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Summary
Dave planned this ATC episode as a light reply to the recent marriage-themed spaces from NatNat and Kool, and retitled it "Single and ready to mingle." The joke backfired because almost every speaker who came up turned out to be married or in a relationship, which kept the room laughing. In the more serious stretches, Bildo Verde argued that being single and being married can both be happy, and NatNat and Trav said a good marriage is not about owning or answering to each other. Kool, Thomas The Rambl3r and ALEX DAMSKER talked about how social media and dating apps have changed dating, and ALEX DAMSKER went deep on the illusion of choice and why too many options make it harder to decide. The show had very little actual crypto talk, and it closed with Dave reflecting that partners make you better and Bildo Verde comparing relationships to Bitcoin and meme coins. All of this is discussion, not financial advice.
Chapters
NatNat brings up the day's market reports and recaps the previous day's round tableMomentAt 0:03:34 on X
Dave says proposals are going out and a congressman appearance is still being finalizedMomentAt 0:04:02 on X
The space is retitled "Single and ready to mingle" as a reply to the marriage spacesMomentAt 0:08:45 on X
Bildo Verde says happy singles and happy couples can both exist, and talks about his sister's marriageMomentAt 0:38:58 on X
Thomas The Rambl3r explains why he made a separate identity for his web3 art activityMomentAt 0:45:10 on X
Bildo Verde describes his idea of a perfect, low-key date for testing compatibilityMomentAt 1:06:46 on X
Kool on wanting a companion as you get older and how the dating game has changedMomentAt 1:14:00 on X
ALEX DAMSKER on dating apps, the dating pool, and deal-breaker conversations before marriageMomentAt 1:18:55 on X
ALEX DAMSKER on maximizing happiness, the cereal study, and having fewer choicesMomentAt 1:26:02 on X
Dave's closing reflection on being single by choice and partners making you betterMomentAt 1:35:27 on X
Key quotes
“So, like, I think that both sides can coexist.”
Bildo Verde0:38:58Share on X
“Just because you're married doesn't mean you answer to each other. This is not about ownership.”
Trav0:58:25Share on X
“Is it access, though, or the illusion of access?”
NatNat1:17:36Share on X
“It looks like a buffet, but it's a buffet you're not invited to.”
AALEX DAMSKER1:18:55Share on X
“The grass is astroturf. It's not even real, dude.”
DDeeOneAndOnly_🌺1:25:46Share on X
Excerpts
NatNat brings up the day's market reports and recaps the previous day's round table
- 0:03:34 NatNat Doing great. Doing great. Interesting day in the market with all of these reports that came out today. I'm gonna change the landscape of things. Who knows? But excited about this space, a great space to end the week…
- 0:03:46 Dave What about yesterday, man? Like, we kicked some fucking ass yesterday on Mario's fucking round table, I think. No?
- 0:04:02 Dave Yo. That was fucking crazy, man. For anybody that obviously, like, wants to come up, shoot the shit with us, like, let us know what's going on in the Cryptoverse, like, let me know. Like, come up here. Yeah. I'm just…
Dave says proposals are going out and a congressman appearance is still being finalized
- 0:04:02 Dave Yo. That was fucking crazy, man. For anybody that obviously, like, wants to come up, shoot the shit with us, like, let us know what's going on in the Cryptoverse, like, let me know. Like, come up here. Yeah. I'm just…
- 0:05:39 NatNat You know what story I'm very interesting in in hearing about, Dave?
- 0:07:27 Dave I don't wanna get serious, though. I really don't wanna get serious. And then she kinda forced me and she kinda tricked me into meeting her mom. And then I was just like, that's kinda way... That's kinda crazy. Yeah…
The space is retitled "Single and ready to mingle" as a reply to the marriage spaces
- 0:08:45 Dave Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Hinano and Dee, you're out by default. But, obviously, like, you know, those are my story time peeps. Shout out. Single... Here. This is it. Single and ready to mingle. That's what we're gonna title…
- 0:09:28 Dave Listen. Listen. Senor Senor Chankla, we literally... Listen. Nat's good. Like, Nat is good. Don't... None of that. We don't want none of that. Finally. Yes. I'm not on Lonely Island. Hey,. What's up?
