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August 4, 2025 6 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The latest dating trend. You guys ready, I'm going to
start your week with the latest dating trend. And we
talked about this flocking. We talked about flocking. I got
so many things on my list, I don't even I
can't remember what we did and didn't do. I can't
remember we were on the air, off the air. I
can't remember if I was talking to myself or not.
Flocking is a gen Z dating term. Instead of using
dating apps, people are traveling to meet potential partners in

(00:22):
real life. They'll book a trip to a fun place
like a beach down or a city with lots of
bars to increase their chances to finding romance the old
fashioned way by actually talking to people face to face.
So there are travel sites like Priceline that are even
offering special deals to support the trend. So you ditch
the app, you would spend money, You would buy a
flight I guess, by yourself, and then fly somewhere and

(00:46):
then just post up somewhere else and hope that somebody
would talk to you, because I guess people will talk
where you're from. I mean, I don't know. I just
seems a little flawed to me, Like in a lot
of ways like, okay, so I get it, Like maybe
you want like a different pool people. Okay, fine, but
then then you okay, let's say you go to wherever
and you meet someone, then they live there and you

(01:06):
live somewhere else. So now we're all automatically up against
that challenge. The whole new set of problem was that
you're unlocking. I think it's just flawed flocking. Can we
go back to can we go back to? Uh? What
is the word? Like a playoff of am I like slow?
Like flocking like you fly, you're flying somewhere, you'll fly

(01:28):
like a bird flocking Like, oh yeah, I'm slow, Okay,
I got it. Yeah, what what is the what is
the yes? Sorry? I thought you'd be into this because
it's travel related, and I thought, like, you know, you mean,
but I don't. I don't. I do love, but I don't.
I don't like get on the plane and fly to
you know, Cleveland or whatever, and then go post up

(01:49):
at a random neighborhood hoping someone will talk to me
Like what I mean, Well, I flew to Cleveland and
I posted neighborhood, borrowing people would talk to me. I
read this on Friday. It was flo I need to
do it. I need to adopt this trend. No. I
mean it's one thing if I think if you're traveling
and then you get on the dating apps or you

(02:09):
or you're more likely to maybe be out socializing doing
fun things that you may not do on an average
weekend when you're at home, and then you meet someone.
That's different. But I'm not going to travel with the
intention of hopefully speaking to a human who wants to
date me. I would if I was single and wanted
to live elsewhere, I would set my location to that
place and see what kind of pool they got. But

(02:31):
this is start something there. This is no dating apps.
This trend is no dating apps. So like this this
trend would that wouldn't imply Yeah, I'm just saying that's
what I would do. If I wanted to move to Miami.
I would say it in Miami because I always pictured
you being with somebody who like you just meet via
airport or like, I don't know, somewhere like on a trip,
like I really do picture you. No, I agree with you.
I think that could totally have it has happened before. Yeah,

(02:52):
But what I'm I'm not the purpose of this would
be to take the trip to do that. And well
the other thing is like, okay, so a beach town,
Like I don't know. I go to Pensacola, you know,
I fly to bes Well, I think it is a
beach at Pensacola. I fly at Pensacola, right, and I'm like, here,
I'm in Pensacola. Now I'm in a beach town. Well,
everyone else is there on vacation too, So then I

(03:12):
don't even know where the hell you live, Like, I
don't you know? And then is it giving long term
or is it giving kind of one offs like a
question like we're having fun now and then I have
to go back to my husband or wife, you know
kind of thing, like I don't know. It seems flawed
in many many ways. Well, I don't know. If I'm
you meet Brandon people on vacation and they're in vacation
mode and they're like, we are do vacation things. So

(03:34):
I'm not sure that I'm not sure about this one.
The other thing I've noticed is that if if as
as a man, if I do travel and I set
my apps somewhere else and I match with people and
then I get home, I either get quickly unmatched or
like kind of told off, like oh, so you don't
even live here? Oh so oh? I like It's like

(03:54):
as a guy, if I go to New York City
or New York, New York City, if I go to
New York and if I go to Dallas and I
changed my stuff to Dallas and then I come back,
it couldn't be that I wanted to see who was
out there in Dallas. It was Oh, it implies that
I just wanted to get some, like for the weekend. However,

(04:16):
living in a big city like we do, it happens
all the time, like this weekend. I guarantee if I
were on the dating apps that I would have matched
with several people who don't live here, who are in
town for a lot of pelluca doing the same thing.
But as a but but I guess women, I wouldn't
say that to a woman. I wouldn't be like, oh,
you were obviously trying to get some maybe you were
so what true? But people I've gotten told off before

(04:38):
like oh, you know, that's not really cool. You know,
like you don't even live here, you know, and you're
matching with people, it's what do you mean? Like? Women
do it and By the way, when did it become
so criminal to go on a dating app and be
very transparent about the fact that you were just looking
to meet someone and see what happens wait over the
course of the time that you're there. I mean, if
that's not for you, then then you once you discover that,

(05:01):
then you can unmatch them and move on. I think
the problem would be if you were married, or if
you were a scammer, or if you were not transparent
about the fact that all you were trying to do
is stick and move, you know what I mean. I
don't know when this became so criminal. We're having this
conversation last week off the year, But when when it
becomes so bad to just be transparent about the fact

(05:22):
that you want something casual. If you don't want something casual,
then then just unmatch the person or just don't talk
to them, right. I think it's a great thing to be,
you know, transparent. Don't waste my time that I'm on
the app. SCE, when did you become the expert on
this topic. I don't waste anybody's time, be honest. Well,
I mean I don't. I'm not saying that you just

(05:43):
lead and come right out and say that's what I want.
But I mean, I don't I guess even if you did.
But people are like, oh, that's that's how you wind
up on those websites apparently tea app or that's how
you wind up on there, and people like dog you.
But it's what I don't. I guess. I don't know
why that, Like, people can't just ask for what they

(06:03):
in a in a not disgusting way, right, But you
shouldn't be on like married. You know, I want to
be married dot com and you know you just love
that saying I'm doing it right now, So I'm not
mean you don't want to be married. You say you
said I shouldn't be on it. No, you should not,
and you just want to stick and move, you know,
But I want to stick in move dot com too.

(06:25):
What if I'm on both

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