June 2, 2025 • 34 mins
Remember when finding a date meant passing notes, having friends play matchmaker, or actually—gasp—approaching someone in person? GentheBuilder and Kory take you on a nostalgic journey through the evolution of dating while sharing hilarious stories that will have you nodding in recognition or thanking your lucky stars you're not single.
Their generational journey through dating history covers everything from writing "I love you" on Vans sneakers to the Penny Saver phone dating lines (remember paying by the minute just to hear someone's voice?) to the chat room era that brought both connections and scams. They thoughtfully contrast these past approaches with today's swipe culture, examining what's been gained and lost along the way.
Whether you're happily partnered or navigating the dating scene yourself, this episode offers equal parts nostalgia, comedy, and genuine reflection on how technology continues to reshape our search for connection. How do you hope dating evolves for future generations? Share your thoughts and dating disaster stories with us!
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, it's Jen the Builder, and.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Corey, and welcome to Take the Elevator.
Jen, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am doing so well, I'm energized, I'm glad to be in
air conditioning because it hasbeen a hot one.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That was my next question.
How are you liking pre-summer?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Pre-summer is coming awfully fast.
We went to Disneyland inland in95 degree weather.
Um stood in the lines and forthose who wear makeup and wear
glasses, I think those are theworst conditions that you can be
(01:02):
in while it's hot, and alsohaving your hair down.
I had all three of those thingshappening, because I had a
great hair day so I wanted itdown, needed to put makeup
because I just love takingpictures and glasses so I could
see.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I love it.
I love all of it, because itwas very hot that day and I just
think you know we had a lot offun.
We went with a friend again,excuse me and it was just a
really good time.
Hot, cold, raining, uh,whatever, we're gonna have a
great time at disneyland.
That's just one of the bestplaces to go.
(01:42):
And, yes, we, we are inSouthern California, which means
it gets hot early.
So that's what Jen's explainingnow.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, and the reason why we're sharing this is
because during the summer,things are sizzling and Corey
and I are out and about, sothere are things that we get to
see.
I thought, hmm, summer sizzling, fun activities.
So I asked cory if we couldplease talk about some dating,
(02:15):
um, seeing a dating theme,because here's the deal, here's
the deal.
We went out to eat.
Yeah, I was about to say I'mgonna give some context here.
Let me give a little morecontext.
When I have downtime at home, Itend to watch rom-coms, chick
flicks, right or um, like seasondating shows, right.
(02:39):
So for the season like love isblind, or whichever Friends
suggest some to me, recommendthem, so I'll catch them and see
if I'm into them.
So Corey and I were literallysitting next to a couple that
walked in and as they weretalking they were talking loud,
(03:00):
so I wasn't trying to eavesdrop,it, just kind of fell on my lap
.
She was ear hustling but theywere on a blind date and dude
was a lawyer.
I couldn't tell what she was.
Um definitely communicated thatshe was very happy with her
career, but guys like I learnedall about them, how many kids
(03:24):
they had, how many times they'vebeen married, why it didn't
work out what their kids do, thescholarships, the careers so
our wonderful uh afternoon dateturned into hey, let's listen to
what they're talking about.
I had never eaten a meal soslow in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was quite entertaining.
I have to say that much.
If I said, oh, I didn't reallyget into it, I wasn't really
feeling it, but I just excuse meagain.
I just found myself being drawninto this conversation Again.
They were very loud with theirconversation as we sat there.
(04:05):
So, jane, getting the play byplay, I had a great time.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It was fantastic, great time and you and I, corey,
we're looking at each otherLike I hope she doesn't act
desperate and oh, he's so fullof himself.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And she did and he was yes.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
My one of my favorite parts is um, then they get into
(04:41):
their diet and the things thatthey do to stay healthy or get
no judgment, but nowhere near asix-pack.
But you know that's what theywere talking about and she said
you have a great body.
And he reaches out his hand totake hers and says thank you so
much yes so I was like oh no.
(05:04):
And so of course we had our owncommentaries in our minds and
our heads at the restaurant andthen, especially, in the car
ride.
But I just want to end thisstory with this.
Cory was like we gotta go.
We gotta go.
I'm like no, it's getting tothe best part, because here was
the best part.
They're gonna take their order.
She hadn't ordered anything andshe said you know, I don't
(05:27):
really eat a lot.
And uh, he says really.
And she says why don't we justshare a plate?
He goes I don't really shareplates, but, um, okay, and she
said I'll tell you what.
I'll just get a salad.
He's like that's it.
He'll have some of these.
And he's throwing his hand outon the table because there's a
(05:47):
big platter of oysters, oysters,raw oysters.
And she says I've never had it.
And he's like, oh, you've gotto try one.
She's like okay, and he's likethis is the horseradish, you can
have it, squeeze it with lemon,put hot sauce.
And at that point cory wantedto go.
And I tell you guys, that wouldhave been the best part of my
(06:08):
observation of the state,because eating oysters is an
acquired taste and if you're notinto texture of food.
It's not the way to go and it'sa, you know, big meat like he,
I think, got the most expensiveoysters.
I love oysters, but again Iwanted to see this sounds bad
(06:32):
seeing.
I was just gonna pause myself,but I'm just gonna say what I
was gonna say.
I kind of wanted to see yourgag on it, like why would you
even try an oyster?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I have no idea.
And had I known that that wasthe whole setup, I probably
would have stayed.
But I had just come back fromthe restroom and you know we had
just paid the bill, I went andwashed my hands and cleaned up a
little bit and then I was like,okay, let's go.
And so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So then we get into conversation and for those who
are married, let us know ifyou've ever had this
conversation with your partneror if you're dating.
But I thought, how would it beif I was single in this time?
Same with Corey, right.
Like what would this look likeif this was our first date and
(07:32):
we were just getting to knoweach other?
Like what would we talk about?
So we're gonna go throughdating in the past and the
present, maybe talk about whatit'd be like in the future and
just ask some like randoquestions around dating.
Is that okay, absolutely so.
Let's talk about dating in thepast.
Old school, courtship, oldschool, oh my.
