Hello and welcome to the J Train podcast.

This is J Train, Jared Freed. Come alive from the West Village of Manhattan.

That's right. Every Monday we answer your emails. You tell your stories.

We answer your questions. And you might feel it already, but it is a dim light's

alone episode. Happy Labor Day. It's Labor Day. I've kind of decided that

the holiday shows my, you know, you try to do something a little different.

Something that, because I try to think of how would I listen to the podcast on Labor Day,

I would probably be listening on the way home from somewhere in a little bit of a

solitude moment. Is that a way to describe it? You're alone. You're reflecting on the

summer. The change between summer and fall is when I do believe these questions

get good because they were built in excuses. The summer I'm traveling here,

you're traveling there. Well, you know, I guess we'll go out next week. It's all

polite. In the fall, the cancellations, the busy schedules, they become more

impolite. And I feel that. I'm going on a date tonight. That's right.

I'm taping this ahead. It's a hot August afternoon right now. I'm going on a

date tonight. And I'm not saying it because it's like, you know, it's not a

first date, but it's not. It's the first dinner date I've been on in a long

time. Like an actual planned. Let's get dinner. If I was, and again, this is

the time of year, you can't. And I've been blocking. I've been hesitant going

on a date. Even on the dating apps, I've been, I've downloaded and deleted

dating apps more than I ever have my entire life and more frequently because I

get to this point with an app where there's build up. There's these people.

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