Let's not overthink it is, is, is, I'm giving you a little crumb to feel better about this relationship, but it's not the whole meal that you really want. You're bread crumbing them. I don't know.

I don't know what that means. I just think you're giving someone. A little bit so that they'll shut the fuck up. That's breadcracking, Jared. Okay. Get with the jargon. I don't like the jargon. I need to work on myself first.

I'm just naturally flirty. I'm not in the right head space. Everyone's Susan's texting with is some like, you know, some Italian guy living in, you know, in the south side. I got one for you, Jared, because I get this all the time and they don't. You're being too loud? What do you get all the time? No, I like independent women. No, you do.

Well, we'll see. We'll see. You know, like, I like independent women. And then, you know, okay. I mean, I don't like, that's like a show not tell, like, tell. There's a lot of people that, like, tell you who they are before having to be who they are. So, like, when you say I like a type of woman. Okay, cool.

You know, like that, those are just words, you know. How about when he says, I didn't want to lead you on? That's him saying that I'm willing to be beneath a boyfriend, but not a boyfriend. I deleted the apps. Then they deleted the apps. That's a good, that's a good one. How about this one? I'm old fashion.

One of my favorites. I'm old fashion. Not the drink, not the drink, Jerry. No, I am an old fashion. I'm old. fashion usually is someone trying to tell you who they are without having to be there. I've never introduced a girl to my friends before. And are, well, they must not be a very mature person.

I don't care about looks. I care about personality. I don't care about looks. I care about personality. Come on. It's just a lie. They wouldn't be, they wouldn't be talking to you.

Like, you know, like they're, they're only talking to you because of your looks. that matter to them. Again, with the looks conversation, it always goes down a road of like good looking, bad looking, but good looking is everyone has their types. Everyone has their particularities, you know, like so. Can I just give you my honest opinion for every one of them? That's a guy that's just not that into you.

He'll sleep with you. He'll have some fun with you. But girlfriend, he's not the one you're bringing home to mama. Or Susan, wait, maybe he's literally, it's either that, or he's keeping the cards open to see if something else better comes along. He might take. He might not. But both of those perspectives are very mean to yourself.

Like no one, no guy thinks that way. Like, you know, they're just waiting for something else to come along or he's not that into you. You know, I think all these texts that you just gave are responses to a woman generally who's asking. for more and they're getting back answers to get them to stop asking for more so yeah fair enough so if i was to group all these texts these are responses to a woman asking for more so i think a lot of these people if you're asking for more and not getting it you have to ask yourself when do i get turned off yeah you know so okay so jared i got one last thing to say to you okay i'm going to say it one more time. You need to give up being a comedian because your advice is stellar. Other than this fabulous

book coming out, you're still on tour. For those of you in my hometown, he's going to be in Austin, Texas. When? When? The 28th, 29th, the 29th, 30th and 31st of May. I'm going to be in Austin, Cleveland, the Hamptons, Miami, Red Bank, New Jersey, Foxwood, Portland, Maine. And then I'm doing a book door where you can buy the book. and you can come to a way, it's not a stand-up show. It's going to be a live dating talk show. Oh, Kathy.

Kathy, we got to book that. New York, Boston, Philly. When? Susan, I got to get you in Philly. When? At the TLA. When? My girlfriend's going to be there.

I'll introduce you. When? Hey, can I come? Magic word. When? It's going to be June. The first, where am I doing this? June 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th.

and 12th and 13th. New York, Boston, Philly, D.C., Chicago, Denver. I'm there. And you can get a book and I'll sign your book and then we'll do a dating talk show. You can send me the text you get from guys. I'll do Broseeta Stone.

I'll translate the text. We're going to take people's dating apps and I'll give them makeovers. Awesome. And I'll take audience questions and we'll do a whole thing. And then a big part of the book, again, a lot of what I talk about

and why you think I'm being harsh, It's because we've got to take ownership. I think a lot of people want to blame the dating world and the apps and everyone's disposable, but they never take ownership of them. So I sent the book to a friend, and this is something very interesting that happened.

She goes, I have a boyfriend now. And I go, no fucking way. She goes, your book. Your book helped. And I go, no, come on. You know, to me I wrote a fucking book where I made jokes. Like, I didn't think, I didn't think this book would help anybody.

Look at that. She goes, it helped because the chapter, I was reading a chapter and it made me ask him a question that I never would have asked. And I said, really? She goes, there's a chapter called, what type of single are you? And it goes over all these types of single that I made up. But based in truth. Like, there's sad single, there's very single. There's single

Samantha. Orny singles. All these types of singles. And she was like, I decided I'm a mix of like this single and that single. And then I asked the guy I was dating. I was like, what type of single are you? And then he had to like put words behind. He read all the singles.

He goes, I'm this one. This one's me. And it was like single and ready. And she was like, I never would have had that level of communication to hear that he was single and ready. You inspire people. It was crazy. I swear to God. So we're going to start every show with what type of single are you?

And then you're going to wear it as a name tag. I love this. I love this. Okay, Jared, where can people find you on socials as if they don't already know? Just Google me as douchy as I can say. Jared Fried on Instagram, TikTok, The Wizard of Ha. I love it.

You're amazing. And I will see you next month. I can't believe. Kathy's on vacation. She's still working hard. Just in a few weeks. and please make sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcast. And you can follow us on social media at Bachelor Happy Hour and at Bachelor Nation.

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