Obviously, we're all watching the Weston Caleb drama, even if, you know, we live in Chicago

like me.

Hi, I'm Rachel Hanson, and I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

You're listening to ICYMI, in case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture.

Rachel, I have to ask, have you been seeing the TikToks about Weston Caleb?

Okay, so I think when I was on TikTok about two or three days ago, it just started crossing my

FYP, and I was like, oh, this, this is gonna blow up. It did mostly remind me of how much I hate

dating though. Tell me more. I know how much you love hearing about my dating life, so I'm finally

gonna tell you the story of the worst day that I ever went on.

Picture this, a young girl. I think I was like 19 or 20. I definitely could not drink at this

point. I was in DC interning, and so I was like, let me go on a few tender dates while I'm here,

because I was stupid. And I went on a date with this dude who worked at the DOJ, and never go on a

museum date for your first date, because it's a too long, and b, you get trapped. So two hours

into this first date, where to be clear, I am ill. I had a cold at this time, and this is before

people stopped going outside when they were sick. We're sitting down, and the conversation is

pedering out, and he turns to me, and he says, why did your parents name you Jessica? And I was,

I was just like, they didn't, they didn't name me Jessica, that's not my name. And he was like,

what? And I was just like, it's been two hours, and this bitch does not know my name. So what happened

after that date? So again, I was young and stupid and ill, so I continued on this date for another 30

minutes. I was hopped up on day coil. Don't come for me. But I never saw him again, because I

did not respond to any of his messages after that, because the first one was, I don't know if the

name thing threw you off, but I'd love to get dinner again. So you ghosted? Yes, but I think it was

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