Now I'm going to start with ourgeneration.
Okay, and when I was younger,the very first thing that I
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remember about liking a boy andthe boy liking me this was
courtship, back in elementaryschool.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, that's not dating.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh, come on, let's just have some fun a little bit.
Oh, my gosh, that's not dating.
Oh, come on, let's just havesome fun a little bit.
Um, you know, guys, girls wouldwrite I love so and so on their
shoes, on the bottom of theirvans.
Did you ever do that?
No, okay, we did in my school,and that's how a guy professed
his love for the, for the girlthat was some serious love it
(08:24):
was so fun I I not elementary,but by middle school I was
buying jordans.
So uh, oh yeah you don't writethose things jordans no, no,
yeah, these were vans.
And I'm sure the parents, justyou know, was like what did you
just write on your shoe, or orpassing love notes, right, yes,
(08:46):
okay.
So let's get to the older partof dating, corey.
What was it like when we wereyounger?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Between middle school , high school it was you know
the letters or a friend wouldcome up to you and say, do you
have a girlfriend?
Me personally, I was alwayssaying, well, who wants to know?
Because I don't want to just belike I probably should have
said no or yes, depending on mystatus, but I always wanted to
(09:15):
know who liked me before I madea move.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Before you answered that question.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And so that was typically the old school way.
Or you just got bold enough oneday and said, hey, I'd like to
get to know you better, and ifit went bad, you just tucked
your tail and walked away right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
So yeah, when we were younger, if you saw someone you
thought was cute or you wereinterested in, you'd ask him on
a date or ask him to go out.
We never said do you want to goon a date?
Right um, but yeah, do you wantto go out?
Or a friend would hook you up,like, oh, I have a friend and I
think you're really gonna thinkshe's cute.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You, I'm gonna have you guys meet or the worst case
scenario, your friend is datingsomeone and your parents won't
let you go by your by themselves, and so they have to bring a
friend, and you just so happento be the single friend.
Oh yes, and so you're just thebring-along, yeah.
And then that person shows upand you're like oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mm-hmm, exactly, so there was that.
Now you told me about somethingthat I never got to enjoy, and
so it's the phone dating.
Yeah, there was this Lines, notapps, but phone dating lines.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, there was this.
It was something connection,but basically you could you know
.
Oh, the ad was in the pennysaver.
We're dating ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, let's talk about the penny saver.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Tell us about that, oh my gosh.
So the penny saver was classy?
Well, not classy, but classicfor having.
You could buy cars, you couldFind jobs Find jobs or love, or
read your horoscope or whateverand the penny saver came every
Wednesday and pretty much toevery house in the you know,
(11:07):
isn't that something.
In the county Absolutely, and soin the very back there was this
connection line that you couldcall, and so you set up your
profile, talk about yourself,what your hair looks like, what
your face looks like, how tallyou are.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Like 36-year-old female looking for love.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, that type of deal and then so you can listen
to these people talk and decide,based on what they were saying,
if you were interested or not,and you could leave a message in
their mailbox or what they'resaying.
Now swipe left and just thinkit's swipe.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Is it left or right?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't know, but you could do something to go to the
next profile.
And based on that and andpeople were very specific, like
um, some people said they didn'tdate certain ethnicities some
some people said, uh, they don'tdate bald men or men with
beards and stuff like that.
(12:05):
So that was one of the moreinteresting phone things that
they had going on and I had afriend and a sister that really
was into that.
I didn't like that kind of.
It was just weird to me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah.
And what was different aboutthen?
Not only was it just on thephone, but you didn't have
photos, obviously, because it'sphones, Right.
So I would imagine that thevoices that are being recorded,
you're like using the mostsexiest voice you've got and
(12:42):
it's like sending all sultry, solike if I were to do it on the
fly.
Let's just no, please don't.
No, it's going to be, I swearit's going to be clean.
Okay, so it's something like hi, I'm Jen, a 20 or 28 year old
female from Southern Californialooking for someone who loves
movies, fun and walks on thebeach.
(13:06):
Oh, is it too long?
You'd be like not interested,Not interested.
Leave me a message, Right?
That kind of way.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man, so you're just making these judgments based on
voice and commonalities, really?
Yeah, I'd never done that.
I don't know how that got by me.
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, if you didn't read the Penny Saver, you
probably wouldn't know about it,unless you had a friend that
was doing it.
And just so happened, my sisterand one of her best friends
were were heavily into that andthat's how I found I found out
about, otherwise I would havenever known and it wouldn't just
stay on the phone, like theyactually said.
Yeah, let's meet in person well,they eventually exchanged
(13:52):
numbers, because it cost a greatdeal of money to listen to all
those profiles, right, becausethis is by the minute.
So imagine paying like 35 centsa minute, oh wow, and you're
listening to profiles that are,you know yeah, no wonder why you
went.
Beep on me and go to the nextone exactly, and then so they
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would exchange phone numbersafter the you know.
So you would leave a messageand say oh, my number is blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, and thenthat person would call you, and
then you would see if it wouldwork from that point on yeah, no
thanks, right.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So then it's evolved right and I think I think that
worked out well because ithappened during the 80s and 90s
90s especially not everyone hadaccess to the internet oh yeah,
no, no right, no, internet wasso that's what you did.
Instead, fast forward, youstart getting access to the
internet.
I think even before dating apps, it was um chat rooms.
(14:49):
Yeah right, you just jumpedinto chat room.
Now you don't even hear thevoice, you're just typing away.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And that was a mess.
If I'm going to be honest aboutthe dating scene, that was
probably the messiest era ofdating that whole chat room.
And then you're sendingmessages and the message wasn't
coming in real time at thatpoint.
You would send the message andin the beginning it would show
(15:18):
up an hour later oh, it wasn'tcoming in real time.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
At that point you would send the message and it
would.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
In the beginning it would show up you know an hour
later, it wasn't even live chat,no, not at that point.
It evolved over the course oftime where you were able to get
you know the message in realtime but you know people started
the scam almost immediately.
