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Okay, guys, it's one of your famously available gals.

Deanna here and I am jumping in to take over this episode.

We are at Jingle Ball and we're getting ready to send my girl Mercedes

out on a date with a single eligible man and he's here. He is here. We've been talking about him all

day. But before I'm allowed to introduce Mercedes to him, Ben has tasked me with getting to know him

a little bit better. So, Bryce, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me. I'm pumped to be here. I have had the pleasure of spending the afternoon with Mercedes. So we were running through all of our what-ifs. And then we're in the car. We're talking about what it might be like. She's a little nervous. Okay. Are you nervous? I'm not nervous. No. I think it's just going to be a fun experience and meeting new people is always a good time. So I don't know. I'm not nervous at all.

Okay. Yeah. Well, that's confidence is attractive. I think so. I mean, do you have a type? This is, it's a, it's kind of like a blanket statement, but I just like beauty, right? It doesn't really matter what they look like or, you know, what race, ethnicity, nothing is just like if they walk into the room and all the eyes are on them, that's just kind of who I gravitate towards. So just like beauty in any form. And I know that's kind of subjective because beauty's in the eye of the beholder, but yeah, just just beauty. Like great. So you typically date 20-somethings blonde, fake boobs in Los Angeles.

I don't think that's my type of beauty, to be honest.

Okay, so give it to me. Run it down. Give me something specific. Have you had girlfriends

before? Yeah, yeah. I've always been kind of like a relationship guy. I'm kind of a monogamous guy. The longest I've been single is right now, which I forced myself to be single for like the last year and a half, almost two years, just because I needed to-

You forced yourself. You had to beat them off with a stick? Yeah, I mean, I had to beat myself off with a stick, no pun intended. But I just, I get into these relationships where

it starts really fast up front. And then I'm like, oh, of course the love bombing that we're

both doing to each other is warranted because we're both awesome. But then I get into the

relationship and then within like six months to a year, a couple years, you start seeing that

maybe what was portrayed or sold to me wasn't exactly who they were. So I've kind of been in a cycle

and it's been very clear, a very clear cycle. So I've taken the year and a half almost two years now,

I'll just say two years of being single and just focusing on myself,

growth, therapy.

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