- 0:10:21 NatNat Oh my goodness. We need a antenna. We need to get one of old school antennas over there, Omie Juan. You good?
Voice K says having too many options is not always a good thing
- 0:12:36 Dave What? Oh god. Now we gotta go to the married people or the relationship people. Hey, d. Hey. Hey, d. What? Yo. You're still ready, man. What? No. Not you, d. A d with the real, like, the real d. Not not you. So that's…
- 0:19:52 Dave No such thing, Judy. Listen. I do not discriminate. I am an equal opportunity employer. I just had to step out the house because, you know, I have some relatives, and I didn't wanna talk in front of, you know, few…
- 0:30:21 Dave Get what you get and don't throw a fit. You a poet. You didn't even know it. Not not with the title. What is...
Thomas The Rambl3r says he quit his job of ten years to chase his art
- 0:35:59 Thomas The Rambl3r I'm fucking ready for it. So people... The people who missed yesterday where I announced it, I put in my notice at work after ten years because I'm so fucking done with it. And do I have another job? No. Because I…
- 0:37:17 NatNat Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I speak with all married people in here, then not all married people are unhappy or together for the kids. Some of us actually really love our partners. Okay?
- 0:38:12 Dave Yo. Rambla's Rambla's sleeping with hairdressers out here. Don't... He's sleeping with he... Rambla's sleeping with everybody out here. Although, although, I gotta be No.
Bildo Verde says happy singles and happy couples can both exist, and talks about his sister's marriage
- 0:38:58 Bildo Verde Man, I know why you invited me, and I feel like this is a fucking setup, dude. But yeah, I mean, I'm I'm very, very happy. I I think... Okay. So I think that there are people that are single and very lonely and very…
- 0:41:57 Thomas The Rambl3r It's gone. It's gone. They took it. It's gone. But you're not gonna hear from her five years later.
- 0:43:16 Thomas The Rambl3r What? Single ladies in this space, they're all married and they're all thirsty as hell in DMs. Like, this is not a safe space for us. This is not a safe space for single men who are willing to be on an adventurous path…
Thomas The Rambl3r explains why he made a separate identity for his web3 art activity
- 0:45:10 Thomas The Rambl3r Bildo, this is real talk that you're doing because everybody says, like, oh, it's good that you rebranded to Rambler. Like, I created Rambler especially for my web three activity as an artist because some of my IRL…
- 0:46:46 Bildo Verde excited for the ice cream man just now, so maybe the popsicle makes sense.
- 0:48:07 Dave I know. I know. Thank you. Thank you, Rambler. Appreciate appreciate the feedback.
Trav says he is married because he can be his authentic self
- 0:50:04 Trav Hey. Look. Hey. Yo. Actually, I was over here eating. Look. I'm married because with... I'm married to who I'm married to because I can be my authentic self. That's why you thought I was single. I'm me, but I'm also…
- 0:53:36 NatNat So, Kool, if you if you if you gotta go, I completely understand. You don't gotta stay here. Let's do this. So just for context, Kool, Dave thought it was... Would be a fantastic idea to have a single space so that way…
- 0:56:52 Dave You better not be married after all that. You better not be married. You better not be married. I love
NatNat says marriage works when partners do not feel they own each other
- 0:59:21 NatNat I've been with my husband for a very long time, and one thing that has helped our marriage is that we don't feel like we own each other. Like, we don't feel like we have to answer to each other. Like, you you can't…
- 1:02:04 NatNat See? I knew it. Sound like I knew you sounded familiar. I knew, Dave, you got some explaining to do. Dude,
- 1:04:03 DeeOneAndOnly_🌺 And now we're the pure blood. Y'all know we're the pure blood.