So people were asking for moneyand can you help me get to, I
mean New Zealand, and I want tocome out there and see you.
(15:40):
Can you send me money?
Because people don't know whereyou are, they don't know what's
going on and I just remember somany people being scammed over
love.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And what does that really say about the human need
for love?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
and belonging right.
Yeah for love and belongingright.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, like that would be believable enough for
someone to send money or dowhatever.
So one of my favorite movies isstill around that era on.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You've got mail.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I already knew it it's a brilliant movie if you
have not seen it.
Tom Hanks and Meg RyanExcellent movie, and so okay.
So did you meet anyone or dateanyone as a result of a chat
room?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
A realistic date?
No, okay.
I just don't do those kind ofthings.
I'm old school.
I need to see you talk to you,get to know, you understand why
you are the way you are and thenmove on from there.
And then I definitely need thatphysical connection.
I want to be able to say, ohyeah, she's pretty, oh yeah, I'm
(16:51):
attracted to her, her.
But to just see a picture andgo on that or possibly, uh, just
hear your voice or, you know,see a message.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I need a little bit more than that, I think because
of some experiences around thatyou have shows like love is
blind, because they're onlytalking and it's, uh, an
attraction of the heart, right,the conversation, and then it's
really to see, did you reallyfall for that person, to where
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looks don't matter, like, and soit's an interesting study to
see.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It is, but I'm just not into falling in love over an
idea and that's why I neverhave seen movies like Sleepless
in Seattle or You've Got Mailall the way through.
I may have walked into the roomwhile it was playing and I've
heard people talking about it.
One of my closest friendsgrowing up loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Sleepless in Seattle Both yeah, because it's another
Tommmy hanks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right, ryan went, but even more so.
Uh, you've got mel and I justthought to myself, like why
would you like this movie somuch?
It's so like unreal.
But this is what people starteddoing to try to find love yeah,
yeah, I get it okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So app era.
So, as you can see, cory, and Idon't know if it's swipe right
or swipe left please someonehelp us help us out, maybe it's
both who knows, but I've heardof things like tinder right,
that's a dating app uh, I don't,I don't know.
I mean, it could be we probablyshould have done some research
(18:40):
on dating apps either way well,I thought we're just going to be
talking about dating likedating yeah, well, but that it's
interesting because our opinionon dating or our definition of
dating is different.
When I think dating, we're inthe same room, sharing the same
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space, right going out, gettingto know each other, seeing what
activities we like to do, youknow that kind of thing.
Some people think texting is aform of dating or relationship
or you know, I know it's likewell, yeah, that's communication
.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No, or even people who game, they have
relationships through the gameyeah and guys, I'm not knocking
any style of getting to knowsomeone.
What I'm simply saying for meis that I need to see table side
manner, I need to see what theinteractions with other people
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are like and, if there'schildren involved, I want to
know that there's a, a decentmother that is taking care of
children and and making surethings are set up the right way
right and seeing theirinteraction.
Yeah, you just can't see thatstuff over a game or through an
app or yeah, well, I think toothat leads to ghosting.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
A good friend of ours said that she goes on amazing
dates and she thinks there's areal connection.
They're laughing, they havethings in common, they're
talking about how some of theirthings match up for future, and
then there's the ghosting Right,right.
So I don't know, maybe we as asociety have gotten so used to
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these quick moments and justthat connection in itself was
enough, and then it's on to thenext.
You know, that kind of way it'salmost like the same way we
experience life, um, swiping upas you go through your Instagram
reels or your Tik TOK and stufflike that, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, I would hate to hear that, because I still
believe in love and I still havehope for love.
Uh, for you know, we got twochildren that are not married
and I would hope that they wouldbe able to find love at some
point in time in their lives.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's it just saddens me to think that people won't
meet each other because theyjust want to be on an app, right
, and I mean, let's be real too,it's post-pandemic stuff too
right, like we were very closedoff for a few years yeah, but we
didn't experience the pandemiclike everybody else did.
(21:30):
I mean, we were a little bitbolder and adventurous you're
talking about you and I yeah,yeah, but I'm talking about
other people and the anxietythat comes with that yeah you
know what I mean.
So, post-pandemic world, um,anyhow.
Um, let me ask you a questionshould friends still set each
other up, or is that a thing ofthe past?
(21:51):
That's a thing of the past,it's gone.
Oh yeah, why do you say no soconvictingly?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Because I just remember like if your friend is
setting you up and you're single, it's something going on with
you right at that moment, andmost of the time it's not you're
just single.
It's because you're goingthrough something.
You just had a bad experience.
You're not ready for datinglack of job, lack of a car, lack
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of money, something's wrong.
So, friends, setting you upusually is like a ticking time
bomb for whatever is in the inthe shadows to pop its head out
and you're like, oh my God,that's why you aren't dating
anyone Got you Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that's dating in the present Right man.
It just makes me even moregrateful, just to be married
yeah.
All right.
So let's talk about the futureof dating, because one of the
things that came to my mind isdo we trust AI enough to be the
algorithm that finds yoursoulmate?
(22:59):
I don't know.
Ai I'm not going to lie isgrowing.
It's pretty impressive with thethings that it can do.
Would you trust AI, corey?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So here's my theory, and I'm going to just throw this
out there.
If you've ever tampered with,played with or utilized AI for
any given reason, what you'llknow is that there's a lag as of
late, especially if it's imagesor yeah, it's saying we can't
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process that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Try again, right.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, even bigger lag , because AI is still based on a
system that needs a certainamount of energy and horsepower
and ram to be able to processthis stuff, and if human beings
keep on trying to lean on AI ashard as they're trying to, it's
just gonna get worse and worseand worse.
(24:06):
I don't see how it's gonna beable to self-sustain for a long
period of time.
That's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I can see that I think that's a very educated
guess at the future of AI.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So AI may be setting you up with a cousin or your dog
or something in the future andyou're like wait, imagine I want
someone who's loyal.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't mind someone who's hairy, I like someone who
likes belly rubs.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh, my gosh, yeah, exactly how about virtual
reality dating?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
so just like getting on facetime or zoom to have a
have a date, first date, seconddate yeah, you're talking to the
wrong person.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That just it.
