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🗓️ 14 January 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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We Met At Acme Episode 15 features David Yarus, the founder of JSwipe. In this episode, we discuss how religion affects dating, burning man, the modern version of skipping home after a date, if eating butt is kosher and more.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back to We Met It Acme. This is episode 15 and we are lucky to be sitting |
0:07.5 | here with the founder of J Swipe, David Yaris. Hello, hello. Hey David. Thanks for being |
0:15.3 | here. No doubt. This is going to be super fun. Yeah, totally. So we, let's start by getting |
0:22.5 | to know you. Your name is David and where are you from? My name is David Yaris. I have |
0:29.2 | a rap. What's your middle name? Austin. I'm out of the day. My rap name is D-flow. Oh cool. |
0:35.0 | I don't rap. But it's kind of like just in case I ever do. It's kind of like holding, you know, |
0:39.3 | holding your own stuff. I feel like you do rap. I feel like you're like why would you have a name |
0:43.7 | if you didn't rap? I feel like you're shadily rap. You've rap before. I do more beats than |
0:50.4 | actual lyrics. I love it. I'm from Miami Beach, Florida. Right, grew up. What school did you go to |
0:57.6 | in Miami? For the Miami listeners? Jewish day school called Hillel. Oh, yeah. I've heard of |
1:03.2 | Hillel. Nice. And I lived there for until I was 15. And then I got really bored of lots of things. |
1:09.9 | And I went, I applied without telling my parents to Catholic Prep School in Washington, DC. Really, |
1:17.0 | really, because I went to my cousins' bar mitzvah there in case like this really like cool, |
1:21.3 | pretty like girl in DC. And I was like, DC is amazing. I'm going to go. But I wrapped it in the |
1:26.3 | story of like it was just a very sophisticated place with so much intellectual conversations. How did |
1:30.3 | your parents feel about you wanting to go to a Catholic school? For the education, which was like |
1:35.7 | light years beyond what like the Jewish day school that I was at invited. They were once they found |
1:40.8 | out about it. They actually, you know, supported and enabled it. That makes sense. What were you, |
1:44.7 | what was your initial like, this is what I want to do when I get older? Oh, it's so interesting. |
1:49.9 | I've never really had that. I also don't really have a 10 year plan, 20 year plan, five year plan, |
1:54.3 | three year plan, working on a one year plan. And I'm just really not just working on like the |
1:58.6 | presence. So I don't really know if I had one. I mean, I kind of think what did I? But I always |
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