Obviously, we're all watching the West Elm Caleb drama, even if, you know, we live in Chicago like me.

Hi, I'm Rachel Hansen.

And I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

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Rachel, I have to ask.

Have you been seeing the TikToks about West Elm 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 is going to 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 going to tell you the story of the worst date 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 D.C. 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 petering out, and he turns to me, and he says,

why did your parents name you Jessica?

And I was just like, they didn't.

They didn't name me, Jessica. That 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 um again, I was young and stupid and ill.

So I continued on this date for another 30 minutes.

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