To me it wreaks desperativity.
It has all these elements offantasy land and fantasy world
and we're gonna make this soundreally, really good and and you
can have your own setting.
But the true test of a goodrelationship is time together.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I get that.
I think I have a differingopinion on that actually.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I so want to hear this.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
If I were to be dating, I can see the benefits
of oh, let's have our first datevirtual, like, let's just chat
and see each other and and gaugeit from there.
Um, you don't have to gettotally dressed up, at least
from the waist down I could, um,I don't know.
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And then it's cheaper, like,and no one is to worry about
who's paying for this.
Where do we meet up?
I don't know.
It just feels a lot moreconvenient.
And, um, I I think, becauseI've been in the virtual world
at work, I I want to say that Ifeel like I have experience in
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um, in communication and readingthe room even there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So I hear what you're saying.
Thanks for hearing me.
There's a potential in thisideology that you're putting out
over the World.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Wide.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Web.
However, there's a reality tothis.
Yeah, and maybe a lot of womenI won't say all women, but maybe
a lot of women would would beable to uphold this standard of
morality on this zoom dating andact appropriately.
(26:47):
But I can't say that for allmen, because I'm a man and I got
a lot of male friends andyou're talking about being
half-dressed from the waist upand going to dinner and it's
going to get crazy really,really quick.
And if there's any man outthere listening, please chime in
, help your brother out, becauseI guarantee you there's going
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to be some weird stuff happening.
If there's one Zoom dateBecause somebody's going to say,
oh, I don't have a lot of moneythis month, let's have another
one, and before you know it,it's not just a dating app, it's
turning into something totallydifferent.
I think it's called OnlyFansand then that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You're funny, it's wild man.
I'm telling you like, at thatpoint, if we both decided, okay,
yeah, let's meet up.
Right, like we enjoyed thatconversation, let's meet up.
If it became one excuse afteranother after another and he
kept wanting to be on zoom orfacetime, I'd be like, no, I
need, I need face to faceinteraction.
I just think, for the firstdate, I'd totally be open to
(27:57):
virtual actually.
Yeah, absolutely would be okay.
That's me, though.
Okay, I don't know much aboutthe metaverse, but I've heard
you know like what do you think?
I mean, cory, I know what youthink, but let's just talk about
what that would look like.
Avatar dating, I right, oh, no,so strange not for me.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Again, I'm not knocking anything.
Anyone wants to try anything.
Anyone says they're going to do.
If that's your thing, then gofor it, and I wish you nothing
but the best.
But for me personally, can't doit, can't go there, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I hear you, so I'm going to ask our listeners, our
fellow elevators, what do youhope dating looks like in the
future?
Maybe not because you're goingto be dating, but maybe you have
children who are going to bedating, or you've got nieces and
nephews and you're like this iswhat I hope it looks like for
them.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And a lot of my rationale is for my children who
are not married and again Ihave hoped that they will find
love, they will get married,they will have a couple of
children and, by the way, I maybe giving way too much
information, but all three ofour children do not have
children and Jen and I are bothin our 50s so we want some
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grandkids at some point in timeand if dayton doesn't balance
itself out and they find lovequickly, it may be too old to
enjoy the children guys, we'vehonestly thought about creating
reels or video so our futuregrandchildren could see like
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what it could have been likethey come earlier, like you
would have been going todisneyland with us right here,
right now you would have been onthis ride and enjoying right we
would have been matching ears.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, there's the disneyland hotel and there's
the pool we could have swam in,but anyhow, yeah, that's another
topic.
But I'm going to ask twoquestions, corey, and then we're
going to end today's episode.
What's the worst date you'vebeen on?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
worst date, oh my gosh, worst date I've ever been
on, and I'll tell you so.
I was planning on going touniversal studios with this
young lady that I met.
I was working for radio shackat the time and I met this girl.
She came in, she boughtsomething and then she came back
in and we we talked for a fewminutes and I was like, hey, why
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don't we get together?
And so she said sure, you knowwhat.
I'm going to Universal Studioson Saturday.
You want to go with me?
I'm like, okay, yeah, thatsounds good.
So she was like meet me at thisaddress and I'll drive.
Oh, okay, let's see how thisgoes.
(31:11):
So I drove to the address andit was a Saturday morning and it
was a bus depot, okay, and shewas a bus driver oh, you and
Matt met her no, I met her itshe came into the store oh, yes,
(31:32):
yesand so I met her at the bus
depot.
She's a bus driver and there'slike 45 church kids on the bus
and I'm supposed to get on thebus with her and ride to
universal studios.
And it just got worse and worseand it was just one of those
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nightmarish dates, because youget to Universal Studios, I
couldn't even get in.
Why?
Because there was somethingwith the way they had it set up
for invitation only and it waslike a church or pre-sale yeah.
And so I couldn't get in at thattime, where I was going to have
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to pay an absorbing amount ofmoney to get in and I wasn't
technically with the group andthen.
So she was like, well, I don'thave to go in either.
So we stayed on the bus and itwas hot, oh my God, it was
miserable.
And I think there was a pack ofcrackers and a couple of pieces
(32:39):
of cheese and I was like, canwe go to, like get food?
She was like I can't move thebus, so then we would have had
to walk.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And there wasn't a universal city walk then no.
Oh, Corey, that is a really baddate.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Really bad.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Needless to say, there was no second.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, second date You're like heck.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
No, no, wow, that's a good story.
Sorry guys, that's a good story.
Do you want to share best date?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
ever best.
Best date ever was when we gotback together for the second
time.
Yeah, and it had had its rollercoaster moments, but overall
that was the best date that I'dever had.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No today that was good.
Good yeah, a lot of drama too.
Like I mean I could write ashort book on that night.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Or a very good comedy sketch.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That was great.
Well, if you want to share yourworst dates ever, or best dates
ever, please go ahead and do so.
We'd love to hear it and let usknow if we can share.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I love how you got out of answering those questions
, but yes, let's yeah, becauseyou know we're way past the 30
minute mark.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Anyhow, that's what happens when you produce a show.
