Wow, it was so good meeting here.

Oh, it was great talking to you too, yeah.

That was a fun conversation.

Maybe we could exchange numbers, we can...

Yeah, I'd love that.

I'm actually free on Friday afternoon next week.

If you wanted to do something then,

maybe get together and get coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Oh, yeah. You just order at the counter.

I never understood why people don't bring coffee table books to coffee shop. What is, is that, uh, almond milk?

A big controversy that's taken over the internet when it comes to early dating rules is that of the coffee date.

On Reddit people are asking, are coffee dates really low effort?

And then there are all the TikToks that indicate that if you accept the coffee date, you are essentially positioning yourself as a low-value person.

Try telling that to Sir Benedict Ashworth, who just spent half his monthly salary importing expensive beans from Yemen so that he could flirt in a candlelit coffee house. Once upon a time,

coffee was a hallmark of luxury and intellectualism. But that's not necessary for this video.

These are from Costco. Even on my own channel, when I put up a poll and asked if you would all like

to see a video about coffee dates, someone commented, I think coffee dates are low effort and are truly for broke

high schoolers or college kids. When it comes to coffee dates, there are plenty of people who see

the benefit. They're low stakes. They're easy to end if things aren't going well and they are

affordable. They are a great way to test chemistry and if a coffee date goes really well it can always turn into dinner.

Despite this, they get so much pushback online. I want to get this video started by saying,

I get it. There is nothing more unattractive than someone who has zero plan, puts zero thought

into a real date, shows up having put no effort into their own appearance on a date,

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