"Hot Takes" Could Save You Heartbreak Later
How Men Think
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 30 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We’re officially in “Cuffing Season” as we record this on a snowy January weekend, and “Hot Take Dating” has emerged as the latest relationship trend. Amy and T.J. discuss their thoughts on this non-traditional advice, suggesting you should bring up your most controversial viewpoints on a first date, so you can quickly filter out people who aren’t a good match for you. But, will you quickly dismiss someone who could’ve been your soulmate?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Sunday, January 25th, and a question for you folks in a relationship. That person that you're with |
| 0:22.5 | right now, what did you find out about them after you got into a relationship that if you |
| 0:30.9 | had found out on your first date, it might have been a deal breaker? And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:39.5 | I asked that question for a very specific reason because a Roebuck has gone and she keeps finding |
| 0:45.1 | new dating trends. |
| 0:47.3 | It's weird for a woman in a relationship to keep finding new dating trends, but I had not heard |
| 0:52.6 | of this one. |
| 0:53.2 | Yes. |
| 0:53.7 | So it's cuffing season, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Officially? |
| 0:56.6 | I think this is the time where between the holidays leading up to Valentine's Day, everybody's |
| 1:02.2 | looking to boo up. |
| 1:03.2 | So yes, everyone wants to find the new dating trend, the new it way to find somebody. |
| 1:09.2 | So apparently here is the hottest new dating trend. |
| 1:13.0 | It is called hot take dating. Okay. So they always have good names. Right. Okay. |
| 1:19.3 | In summary. Well, in short, what does this mean? So it goes against what we're typically told to do when we first start dating someone. |
| 1:27.4 | Avoid touchy topics. |
| 1:29.3 | You know, don't talk about politics or religion. Just on a first date. Just keep it simple. |
| 1:35.0 | Keep it light. This tactic is to go in from the beginning, like no nonsense. We need to see if our values align, period. Okay. First, you say what we're |
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