I get to say what, say say whoand say when.
Okay, pretty woman, well, youknow us to take the elevator.
We say look up and let'selevate Every day, elevate Every
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day, elevate Every day.
Hey, it's Jen the Builder, and.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Corey, and welcome to Take the Elevator.
Jen, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am doing so well, I'm energized, I'm glad to be in
air conditioning because it hasbeen a hot one.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That was my next question.
How are you liking pre-summer?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Pre-summer is coming awfully fast.
We went to Disneyland inland in95 degree weather.
Um stood in the lines and forthose who wear makeup and wear
glasses, I think those are theworst conditions that you can be
(01:02):
in while it's hot, and alsohaving your hair down.
I had all three of those thingshappening, because I had a
great hair day so I wanted itdown, needed to put makeup
because I just love takingpictures and glasses so I could
see.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I love it.
I love all of it, because itwas very hot that day and I just
think you know we had a lot offun.
We went with a friend again,excuse me and it was just a
really good time.
Hot, cold, raining, uh,whatever, we're gonna have a
great time at disneyland.
That's just one of the bestplaces to go.
(01:42):
And, yes, we, we are inSouthern California, which means
it gets hot early.
So that's what Jen's explainingnow.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, and the reason why we're sharing this is
because during the summer,things are sizzling and Corey
and I are out and about, sothere are things that we get to
see.
I thought, hmm, summer sizzling, fun activities.
So I asked cory if we couldplease talk about some dating,
(02:15):
um, seeing a dating theme,because here's the deal, here's
the deal.
We went out to eat.
Yeah, I was about to say I'mgonna give some context here.
Let me give a little morecontext.
When I have downtime at home, Itend to watch rom-coms, chick
flicks, right or um, like seasondating shows, right.
(02:39):
So for the season like love isblind, or whichever Friends
suggest some to me, recommendthem, so I'll catch them and see
if I'm into them.
So Corey and I were literallysitting next to a couple that
walked in and as they weretalking they were talking loud,
(03:00):
so I wasn't trying to eavesdrop,it, just kind of fell on my lap
.
She was ear hustling but theywere on a blind date and dude
was a lawyer.
I couldn't tell what she was.
Um definitely communicated thatshe was very happy with her
career, but guys like I learnedall about them, how many kids
(03:24):
they had, how many times they'vebeen married, why it didn't
work out what their kids do, thescholarships, the careers so
our wonderful uh afternoon dateturned into hey, let's listen to
what they're talking about.
I had never eaten a meal soslow in my life.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was quite entertaining.
I have to say that much.
If I said, oh, I didn't reallyget into it, I wasn't really
feeling it, but I just excuse meagain.
I just found myself being drawninto this conversation Again.
They were very loud with theirconversation as we sat there.
(04:05):
So, jane, getting the play byplay, I had a great time.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It was fantastic, great time and you and I, corey,
we're looking at each otherLike I hope she doesn't act
desperate and oh, he's so fullof himself.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And she did and he was yes.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
My one of my favorite parts is um, then they get into
(04:41):
their diet and the things thatthey do to stay healthy or get
no judgment, but nowhere near asix-pack.
But you know that's what theywere talking about and she said
you have a great body.
And he reaches out his hand totake hers and says thank you so
much yes so I was like oh no.
(05:04):
And so of course we had our owncommentaries in our minds and
our heads at the restaurant andthen, especially, in the car
ride.
But I just want to end thisstory with this.
Cory was like we gotta go.
We gotta go.
I'm like no, it's getting tothe best part, because here was
the best part.
They're gonna take their order.
She hadn't ordered anything andshe said you know, I don't
(05:27):
really eat a lot.
And uh, he says really.
And she says why don't we justshare a plate?
He goes I don't really shareplates, but, um, okay, and she
said I'll tell you what.
I'll just get a salad.
He's like that's it.
He'll have some of these.
And he's throwing his hand outon the table because there's a
(05:47):
big platter of oysters, oysters,raw oysters.
And she says I've never had it.
And he's like, oh, you've gotto try one.
She's like okay, and he's likethis is the horseradish, you can
have it, squeeze it with lemon,put hot sauce.
And at that point cory wantedto go.
And I tell you guys, that wouldhave been the best part of my
(06:08):
observation of the state,because eating oysters is an
acquired taste and if you're notinto texture of food.
It's not the way to go and it'sa, you know, big meat like he,
I think, got the most expensiveoysters.
I love oysters, but again Iwanted to see this sounds bad
(06:32):
seeing.
I was just gonna pause myself,but I'm just gonna say what I
was gonna say.
I kind of wanted to see yourgag on it, like why would you
even try an oyster?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I have no idea.
And had I known that that wasthe whole setup, I probably
would have stayed.
But I had just come back fromthe restroom and you know we had
just paid the bill, I went andwashed my hands and cleaned up a
little bit and then I was like,okay, let's go.
And so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So then we get into conversation and for those who
are married, let us know ifyou've ever had this
conversation with your partneror if you're dating.
But I thought, how would it beif I was single in this time?
Same with Corey, right.
Like what would this look likeif this was our first date and
(07:32):
we were just getting to knoweach other?
Like what would we talk about?
So we're gonna go throughdating in the past and the
present, maybe talk about whatit'd be like in the future and
just ask some like randoquestions around dating.
Is that okay, absolutely so.
Let's talk about dating in thepast.
Old school, courtship, oldschool, oh my.
Now I'm going to start with ourgeneration.
Okay, and when I was younger,the very first thing that I
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remember about liking a boy andthe boy liking me this was
courtship, back in elementaryschool.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh my gosh, that's not dating.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh, come on, let's just have some fun a little bit.
Oh, my gosh, that's not dating.
Oh, come on, let's just havesome fun a little bit.
Um, you know, guys, girls wouldwrite I love so and so on their
shoes, on the bottom of theirvans.
Did you ever do that?
