Being The Only One Left (w/ Michael Cruz Kayne)
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
Headgum & Nicole Byer
4.9 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Comedian Michael Cruz Kayne's dating strategy involves being the only guy left available. He joins Nicole to explain the approach and the success that's come with it. They also discuss how race affects relationships, moving on from them, and his experience getting hit on by the rich kids and moms he was private tutoring. Nicole wishes she was a ~woman~.
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| 0:00.0 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:09.6 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:11.6 | Why won't you date me? |
| 0:13.4 | Please tell me why. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, baby, welcome to another episode of Why won't you date me? |
| 0:27.5 | A podcast or a mean or cold buyer tries to figure out how I'm still single. |
| 0:31.4 | Even though you could buy me a bunch of clothes and throw them all out the window and say, |
| 0:38.0 | now you're an outside clothes bitch. |
| 0:41.7 | Oh boy, that one was tough. |
| 0:45.6 | Let's see if I can come up with a different one. |
| 0:47.6 | Okay. |
| 0:48.6 | Keep it. |
| 0:49.6 | Keep it. |
| 0:50.6 | Okay, I'll keep it. |
| 0:51.6 | Okay. |
| 0:52.6 | This is a P-bopty award winning comedian and writer. |
| 0:58.0 | He's the host of a Good Cry, a podcast about grief, which is returning for season two. |
| 1:03.1 | Also I think we were on a herald team together in New York City or maybe not. |
| 1:06.2 | We were on a herald team together for like two, it was a very brief period of time. |
| 1:10.4 | I think you came on right as I was like, I'm not doing this anymore. |
| 1:13.8 | It's Michael Cruz. |
| 1:18.0 | Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, |
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