Bildo Verde describes his idea of a perfect, low-key date for testing compatibility
- 1:06:46 Bildo Verde Me and her had been off and on Okay. Probably for, like, three years. Prior to that, I was sick... She was the first person... I was, like, single probably, like, five years before that. I've been single for a very…
- 1:09:13 Bildo Verde not okay with being alone. Like, I'm perfectly okay with being alone. But, like, if you have to pay somebody a $120 an hour just to fucking be, like, the big or the small spoon, like, that's that's somebody crying for…
- 1:11:01 Thomas The Rambl3r So Can can we go back to where we can get paid a $120, Dave, just to do what we're already doing now, and that's comforting married women?
Kool on wanting a companion as you get older and how the dating game has changed
- 1:14:00 Kool on... Until you get older. Once you get older, you want you want that companion, man. I think... Yeah. I'm I'm telling you because it... I I wanna... I think I think it's not for everyone, of course, but I just believe…
- 1:14:54 Thomas The Rambl3r Goddamn Agreed. What cool seems to to miss out is I'm 36, and I skipped my first marriage. And all I'm seeing is girls my age getting out in the world again because, well, they got bored. They left or he left or... And…
- 1:16:39 Thomas The Rambl3r just said. It's a war zone. It's definitely a war zone. As a person been dating early two thousands already, like, this shit right now, it's a fucking war zone. Don't... Like, people knew their value back then. You…
NatNat asks whether social media gives real access or the illusion of access
- 1:17:44 Dave Heard that. Mean, listen. I swipe through Bumble just for, a ego boost. I don't really plan on taking anybody on dates. I literally swipe until they say, hey, man. You had a swipe. You wanna pay for this? I'm like…
- 1:18:01 DeeOneAndOnly_🌺 on one. Yeah. And I was like, I have a of respect for guys because my, I mean, now it's a little bit better, but my, like, personality and humor didn't work. I remember one time on Bumble because what they do is for…
- 1:18:28 DeeOneAndOnly_🌺 our time's running out kinda like my biological clock. And I think I scared him because he thought I was like, who put a baby in me? But I was trying to be funny. So
ALEX DAMSKER on dating apps, the dating pool, and deal-breaker conversations before marriage
- 1:18:55 ALEX DAMSKER to you. If I came in here expecting crypto talk, what the fuck was I thinking? Right? Because I was in another space that was, like, I was... So I'm freezing today.
- 1:21:48 ALEX DAMSKER That is literally the same thing. So the... It's not like they know any better than you do who you're gonna match with. And a lot of the people on those things are fake. They fill them with fake profiles. So what did…
- 1:25:12 NatNat way. Nobody has a 100%. No no... Look. You you don't even have a 100%. No one's perfect. Right? We all have some kind of flaws.
ALEX DAMSKER on maximizing happiness, the cereal study, and having fewer choices
- 1:26:02 ALEX DAMSKER But that's anyway, that's how you end up, like, 60 years old, and you're like, why can't I find anybody? It's like you did, like, three times. But you were like, I think there's someone better out there. And they're…
- 1:32:17 Dave Oh my god. Listen. I... Listen. I know what Alex was referring to. I get it. There's all these, like, fallacies of... I read that book too. I actually think I quoted that in the space recently also, Alex, so good call…
- 1:34:25 Dave Yep. Because he knows what's up. See? Thank you very much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Dave's closing reflection on being single by choice and partners making you better
- 1:35:27 Dave Yeah. Alright. Listen. Listen. Listen. Just so everybody is aware. Okay? For the record, this is all for jokes, obviously, just so nobody takes this a little bit crazy or serious. No, mom. The Zoloft. The Zoloft. Yeah…
Bildo Verde closes with a Bitcoin and meme coin analogy
- 1:37:33 Bildo Verde Yeah. I think I got a perfect way since this is all things crypto. I mean, I think we can all agree that we all want Bitcoin. It's safe. It's secure. It's the good long term bet. But we all know we have more fun with…
- 1:38:03 Dave Hey. Hey. Come to story time and take it up with us in three hours as we have found story time where things get even fucking crazier than they were here. Shout out. Cool. Have a safe trip, my bro. Hopefully, we'll see…
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