No, okay, we did in my school,and that's how a guy professed
his love for the, for the girlthat was some serious love it
(08:24):
was so fun I I not elementary,but by middle school I was
buying jordans.
So uh, oh yeah you don't writethose things jordans no, no,
yeah, these were vans.
And I'm sure the parents, justyou know, was like what did you
just write on your shoe, or orpassing love notes, right, yes,
(08:46):
okay.
So let's get to the older partof dating, corey.
What was it like when we wereyounger?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Between middle school , high school it was you know
the letters or a friend wouldcome up to you and say, do you
have a girlfriend?
Me personally, I was alwayssaying, well, who wants to know?
Because I don't want to just belike I probably should have
said no or yes, depending on mystatus, but I always wanted to
(09:15):
know who liked me before I madea move.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Before you answered that question.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And so that was typically the old school way.
Or you just got bold enough oneday and said, hey, I'd like to
get to know you better, and ifit went bad, you just tucked
your tail and walked away right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
So yeah, when we were younger, if you saw someone you
thought was cute or you wereinterested in, you'd ask him on
a date or ask him to go out.
We never said do you want to goon a date?
Right um, but yeah, do you wantto go out?
Or a friend would hook you up,like, oh, I have a friend and I
think you're really gonna thinkshe's cute.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You, I'm gonna have you guys meet or the worst case
scenario, your friend is datingsomeone and your parents won't
let you go by your by themselves, and so they have to bring a
friend, and you just so happento be the single friend.
Oh yes, and so you're just thebring-along, yeah.
And then that person shows upand you're like oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mm-hmm, exactly, so there was that.
Now you told me about somethingthat I never got to enjoy, and
so it's the phone dating.
Yeah, there was this Lines, notapps, but phone dating lines.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, there was this.
It was something connection,but basically you could you know
.
Oh, the ad was in the pennysaver.
We're dating ourselves.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, let's talk about the penny saver.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Tell us about that, oh my gosh.
So the penny saver was classy?
Well, not classy, but classicfor having.
You could buy cars, you couldFind jobs Find jobs or love, or
read your horoscope or whateverand the penny saver came every
Wednesday and pretty much toevery house in the you know,
(11:07):
isn't that something.
In the county Absolutely, and soin the very back there was this
connection line that you couldcall, and so you set up your
profile, talk about yourself,what your hair looks like, what
your face looks like, how tallyou are.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Like 36-year-old female looking for love.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, that type of deal and then so you can listen
to these people talk and decide,based on what they were saying,
if you were interested or not,and you could leave a message in
their mailbox or what they'resaying.
Now swipe left and just thinkit's swipe.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Is it left or right?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't know, but you could do something to go to the
next profile.
And based on that and andpeople were very specific, like
um, some people said they didn'tdate certain ethnicities some
some people said, uh, they don'tdate bald men or men with
beards and stuff like that.
(12:05):
So that was one of the moreinteresting phone things that
they had going on and I had afriend and a sister that really
was into that.
I didn't like that kind of.
It was just weird to me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah.
And what was different aboutthen?
Not only was it just on thephone, but you didn't have
photos, obviously, because it'sphones, Right.
So I would imagine that thevoices that are being recorded,
you're like using the mostsexiest voice you've got and
(12:42):
it's like sending all sultry, solike if I were to do it on the
fly.
Let's just no, please don't.
No, it's going to be, I swearit's going to be clean.
Okay, so it's something like hi, I'm Jen, a 20 or 28 year old
female from Southern Californialooking for someone who loves
movies, fun and walks on thebeach.
(13:06):
Oh, is it too long?
You'd be like not interested,Not interested.
Leave me a message, Right?
That kind of way.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Man, so you're just making these judgments based on
voice and commonalities, really?
Yeah, I'd never done that.
I don't know how that got by me.
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Well, if you didn't read the Penny Saver, you
probably wouldn't know about it,unless you had a friend that
was doing it.
And just so happened, my sisterand one of her best friends
were were heavily into that andthat's how I found I found out
about, otherwise I would havenever known and it wouldn't just
stay on the phone, like theyactually said.
Yeah, let's meet in person well,they eventually exchanged
(13:52):
numbers, because it cost a greatdeal of money to listen to all
those profiles, right, becausethis is by the minute.
So imagine paying like 35 centsa minute, oh wow, and you're
listening to profiles that are,you know yeah, no wonder why you
went.
Beep on me and go to the nextone exactly, and then so they
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would exchange phone numbersafter the you know.
So you would leave a messageand say oh, my number is blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah, and thenthat person would call you, and
then you would see if it wouldwork from that point on yeah, no
thanks, right.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So then it's evolved right and I think I think that
worked out well because ithappened during the 80s and 90s
90s especially not everyone hadaccess to the internet oh yeah,
no, no right, no, internet wasso that's what you did.
Instead, fast forward, youstart getting access to the
internet.
I think even before dating apps, it was um chat rooms.
(14:49):
Yeah right, you just jumpedinto chat room.
Now you don't even hear thevoice, you're just typing away.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And that was a mess.
If I'm going to be honest aboutthe dating scene, that was
probably the messiest era ofdating that whole chat room.
And then you're sendingmessages and the message wasn't
coming in real time at thatpoint.
You would send the message andin the beginning it would show
(15:18):
up an hour later oh, it wasn'tcoming in real time.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
At that point you would send the message and it
would.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
In the beginning it would show up you know an hour
later, it wasn't even live chat,no, not at that point.
It evolved over the course oftime where you were able to get
you know the message in realtime but you know people started
the scam almost immediately.
So people were asking for moneyand can you help me get to, I
mean New Zealand, and I want tocome out there and see you.
(15:40):
Can you send me money?
Because people don't know whereyou are, they don't know what's
going on and I just remember somany people being scammed over
love.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And what does that really say about the human need
for love?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
and belonging right.
Yeah for love and belongingright.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, like that would be believable enough for
someone to send money or dowhatever.
So one of my favorite movies isstill around that era on.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You've got mail.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I already knew it it's a brilliant movie if you
have not seen it.
Tom Hanks and Meg RyanExcellent movie, and so okay.
So did you meet anyone or dateanyone as a result of a chat
room?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
A realistic date?
No, okay.
I just don't do those kind ofthings.
I'm old school.
I need to see you talk to you,get to know, you understand why
you are the way you are and thenmove on from there.
And then I definitely need thatphysical connection.
I want to be able to say, ohyeah, she's pretty, oh yeah, I'm
(16:51):
attracted to her, her.
But to just see a picture andgo on that or possibly, uh, just
hear your voice or, you know,see a message.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I need a little bit more than that, I think because
of some experiences around thatyou have shows like love is
blind, because they're onlytalking and it's, uh, an
attraction of the heart, right,the conversation, and then it's
really to see, did you reallyfall for that person, to where
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looks don't matter, like, and soit's an interesting study to
see.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
It is, but I'm just not into falling in love over an
idea and that's why I neverhave seen movies like Sleepless
in Seattle or You've Got Mailall the way through.
I may have walked into the roomwhile it was playing and I've
heard people talking about it.
One of my closest friendsgrowing up loved that movie.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Sleepless in Seattle Both yeah, because it's another
Tommmy hanks.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Right, ryan went, but even more so.
Uh, you've got mel and I justthought to myself, like why
would you like this movie somuch?
It's so like unreal.
But this is what people starteddoing to try to find love yeah,
yeah, I get it okay.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
So app era.
So, as you can see, cory, and Idon't know if it's swipe right
or swipe left please someonehelp us help us out, maybe it's
both who knows, but I've heardof things like tinder right,
that's a dating app uh, I don't,I don't know.
I mean, it could be we probablyshould have done some research
(18:40):
on dating apps either way well,I thought we're just going to be
talking about dating likedating yeah, well, but that it's
interesting because our opinionon dating or our definition of
dating is different.
When I think dating, we're inthe same room, sharing the same
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space, right going out, gettingto know each other, seeing what
activities we like to do, youknow that kind of thing.
Some people think texting is aform of dating or relationship
or you know, I know it's likewell, yeah, that's communication
.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
No, or even people who game, they have
relationships through the gameyeah and guys, I'm not knocking
any style of getting to knowsomeone.
What I'm simply saying for meis that I need to see table side
manner, I need to see what theinteractions with other people
(19:45):
are like and, if there'schildren involved, I want to
know that there's a, a decentmother that is taking care of
children and and making surethings are set up the right way
right and seeing theirinteraction.
Yeah, you just can't see thatstuff over a game or through an
app or yeah, well, I think toothat leads to ghosting.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
A good friend of ours said that she goes on amazing
dates and she thinks there's areal connection.
They're laughing, they havethings in common, they're
talking about how some of theirthings match up for future, and
then there's the ghosting Right,right.
So I don't know, maybe we as asociety have gotten so used to
(20:32):
these quick moments and justthat connection in itself was
enough, and then it's on to thenext.
You know, that kind of way it'salmost like the same way we
experience life, um, swiping upas you go through your Instagram
reels or your Tik TOK and stufflike that, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, I would hate to hear that, because I still
believe in love and I still havehope for love.
Uh, for you know, we got twochildren that are not married
and I would hope that they wouldbe able to find love at some
point in time in their lives.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It's it just saddens me to think that people won't
meet each other because theyjust want to be on an app, right
, and I mean, let's be real too,it's post-pandemic stuff too
right, like we were very closedoff for a few years yeah, but we
didn't experience the pandemiclike everybody else did.
(21:30):
I mean, we were a little bitbolder and adventurous you're
talking about you and I yeah,yeah, but I'm talking about
other people and the anxietythat comes with that yeah you
know what I mean.
So, post-pandemic world, um,anyhow.
Um, let me ask you a questionshould friends still set each
other up, or is that a thing ofthe past?
(21:51):
That's a thing of the past,it's gone.
Oh yeah, why do you say no soconvictingly?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Because I just remember like if your friend is
setting you up and you're single, it's something going on with
you right at that moment, andmost of the time it's not you're
just single.
It's because you're goingthrough something.
You just had a bad experience.
You're not ready for datinglack of job, lack of a car, lack
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of money, something's wrong.
So, friends, setting you upusually is like a ticking time
bomb for whatever is in the inthe shadows to pop its head out
and you're like, oh my God,that's why you aren't dating
anyone Got you Okay.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So that's dating in the present Right man.
It just makes me even moregrateful, just to be married
yeah.
All right.
So let's talk about the futureof dating, because one of the
things that came to my mind isdo we trust AI enough to be the
algorithm that finds yoursoulmate?
(22:59):
I don't know.
Ai I'm not going to lie isgrowing.
It's pretty impressive with thethings that it can do.
Would you trust AI, corey?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
So here's my theory, and I'm going to just throw this
out there.
If you've ever tampered with,played with or utilized AI for
any given reason, what you'llknow is that there's a lag as of
late, especially if it's imagesor yeah, it's saying we can't
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process that.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Try again, right.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, even bigger lag , because AI is still based on a
system that needs a certainamount of energy and horsepower
and ram to be able to processthis stuff, and if human beings
keep on trying to lean on AI ashard as they're trying to, it's
just gonna get worse and worseand worse.
(24:06):
I don't see how it's gonna beable to self-sustain for a long
period of time.
That's just my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I can see that I think that's a very educated
guess at the future of AI.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So AI may be setting you up with a cousin or your dog
or something in the future andyou're like wait, imagine I want
someone who's loyal.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't mind someone who's hairy, I like someone who
likes belly rubs.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh, my gosh, yeah, exactly how about virtual
reality dating?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
so just like getting on facetime or zoom to have a
have a date, first date, seconddate yeah, you're talking to the
wrong person.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
That just it.
To me it wreaks desperativity.
It has all these elements offantasy land and fantasy world
and we're gonna make this soundreally, really good and and you
can have your own setting.
But the true test of a goodrelationship is time together.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I get that.
I think I have a differingopinion on that actually.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
I so want to hear this.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
If I were to be dating, I can see the benefits
of oh, let's have our first datevirtual, like, let's just chat
and see each other and and gaugeit from there.
Um, you don't have to gettotally dressed up, at least
from the waist down I could, um,I don't know.
(25:49):
And then it's cheaper, like,and no one is to worry about
who's paying for this.
Where do we meet up?
I don't know.
It just feels a lot moreconvenient.
And, um, I I think, becauseI've been in the virtual world
at work, I I want to say that Ifeel like I have experience in
(26:10):
um, in communication and readingthe room even there.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So I hear what you're saying.
Thanks for hearing me.
There's a potential in thisideology that you're putting out
over the World.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Wide.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Web.
However, there's a reality tothis.
Yeah, and maybe a lot of womenI won't say all women, but maybe
a lot of women would would beable to uphold this standard of
morality on this zoom dating andact appropriately.
(26:47):
But I can't say that for allmen, because I'm a man and I got
a lot of male friends andyou're talking about being
half-dressed from the waist upand going to dinner and it's
going to get crazy really,really quick.
And if there's any man outthere listening, please chime in
, help your brother out, becauseI guarantee you there's going
(27:10):
to be some weird stuff happening.
If there's one Zoom dateBecause somebody's going to say,
oh, I don't have a lot of moneythis month, let's have another
one, and before you know it,it's not just a dating app, it's
turning into something totallydifferent.
I think it's called OnlyFansand then that's it.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
You're funny, it's wild man.
I'm telling you like, at thatpoint, if we both decided, okay,
yeah, let's meet up.
Right, like we enjoyed thatconversation, let's meet up.
If it became one excuse afteranother after another and he
kept wanting to be on zoom orfacetime, I'd be like, no, I
need, I need face to faceinteraction.
I just think, for the firstdate, I'd totally be open to
(27:57):
virtual actually.
Yeah, absolutely would be okay.
That's me, though.
Okay, I don't know much aboutthe metaverse, but I've heard
you know like what do you think?
I mean, cory, I know what youthink, but let's just talk about
what that would look like.
Avatar dating, I right, oh, no,so strange not for me.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Again, I'm not knocking anything.
Anyone wants to try anything.
Anyone says they're going to do.
If that's your thing, then gofor it, and I wish you nothing
but the best.
But for me personally, can't doit, can't go there, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I hear you, so I'm going to ask our listeners, our
fellow elevators, what do youhope dating looks like in the
future?
Maybe not because you're goingto be dating, but maybe you have
children who are going to bedating, or you've got nieces and
nephews and you're like this iswhat I hope it looks like for
them.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
And a lot of my rationale is for my children who
are not married and again Ihave hoped that they will find
love, they will get married,they will have a couple of
children and, by the way, I maybe giving way too much
information, but all three ofour children do not have
children and Jen and I are bothin our 50s so we want some
(29:32):
grandkids at some point in timeand if dayton doesn't balance
itself out and they find lovequickly, it may be too old to
enjoy the children guys, we'vehonestly thought about creating
reels or video so our futuregrandchildren could see like
(29:53):
what it could have been likethey come earlier, like you
would have been going todisneyland with us right here,
right now you would have been onthis ride and enjoying right we
would have been matching ears.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You know, there's the disneyland hotel and there's
the pool we could have swam in,but anyhow, yeah, that's another
topic.
But I'm going to ask twoquestions, corey, and then we're
going to end today's episode.
What's the worst date you'vebeen on?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
worst date, oh my gosh, worst date I've ever been
on, and I'll tell you so.
I was planning on going touniversal studios with this
young lady that I met.
I was working for radio shackat the time and I met this girl.
She came in, she boughtsomething and then she came back
in and we we talked for a fewminutes and I was like, hey, why
(30:51):
don't we get together?
And so she said sure, you knowwhat.
I'm going to Universal Studioson Saturday.
You want to go with me?
I'm like, okay, yeah, thatsounds good.
So she was like meet me at thisaddress and I'll drive.
Oh, okay, let's see how thisgoes.
(31:11):
So I drove to the address andit was a Saturday morning and it
was a bus depot, okay, and shewas a bus driver oh, you and
Matt met her no, I met her itshe came into the store oh, yes,
(31:32):
yesand so I met her at the bus
depot.
She's a bus driver and there'slike 45 church kids on the bus
and I'm supposed to get on thebus with her and ride to
universal studios.
And it just got worse and worseand it was just one of those
(31:55):
nightmarish dates, because youget to Universal Studios, I
couldn't even get in.
Why?
Because there was somethingwith the way they had it set up
for invitation only and it waslike a church or pre-sale yeah.
And so I couldn't get in at thattime, where I was going to have
(32:16):
to pay an absorbing amount ofmoney to get in and I wasn't
technically with the group andthen.
So she was like, well, I don'thave to go in either.
So we stayed on the bus and itwas hot, oh my God, it was
miserable.
And I think there was a pack ofcrackers and a couple of pieces
(32:39):
of cheese and I was like, canwe go to, like get food?
She was like I can't move thebus, so then we would have had
to walk.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And there wasn't a universal city walk then no.
Oh, Corey, that is a really baddate.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Really bad.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Needless to say, there was no second.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
No, second date You're like heck.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
No, no, wow, that's a good story.
Sorry guys, that's a good story.
Do you want to share best date?
Speaker 2 (33:10):
ever best.
Best date ever was when we gotback together for the second
time.
Yeah, and it had had its rollercoaster moments, but overall
that was the best date that I'dever had.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
No today that was good.
Good yeah, a lot of drama too.
Like I mean I could write ashort book on that night.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Or a very good comedy sketch.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
That was great.
Well, if you want to share yourworst dates ever, or best dates
ever, please go ahead and do so.
We'd love to hear it and let usknow if we can share.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I love how you got out of answering those questions
, but yes, let's yeah, becauseyou know we're way past the 30
minute mark.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Anyhow, that's what happens when you produce a show.
I get to say what, say say whoand say when.
Okay, pretty woman, well, youknow us to take the elevator.
We say look up and let'selevate Every day, elevate Every
(34:33):
day, elevate Every day.
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